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[gm]

i got a lift home from work tonight, and so did the car !

nothing major, just the crank pulley i should have changed months ago !

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

You find the strangest things in charity shops.

‘Anyone for an audio guide to your new Australian market Petrol 1982 Peugeot 505? It’s only $1!’

Now I need to find the car to match.

[barefoot]

And a cassette player...

[MorrisItalSLX]

5 minutes ago, barefoot said:

And a cassette player...

Got plenty of them, some even work!

[62 Austin]

7 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

You find the strangest things in charity shops.

‘Anyone for an audio guide to your new Australian market Petrol 1982 Peugeot 505? It’s only $1!’

Now I need to find the car to match.

Here's a 504:

A 504 Gateway Timeout error indicates that the web server is waiting too long to respond from another server and “timing out.” There can be many reasons for this timeout: the other server is not functioning properly, overloaded, or down. The other server need not always be external (e.g. CDN, API gateway).Mar 14, 2024

[louiepj]

I picked this up of marketplace for 30 quid ! Sausages  will be a bit gritty though
 

 

Now you need some fetching PPE to go with it....

[egg]

Caley Thistle are moving? Oh where to? Fife M8. Where? Fife.

[The Vicar]

Some progress being made on my new-to-me summer runaround:

and new boots:

August 92 Mk3 8v GTI. Not the most exciting thing in the world and not exactly what I had in mind when I set out looking for something, but there was something quite appealing about it.

[Ghosty]

27 minutes ago, The Vicar said:

Not the most exciting thing in the world and not exactly what I had in mind when I set out looking for something, but there was something quite appealing about it.

In related news… 

As we know the Yaris was burning oil. I’ve not mentioned that car much because life. Explain later.

anyway yesterday I sold it.

In a bit of a blur, over the last couple of days I’ve been doing some thinking as to its replacement, and I’m not entirely sure how I’ve ended up going through with this, and it feels like a bloody big gamble, but for the first time this year…

 

I’m on a train.
Photos won’t upload from this phone FFS (still haven’t worked that one out), so watch this space. 

 

[Ghosty]

I am writing this on the Tube. There’s better signal down here than at home ffs.  

[Ghosty]

South of the river can only mean I’m visiting my aunt and uncle, or buying a car. 
 

Go figure. 

[Popsicle]

46 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

In related news… 

As we know the Yaris was burning oil. I’ve not mentioned that car much because life. Explain later.

anyway yesterday I sold it.

In a bit of a blur, over the last couple of days I’ve been doing some thinking as to its replacement, and I’m not entirely sure how I’ve ended up going through with this, and it feels like a bloody big gamble, but for the first time this year…

 

I’m on a train.
Photos won’t upload from this phone FFS (still haven’t worked that one out), so watch this space. 

 

Ooo a Friday evening bank holiday weekend collection, safe travels sir.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

South of the river can only mean I’m visiting my aunt and uncle, or buying a car. 
 

Go figure. 

How far south?

[Christine]

Is a band playing Dixie double four time ? 

[Christine]

Way on down south  , London ? 

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

 

NO eye contact if you meet him!

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

or him

[Ghosty]

I’ve got from Aldershot to Birmingham so far, I’m in a McDonald’s at Star City. Bit cold - temp gauge hasn’t got past cold, no heater and the door seals are fucked. 
 

Thermostat must be stuck open or missing. 
 

I’m praying it’s not *that* but we shall see. 

[Ghosty]

Oil looks good. 
Hoses are OK, coolant flowing. 
Temp sensor seems not to be plugged in and a plug is missing from the (ubiquitous) coolant bottle. 
Oil cap is from a Vauxhall 😂

 

My professional* diagnosis is a blocked heater matrix and gauge not plugged in. Be fine. 
 

he says. I’ll check the expansion tank tomorrow. 

[Ghosty]

Home. No issues. I’ll post a pic after I sleep. 
 

🍍

[Ghosty]

Right, now I'm back... 

 

I got swarmed when I came out from paying for fuel!

Steering column is loose, radio needs ISO plugs tacking on and seeing what happens, and the 12v socket doesn't work,  but everything else does - mainly because it's a 1.6CL and they're about the only electrics.

Nobody tell me it needs a Weber.

[Christine]

Knicker  elastic loosener !  

[Snake Charmer]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

Nobody tell me it needs a Weber.

Needs a Flat Eric. 😎

[Split_Pin]

Stately  (shame about the street lamp)

 

[richykitchy]

On 17/05/2024 at 20:54, richardmorris said:

I think @richykitchy mentioned a good scanner on his YouTube , and had said he would do a video on it…..

TopDon Topscan - can heartily recommend.

