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[Split_Pin]

34 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Is the gauge reading right? Is the temperature sender ok? Did you try reading temperature from the OBD?

I'm going to try that next, on my way home from the station tomorrow after the car has sat all day.

[Split_Pin]

6 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

It's not one of these stupid modern setups where there's more than one thermostat is it?

No I don't think so. My old Cav TD was like that though.

I'm thinking this is just a VAG TDi thing.

[stuboy]

3 hours ago, grogee said:

Master Grogee Sr has a Ibiza with the three pot VW diesel, I am constantly surprised at how it manages to start with a weak battery much like that video. 

splashed out on an 027 battery, 

[Snake Charmer]

22 minutes ago, stuboy said:

splashed out on an 027 battery, 

Tayna Batteries?

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Well that was a waste of time:

New Gates thermostat on the red A4 has made no improvement to the protracted warm up times.

This was after about 6 miles of mixed driving from cold.

It warms up well on the motorway and if I had stayed on it would have got to 90 but as soon as I pulled off and back to 30mph roads the needle dived back down to the marks half way between 50 and 90. This was as far as it recovered.

I don't know what else to do, this is the FOURTH thermostat its had.

Does it have an additional thermostat? VAG like doing that. My A4 B8 had two. One on the block and another inline elsewhere. 

All modern VAG sit bang in the middle when up to temperature. Anywhere else and there is something wrong. 

[Rust Collector]

18 years ago I was probably barricaded in my bedroom wanking.

Now that I’m in my 30’s I occasionally I release the vice grip on my cock and do some car stuff, then post it in my fleet thread.

I found the main thing stopping me from buying and driving home completely fucked cars is that as I’ve gotten older I’ve realised how lucky I’ve been not to get myself in the shit with some of the nails I’ve driven on the road/towed on a rope whilst in bits etc.

Everything is still run on a shoe string, mind. Some things will never change.

[beko1987]

Drove my mum up north today to go see my gran and grandads grave, then my aunt and uncle/her brother then my grandparents. 220 miles done in the Xsara with no issues! 

Tomorrow I'm going back to go to a funeral with my dad. So another 200. 

Relating it back to joining autoshite, mine was 12 years ago, I'd just bought my first 1.4 zx and found this place through a Google. Now I'm still in a zx technically and it's only 5 years newer than my first citroen 🤣

[Split_Pin]

47 minutes ago, SiC said:

All modern VAG sit bang in the middle when up to temperature.

Once it gets up to 90 it doesn't move from there regardless, which makes me think it's just a thing.

I'm not aware of there being 2 thermostats but I do know that some examples have some kind of coolant heater but I think that might just be for the cabin.

[HMC]

Took the Samara into university- my only working vehicle- Mainly as the xk8 is gone, and the fiat 500 is stuck at the garage whilst they await the coolant pipe to the oil cooler to turn up. This samara is way less sophisticated than that-  but this also means theres a lot less that can go wrong!

[SiC]

Once it gets up to 90 it doesn't move from there regardless, which makes me think it's just a thing.
I'm not aware of there being 2 thermostats but I do know that some examples have some kind of coolant heater but I think that might just be for the cabin.

If it stays at 90c marker and the coolant temperature through the OBD port stays in that sort of ballpark then it's almost certainly fine.

Diesels always do have a longer warmup due to having more metal in their blocks (higher compression pressures) and more efficient burning (better fuel economy).

Now I think about it, I seem to remember to speed warmup on my B8 2.0TDI it had that extra thermostat to bypass coolant circuit sections when cold. Shorter circuit meant more heat going in. Maybe they had complaints on the B7 generation about it being too slow to warmup and they re-engineered it (i.e. make it even more complex) for the B8.

[Split_Pin]

16 minutes ago, SiC said:

Diesels always do have a longer warmup due to having more metal in their blocks (higher compression pressures) and more efficient burning (better fuel economy).

Good shout, the 75 diesel warms up a little quicker but my e46 petrol temp guage reaches the middle after about 4 or 5 minutes.

