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2,007 · August 7, 2023

36 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Not worried are you? Seems in fine fettle whenever I see it!

I knew that the osf brake was dragging so I knew that would need seeing to. The garage have just rung to say that it has failed on the brakes plus there are a couple of spots that need the attention of the sparkly stick. 🙁 Considering that this is my first MOT failure since the Fiesta back in 2019 out of a fleet of four which receive virtually no maintenance I reckon I haven't done too badly. I'll be going to pick it up in a bit and find out how much it'll cost to get it sorted. 😟

26,461 · August 7, 2023

49 minutes ago, BL Bloke said:

I knew that the osf brake was dragging so I knew that would need seeing to. The garage have just rung to say that it has failed on the brakes plus there are a couple of spots that need the attention of the sparkly stick. 🙁 Considering that this is my first MOT failure since the Fiesta back in 2019 out of a fleet of four which receive virtually no maintenance I reckon I haven't done too badly. I'll be going to pick it up in a bit and find out how much it'll cost to get it sorted. 😟

Doesn't sound too bad then! Maybe we should both get out back ends up on some ramps at the next fod and share an afternoon with a wire brush and some krust whilst the weather's still good 😅

4,799 · August 7, 2023

4 hours ago, Frogchod said:

Is that a Gruau?

Mine is a Durrisotti

Please can it be arranged that i end up the owner of this down the line (like i did with your old visa ) 😁

23,441 · August 7, 2023

Mclaren of some sort.

13,431 · August 7, 2023

Thought I'd slip on the galaxy back box... the joining bit for the centre section is very thin... so standard clamp and rubbers and a big one to hopefully make it look good...lol

22,167 · August 7, 2023

Spaceship collection has been pushed back tomorrow as the a/c leaks. Not an issue as it's a condition of sale and I can collect it earlier, rather than getting stuck in Oldham at 4pm.

13,380 · August 8, 2023

Sometimes it sucks being an old car fan. The extension of the ULEZ scrappage ~~con~~ scheme means my 100k tatty Favorit is worth £2000 on the scrappage scheme. All I have to do is fill in a form, send it off to the crusher and get a cheque for £2000 (don't even think I have to spend it on a car if I don't want). Given the stress, misery and upset the ULEZ expansion has caused me over the last 10 months £2000 would be a nice bonus, plus I wouldn't have to worry about flogging the Favorit for a few hundred quid and all that entails

Yet I just can't do it

9,525 · August 8, 2023

5 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

Sometimes it sucks being an old car fan. The extension of the ULEZ scrappage ~~con~~ scheme means my 100k tatty Favorit is worth £2000 on the scrappage scheme. All I have to do is fill in a form, send it off to the crusher and get a cheque for £2000 (don't even think I have to spend it on a car if I don't want). Given the stress, misery and upset the ULEZ expansion has caused me over the last 10 months £2000 would be a nice bonus, plus I wouldn't have to worry about flogging the Favorit for a few hundred quid and all that entails

Yet I just can't do it

You're a better man than I am, my application would be instantly in the post.

Does that mean that you can buy and insure and tax an old shed and repeat the process claiming another £2k?

13,380 · August 8, 2023

9 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

You're a better man than I am, my application would be instantly in the post.

Does that mean that you can buy and insure and tax an old shed and repeat the process claiming another £2k?

they have to be owned by someone at a greater London address since Jan 2022 and be taxed/MOTd and insured

Not sure it there is a person/household limit

I know its sentimental but I saved it from the crusher in 2019 spent many hours and a lot of money on it and drove it to 2000 miles to Monaco and back.

4,207 · August 8, 2023

I've had covid the past week. It's not great but still preferable to changing a cambelt on most FWD cars.

Being incapacitated in front of the Great!Romance TV channel was the lowest point.

32,436 · August 8, 2023

3 hours ago, wesacosa said:

Sometimes it sucks being an old car fan. The extension of the ULEZ scrappage ~~con~~ scheme means my 100k tatty Favorit is worth £2000 on the scrappage scheme. All I have to do is fill in a form, send it off to the crusher and get a cheque for £2000 (don't even think I have to spend it on a car if I don't want). Given the stress, misery and upset the ULEZ expansion has caused me over the last 10 months £2000 would be a nice bonus, plus I wouldn't have to worry about flogging the Favorit for a few hundred quid and all that entails

Yet I just can't do it

It would be like shooting your dog in the face.

