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[somewhatfoolish]

Is it a conventional slushbox? The valve block is often quite easy to remove and clean, access issues not withstanding.

[Ghosty]

4 speed torque converter with some electronic control. ATF changes are a piece of piss anyway, takes five minutes on a Civic.

[dave21478]

Loving that Prelude - it looks much more modern than a K reg numberplate would suggest.

[stuboy]

Delivery of 40 water bottles came to work and artic too big too deliver where needed so thought just lob into company car..

[taxi paul]

Talking to one of the dads at school today. He bought a 1.9 diesel zafira from one of them can't get credit car places about 10 months ago. Tells me it's in the garage due to lots of smoke and stuff. Verdict is rings have gone and.other stuff so it's 3 grand for a rebuild or get another engine and swap for around 2 grand. He hasn't got a pot to piss in so is knackered. I think he said he pays £150.00 a month over five years for a 10 plate zafira with 98,000 miles on when he bought it. He thinks he may have a 12 month warranty but doesn't know. He said the salesman said it did but it isn't on the paperwork. Felt a bit last telling him how I had scrapped the primera and lost £150.00.

[mercrocker]

I do feel sorry for blokes like that....When I was skint, with young kids/step-kids after a messy divorce with a house re-possession in my all-too recent history I was in exactly that situation.   Used to borrow a one-r off my Nan and get something out of the newsagent's window - knackered Asconas, Cortinas that kind of thing.   Would usually get a year out of them and sack them off up the auction with a week's MOT left.   Got to be better than those loan-slavery deals.

[junkyarddog]

I have a 2.2 vtec Prelude in the shed.

Was my daily for 7 years.

Lovely cruiser and good reliability.

Went like shit off a shovel when vtec kicked in yo!

Mine is a 1991 JDM.

I'm sitting on it until it turns 30 and will get on the cheap tax rate.

 

Yours looks a good one.

Enjoy.

[mercrocker]

Some frantic chod-bothering occurred today.   I start work at midday (12-10pm so it's not a half-day!) and have a day off on Thursday which I have used to book the T25 in for its annual MOT and service.   

 

However, the T25 lives six miles away so it needed getting out of storage today.   As usual, lack of planning left the battery disconnected and unsecured in its box and tyres still on +20psi for storage purposes so there was a bit of messing about to do there as well as an impromptu electrical check for the MOT.   Left the Fiesta up the unit for the time being.   

 

Got home with the van and started to make my sandwiches for work when the other garage I use rang to say they had done the Cowley MOT and finally fitted the handbrake cable that has been a three-week saga.   Would I like to collect it?   Well, yes, I would but it's about 800 yards from where I had just been to get the van... 

 

Had to wait for Mrs Rocker to get home from physiotherapy, whisk me up to get the Cowley which rewarded me for not seeing it for three weeks by running like a bag of shit for 3 miles.   I know why, a fuel filter needs changing and it must have been running on sediment.   A good 70 mph blast up the motorway after I warmed it up and it cleared OK.   Just about top whack for the old girl, that is!    Both vehicles needed a full tank of fresh fuel so that was me down a hundred quid on the day already.

 

Having so much fun I nearly forgot about work so had to call in and say I was running late.....Went without my bloody sandwiches too.

[320touring]

^doin it in style:)

[Ghosty]

credit nonsense

Sale of Goods Act/similar legislation no good in this case??

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah good luck with that one Lynne Faulds-Wood!

[Ghosty]

LOL

 

 

Quirk of the Prelude: the stalks are the correct way round, indicators on the right, wipers on the left (then again the Prelude is natively RHD). First car I've had that's so, even the R8 has the stalks the 'wrong' way round.

 

I've bloody missed Honda switchgear, it's really good quality stuff. How someone managed to break the trip counter I've no idea - but I can't see the reset switch either.

[Ghosty]

Reading the book it appears I'm on cambelt roulette! 

Considering I've done a D series head gasket and have the relevant locking tool, this won't be hard.

[chatsharris]

My D Series engine never had a cambelt done - it lasted about 150k before it got bridged for unrelated things.

[Ghosty]

This is the first Honda product we've had with over 100k on it! 

 

Old Man's old Prelude that he got in 2008:

 

 

He PX'd a HGFing 190E 1.8 for it (J568PCK, long since dead, shame as it was super clean - Smoke Silver, and it had a rare brown interior and 8 hole wheels).

 

 

This all-black Prelude was on about 60k and was up for £3k, no idea what he paid, probably around 2 bags.

IIRC I found it in a dealer listing of the local Auto Exchange, he liked the idea and went with it, thus starting both his and my fascination with Hondas.

