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Daughters c1 is 2 years older, but only done about 50k and been looked after. It was looking a bit scabby cos it had lost its wheel trims and the wheels were rusty and needed 2 tyres. The 107 was a sportium so had alloys as standard and son had put two new uniroyals on just before it broke and the others weren't very old either. So daughters one now decently shod and looking better too.

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Daughters c1 is 2 years older, but only done about 50k and been looked after. It was looking a bit scabby cos it had lost its wheel trims and the wheels were rusty and needed 2 tyres. The 107 was a sportium so had alloys as standard and son had put two new uniroyals on just before it broke and the others weren't very old either. So daughters one now decently shod and looking better too.

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Daughters c1 is 2 years older, but only done about 50k and been looked after. It was looking a bit scabby cos it had lost its wheel trims and the wheels were rusty and needed 2 tyres. The 107 was a sportium so had alloys as standard and son had put two new uniroyals on just before it broke and the others weren't very old either. So daughters one now decently shod and looking better too.

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but on the +ve side you just increased value of a c1 with the alloys😁

My sons abused, fucked 107 has been littering my drive for about 10 months. It was bought at 2 years old, it's a 12 plate. It's been thrashed, bashed generally bad used but serviced every 10k. It put a conrod through the engine, got re engined with a 13k ebay breaker engine, and a new clutch. He did about another 20k then clutch went. That's when it got abandoned at mine. He took the box out and fount the release bearing goosed. Replaced it, put box back in but never finished it. So it was left on axle stands needing clutch cable connected, battery tray, fuse box and battery replaced and wheels refitted. On the meantime mot expired. I'm not fit now to do these things myself so he got a 4 week warning 4 weeks ago, get it fixed or moved or I scrap it. His answer, I don't care do what you want. So I get son in law to have a look at it. Says it needs discs and pads, brake pipes, subframe welded, couple ball joints, driveshaft boot, prob back breaks too as well as the other stuff to get going. My daughter has a c1 needing two tyres so I told Dan to take shauns alloys and put on the rusty wheels bald tyres on the 107. Contacted a few scrappies and best offer was £50! Did a cartakeback quote, they offered £401 and they picked it up. So it's off to copart Edinburgh to get done whatever they will do for it. Be sold on a copart auction I expect or be stripped and bean tins I do feel a bit bad scrapping a 10 year old 107 though.
 
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The economical way of dragging a disco about is on the back of an AA truck after it has broken down (again)

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The economical way of dragging a disco about is on the back of an AA truck after it has broken down (again)

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The economical way of dragging a disco about is on the back of an AA truck after it has broken down (again)

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The economical way of dragging a disco about is on the back of an AA truck after it has broken down (again)

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Well my mission to make space on my drive continues. Today I sold my trailer. I wish selling cars was so easy. Put on facebook marketplace and gumtree about 10pm last night, 1st reply 10am today saying he was coming to get it. I thought righto, heres the 1st timewaster. Nope! He was here by 12, asked 200 off the price, I counter offered split the difference, he handed over the cash, hooked it onto his car and left. It was priced at a fair price compared to similar trailers I've seen recently, I wish cars were that easily sold!

I have one more car sized item to get rid of out of my sight and that is my sons wrecked 107. It's been sitting at mine for months, the gearbox been out and new clutch fitted, it needs new discs and pads fitted, the battery tray and battery refitted then gone. He is not showing any interest in it, ive just done a car take back on it and offered £401 for it as is. I'm very close to accepting that and getting rid. Otherwise I will finish it off and sell it, but that's hassle. May take the easy option.

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You have my sympathy...

When I was at Hays of Huntly in 2004 our oldest was an old duple with Ford mechanics. It was 1977 registered and was fondly referred to as old Henry. It was a bugger to drive, there was gears in there somewhere. I was the only one who didn't moan about driving it so got it most of the time for my school run.

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When I was at Hays of Huntly in 2004 our oldest was an old duple with Ford mechanics. It was 1977 registered and was fondly referred to as old Henry. It was a bugger to drive, there was gears in there somewhere. I was the only one who didn't moan about driving it so got it most of the time for my school run.

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Oil pressure gauge arrived.

Time to confirm if the light in the Caddy is telling lies.
On start up it initially shot up to about 80psi, soon settling to 59psi at idle.

When driving it seems to sit pretty steadily on 70psi which seems to be the set pressure of the relief valve.
Idle when warm doesn't look stellar to be honest but at least is there.

