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Been a while since the last update as work has been properly silly busy but here we are. The 406 spent around 6 weeks in limp mode until we could get it to a Pug specialist with the proper kit. He cleared the 1500 odd codes that had built up over the last few years and diagnosed a £40 sensor in the intake somewhere as the issue. With that replaced along with the back of the exhaust which randomly fell off one day despite showing no signs of rust apart from at the joint that failed,  it was back to its old self and actually feels like a 2.2 turbo now.  The 1500 to 3500 rev pull brings a smile to your face and becomes a bit addictive. It does put a bit of a dent in the fuel consumption however it is still over 40mpg despite mainly covering sub 10 mile trips. 

As I am on holiday it went in for its MOT last week and failed on four bulbs, an anti-roll bar link dust cover (we replaced both links as the other one got a bit bent when the spring broke) and a broken front number plate caused by a kamikaze pheasant who decided he could cross the road in front of myself and the bus I was overtaking. He cleared the bus but had no chance with me and died in an explosion of feathers.   The indicator bulbs are yellow with clear covers and the yellow fades over time hence the fail. 

For a 19 year old vehicle I think that is quite a good result and means I will have another year in its company. Despite old Peugeot absolutely everything electrical still works including the heated seats, auto wipers, auto lights and the cruise control. The only remaining fault now is the dodgy fuel gauge which goes from full to quarter full normally then jumps back to half full and then continues back to empty. I have a new one but my mechanic is a bit loathe to fit it as it means taking the tank out which in turn means taking lots of other bits off. We will get it done once we are both less busy. 

 

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54 minutes ago, Cord Fourteener said:

With the Mondeo in the garage over the weekend (wasn't the plan!) The Volvo is doing the family long haul work. 

It's easy, the most relaxing long distance drive I've had in a while, possibly ever!

 

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Handsome. It's the only word that can adequately describe one of the last real ovlovs.

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The Sharan is on facebook marketplace, so I'm dealing with the usual idiots. 

Today's example:

Buyer: Is this still available?

Me: Yes.

B: 500

Me: No, £750 is the lowest I'll go. 

B: 600??

Me: See above.

B: I come from Newport, fuel is expensive. 650?

Me: No, I'm not subsidising your fuel costs having already dropped £200 off the price. You want it, you pay your own fuel.

Message deleted, I can't be arsed to waste time responding any further. 

15 minutes later he comes back with agreeing on £750, and a request for address and phone number, vague address given but no number. Apparently on his way around 1300, be here in two hours (120 miles away on not great A roads, good luck). Just had a message saying he's still 50 miles away. Will he turn up at all? Will he have £750 with him? Will he try and pull any little stunts like sticking water in the oil etc? Who knows...

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2 hours ago, 83C said:

The Sharan is on facebook marketplace, so I'm dealing with the usual idiots. 

Today's example:

Buyer: Is this still available?

Me: Yes.

B: 500

Me: No, £750 is the lowest I'll go. 

B: 600??

Me: See above.

B: I come from Newport, fuel is expensive. 650?

Me: No, I'm not subsidising your fuel costs having already dropped £200 off the price. You want it, you pay your own fuel.

Message deleted, I can't be arsed to waste time responding any further. 

15 minutes later he comes back with agreeing on £750, and a request for address and phone number, vague address given but no number. Apparently on his way around 1300, be here in two hours (120 miles away on not great A roads, good luck). Just had a message saying he's still 50 miles away. Will he turn up at all? Will he have £750 with him? Will he try and pull any little stunts like sticking water in the oil etc? Who knows...

Who knows when dealing with FaceFook... Good luck, hope it goes well. 

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That's opposite of what a buyer had off me today.

Message fellow. 

Chat to him via messenger. 

Then speak to him on the phone. 

Arrange money, transport to pick it up. Turn up. Check over car, discuss money person to person. Was cheeky (in my mind) and offered a price. Buyer agreed. 

Do a buy. Bring car home. 

One Saab 93 Turbo Coupe. 

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It's really not hard. You either want it or not. 

But I've got one major problem now... 

I actually didn't need another car. 

