HMC Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 mercedade, Vantman, Rust Collector and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 11 hours ago, Broadsword said: Fair point well made. I think I’ve just been completely had over by the seller on this one and the whole car might end up scrap. Just a crappy thing to happen replace one kind of broken Citroen with a now very broken Saab in January. The Saab was meant to be an upgrade. I actually still have the C5 but it failed the MOT on rear brake discs and pads along with a couple of brake lines. I know that sounds trivial but Google the horrors of of replacing rear brake discs on a Citroen C5 and you will have a clue. There is a reason why there are currently wheel spacers on the rear wheels. I bought it just as the problems were setting in and those callipers are pretty unlikely to come off.. Fortunately for the Saab I don’t think I’ll have to worry about the oil pickup seal issue. It won’t be going anywhere for a while. What year C5 is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 2 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Assuming it's the same issue as on the Xantia. Axle beam is steel, caliper is cast ally. Dissimilar metal corrosion starts between them and jacks the caliper out and bends the anchor bolt, which then snaps when you try to undo it. It's a really annoying bit of design. This. The corrosion gets so bad that the brake caliper moves out and starts to touch the wheel. The brake pads also wear in to wedges. The bolts are high tensile and will snap, but will also be hard to drill out. I don’t know which one is better to try and fix. I can’t buy another car. The Saab was £1400, so a big hit to scrap. Price of a new DMF and clutch kit will be high and the work will be hard. I could fix the oil pickup at the same time as removing the driveshafts give access to remove all the sump bolts. I don’t trust the Saab not to throw another surprise though. The Citroen has been more reliable. Weirdly I just had to replace the starter on that too. Synchro is damaged on 3rd though and the windscreen is cracked. Neither of those is a big issue though, but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 3 minutes ago, artdjones said: What year C5 is it? 2004 2.0 HDi estate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 26/01/2024 at 12:22, cobblers said: It might come as a shock to some people on here, but it appears that the sun is publishing a load of bollocks again for the truth i only ever read ................... crad, scruff, Split_Pin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Car mechanics had a TTiD that was a PITA. Contributor Mike Humble took it on after the series finished. He spent money on it and ended up getting rid - the buyer intended to part it out. I am finding out with my insignia that GM parts are not the bargain they were. Broadsword and SiC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 46 minutes ago, Broadsword said: 2004 2.0 HDi estate New calipers ( non exchange) o are fairly cheap on Autodoc, around £40 each, and they come with bolts, so although they can be a pain to change because of corrosion if you are trying to save the old ones they are very doable. The brakes are conventional ones with a master cylinder and servo and the normal type of unions, so altogether not too daunting a job. The only thing that would need care is making sure that whatever is left of the caliper bolts has enough length to make removal from the suspension arms easy with some heat applied. Joey spud and Broadsword 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 This morning's bit of fun* AutoShite discovery - pull door panel off to investigate 'loom problem' (no windey, windey and central locking). Discover all the components (minus window regulator) have been carefully* stored in there after repair by Fred Flintstone Mechanicals Ltd Of course am missing a few nuts, bolts, clips etc etc Erebus, grogee, Jenson Velcro and 7 others 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Stinkwheel, Jenson Velcro, adw1977 and 10 others 1 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 1 hour ago, mk2_craig said: Heros, geniuses or madmen, maybe all 3, who knows! Whatever though, they will certainly be making very good money, but will they get the time to enjoy it, who knows! mk2_craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 4 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said: This morning's bit of fun* AutoShite discovery - pull door panel off to investigate 'loom problem' (no windey, windey and central locking). Discover all the components (minus window regulator) have been carefully* stored in there after repair by Fred Flintstone Mechanicals Ltd Of course am missing a few nuts, bolts, clips etc etc I've had this pleasure* before, but I now feel quite smug in that my window holder-upper was a length of 2x4 and not a peasant's stick. I got it fixed with a £20 mech from Ebay although it was a Rennow so no silly cables like this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 4 hours ago, mk2_craig said: You can bet the owner runs that L322 as it's far better than the utter toss they've made