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14 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

That time of the year again... Yaris MOT.

Optimism levels: low.

Despite shelling out for a new exhaust and pads/ discs, and even going as far to change the oil and filters, I suspect a driveshaft's on its way out...

27 Celsius 😅

[Datsuncog]

It's tropical for Larne!

[Cookiesouwest]

5 hours ago, gm said:

i would say i can imagine how angry you are but i know as the same thing happened to me a few months back  

they must have been disturbed halfway through nicking mine as it was left hanging loose under the car, i took it off and sold it myself to cover the replacement ebay cat. i still have the lambda sensors if they would be of any use to you when you fit a replacement cat. 

i optimistically enquired at europarts and they quoted something crazy like £1100, i got everything from the manifold, cat, lambdas, centre section and back box for around £300 off ebay. 

hope you get it sorted without too much stress. i would definitely be finding somewhere else to park the other crv for a week or so.

have you reported it to the police ? i wonder how many others have been hit in your area ? scumbags 

I have no where else to park, so could be in for more bad news tomorrow.

Police informed. Its now an online application to get the crime number. So they won't be doing an awful lot.

Need to decide tonight if to go insurance route or swallow it.

[Agila]

Salman Rushdie stabbed. 

[SiC]

Oil cooler kit has arrived for the BGT. Should be fitting it later but too damn hot.


Also treated the Focus to new wipers. I was going to go £7.50 eBay no named special but decided I'll hate that decision when it rains next. So went with Bosch. Except I got them a bit cheaper as they were already opened.


Passenger side wiper blade is a bit low and catching the trim.



Anyone got experience of air con vacuum pumps? Tempted to get one so I can DIY fix air conditioning systems by evacuating them and seeing if it holds a pressure.
No doubt I'll be fixing many systems over my automotive fiddling DIY career.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174266537423

[Cookiesouwest]

2 minutes ago, Agila said:

Salman Rushdie stabbed. 

I just want to say, that its highly unlikley he nicked the Honda's CAT, so I didn't do it.

[DVee8]

I have been around there pages for 10 years today..

[DVee8]

46 minutes ago, SiC said:

Oil cooler kit has arrived for the BGT. Should be fitting it later but too damn hot.


Also treated the Focus to new wipers. I was going to go £7.50 eBay no named special but decided I'll hate that decision when it rains next. So went with Bosch. Except I got them a bit cheaper as they were already opened.


Passenger side wiper blade is a bit low and catching the trim.



Anyone got experience of air con vacuum pumps? Tempted to get one so I can DIY fix air conditioning systems by evacuating them and seeing if it holds a pressure.
No doubt I'll be fixing many systems over my automotive fiddling DIY career.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174266537423

Isn't Talbot the aircon go to man around here?

 

[Cookiesouwest]

In more great news, I've looked under mine, now that I'm.back from work.

The CRV's have a protective cage around the CAT, in case you do some hard-core offroading.

Mine is now missing. Its been cut off. See those holes? Thats where the cage was bolted in.

So they must have been disturbed.

Mrs is leaning towards claiming off the insurance for hers and doing a PCP on a Duster.

 

[wuvvum]

I assume you'll be wiring yours to the mains tonight?

[Cookiesouwest]

9 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

I would heavily recommend avoiding even enquiring, you’ll have a pending claim on which will mess you up for 6 months even if you don’t claim.

Think about your excess, plus the added cost a fault claim on your insurance will add for the next 5 renewals. You’ll also be seen as a bad risk for the next 5 years as whenever you declare the claim, you’ll be asked what happened and where it took place - any future insurer who knows you’ve had a theft from outside the address you’re insuring at will see it as a high risk for obvious reasons

Only saying it because I deal with this daily through my job, it’s really not worth doing.

I too was worried.

Just did two quotes. One with claim, one without.

Makes 2 quid a month difference.

She has 9 yrs protected ncd and we live in the sticks.

I accept it might be a slightly bigger difference once we try to get an actual new policy, but think she will claim.

[davehedgehog31]

42 minutes ago, Cookiesouwest said:

In more great news, I've looked under mine, now that I'm.back from work.

The CRV's have a protective cage around the CAT, in case you do some hard-core offroading.

Mine is now missing. Its been cut off. See those holes? Thats where the cage was bolted in.

So they must have been disturbed.

Mrs is leaning towards claiming off the insurance for hers and doing a PCP on a Duster.

 

Cunts. Shame trolley jacks don't fail more often. 

What's it like where the cars are parked? Must have made a fair noise. 

[Cookiesouwest]

4 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Cunts. Shame trolley jacks don't fail more often. 

What's it like where the cars are parked? Must have made a fair noise. 

Quietish side street at night. 

No jack required. CRV's are high enough to get under without a jack.

Now going to buy the Mrs something that's slammed

 

[gm]

46 minutes ago, Cookiesouwest said:

In more great news, I've looked under mine, now that I'm.back from work.

The CRV's have a protective cage around the CAT, in case you do some hard-core offroading.

Mine is now missing. Its been cut off. See those holes? Thats where the cage was bolted in.

So they must have been disturbed.

Mrs is leaning towards claiming off the insurance for hers and doing a PCP on a Duster.

