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2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

The preliminary verdict is in on the diesel C2's fuel consumption.  Using the highly scientific* method of zeroing the trip meter when the fuel light comes on, sticking some diesel in and then checking the trip meter reading when the light comes on again, it's been averaging around 57.5mpg.  Which is slightly less than the 61.3 the computer thinks it's doing, and a lot less than the official figures, but not bad considering most of my recent driving has been pottering round the houses rather than long runs.

It also now has choonz - the secondhand Kenwood CD player I bought off eBay for 6 quid turned up and was fitted at the weekend.  It works fine - it doesn't switch off with the ignition but it does switch off when the BSI shuts down a few minutes later, which is good enough.  It also doesn't retain the station when it's switched off, but it's the work of a few seconds to retune it.  I might swap the red and yellow wires round at some stage but there are bigger fish to fry at the moment.

I'd be researching the wiring in it, the last few moderns I've had I've had to run a perm live wire from places as the bsi wiring has it all built in....

My pioneer has a live wire wrapped around the live terminal for the ciggy lighter, Zafira was the same, the lagunii only left the ciggy lighter in the armrest live so that was a longer wire

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22 hours ago, rickvw72 said:

Just bought a new dizzy cap for the Mk2 Golf. It’s a 16v so searching by name brings up a price 40-50 quid for a Bosch part.

If you search by its part number, they’re 15 quid, genuine bosch. Fitted to loads of cars, inc Ford’s, Vauxhall’s etc.

Worth a remember really, parts are cheaper online by part number, than name. Especially true if like the golf, values have climbed last few years.

This phenomenon was definitely true of used parts. It was a lot more for mk1 Escort RS reversing lights on eBay, than a hillman imp reverse lamp used to sell for! 

I worked for Lucas Industries for 9 years.  Often bits with different part numbers are interchangeable with very little fuss.  

Most suppliers to the motor industry, have a family of systems , that use as many common components as possible. 

Reuse a design, over and over again. 

 

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An opportunity presented itself to do a job I've meant to do for a while, and reinstate the heat shield on the Bluebird. The previous fixings were snapped off, so needed drilled out... To get a drill in, the radiator had to be drained... 

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... Removed... 

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... One came out easily enough, but the other two were far trickier. In the end, I went for a bit of a bodge, and put a self tapper into the stub of the fixing. The fixings just hold the shield in place, so not much weight to worry about. 

And with that done, time to fit the new air duct hose, and reinstate everything with new and less chewed fixings and jubilee clips. 

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... Slightly too long, but not wildly so. 

The previous one rotted away and it's been missing for about a year now - maybe this'll allow the autochoke to come off earlier and improve the dire mpg. 

Oh, whilst we're at it, here's the autoshite calendar... 

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... And, finally, changing the content of the in car entertainment, 1980s style. 

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4 hours ago, New POD said:

I think not. 

Cruise control and phone connectivity.  

Everything you want for a comfy long journey. 

And a Vauxhall, which is always a good thing. 

For a long journey it might have been alright, but this is a company* supplied and signwritten Pizza Delivery Weapon, reconnecting my phone every time I got in got tiresome so I ended up just bunging Heart 70s on. No opportunity to use cruise either.

Quite why they need a whole Astra to deliver pizzas I'm not sure.

 

*Not numbertile this time round, the other one.

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4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

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As I or my family have owned 11 Vauxhalls in the last 28 years, and currently own 3, plus a niece and her partner also own 2, so 5.

Mk4 Astra1.6 petrol

Mk5 Astra convertible 1.8 petrol

Mk6 astra hatch 1.6 1.6

Mk6 Astra estate diesel 

And omega 3.2 petrol 

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9 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I might swap the red and yellow wires round at some stage but there are bigger fish to fry at the moment

I'd just like to ask, has anyone on here ever had an aftermarket stereo that they have fitted, where the red and yellow wires have NOT required swapping around? Like is there a make and model of car that these are plug & play in? Every aftermarket stereo I have ever fitted to a car (so for me thats VW, Peugeot, Ford, Volvo, Daewoo, Vauxhall?) I have needed to swap the wires over.

