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    N Dentressangle reacted to andyberg in Kolectshun (was) LIVE. Now possible owners thread.   
    Now waiting for the garage to get back to me with a price. I guess it's to be expected from a 27 year old french car. She drives superbly so she will be fixed.
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    N Dentressangle reacted to andyberg in Kolectshun (was) LIVE. Now possible owners thread.   
    Collection complete. Arrived at Exeter 12 mins late, not bad for the UK🙄
    Compulsory wollard below.
    Looking forward to the drive home.
    An absolute pleasure to meet petrolblog, a thoroughly nice man .



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    N Dentressangle got a reaction from mk2_craig in Benzin' (I want to get off Mr Benz Wild Ride)   
    The only trims a 190 should have. V nice 👍
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    N Dentressangle reacted to Conrad D. Conelrad in Benzin' (I want to get off Mr Benz Wild Ride)   
    Upthread I complained about my wheel trims and @AndyW201 mentioned that he had a set. Well, now I have a set. And what a difference they make!

    A side by side comparison with one of the old ones... they really were shamefully tatty. 

    I'm loving how it looks now. 

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    N Dentressangle reacted to Dave_Q in 2006 Golf 2.0TFSi GTi - Bargain Basement 197k miles TFSI Club Member   
    The reality would be that even spending 2-3x as much as you did, you'd be working through the same list of issues.
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    N Dentressangle reacted to Nyphur in 2006 Golf 2.0TFSi GTi - Bargain Basement 197k miles TFSI Club Member   
    Lets be real, you're gonna go through the front and rear suspension - and do the timing chain before it ever goes on track Start saving the pennies
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    N Dentressangle reacted to stevek in A pair of decrepit 309’s   
    Right, yesterday, the blue one:
    With the engine running we have brakes which was a pleasant surprise. Only tested by way of enthusiastic shunting back and forth on the drive but they seem pretty alright too. It would probably benefit a few miles to bed in the new pads and shoes I expect. The handbrake has reasonable effort too. And when you remove the brakes it returns to free rolling so nothing nasty binding on either.
    Flushed the coolant a couple of times…

    … nothing like as grim as what came out of the gold one. Bit brown yeah, but not that bad really.
    The auxiliary belt has started squealing again under load, it didn’t feel that tight and was at max tension adjustment. Fine I’ll nick it off the gold one and order another, but when I did it was all baggy, humm. The gold one is fine with the 10x775 and has the same G1A engine. The old ‘blue’ belt had W1A750 printed on it, so a 750mm belt obviously? Except it measures 8x745 and I don’t think they tend to shrink as they age. I’m pretty sure it will have started as a 10mm wide as that seems most common, which would have it ride higher up on the pulley V circumference, so I’m undecided what length to order. 10x750, 10x745 or 10x740. Maybe any would work but there isn’t much tension adjustment to play with. Roll the dice I guess.
    -Steve-
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    N Dentressangle reacted to stevek in A pair of decrepit 309’s   
    Today this happened…

    …back on its wheels for the first time in 14yrs. Forgot the battery so only shunted it by hand, but it rolls. The handbrake seems to be working, the foot brakes not so much. 
     
    Tried the bleed nipples, two sheared off, two came free. Not ideal but expected.
    -Steve-
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    N Dentressangle got a reaction from Burnside in A pair of decrepit 309’s   
    Lichen that
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    N Dentressangle reacted to grogee in Harrison's Garage - Mini City, back on the road!   
    I've done similar:
    1) Passed a kidney stone
    2) Crawled around in the footwell area to fix HVAC. There comes a point where it becomes easier to remove the front seat, put down a foam camping mattress and lie on the floor of the car.
    Smarch is lousy. It's lovely and sunny here at the moment with shit rain forecast for the next few days. My shed project is half built and in danger of blowing away.
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    N Dentressangle reacted to rob88h in Harrison's Garage - Mini City, back on the road!   
    Less than a year has passed but I had to do this job again; on the other Focus this time. It's still just as hateful, even with the practise. One improvement I made was to use even more padding for my back as a lay upside-down across the sill with my head in the footwell  and my hands behind the dash for an hour doing a job akin to pulling a kidney stone through a urethra. 

