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[Asimo]

I wouldn't drive that Peugeot a yard until I knew that hub / track control arm issue was properly sorted. 

[scaryoldcortina]

Both times it's punched a hole through the bolt, as far as we can tell because the bolt was too small so didn't hold it snugly. Comparing it to the other side it definitely was a smaller bolt.

Of course I could be proved wrong, hopefully not while delivering pizza in the middle of one of the busiest shifts ever.

Yeah, that's what happens when it isn't clamping due to wear - the bolt isn't designed to hold it all together, just to clamp the taper shut so the balljoint can rip past it if it isn't seating properly.

[xtriple]

Bloody Kia is beginning to piss me off. Now setting off engine management light when warmed up sat in traffic. Just code PO 300 which is 'random multiple misfires' but today the car didn't misfire! It carried on running perfectly well but the EML was flashing away like a good 'un. MOT is due in a few weeks and I don't suppose it'll pass with the light on will it? Also, there are a variety of rattles and clunks from the front that sound ominous so I am not hopeful for an easy pass!

 

Anyone want a KIA?

[Kiltox]

It will pass with the EML on as long as the emissions are in limits

[scaryoldcortina]

MIL isn't part of the test, it can be on or flashing and it isn't an issue as long as it runs well enough to pass the emission test. Clunking noises from the front however...

[Craig the Princess]

Bloody Kia is beginning to piss me off. Now setting off engine management light when warmed up sat in traffic. Just code PO 300 which is 'random multiple misfires' but today the car didn't misfire! It carried on running perfectly well but the EML was flashing away like a good 'un. MOT is due in a few weeks and I don't suppose it'll pass with the light on will it? Also, there are a variety of rattles and clunks from the front that sound ominous so I am not hopeful for an easy pass!

 

Anyone want a KIA?

How recently has it been serviced? I'm 3/3 in clearing EML warnings with spark plug and air filter changes. One day this won't work but it is a cheap start point.

[xtriple]

Main problem is that I just don't like the car that much! If it was the Bentley or the MX5 it would be being looked at instantly (usually at vast expense) and repaired before it had misfired twice! I just cannot get excited about the Kia and the thought of spending money on it fills me with dread and loathing. This is, I guess, how 'normal' people feel about their cars all the time? The BGD and the MX5 get washed and polished at least once a week (well, maybe not polished    ) but I can't remember the last time I washed the Kia and the back seat is filthy, the car pongs inside something chronic but with the windows down, I don't notice! I think there's a load of stuff in the boot as well but...

 

Nothing against it, just doesn't excite me, or irritate me, or anything. I am indifferent to it and that in itself shocks me!

 

I suppose I will get it repaired and mot'd but I really do not want to spend the money on it. Oh hum...

 

Edit, to answer the above question, it was serviced (badly) a couple of months ago and di have a new air filter but not plugs as they are a bugger to change, inlet manifold has to come off to do the back plugs. I could do it myself and have thought about it...

[vulgalour]

MIL isn't part of the test

Mother In Law shouldn't be part of the test, no.

[scaryoldcortina]

It's a V6 isn't it? Back plugs are fun* to get at!

[scaryoldcortina]

Mother In Law shouldn't be part of the test, no.

Malfuction Indicator Light, cos sometimes it isn't the engine management making it flash...

[vulgalour]

Which will forever be the Mother In Law light for me now.

[scaryoldcortina]

We should add it to the lexicon.

 

Surprise visit from the Mother in Law - My engine light is flashing for no bloody reason at all

[beko1987]

The airbag light was flashing yesterday on my car. It's stopped today. Fixed...

 

If only the random ticking-in-time-with-revs noise I now have would go away by itself... And the blowing exhaust, and pretty dead spheres, and shit tyres...

[Timewaster]

Please don't make me imagine the mother in law flashing.

