Renault Laguna, Y reg. But why, Reg?

[Pillock]

The badge reminds me of when I used to get a lift to school in my friend's dad's Austin A BASSADO

 

And the number of "RS" badged Fords a few years back was almost identical to the number of "FORD E CO T"s you saw.

[scaryoldcortina]

Great stuff, at least you got the thing running. They do look good these Lagunas and I do like them, shame about the reputation for bits falling off/failing.

 

Doesn't pretty much every popular car on here have a rep for dropping to bits and being hopeless?

[Timewaster]

This forum isn't what it used to be.

 

It is much better!

 

Free car. Flat tyre / no start jeopardy.

Car boot bargain rescue, slagging off the french.....

 

This thread has everything!

[Dave_Q]

Take note people, scary here is a shite pioneer.

In the not too distant future, when all the good 90s cars are in preservation with people like us, the choice of a cheap beater is going to be grim and complicated.

I'm already not looking forward to buying some heap for my children when they start driving in 11 and 16 years, what manner of chod will £500 get you then??

 

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[scaryoldcortina]

best bit so far - the footpump I bought for a fiver is a Duplex Kismet Master, and they go on ebay for between 40 and 100 quid.

[loserone]

Sure that's not some script kiddie handle?

 

One of these isn't a footpump:

[scaryoldcortina]

Kismet about sums it up so far. Free car that works, bonus footpump and I even won the parking ticket appeal yesterday.

 

Plus, if you set out assuming it's going to be a total POS and a waste of time then you can't be disappointed.

[scaryoldcortina]

Take note people, scary here is a shite pioneer.

In the not too distant future, when all the good 90s cars are in preservation with people like us, the choice of a cheap beater is going to be grim and complicated.

I'm already not looking forward to buying some heap for my children when they start driving in 11 and 16 years, what manner of chod will £500 get you then??

 

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I've been fixing cars for quarter of a century, and posting rubbish about them on the internet for over a decade. 10 years ago, it was 90s cars that were going to be too complicated or expensive to save, with their fuel injection and catalysts.

Here's my son, a decade ago, sitting on the bonnet of a broken Mazda 626 I'd been given for free (in a carpark, somewhere near york) before I fixed it and drove it home.

 

Things move on. I'm sure in a decade I'll be collecting a free nissan Juke that no-one can be arsed with from a carpark somewhere.

[Pillock]

Consumer-level tech eventually catches up, you can get a fault code reader for less than a tenner now which will let you diagnose cars that 15 years ago needed a computer that only main dealers had, and 30 years ago needed a massive computer that only main dealers had the space for.

 

I think the latest "horror story" was cars such as the Nissan GTR where everything is "coded" to the car, so if you change a part that has an electrical connection it won't work unless you're a main dealer. Firstly, I read this in a non-automotive publication so it may be either bollocks, or just their interpretation of CANBUS.

Secondly, my understanding is that my Saab 9-3 has coded items such as instrument clusters and head units, and a thirty quid GM-specific fault code reader is capable of unmarrying these and marrying them back to your car, so the secondhand market just needs the understanding of this. 

[scaryoldcortina]

 

Yeah.

[Dave_Q]

Yeah I suppose you're right, it turns out there are various people offering to repair your keycard for £15 on ebay.

 

I'm sure you can repair it yourself but not a bank breaker if you had to send it off.

[Eddie Honda]

You didn't buy that load of old tut Amstrad did ya? 

[scaryoldcortina]

No, someone gave me it for free, so I made it into a diagnostics reader.

[dollywobbler]

Excellent. A thread full of WIN. Especially the car boot tyre pump. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

^ You have a point - if current forum luck is anything to go by I'll probably skid on black ice then hit a tree on the way home.

you forgot the wall

[phil_lihp]

Brilliant stuff, very pleasing to see that it works fine, not bad for a freebie!

[Jim Bell]

You can't beat a bit of bully. Top darts.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Sure that's not some script kiddie handle?

 

One of these isn't a footpump:

it it this one....................................^.........between the red one and green one?

[mouseflakes]

I am in suspenders now!!

Photos or it didn't... oh, in this case, maybe best not.

[mouseflakes]

Surprising that the previous owner didn't just try jiggling the key card a bit too. You would wouldn't you?

[scaryoldcortina]

He's not much of a thinker, tbh. For example, he's replaced the Laguna with a Primera because Nissans are reliable... :rofl:

[Ben_O]

Top work!

 

can't beat a free car, even if it is one with a reputation of failing catastrophically. Especially as it runs and drives too!

[Daniel R25]

Hi,
not bad at all.
Those key card readers can be fixed easily - it is a common fault... Here is a tutorial in Spanish.

Daniel

[Lacquer Peel]

 

Photos of the Amstrad in action please!

[chaseracer]

Alan looked even more dodgy back then.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

[KruJoe]

Ha ha, you left the car boot without the Bert Kaempfert LP?

Missed a trick there mate!

 

[Lankytim]

Wow, it's the AS anthem! Everyone stand!

[dollywobbler]

Conrad is the Autoshite Jim'll paint it. Fabulous.

[Cavcraft]

We definitely need to plead with Conrad for more of his work, it's absolute class every time.