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[captain_70s]

I bet they didn't even look at it. Mechanic has hit their targets for the month and so not bothering doing the work requested. Happens all too often in many dealers unfortunately.

My Civic snapped it's driveshaft three days after being serviced by a Honda dealer! When I enquired about this I was informed it was impossible to check for and that "they all do that, sir".

 

A service is often just oil, filters, etc. Anything outside of that simply isn't covered/looked at unless you're taking thing to your local trusted friendly garage, hence why I service my own cars now...

[Datsuncog]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

 

 

Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

 

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

 

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Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

 

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

Shit.... You OK?

 

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

^^

That's quite a pool under the car... Has the engine now seized or were you able to switch off in time?

[SiC]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

 

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Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

 

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

Feck. Siezed solid?

[Datsuncog]

Nope, not seized - but making some very strange noises. It'll all be on dashcam - stupid diversion, tricky junction across a dual carriageway, idiot driver who wouldn't accelerate leaving me to floor TAZ in order to avoid a collision with a speeding Merc coming up fast... and five miles down the road, mucho clonking and blue smoke. Oh dear oh dear. Some very pretty road rainbows behind but lots of the black stuff all over the bay... waiting on RAC recovery now. Should get to me by early September, if their call centre queue's anything to go by...

[danthecapriman]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

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Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

Shit!

 

How did that happen?

I once serviced one of those and somehow stupidly left the oil filler cap off! Took it for a test drive afterwards and got back to find the stench of burning oil and mess everywhere. Luckily I didn’t do any damage but the mess under the bonnet took some cleaning up.

 

Any chance of a used engine? Be a shame to see another early Laguna go if not.

[purplebargeken]

Shame as that is a decent looking Laguna. 

[320touring]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/laguna-v6-auto/1292687460

 

Laguna issue fixed

[richardmorris]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/02/queens-youngest-grandchild-seen-driving-family-land-rover-windsor/

 

 

He’s been practising for months. Does a circuit of the park here at about 7.30 each morning sitting on Sophie’s lap. That’s their disco and I’m surprised the reg is shown for security reasons. Yellow badge must be a police security tag.

 

He’s just missed me on the bike a couple of times! Seems a polite young man when we’ve talked.

[mrbenn]

Nope, not seized - but making sone very strange noises. It'll all be on dashcam - stupid diversion, tricky junction across a dual carriageway, idiot driver who wouldn't accelerate leaving me to floor TAZ in order to avoid a collision with a speeding Merc coming up fast... and five miles down the road, mucho clonking and blue smoke. Oh dear oh dear. Some very pretty road rainbows behind but lots of the black stuff all over the bay... waiting on RAC recovery now. Should get to me by early September, if their call centre queue's anything to go by...

Dislike. Hope you get recovered soon, at least.

[DodgeRover]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/02/queens-youngest-grandchild-seen-driving-family-land-rover-windsor/

 

 

He’s been practising for months. Does a circuit of the park here at about 7.30 each morning sitting on Sophie’s lap. That’s their disco and I’m surprised the reg is shown for security reasons. Yellow badge must be a police security tag.

 

He’s just missed me on the bike a couple of times! Seems a polite young man when we’ve talked.

Somebody needs to introduce him to trials bikes, quads and moto-x bikes, think of the fun the protection lot would have riding round with him

Plenty of space to play in too.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The CX is sort of back to normal, although closer inspection of the trans fluid level revealed nothing more than a suggestion of fluid down there. Access is comically awkward because French and I didn't have a filler neck with a small enough diameter to fit into the hole. I tipped about half a litre of fresh Dexron III into the hole, and another half all over the driveway. There are greasy slicks on the paving; hopefully we might get some more rain....

 

I am going to try some of that Lucas Auto Trans Fluid Conditioner and see if that stuff works.

[MarvinsMom]

another day, the same friggin' mini been tinkered with.....

