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I had one in metallic beige some years ago - 5-speed manual but otherwise a similar spec to yours. I was actually quite tempted by your one but I had a 1.5 auto of the next generation after that and it was dreadful on fuel so I decided to give it a miss - glad it's joined the fold anyway. Can't currently find a picture of it, but here's my Mk1. And here's the Mk3 which was shit on fuel. Edit: Found it.
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Round a mate's last night, talking to his daughter (late 20s, hairdresser). She was telling me that she'd spent several hours that day replacing a front lower arm on her Audi (2003 A4 Avant) in advance of its upcoming MOT, and she was complaining about what an utter bastard the front suspension is to work on on those cars. She also replaced a rear arm which was a piece of piss by comparison, although she did say the bush on the old one fell to bits as she took it off. There's still hope for the next generation I reckon.
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The Zafira failed its MOT today. I was expecting it to fail, and most of the stuff it failed on was either stuff I was already aware of or relatively minor and easily fixable. It did however fail the emissions test quite spectacularly - CO was off the chart and it also had an advisory for blue smoke, which I hadn't noticed before. Lambda was also way off so the garage reckoned it might be effectively running in cold start mode all the time, which might explain the smoke. So I'm going to fit a new Lambda sensor and take it back in so they can stick it on the emissions before I buy any of the other bits - if the engine is actually shagged then it'll be going for scrap. Then driving to a hospital appointment this afternoon a bit fell off the Rover 75 on the bypass. Turned out it was only the headlight inspection hatch, which I evidently hadn't refitted properly after my MOT-related fiddling a few weeks back, but it made quite a bang as it hit the front wheel and then got chucked under the car. No realistic way to retrieve it as there's nowhere to stop along that section of the bypass but a replacement is only about 15 quid off eBay so not the end of the world.
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Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - I am having a Ford Day!
wuvvum replied to Six-cylinder's topic in AutoShite
I rather liked the 33 I had. Sounded a bit like a 2CV but more raspy. Surprisingly nippy around town as well for only 33bhp. -
Someone appears to have fitted a straight 6 out of an AC Ace to it as well. Bet that shifts!
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Those things do have an appalling turning circle for such a tiny car.
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The only Montego that could possibly be worth close to seven bags is a nice MG Turbo. A base spec diesel saloon, especially an early one with the silly diff ratio, isn't worth anything close to that however nice it is.
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I bought some upgraded LED stop / tail light bulbs off eBay for the Getz. I think they might be a bit too upgraded...
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Electric Daihatsu Hijet van - batteries not included.
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Memoirs from the Hard Shoulder: bASeman's Spot of the Year award.
wuvvum replied to BorniteIdentity's topic in AutoShite
The first car I remember my Grandad owning is an S-reg Granada L in beige. I think that was a 2.0 though rather than a 2.3. If memory serves he bought it for £10 in a bankruptcy sale - it would only have been about 4 years old at the time. -
Isn't that the ex- @RetroShite raffle prize 4?
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I hope Pat actually does use a Zuk beavertail for his recovery business.
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I found the HBOL to be useless when it came to removing the struts on mine. I just did it by eye in the end.
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That's the definition of optimism right there - using a solar battery charger in North Wales.
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LOL, he's even shown the VIN number FFS.
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You are by far the most sane person in your family. Which, if you stop and think about it, is fucking terrifying.
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Reconnected the battery on the Z4 this morning and the windows are working again. The boot latch solenoid has gone mental though, firing off every few seconds. I took the trim panel off and yanked the plug out in the end - the key lock operates the latch via an old fashioned analogue cable so the electric bit isn't really required anyway. And at least the car is now watertight.
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Got the old strut off the BMW with relatively little difficulty. There appears to be a problem with the new one though - the strut top mount won't turn, or at least it will but only with major levering - it should be spinning more or less freely. I'm not sure what's gone wrong - whether the garage have put the strut together wrong (which would surprise me as they're generally very good), whether they've overtightened the top nut, or whether one of the bits I bought is dodgy or there's something missing. Either way it's not ready to go on the car yet so I've had to shove the old one back in temporarily. Also the windows have now stopped working. I came back to the car having gone to get some tools and the driver's door window had gone half way down, which was odd as I hadn't touched anything. It didn't want to go back up - operating the switch did nowt. Eventually I managed to get it to close, but then it wouldn't move - it wouldn't even drop down fractionally when the door is open like it's supposed to. Until I came in for a coffee and went out to find it had dropped down fractionally, and now wouldn't go back up again. Still, at least the gap is now only a few mm rather than the several inches it was before, so hopefully it won't get too wet in there. I plugged the Delphi in and it couldn't find any codes - the only stored codes were in relation to the wiper park switch (which I was aware of) and me disconnecting the battery. The Delphi will "ping" the window lifters, bypassing the switches, but I didn't try that today as I wasn't sure whether it'll only "ping" them in one direction. I also didn't try the roof given the weather, but assume that if the windows aren't working that won't be either. I'm assuming it's the BCM which has thrown a wobbly - I've now disconnected the battery for the night and will see if it wakes up again when I reconnect everything tomorrow. If not I'm going to have to remove the BCM and get it repaired - yet another bloody expense. This car really is fighting me every step of the way.
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Nope, still not found the problem with that. I've pretty much learned to drive around it though. Most of my driving is on open roads so it's not too much of an issue.
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The ex- @Gruber, @BeEP and I think someone else in between Hyundai Getz has just gone straight through the MOT, with just a couple of advisories for a drop link dust cover and greased brake pipes. So that's good. The garage also put the new strut for the Z4 together, total charge a tenner for the tea fund. So that's also good.
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Surely the easiest route to more power would be to fit a Herald engine or similar? I'm not sure more power would particularly suit the car though - they're really designed for gentle trundling
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I remember reading an article years ago which said that the original target market for the Fusion was young hip urban types. To be fair, some Fusion buyers may have been young hip urban types 60 years previously.