It's grim up north…tales from the Primate House

[NorthernMonkey]

Nope, I’m not that brave!! 😂

[Bear]

1 hour ago, NorthernMonkey said:

Had a low pressure tyre warning on the osf Ampera wheel pop up yesterday as @Bearadvised. Took the wheel off to do a bit of nail finding and it turns out the leak was from the TPMS valve that just needed nipping up with an 11mm socket. Another easy fix 🥳

Ahhh! That makes me happy to hear. I did wonder about the valve but I don't know enough about messing with TPMS to think of doing that! There was possibly a red herring in the form of a sticky patch on the tyre and an empty tyre gunk bottle in the boot...

[NorthernMonkey]

Trained, collected and now back at Lockerbie on the way home…

…it really does drive well. Need to place an order tomorrow for discs, pads and ball joints then attack the brake ferrules with emery cloth and possibly stick some tyres on it but once all that’s done, it’ll make a cracking car!

[Split_Pin]

[warninglight]

49 minutes ago, NorthernMonkey said:

Trained, collected and now back at Lockerbie on the way home…

…it really does drive well. Need to place an order tomorrow for discs, pads and ball joints then attack the brake ferrules with emery cloth and possibly stick some tyres on it but once all that’s done, it’ll make a cracking car!

Congrats! You were quick off the mark with that bargain C5. Next time you're passing Lockerbie let me know and I'll pop the kettle on!

[NorthernMonkey]

4 hours ago, warninglight said:

Congrats! You were quick off the mark with that bargain C5. Next time you're passing Lockerbie let me know and I'll pop the kettle on!

If I’d have realised, I’d have called in for a poke of your new RR!!

Settled for a Maccies coffee and fed the ducks some crisps at Annandale instead…

[warninglight]

42 minutes ago, NorthernMonkey said:

If I’d have realised, I’d have called in for a poke of your new RR!!

Settled for a Maccies coffee and fed the ducks some crisps at Annandale instead…

Haven't collected it yet, though it's just a couple of miles down the road.

I'm about 10 mins from that services, towards Dumfries. Next time!

[vaughant]

9 hours ago, NorthernMonkey said:

Trained, collected and now back at Lockerbie on the way home…

…it really does drive well. Need to place an order tomorrow for discs, pads and ball joints then attack the brake ferrules with emery cloth and possibly stick some tyres on it but once all that’s done, it’ll make a cracking car!

Really liked this and it looked a good un. Well bought 👍🏻👍🏻

[NorthernMonkey]

The Ampera has been behaving itself by and large, with just an occasional EML relating to a fuel tank evap leak. I stuck it up in the air the other day and connected up the smoke tester to the filler neck to check for leaks but everything checked out ok.

Fast forward to today and a flash of inspiration occurred…the purge valves on the inlet manifolds are known to fail quite regularly on GM stuff so off it came and sure enough, it’s not sealing correctly.

I bodged it up with a finger from a rubber glove to effect a temporary seal and it’s now running fine with no pending codes in sight so a new one has been ordered for the grand sum of £12!

[yes oui si]

Mechanic's condom to the rescue again.

[Bear]

Damn it, that's the sort of marque-specific experience knowledge I could have done with - I was worrying about the crusty bits at the back and didn't know about these evap things!

[Bear]

11 hours ago, yes oui si said:

Mechanic's condom to the rescue again.

But it's a good matching shade to complement the high voltage cables - can't deny the style

[jim89]

35 minutes ago, Bear said:

Damn it, that's the sort of marque-specific experience knowledge I could have done with - I was worrying about the crusty bits at the back and didn't know about these evap things!

Shurely you asked ?

[Bear]

1 hour ago, jim89 said:

Shurely you asked ?

No, I'd put it to the back of the list of things to ponder once the other bits were sorted. So I am very happy to see it tracked down!