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Did you buy one?!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

Stone the Heretic! Putting non Michelin’s on a CX will get you excommunicated from the club ....

Would you want to be a member of any club that would have you as a member?

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, egg said:

Did you buy one?!

Me? A traction? 

No, not yet. The car that may be for sale belongs to a very long standing member of the club who is now in hospital following a fall. He is in no position to handle a sale at the moment and his ex wife will be sorting his affairs.  Another car was mentioned on the drive back that is in a lockup near my Citroen 2cv specialist’s garage so I am going to look at that in a week or two ( it’s another car that may be for sale at the right price). However it’s a legere not a normale ( small car, rather than the bigger, stanced resistance/gangster look I prefer).

[Three Speed]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

suspect @Three Speed was next oldest and he was in charge of the meeting and not that much older I expect.  

You flatter me Richard. Thank you!

[richardmorris]

21 minutes ago, Three Speed said:

You flatter me Richard. Thank you!

Just think we had the most non white hair between us, I seem to be heading rapidly,  non-stop,  towards not mid-forties. Life, don’t talk to me about life ( to quote a depressed robot).

[Saabnut]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

 

Does anyone here attend the NEC restoration show? I’ve not been but the Citroen clubs are considering a joint stand next year.

@richardmorris next year will be the third year I will have had a UKSaabs stand there (jointly with the Saab Owners Club - we get a double sized stand that way) and can highly reccomend it. Great show with genuine enthusiasts in attendance.

[wuvvum]

Been having a look through the paperwork for the 159 I bought yesterday.  There are quite a few bills with it - in fact it's had more spent on it this year than I paid for the car, including a bill for £462.48 just two months ago for a replacement turbo core and oil & filter change.  The last MOT in March cost nearly 400 quid.  It also had a cambelt and water pump last year, together with an alloy inlet manifold and piss flap removal.

I also had a poke round the car itself, and can confirm that the manifold does indeed look nice and shiny.  I'm assuming this weird little concertina pipe is the EGR bypass - I'm surprised you can get away with that on a diesel this age (in fact you obviously can't given that, as previously mentioned, it clags like a bastard when you floor it).

I've also discovered that unfortunately the boot is too small to fit my pushbike, and that the cruise control does in fact work - I couldn't get it to work on the drive back yesterday, but that might have just been me being useless.  The tyres are decent Goodyear Eagle F1s on the back and borderline Cooper Zeons on the front - I think those will be getting swapped round in the very near future.

Otherwise I've been driving it around today and it's been great.  In fact if you don't look in the mirror and see the clag cloud you'd not know there was anything amiss with it.  I'm hoping I don't grow to love it too much, as I might then want to start spending money on it to get it fixed, and that is a very slippery slope...

[somewhatfoolish]

EGR deletion won't have much if any effect on clag, it's a NOx reduction measure; the clag is more likely to be some half-arsed tuning measure like winding up the fueling.

[Mrcento]

That pipe 100% won't be an EGR bypass itself, i've seen pipes like that on a few cars that lead to the EGR, The bypass, if it has one, will be a small metal plate fitted between the valve and the manifold to blank it off.

[paulplom]

12 hours ago, egg said:

My Sister's Tigra has a leak from the sump (haven't seen it, just reported to me). Is that a known problem before she takes it to a garage? Perhaps better in ask a Shiter.....soz.

Not a tigra but, my 5 year old transit developed and oil leak from the sump. It had rusted out and became porous. The garage said I was very lucky it didn't just 'go' with the expected results. Did I mention it was only 5 years old at the time?

[wuvvum]

7 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

EGR deletion won't have much if any effect on clag, it's a NOx reduction measure; the clag is more likely to be some half-arsed tuning measure like winding up the fueling.

I did wonder whether it might have had a slightly dodgy remap.  The chap I bought it from reckoned the DPF was playing up, but it GLF and there's no warning lights on the dash so I'm not convinced by that - unless the DPF is missing altogether I suppose, which would increase the smoke levels.

[SiC]

4 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I did wonder whether it might have had a slightly dodgy remap.  The chap I bought it from reckoned the DPF was playing up, but it GLF and there's no warning lights on the dash so I'm not convinced by that - unless the DPF is missing altogether I suppose, which would increase the smoke levels.

I reckon it's had a Remap with DPF and EGR delete. Then DPF gutted and EGR blanked off. The remap will stop warning lights from coming on. 

A DPF isn't a pass through filter that should allow black soot particles through it. 

[cort16]

Dpf delete on 159s is pretty common . The big killer of these is front subframe rot .

[angle]

At the risk of this being the dullest thing I've posted in months, ECP have got a load of Valeo wipers on clearance - a full set for the Laguna is £3.50...

[Cord Fourteener]

I got a lovely visit from @Twin-Cam and Melvin today.

It was a dull and slightly damp day but lots of fun was had non-the-less. Future car videos coming from @Twin-Cam's you tube channel hopefully!

Bloody Leaky Metro left an oily autograph on the road.

[R9UKE]

It's been too long, shiters.  Pursuing the dream of building a moderately successful car sales business (why would anyone in their right mind even want to?) has taken up a lot of life recently.  

But I'm currently on holiday in The States visiting family for Thanksgiving and what better way to fill my gift of time than trawling almost a year of missed posts on here.