I may be rocking the boat to a dangerous degree here, but why don't they change the perm & switched lives round at the factory? Or am I missing something here (as usual)? Or is it a massive in-joke at Kenwood, Alpine, Sony etc?

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8 hours ago, Stanky said:

I'd just like to ask, has anyone on here ever had an aftermarket stereo that they have fitted, where the red and yellow wires have NOT required swapping around? Like is there a make and model of car that these are plug & play in? Every aftermarket stereo I have ever fitted to a car (so for me thats VW, Peugeot, Ford, Volvo, Daewoo, Vauxhall?) I have needed to swap the wires over.

I may be rocking the boat to a dangerous degree here, but why don't they change the perm & switched lives round at the factory? Or am I missing something here (as usual)? Or is it a massive in-joke at Kenwood, Alpine, Sony etc?

Yes plenty, Peugeots, Fords, Nissans, Toyota's, BMW's, Skoda's, VW's, Audi's etc etc

some do, some don't, it takes 2 minutes to check so its a bit of a non-issue really :)

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10 hours ago, Stanky said:

I'd just like to ask, has anyone on here ever had an aftermarket stereo that they have fitted, where the red and yellow wires have NOT required swapping around? Like is there a make and model of car that these are plug & play in? Every aftermarket stereo I have ever fitted to a car (so for me thats VW, Peugeot, Ford, Volvo, Daewoo, Vauxhall?) I have needed to swap the wires over.

I may be rocking the boat to a dangerous degree here, but why don't they change the perm & switched lives round at the factory? Or am I missing something here (as usual)? Or is it a massive in-joke at Kenwood, Alpine, Sony etc?

I've had to swap them around in PSA group cars I've owned.

However, both the current cars (a BMW and a Saab) have not required this switching around of wires.

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17 hours ago, N19 said:

An opportunity presented itself to do a job I've meant to do for a while, and reinstate the heat shield on the Bluebird. The previous fixings were snapped off, so needed drilled out... To get a drill in, the radiator had to be drained... 

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... Removed... 

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... One came out easily enough, but the other two were far trickier. In the end, I went for a bit of a bodge, and put a self tapper into the stub of the fixing. The fixings just hold the shield in place, so not much weight to worry about. 

And with that done, time to fit the new air duct hose, and reinstate everything with new and less chewed fixings and jubilee clips. 

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... Slightly too long, but not wildly so. 

The previous one rotted away and it's been missing for about a year now - maybe this'll allow the autochoke to come off earlier and improve the dire mpg. 

Oh, whilst we're at it, here's the autoshite calendar... 

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... And, finally, changing the content of the in car entertainment, 1980s style. 

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... And so, naturally, the awkward bastard drivers window sticks halfway down on my way into work. Sods law! 

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1 minute ago, N19 said:

... And so, naturally, the awkward bastard drivers window sticks halfway down on my way into work. Sods law! 

Ah, did you not leave some other niggly fault alone to appease the shite gods? Is this them creating a new one for you?

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1 minute ago, Supernaut said:

Ah, did you not leave some other niggly fault alone to appease the shite gods? Is this them creating a new one for you?

I was thinking of sorting the final niggle, the faulty reverse light switch and the rear washer... That's what's gone wrong. 

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Mazda back from the garage with a new set of aux belts and fresh fluids and filters. £170 lighter but continuing its extensive service history and better the devil you know.

 Would rather not have to put new belts on two years and 3000 miles after the last set but seeing as one made a run for it, not much choice.

Garage has wobbled everything around a bit to check for play but everything seemed ok, one rogue water pump bolt needed a tighten but otherwise all ok.