22,167 · August 8, 2023

Spaceship collected - an extra key and the service book have appeared since I viewed it. Winner.
a/c is still duff but they're apparently going to send someone out to fix the leak (I'd love to know how).

23,284 · August 8, 2023

The Audi threw its engine light the other day.

Chucked my £20 code reader on. It said it was the throttle body.

Looked online, it was doing exactly the same as in this video, I'd just not heard it because of my playing my shit music too loud.

Not sure why he asked his mate to have a wank at the end of the vid but each to their own.

Anyhow, took off the throttle body. Its only 3 hex bolts and a hose clip, although one bolt is a bit awkward to get at and needs the dipstick removing to get access but isnt too bad. Once out, I cleaned it up, chucked it back in, did the relearn procedure but unfortunately it was still doing it.

Rang up my sort of local motor factors (they're about 10 miles away but better than anything near me) and they said a new one was £435.

I went online and got one from Just German for £120.

As I'm taking it out, the next door neighbour comes over and starts talking to me about his car insurance. Fine, 5 minutes later I go back to the car to unclip the hose and get the throttle body out and lob in the new one.

Unfortunately, as I stood next to the car, the hex bit that was in my screwdriver flew out and into the engine bay.

Look under the car? No, search all the ledges on the engine? No. Shake the car and look on the floor again? No.

It can't have gone down the dipstick can it? Thats a 1 in a million shot. Would it even fit?

A rummage in my toolbox found a similarly sized allen key which I stuck down the pipe.

After a brief moment of excitement thinking that the reason it didn't go all the way down was because the tube got thinner, I realised that it was actually because it curved.

Bugger, so it probably would fit.

Still cant see it going down there though but I really dont have any choice but to check.

Another shake of the car and look underneath was fruitless, so I set about draining the oil.

I lobbed under my 20 yr old oil pan and waited for the oil to all drain out, which it did. All 8.2 litres into my 7 litre (by my estimation of the overspill) pan.

Fucking great. Wish I'd looked that up online before I started. Even the Jag had loads of wiggle room when draining its oil, just assumed I'd be fine.

So I destroyed a few hand towels from the bathroom mopping up as much oil as i could under the car and another at the back of the car to stop it seeping further down the street.

Thankfully the sump is easy to get at on this. No subframe or anything in the way. Just remove the 33 bolts any it should drop off.

Unless of course its seemingly JB Welded on. Took about an hour of wrestling but it finally came off! Yay.

Yup it definitely managed to go down the dipstick.

What are the fucking chances? When the gods of astronomical odds were dealing out the anomalies, they could've let me win the lottery, but no I got that FFS.

It was due an oil change anyhow but I'd have preferred to have done it another day TBH.

And there we go, simple job, yeah.

43,784 · August 8, 2023

Ummm , this happened

More details on my thread.

25,579 · August 8, 2023

On 07/08/2023 at 11:59, Stinkwheel said:

Please can it be arranged that i end up the owner of this down the line (like i did with your old visa ) 😁

Bugger off, there's a queue!! 😎😁

9,525 · August 8, 2023

7 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

The Audi threw its engine light the other day.

Chucked my £20 code reader on. It said it was the throttle body.

Looked online, it was doing exactly the same as in this video, I'd just not heard it because of my playing my shit music too loud.

Not sure why he asked his mate to have a wank at the end of the vid but each to their own.

Anyhow, took off the throttle body. Its only 3 hex bolts and a hose clip, although one bolt is a bit awkward to get at and needs the dipstick removing to get access but isnt too bad. Once out, I cleaned it up, chucked it back in, did the relearn procedure but unfortunately it was still doing it.

Rang up my sort of local motor factors (they're about 10 miles away but better than anything near me) and they said a new one was £435.

I went online and got one from Just German for £120.

As I'm taking it out, the next door neighbour comes over and starts talking to me about his car insurance. Fine, 5 minutes later I go back to the car to unclip the hose and get the throttle body out and lob in the new one.

Unfortunately, as I stood next to the car, the hex bit that was in my screwdriver flew out and into the engine bay.

Look under the car? No, search all the ledges on the engine? No. Shake the car and look on the floor again? No.

It can't have gone down the dipstick can it? Thats a 1 in a million shot. Would it even fit?

A rummage in my toolbox found a similarly sized allen key which I stuck down the pipe.

After a brief moment of excitement thinking that the reason it didn't go all the way down was because the tube got thinner, I realised that it was actually because it curved.

Bugger, so it probably would fit.

Still cant see it going down there though but I really dont have any choice but to check.

