Cavcraft 2015: Vectra, because you're worthless.

[warren t claim]

Cavcraftkingcabtastic!

[Rusty_Rocket]

The 2.0 and 2.2 dti are both Vauxhalls own engine and nowt to do with Isuzu . Damn good strong engines but let down by tossy German Bosch injection pumps . Leak off pipes and injector seals ( easy job) are all that seems to go wrong on them

 

I was going to say exactly the same- those DTi engines are very good apart from the box of tricks on top of the Bosch pump.. I think there was a modified pump available to kerb the early failures but who knows of it has one of those now.

I had an Omega V6.  It was a great car once you'd learnt about the V's 'foibles'  No such trouble here of course.

[Shep Shepherd]

I really like Omegas, having driven several of them when they were brand new, when I briefly worked as a car delivery driver in 2002. The 3.2 V6 petrol with manual transmission is particularly rapid

[Cavcraft]

The V6 is ace, shouldn't have sold the 3.0 petrol one I very briefly had.

[Station]

How much/how many numbers?

[Cavcraft]

I haven't decided yet, but probably three and a half hundred for a straight sale.

 

Px white Corsa B

[Cavcraft]

Reverted to the best* buying technique of EVAH by buying this on the strength of three moderately crap pictures, and equally half-arsed description. Collection tomorrow, but I'm working on off-loading it before I even pick it up...

 

 

 

 

 

'P' reg!

 

 

 

*Edit: 1769cc makes it non-DW8?

[chaseracer]

'P' reg!

 

 

 

*Edit: 1769cc makes it non-DW8?

 

XUD...?  That's a very early one, anyway.

[Jim Bell]

That looks interesting. Moar info pls.

[Dave_Q]

I had a berlingo on an S plate that was 1769cc XUD, pump of darkness though.

I ran it on bio but did have to do the pump shaft seal twice in the 10k or so I had it for.

 

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[Cavcraft]

Collecting it tomorrow, more info then. It'll be cheap whatever happens.

[Matt]

Did the UK ever get the Berlingo with rear seats that wasn't a Multispace? I know they exist, and I tried to find one for a while but never found a British one.

[Alan_Green]

Did the UK ever get the Berlingo with rear seats that wasn't a Multispace? I know they exist, and I tried to find one for a while but never found a British one.

I don't think so. But there are conversion kits available. I had one from Restall Bros bought on Ebay for £250, but the van's turbo (actually it's 4th turbo in 4 years - 1.6 HDi woes) blew before I got round to fitting it and I sold the van and the kit separately.

[Matt]

I don't think so. But there are conversion kits available. I had one from Restall Bros bought on Ebay for £250, but the van's turbo (actually it's 4th turbo in 4 years - 1.6 HDi woes) blew before I got round to fitting it and I sold the van and the kit separately.

 

I wasn't aware of that but it was more for insurance purposes than anything else; my current insurer doesn't cover vans but if there is a rear bench it doesn't count as a van, apparently.

[chaseracer]

Did the UK ever get the Berlingo with rear seats that wasn't a Multispace? I know they exist, and I tried to find one for a while but never found a British one.

 

The Berlingo Mixta.  Big in Hispanic countries, apparently, especially those in South America.

 

 

[ruffgeezer]

Yes, the very late facelifted berlingos had a run out model that had the van rear doors and multispace interior, utterly poverty spec though.

[ruffgeezer]

Oh and I'll take no 19 of the Fartner raffle pls.

[Matt]

The Berlingo Mixta.  Big in Hispanic countries, apparently, especially those in South America.

 

South America gets a lot of neat models that we've never heard of, especially Volkswagens. Perati, like a baby Passat

 

[Cavcraft]

It's out of test and 'only needs....' (a rattling exhaust looking at) so I doubt very much it'll be up for auction, just a v.quick sale, unless I can find temporary storage for it round here somewhere.

[purplebargeken]

I ain't buying it. 

[Alan_Green]

I wasn't aware of that but it was more for insurance purposes than anything else; my current insurer doesn't cover vans but if there is a rear bench it doesn't count as a van, apparently.