 

today we have mostly been going backwards

 

all this to get at the split pin and clevis pin in the brake pedal so that the master cylinder can be changed. a fiddly crappy job on any car, but no fun at all on a minature one. (this actually took us a couple of hours to get this far)

 

new one on, i'm hoping that i've put it on the right way round as it was a tight fit into the hole down to the pedal. now the old one was tight there too, but looking at the bottom of the old cylinder, the seal has a split in it and it was wet. so i think we may have gotten to the bottom, sort of, the brake problems. (this bit was dead easy)

 

hmmmm, we wil see......

 

then on to the back, we have decided that the back flexis are going to be changed too. the first union, onto the metal pipe on the swing arm was a piece of cake, the second one through the subframe... wel that one didn't undo so well. in th eway it wouldn't undo at all. bugger it..... that will have to keep till next time. 

[MikeR]

looks like I might be taxing the vets Beamer this week ........... 

 

 that aside she is doing well for her age , still argues , still wants her own way , still goes where she wants to , does what she wants ......

 

thats a bitch for you ...

[Jon]

Word up Shiters, someone's re-uploaded the 1982 BBC Arena documentary about the Ford Cortina, after a previous upload was removed quite a while ago. Here's a blue text link below, as I'm not sure how to attach a Youtube direct video link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2wdYfRzy8

 

 

Anyway, if legend is to be believed, the gent that features in the home film at 10:30 and who is interviewed a couple of minutes later is the one and only TOO SAVVY! This isn't a reference to the fact that I couldn't figure out what the heck he was saying, as he is in fact surprisingly eloquent but I'm sure old TS himself made reference to the fact on here a few years ago, that it was him (and his now ex-wife).

 

Presumably, he hadn't owned a Hillman Imp by this stage and Protons hadn't yet been invented. 

[captain_70s]

Word up Shiters, someone's re-uploaded the 1982 BBC Arena documentary about the Ford Cortina, after a previous upload was removed quite a while ago. Here's a blue text link below, as I'm not sure how to attach a Youtube direct video link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2wdYfRzy8

 

That Mk1 2-door fetching £670 at auction, Jesus wept... ( LNX 770C is no longer registered with the DVLA though). 

 

FYK 611C lives on though!

 

[Datsuncog]

Cheers for the kind words and thoughts folks.

 

TAZ the Green (oilless) Gooner was eventually recovered, after a slightly less than pleasant three hours by the side of the motorway in the sleet. Initially (after 20 mins on hold) the RAC call handler made the rather controversial assumption that Belfast was just outside Dublin, and sent a wagon to Junction 1 of the M2 in the Republic of Ireland.

 

Once this amusing little error had been cleared up, RAC then handed it off to a known useless recovery company who made contact, assured me they'd be there shortly, and then didn't show up. After 45 minutes I called the recovery dude back directly, only to be told that they'd been stood down from the job. Another jolly 15 minutes on hold to the RAC elicited the information that yet another recovery company had been given the job, as the first lot were 'too busy'.

 

In fairness, not long afterwards I did receive a call from the second (third?) recovery guy, who was with me two minutes later and was just the right blend of solicitous, professional and sanguine. TAZ was scooped up onto the back of the wagon and taken nine miles home through the heavier snow, and is now on the driveway oozing vital fluids onto some old trays and rubber mats. Blokey on the recovery wagon couldn't tell 100% what the issue was, but said it looked like the sump had gone.

 

So there we have it. Further updates (including dramatic reconstruction and dashcam footage) will doubtless appear on the Gooner thread, starting tomorrow... but I doubt this time we're going to get our a fairytale ending.

[Kiltox]

Urghhhh

 

After a week working from home and a week’s holiday chilling the fuck out in a hot tub I’m on the 0455 to faaaackin’ Landaan

[BorniteIdentity]

We all snooze, we all lose.

 

By the time I'd concluded that a purple Jaguar wouldn't immediately have me labelled UKIPBOY™ by the neighbours of our fairly liberal village, this was sold.

 

£1000.

 

 

Fortunately, someone on PH bought it and took the obligatory shot.  Fair play.

 

I really want one now.  Before they get all expensive and everything.

[trigger]

That was me who uploaded it to YouTube last time, lasted about a day before the BBC put a complaint in and they deleted it, it has been on dailymotion since though.

