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[LabRat]

Replaced the faulty  right hand rear ABS sensor on the Tivoli, took it for a test drive and suprise suprise, the abs light is still shining brightly.

Check diagnostics "right side rear wheel sensor short circuit/open to ground". Fuck sake, so either the wiring is fucked or the new sensor is fubar. Wiring looks good, but the live feed on the diagnostics is showing no reading... I'm begining to think fire might be the cure! 

Bloody moderns.

[High Jetter]

Might you not have to re-set something first to clear the fault before it will realize the new sensor is OK?

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, yes oui si said:

...lowered cars are harsh and 'crashy' - this one rides quite smoothly....

So not 'really well',  just 'quite' smooth, but clearly not in the same league as even a stock 75 which aren't anything to write home about.

[wuvvum]

15 hours ago, artdjones said:

Even the non-turbo 1.6s aren't very strong mechanically, especially the head gasket.

Is that not at least in part because you have to constantly cane the living fuck out of them to obtain anything resembling forward motion?

[yes oui si]

3 minutes ago, barefoot said:

So not 'really well',  just 'quite' smooth, but clearly not in the same league as even a stock 75 which aren't anything to write home about.

My apologies for an old MG on £200 BMW coilovers not having the pillow-soft plushness that your bottom demands. 

[Cord Fourteener]

So the Mondeo has a new sump, a replaced boost pipe, new rear tyres. 

Just need to find on open petrol station so key worker Wifey can go and save children's lives. 

[RayMK]

For the last 3 months my Reliant Regal MKVI has been stuffed further in to my garage to make room for my son's motorcycle. Access to the Reliant is thus limited even more than previously to someone with my athletic* abilities. I last ran the engine and moved the car on 14th October 2020. Apart from an occasional mop around to evict spiders, I've not touched it since.  Today, still with very little enthusiasm to start it because of the difficulty of actually getting in to it, I strained every joint and have probably bruised my shins as well but managed to get in. I had prepared by charging the battery yesterday. Turning the ignition key gave a normal response on the dashboard i.e. oil and charge light came on, so I turned the key further to engage the starter.  All sounded normal but it did not fire on the first three 20 second attempts - it always takes a while for the fuel system to prime. On the fourth attempt it fired and idled smoothly on choke for about a minute, then died. I checked for fuel flow: Zero.  Could be that the tank is empty or, more likely, bunged up because of the long period of inactivity. I'll have to syphon mucky fuel out of the tank next time and put some fresh stuff in, though now is not the time to visit a petrol station with a jerry can.  Anyway, the engine sounded fine and with a bit of effort with the car out of the garage it should run ok.  Waiting for next time could take  quite a while.  These days, mojo for doing anything to cars except getting in and driving is lacking. Fortunately, my '94 Tipo and modern Mirage at least allow me to do that.  

[brownnova]

Sister in law runs a pub which had a classic car run starting from it today. So I popped down to gatecrash in the 2CV

Car of the run for me though….

 

As a bonus the petrol station up the road was fairly quiet so I sloshed a tenners worth of super in the Deux Chevaux (it already had half a tank in) to ensure my most practical and sensible car is ready for the commute next week! 

[High Jetter]

SMoking!

[wuvvum]

I was supposed to be doing a collection tomorrow, but it's a diesel and it's on the south coast so I don't think that's going to happen.

I went on a cycling tour of my local filling stations this morning.  Tesco is completely closed and under police guard (!).  The little garage in the next village is out of everything except super unleaded.  I stuck a tenner in the Micra last night which will be enough for whatever running around I need to do this weekend - if the worst really does come to the worst the Trafic will run on veg oil...

[HMC]

I’m not bothering getting any fuel and going to fill up as and when I normally would do.

Rational citizen or asking for trouble?

[Mally]

Both.

[tooSavvy]

18 minutes ago, Mally said:

Both.

By way of confirmation.... Anyone scanning Faseache/tiktokboom for "#petrol station fight".... 🤐

[Cord Fourteener]

I figure once everyone has panic bought and calmed down a bit then there'll be some dizzle fuel sooner or later. Just hypermile a bit the next few days, fly- by- fuel light then see if there's heavy oil road fuel. 

If not then maybe chuck some heating oil in... ssshhh!

[dean36014]

Shonky the bx lives again after its head gasket change..Had h running for an hour with no issues and just normal pressure in the header tank. All reassembled now, just needs an oil change and book him in for a MOT as it's taken me that long it's expired.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

32 minutes ago, Cord Fourteener said:

I figure once everyone has panic bought and calmed down a bit then there'll be some dizzle fuel sooner or later. Just hypermile a bit the next few days, fly- by- fuel light then see if there's heavy oil road fuel. 

If not then maybe chuck some heating oil in... ssshhh!

I was going to go out, but the traffic around here has been so bad (mostly caused by fuel panic-buying queues) that the idea is banjaxed.

[Dyslexic Viking]

On 21/09/2021 at 10:24, Dyslexic Viking said:

Bought a carburetor from Germany on ebay and got a battery gauge instead. Have contacted the seller and wonder how this goes.

 

On 22/09/2021 at 21:49, Dyslexic Viking said:

The seller has gone quiet so I'm starting to think this was done on purpose. So looks like I've been screwed over but this is a weird way to do it.

