Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Six-cylinder]

The BiTurbo has also been re MOTed and this evening I took it to a small car gathering.

It turns out one of the group still thinks Max Power is still alive and well. But then I think a beige attack is a good thing!

[Six-cylinder]

Normal service was resumed yesterday!

[hairnet]

take the maser

 

[mat_the_cat]

Goooood morning!

[Talbot]

All gearbox bearings in working order I trust.. (IE unlike last time...)

[cort1977]

Just amazed that a Scottish 2002 MX-5 has survived this long.

[mat_the_cat]

8 hours ago, Talbot said:

All gearbox bearings in working order I trust.. (IE unlike last time...)

If you zoom into the photo, you will actually see a mini-pallet containing the offending gearbox! Not because we want to take it on holiday with us, but it's now been dropped off in Luton for a rebuild.

[Six-cylinder]

My 2016 Range Rover has become one of us!

Yes it has gone into limp mode and put is DPF warning light on.

@Andyrew helped me get it to a Land Rover specialist today.

[beko1987]

Can't you stick the hoover on the exhaust pipe and empty it? 

[Noel Tidybeard]

according to these 2 wise gentlemen farmers you have the rong car

 

[hairnet]

Farmer and an oaf

Chris it's spelt land cruiser 😛

[TheOtherStu]

13 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

My 2016 Range Rover has become one of us!

Yes it has gone into limp mode and put is DPF warning light on.

@Andyrew helped me get it to a Land Rover specialist today.

Could you not just clear the code and rag it up and down the A421 MK way a few times?
My neighbour in Newton Longville bought a Mercedes GLE350D.  Only ever drove it to Morrisons and back - about 7 miles round trip at a push.
I told him not to buy a Diesel, but he insisted.

I used to have to clear the code for him every month or two and rag it round Milton Keynes for about 20 miles.

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, TheOtherStu said:

Could you not just clear the code and rag it up and down the A421 MK way a few times

@Six-cylinder

Christopher 

Remember tingewick🤓

[Six-cylinder]

7 hours ago, hairnet said:

Farmer and an oaf

Chris it's spelt land cruiser 😛

I thought about a Land Cruiser but they were £10,000 more than the RR and feel rather crude. Also have you seen @St.Jude tale of wow.

5 hours ago, TheOtherStu said:

Could you not just clear the code and rag it up and down the A421 MK way a few times?
My neighbour in Newton Longville bought a Mercedes GLE350D.  Only ever drove it to Morrisons and back - about 7 miles round trip at a push.
I told him not to buy a Diesel, but he insisted.

I used to have to clear the code for him every month or two and rag it round Milton Keynes for about 20 miles.

JLS Land Rover specialist in Milton Keynes did a forced regeneration that has worked and the car had no codes. The problem is the Regen should be automatic and for some reason it did not sort itself out. We have taken it home and we are going to see if the problem reoccurs.

 

 

[St.Jude]

51 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I thought about a Land Cruiser but they were £10,000 more than the RR and feel rather crude. Also have you seen @St.Jude tale of wow.

Can confirm, buying a second hand Land Cruiser (or Toyota) is like paying £250,000 for a seat on a glorified coke bottle and going to see the Titanic.

For most people it’s ok, but you’ll be the fool who gets fucked by it.

[loserone]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

tale of wow

If only it were a tale of wow 😂

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday was a fix it day with Andyrew and Slowsilver. The Ami had broken its bonnet release cable and I bought some new bowden cable lengths to make one as I couldn't just find a ready to fit part. When the cable arrived it was from a motorbike dealer, I guess that makes sense when I think about it.

On a roll fixing bonnet cables we tackled the broken bonnet cable on Error 404, no such luck as the inner cable had rotted away after only 60 years of water fired through the grill at it! It was suggested I should just buy a MGB cable which I have ordered and I hope it will fit. I could not find any dimensions for the MGB cable and going to measure mine seemed at lot of work as it is 6 miles away and the cable is threaded out of sight for much of its length.

Andyrew is getting ready to repossess his black Astra as I have not made the payments! The good news is it started easily with a jump and drove out of its parking spot. Next job is to fit the new alternator and then get it MOTed.

I bought the BX home yesterday because it is going to a Citroen specialist in Hitchin to have its heater sorted out.  The rotary heat controller only turns a little and only luke warm air comes out.