Oh fudge! 😂 

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I went to the Bodrhyddan Hall car show today… forecast said 10% chance of rain… so I thought it would be a good show… 

If course BBC weather had missed a nought off the chance of rain and it teemed it down from about an hour in.

Arriving (when it was barely even spitting) we turned up the drive to find ourselves behind this red 2CV… so we ended up parked together which was good. 

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A little later… 

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Another turned up. There was space on the end of our row… 

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Bloody Astra. 

Also on our row…

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So I went round thinking I’d take some pics on the second round. Then the heavens opened, so I went to the burger can and retreated to the car. View wasn’t bad… 

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*aroused noises*
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This was behind me too… 

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Sadly the persistence of the rain meant that by 12.00 I’d had enough and I beat a hasty retreat without even going round again  (having outlasted a fair few other cars, and being in a convoy of 5 classics leaving.) Shame that my most local big show was wet again… 

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Friend drove round in his toyota aygo with engine light on and fluctuating idle. We plugged obd dongle on and discovered fault code P0511 idle air control valve fault.
We peer under bonnet and poke at engine while tutting to ourselves and sucking through our teeth at the expenses this will incur like real mekaniks.
Then we find a broken wire to the idle control valve that is broken right on the plug.
To confirm this was the issue I poked a t-pin in to the plug connector and bared back the wire and soldered it on. She idled again!!!
we called it a temporary* fix that we covered in silicone sealant and electrical tape while we look into getting a replacement 4 pin wiring plug for it.
We then drink tea and bask in the glory of fixing a car.

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1 hour ago, JMotor said:

That's opposite of what a buyer had off me today.

Message fellow. 

Chat to him via messenger. 

Then speak to him on the phone. 

Arrange money, transport to pick it up. Turn up. Check over car, discuss money person to person. Was cheeky (in my mind) and offered a price. Buyer agreed. 

Do a buy. Bring car home. 

One Saab 93 Turbo Coupe. 

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It's really not hard. You either want it or not. 

I have one major problem... 

I actually didn't need another car. 

Oh fudge! 😂 

Me and my 7 year old have been missing my 5 door Noobtuned black 93og.

Crazy, comfy and very pretty. 

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1 hour ago, louiepj said:

Friend drove round in his toyota aygo with engine light on and fluctuating idle. We plugged obd dongle on and discovered fault code P0511 idle air control valve fault.
We peer under bonnet and poke at engine while tutting to ourselves and sucking through our teeth at the expenses this will incur like real mekaniks.
Then we find a broken wire to the idle control valve that is broken right on the plug.
To confirm this was the issue I poked a t-pin in to the plug connector and bared back the wire and soldered it on. She idled again!!!
we called it a temporary* fix that we covered in silicone sealant and electrical tape while we look into getting a replacement 4 pin wiring plug for it.
We then drink tea and bask in the glory of fixing a car.

When I got my passat the next day it stopped boosting.

Problem was given via obd2 diagnostics curtesy of a neighbour; the MAF sensor wire had freyed. 

That was easily twisted back and taped up and its been fine since. 

I like cheap easy fixes!

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Well, the Sharan is still parked outside, unsurprisingly because nobody turned up. Maybe he got lost on the way from Newport, maybe he was bullshitting. Looking on his profile he seems to be rather religious, maybe he is praying tonight for forgiveness for being an arse? Somehow I doubt it.

Fortunately no inconvenience to me, I'd planned a day at home anyhow. Still don't get why pretending to come and see a car is any sort of game worth playing though.

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I put Scarlet's front bumper and grille back on yesterday before doing battle with the bolt on the crank pulley in an attempt to change the cambelt. It looks like someone has had a fight with the crank pulley before as there are chunks gouged out of the rim. I'm starting to think it wouldn't be worth the hassle replacing the belt as the one on it, though old, has no signs of being perished and the text on the smooth side is still perfectly readable. The crank pulley wouldn't even need to come off had Toyota decided to split the timing cover into three pieces rather than two...

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The Rover 75 had its first long run in over a year at the weekend, down to the FOD and back on Saturday.  Most enjoyable day, weather was great and I got to have a drive of a Citroën GS which is something I've wanted to do for a while.

