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[wuvvum]

Not got as much done today as I'd been hoping as it kept bloody raining.  I went out in the Y10 this morning and it was playing up like buggery, popping and farting about and refusing to accelerate.  The fuel light was on, but I ignored it as I'd stuck £10 in the tank since I repaired the filler and only done a couple of miles.  It got worse and worse though and I ended up pulling into a petrol station and sticking another tenner in - that cured it and it went back to being only mildly temperamental as per usual.  It's odd though that sticking £10 in was barely enough to touch the sides, especially with such a small tank - I wonder if whoever siphoned the fuel out went below the "usable" bit of the tank somehow?

I got home and then jump started the Renault 6 to go to Tesco - it usually needs jump starting if it hasn't been used for a while as the mechanical fuel pump takes ages to drag fuel up from the tank, and the ancient battery (the same one that was on the car when I bought it 11 1/2 years ago, and it was far from new then) can't crank it over for that long.  Once it's started it's then fine for the rest of the day.  It's running quite happily and the offside front brake doesn't seem to be sticking as badly as it was, but I think I might have an earthing issue on the nearside rear light cluster as the indicators have started playing up if I brake whilst indicating.  I didn't get a chance to look at that today, so that's a job for next weekend.

Got the CX up on the ramps for a more detailed poke around, which I'd been unable to do up to now because either I've been busy or the weather's been shite.  In terms of rot it's not the worst CX I've had - probably no worse than the blue estate was when I bought that - but it has had some slightly shoddy repairs done on the sills in the past.  Fortunately they're normally hidden by the sill covers so not the end of the world.  It's definitely going to need a bit of patching up under there though.  Also the offside CV boot appears to have lost its retaining clip at the hub end, which is odd - the boot is still in place but it's obviously not tight so it's been chucking a bit of grease out.  I've got a spare clip somewhere, so next weekend I'll repack the CV joint with grease and then attempt to bodge the clip into place (I bloody hate those CV boot clips, but I don't think there's room for a Jubilee clip).  It also has a bit of an LHM leak from somewhere around the accumulator sphere - it is very minor though, it doesn't leave a wet patch on the ground and the LHM level hasn't dropped in the 1200 or so miles I've now done in the car, so I'm going to ignore it for now...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

57 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

.....Got the CX up on the ramps for a more detailed poke around, which I'd been unable to do up to now because either I've been busy or the weather's been shite.  In terms of rot it's not the worst CX I've had - probably no worse than the blue estate was when I bought that - but it has had some slightly shoddy repairs done on the sills in the past.  Fortunately they're normally hidden by the sill covers so not the end of the world.  It's definitely going to need a bit of patching up under there though.  Also the offside CV boot appears to have lost its retaining clip at the hub end, which is odd - the boot is still in place but it's obviously not tight so it's been chucking a bit of grease out.  I've got a spare clip somewhere, so next weekend I'll repack the CV joint with grease and then attempt to bodge the clip into place (I bloody hate those CV boot clips, but I don't think there's room for a Jubilee clip).  It also has a bit of an LHM leak from somewhere around the accumulator sphere - it is very minor though, it doesn't leave a wet patch on the ground and the LHM level hasn't dropped in the 1200 or so miles I've now done in the car, so I'm going to ignore it for now...

No news is good news ?

[DeeJay]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

  Also the offside CV boot appears to have lost its retaining clip at the hub end, which is odd - the boot is still in place but it's obviously not tight so it's been chucking a bit of grease out.  I've got a spare clip somewhere, so next weekend I'll repack the CV joint with grease and then attempt to bodge the clip into place (I bloody hate those CV boot clips, but I don't think there's room for a Jubilee clip).  

Would a couple of cable ties hold it in place? 

[wuvvum]

I've never had a lot of luck with cable ties on the "big" end of the boot.  They normally suffice for the small end though.

[stuboy]

Leads and coil changed..adds 5 bhp

[SiC]

12 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I went out in the Y10 this morning and it was playing up like buggery, popping and farting about and refusing to accelerate.  The fuel light was on, but I ignored it as I'd stuck £10 in the tank since I repaired the filler and only done a couple of miles.  It got worse and worse though and I ended up pulling into a petrol station and sticking another tenner in - that cured it and it went back to being only mildly temperamental as per usual.  It's odd though that sticking £10 in was barely enough to touch the sides, especially with such a small tank - I wonder if whoever siphoned the fuel out went below the "usable" bit of the tank somehow?

Fuel pump maybe on its way out? I.e. Fresh fuel is cooler and gets the pump going a bit better again for a while. 

