beko1987 Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Its annoying as I don't get paid till Thursday. Apparently there are 2 different calipers for vented vs solid. Arse! Will ecp the vented discs on Thursday and pick them up at lunchtime! Will look at the return policy for the solid ones when they come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckythirteen Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 That's a plus point with ECP: they're usually okay with taking stuff back. If you're feeling lucky, tell them they gave you the wrong ones, you might dodge the 'restocking' surcharge. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Sadly the wrong discs came from eBay so it will cost me a few quid to post them back but I won't open them and will get the bulk of the money back. Not telling amy though, she's in a foul mood! Ecp discs are £10 each with hot30 though so I should still break even with the previous owners refund! Luckythirteen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Took my mind off my smashed phone and smashed car by having a look at the history, and getting the current mot cert out ready (hopefully) for the weekend... MOT's back to 2004... 2004 - 123,105 Miles2005 - 133,8062006 - 149,4962007 - 168,5162008 - 188,2262009 - 209,1182010 - 232,6352011 - 254,8182012 - Doesnt seem to have been MOT'd2013 - 255,9322014 - 262,728Today - 264,151 Seen the right side of a citroen dealer in the past too. Can anyone translate frog? The newest bit of paper... Latest MOT And a HPI Check Had yesterday and today off work due to a runny bottom, so took a shot of the fleet when I got back from work yesterday morning (avoiding any bumps, the XM did well there) Have found a nice wing in the right colour off a breaker on ebay for £30 delivered so hopefully I can afford that. Once I buy the right discs on Thursday I'll put it all together after work and go for a tentative drive around the block, then check the nuts, then go around the bypass, then check the nuts then maybe hoon it to chinnor and back and check the nuts again. Then tax it... Spiny Norman, garethj, Jim Bergerac and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbenn Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Had yesterday and today off work due to a runny bottom, so took a shot of the fleet when I got back from work yesterday morning (avoiding any bumps, the XM did well there) Delayed reaction to the weekend's sudden wheel departure incident? My reaction would have been immediate, and devastating. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 30 quid for a wing in the right shade is worth it. L reg seems too early for the facelift grille but it looks good on it. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 Right the new incorrect discs arrived yesterday, and I'll take them down to the post room to see how much it will cost me to send them back. Apologetic email fired off to the seller - NO EBAY, I DO NOT WISH TO OPEN A DISPUTE, I WAS THE FUCKWIT HERE OK??? grrrr 'Other Question' - That'll do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Norman Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Took my mind off my smashed phone and smashed car by having a look at the history, and getting the current mot cert out ready (hopefully) for the weekend... MOT's back to 2004... That's bloody impressive, the previous owner's been sticking 20k+ a year onto this old thing even when it got into its teenage years.True economy motoring. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 He used to go from Heathfield to Laahndan every day for years apparently, sometimes the car sat all week in london, sometimes it didnt! I wont be piling on so many miles though, 50ish a day for the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Qty Parts Description Vehicle Reg Price 2 104545221 Eicher Brake Disc Citroen ZX 1.9 1994 l952nwk £19.44 1 526770250 Pagid Cera-Tec Brake Lube 75ml £2.62 1 524770272 Pagid Dot4 Brake Fluid 1Ltr £4.51 1 CLICKANDCOLLECT Click and Collect Internet Order £ 0.00 Sub Total: £26.57 Total Amount payable upon collection : £26.57 Lets see what tonight brings. Going to clean the calipers up a bit too since they will come off to fit the disc hence the brake grease and dot4 - the drivers side does feel a bit squeaky around the old disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Eicher brakes are shite. Spend the extra few quid on Pagid, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigmund Fraud Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Eicher do have a poor reputation, but a lot of it appears to be internet hype "I fitted Eicher pads to my 500HP Impreza before I took it to the Nordschleife... They are a pile of shite, they began to overheat and fade within the first 10 laps, never again !" etc. In my experience, they aren't as well made as Brembo etc., but cost half the money and are good enough for everyday use by a sensible driver. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Ahhh their fitted now! And I;ve fitted Eicher discs and pads before and have been ok. Will keep an extra eye on them for you! TBH I wont be doing much hooning around! As alluded to earlier, I got the XM MOT'd, then came back and got straight on with it! Not many pictures but: Caliper sliders removed, the rust cleaned off with wire wool and thoroughly re-greased until they were bouncy once more (took note of everyones advice in other threads and bought proper brake grease rather than using coppaslip or normal grease)Pushed the caliper piston in, cap on brake resevoir, push on brake, cap off, squeeze etc a few times just to free it up.Coppaslip everywhere! And all back together. I cleaned the disc off with brake cleaner once done, dont worry! Everything felt great by hand, so I put the wheel back on and moved onto the drivers side Which was more than overdue for fettling anyway! Tickled the caliper again and fitted everything back. The pads no longer scrape the disc like they used to! I then came back in, ate some pizza then me and Dan (who drove us and buggared about with us on sat) went up the road. Initially he walked alongside whilst I let it tickover up the road, then we went for a drive AND IT'S PERFECTLY FINE! Smooth, brakes seem alot better, every noise I heard on saturday is gone, it's brilliant. Kicking myself for not pulling over as soon as I heard the noise and checking but hey ho! We went to the pez station and pumped the spare up to 33psi from the 18 it was, and evened out the rest. I'm driving it to work tomorrow, and if that's a success then it will get taxed on saturday and a taxless XM with 363 days MOT will be put up for sale! Immediate jobs to do: Refit arch linerPut the spare on the back, it's narrower than the other tyresNew part worns all round!Investigate/keep an eye on the drivers side CV joint. It squeaked slightly when I rotated it by hand, although I couldnt hear anything when drivingSort the buggared bolt holes out on the hub. Would I have any success with one of these? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151305240711?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 just to sort them out, and I'll get a few more wheel bolts too, or should I send it into our local backstreet garage? Either way, I can finally drive the fucker now! Added bonus, it looks like solid discs on the rears, so I may not send the solid ones back now, will have a check at the weekend and if they fit the rears I'll keep them, buy some new pads and sort the rear brakes out too. Will bleed each caliper out too when I find my brake nipple pipe (co-ax cable sheath). mat_the_cat, Shep Shepherd, Jim Bergerac and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Eicher do have a poor reputation, but a lot of it appears to be internet hype "I fitted Eicher pads to my 500HP Impreza before I took it to the Nordschleife... They are a pile of shite, they began to overhead and fade within the first 10 laps, never again !" etc. In my experience, they aren't as well made as Brembo etc., but cost half the money and are good enough for everyday use by a sensible driver.Amys has Eicher discs and pads on the rear for the last 15k, front pads for 19k, my old ZX had front eicher pads I think and my Puma had pads and discs! The rears could well be mintex on the zx soon though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Made it into work! (passenger door switch is broken, it's not really open! Also, what would the red light be by the temp guage? (bottom right) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 If the hub threads arent too buggered and you have a spare wheel bolt you can cut 2 or 4 grooves into it lengthways ( 1mm grinder disc or hacksaw) and use that to clean the threads up. beko1987, alf892 and Luckythirteen 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Might try that, although would probably be a chore as I;d have to get a grinder, discs and a vice! Their not too bad, the worse one has rounded each sharp edge off, the bolt looks a bit mushed but I can see the thread still and it winds in fine. TBH it would probably be less faff to just get a new hub! Leaving it for now, my tyre plan is to get the rears done (bolts are fine, windy gun will be used), swap them on the the front at leisure then get the rears done again! The spare has a smaller tyre but I think the steel is the same size so I should be ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckythirteen Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Good news! Glad it's worked out for you in the end. A tap set would be a bit overkill: take a bolt to a proper tool shop, and get them to find you a matching tap. Buy holder, save literally £££ s. Eicher brake stuff is fine too, if you're not going mental up the backroads. Which is why mine has Mintex now... beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meshking Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I might not be correct, but that light either means you're overheating or you have run out of water. Or maybe both. Or that it's French. dome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I have the same tap and die set. Quiet sturdy for the low cost. I paid 7.99 for mine from a old school hardware store. The chap has everything. Admittedly covered in dust in boxes. Well done with the motor. Red light looks like a overheat warning so could be a knackered sensor if the coolant is correct and its not overheating. Is it the zx that has a form of passive rear wheel steering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigmund Fraud Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Also, what would the red light be by the temp guage? (bottom right) (Sucks air through teeth) You've run out of loom smoke, mate. Them ZXs take Marelli smoke, it's a dealer-only part nowadays. 'Fraid it's going to be expensive... Rusty_Rocket and beko1987 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 The light is on to show that the light is still working, which on French electrics is a reason for celebration. I had Eicher brake pads and they did exactly what I needed them to, which was stop the car without costing a fortune. They were pretty noisy, but my stereo had a volume control which sorted that problem out perfectly. I also fitted them to pretty worn brake discs (if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing half of and leave the rest until another day for double the satisfaction). beko1987 and Bucketeer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 Ha! The light stays on with the ignition and goes off when the engine starts. Coolant seems to stay fine, I'll forget the light exists until its too late then. Need to bed the brakes in more, theres just a few small contact lines on the discs ATM, will knock it into neutral and coast/hard brake up to junctions for now! Theres an inch of slop in the brake pedal too before they start stopping. No idea if its supposed to do that or the system needs bleeding, been so used to hydro brakes now! Came home from work at 60 on the m40, and it was fine. Came out of a 30 into a 60 (chinnor onto the Thame road is fun when quirt) and fucking booted it through all the gears and its fooking rapid! Used no fuel today either according to the guage, which goes up and down like a yoyo at the minute. Speedo bobs up and down like a land rover below 30 too. Bolts are still tight! DVee8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Taxed! Xms definatley going now! May have shown a saxo how its done on the way home too, boosts nicely at 3.5k in 3rd! DVee8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Popped my mate up to the tyre place so he could pick his car up after getting £££ worth of rainsport 3's fitted and Eva fell asleep with the rythmic vibration of idle in the ZX whilst I waited to check all was ok before leaving him greengartside and M'coli 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Would this run corn oil or is veg best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Anything oily. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moog Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Speedo bobs up and down like a land rover below 30 too. Bolts are still tight!My 405 does that. Looked online and seems it is the speedo cable is the issue. It said it was a ball ache to fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 There is a speedo cable set in the boot, brand new and wrapped up. If its a massive PITA then in the boot it can stay! Stops wobbling bang on 30 so it's speed camera safe! I got the nokia car kit to work too after resetting it and it's not too bad. Amy says she can slightly hear herself but it's 10000% better than shouting into my phone on loudspeaker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moog Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Might be different to 405, but there is normally a reason it is still in the boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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