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Diesel fuel filter changed on the Combo, long overdue - you have to unplug all the wires, take the whole cannister out of the engine bay, then remove six little torx bolts, separate top and bottom of the canister and then swap the filter element over, emptying out about a gallon of diesel in the process. Was quite mucky in there, and once all reconnected, took about three attempts to start. All good though, didn't get diesel everywhere (thanks in no small part to a Salvage Rebuild YouTube video on a Combo they've had in which showed the mess which can ensue when you don't separate top and bottom carefully).

Thought I'd have a crack at changing the fucked alternator on the Streetwise today. 'yeah, 20 minute job' the know it alls said. Well it would be if it wasn't for a resolutely stuck bottom bolt holding the alternator in. Needed to get some leverage but only have a breaker bar with a 1/2 inch socket fitting....and no adapter for the 3/8 inch 15mm socket. Zipped over to B&Q got adapter, got home, breaker bar, adapter, 15mm socket....yeah, too fucking wide to fit in the tiny gap. Resorted to a tough old Silverline (don't laugh, it's ace) ratchet and some non-slip gloves. Nope, not moving for nothing. Next plan is to get a 15mm 1/2 inch socket then....don't know why I didn't do that in the first place.

At least the drive over to B&Q gave me a chance to blow some cobwebs out of the 620. My previous report advised the heating had stopped working. Now all fine, so some bizarre electrical gremlin at work then. Alarm went off on Wednesday night, so yesterday fiddled about with the microswitch on the driver's door, cleaned it up and moved it slightly closer to the driver lock cams - seems to have done the trick. However, electrical weirdness not resolved yet, as now the wipers mysteriously switch on for no reason whatsoever. Probably related to the way I put the steering wheel cowl back together, must have knocked or caught something in there, so will have to undo the two halves. For now, I'll pull the fuse and only go out when dry !

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Potentially getting this tomorrow as a part exchange, it comes with a years mot. I've never had a range rover before so quite excited about having something different. It's a 2.5 TD auto. It's for sale for £1200 and I offered my mini plus some cash for it. What's the verdict? shite or just shit?

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34 minutes ago, DodgyBastard said:

Potentially getting this tomorrow as a part exchange, it comes with a years mot. I've never had a range rover before so quite excited about having something different. It's a 2.5 TD auto. It's for sale for £1200 and I offered my mini plus some cash for it. What's the verdict? shite or just shit?

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Is that the one with no MOT? I saw it on my internet travels. 

I tried to love a P38 but didn't feel the love when i got up close to one.  There's a lot of fans on here though and I do love the general waftiness of a Range Rover

 

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Is that the one with no MOT? I saw it on my internet travels. 
I tried to love a P38 but didn't feel the love when i got up close to one.  There's a lot of fans on here though and I do love the general waftiness of a Range Rover
 
It has a years mot, I'm going to have a look at it tomorrow. I thought it seemed kinda cheap.

Sent from my moto g(8) power using Tapatalk

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1 hour ago, stuboy said:

Was surprised to see a hgv drive cut up another hgv and transit, what he won't seen is that when its green there's a filter lane turning into road.

 

 

Both tippers, they're probably talking to each other via CB radio and the first one let the second one out to avoid waiting for a gap in the traffic and allowing them to run together. 

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1 hour ago, Lankytim said:

Both tippers, they're probably talking to each other via CB radio and the first one let the second one out to avoid waiting for a gap in the traffic and allowing them to run together. 

Was thinking the same. Transit in front of HGV1 drives away on green, but HGV1 does not move till HGV2 is alongside/passed. 

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57 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Slowly, via brown flakes being swept up?

I'd hang on to it just slightly longer until the first nice sunny weekend.  It's value will go up by at least £eleventymillion.   Probably.

That it probably would, but that involves cost getting it transported back from the garage, dealing with tire kickers and 3am messages from morons on Facebook marketplace, and I’ve decided that I can’t be arsed with that, so the specialist is going to buy it to break for spares. There are a few good bits on it, and the extra I’d make from a private sale is absorbed by the fact I won’t have to pay him for the work he did or for transport. 

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