My experience with fuel pumps is that they tend to start dieing if they have been run dry - especially if the pump is aged and quite old. Even more frustrating is that they can fail intermittently during a drive and start working when they cool back off again. Making it even harder to diagnose. 

If it keeps having trouble, I'd keep the pump as a potential failure point in mind. 

[Skizzer]

15 hours ago, Brodders said:

I am guessing it is an executive vehicle made by a mainstream manufacturer. Going with my gut, I would say Vauxhall Carlton, however I cannot help getting visions of something French and brown.

Is it a Peugeot 604?

Executive and mainstream - yes, more or less.  Not nearly as rare or interesting as a 604 I’m afraid, although getting hard to find in this shiter spec/state.

15 hours ago, HMC said:

Bmw e23 7 series 

Good guess but no.

 

Collection is now confirmed for tomorrow early evening.

[dozeydustman]

@Skizzer W123/W124?

[HMC]

Beta HPE

[Skizzer]

You’re all going to be very disappointed in me.

[HMC]

Giving up but a last guess

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 hours ago, Skizzer said:

80s actually - it's a 1983 on an A prefix. ...

I'm going to have a go at this:

Datsun Bluebird.

Family friends in Maidenhead had one, and it was very brown. And it had a brown interior.

[Royale80]

Vauxhall Carlton 1.8 L

 

[barefoot]

The Scirocco actually broke down on Friday, just before its previous owner H Imp was to visit barefoot towers. It had been starting up on three for about a week, but I had ignored it. On Friday, I diagnosed and ordered new ignition leads, today they arrived and I managed to fit them successfully! That is the second repair I have managed this year - I is fucking mechanic me!

[Skizzer]

4 hours ago, HMC said:

Giving up but a last guess

Mmm, very nice. Good guess but no. Plus they were on to the aerodynamic C3 by 1983.

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I'm going to have a go at this:

Datsun Bluebird.

Family friends in Maidenhead had one, and it was very brown. And it had a brown interior.

Nope. More executive than that.

1 hour ago, Stevebrookman said:

Vauxhall Carlton 1.8 L

 

Nope, not a Carlton.

And 1.8 L?  How dare you, sir.  

 

It has a proper executive cylinder count, i.e. more than four.  I decided it’s been too long since I bought a car with a civilised number of pistons.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

.... More executive than that.....

The only other one(s) I can think of that were available in brown were either the BMW E28 520i/525i or a Rover SD1 2300/2600. Those were executive cars to me.

[Skizzer]

Think more advertising executive than executive director.

 

[catsinthewelder]

Saab 900?

[BorniteIdentity]

11 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Mmm, very nice. Good guess but no. Plus they were on to the aerodynamic C3 by 1983.

Nope. More executive than that.

Nope, not a Carlton.

And 1.8 L?  How dare you, sir.  

 

It has a proper executive cylinder count, i.e. more than four.  I decided it’s been too long since I bought a car with a civilised number of pistons.

What could possibly be more executive than a Datsun Bluebird “1983 on an A”? 

 

The mind boggles. 

[egg]

Proof* that the end of the twentieth century was when it all went wrong...

Wow, yes please!

So poetic!

FFS.

 

[wuvvum]

42 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

Think more advertising executive than executive director.

 

Senator?

[Skizzer]

44 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

Saab 900?

Excellent guess! I’ve always fancied a 900 turbo. But not this time - insufficient cylinders.

5 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Senator?

Or perhaps a Royale, for a bit of extra shiny trim?  Mmm, would.  Hopefully one day.  But not this week.

 

It’s probably going to be a massive anticlimax now.  Sorry.  Apart from the brownness.  It’s very brown.

[mitsisigma01]

Granada 

[bramz7]

Surely nothing brown and made in 1983 could in anyway be anticlimactic?! 

 

[skattrd]

Has anyone suggested a 5 series yet skizz? 525?
edit: yes they did … e30 3 series?

I know what you mean about more than 4 cylinders, I've been running mostly 6-pots this year.

[wuvvum]

Renault 30 with dodgy brakes?

[Noel Tidybeard]

if a carlton is too rep & a senator/royale are too exec what about a viceroy?

[Skizzer]

A Renault 30 or a Viceroy would definitely not be an anticlimax!

Skattrd, you have smoked me out:

[rickvw72]

Just had 4 Vredestein Sportrac tyres delivered from my tyres (through eBay). 205 55 16 size.

170 quid!

Made in 18th week of 2019, so not old stock. How do they make money on that? Postage is gotta be worth 20 quid.

Also, why would you fit Luckyland Happygallops, unless your insane. 

 

 

 

[brownnova]

MX5 is in for MoT today...

How many times will the words “excessively corroded” be used... 

 

 

Hopefully none...