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[sierraman]

The ex-HMC £160 Mondeo rolled past 200,000 miles on the way to work today.

 

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The trip meter is reset each time it needs oil, it does like a drink. Max of 300 miles between top ups to be on the safe side and normally takes around 0.75 pint. It's not particularly smoky but you do get the smell of burning oil after a run when you pull up at the lights.

 

The annoying kocking from the exhaust has stopped since I went over a speed bump in the car park at work and it is still surprisingly quiet. It did damage the plastic at the end of the rear bumper trim when it came off so I've had to cable tie the trim to stop it coming loose all the time.

 

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Spent £12 on it so far, new aerial and rear wiper blade and coming up to 2500 miles since I bought it, bargain.

Mine used to knock on the bumps, it was the exhaust knocking against the subframe. Tied an old pair of pants round the subframe where it banged against. Problem solved!

[320touring]

And it continues! Clio 172 troubles continue..

 

Defrosting the car today, all ok.

 

Start driving, heater blower stops working, dash lights all flash and clock resets.

 

Car drives ok. Blowers still fucked.

 

Burd has just got it home, now it won't start.

 

Anyone any idea?

 

So far I have

 

Earths

battery failing

Alternator failing

[DodgeRover]

Battery connection fallen off or loose?

[Supernaut]

Loose battery connections on a car from 320T?

 

Never.

[Coprolalia]

Think the starter motor pin has shat itself on the Octavia.

 

Got in an hour ago to go to work, churned over once, missed, horrible graunch, now it's just turning over and not catching.

 

RAC awaited to recover to my local garage, however this might be the end for the Octy if it's a miserable bastard of a job to do.

[dollywobbler]

Well I managed to complete in another bucket list enduro . The snowrun near Llandovery , Wales . 28 mile lap of the forest with gnarly ruts and roots everywhere . My class had to do 3 laps and I fecking did it ! Buzzing now .

Not so buzzing about unloading the van and washing the bike mind

 

Not sure if you're lucky or unlucky, but tomorrow sounds like it will actually be pretty snowy...

 

I'm meant to be driving to Bridgnorth, but I may abort that plan if the white stuff is down, after my last experience of trying to drive through Shropshire in snow (an hour stuck in Shrewsbury because people cannot drive).

[320touring]

Battery connection fallen off or loose?

The battery connections were checked a week ago - both tight.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Think the starter motor pin has shat itself on the Octavia.

 

Got in an hour ago to go to work, churned over once, missed, horrible graunch, now it's just turning over and not catching.

 

RAC awaited to recover to my local garage, however this might be the end for the Octy if it's a miserable bastard of a job to do.

 

Keep trying, it will eventually engage... TADTS !

[Coprolalia]

Battery dying, jump pack dying. RAC included with my bank, so time for a callout.

[dollywobbler]

Battery dying, jump pack dying. RAC included with my bank, so time for a callout.

 

I had that with the 2CV yesterday, but I just got the starting handle out. Battery is very suspicious on the Honda at the moment, but alas it doesn't have a starting handle.

[Coprolalia]

Stuck RAC chaps decent jump pack on it, got a big clunk from the starter, churned a bit, lots of petrol, and eventually staggered into life.

 

New battery time!

[wuvvum]

I'm going to have to invest in a couple of batteries I think.  I have a spare battery which I've been using to jump the 205, but it's slightly too big to fit in the battery tray so I have to carry it and a set of jump leads in the boot, which is a pain. 

 

The Audi's battery is shite but hasn't let me down yet, but the Rover 45 definitely needs a new one - if left overnight it then doesn't have enough charge to start the car from cold.  Admittedly it's a twat to start from cold due to the glow plugs being shagged, but it's not cranking the engine over fast enough to start it anyway.  The spare battery I've been using in the Pug isn't man enough to start the Rover either.  I should have kept the battery off the Mondeo when I weighed it in.