[SiC]

Good shout, the 75 diesel warms up a little quicker but my e46 petrol temp guage reaches the middle after about 4 or 5 minutes.

It's one of the reasons why I like petrols as they tend to warm up quickly. Bigger engines petrol do (like my E320 v6 that I had) because they're pretty squirting petrol in like a fire hose when cold to warm up quickly (for emissions reasons). The big consequence of that is piss poor fuel economy on short runs!

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, grogee said:

Both cars came from a mate of mine who worked at Nissan, coincidentally I start work there on Monday.

Ooh, I hope there's more about that somewhere ( busy day, still on P3 of notifications)

[Snake Charmer]

On 25/11/2024 at 11:31, wuvvum said:

Speaking of anniversaries...

18 years ago today I was sat at home idly browsing eBay when I received a message from a user going by the moniker Mouseflakes.  He said that he'd noticed I was bidding on a lot of the same cars as him (this was back in the good old days when you could actually see who you were bidding against), and he thought I might enjoy a web forum dedicated to obscure old cars, called autoshite.com.  I was dimly aware of the site's existence (I think I'd seen it mentioned in Practical Classics) but I'd never visited before.  I had a look at the site, liked what I saw and signed up.

I can't remember exactly what was in the fleet at the time.  I had the Volvo 164, obviously, and I think my daily was a Mk1 Jetta automatic.  There would have been at least one Saab in the mix, a van of some sort and I think I also had a Spacy, although not my current one.  The Mobylette was still in storage in France at the time.

A child born on that day would now be celebrating their arrival into adulthood, which does make me stop and wonder what I'm doing with my life!  Some cars now considered AS fodder weren't even built at the time.  In those 18 years I've had one house move, one new job and probably 400 cars (many of them bought from shiters, many more sold on to shiters after I'd finished with them).  Autoshite has changed almost beyond recognition in that time, but there's still a few of the original members around and actively posting, and there are still enough occasional flashes of the traits which originally attracted me to the forum to keep me hanging around like a bad penny...

18 years ago I was the full-time carer for my mother-in-law allowing me to spend lots of time in the workshop having given up my job as a Development Engineer. I had completely rebuilt my '95 Triumph Speed Triple, had a '73 Jensen Interceptor lll and my daily was a 51 plate Ford Galaxy with a Brotherwood wheelchair conversion for the mother-in-law. My other halfs daily was our '01 Volvo V40 T4 that we have owned since it was 15 months old and currently sat on the drive SORN"d since '22.

A string of shite has been our daily or dailies, in that time both kids have grown up and have their own list of cars, one of them has an old BMW 740. Cutting a long story short, l spent  over 10 years working on shite self employed and now work PAYE for a classic car company that specialises in AC cars, more shite just expensive.

13 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Well that was a waste of time:

New Gates thermostat on the red A4 has made no improvement to the protracted warm up times.

This was after about 6 miles of mixed driving from cold.

It warms up well on the motorway and if I had stayed on it would have got to 90 but as soon as I pulled off and back to 30mph roads the needle dived back down to the marks half way between 50 and 90. This was as far as it recovered.

I don't know what else to do, this is the FOURTH thermostat its had.

Do you use the air conditioning constantly? Has the EGR been deleted?

[artdjones]

A Lebanese Volvo enthusiast returning home after the ceasefire. Hope it works out for him.

[MJK 24]

Are modern cars getting bigger?!

We really need a new S Class for research purposes.  Not a 20 year old one!

 

[artdjones]

7 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

Are modern cars getting bigger?!

We really need a new S Class for research purposes.  Not a 20 year old one!

 

That S Class was one of the few models to have shrunk, as the previous W140 was criticised for excessive size.

[chaseracer]

Does the old 'Renault 5 thermostat' trick/bodge/semi-permanent fix still work?  Probably not...

[stuboy]

13 hours ago, stuboy said:

splashed out on an 027 battery, 

Gods sake apparantly I have to code it too the bloody car... looks like I'll be buying a vcds spec tool with battery registration facility. 

[Westbay]

59 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Gods sake apparantly I have to code it too the bloody car... looks like I'll be buying a vcds spec tool with battery registration facility. 