    Hot and Cold can be requested and provided now. Lousy Smarch weather.
    I also took the opportunity to strip out the digital radio as the signal was just as pants as the main radio.
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    N Dentressangle reacted to SiC in 2006 Golf 2.0TFSi GTi - Bargain Basement 197k miles TFSI Club Member   
    Both my wife and myself have noticed the rear brakes scrape when they're warm. I know it's perfectly fine but it upsets Mrs SiC. Basically the rear disc is warped and when hot it expands enough to just catch the pad. The discs and pads are barely worn so very likely a manufacturing defect on cheap parts.
    Anyway I needed a fix without replacing unnecessarily parts that aren't worn.
    The root cause is basically this.

    Turning up the radio louder doesn't really work very well at the moment.
     
    I still need to pick up the bits from @dan95x but just not had the time recently. I saw one going on eBay cheap that came with a radio code. These radios pair with the car and only need the code once. But if you move cars you need the code again. I threw in a last minute bid that was cheaper than buying a code and won. 
    I also dug out my Parrot Bluetooth adapter. Ironically I think this was last in a Golf mk5 that Mrs SiC owned nearly 10yrs ago now as the Quadlock cable was still attached to it. Handy!

     
    This looks like a lot to remove but it's only a handful of torx screws and pulling plastic trim

    These cars don't have a ignition switch live feed on the connectors, so you need to wire one in for the Parrot. I'd usually go to the effort of adding it in properly on the fusebox. However as this car is basically one step away from scrap fodder, I went all bodgy.

    Yes that is an evil scotchlock on the cigarette lighter plug feed. Not even a genuine 3M one. Hateful things. But it'll work. Rarrrr.
    I put the little display here and attached the microphone onto the A-pillar internal trim. Bluetooth-ing like the 00s. 

     
    Having a radio here now rather than a gaping hole really improves the cabin. 🤣

    This is actually for a Golf Mk6 (the one after) and looks much smarter than the standard original (RCD300) that this car would have had. At this age car you do need an updated CAN control module for it to power down correctly and not drain the car battery. This looks like to have it and likely someone has changed it. I suspect a previous owner had a fancy aftermarket unit with a switched CAN interface box that needed the updated module. They can be had for under a tenner now but at least it saved me the arse of having to fit it and then code it in. 
     
    Also bought a cheap new stalk to get cruise. The existing indicator stalk was getting a bit ropey anyway and this Meyle unit was only £20 after eBay discounts.
    Fitting involves removing the airbag, steering wheel, cowling, steering wheel control module, clock spring and steering angle sensor. Sounds a lot but it's a piece of cake.
    I won't explain how to do it as there are a bazillion guides around on how to do it. 




    Interesting to note that there is no yellow warning sticker on the control module at the bottom. I think someone may have been in here before.

    The key things in this job are to ensure that you put the wheel back in the right place. There is a dot and line to ensure it is in the right place. Interestingly the dot and line didn't line up when I removed the wheel - again suggesting someone has been in here before. Or the factory misaligned it. 

    It's now like this. Scantool says the wheel is at 0 degrees when in the middle. Which suggests this is definitely correct. However the wheel is slightly off now when in a straight line, so it's going to need a wheel alignment job. 

     
    Other things of note is that you need the right steering control module and matching slip ring for this to work. There is a page on RossTech website (company who makes VCDS/VAG-COM) saying which work. Thankfully mine does. I did test it before I bought the stalk and pulled it all apart. Again these control modules can be had cheap on eBay and just need coding in. Simple job if you have VCDS. 


     
    Also the connector to the steering control module needs a wire at pin 13. This is the fourth pin across from the bottom left - the yellow and black wire. I believe all Golf Mk5 from 2006 have this. If it doesn't then you need to buy a wire with connectors on the end and fit it. I had to do that on the TT. Not hard but a pia job as it's tight up behind the dash to get the wire up. 

     
    Once it was all back together and the steering wheel torqued up (I went 50nm), I coded it in with VCDS. Now I have that magic green indicator light on the dash to say all is good. 

