Accordingly so

[Steve79]

So with the Safrane now transformed into Baked Bean cans due to terminal head cracking, I found myself absolutely not needing another car to replace it. However this is not the Autoshite way,and steps were taken to rectify this.

 

The Blue forum beckoned and conjured this http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/195052/sold-honda-accord-cheapy-199ono

 

I've had five cars from Galahad so far and all have been great, so saw no reason as to why this would be any different.

 

Collection thread was unnecessary as it was delivered on his convoy flatbed

 

In the light of day what presented itself was much better than expected. Its a 2.0 non v-tech in LS flavour. This gives you non keep fit windows all round, non keep fit sunroof, aircon and cruise control which are all in perfect working order, and came with half a tank of fuel and a mostly complete service book.

 

Downside as you can see from blue forum pics, there is some slight damage to passenger rear quarter panel, but for 100 sovs I can live with this. Its worn its 208k well as most Honda's do and aside from a slightly low bite point on the clutch, drives like a car with half the mileage, bar one thing!

 

I've never had a car where a wheel bearing has made such a racket. The previous owner must have been either completely deaf/broke/both not to hear it. The grinding above 20mph is something else and send a deep seated vibration throughout the car!

 

The MOT expires on the 10th Feb and thought it had better get put in for one asap just so I knew what the damage would be.

 

So yesterday morning (sorry for no pics) it duly gets taken to my local while you wait no appointment test centre for a good probing. The result: 

 

O/S/R wheel bearing noisy

Battery Insecure - Clamp missing

N/S Side Repeater faded.

 

Fair enough, not going to be too expensive as I knew the bearing needed doing on is on £30 from evilbay. So paid my dues, was given the paperwork and walked to the car to drive off. Looked at what I thought was the failure slip which actually turned out to be an MOT PASS!!! A bit confused, I stood there looking at it for a while, then the MOT tester comes out with another piece of paper in his hand, takes me to one side and quietly says "sorry mate, wasn't paying attention to what I was doing and accidently clicked on pass on the mot system rather than fail. Do me a favour, here's a list of the things that need doing, just PLEASE get the work done!

 

Felt bad for him, as if the boss (let alone the ministry) found out he'd probably get a right kicking!

 

All work will be done and i'll take it back to him once completed, just so he knows its been done.

 

Photo's below, better ones on the way!

[Guest Hooli]

200k+ shitters are the way forward

[BorniteIdentity]

My friend ran his 2.0 to 225k with relative ease. Dad had a 1.8 which felt a little under powered but was streets ahead of other mainstream stuff in 1999.

[Steve79]

The old man had a '95 plate previous generation 2.0i base model which still had all of the kit on it. Had almost 300k on it when it got rear ended in northern france and written off. He still maintains its the best car he's ever had. 

 

The exact model below

 

 

[chatsharris]

I've noticed I'm from Galahad's neck of the woods.  This will prove useful when it comes to acquiring chod.

[Lacquer Peel]

Good cars. My mum's lasted well til a knackered gearbox and living in Britain's rust belt killed it.

[inconsistant]

Nice, or neighbours have an R reg auto that just won't die.

 

Got this far and just worked out the title btw.

[lexi]

Great mota's. Had the funny styled old type Aerodeck 3d. A 2.2 Coupe Accord and also the Prelude.

[Steve79]

All work now completed (sorry no pics). Rear bearing was farmed out to a mate to do and hubnut was so seized soo badly it was an absolute swine to get off. Had a scaffold pole on a breaker bar and used cars weight to try and shift but ended snapping the end off the bar and bending the pole in half.

 

Then tried heating up hub nut with blowtorch repeatedly for over an hour which resulted in diddlysquat happening.

 

Then tried drilling either side of nut which made short work of 10x hss dewalt drill bits. With the last bit we managed to drill enough of a hole through that we could get a chisle in there and attack the nut. Finally managed to get another torque wrench on there and then used all of my 17-stones on it which finally moved the bugger.

 

Only took 6 hours in all!

 

Bearing was so bad the grease had crystalised!