No idle pressure is given, the test is meant to be done at 2000 rpm (which is the point at which the warning light is enabled - it will never come on below that), requiring 30psi - we're showing about 60 at that point so not worrying about that.
Basically there's bugger all wrong with the oil pressure.  The warning light is telling lies.
Time to order a new pressure switch I think (which on this is unusually a normally open rather than normally closed switch).

Theres not much wrong with the 1.6 tdi. I've had two seat Leon's and a vw caddy, the daughter a leon also the 1.6tdi. 1st leon written off, second one now a pizza delivery car now at 110k, I sold it at 72k it's not been serviced since and gets thrashed and had more hits than the Beatles but still driving well. No breakdowns or problems with any of them, although my current caddy is a bit flat under 2000 revs, which a remap has helped but not cured. It's done 124k though and is 100% reliable.

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When we had 1st child I had a 3door astra and wanted a 5 door car, thought I fancied an escort. One at local place, went for a test drive, it drove ok for its 3 years old and 42000 miles. Found the service book which was stamped right up to a matter of weeks before, at 96000! It was due its first test so I suppose the service book got lost before it got tested and sold.

The other local place had two escorts, a red a reg and a blue b reg, just 2 months difference in age, similar miles, both service books present and seemed genuine, £200 difference in price. I bought the red one after a test drive. It turned out that above 60mph the thing was near impossible to steer. Went back to garage they said it was because of the remould on the front. Two new tyres later, which I paid for it was as bad. I said right take it back and I'll give you the 200 extra and I'll have the blue one which they still had. He said no, give me a grand and the red one and you can get the blue. I didn't do that. By this time the reg document arrived, found the previous owners phone number and called him. The last time he saw the car it had a tree embedded in the passengers side and he was surprised it was back on the road. So it got traded in elsewhere for a b reg cavalier, which is what I should in the first place as I was a vauxhall fan boy then!

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I had a 1994 nissan serena people carrier which was basically one of these vans. It was a 1.6 petrol and took all types of abuse including towing a giant size elddis crusader superstorm twin axle caravan whilst loaded with me, wife, mother in law and 3 kids. I actually thought it was a great vehicle.

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I had a 1994 nissan serena people carrier which was basically one of these vans. It was a 1.6 petrol and took all types of abuse including towing a giant size elddis crusader superstorm twin axle caravan whilst loaded with me, wife, mother in law and 3 kids. I actually thought it was a great vehicle.

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I had a 1994 nissan serena people carrier which was basically one of these vans. It was a 1.6 petrol and took all types of abuse including towing a giant size elddis crusader superstorm twin axle caravan whilst loaded with me, wife, mother in law and 3 kids. I actually thought it was a great vehicle.

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MOT and tax sorted. 

Finally back home after 4 years away.   

The 205 is gone to a new home, where it is going to be restored properly. It was 570 miles of driving for me, towing the trailer with the yeti. It, and me coped well with the journey, used £160 worth of diesel.

The caddy is running well, it has a new timing belt on it and been remapped. I haven't done a mpg check yet, but it certainly feels a bit happier, although it still feels a bit of turbo lag under 2000 revs.

In other car news my daughter has upgraded her car. I did ask why she felt the need to change, her car was a 2015 seat leon 1.6tdi estate which had done under 50k, looked after and really good condition, when she bought it she was doing 20k a year, but changed her job soon after that and only did 25k in 4 years! She has gone for another leon estate, a 2019 1.5tsi petrol. It's a nicer trim then the 2015 car was, being the fr rather than base. I emptied my playing with cars budget to help her with the extortionate cost of buying said car, although it was over 2 grand less at a seat main dealer than any that arnold clark had, and as an approved used seat has 2 years servicing, mot and warranty. Arnold would have added on another grand for all that.

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I had a pd130 bora on 260000 miles which was brilliant and I regret selling it. Best car I had had for a long time.

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I had a pd130 bora on 260000 miles which was brilliant and I regret selling it. Best car I had had for a long time.

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Thanks for the offer.  I'll look into the exact route nearer the time though as I'll only forget whatever I look up now before the day.  Not too worried about it to be honest (unless it's windy!).  The actual venue is the Hilton attached to the NEC, though I'm staying at the Moxy just round the corner as the main hotel has been full for months.  I've traversed the roads in that general area a few times so it's not totally new ground at least.
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Had the opportunity to get a few things ticked off on the Cavalier today to bring it into a more user friendly state for transportation.
[] Replace the very flat nearside front wheel with the spare.
Old one off...

Good spare on.  Job done.