[Rover414]

Today I took the short* trip from Liverpool to Birstall in West Yorkshire to go here:

 

 

To give the blue RX8 its 6 year service. Normally I wouldn't bother with things like that but it has full service history and being serviced and given the once over by them really gives me more piece of mind than if I were to do it myself. The most painful part of the trip was the M62 this morning which at various points was at a standstill for no apparent reason.

[Cavcraft]

I promise you I'm not kidding, I've just gone and bought a car and this was the opening photograph the seller had uploaded

 

 

 

 

[Asimo]

Ah Ha, Black Edition.

[Pillock]

Notably, that didn't stop you buying it.

[Cavcraft]

The black picture maybe the best one.

[hairnet]

thats the ground under it

[cort16]

I promise you I'm not kidding, I've just gone and bought a car and this was the opening photograph the seller had uploaded

 

fiesta .jpg

 

It doesn't get any clearer

 

[STUNO]

Main problem is that I just don't like the car that much! If it was the Bentley or the MX5 it would be being looked at instantly (usually at vast expense) and repaired before it had misfired twice! I just cannot get excited about the Kia and the thought of spending money on it fills me with dread and loathing. I can't remember the last time I washed the Kia and the back seat is filthy, the car pongs inside 

I suppose I will get it repaired and mot'd but I really do not want to spend the money on it. Oh hum...

 

Edit, to answer the above question, it was serviced (badly) a couple of months ago and di have a new air filter but not plugs as they are a bugger to change, inlet manifold has to come off to do the back plugs. I could do it myself and have thought about it...

 

 

I am wondering if you should SELL the Bentley and MX5 and keep the Kia. that would be the financially responsible way to do it 

[taxi paul]

Looking at the mot site and my 144,000 mile CRV that I bought of honest Harold car sales seems to have passed its mot with no advisories. So either he hasn't listed them or the rusty exhaust on the last one has magically cured itself. Never mind I got a three month warranty. It probably only covers the ashtray and rear view mirror but hey ho.

[Lukas]

One of my heroes, although he does not have a single Pajero, it seems! 

 

https://jalopnik.com/the-ultimate-secret-stash-of-mitsubishis-is-hidden-in-t-1787886557

[vulgalour]

Got all the headlights working on the Princess today after cleaning some connectors.  Started the car to make sure all was well and it seemed a bit hesitant.  Went to tickle the throttle at the carb and burned my finger.  It would appear that the throttle cable is now part of the headlight circuit.

 

I took the dashboard out, found more bodge to the wiring and called it a day.  I haven't the mental faculty to deal with this shit today.

[scaryoldcortina]

It's more likely that the engine earth strap has fallen off making the throttle cable part of the starter circuit imo.

[vulgalour]

More likely, but not the case in this instance.  I reckon the throttle cable where it's suspected frayed is shorting out on some of the bodgey wiring behind the dash since they all go through the same area.  I'll have another look later in the week, I've got the dash out already so I can get to all the wiring now easily enough.

[Barry Cade]

Decided I wasn't happy to have only 1 key for the 75 so went to my usual brilliant tame lock place. No can do, he says, but here's a card for an auto locksmith chap- he'll sort you out.I emailed him and got a reply of" yeah, can do...£350 and 10 days."

 

Er, no.

[reb]

Pugsley is really starting to piss me off.

[anonymous user]

Today I had to pop down to Cardiff to collect a few bits and pieces, I left it until after 9:30 to try to avoid the traffic which didn't work. I was slightly amused when sat in the queue for the lights by Halfords on Penarth Road. Out the front was a young, skinny jeaned, trendy? lad next to his Ford Fiesta, watching the girl from Halfords fitting his new windscreen wipers. How useless do you have to be not to be able to fit wiper blades, I'd be mortified? Still it just goes to show that some people will rather part with a fiver than have a go themself.

 

My passenger found it amusing as well

 

My passenger has taken his diet a bit too far. (Yes there was a very good reason why I had a skeleton as a passenger, to make him less obvious he borrowed my flat cap and goggles rather than his usual pith helmet)