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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from grogee in ebay 'BARGAINS'   
    Assume everyone has heard of ‘Drivetribe’, because I haven’t 
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from dozeydustman in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    Many Toyotas, Nissans and Mitsubishi’s (and pretty much every Japanese car makers) listed そのクソさび  as a feature in much of its literature. It roughly translates as ‘that fucking rust’
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    Sausage5000 reacted to DavidB in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    The name DATSUN, was conceived when the head of Datsun, Akira Nissan, used the phrase repeatedly ("Oh Dat Son of mine") (in a frustrated tone) when his son (who was Carlos Ghosn) was constantly discovered doing many dodgy business activites, and then escaping in packing crates.
     

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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Talbot in Engineered like no other car. Not a single one like it. Thankfully.   
    What is the rest function?
    I liked the little pads in between the seats and the centre console to stop things dropping down.
    Clearing out the Black Death on my old 320CDi wasn’t fun. I had an Avant Garde, they are superb if they’ve been looked after.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Talbot in Engineered like no other car. Not a single one like it. Thankfully.   
    I bought one from Sheffield, they are nice cars, but they do have a few wel known faults. The electronics don't run very well with a worn out battery, and FFS Mercedes, can you please sort out that rust trap on the corner of the front wings. Just have a look at every other car that doesn't rust there and copy their design!
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    Sausage5000 reacted to martc in Once seen, can't be unseen   
    35% of the worlds population drive on the left (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-drive-on-the-left) so it's hardly a niche market. It wouldn't just be us having to change over....
    India
    Indonesia
    Pakistan
    Bangladesh
    Japan
    Thailand
    United Kingdom
    Tanzania
    South Africa
    Kenya
    Uganda
    Malaysia
    Mozambique
    Nepal
    Australia
    Sri Lanka
    Malawi
    Zambia
    Zimbabwe
    Papua New Guinea
    Hong Kong
    Singapore
    Ireland
    New Zealand
    Jamaica
    Namibia
    Botswana
    Lesotho
    Trinidad And Tobago
    Timor Leste
    Mauritius
    Cyprus
    Swaziland
    Fiji
    Guyana
    Bhutan
    Solomon Islands
    Macau
    Suriname
    Maldives
    Malta
    Brunei
    Bahamas
    Barbados
    Samoa
    Saint Lucia
    Kiribati
    Grenada
    Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
    Tonga
    United States Virgin Islands
    Seychelles
    Antigua And Barbuda
    Isle Of Man
    Dominica
    Cayman Islands
    Bermuda
    Saint Kitts And Nevis
    Turks And Caicos Islands
    British Virgin Islands
    Cook Islands
    Anguilla
    Tuvalu
    Nauru
    Montserrat
    Falkland Islands
    Niue
    Tokelau
     
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Cord Fourteener in Once seen, can't be unseen   
    A tribute to ...