Yes you will need VCDS or similar ...

Providing you are replacing 'like for like' i.e same Ah etc(if you upgrade then you need to change the Ah etc also) then all that's needed is to change the last digit on the 'stored' battery details in the car's memory to indicate to the car 'new battery' and it will charge it as a new battery rather than how it was trying to charge the 'old' battery... this is more important if your car's system has an active Battery Monitoring  facility...

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Snake Charmer said:

Do you use the air conditioning constantly? Has the EGR been deleted?

No as the AC doesn't work and as far as I am aware the EGR is still present.

[grogee]

13 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Ooh, I hope there's more about that somewhere ( busy day, still on P3 of notifications)

I'm starting a 12m contract as a "Vehicle Evaluation & Customer Experience Engineer" whatever that is. 

AFAICT it's someone who looks at competitor vehicles and qualitatively/quantitavely assesses ease of use for certain features. 

When I was interviewed there were two positions open: one was assessing ADAS things and one was for HMI usability. I don't yet know which one I'll be doing, there's a possibility it'll be split between the two. 

On the downside it's an hour's commute each way three days a week. But it sounds interesting enough to be worth it. 

[320touring]

On Tuesday, I took the LEAF for petrol

I did actually get a can as preparation for collection of this mighty steed

Plan is to get it to the unit tonight and see what it will need for it's next MOT.

Thanks to @Split_Pin for his help in organising.

[Supernaut]

1 hour ago, 320touring said:

On Tuesday, I took the LEAF for petrol

I did actually get a can as preparation for collection of this mighty steed

Plan is to get it to the unit tonight and see what it will need for it's next MOT.

Thanks to @Split_Pin for his help in organising.

That's a seamless respray on the back end.

[Markeh]

2 hours ago, grogee said:

I'm starting a 12m contract as a "Vehicle Evaluation & Customer Experience Engineer" whatever that is. 

AFAICT it's someone who looks at competitor vehicles and qualitatively/quantitavely assesses ease of use for certain features. 

When I was interviewed there were two positions open: one was assessing ADAS things and one was for HMI usability. I don't yet know which one I'll be doing, there's a possibility it'll be split between the two. 

On the downside it's an hour's commute each way three days a week. But it sounds interesting enough to be worth it. 

Can you make the electric boots work properly/compare competitor ones that bloody work?

[320touring]

28 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

That's a seamless respray on the back end.

Aye. Think an old owner (not the gent I got it off) was a fan  of painting things.

It's exactly as advertised and drives really well. Pleased with it so far

[Supernaut]

In other news; I got one of those microwaveable dehumidifier thingies yesterday and chucked it in the Megane.

Yep, it definitely makes a difference in this weather.

[IronStar]

8 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

In other news; I got one of those microwaveable dehumidifier thingies yesterday and chucked it in the Megane.

Yep, it definitely makes a difference in this weather.

Dehumidifiers are so underrated. They make life and storing things so much more pleasant. 

[Markeh]

18 years ago I wasn't here and I was probably being a little shit online elsewhere (I definitely appeared on BarryBoys at some point in the late 2000s being a strange child/complete tool for a while until someone realised I signed up with my old NTL firstname.lastname email address, and managed to find me online... never went back!) - We would've just got rid of our Motability Daewoo Tacuma (which my mother still misses) for a doom blue Zafira B (which was universally hated). I'm not sure where dad would've been at this point - he was either at an Alfa service place attached to a large Renault dealer, in his last few months at Nissan, or was at a Fiat/Kia dealer that was just setting up (but I think they started him off at Mazda til this was open). He would've either been in an X-Trail, a Pathfinder, possibly a 159 for a bit, or between a Mazda 6 and a Mazda 5.

I lurked from at least 2012, possibly earlier, but only bothered signing up during lockdown - I didn't think I had anything worthwhile to add before then (and some would argue I still don't!)

[95 quid Peugeot]

6 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Does the old 'Renault 5 thermostat' trick/bodge/semi-permanent fix still work?  Probably not...

is that the inline thermostat...if needed i've one you can have FOC