taxi paul Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Top work. You have lots of snazzy stuff. My way of testing it would have been to balance it on the wing of car. Put wires to battery. Try and turn it on and then knock it off wing onto floor. good work all round. stuboy, mercedade, mrbenn and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire_Dawson Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Stuperb ! lolz. One for the AS Lexicon that. LightBulbFun and BorniteIdentity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Top work. You have lots of snazzy stuff. My way of testing it would have been to balance it on the wing of car. Put wires to battery. Try and turn it on and then knock it off wing onto floor. good work all round. Tools of the trade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 House move all going well thankfully. Just furniture to take over there tomorrow. Can’t wait to be out of this cold creaky house GrumpiusMaximus, beko1987, Christine and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 touch of sarcasm there ?No ...like i said before, it's really groovy man stuboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 In other news, 100 quid gets you this nowadays. 2 light bulbs. Naturally being Audi they use a newish size that are bloody expensive. That's a good price for a pair too, most retailers want double that for them. Got them from Amazon and they go up + down like a yo-yo in price, so been waiting to catch them at the low point. I can't complain though as these have done 179k miles and nearly 9 years. They still work but are noticeably dimmer than many other cars. You can not own an Audi and not have Retina Burners on the front, right?! Fitting them required gouging the eyes off the car. Looks worse than it is. 4 bolts to remove the light, undo connector and the whole thing slides off. Way better than cutting your hand to pieces trying to get to the back of them while the clusters are still fitted - like most cars. Once out, twist off cap. Unplug connector and twist out bulb. Reverse to complete. Old bulb (left) Vs new bulb (right). Old. New Old bulb had all this crap built up on the back of the envelope. I'm curious to see the difference at night now. Was tempted to only do one bulb to see if it was significantly noticeable. Suspect it is, but would help justify that £100 pricetag. LightBulbFun and mrbenn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbenn Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 £100 for two bulbs? Bloody hell fire. puddlethumper, Lord Sterling, alf892 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Just found this interesting post about HIDs and their construction: https://priuschat.com/threads/not-all-hid-bulbs-are-created-equal.101472/ Complex little beasts. RayMK, mrbenn and jumpingjehovahs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 £12 a year in headlight bulbs - progress? Rusty_Rocket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 £12 a year in headlight bulbs - progress?Cheap for blinding the fuck out every cunt;) Seriously though SiC - nice to see you installing these - they have been a mystery to me this far, but it looks a relatively painless experience! Kiltox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Hang a couple of Tilley lamps off the door mirrors, job jobbed. DodgeRover, Rusty_Rocket, DeeJay and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean36014 Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 It's March, therefore it's spring which means it's time for the bx to come out of hibernation. Great fun driving into work until the first of the water temperature warning lamps came on. A quick check at the side of the road and it didn't seem like it was a hot engine so onwards with the journey watching for the next warning light like a hawk. However the first warning light went back of and he drove perfect the rest of the way. On the way home the same thing again. I'm going to change the thermostat incase it's gone lazy while it's been parked up. The main radiator hoses didn't feel overly hot so I'm hoping it's just a thermostat issue. Sent from my TA-1012 using Tapatalk Jim Bell, 320touring, Jazoli and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig the Princess Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 I bought a pair of lightbulbs for £100 once, it did come with the rest of the car for free mind. The Moog, Lacquer Peel, Rusty_Rocket and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 I bought a pair of lightbulbs for £100 once, it did come with the rest of the car for free mind.I bought a pair of lightbulbs for £5 once, it did come with c reg beige maestro Craig the Princess 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Top work. You have lots of snazzy stuff. My way of testing it would have been to balance it on the wing of car. Put wires to battery. Try and turn it on and then knock it off wing onto floor. good work all round. id gone battery charger in the kitchen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Cheap for blinding the fuck out every cunt;) Seriously though SiC - nice to see you installing these - they have been a mystery to me this far, but it looks a relatively painless experience!Key thing is to make sure no power is going to the light when doing it. Obviously on the Audi the whole light cluster is disconnected so you can guarantee that. Why? The bulbs startup with 15-20kV and then use 45-120v to sustain the arc. Enough to at least give you a nasty shock. 