since then💪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Helped Pat out with his Fiat Doblo which need a new door mirror after someone reversed into his van and smashed the original. Not a terrible job, however it was pretty annoying that the way the interior trims were done means you have to remove the whole door card to get access to one mirror bolt and one of the wiring plugs (one for the heater element, one for the tweeter in the interior trim). If the door card had been sculpted just slightly differently it wouldn't have to be removed. You'd think a work van would have things like mirrors designed to be as easy as possible to replace since they're the most likely thing to get bashed off in use. The manual remote adjuster stalks are rubbish too, for some reason they're flexible so you can't actually move them the full travel to properly adjust the mirror because the stalk bends before moving the mechanism. Might as well have just left them as manual adjust mirrors where you push on the glass itself, which is what we ended up doing. In other news, the Princess is rubbing the front driver's side tyre on the arch liner on full lock again now that I've actually refitted the arch liners. It's always been this way, and it was worse when I first got the car because the front tyres were too big. One thing that was surprising was I forgot how much difference to noise intrusion the arch liners make. I think there are marginally more pros than cons to the liners so they can stay... a decision I shall no doubt regret later this year when they have to come out for some minor works to the bodywork behind them that I can't attend to just at the moment but that's a problem for future me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 6 hours ago, grogee said: I've had this pleasure* before, but I now feel quite smug in that my window holder-upper was a length of 2x4 and not a peasant's stick. I got it fixed with a £20 mech from Ebay although it was a Rennow so no silly cables like this one. It gets better - there's that stick on the back end and a 26" piece of free polypipe to the front of the door - whoooo! The entire inner skin with the missing regulator attached plus already wired up slides and so on is £35-ish on eBay for an Ali-Express option (£26 off a breaker for a pukka VW one) so it's not that much of a ballache. I do have to puzzle out how the central locking fits back together and then cross fingers that the locks will then work - it looks like all the actuators and connecting wires are present - just piled up inside the door grogee and Rust Collector 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Went to the ACA classic auction yesterday. Usual eclectic mix of cars for sale, although I refuse to buy anything from there since they introduced the £500 deposit for a bidder number - used to be a fiver pre-pandemic. I got to see the ex-Bo11ox Zephyr in the metal, but my favourite car of the day was this little sweetie. Ever so simple - it didn't even have a speedo, the only gauge was an ammeter. Hand cranked wiper too. Tiny little sidevalve engine with a Dynastart on the front. I'd love something like this to putter around in, although I imagine it'd be fairly dreadful to drive any distance and my double-declutching skills are a tad rusty to say the least. Today was rather nice weather-wise so I took the Getz up to the jet wash to wash off some of the salt and muck it's accumulated from being used as my daily for the last few months. I gave the underside a good blast too - I'm going to poke my head under there at some point and make sure it's not going too rusty, I ran out of time for that today. I gave the Ampera a wash too, but just a two-bucket wrong 'un. It does look a lot better now though, and I can actually see out of the back window again. Got the new TRE ball joint cover and retaining nut fitted to the Z4. I gave up trying to refit the metal springy ring thing to the dust cover and just used cable ties instead. Annoyingly when I was taking the wheel off the locking wheel bolt snapped off - it's protruding slightly from the hub but I expect it's going to be a bastard to get out. I'm not going to bother for now - the wheel has four other bolts holding it on, and that's plenty - the Visa only has three. I was also going to have a crack at transferring the spring and top mount from the old strut onto the new shock ready to fit to the offside, but on examination the top mount bearing is utterly shagged so I'm going to have to buy a new one. I'll probably buy a new spring as well for the sake of 18 quid - save buggering about trying to get the rusty retaining nut off the top of the old shock. I pulled the cover off the Volvo intending to fire it up as it hasn't run for a while. That didn't happen as the battery was flat, but on pulling off the cover I discovered that during one of the many thousands of storms we've had over the last couple of months, the cover or something attached to it has managed to put a load of scratches in the back half of the roof. They're not deep but I doubt they'll T-Cut out. I'm slightly annoyed by that - obviously the rest of the car has plenty of paintwork issues, but the roof was