Sunday I met up with my work colleagues for a coffee which was nice - haven't seen them in the flesh since before Christmas.  Then I drove down to Shotley in the Caliber to catch the tail end of the ECR meet / HubNut social - a lot of people had left by the time I got there but there was still some quality chod in the field, including a turbo diesel 505 saloon and a Bond Minicar which showed off its party trick by spinning in its own length in the pub car park on its way out.

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Anyone care to guess how much the H van was up for sale for?

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Nice to see you yesterday Wuvvum, that Dodge of yours is impressive for the fact there's so much hard plastic inside you could easily wash the interior out with a hose pipe if someone chucked up in it! 

I had the pleasure of Dollywobbler staying over for the evening in readiness for our East Coast Retros meet in the morning, I even ended up mopping some of his car for him. 

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We had around 400 cars at the meet again, it was absolutely manic! I didn't get many photos as I was too busy parking cars or talking but here a couple I did get

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This was a recent Japanese import, my friend who owns it had one for years and done over 170000 miles in it before selling it at 233000 miles with a duff fuel pump and wants to make a replica of it with this one. 

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And this was for sale for £2750, I particularly liked the 4 ft cobweb across the dash! 

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14 hours ago, JMotor said:

That's opposite of what a buyer had off me today.

Message fellow. 

Chat to him via messenger. 

Then speak to him on the phone. 

Arrange money, transport to pick it up. Turn up. Check over car, discuss money person to person. Was cheeky (in my mind) and offered a price. Buyer agreed. 

Do a buy. Bring car home. 

One Saab 93 Turbo Coupe. 

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It's really not hard. You either want it or not. 

I have one major problem... 

I actually didn't need another car. 

Oh fudge! 😂 

OOF LEVEL INTENSIFIES

That's lovely, absolutely love these 9-3's, brilliant cars

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On 19/09/2021 at 08:35, doobietoo said:

Been a while since the last update as work has been properly silly busy but here we are. The 406 spent around 6 weeks in limp mode until we could get it to a Pug specialist with the proper kit. He cleared the 1500 odd codes that had built up over the last few years and diagnosed a £40 sensor in the intake somewhere as the issue. With that replaced along with the back of the exhaust which randomly fell off one day despite showing no signs of rust apart from at the joint that failed,  it was back to its old self and actually feels like a 2.2 turbo now.  The 1500 to 3500 rev pull brings a smile to your face and becomes a bit addictive. It does put a bit of a dent in the fuel consumption however it is still over 40mpg despite mainly covering sub 10 mile trips. 

As I am on holiday it went in for its MOT last week and failed on four bulbs, an anti-roll bar link dust cover (we replaced both links as the other one got a bit bent when the spring broke) and a broken front number plate caused by a kamikaze pheasant who decided he could cross the road in front of myself and the bus I was overtaking. He cleared the bus but had no chance with me and died in an explosion of feathers.   The indicator bulbs are yellow with clear covers and the yellow fades over time hence the fail. 

For a 19 year old vehicle I think that is quite a good result and means I will have another year in its company. Despite old Peugeot absolutely everything electrical still works including the heated seats, auto wipers, auto lights and the cruise control. The only remaining fault now is the dodgy fuel gauge which goes from full to quarter full normally then jumps back to half full and then continues back to empty. I have a new one but my mechanic is a bit loathe to fit it as it means taking the tank out which in turn means taking lots of other bits off. We will get it done once we are both less busy. 

 

All the codes were cleared here too, I can't recall any of them reoccurring either (maybe the usual HDI pre-post heater one).  Is the manual switch still on the fuel filler cap for dosing Eloys? That's a proper Burgess Microswitch one made in the factory on the team valley where my dad worked, if you ever remove it let me know and I'll pay the postage :D

 

It is a great car with a fantastic interior, but I must admit I'm pleased to not have that engine in the fleet anymore.  A 2.0 HDI one would be a great asset, I feel unfinished business with them as Mrs L1 declared it uncomfortable (whilst 6 months pregnant) and I think I actually prefer them to the 405 as a daily.  Only getting 31MPG to the south of france and back was a bit pants though.

 

If you're confident with the engine and the turbo, is a remap on the cards?

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