Also..... my daily for the past few months has a been a 2006 Nissan Murano 3.5 V6 on LPG.  I have PLENTY to write about on that front so I'll get to it soon.  In the mean time, take a look at what I'm coming home to next week.  NU DAILY ALERT!  A 2003 Vel Shatis, in poverty spec.  It's a 2.0 Turbo Expression, with a manual gearbox and 99k miles.  Old chap bought it with 12miles on the clock, yes twelve miles.  Renault had it on their forecourt at the list price of just over £22k.  He offered them £12,500 and they bit his arm off.  It now has 99k miles, MOT until February of next year and I paid £200.  Should be plenty of "character" to keep me entertained over the Christmas break.

Nice to check-in again, look forward to catching up.

Luke

[egg]

2 hours ago, angle said:

At the risk of this being the dullest thing I've posted in months, ECP have got a load of Valeo wipers on clearance - a full set for the Laguna is £3.50...

Thanks, great heads up (even though I'm not a fan of Valeo blades) but they won't deliver to me, and nowhere local in stock. Boo hoo!

[wuvvum]

The Sonata passed its retest today.  That means I have a worryingly high number of road-legal vehicles at the moment, especially for this time of year.  I'm going to have to have a look at the clutch as that's playing up a bit - think it's a hydraulic issue, going to try bleeding it and see if that helps - hoping it's not a leaky slave as they are inside the bellhousing on these.  Still perfectly drivable as it is though.

Got the door card back on the Elantra yesterday and spent some time reseating the window seals - with the addition of a small piece of Gorilla tape at the topmost rear corner where the seal has a bit missing.  It's definitely quietened it down noticeably, although it's still not what you'd call a refined car...

Also ordered some wiper blades from ECP - the Bl*ck Fr*day discount brought the price of some of the blades down to about 60p, which I'm not going to complain at, even if it is a bit out of my way to go and fetch them.

[andy18s]

Any needing parts?

[Lord Sterling]

I think another spring on the Vectra has gone.... a faint clunky sound can be heard as I turn the front left and right. Booked in for Saturday. 

[xtriple]

Just bought oil and filter from Opie oils, 8 litres of Mobil 1  5/40 and a Mahle filter for £65 delivered. I didn't think that was bad? That's with the 15% Black discount code for a first order. So now with the vaccumm pump that no 1 son has bought me for Christmas (I've bought him one as well!) an oil change done by my own fair hand will be performed, probably over Christmas cos I get bored!

[MikeR]

Ironically my car is in good nick . unlike me .

Whats the chances if i cant drive it for ages it will start playing up !!!! 

[cms206]

After a ten day wait we finally got the results of my mum's post mortem. She didn't suffer, thankfully.

We have been charging on behind the scenes to get everything in place. Provisionally booked the crematorium for this Friday, the lot.

Gets the death certificate at 2pm.

Goes to a prebooked appointment at 3pm to register her death.

Can't do it... according to the certificate she passed away on December 14th 2019.

I am therefore up at 6.30am to go to the mortuary to get another death certificate, to then travel across two fucking council areas at rush hour to register her death. IF there is another fuck up I need to postpone the funeral 'cos the paperwork has to be with the crematorium by midday at the very latest.

Stressed. Out. Of. My. Fucking. Tits.

[New POD]

2 hours ago, MikeR said:

Ironically my car is in good nick . unlike me .

Whats the chances if i cant drive it for ages it will start playing up !!!! 

I'll put some miles on it for you. 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Don’t drink and eBay kids!

FUCK.

To be fair, I did want it. But bugger me, that’s expensive.

[LightBulbFun]

26 minutes ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Don’t drink and eBay kids!

FUCK.

To be fair, I did want it. But bugger me, that’s expensive.

if it makes you feel any better! *glances over at the now empty cup of hot chocolate*

(what you cant see is Shipping was another AU$28...)

[anonymous user]

6 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Don’t drink and eBay kids!

FUCK.

To be fair, I did want it. But bugger me, that’s expensive.

That does look nice, how much is that in real money? My house is full of random stuff that I wanted but didn't need, don't be concerned as long as that wasn't your eating money, although it's surprising how well you can survive on noodle sandwiches (for a short while)

[MarvinsMom]

we had a phone like that growing up. 

well not quiet like that, as ours was beige, not chromed.

but it was phone just like that.....

[BorniteIdentity]

Today I found myself in the middle of a Funeral.

I was coming out of the Grand Arcade car park in Cambridge - swung left onto Trumpington Street and there was a hearse outside Pembroke College.  "Weird" I thought - the church is on the other side of the road, about 500 yards up.  

Notwithstanding, as the coffin was taken out of the hearse, I stopped the Avensis as awkwardly as I could to prevent any cyclists/mopeds/oncoming traffic from passing - turned down the radio, took off my hat and allowed the guys to do their job without fear of being run over.  Once they'd got out of the road, one smiled at me - and I was on my way.

It was only at 5pm this afternoon I realised who the deceased was.

As a fellow of Cambridge, he was entitled to a funeral at the college.  

I'm only 36, but I loved CJ on the TV.  Not that many people are as honest and as straightforward as he was.  

When I mentioned the above anecdote to my lady wife, she finally confessed that her team at the hospice had been caring for him for quite some time now.  I, quite correctly, had no idea.

The most striking thing was the coffin.  Clive James was, professionally, a very succesful man.  He had a beautiful home and an even more beautiful family.  But it was a stark reminder that we all enter and exit this world in the same simple way.  His was a plain, unadorned vessel.

I don't need to further sharpen the point I'm making. 

[Mally]

Can't bring myself to press the like button on that, but your point makes perfect sense.