 

some not very helpful suggestions :

get a paint pen and write “empty” on the cat ?

wrap a load of barbed wire around it ?

smear it in dogshit ? (although that might be a bit whiffy when you go for a drive and it heats up)

i suppose you could remove it yourself and lock it away safe, fit a cheap de cat and swap it in for the mot ? 

pain in the arse though, i simply gave up and sold the car  

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

This one has the right connector. Excellent.

[SiC]

2 hours ago, gm said:

pain in the arse though, i simply gave up and sold the car

The cat on my 172 was worth £700 at its peak. It's why I sold the car on as no good for leaving in a public car park next to a train station all day. 

[Cookiesouwest]

Hold the fricking front page.

Mrs CSW has started the claim procedure. No value quoted to her yet, but she has been told its a write off.

I have to take pictures and send them in, so they can determine their offer.

Tomorrow I will be driving around until I find a mint condition black mk2 to take pictures of

Mrs CSW started checking out ebay.

She said she quite likes these

 

 

My love of chod is rubbing off

Also taking her to Dacia in Trowbridge tomorrow, just to sit in a Sandero Stepway and a Duster. Just in case she goes down the modern route. Not that I can afford new Dacias or even slightly old Dacias lol

[Cookiesouwest]

5 minutes ago, SiC said:

The cat on my 172 was worth £700 at its peak. It's why I sold the car on as no good for leaving in a public car park next to a train station all day. 

I knew it was always a risk.

Fully expect to wake up tomorrow with my CRV being catless.

[andyberg]

2 minutes ago, Cookiesouwest said:

My love of chod is rubbing off

Liked because of this 🤣

[Yoss]

4 hours ago, DVee8 said:

I have been around there pages for 10 years today..

Happy anniversary. 💐🍰🥂.

 

The allegedly smart phone throws up supposedly appropriate emojies when it sees the word anniversary. So why the ant? 🐜

[robinmasters]

Miss Masters is nearly seventeen, so obviously potential cars have been discussed. She told me she'd seen a lot of Nissan Micras around, I wasn't sure which on she meant so looked up their history-she had been taking about K12s, but when she saw a K10 said that's what she really wants. My work here as a parent is done. 

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

I knew it was always a risk.

Fully expect to wake up tomorrow with my CRV being catless.

And 9hrs later could you report ? 

[Jenson Velcro]

15 hours ago, SiC said:

Oil cooler kit has arrived for the BGT. Should be fitting it later but too damn hot.


Also treated the Focus to new wipers. I was going to go £7.50 eBay no named special but decided I'll hate that decision when it rains next. So went with Bosch. Except I got them a bit cheaper as they were already opened.


Passenger side wiper blade is a bit low and catching the trim.



Anyone got experience of air con vacuum pumps? Tempted to get one so I can DIY fix air conditioning systems by evacuating them and seeing if it holds a pressure.
No doubt I'll be fixing many systems over my automotive fiddling DIY career.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174266537423

Very interested to see comments on the AC pump as well. May be worth asking the same question in the Ask a Shiter section.? 

[Cookiesouwest]

At 3am, a car alarm started to go off.

I was asleep. Snoring soundly. My wife was not.

Being 1) Scottish from the clan Ferguson  2) Ex Copper  3) Taekwondo Black Belt

She headed out into the night, armed only with the metal poker from the log burner and a determination to gut a cat thief like a fish. A blunt ended poker may not have been the best choice for this.

Anyway. The neighbour who had managed to set off the alarm on their own car, after returning from a long shift, got the shock of their life and the CRV Cat was still in place.

I have just checked and at 8am its still there

 

[SiC]

42 minutes ago, Jenson Velcro said:

Very interested to see comments on the AC pump as well. May be worth asking the same question in the Ask a Shiter section.? 

I was watching these too videos on it. Doesn't look to bad. Even just to suck a vacuum and see if it holds. Then sending it to a garage for the gas to be put into it. 

 

 

[Rust Collector]

I don’t keep my bad decisions restricted to land based transport.

Me and a mate have been sharing this for about 3 years or so. Last year it got completely ignored, so this year we are trying to undo the neglect.

When I got it, my partner didn’t want to go out in it and that was part of the reason I lost interest last year. This year, she’s asking if she can go out on the boat with me as the weather is nice 😅

[C3C3]

New engine, new turbo. Wont get starved of oil going side ways this time. Daily/Track car for my brother's girlfriend.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

I don’t keep my bad decisions restricted to land based transport.

Me and a mate have been sharing this for about 3 years or so. Last year it got completely ignored, so this year we are trying to undo the neglect.

When I got it, my partner didn’t want to go out in it and that was part of the reason I lost interest last year. This year, she’s asking if she can go out on the boat with me as the weather is nice 😅

That looks nice.  I don't know if you were aware of this though, but those things normally drive on water.  If you want to drive on mud a Land Rover might be more suitable.

[richardmorris]

Swinley forest on fire again. Last time was twice on Thursday.

[GMcD]

Figured out my starting wows in the Toledo. I'm still only getting 10v on the ignition feed. I took the lower dash apart and it's a veritable hotchpotch of spliced wiring.

I don't think it is using a ballast as it has electronic ignition. Now I could rip the wiring loom /ignition switch apart to find out what's going on ....but I won't. 

I  took the starter switched ignition feed and routed it to a new relay to let it do the hardwork, figuring even 10v would be enough for the relay to switch: