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5 hours ago, barefoot said:

Sue is still down at Mark's garage waiting for parts, so it looks like I'm stuck with Boris for another few days. You know, I don't mind a courtesy car once in a while as long as it's half decent, but Boz is seriously shite.

 And I still can't get on with all this naming your fucking cars idiocy.

 

Woo, fucking Hoo!

Phone call tonight - Suzy is done & dusted. I'm taking Boris back in the morning for the big swap-over.

Anyone want pictures?

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I managed to Sorn my new Mondeo, it was a less than 2 second job at the post office.  Still no idea why the online service wasn't working for my car. 

Still awaiting the V5, I guess there turmoil in Abertawe!

So I need the move the Passat on to a new home ideally on or just after the end of the month.

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Did an oil change on the Shitbox Fabia yesterday evening.

VAG have this weird thing where they put the air filter into the engine cover. Which this cover is just push fitted onto the engine
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Sucked the oil out for convenience.
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Oil filter is in a ridiculous place on this car. To the right of the alternator, right next to the manifold. Had to wait till the engine cooled down before I could get my hand down there.
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Oil filters have a hex socket on the end. Thought it was weird but made sense once trying to get the damn thing out.
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Naturally I got engine oil everywhere trying to remove it. Stinks now as the mancat gets hot and burns it off.
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Pollen filter is filthy. Will need to get another. Fiver from GSF.
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Offside droplink is buggered too. Boot split and loads of play. Explains the noise going over bumps. £11 Drivetech cheap or £14 "GSF Premium".
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Radio surround was blutack on. Basically whoever fitted it didn't put the cage through the inner surround first. Just put on top with blutack and then the outer cage radio surround was too far out to clip on.

Pulled it all out and fitted it properly. Including pushing in the retaining tabs as best as I could. Which was also not done.
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Also disabled that really annoying beep on ignition off that Sony Head Units do to remind you to remove the faceplate. Irritatingly it forgets all it's settings when you disconnect the power.

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16 minutes ago, SiC said:

Did an oil change on the Shitbox Fabia yesterday evening.

VAG have this weird thing where they put the air filter into the engine cover. Which this cover is just push fitted onto the engine
a5041cfc81f32e5ecd00f88e5d2c38d7.jpg
325f6b1b8d9a4fc2b3f4630540c70952.jpg

Sucked the oil out for convenience.
cadba6eb7270ad91116f4f103484d042.jpg

Oil filter is in a ridiculous place on this car. To the right of the alternator, right next to the manifold. Had to wait till the engine cooled down before I could get my hand down there.
86a29db2f7aebc1b254b14acdc42026e.jpg

Oil filters have a hex socket on the end. Thought it was weird but made sense once trying to get the damn thing out.
6bb789f630d0b6d5b16649a0861b7282.jpg
71bd6453e896245bbdd4dd5b907ef96e.jpg

Naturally I got engine oil everywhere trying to remove it. Stinks now as the mancat gets hot and burns it off.
2df1105d3e24212d71db9808bf8f57b5.jpg

Pollen filter is filthy. Will need to get another. Fiver from GSF.
14db7652692afbdd16cfe34ee03503a7.jpg

Offside droplink is buggered too. Boot split and loads of play. Explains the noise going over bumps. £11 Drivetech cheap or £14 "GSF Premium".
347a5f77350f9a89e2bfb167beebf63c.jpg

Radio surround was blutack on. Basically whoever fitted it didn't put the cage through the inner surround first. Just put on top with blutack and then the outer cage radio surround was too far out to clip on.

Pulled it all out and fitted it properly. Including pushing in the retaining tabs as best as I could. Which was also not done.
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Also disabled that really annoying beep on ignition off that Sony Head Units do to remind you to remove the faceplate. Irritatingly it forgets all it's settings when you disconnect the power.

Swap the yellow and red leads on the harness behind, the positive and switched lives are reversed on VAG shite.

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Swap the yellow and red leads on the harness behind, the positive and switched lives are reversed on VAG shite.


I think they already are as it turns off properly with the ignition off without loosing the time. It's when you unplug the battery or disconnect the harness from the HU that it forgets everything. I'd have thought radio tunings, region, display brightness, beep mode, etc would have been stored in an EEPROM on this age stereo.
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35 minutes ago, LabRat said:

It's a 2012 car, so theoretically, there shouldn't be too much wrong... But then it is made of solid chinesium!

Don't these have an updated K series or something. I'm quite intrigued by them. I havent seen one for a wee while come to think of it.

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2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Don't these have an updated K series or something. I'm quite intrigued by them. I havent seen one for a wee while come to think of it.

Yeah, they have a strengthened version of the 1.8 k series- uses extra webbing on the block, updated thermostat design and an alloy inlet manifold amongst a few other bits. Apparently some brave, brave bastard  has got 280bhp out of one... Theyre 160bhp as standard.tl preserve the chocolate gearbox.

The engine is lovely, unfortunately the rest of the car can be temperamental as hell and parts are nigh on impossible to source outside of AliExpress. 

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2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That's not too bad, under £100 all in, including the cost of the test.  Can't be too bad these cars then!

The biggest headache is parts supply- MG UK/ SAIC have dropped all official dealer support for the 6, so you have to either have a good source of 2nd hand parts, or be prepared to pay extortionate amounts for parts from Summit Motors/Brown and Gammons.

There is also AliExpress, but they tend to supply parts for the Roewe 550 (a LHD 6 basically) so are fine until you need things like door locks, or RHD specific parts. 

Shame, cos underneath it all is a decent handling car. Certainly far better to drive than the OMGHGF brigade make it out to be!

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Pretty bloody good mpg for a petrol
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Kinda feeling for, what I now affectionately term, this little shitbox. Not sure if it's because it's so worthless that it's the most zero shits you can give about motoring. Economical, chuckable, light+easy to drive, anonymous, simple and super cheap parts. Seats are comfortable, interior isn't too grim and lights work well.

Just been out to get a pollen filter and new droplink. £16 for both.

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Today a news article has been published about my great - grandfather's resistance during the war. He made illegal newspapers from a secret room in the attic. He came through the war unharmed but his brother was unfortunately arrested and tortured and ended up in a prison camp but also survived. Pictured below are them and a friend at work in the secret room during the war.

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