What to drive to Shitefest 2023, the BX 1.9i 8v gets a medium rating, it is reasonably comfortable, goes well enough in GTi form, does high 20s mpg, but somehow doesn’t manage to peak my interest.

[hairnet]

swap for ct110?

[Bear]

On 6/15/2023 at 3:27 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Yesterday I took the Cadillac for MOT. It is now going to be being serviced, new bonnet struts fitted and some other bits done. Then it needs its aircon sorted and was diagnosed as a faulty pressure switch that Mrs6C has bought from the US.

Back to what car to take to Shitefest 2023, it was a GREAT drive yesterday and wide LHD I can cope with. It is just 20 mpg would make it an expensive trip. The other negative is that it has already been on a shitefest in Wales 2014.

I absolutely love that car. If you ever have a craving for a super-low mileage PT Cruiser convertible (or need a place to hide a Caddy for a while)...

[Bear]

On 6/15/2023 at 10:17 PM, Six-cylinder said:

The BiTurbo has also been re MOTed and this evening I took it to a small car gathering.

It turns out one of the group still thinks Max Power is still alive and well. But then I think a beige attack is a good thing!

Back in the day things like that Fiesta offended me, now... I sort of miss the modifying/enjoying cars culture being so creative and technically accessible-but-upskill/career worthy. No-one is going to pay for you being able to stretch tyres, chop coils and put stickers on a rusty 6N Polo.

[Crackers]

14 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

BX 1.9i 8v gets a medium rating, it is reasonably comfortable, goes well enough in GTi form, does high 20s mpg, but somehow doesn’t manage to peak my interest.

Oh whatever, I'll have it then 🤔🙄

[Noel Tidybeard]

ZX to shitefest?

or the range rooney now its had an FTP🤣

[TheOtherStu]

17 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

JLS Land Rover specialist in Milton Keynes did a forced regeneration that has worked and the car had no codes. The problem is the Regen should be automatic and for some reason it did not sort itself out. We have taken it home and we are going to see if the problem reoccurs.

I did think I was teaching my Grandmother how to suck eggs  🤣
I thought it should be an automatic regen and you'd have codes.

Hope it doesn't happen again. Those folks at JLS don't come cheap (neither do the Mercedes folk over at Kingston - ask me how I know)

[Six-cylinder]

9 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

ZX to shitefest?

or the range rooney now its had an FTP🤣

I had a coupe of ZXs as company cars in the mid 1990. Then in 2009 I bought my own 1.9D Avantage, followed in 2010 by a TD Aura. In 2011 I bought a TD Avantage Estate just because it was there. My son and several friends borrowed it for a while and while I had sold mine, Mrs6C said we should keep the estate. I have no doubt it would get me there but again does not peak my interest.

I loved that Aura at the time.

The Range Rover would still feel like cheating and against the spirit of the event.

[LightBulbFun]

51 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

The Range Rover would still feel like cheating and against the spirit of the event.

hmmmm...

 

...hows the velosolex project going?

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said:

hmmmm...

...hows the velosolex project going?

Back some time ago I got very happy on drink with a group of friends and we thought it would be a good idea to ride mopeds to the Isle of Man TT! In the morning we realised that was a bad idea and the trip was downgraded to put mopeds in the back of one of the guys Dodge Pick up and take them out when we got there! Unfortunately the guy with the pick up pulled out but I had already bought my Honda SH50-H for the trip.

[hairnet]

 

if you do decide to - id help you

(id also bring the 110)

Is it next week yet

 

[wuvvum]

27 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Back some time ago I got very happy on drink with a group of friends and we thought it would be a good idea to ride mopeds to the Isle of Man TT! In the morning we realised that was a bad idea and the trip was downgraded to put mopeds in the back of one of the guys Dodge Pick up and take them out when we got there! Unfortunately the guy with the pick up pulled out but I had already bought my Honda SH50-H for the trip.

If you leave now you should just about make it to Llanberis by the 14th.

[Six-cylinder]

5 minutes ago, hairnet said:

 

if you do decide to - id help you

(id also bring the 110)

 

You would never keep up now I have got a 125cc!

[hairnet]

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

If you leave now you should just about make it to Potterspury by the 14th.