about the only place where the original paint was still half decent. I'd been hoping to fit the new bits to the Volvo this weekend as well, but the parcel from Skandix hasn't turned up yet (apparently it's been at my local DPD depot since Friday morning - if I'd known I would have popped over and got it, I can see the depot from my desk at work). D.E, Dyslexic Viking, richardmorris and 5 others 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeT Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 As it’s known, ‘the old bus’ went straight through its MOT last week, and the insurance renewal for it was £30 down, so I had to buy something, as a result. I’m a sucker for period correct accessories, and spotting a genuine BMW OSRAM spare bulb kit, I came over all @LightBulbFun and it had to be bought. How lean the number of models used to be…! mercedade, High Jetter, chodweaver and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Woke up this morning to find a smashed up Ford Kuga outside my Hotel Bedroom window Twiggy, richardmorris, Coprolalia and 7 others 1 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 This morning I have a courtesy car whose controls are so light, it's like playing a video game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJK 24 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Four New Cross Climate 2 tyres. Seatbelts now rendered pointless. mk2_craig, artdjones, wuvvum and 9 others 6 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Potential replacement Saab found for my current Saab! It's a TTiD so £30 a year to tax. All the usual foibles have been sorted, rear arches are a bit bubbly but it is cheapish. Rust Collector, Vantman, grogee and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crad Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 changed a headlight bulb on my dad's mk4 mondeo this morning. why oh why do you have to remove the fucking thing to change a poxy bulb. High Jetter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 stuboy, sdkrc, Six-cylinder and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 On 25/01/2024 at 10:43, adw1977 said: Ford 4 speed automatics first appeared in the Sierra in 1984, they weren't put in the Granada until the Mark 3 was launched in 1985. ...but only on the 2.0 sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Been a lot of military plane movements around here recently. On Monday a pair of F-35s came over the house so low that I could almost see the whites of the pilots' eyes. Then just now an Airbus A400 came howling over on its left wingtip at no more than a couple of hundred feet. Obviously stepping up preparations for WW3. chadders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 2 hours ago, crad said: changed a headlight bulb on my dad's mk4 mondeo this morning. why oh why do you have to remove the fucking thing to change a poxy bulb. Still a lot easier than some moderns where you have to take the bumper off. Or my 75 and Z4 where you have to bugger about through a flap in the inner arch. crad and catsinthewelder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadders Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 52 minutes ago, wuvvum said: Been a lot of military plane movements around here recently. On Monday a pair of F-35s came over the house so low that I could almost see the whites of the pilots' eyes. Then just now an Airbus A400 came howling over on its left wingtip at no more than a couple of hundred feet. Obviously stepping up preparations for WW3. The North Sea Ranges must be busier than LHR at the moment. Still "Si vis pacem, para bellum". wuvvum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crad Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 49 minutes ago, wuvvum said: Still a lot easier than some moderns where you have to take the bumper off. Or my 75 and Z4 where you have to bugger about through a flap in the inner arch. thats rediculous design and all. i'm used to the clio where you just pop the back of the headlight off and you're away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 @Dyslexic Viking looks like things are getting exciting weather wise up your way. Hope you're ready for this🫣 Dyslexic Viking and grogee 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 11 minutes ago, dome said: @Dyslexic Viking looks like things are getting exciting weather wise up your way. Hope you're ready for this🫣 Fortunately, this hits further north so I won't notice it too much. But it is bad, it has been very windy for several days up north and cars have been blown away, seriously, and this is going to get even worse. richardmorris, Split_Pin and dome 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 9 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said: Fortunately, this hits further north so I won't notice it too much. But it is bad, it has been very windy for several days up north and cars have been blown away, seriously, and this is going to get even worse. 155mph wind recorded in the Faroe Islands earlier today. richardmorris, grogee, Dyslexic Viking and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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