Ronald Mc_Bo11ox's LAGUNA ODYSSEY OMG FTP SOS ETC LOL

[Pillock]

Can't honestly see that the damaged fins are causing the whole lot to overpressure. Surely it's designed to work in a heatwave so it's hardly at the limit of acceptable temperatures in the UK at the start of September

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I think I am gonna buy a cheap secondhand compressor off ebay next, and swap over the control valve onto mine, see what that does.

[SiC]

Force air back through the opposite way? Just in case something has come adrift and lodged itself somewhere.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

No real Gooner news as this car really is boringly reliable (done 12k in 6 months now, with no issues at all apart from the wanky aircon) and effortless to own. However, get this for 'throwing money around'. Took the gooner into a posh Jaguar specialist near my work today for a check on their fancy 'Hunter' suspension alignment gizmo. They reckoned the back axle was on the cock!!! Seemingly they loosened the rear axle mountings and squared it up as best they could. I guess it could be on the cock seeing as i replaced both axle bushes a while back. I also replaced TRE's, a lower balljoint and one coil spring so i have had the suspension to bits fairly comprehensively.

 

Anyway it drives much better now, it did have a constant pull to one side before which was well annoying. Seems to freewheel along more easily at 70mph as well. I think its a good improvement. It wants to be for £150 though!!!!

 

MAN SPENDS £150 ON LAGUNA TRACKING SET-UP - EXCLUSIVE! PAGES 2,3,4, 8 and 12

[SiC]

Actually not that ridiculous for a proper 4 wheel alignment tbh. I paid similar money for a mx5.

 

Proper alignment takes a fair amount of time to set it properly.

[Snipes]

I use to do Hunter alignments on all sorts of snazzy sports and racing cars, as well as "normal stuff". Generally, French cars would be all over the shop but generally behave while German cars measured fine (ie; within spec, usually spot-on) but always had problems!

 

To be honest if you had asked on here about a "full alignment" I'd have told you not to bother.....

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I think the alignment check cost about £65, then an hours labour for yarking on with the rear axle, then VAT and it came to a nice round 0.15 grand.

[worldofceri]

Good news. Your old Gooner is still soldiering on here. I think I've literally spent £zero on it. Probably jinxed it now, like.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Steady on, I paid £120 for that

[Lacquer Peel]

Don't insult Laguna owners on this forum!

[Isaac Hunt]

Ooooph, one fifty sovs for a fancy tracking set-up, you must have missed a few roffle entries and saved the tokens, one fifty gets a complete car.  

 

I use a 'trackrite' drive over guage and IMHO can't beat it.  Can do fronts and rears and it does it dynamically.  One twenty sovs and you could have two guages, do front and rear at the same time.

 

beauty is you know it is right cos you done it yourself. You also know the guages have not been adjusted on the rims to get the correct reading on the printout, not that this would ever happen in the real world.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

This 'boringly reliable' Gooner has had a couple of hiccups lately.

 

1) Despite having £150 chucked at a suspension alignment, it still pulls to the right about 60% of the time. The other 40% it runs straight. If the road is DEAD flat it runs straight but as soon as theres the slightest camber its pulling you towards the middle of the road which is really getting on my tits. I am tempted to take it back to the alignment place but I have a feeling they will find nowt wrong, they did give me a print out of cambers and castors and whatnot and all looked healthy so I am doubtful they will find much. I was thinking about when I replaced the bushes and I remembered that when I did them, I mashed one of the bushes getting it in. I had bought a pair so fitted the second one, then went to GSF and bought a replacement to do the other side. They are round, but are handed Right and Left. I wonder if I have got one in wrong, like a LH fitted in the RHS or something. I thought I had it right but it ciould be a possibility. That might make the rear axle sit not quite right and cause a pull. I'm not sure how to check it TBH.

 

2) Twice in traffic it has now overheated!!!!! Not in a spectacular cloud of steam or owt, just the red engine light coming on and the gauge being at the top of the scale. It seems the radiator fan is not working. Both times I have bunged the heater on max and given it 5-10 mins to cool and its been OK. Anyone know where the relay is for the fan? I will check the switch and the relay and see if I can revive it. Its not seized and defo was working earlier in the year.

[Kiltox]

Balleux - does yours have the famous* Laguna shimmy between 50 and 60?

 

Both mine and SiC's suffer from this and he has had his looked at for buckled wheels with a negative result

[Snipes]

Try swapping your front wheels left to right, even if the tread doesn't allow it, just do it as a test. Nine times out of ten a pull to one side is caused by tyres.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah good idea on the tyres, I will do that. No shimmying here!!!

[Kiltox]

Nice. Ever had yours refuse to close the drivers door? Mine did that in -5 last night. Cunt.

 

Love it though.

[Alexg]

+1 on tyres. I had a similar thing on my Escort. No garage could fault it, tracking was perfect. So I swapped the wheels around and it was perfect.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

No door-shutting problems except when I trap the seatbelt in it (quite often).

[scaryoldcortina]

Mine used to bounce off the seatbelt quite regularly.

[Kiltox]

Seatbelt was very much still in - I sprayed de-icer in the latch and then put it in the locked position followed by pulling the internal door handle and it sorted itself out

 

Fucking Renault. I have had 40 year old cars that could close their doors!

[tapir]

as it's gone a bit quiet on the laguna hunt,

 

2litre pez, with mot till april and nothing terrible on mot history - 450

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-RENAULT-LAGUNA-2-0-PETROL-DYNAMIQUE-SATNAV-FSH-MOT-101K-/262735474081?hash=item3d2c412da1:g:m4QAAOSwj85YOY8z

[beko1987]

Seatbelt was very much still in - I sprayed de-icer in the latch and then put it in the locked position followed by pulling the internal door handle and it sorted itself out

 

Fucking Renault. I have had 40 year old cars that could close their doors!

My first zx did that when it froze. Used to just come out with the kettle when really frozen and pour it over the handle area. Would either not open at all or open and not close

[Guest Hooli]

Fan relay is a red one in the fusebox next to the battery, I forget exactly which but can check the haynes if you need me too.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm at the tyre shop today having 2 new hoops fitted on the Gooner. Turns out both my rear wheels are distorted. FFS

[beko1987]

Be cheaper to buy a whole new goona, take the wheels and cartakeback it wouldn't it?

[Guest Hooli]

Square wheels are a standard feature on goonas.

[Kiltox]

as it's gone a bit quiet on the laguna hunt,

 

2litre pez, with mot till april and nothing terrible on mot history - 450

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-RENAULT-LAGUNA-2-0-PETROL-DYNAMIQUE-SATNAV-FSH-MOT-101K-/262735474081?hash=item3d2c412da1:g:m4QAAOSwj85YOY8z

Good buy I reckon - I paid that for my 130k mile 2.2 DCI estate which is a TERRIBLE choice (although it's doing well so far)

[Kiltox]

They all do that, nutz

[SiC]

iirc, you have the 17s on it?

[r.welfare]

17s distort badly. 16 inch steels in trims for the win.