    Test drive showed it works great. And I badly need a wheel alignment! (Tbh it needed one anyway)
     
    Next up will be to replace that saggy headlining. Struggling to find the right colour as it's not very standard creme/black/grey/etc. Closest I can find that isn't really expensive is Ivory. Not too bothered if it's a perfect match as it's on the ceiling and this is a scrap fodder car anyway. At £10 per metre (either 2 or 3 metres - I haven't decided), it's pretty cheap. Not sure how hard a job it'll be but tbh I can't make it any worse than it is!
     
    Oh and I'm pretending I haven't heard that the chain is having a brief rattle on startup. Given the chain timing readings are saying it's out of spec, that might be a job I'll have to do sometime. It doesn't rattle when running so for now I'll just ignore it. Will be about £200 for all the bits (including replacement seals) for the chain. Then another £100 for the cambelt+water pump that also needs doing. 
    Debating whether it's even worth doing given it's not exactly the best of examples? That said the engine is in a pretty fit state apart from the chain and the miles on the clock. 
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    N Dentressangle got a reaction from Mr Laurence in A pair of decrepit 309’s   
    Lichen that
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    N Dentressangle got a reaction from Tommyboy12 in Tommy's A-series Misery - Collection caper!   
    I have too many cars and projects already, but this had me sorely tempted - love the mini-Detroit styling and the immense patina! 😍
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    N Dentressangle reacted to Mr Pastry in 1987 Lotus Excel SE   
    Lotus/Marina door handle story, which I may have told before, but worth repeating.
    I rebuilt a JPS Esprit with the said handles.  The passenger door would not lock.  Pulled it to bits, nothing wrong with the lock assembly or the handles, and it looked as though nobody had been inside the door before.   Experts will know that the inner handle is connected to the lock by a piece of stiff wire, bent to form hooks at the ends.   I came to the conclusion that the wire was about 1/2" too long.  I shortened and reshaped it, and all was well.  It must have been like that from the factory, the lock had not worked properly since day one, and that was a 30 year old car.  
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    N Dentressangle reacted to fatharris in Bollocks   
    All this has done is help prevent a future FTP.
     
    Be grateful.
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    N Dentressangle reacted to R Lutz in Bollocks   
    Don't be tempted to the clean your expansion tank with the pressure washer, especially with the nozzle used to pressure wash your driveway. 

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    N Dentressangle reacted to Oi_Oi_Savaloy in 1987 Lotus Excel SE   
    I think they're actually toyota ones (thus really expensive!) - would have been happier with marina ones tbh!    The passenger side is v poor nick and the locking internals are expensive to replace.  I've sort of buried my head on that one for the moment.  Just concentrating on getting it shipshape.
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    N Dentressangle reacted to Matty in Tommy's A-series Misery - Collection caper!   
    Oh you absolute fucking legend!
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    N Dentressangle reacted to Weird Car in Tommy's A-series Misery - Collection caper!   
    Yeah sometimes the passenger headlight comes and goes, just give the wires behind a little wiggle or the lens a good whack and it’ll come back, also worth adding to turn the dash lights on turn the headlights on then pull the switch that says P, for the main beam there’s a floor mounted switch left of the clutch 
     
    I’m glad it made it home drama free though 
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    N Dentressangle reacted to Tommyboy12 in Tommy's A-series Misery - Collection caper!   
    And home! It was a fairly smooth drive home. Although there's a few lights missing from the collection. I am really happy with it!

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    N Dentressangle reacted to Tommyboy12 in Tommy's A-series Misery - Collection caper!   
    Quick pit stop on the way home. The clutch is quite heavy for M25 traffic!

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    N Dentressangle reacted to Tommyboy12 in Tommy's A-series Misery - Collection caper!   
    Slow drive down. The M25 was horrendous. However, a collection has occurred. I'm in love already!
     

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    N Dentressangle reacted to Tommyboy12 in Tommy's A-series Misery - Collection caper!   
    Well as the Rover is dead it's only sensible I buy another inappropriate car as a daily. So collection caper time!
    It's not breakfast time so lunch:

    The chariot of choice to get us there is the venerable i10:

    Journey time is approximately 2.5 hours.
    I shall post updates as we go. Those observant folk will already know what it is but guesses welcome from the rest of you!
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