[beko1987]

I think the clutch did a little slip last night on the gooner...

 

Granted I was heavily laden, and had to get from a standstill to 60+ onto the 2 lane section of the a1 on 400 yards of sliproad to avoid being wiped out by an arctic but it defiantly slipped in 3rd...

 

Will keep an eye on that

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Bastarding - flat-fucking-sodding-tyre-locking-wheelnut-no-bloody-key-for-it

shenanigans......... when I get back tonight. I may work* late

[Ghosty]

Temporary ARB link pin has been cobbled together out of threaded rod, bushes, washers, nuts and bolts.

ECP cancelled my order for them - fortunately I’ve ordered some on Rock Auto as that temporary fix would end up being permanent and replicated on the drive side otherwise.

[Talbot]

Temporary

That's a permanent repair if ever I saw one!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Temporary ARB link pin has been cobbled together out of threaded rod, bushes, washers, nuts and bolts.

ECP cancelled my order for them - fortunately I’ve ordered some on Rock Auto as that temporary fix would end up being permanent and replicated on the drive side otherwise.

 

Ingenious.

[Lacquer Peel]

I've driven with no ARB link fitted at all on the driver's side. It didn't make much difference.

[DodgeRover]

It does on some cars, I'm desperately trying to remember which one of mine had a distressing habit of cocking a wheel up when the roll bar was disconnected. Chevette or Mk2 cav maybe?

[Asimo]

More likely to lift a wheel with the anti-roll bar fitted surely?

[Cavcraft]

Finally got the Puma to let go a bit. Was driving less sensibly than I could have on a wet roundabout, and it got a mild-ish twitch on. To compensate for this, I had someone in an Audi A3 off from the lights this morning and had a very enjoyable blast down the back lanes to visit the PoP this afternoon.

I haven't started either Focii or the other Puma in a while, should really get round to taking spare batteries up then driving round the small holding for a bit. 

[stuboy]

Braved the blizzards and fitted wind deflectors..

[omegod]

Bastarding - flat-fucking-sodding-tyre-locking-wheelnut-no-bloody-key-for-it

shenanigans......... when I get back tonight. I may work* late

Same boat here , keep me updated !

[dollywobbler]

The forum has a long and well-regarded system for dealing with locking wheel nuts. Make it so.

[New POD]

Mr-Wiper on Ebay has sold 37000000000 wipers and yet he's sent me a blade for the Juke which just isn't right. The U shape at the end of the wiper arm is designed for a much fatter clip then the bosch one he sent.  That's okay he says. Keep that we'll send you a replacement.

 

Yeah. But now I have 2 wipers of the 13 inch variety which don't fit.

 

He says he'll refund, and I don't need to bother returning them. It's not the money I care about. It's the fact that all your stock is clearly wrong.

 

Would it have been too much to find a juke, and have a look at the wiper arm, and work out which blade would fit?

[richardmorris]

Probably yes. They’re just using what their xcel spreadsheet says. If that’s wrong you’ll just end up with lots of incorrect wipers. A bit like euro car parts really.

[djim]

Our local business park is taking itself a bit seriously

[ProgRocker]

Been chatting classic cars with a colleague who has an old Beetle. Subject turns towards Citroens. He told me that in the 70s (?) his parents owned a rotary engined one!!! I said that it must have been a GS and that (I think) Citroen bougjt most of them back because of an engine fault.

 

Very impressed.

[dollywobbler]

Been chatting classic cars with a colleague who has an old Beetle. Subject turns towards Citroens. He told me that in the 70s (?) his parents owned a rotary engined one!!! I said that it must have been a GS and that (I think) Citroen bougjt most of them back because of an engine fault.

 

Very impressed.

 

Could have been an M35. Both were leased to trusted customers for a time, before they called them all back in and scrapped most of them.

[andy18s]

Speaking of old rare Citreons,this popped onto my page this morning

Rare old things,and the only ever made in black it's claimed

 

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