320touring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 £12 a year in headlight bulbs - progress?Wait till cars built recently with their LED dipped+main beam headlights get older. AFAIK they're sealed units and require the replacement/refurbishment of the whole light cluster to fix them. beko1987 and Kiltox 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Key thing is to make sure no power is going to the light when doing it. Obviously on the Audi the whole light cluster is disconnected so you can guarantee that. Why? The bulbs startup with 15-20kV and then use 85-120v to sustain the arc. Enough to at least give you a nasty shock.Good to know cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark1986 Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Not had a great run of luck this week. Tuesday morning on the way to work in the Clio, decent sized lump of something flicked up by the van in front. Big chunk out of the screen, Autoglass guy came to have a look but as I'd half expected, it's too much damage to be repairable so new screen on order. Thursday, same bit of dual carriage way (must have been less than 300 yds from the 1st incident), front right puncture. Managed to get to a safe spot & get the spare swapped on but with an MoT in two weeks & tax just done for the end of Feb I could do without the extra cost right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Grim reaper sausages from Aldi for breakfast ..... Thats the eyes and nose cleared ... Digestive tract later ... spike60 and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 What is this car abandoned in the Fukushima exclusion zone? Looks a bit like a 306 sedan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 This must be the spot of the year! Even after millions of those mis-labelled Corsas, this is what I first think of as a Nova.image.jpeg Wonderful that one is still in use. A beetle-based kit car with a fibreglass body has to be a likely candidate for "last shite still drivieable" in my pension-poverty future.... That's probably the only one that ever got finished! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 There's a bit about headlights in this week's Autocar in the letters page. Apparently, on some modern stuff, you can't fit beam deflectors OR adjust the lights for continental travel............. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 When I broke my old blue laguna for spares the tatty but fully working xeon headlight assemblies sold for £40 each in about 3 seconds when I put them up for sale! The ballasts do a Renault apparently and are very expensive new. Should have listed it for more really but meh, got them out of the way mrbenn and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire_Dawson Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 I think I'll stick to £1 414 bulbs thank you. Rusty_Rocket and mrbenn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 As we trip into page 1961 it is appropriate that I have been grovelling under a Minor. Springtime y'see..... I've not used it in anger over the winter because I was getting into a petulant frenzy about this time of year regarding the state of it underneath. So this is the first grease job since December (usually a monthly chore) Yes I should paint my wheels. But I won't - why do you think I bought £3 full trim rings at a car boot instead of a five pound aerosol.... It doesn't normally look this clean by March, I think its enjoying retirement.... Job's a good'un although the bloody grease cartridge ran out on the last nipple. Got a new one in the shed but it was actually quicker to walk over to the motor factors and buy another. I haven't done the propshaft yet as sod's law always dictates that the nipples are on the blind side facing the floor. I need to get the back end up next week and sort out the knocking exhaust so I can do them then. Oil change then, too - I fancy a stroll around the museum at Beaulieu (Mrs Rocker has some sort of meeting over that way) this afternoon. Great having a winter shitter - all these jobs can be done at leisure. dome, LightBulbFun, danthecapriman and 15 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 What is this car abandoned in the Fukushima exclusion zone? Looks a bit like a 306 sedan. FB_IMG_1551513302934.jpg It's almost a Toyota Corolla, just not quite. It has meant I discovered some things I didn't know about along the way http://autoshite.com/topic/18581-cars-you-didnt-know-existed-until-very-recently/page-93?do=findComment&comment=1760016 Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 As we trip into page 1961 it is appropriate that I have been grovelling under a Minor. Springtime y'see..... I've not used it in anger over the winter because I was getting into a petulant frenzy about this time of year regarding the state of it underneath. So this is the first grease job since December (usually a monthly chore) Yes I should paint my wheels. But I won't - why do you think I bought £3 full trim rings at a car boot instead of a five pound aerosol.... PIC_0008.JPG It doesn't normally look this clean by March, I think its enjoying retirement.... PIC_0009.JPG Job's a good'un although the bloody grease cartridge ran out on the last nipple. Got a new one in the shed but it was actually quicker to walk over to the motor factors and buy another. I haven't done the propshaft yet as sod's law always dictates that the nipples are on the blind side facing the floor. I need to get the back end up next week and sort out the knocking exhaust so I can do them then. Oil change then, too - I fancy a stroll around the museum at Beaulieu (Mrs Rocker has some sort of meeting over that way) this afternoon. Great having a winter shitter - all these jobs can be done at leisure. Disc brake conversion - nice. Does it have a servo too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Disc brake conversion - nice. Does it have a servo too? Yes it does, with a remote m/c reservoir. Not sure if I would have shelled out for discs but there are maintenance benefits! BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 There's a bit about headlights in this week's Autocar in the letters page. Apparently, on some modern stuff, you can't fit beam deflectors OR adjust the lights for continental travel.............Ive never bothered in nearly 40 years of driving in Europe. Not my fault they drive on the wrong side of the road.In other news the Bentayga does it automatically from the GPS, as you come out of the tunnel it comes up " Continental headlamps" or something. paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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