Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Crackers]

Bloody hell. Look at the size of it! These are meant to be small cars  

[Six-cylinder]

Today's car stuff was much more Autoshite!

After my Mercedes wheel trim left me wanting a life of freedom my car looked like a scrapyard candidate! Fortunately I had several kind offers for a replacement, I accepted @Peter C because it was a white one to match the car. Today I went to collect it and received the full service, hubcap cleaned, fitted and a cup of tea with every wheel trim fitted. Thank You.

The base of the driver's seat is collapsed and I have been using a cushion but it is still a little uncomfortable. The good news was Peter also had an excellent condition base for sale even if it was the wrong colour. So Peter removed the cover and I now have a excellent seat base to fit my existing cover to.

 

[Zelandeth]

Oh dear, take it when the garage did the brakes that they didn't replace the cable ties I had deployed then!

Which admittedly was a right faff as the holes in the wheel trims don't match up with those in the wheel so it's really fiddly to thread them through.

[Peter C]

Good to see you again Chris.

Shame that it was raining this morning as I would have liked a photo of our two 123s side by side.

[Six-cylinder]

@Crackers

Turns out I am wrong, there is also a manual door opening handle inside the 500, it just took @Mrs6C to find it!

I took the 500 to its natural habitat today, shopping! 

So far

• Jerky manoeuvring with the one pedal operation
• Lane departure seems to see cracks in the road as lanes and jerks the steering
• Sunroof buffering is intense at 60 mph
• Range 145 miles
• I do like it but as usual at £30,000 for a run around is mad 

[Talbot]

3 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Lane departure seems to see cracks in the road as lanes and jerks the steering

sounds very safe*

Lane departure yankie-on-the-steering systems seem like the best argument I have found so far to never buy a modern car.  I've heard nothing but bad things about them.

[Ghosty]

Nobody buys these for a reason.  30k for an EV that looks like a 14 year old hatchback that's gone out of fashion? No thanks.

[Six-cylinder]

Thanks to @Slowsilver again today for more on the next chapter of our 2022  Autoshite adventure!

Mrs6C has asked me to get her BMW E46 330Ci out of storage and MOT it soon. This is because she has had a recall notice about its airbags and wants to get it booked in while a BMW dealer is willing to work on a 22 year old car. First step was to get it started but we failed at the first hurdle, because the battery was flat and so bad it would not take a charge and I am hoping it was also restricting the car from starting. When I first put the jump pack on it it turned over but did not fire. We could hear the fuel pump so tried again that this time it did not turn over just a click noise like the battery/jump pack were flat. We tried again with jump leads from the Renault but it still would not turn over. Slowsilver took the battery of and put it on charge but none of my chargers seem able to get any electricity into it. We will try again next week with a replacement battery.

I have a set of replacement wheels for the 330 as the ones on it have ancient flat tyres!

More successful was getting the Trevi running and all the lights working. It is now at home and almost ready to take for MOT.

[hairnet]

mmmm trevi

scrap the beemer obvs (joking)

 

[richardmorris]

8 minutes ago, hairnet said:

mmmm trevi

scrap the beemer obvs (joking)

 

You do like living dangerously- @Mrs6C has all the sharp garden implements!

[Crackers]

21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Cheap chinese death rings.... they'll make a torquey straight-six a bit interesting*!

[Six-cylinder]

16 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Cheap chinese death rings.... they'll make a torquey straight-six a bit interesting*!

Cheap Chinese Life rings compared with the ancient creaked Michelins on there!

[bobdisk]

11 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C has asked me to get her BMW E46 330Ci out of storage and MOT it soon. This is because she has had a recall notice about its airbags and wants to get it booked in while a BMW dealer is willing to work on a 22 year old car.

I got the same recall on my E46. Going in today to Sytner BMW High Wycombe. It is to do with airbags made by Takata. If triggered, they could explode and shrapnel from the generator housing be sent out with the airbag. Something about storing the car in "not ideal conditions". The letter said drivers airbag, but when I called, they said the passenger airbag might also need doing. There are lot of makes of cars that use the same make of airbag as well as BMW that are also affected .

[bobdisk]

 @Mrs6C   At Sytner now, 2pm,  both airbags to be changed, should take about 2 hours.

Done by 3.30, including "comprehensive health report". A few advisories, a couple I did not know about.    I thought you were supposed to disconnect the battery when playing with airbags ?  Clock and trip reading the same, so battery not been disconnected. 

Anyone going to Classic Car resto Show at the NEC tomorrow? See you there if you are!  @dollywobbler Hello tomorrow 👍

[Saabnut]

9 hours ago, bobdisk said:

 @Mrs6C   At Sytner now, 2pm,  both airbags to be changed, should take about 2 hours.