Not including the walking the whole way back to the far end of the field and back because I forgot to pick the key up before walking up to the car, just over six minutes work.
The spare has highlighted that I appear to be missing chrome wheel rings from three other wheels.  Sure they grow on trees these days...
[] Replace dissolved fuel line tail between the tank and the main nylon line to the front of the car.  No photos of this as it was an awkward and messy job.  Especially at the point where I made the discovery that a lot less of the fuel had leaked out of the tank since I left it a few weeks ago than I'd expected.  Of course I found this out with my face as I pulled the line off under the car as I ended up wearing a significant amount of the contents of the tank.  Again.
Congratulations to Vauxhall for having positioned that connection precisely so that the rear axle and exhaust are *precisely* in the way.  Nevertheless, it only took a few minutes to do.  Hardest part was getting the old hose tail off the tank as it had welded itself to the stub, though it did eventually release.
I thought I had a photo of the new line in place but my phone claims otherwise.
[] Non Running State.  Last time I was at the car it seemed to be running quite well, right up to when I blipped the throttle at one point when it died.  A quick bit of diagnosis revealed that we had no spark, and that the points were staying resolutely open circuit.  However we were short on time and didn't have the screwdriver needed to get the distributor cap off, so just left it be.
I was initially quite worried as the screws on the distributor cap appeared to have been tightened up by the Incredible Hulk and one was threatening to round out on me.  After no small amount of very careful perseverance I did get the cap off.  Bit of a scrub of the points with some Emery cloth seemed to sort things out.  Flicking the points to see if we got any sparkage proved two things.  One, we did have spark.  Two, that screwdriver was far less well insulated than I thought it was.  That's the third time I've been belted by a HT system in the last 48 hours.  The Trevi has got me twice so far!
That sorted she started first touch.  Meant I was finally able to move the car (albeit very carefully as the only brakes I have are provided by a very poor handbrake on one wheel it seems).  This has also highlighted that the clutch release bearing sounds distinctly unhappy.  Guess I'll be doing or getting a clutch done in the not too distant future then.
This is assuming it's a sealed bearing and doesn't need to be periodically lubricated as per the old Skoda ones.  Can't really see how you would access it for that though.
First time I've had a look at it not tucked into a corner.



That's very much the good side.

Standing back from the car it's more obvious that the damage to the doors is from the fork lift/loader that was used to move the car around when the previous storage location was being cleared.  A shame as it is damage that could easily have been avoided, but on the flip side it's nothing too hard to fix.  I'm just grateful it wasn't plucked out by a strap under the roof.
I also seem to be missing the "Vauxhall" text which should be between the tail lights.  Hopefully that won't be too hard to track down.  I imagine it should be easier than the more model-specific bits at least.
I let her run for a while to get up to temperature...top radiator hose started to get warm after a while...

Ah...no temperature gauge.  Now there are plenty of things I will happily do without in a car, but a working temperature gauge is not one of them.  Thankfully 90 seconds of detective work under the bonnet found a stray wire and a post for it to attach to on the thermostat housing.  Result?

Much better!
I still love that dash design.  I'm a sucker for anything which doesn't just have boring rectangular or square lights on the dash.

Very much looking forward to getting this home and starting to get properly stuck into recommissioning it.

Such a rarity these days despite being such a common sight in its day.
So stuff I'm missing, seems worth mentioning as I know these cars do have their fans and they're the sort of things someone might have floating around in a box in a shed in some cases.
[] Rear silencer.
[] NSR door rubbing strip.
[] 3 X Chrome wheel rings.
[] 4 X Wheel centre caps.
[] Vauxhall badging from rear panel.
Of course if I have the car in working order and the bugs shaken out by then the big question would be whether I took this or TPA to the FotU?  
Probably still TPA really, as there's inevitably going to be at least a couple of other early Cavaliers there.  Granted though there might be another couple of Invacars too given how they seem to have come out of the woodwork over the last couple of years!

With me being a bit pissed off just getting 42mpg out of my caddy van, when everyone else I know gets nearer 60 from their 1.6td vws I have put it into the garage for a carbon clean, remap and because theres no record of it being done a timing belt, waterpump and tensioner. That little lot will cost me in the region of £600. Ouch!

My 42 mpg is mostly running from here to Aberdeen or Elgin, so usually a 80 mile return trip on single carriageway roads at 55 mph. This compares to the delivery one I drive when working which gets 45 or so on deliveries which is severely hard on it being stop start all the time. It feels much nippier than mine, its 2 years older, just turned 100k, mine has done 123k. They have the same heart both being the 1.6 TDI 102 hp. I'm hoping this improves mine both in low down pull and mpg.

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