Another shake of the car and look underneath was fruitless, so I set about draining the oil.

I lobbed under my 20 yr old oil pan and waited for the oil to all drain out, which it did. All 8.2 litres into my 7 litre (by my estimation of the overspill) pan.

Fucking great. Wish I'd looked that up online before I started. Even the Jag had loads of wiggle room when draining its oil, just assumed I'd be fine.

So I destroyed a few hand towels from the bathroom mopping up as much oil as i could under the car and another at the back of the car to stop it seeping further down the street.

Thankfully the sump is easy to get at on this. No subframe or anything in the way. Just remove the 33 bolts any it should drop off.

Unless of course its seemingly JB Welded on. Took about an hour of wrestling but it finally came off! Yay.

Yup it definitely managed to go down the dipstick.

What are the fucking chances? When the gods of astronomical odds were dealing out the anomalies, they could've let me win the lottery, but no I got that FFS.

It was due an oil change anyhow but I'd have preferred to have done it another day TBH.

And there we go, simple job, yeah.

Wow, well done, I think I'd have left it anyway unless there's no pickup strainer.

12,115 · August 8, 2023

8 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

The Audi threw its engine light the other day.

Chucked my £20 code reader on. It said it was the throttle body.

Looked online, it was doing exactly the same as in this video, I'd just not heard it because of my playing my shit music too loud.

Not sure why he asked his mate to have a wank at the end of the vid but each to their own.

Anyhow, took off the throttle body. Its only 3 hex bolts and a hose clip, although one bolt is a bit awkward to get at and needs the dipstick removing to get access but isnt too bad. Once out, I cleaned it up, chucked it back in, did the relearn procedure but unfortunately it was still doing it.

Rang up my sort of local motor factors (they're about 10 miles away but better than anything near me) and they said a new one was £435.

I went online and got one from Just German for £120.

As I'm taking it out, the next door neighbour comes over and starts talking to me about his car insurance. Fine, 5 minutes later I go back to the car to unclip the hose and get the throttle body out and lob in the new one.

Unfortunately, as I stood next to the car, the hex bit that was in my screwdriver flew out and into the engine bay.

Look under the car? No, search all the ledges on the engine? No. Shake the car and look on the floor again? No.

It can't have gone down the dipstick can it? Thats a 1 in a million shot. Would it even fit?

A rummage in my toolbox found a similarly sized allen key which I stuck down the pipe.

After a brief moment of excitement thinking that the reason it didn't go all the way down was because the tube got thinner, I realised that it was actually because it curved.

Bugger, so it probably would fit.

Still cant see it going down there though but I really dont have any choice but to check.

Another shake of the car and look underneath was fruitless, so I set about draining the oil.

I lobbed under my 20 yr old oil pan and waited for the oil to all drain out, which it did. All 8.2 litres into my 7 litre (by my estimation of the overspill) pan.

Fucking great. Wish I'd looked that up online before I started. Even the Jag had loads of wiggle room when draining its oil, just assumed I'd be fine.

So I destroyed a few hand towels from the bathroom mopping up as much oil as i could under the car and another at the back of the car to stop it seeping further down the street.

Thankfully the sump is easy to get at on this. No subframe or anything in the way. Just remove the 33 bolts any it should drop off.

Unless of course its seemingly JB Welded on. Took about an hour of wrestling but it finally came off! Yay.

Yup it definitely managed to go down the dipstick.

What are the fucking chances? When the gods of astronomical odds were dealing out the anomalies, they could've let me win the lottery, but no I got that FFS.

It was due an oil change anyhow but I'd have preferred to have done it another day TBH.

And there we go, simple job, yeah.

Where I worked the other mechanic managed to snap the end off one of the tiny torx studs that hold the injectors in on a 1.6HDi, sending it pinging off into the distance. He thought. Everything reassembled and it started up to a horrible knock. The head comes off and there it is half embedded in a piston top. It had managed to find its way straight down the injector hole.

38,577 · August 8, 2023

22 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

throttle body.

Being a diesel is it a throttle body? Or is it an anti shudder valve for smoother shutting the engine off? If anti shudder then I'd been tempted to remove the butterfly and put it back! Not unknown for other VAG vehicles with them to fail shut and give weird non start/non rev issues.