Done by 3.30, including "comprehensive health report". A few advisories, a couple I did not know about.    I thought you were supposed to disconnect the battery when playing with airbags ?  Clock and trip reading the same, so battery not been disconnected. 

Anyone going to Classic Car resto Show at the NEC tomorrow? See you there if you are!  @dollywobbler Hello tomorrow 👍

Come and say hello to me and the other Saab nuts on stand 5-750

[bobdisk]

@Saabnut Whats your name? People dont recognise forum handle! Bob

[Floatylight]

6 minutes ago, bobdisk said:

@Saabnut Whats your name? People dont recognise forum handle! Bob

Nick, who runs UKSaabs

[bobdisk]

Found! We had a good chat!

[2cvspecial]

On 3/14/2022 at 12:55 PM, AxWomble said:

@Six-cylinder - I swore that after missing all the FoD events last year, I’d make my debut at the first opportunity in 2022 - MissAxWomble was all in favour too! Alas, we’re  getting married on the 26th, and generous though she is, I think that would be a step too far 😂😂😂 

congrats Sir ! and to the to be Mrs AX womble

[Six-cylinder]

The Return of an old friend!

I bought my teenage pin up car in 2011, a 1971 E3 BMW 3.0 S 4 speed manual,  MOTed and running. Because it was running roughly a friend from the BMW club borrowed my E3 and did several improvements including fitting Weber Carburettors to replace the Solex ones we couldn't get spares for. Unfortunately my friend was not well, followed by world events has meant the car sat around for 5 year, I believed it was indoors but sadly it was outside.

I now have the car back and @ianbmw offered to have the car at his house and give it a once over. The car starts and drive and while cosmetically challenged is very solid. Ian refused to do a proper test drive on the grounds the tyres were knackered so this morning we took it to a local tyre shop for 4 new Uniroyal Rain Expert tyres. It smells of old petrol and while it does not have a misfire performance is very flat. It had an 1/8th of a tank of stale fuel so we have filled it with a tank of Esso's best and hope that will improve things.

 

[hairnet]

you poke unworthy tat and you have this 

DROOL (i dont care its not a coupe - this is only outdone by a neue klasse)

sporty bay em vay?

nein - all about stuff like this

*fap

[LightBulbFun]

4 minutes ago, hairnet said:

you poke unworthy tat and you have this 

DROOL (i dont care its not a coupe - this is only outdone by a neue klasse)

sporty bay em bay?

nein - all about stuff like this

*fap

you are @Crackers AICMFP

[Andyrew]

47 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

Who doesnt like looking a big german pair squeezed together?

But enough about oktoberfest waitresses.

Nice motors you got there.

[Crackers]

32 minutes ago, hairnet said:

this is only outdone by a neue klasse

Lies, this definitely cooler than a Neue Klasse, you couldn't get NKs as a 6-cylinder!

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have only one thing to say, and that is:

[hairnet]

not about the motah

def crackers. phakt.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

The Return of an old friend!

I bought my teenage pin up car in 2011, a 1971 E3 BMW 3.0 S 4 speed manual,  MOTed and running. Because it was running roughly a friend from the BMW club borrowed my E3 and did several improvements including fitting Weber Carburettors to replace the Solex ones we couldn't get spares for. Unfortunately my friend was not well, followed by world events has meant the car sat around for 5 year, I believed it was indoors but sadly it was outside.

I now have the car back and @ianbmw offered to have the car at his house and give it a once over. The car starts and drive and while cosmetically challenged is very solid. Ian refused to do a proper test drive on the grounds the tyres were knackered so this morning we took it to a local tyre shop for 4 new Uniroyal Rain Expert tyres. It smells of old petrol and while it does not have a misfire performance is very flat. It had an 8th of a tank of stale fuel so we have filled it with a tank of Esso's best and hope that will improve things.

 

A friend’s dad had one ( local solicitor ) with I am sure a blue cord interior. Weird how from the rear quarter angle it looks like a Mercedes !

[wuvvum]

Fantastic!  I really miss my old E3 - sadly they've gone out of my price range now.

[richardmorris]

Ps , can give it a run up to north wales and back at the weekend if you want to blow the cobwebs out!

[Crackers]

9 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Ps , can give it a run up to north wales and back at the weekend if you want to blow the cobwebs out!

Sorry, it's booked in for a weekend in Sussex 😁

 

(I wish) 

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

A friend’s dad had one ( local solicitor ) with I am sure a blue cord interior. Weird how from the rear quarter angle it looks like a Mercedes !

He had CGJU 1 as the reg I think ( my friends initials are the reg, and his wife had smaller BMW’s in the same silver blue with CPU 1 as the reg.