 

 

This is me in early 2008, I'll have been 12 at this point. Blue house in the background has now been renovated, looks shit, and is owned by a wanker with a BMW. Back then there was an garage-find spec M reg Mini Sprite in the garage that seldom moved. 

 

The wanky private plate and fake split rim wheels came with the car instead of the standard 14" steels'n'trims, and Old Man couldn't be arsed sending the plate back to the DVLA. He put red badges on though

 

2 003

 

House shite - our old 9N Polo can be seen in the garage. That was a really boring car. Shite sliding door and '60s wood fronting is now gone as are the planters, and paving slab driveway.

 

 

Driveway and all the doors and windows have been redone so the house doesn't look as '90s giffer any more. No more fake plants either.

 

 

This is when we PX'd it in 2010 - the Y plate Civic behind it is a 1.4 auto, the car he was getting (that was up for £2195 then!). We loved that thing and kept it for five years, running it from 58k to 88k, but being a 1.4 it didn't have much high end, and when it became uneconomical to repair it was PXd in something of a hurry for a manual 5 door Civic:

 

 

which some of you may remember. This was only on 55k but it smelt weird inside, was weirdly uncomfortable, the dash was greasy from crap valet products that refused to clean off, and it was generally a dull, uninspiring drive that we altogether regretted. We fucked it off after six months and that's where the A4 came in.

 

 

[The Moog]

Are these better on fuel that the 1.6 civic auto missus Moog had? Did about 25 ISH round town.

[BorniteIdentity]

LOL

 

 

Quirk of the Prelude: the stalks are the correct way round, indicators on the right, wipers on the left

 

Most people are terrified of the indicators being on the right.  But once you realise you can rest your arm on the top of the doorcard and indicate with nothing more than the flick of a finger, it changes your life for the better.

[mercrocker]

Ah....indicator vexation.   

 

Minor - Right hand, broken canceller.   

Fiesta - Left hand, broken canceller. 

Merc - Right hand, 

VW  - Left hand

Cowley - Steering wheel hub.  

 

Add that to central gearchange on all the manual cars except the Cowley (column) and the auto Merc.   

Luckily the handbrakes are all central except the Cowley which is on the drivers side between door and seat. 

 

Driving them all on the same day (as I did yesterday....) keeps you alert!

[Guest Hooli]

Indicators on the right is so much better in a manual, you can change gear while sideways across a roundabout and still correctly indicate for your exit.

 

I miss that MG.

[oldcars]

What a nice looking house Ghosty, looks a lovely place to live.

[beko1987]

My magic potion seems to have worn off

 

 

More is needed I think, maybe 1 bottle to 3/4 a tank this time?

[Kiltox]

Have you cleaned out the EGR valve?

[beko1987]

Have you cleaned out the EGR valve?

Yep, did that a month or so ago. May eyeball it up again. Wondering if I should look at the broken breather/air pipe I taped up a while ago actually, whilst I think about it...

[Kiltox]

Yep air leaks are gonna always cause trouble

[Guest Hooli]

Swan Vestas

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Going to invest* in a small solar panel (20w) to help maintain a car battery. There are a couple of sets with regulators that look like a good laugh.

[xtriple]

Watched a woman in a newish grey estate (64 reg) attempt to turn into a driveway yesterday, she started from WAY too close and predictably, hit the wall with the passenger side rear door. I thought she'd stop and get out/have a look, but no, she reversed out at great speed and shot off up the road as if all the demons in hell were after her, did an illegal 'U' turn at the 'T' junction and tore back up the road. I could see her cursing and swearing as she drove.

 

Bizzare....

[artdjones]

http://www.rossgazette.com/article.cfm?id=112195&headline=Classic%20car%20recovered%20in%20Ross-on-Wye&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2018

 

Please note,I make no comment.The last person to comment on this appears to no longer be a member.

[Ghosty]

Are these better on fuel that the 1.6 civic auto missus Moog had? Did about 25 ISH round town.

They definitely won't be worse, maybe a bit better as you can just knock about on barely any throttle at all.

Certainly going to be better on the motorway, the 1.6 starts to get a bit leggy over 50mph.

[xtriple]

Wasn't enjoying driving the dollop today, felt really skittish and was moving around on the bumps and tarmac strips. I stopped at the bank (had a DVLA cheque to pay in    ) and checked the tyres, that was when I noticed the front left tyre had diesel all over it! Definitely diesel, stank awful and I recalled I'd driven through a long shallow puddle on the way out. I thought it was just wet, but no, it is a HUGE diesel slick on the road. Now reported to the council.