20,376 · August 8, 2023

5 hours ago, wesacosa said:

Sometimes it sucks being an old car fan. The extension of the ULEZ scrappage ~~con~~ scheme means my 100k tatty Favorit is worth £2000 on the scrappage scheme. All I have to do is fill in a form, send it off to the crusher and get a cheque for £2000 (don't even think I have to spend it on a car if I don't want). Given the stress, misery and upset the ULEZ expansion has caused me over the last 10 months £2000 would be a nice bonus, plus I wouldn't have to worry about flogging the Favorit for a few hundred quid and all that entails

Yet I just can't do it

Can you not just pay the charge when you want to use it? Assuming this is the English system where you can pay your way in, and not the Scottish version where you're entirely banned and get a stacking fine.

32,436 · August 8, 2023

Its been for sale for a while and already reduced, its local (I also happened to grow up there) and looks pretty clean and well cared for. I've been after one for a while but it would mean the 75 would have to go as I wouldn't want 2 large saloons on fleet.

The latter part is the trouble as I don't want to sell the 75.

Also GR8 PL8 M8.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how ruinous are these (if they aren't rusty).

13,380 · August 8, 2023

30 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Can you not just pay the charge when you want to use it? Assuming this is the English system where you can pay your way in, and not the Scottish version where you're entirely banned and get a stacking fine.

I can but I have 5 non compliant cars so on top of tax insurance mot etc it's not sustainable to keep them all

plus my daily is non compliant so need at least one more incoming

23,284 · August 8, 2023

53 minutes ago, SiC said:

Being a diesel is it a throttle body? Or is it an anti shudder valve for smoother shutting the engine off? If anti shudder then I'd been tempted to remove the butterfly and put it back!

I honestly don't know. If I'd not been able to get the £120 one and you told me that, I'd probably have given it a go but the cars been good so far (touch wood) so I don't mind some mild spending.

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

Wow, well done, I think I'd have left it anyway unless there's no pickup strainer.

Yeah, I did consider that but was thinking for the sake of a couple if hours work, I'd best do it as would feel a right pratt when the engine grenaded itself when it found its way in somehow and it would be kicking around the back of my head every time I drove it.

38,577 · August 8, 2023

2 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

I honestly don't know. If I'd not been able to get the £120 one and you told me that, I'd probably have given it a go but the cars been good so far (touch wood) so I don't mind some mild spending.

Yeah, I did consider that but was thinking for the sake of a couple if hours work, I'd best do it as would feel a right pratt when the engine grenaded itself when it found its way in somehow and it would be kicking around the back of my head every time I drove it.

This thing:

https://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/products/vw-audi-2-7-3-0-tdi-anti-shudder-valve-asv-4e0-145-950-j.html

Tbh I'd probably have changed it for £120 too. But at least you know it doesn't have to work that hard like a throttle body. No real precision needed in its operation.

38,577 · August 8, 2023

1 hour ago, HillmanImp said:

went online and got one from Just German for £120.

Worth keeping the old one as repair kits can be had cheap

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132438715867

Or a better seller:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323541307182

Or tbh buy another for less hassle if it did break. Either open when running or shut when stopped should mean even cheap shit should be fine.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184816886792

23,441 · August 8, 2023

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Its been for sale for a while and already reduced, its local (I also happened to grow up there) and looks pretty clean and well cared for. I've been after one for a while but it would mean the 75 would have to go as I wouldn't want 2 large saloons on fleet.

The latter part is the trouble as I don't want to sell the 75.

Also GR8 PL8 M8.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how ruinous are these (if they aren't rusty).

I looked at them to replace the w124 merc as a daily, but nearly all were hiding serious rust.

32,436 · August 8, 2023

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

I looked at them to replace the w124 merc as a daily, but nearly all were hiding serious rust.

That does not surprise me. I think I'll pass!

37,058 · August 8, 2023

On 8/7/2023 at 1:00 PM, richardmorris said:

Mclaren of some sort.

McLaren Sabre, 1 of 15.

23,441 · August 8, 2023

5 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

McLaren Sabre, 1 of 15.

Odd thing. Looks like a car within a car bursting to get out. Not cheap I expect.

23,441 · August 8, 2023

8 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That does not surprise me. I think I'll pass!

It’s easy to get taken in by the looks and the leather, and they are very temptingly affordable to buy. Red works well on them too.

13,431 · August 8, 2023

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Its been for sale for a while and already reduced, its local (I also happened to grow up there) and looks pretty clean and well cared for. I've been after one for a while but it would mean the 75 would have to go as I wouldn't want 2 large saloons on fleet.

The latter part is the trouble as I don't want to sell the 75.

Also GR8 PL8 M8.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how ruinous are these (if they aren't rusty).

great mota GiB..

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