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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from paulplom in ebay 'BARGAINS'   
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from BlankFrank in ebay 'BARGAINS'   
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from puddlethumper in ebay 'BARGAINS'   
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from spartacus in ebay 'BARGAINS'   
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from warren t claim in AS Communal MK4&5 Mondeo Thread   
    A DMF starting to die at 200,000 miles isn't really that bad. Some people bitch about that like it's an unreasonable length of time.
    It's horrible and inevitable though, but starter motors aren't that bad to change on the TDCI engines (everything from the top/front).
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    Sausage5000 reacted to Talbot in Engineered like no other car. Not a single one like it. Thankfully.   
    The "rest" function on the heater only works when the key is either out, or in the accessory position.  If you prod rest, it turns the climate control system back on at a fixed (quite low) fan speed, and basic thermostatic control.  It also starts up a small 12V pump under the bonnet that pumps hot coolant from the engine block around the heater matrix.  This will run for about 20/30 minutes at a time, and can be activated about 4 times before the engine block gets too cold to dump any meaningful heat into the passenger compartment.  It's exceptionally useful if you're waiting for someone in cold weather, if you've only been away from the car for a bit and you get back and aren't leaving immediately, or if you're only going to be out of the car for 10/15 mins and you want to keep the interior warm for when you get back.
    In winter I use it all the time.  Even if you're going shopping and are going to be out of the car for 30/40 mins, if you run rest mode as you leave, the car is noticeably warmer when you get back in than if you don't.
    The very very early W210s didn't have it, but just about all later models do.  I think W211 cars had it, but the feature seems to have been lost these days.  A real shame as it's a genuinely useful feature.
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    Sausage5000 reacted to Talbot in Engineered like no other car. Not a single one like it. Thankfully.   
    Mercedes Benz.  What images does that throw up?  Quality?  Prestige?  Elegance?  Hewn from Granite?
    This is absolutely none of the above.
    A very quick intro as to the why:  While looking for engines that run well on Veg oil, I discovered the OM606.  Turns out this is both the most powerful and just about the last engine available in the UK that uses a mechanical injection pump, and hence is an ideal candidate for SVO.  What vehicles were they fitted to.. well, the interesting one is the G-wagon of the late 90's, specifically the G-300TD.  They cost HOW MUCH??? ok, I'm not getting one of those then.  The OM606 was also fitted to the W210/S210 series of cars, which are much much cheaper.  One evening, I put a silly bid on a W210 E300 saloon and stupidly won it.  Cock.
    Ran that for a year.  Surprisingly powerful car and one I instantly felt comfortable in.  Unfortunately they're all automatic, which is not my preference, but that was the only real downside of the car.  Some more on that one later maybe.  After I'd had it for a year, it needed much more work than I was willing to put in, so I sold it for it's engine to a serial Land-Rover botherer and started looking for another car.  Bought a diesel Mundaneo, which was then swiftly taken back for a refund because the high-pressure fuel pump was knackered.  Looked for another car, and found an S210 for reasonably cheap.  Got in it and said "aaahhh, that's better".  So I bought it.
    It was cheap because it was a mess.  Had to remove a lot of stupid chrome stickers, chrome headlamp surrounds,  idiot "nurburgring" stickers, useless tuning box, and all manner of pointless AMG stickers from the interior.  Once I'd ripped all that rubbish out it was a fairly decent car.  The real reason for this post was the utter bodgery I had to implement to keep it on the road.  Bodgery I'm fairly proud of, but bodgery nevertheless.
    First incident with detail:  Front spring perch failure.  A known issue on 210s, the front spring perch has a habit of rotting through and either detatching, or just completely giving up.  Mine decided to completely give up.  Driving away from work one evening there was a thunk, the NSF dipped a bit, and there was a clatter of mud falling off the car and blattering about under the floor.  The car still drove in a straight line, so I did the most sensible thing I could:  Ignore it completely and just drive.
    It was quite clear that the NSF was on it's bumpstop.  This is what greeted me when I took the wheel off:

    That's not so clever.  The spring has basically punched straight through the spring perch, hence the suspension being on it's stops.  The spring just lifted out of position, leaving a mess of rotten steel behind:

    Crap.  New spring perches are available, but they are £40, and I need the car back on the road PRONTO to get to work again.  So, cut away all the rotten and wafer-thin steel to get back to the inner wheel arch:

    Now, I need a new spring perch.  Time to get creative:

    No, I'm not making a saw:

    I am the king of the spring people:

    Employ hammer:

    I'm sure you can see where this is going.  Weld that up and weld it into the car:

    Buzzzzzzzzz:

    Coat of zinc-based undercoat and then some bitumen top-coat and it's ready to go:

    The spring, being an avantgarde model (rather than the more softly sprung, Elegance or Classic) is short enough that you can just shove the lower arm down as far as you can by standing on it, and then beat the spring back onto it's mounting with a hammer.  Went in no problem at all.  The eagle-eyed out there may notice that the bottom end of the spring has a swipe of paint on the end.  That is because I discovered it had recently broken the last 1" or so off the end of the coil.  The easiest thing to do of course being to cut the end square and then splodge a bit of paint on it so no-one notices.   The car never saw another MOT, so this was largely pointless, but it made me feel better.
    Only other casualty of the incident was the damper plastic cover:

    meh.  Straightened it out again and shoved it back on the car.  Was fine*.  Load back on the front arm.  The welds didn't rip apart, so I'll call that a success:

    Like all good projects, I made extensive use of CAD:

    That put the car back on the road, and it was still like that when I scrapped it for unrelated reasons many months later.  Total cost was a few quid for some welding supplies and a few hours of time.  Yes, I could have just bought a spring perch, but this was far more over-engineered.  I'm fairly sure you could have picked up the entire car by that spring perch once I'd finished.
    So yes, this was "Engineered like no other car".  But not in ways that the Mercedes Benz advert meant.
     
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from bunglebus in Unplanned roadside repairs   
    Driving down the M6, one of my wiper blades decided to go solo, swinging loosely on the hook, doing it's best to escape, but not quite. Seeing it's misfortune he obviously thought he wasn't going alone, so hooked the other wiper, both doing a crazy jig across the windscreen before the two of them disappeared into the wet, raining Midlands sky, leaving my perplexed wiper arms to scutter across the glass. The only bodge really was sticking my head out of the window for the rest of the journey.
    From memory, these were both poundland windscreen wipers, which are absolute shit.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Talbot in Unplanned roadside repairs   
    Driving down the M6, one of my wiper blades decided to go solo, swinging loosely on the hook, doing it's best to escape, but not quite. Seeing it's misfortune he obviously thought he wasn't going alone, so hooked the other wiper, both doing a crazy jig across the windscreen before the two of them disappeared into the wet, raining Midlands sky, leaving my perplexed wiper arms to scutter across the glass. The only bodge really was sticking my head out of the window for the rest of the journey.
    From memory, these were both poundland windscreen wipers, which are absolute shit.
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    Sausage5000 reacted to djoptix in Worst bodge you've seen   
    Not-a-terrible-bodge-but:
     
    Back in the day my 106 1.5D (of Satan) got broken into and the radio stolen... how quaint! I was living in Manchester and managed to locate a scrapper with a good window, near my parents' place in Herefordshire. On my next trip back home I bodged the window thus:
     

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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Cavcraft in Kiltox’s eternally fucked 1992 Renault Clio 1.4 RT auto   
    Clios seemed to get more bloated and hideous for every facelift they got. The 5, Clio mk1 and Clio mk2 pre-facelift are nice lookers.
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    Sausage5000 reacted to Bren in infamous hubnut   
    No invacars?
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Tamworthbay in Automotive bull5hit facts thread   
    No. It was originally called ‘Kiss From a Seat Arose’. And the kiss involved was at 35mph, to Seal’s face.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from RayMK in Harris Mann Hyundai   
    Looks like a modern day washing machine, or kitchen appliance.
    It will look even blander once it’s released with a blobbier crumple zones, US spec headlights and 5 foot high pedestrian friendly front end, and sat under grey February skies in a fifteen mile gridlocked m6 with 18 stone middle management Marcus at the wheel.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from egg in Harris Mann Hyundai   
    Looks like a modern day washing machine, or kitchen appliance.
    It will look even blander once it’s released with a blobbier crumple zones, US spec headlights and 5 foot high pedestrian friendly front end, and sat under grey February skies in a fifteen mile gridlocked m6 with 18 stone middle management Marcus at the wheel.
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from Cavcraft in Cavcraft 2021: More Italian slow shite.   
    Yes, there's no looking past the fact that those rank wheels let the whole thing down, aestheically and probably performance/ride as well.
    It would immediately benefit from some standard VW van steelies.
     
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-TRANSPORTER-T25-T3-SET-OF-4-WHEELS-WITH-TYRES-STEEL-RIMS-14-BREAKING/233335166250?hash=item3653dc152a:g:KYAAAOSw6Olc0YIE
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    Sausage5000 got a reaction from loserone in Cavcraft 2021: More Italian slow shite.   
    Yes, there's no looking past the fact that those rank wheels let the whole thing down, aestheically and probably performance/ride as well.
    It would immediately benefit from some standard VW van steelies.
     
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-TRANSPORTER-T25-T3-SET-OF-4-WHEELS-WITH-TYRES-STEEL-RIMS-14-BREAKING/233335166250?hash=item3653dc152a:g:KYAAAOSw6Olc0YIE
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