Ah ha! My specialist subject. Crew van insurance. Van policies can be quite cheap, so no reason to prefer car policies. But let me share a loophole. The big problem with additing seats is that you have to tick the "modified" box on Go Compare & Meerkat. Then the quotes are +£350 or no quotes because "modified". But if you modify an existing Aviva or Direct Line policy mid-term to add seats, they make a quick call upstairs and then say "OK, but £18 extra please. In my experience anyway. But punch modified with extra seats into a comparison website and it's +£350.

[Matt]

Ah ha! My specialist subject. Crew van insurance. Van policies can be quite cheap, so no reason to prefer car policies. But let me share a loophole. The big problem with additing seats is that you have to tick the "modified" box on Go Compare & Meerkat. Then the quotes are +£350 or no quotes because "modified". But if you modify an existing Aviva or Direct Line policy mid-term to add seats, they make a quick call upstairs and then say "OK, but £18 extra please. In my experience anyway. But punch modified with extra seats into a comparison website and it's +£350.

 

I did check a comparison site and literally any modifications no matter how small meant none of them would touch me! Vans must get adapted all the time, Shirley?

[Taff]

[Cavcraft]

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WTF?

 

 

Anyhow...

 

'I forgot to mention mate, the battery might need a jump start. It was ok this morning, but is a bit flat but should be ok. My other car is in front of it with jump leads in it, use them if you need. Oh, there's enough fuel to get you back'

So, I cycle up after work, battery almost flat, not enough to start it. Fuel gauge couldn't read lower if it tried, not convinced it'd make it to the nearest garage and if did would it start again anyhow? Let it run for a few minutes, sounded great and the van was fairly straight really. Knocked it off to see if it'd start again and the battery seemed worse!

F*ck that for a game of soldiers* didn't fancy running it to the pre-booked MOT with 7ps worth of diesel and a flat battery, so I'm currently mid-negotiation to use 55p's worth of veg oil to drive up and sell it to someone for a £39.45 profit. Will it pan out? Who knows.

 

 

*I wouldn't actually f*ck a Peugeot van for a game of soldiers, unless the soldiers were a crack team of MILFs who'd been captured behind enemy lines and I had to shag them to get to their secrets. And they all wore low cut blouses, short skirts and glasses on the end of their noses as they seductively sucked the end of a pen. Then I'd f*ck a Peugeot van.

[Cavcraft]

Job jobbed, reasonable mine sweep bonus revealed an old car battery in the back (£5-6?) and two spare steel wheels that will be ideal when I weigh my 306 in as I can keep the Speedlines. 

I don't know what pump was in the van, but I put some extra gloopy 16 month old veg oil (mixture of used and new) in it and it got the buyer back home.

[Taff]

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I hope you've set every preset to Radio 2 so your next young customer can enjoy* Steve Wright all the way home.

 

 

I'm going to do that with every hire car I ever get from now on

[Cavcraft]

You know that expression about how if you throw enough shit, some of it will stick?

Well, I must have worn my special Velcro suit for this little diamond*

 

 

Obviously besides needing an industrial jetting crew to work on the inside, there are other issues. One ( the biggie) is it's drinking habit (oil, not petrol) as it's 'doing that X16XEL thing' and smoking like a bastard, the EML is on and the n/s/r brake sounds like it probably last worked in 1999.

[beko1987]

One day im gonna swap her meriva for one of these for a laugh when shes not looking.

 

Today isnt that day though...

 

Must be a vauxhall thing with the calipers, the meriva has a shit one again, and Ive fettled it twice now, ebay beckons for a new one. Re smoke, does it actually have oil in or did the previous owner put screenwash in the engine and oil in the screenwash then casually laugh it off because "oh I dont know about cars..."

[Cavcraft]

Oh, he put oil in it, quite probably nearly as much as the fuel. I have a feeling this is drum rear, so Christ alone knows what horrors await me there. When I say 'me' I clearly mean the lucky* new owner.

[New POD]

Oh, he put oil in it, quite probably nearly as much as the fuel. I have a feeling this is drum rear, so Christ alone knows what horrors await me there. When I say 'me' I clearly mean the lucky* new owner.

Drums, usually need shoes, and new springs and adjusters, and then they work fine, unless you end up letting a piston fall out, and then you have to bleed them, and then you'll snap the bleed nipple, and it will be cheaper to buy a new wheel cyclinder, except you'll snap the pipe going to it, whist removing it. .

 

That's what happened last time I looked at a Vauxhall drum brake, (on a mk3 cavalier) n