Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

All this Visa/ GSA stuff is up for grabs by anybody who can make use of it.

[dean36014]

Would the door fit a c15 van or are they different?

 

[Six-cylinder]

I can see why it would not fit but all the trim stuff will be wrong.

[Six-cylinder]

Mrs6C is trying to put the boat trailer tyres up to 60 psi and all 5 gauges we have read different. She is going to take the wheels as they are off the trailer to Tesco and use their machine.

 

For the future I need an accurate calibrated tyre pressure gauge without spending a fortune on a motor sport one, any suggestions? 

[dean36014]

How much would the door be please? 

[Six-cylinder]

21 hours ago, dean36014 said:

How much would the door be please? 

Sorry so busy thinking about tyre pressures I missed you, it is free.

[dean36014]

Is it at yours Chris or elsewhere?

[Six-cylinder]

Yes I have it. It is at the field but I can bring it to the house.

 

[dean36014]

I'll have to arrange to collect it one weekend. Won't be this one though unfortunately as its the citroen show at coventry this weekend.

 

[hairnet]

have a look at machine mart or similar and buy a branded one similar to the one on the far right sealey or something like that

 

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/accessories-tyres/36242/best-digital-tyre-pressure-gauge-2018

[Six-cylinder]

The only one I could find that stated a calibration is a Sealey TST/PG2 + or - 1% for trucks, £70 is just too much for a tyre pressure gauge.

 

What I have ordered is this Sealey at £13.75, but no calibration given.

[SiC]

I reckon try a motorcycle accessories shop. Many bikers are super careful with their tyre pressures, as it affects handling a lot. They should know what's good and what is not. 

[SiC]

But to be fair, a tyre pressure gauge with a certificate and accredited to UKAS wouldn't seem too bad for £70. It would be a precision instrument after all. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 5/27/2019 at 4:17 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C is trying to put the boat trailer tyres up to 60 psi and all 5 gauges we have read different. She is going to take the wheels as they are off the trailer to Tesco and use their machine.

 

For the future I need an accurate calibrated tyre pressure gauge without spending a fortune on a motor sport one, any suggestions? 

this old hector won autoexpress previously

old hector

[Mrs6C]

On 5/27/2019 at 4:17 PM, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C is trying to put the boat trailer tyres up to 60 psi and all 5 gauges we have read different. She is going to take the wheels as they are off the trailer to Tesco and use their machine.

Mrs6C did indeed take all five tyres up to Tesco and set them all up for 60psi. The Tesco air machine said they were all at 57 after the air hose at home said 60 for each, so only 5% over-reading for the latter. They are now all at 60, with four replaced on their hubs and the fifth to travel in the car...

[Eddie Honda]

4 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Mrs6C did indeed take all five tyres up to Tesco and set them all up for 60psi. The Tesco air machine said they were all at 57 after the air hose at home said 60 for each, so only 5% over-reading for the latter. They are now all at 60, with four replaced on their hubs and the fifth to travel in the car...

You're placing a massive amount of faith in the forecourt pump. They must be the most abused and inaccurate machines know to man or beast!

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, Eddie Honda said:

You're placing a massive amount of faith in the forecourt pump. They must be the most abused and inaccurate machines know to man or beast!

Because it is a paid for service the machines should be serviced and re-calibrated regularly.

[Mally]

You have too many pressure gauges.

You need to distribute them among us, then no one will know that theirs is incorrect.

[Eddie Honda]

12 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Because it is a paid for service the machines should be serviced and re-calibrated regularly.

Do you really think they do? Are the well staffed* and funded* local Trading Standards team checking up on them to see if they comply?

'should' is a world apart from reality.

Especially given all those careful* and considerate* users that use the paid-for machine correctly.

[Bfg]

^ given that someone would inevitably suit the arse off Tesco ("other brands are available") if an accident were attributed to over or under inflated tyres, then I would think it more likely that they would have their gauges checked ..more frequently than independent filling stations.  After all the cost of having their garage equipment checked is just passed onto the customer anyway.

[beko1987]

Plus all the measuring equipment is in the box box, the air hose and valve bit are just dumb arent they? Granted I've done my fair share of just dropping it on the floor and watching it reel itself in before...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Because it is a paid for service....

Not in Sainsbury's it isn't!!

[NorthernMonkey]

Our local Tesco filling station pumped twenty odd thousand litres of unleaded straight into the surrounding water course the other year....it doesn’t exactly instil confidence in their forecourt equipment 

[Bfg]

^ well at least it was the environ-mentally friendly.. unleaded

I can just picture those darn minnows zapping around on their sup'ed up caudals ..annoying the old guppy from number 23. 

[Six-cylinder]

A few years ago Tesco Buckingham managed to put petrol in their underground diesel tank and Buckingham was littered with dead diesel cars 1-3 miles away, including my friend with a Passat that had to be transported before the fuel system was cleaned out.

[New POD]

13 hours ago, NorthernMonkey said:

Our local Tesco filling station pumped twenty odd thousand litres of unleaded straight into the surrounding water course the other year....it doesn’t exactly instil confidence in their forecourt equipment 

Where I'm working had a urea tank which was putting neat Urea into the storm drain every 3 or 4 hours about 40 litres at a time. 

It wasnt until fish at Trentham gardens started dying that the environmental compliance people started to investigate. 

One night shift a dozen armed police * stormed the place.  A major Jet Engine company was finded a small fortune, for misreading the architect's plans, and getting confused over which drain was which. 

* or a single civil servant from Dfra. 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

A few years ago Tesco Buckingham managed to put petrol in their underground diesel tank and Buckingham was littered with dead diesel cars 1-3 miles away, including my friend with a Passat that had to be transported before the fuel system was cleaned out.

But Mrs6C pootled about all day in the 1.9d zx which didn't care about it... 

[Six-cylinder]

I have been to see my favourite garage that has my Gamma this morning and they are asking for:

·         Head gasket set (or both head gaskets, inlet manifold and rocker cover gaskets)

·         Offside cylinder head with valves (camshaft and rockers seem fine on that side)

·         Nearside camshaft and both exhaust rockers

·         Radiator fan temp switch

 

The broken valve head has marked the piston lightly before being embedded in the head flat side to the piston and as far as Mark can tell the piston seems ok.

[Andyrew]

Oh dear  that's not good. What caused it to go?

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

Oh dear  that's not good. What caused it to go?

Valve head broke off, not sure a why. It did get a bit warm when the fan switch failed but never really sizzling. They are sodium filled valves so maybe its time had just come. 

The broken end of the valve stem is embedded into the value seat area.