Strange things have happened now. Was called yesterday by a Norwegian who had got my carburetor also it turned out that the gauge I had got he had ordered. So then the only big question was where does he live? Arendal, ARENDAL? It's less than an hour's drive from me. So we met halfway today and exchanged packages. What is the chance that something like this can happen? So now I got the carburetor but it unfortunately lacked the choke parts I hoped it had. And seller, I have not heard anything from.

[Cord Fourteener]

51 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

 

Strange things have happened now. Was called yesterday by a Norwegian who had got my carburetor also it turned out that the gauge I had got he had ordered. So then the only big question was where does he live? Arendal, ARENDAL? It's less than an hour's drive from me. So we met halfway today and exchanged packages. What is the chance that something like this can happen? So now I got the carburetor but it unfortunately lacked the choke parts I hoped it had. And seller, I have not heard anything from.

I hear that, in Arendal, occasionally the Queen goes mad and creates snow and ice in summer.

It's true, Disney told me. 

[mintwth]

6 minutes ago, Cord Fourteener said:

It's true, Disney told me. 

What a brave new world

[Supernaut]

3 hours ago, HMC said:

I’m not bothering getting any fuel and going to fill up as and when I normally would do.

Rational citizen or asking for trouble?

I don't see what the problem is.

I got fuel perfectly easily in Tesco Northampton last night. Apparently it was queued out of the car park this morning though.

 

Even better was that I didn't even queue for a pump. I pulled up to a pump on my left, pulled the hose out, and filled my right-hand side filler cap on the E36. All the queues were based on which side people's filler necks were on. Some pumps were almost queued out the gate.

 

Morons.

 

It was even a reasonable price, too.

[SiC]

Clutch on the Bini now starting to smell when you boot it. I don't think it's got long left on it now. 

I was going to scrap it/sell for spares and repairs but looking at alternatives, there is sweet feck all about. Even bloody boring stuff like early/mid 2000 5dr hatch Fords, Vauxhalls, Peugeot and the like are £1.5k to £2k. Barely any sub £1k vehicles about and they all appear completely fucked.

Basically it seems my options are:
 - I sell the Mini for £500 and spend £1k on getting something else at £1.5k budget. Probably something very boring but admittedly cheaper to fix. But then inevitably spend money on something else.
 - I spend £900 on the Mini to get the clutch and flywheel changed. Then probably need to spend £300 or so getting the other bits fixed. (Plus a fair bit more if the exhaust doesn't hold out)

😐

[clayts450]

Have barely lifted a finger on any of the cars of late, but pending MOT meant I had to find time to order and fit a new starter motor to the Streetwise.  Got a reconditioned Lucas one off the Bay for a smidge over £40 and fitted it this afternoon. Amazingly it all went well, and the car now sounds much better - gone is the grating metallic noise which graced the turn of the key, present now is a much happier go-go noise. Can now confidently lob the 'Wise in for an MoT, happy in the knowledge the tester won't be facing something which happened on more than one occasion to my good self, a FTP. 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Cord Fourteener said:

I hear that, in Arendal, occasionally the Queen goes mad and creates snow and ice in summer.

It's true, Disney told me. 

That's a bit of a Fantasia...

[PhilA]

Renault isn't even dented.

What the hell.

[Austat]

A package came in the mail today...

... full of interesting late 50's/early 60's chod:

One of my best eBay finds, it was up for auction and only had one hour left when I found the listing. I got it for $30 for the job lot which is pretty good, as these 1950's/early 60's copies of Wheels go for $15-$20 each. They're very good condition considering how old they are, I'll scan some articles for Shite Magazine Scans.

[Leyland Worldmaster]

10 hours ago, HMC said:

I’m not bothering getting any fuel and going to fill up as and when I normally would do.

Rational citizen or asking for trouble?

I only learned about the fuel thing last Wednesday. I've got about 400 miles range and I'll use the train this week. I fuelled Alison weekend before last! 

However; refer one of the pictures for knock on effect type shit:

Edited September 26, 2021 by Leyland Worldmaster
EFA

[artdjones]

It's just been in the news that cars taking the NCT (Irish Most) are going to be plugged into OBD shortly, covering the engine and safety systems. At the start any codes found will be an advisory item, but sometime next year will become an outright fail. I presume the next stage will be to check that the egr or dpf haven't been mapped out, and maybe to check that the car is still running on the factory map.

It's going to be awkward for owners of PSA 1.6 HDis. Every one of them has a code for a glow plug fault. And changing the glow plugs is a horrible job. I'd say it will result in a lot of them being scrapped.

Edit:- I just went to the NCT site. Engine codes are not part of the test so far. They will check the VIN, odometer mileage, ABS and EBS. HDi owners can breathe again. But I'd say checking for egr and dpf operability will be the next stage.

[Cord Fourteener]

15 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

 

So then the only big question was where does he live? Arendal, ARENDAL?

I didn't realise it was a real place, albeit anglicised in the film to Arendelle. 

And yes I have a little girl otherwise I would not have ever seen this film. 

 

[reb]

There's an 850 estate in my local* scrappy, I don't presently need any bits but I'm going to go and rob it of hard to find bits I might need in the future. Love a good scrappy visit.

[sdkrc]

37 minutes ago, reb said:

There's an 850 estate in my local* scrappy, I don't presently need any bits but I'm going to go and rob it of hard to find bits I might need in the future. Love a good scrappy visit.

BBC: Volvo 850 parts shortage nationwide. Scrapyards overwhelmed across the UK