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[SiC]

Fabio the Fabia doesn't work on fan speed 1 and the passenger door is usual VAG where it doesn't know it's not open or closed. Probably could have lived with no fan speed 1 but it bugs me.

So I've invested/wasted more money by buying a fan resistor (£20) and door lock (£20) from Amazon. Paid extra for a Febi fan resistor as I didn't want it to catch fire like some of the cheapy Chinese no names sometimes/often do.


Fan resistor was straight forward. Glove box off with 5 torx screws and removing the clip fit side panel



Fan resistor lives here


Twist and pull up get it out. Then swap over and fiddle to get it back in.



Door lock will come later as VAG bloody well rivet the inner panel in ffs. Bought the rivets but need to check they fit my rivet gun.

[barefoot]

2 hours ago, RichardK said:

Holiday

We used to nip up to Whitby every November for fish n chips. It took four hours each way in Olly - (the Orange T2). We'd leave at about 08:00, get there just as the chippy opened, shove it down our neck, a quick walk on the beach and head home. With luck, we'd be home just as it was getting dark.

The trip at two & a half hours in Gordon (the golden Jaguar) was never quite the same sort of adventure.

 

Ooops, nearly forgot - naming cars is still a sport for utter twats.

[Zelandeth]

Trip away later in the week in the van.

Right...good excuse to fit the new speakers so I can actually tell if the stereo is even turned on above 40mph.

Can I find the speakers?

Well I can find *one* of them...which was in a drawer in the van.  Why the heck did I leave a single speaker in there yet stow the second one away somewhere else?  Part of me is seriously considering just going and buying another pair of 6x9s as I can't be bothered turning the whole house upside down looking for it...

[Stanky]

24 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Trip away later in the week in the van.

Right...good excuse to fit the new speakers so I can actually tell if the stereo is even turned on above 40mph.

Can I find the speakers?

Well I can find *one* of them...which was in a drawer in the van.  Why the heck did I leave a single speaker in there yet stow the second one away somewhere else?  Part of me is seriously considering just going and buying another pair of 6x9s as I can't be bothered turning the whole house upside down looking for it...

Do that, keep the receipt because the nanosecond you arrive home with the new ones, the missing original one will magically reappear right in front of you. You can then waste the petrol taking the new pair of 6x9s back to wherever you bought them from.

 

[puddlethumper]

Bugger! Missed a milestone by 10.

[Dyslexic Viking]

4 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Bugger! Missed a milestone by 10.

 

Is that your old Peugeot van?

[junkyarddog]

19 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Bugger! Missed a milestone by 10.

And still half a tank of diesel 😂

[puddlethumper]

12 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

 

Is that your old Peugeot van?

Sure is.

[puddlethumper]

1 minute ago, junkyarddog said:

And still half a tank of diesel 😂

Veg oil if you don't mind. £1.25 a litre.

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, Stanky said:

Do that, keep the receipt because the nanosecond you arrive home with the new ones, the missing original one will magically reappear right in front of you. You can then waste the petrol taking the new pair of 6x9s back to wherever you bought them from.

 

Nah, it turned up.

Knew it couldn't be that deeply buried as I'd dug them out of deep storage together a year or so back.

Predictably the carpentry involved turned into a total farce after about 30 seconds, but I got there in the end.

[grogee]

5 hours ago, SiC said:

 

(sorry I can't get rid of this quoted bit for some reason)

Mrs Grogee is making noises about a cheap low insurance car for 15yo to be fettled in readiness for learner driving. Thus learning the ways of the spanner before the ways of the driving instructor. 

She has happened across this which (at first glance) looks like ideal territory, and it's being sold by someone we sort of know. Full history apparently, £600. Is there anything we should be wary of? My knowledge of Maruti shite is sketchy.

It needs both bumpers changing but to me that's a fun scrapyard challenge. Or, leave them pre-fucked in readiness for teen abuse.

[grogee]

The other thing is it would make an ideal beater car for taking 7yo to school when it's raining. We normally cycle but sometimes it rains and I have* to drive. 

It's also a pretty funny car in shiting terms, I reckon

[Wibble]

Check insurance group first. I’m looking for a first car for my 17 year old to learn in and Suzuki’s seemed quite high compared to Fabia , Ibiza, polo.

[grogee]

11 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Check insurance group first. I’m looking for a first car for my 17 year old to learn in and Suzuki’s seemed quite high compared to Fabia , Ibiza, polo.

It's 9, but I don't really know what that is relative to 107/Aygo etc. I should probably do some research. 

[Wibble]

50 minutes ago, grogee said:

It's 9, but I don't really know what that is relative to 107/Aygo etc. I should probably do some research. 

Exactly, the others are like 3 or 4 for 1.2. It’s a minefield!

[Cord Fourteener]

12 hours ago, grogee said:

The other thing is it would make an ideal beater car for taking 7yo to school when it's raining. We normally cycle but sometimes it rains and I have* to drive. 

It's also a pretty funny car in shiting terms, I reckon

Looks good to me!

[Cord Fourteener]

Been a week on holiday. The Mondeo estate performed flawlessly, everything seems to work though it's still feeling lethargic, but I think its working as it ought to be and it's my come down from the previous car still skewing my perception. 