[wuvvum]

Been having some fun with the Getz this week.  I had to remove the nearside headlight as there were two blown side light bulbs rattling around in the reflector - a poor bit of design means that when you remove the sidelight bulb holder the bulb has a tendency to come free and fall into the light.  I removed the H4 bulb and shook the light upside down until the sidelight bulbs fell out through the hole, but something was still rattling - turned out there were a further two bulbs stuck behind the reflector, one of which may have been mine, the other not - so it's obviously not just me being fat-fingered.

It also went into limp mode on the way in to Norwich - I didn't actually notice it'd done it as it didn't put any lights on and the traffic was slow anyway so I didn't go much over 50, but then trying to nip out onto the roundabout on the northern bypass I found it had very little power and wouldn't rev over 2,800.  Pulling over, switching off and restarting cleared the issue.  I plugged the laptop in when I got home and it was showing a fault for low fuel pressure at the rail.  I suspect the fuel filter may be at fault - it was changed not long before I bought the car but that was also roughly when the kangarooing on a light throttle started, so it might be either a dodgy filter or not quite fitted right.

I bought a cheapo tuning box off eBay just to see if it'd cope with increased power before I decide whether to fork out to get it remapped.  That arrived yesterday and I fitted it last night - took the car up the road and it went into limp mode almost immediately, which makes sense I suppose - if the fuel pressure is too low for "normal" operations then it's going to fall even shorter of the increased fuelling requested by the tuning box.

This means I need to get to the fuel filter so I can measure it and make sure I order the right one as a replacement (there's about four different options for diesel Getzes) - this involves removing the scuttle panel, which necessitates complete removal of the wiper mechanism, so probably not going to happen this weekend.  In fact looking at the forecast very little is likely to happen this weekend...

[JJ0063]

Not sure why I needed this but saw a trailer on marketplace for £60 and thought how much id like to give the towbar I fitted to the BMW a go.

Fitted the hitch

Collected

 

Home. 
 

 

Chap has owned it from new, needs a really good clean. Paint the wheels etc and it should tidy up nicely!

[hairnet]

wheels a daft colour ftw

 

[Ghosty]

Looking over the Golf, I’ve found someone has very recently serviced it and taken good care of it.
 

Nissens rad. 
NGK plugs and new leads. 
Mahle filter (oil changed and replaced with Bosch just now)
Front arms have been replaced. 
Intermotor coil
Dizzy cap
Vac diaphragm 
Prosport coilovers
Some sort of stainless backbox
Tank straps
Cambelt is 9k old
Brand new clutch and gear linkage…

It’s an absolute gem. I got a mk2 Golf for quite a few reasons, personal and otherwise, and I absolutely bloody love it.

Needs a £20 steering column mount, some better tyres (all cracked) and I’m currently fixing the radio and 12v socket - and the heater matrix is blocked seemingly, but that’s about it.

[Ghosty]

The Golf had a DIN shaped hole in the (warped) dash. Can't have that.
Dug out my bullet connectors and crimps, and bought a random ISO adapter from the clearance at Halfords for £3.
Cut the proprietary socket off for the ISO sockets and wiring, and it's time to get to work - don't think I've wired in ISO sockets since I had the W124 - that was fun* as it didn't use ISO wiring, being an '80s German car.
...an '80s German car. The Golf was made in West Germany...

Here we go again. Pulled the wires out of the hole, few loose ones, some bullet connectors, and a random bit of bell wire going to a latching push switch in the fusebox.
Crimped bullets onto all the wires that didn't have one, and sacked off the bell wire (I think it's for a non-functional alarm that looks suspiciously like a Mercedes part).
Took the random ISO adapter, cut off the proprietary socket, crimped on female bullet connectors to match. Time to match everything up.


Somehow while looking for Golf bits I found a wiring diagram for a T25 that had the VW speaker colours on it.

WTF were they thinking?



As to be expected, the speaker wiring is completely arbitrarily coloured, the radio is permanent live direct to the fusebox and battery (even with the key out), and for some reason, one of the speaker wires is solid red - as well as the +12v. No idea WTF the designer of that was thinking, but at least they had the foresight to use different gauges of wire, so discerning +12v from a dash speaker positive wasn't too hard.

I'm wondering if this last fact is why the 10a fuse for the radio and 12v socket had blown (much like the speakers which I'm replacing - weird sizes in 3.5" and 6x4" which are on order). The car doesn't appear to have a switched live at all which is a bit shit, but given the radio is the only remotely complex bit of the car's electrics, it's sort of understandable.

Successfully wired everything up, but the lovely Aiwa cassette radio from my dead Civic that I decided to use (I know I was going to sell it...) would only dimly operate its LCD, the backlight didn't work, no sound, and no sign of life from the tape deck either - the guts must have corroded/dry jointed in storage or something. Tried that Kenwood CD player too and it wouldn't even turn on. The ISO plug has 12.7v and even earthing straight to the battery negative didn't improve matters, so I think my head units have been killed off by sitting in the garage over winter. I'm heading to a car boot sale in the morning so I'll try and find something else with ISO plugs to try, that doesn't look too out of place.