[beko1987]

Feel bad for putting a daily mail link up but is the little mot bodge that I use every year being removed?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5569383/Tougher-MOT-rules-leave-British-drivers-open-2-500-fine.html

 

I usually present asap then fix the fails whilst the previous cert is valid. And whilst it's always been a grey area I'm sure the consensus was that it was legal barring any utter deadly fails...

[BorniteIdentity]

Feel bad for putting a daily mail link up but is the little mot bodge that I use every year being removed?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5569383/Tougher-MOT-rules-leave-British-drivers-open-2-500-fine.html

 

I usually present asap then fix the fails whilst the previous cert is valid. And whilst it's always been a grey area I'm sure the consensus was that it was legal barring any utter deadly fails...

 

I've got an MOT tomorrow, so will ask the garage owner.  He's a good friend - so will give me the full run down.

 

It does certainly read like a fail then renders the current MOT test as invalid - and that is probably the right stance.  It would certainly remove any ambiguity, after all - a "fail" deems the car to be unroadworthy.  It has always been illegal to drive an unroadworthy car on the Queen's highway - so the fact the MOT comes up as valid on a vehicle check just adds confusion to things.

 

No gripes here.  If your car isn't fit for the road, I'd rather you weren't on it.

[beko1987]

Absolutely, same here tbh. I used to use it for a get out clause for weak handbrakes, clonking joints etc so I could get to work that week and fix it at the weekend. Shiters common sense, just with the car showing as legal!

[dollywobbler]

I have a gripe with that. My Starlet failed on emissions. No kittens were going to die. Should I be denied being able to drive it home? A failed ball joint dust cover is a fail. It's not dangerous.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I have a gripe with that. My Starlet failed on emissions. No kittens were going to die. Should I be denied being able to drive it home? A failed ball joint dust cover is a fail. It's not dangerous.

I completely agree with you, there are a few cars with sort of faults that aren't faults that I've taken to the MOT in the hope it'll pass anyway.

 

Example in point was my V70 - the instrument cluster would occasionally switch off completely. Problem was it happened in the middle of the MOT and the tester couldnt confirm the airbag light wasn't on (it wasn't) so fail.

 

I took it for a retest without fixing it, it stayed on and passed as a result - the car was worth less than having the cluster professionally repaired....

 

Where this all becomes problematic is where your insurance is concerned. If you crashed on route home from a failed test would they still cover you??

 

 

 

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[Datsuncog]

^^^ Funny, a similar link about changes to the MOT test appeared on a local news website last night, throwing up much horror...

 

After careful re-reading, I'm not sure that this isn't a slightly sensationalist misrepresentation - that the main change is that issues identified at test are going to be put into one of THREE categories: Dangerous (fail - which may preclude it being driven away, even if there is a current MOT on it); Major (also a fail, but covering things like misaligned lights and split CV boots) and Minor (not a fail, but something the owner ought to rectify soon - replaces the old Advisory classification).

 

I've seen cars refused permission to leave the test centre other than on a trailer because of major defects, regardless of whether there was a few days of the old MOT left - so I'm really not sure there's any change of policy here. It's always been down to the tester's discretion, but 99% of the time they're fine with it. Perhaps the DVLA press release has just added a reminder of the existing policy, and that's what the media have chosen to get in a flap about - rather than a fairly minor administrative change?

 

(Disclaimer: I could, of course, be totally wrong here.)

[Pillock]

I think we need one of our caged MOT Testers to explain, I guess either way we've got an answer for when the question comes up every three weeks.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

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Where this all becomes problematic is where your insurance is concerned. If you crashed on route home from a failed test would they still cover you??....

^^

This. How many get / take time to sit down and read all of the standard Terms and Conditions that come with their insurance policies?

 

I'd be thinking that an insurance assessor would also be on the lookout for flaws other than those stated on the MoT fail sheet.

[beko1987]

I think we need one of our caged MOT Testers to explain, I guess either way we've got an answer for when the question comes up every three weeks.

That's what I'm hoping for tbh, piece of mind from someone saying it how it is in language I can understand