The Mondeo hatchback is not behaving at all though, and I'm starting to get a bit stuck for what to do. Wifey needs it for work, loves it and doesn't want to let it go, I hate it and want it to become bean tins. Or at least, someone else's problem, cut losses, get something that works.  The problem is that I took the Volvo off the road as I need to service it and sort a few things out. So until I can get the time to do all that there's no spare for when the hatchback is in the garage. 

I might have to delegate all responsibility and tell her to either get it sorted in her own time, book it in, spend the money etc etc or drive it until limp mode death and sort her own transport out. 

[DVee8]

19 hours ago, RichardK said:

Holiday

We'll be in Whitby this afternoon, MrsV8 is performing a wedding ceremony on the beach.

[DVee8]

12 hours ago, Wibble said:

Check insurance group first. I’m looking for a first car for my 17 year old to learn in and Suzuki’s seemed quite high compared to Fabia , Ibiza, polo.

Have a read of my "A car for a 17 year old " thread.

 

[barefoot]

55 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

We'll be in Whitby this afternoon, MrsV8 is performing a wedding ceremony on the beach.

That reminds me, if anyone ever needs marrying, burying etc. Under the auspices of 'the Church of the barefoot Way', I am legally qualified to do all of that Godlike shit (apart from circumcision), all thanks to a form I completed on the internet way back in the mists of time.

[cobblers]

I've got to laugh really, just got in to work in the pickup this morning and it was absolutely thrashing down with rain. So I decided to sit in the van for ten minutes and eat my breakfast and slurp a coffee while the rain hopefully calmed down.

My back is stiff today on account of all the scratting around under the van yesterday, so I got out of the drivers seat and sat in the back of the van so I could stretch my legs a bit.

I noticed that the window next to me was quite steamy, and was wondering if it was the steam off my coffee that had caused it., All of a sudden there was a fairly strange "pop" noise followed by a hiss, and almost immediately my calves and feet were covered in boiling hot coolant and the van instantly filled with steam like a sauna, I couldn't see a thing! 

Since the van is Swedish, There's a heater matrix under the back seat as an auxiliary heater and it had chosen the one moment someone was actually sat next to it to explode.

Luckily I've got thick jeans and boots on today otherwise I'd be in A+E at the moment!

 

[beko1987]

14 minutes ago, barefoot said:

That reminds me, if anyone ever needs marrying, burying etc. Under the auspices of 'the Church of the barefoot Way', I am legally qualified to do all of that Godlike shit (apart from circumcision), all thanks to a form I completed on the internet way back in the mists of time.

Could you marry someone to their car? Do they have to be sober or know what's going on for it to work legally? 

 

Just thinking of the next shitefest... 

[barefoot]

I really have no idea, but I'm sure it'd work better if everyone involved was completely wankered!

[MarvinsMom]

1 hour ago, DVee8 said:

We'll be in Whitby this afternoon, MrsV8 is performing a wedding ceremony on the beach.

good luck with that then, given its blowing a gale and raining here this morning.

[loserone]

14 hours ago, grogee said:

wary

Rust.  And cats.

[grogee]

21 minutes ago, loserone said:

Rust.  And cats.

I liked the Alto but I gave low ball offer based on the remaining 10 days MoT. Actually I advised her to stick it in for MoT because the underneath is clean enough to eat your dinner off - no rust at all. The exhaust looked brand new. 

The cats stayed inside so I didn't get their input (yes I know you meant catalyst).

Right, now off to view a Focus Powershift that might be cheap on account of the fucked gearbox. I am suspecting it's "just" a solenoid which might mean it's bargainous

[HillmanImp]

44 minutes ago, barefoot said:

That reminds me, if anyone ever needs marrying, burying etc. Under the auspices of 'the Church of the barefoot Way', I am legally qualified to do all of that Godlike shit (apart from circumcision), all thanks to a form I completed on the internet way back in the mists of time.

I was updating my address on my drivers license once and changed my title to Reverend thinking they'd never do it without paperwork. Surprisingly they did though. 

Thinking that if I ever got pulled over, I'd probably best have something to back this up, so I got ordained online somewhere just to possibly cover my arse in case I'd done something illegal. That church was quite clear on circumcisions too, its a worry that there might have been a situation that necessitated that. 

A few years later I was at a festival and this couple walk up to me and ask 'Are you a religious person?' 'Oh fuck' thinks me, 'trust the loonies to find me, I'm ripped to the tits, I can't handle a preaching from god club' so I said 'No, not even slightly' but they said 'Would you mind being religious for a few minutes, we'd like to get married', cue me whipping out my driving licence and performing, sadly what was a rather poor ceremony as I was as smashed as the Bishop of Southwark in the back of a Mercedes. However, so were the couple so it probably didn't matter too much. 

I hope they were very happy together. 

[DVee8]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

good luck with that then, given its blowing a gale and raining here this morning.

We are going to," Beach is Sandsend Whitby "

[barefoot]

Here's an actual film of me churching...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

That reminds me, if anyone ever needs marrying, burying etc. Under the auspices of 'the Church of the barefoot Way', I am legally qualified to do all of that Godlike shit (apart from circumcision), all thanks to a form I completed on the internet way back in the mists of time.

Are you able to give the Last Rites?