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[Spottedlaurel]

Camry just dropped-off for MoT - it'll either go straight through, or need a load more money spent on it......

[DodgeRover]

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so, this happened yesterday:-

T787UEWNISSAN PRIMERA

Date tested24 April 2018 FAIL Mileage91,775 miles MOT test number6988 4899 5028 Test locationunavailable until further notice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reason(s) for failure

 

 

• Power steering component(s) leaking Rack (2.3.3b) Dangerous
• Nearside Front Outer Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc (2.5.C.1a)
• Nearside rear brake binding (3.7.B.1)

Advisory notice item(s)

 

 

• Offside Rear brake binding slightly
• Rear registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread (6.3.1d)
• Nearside Rear Tyre worn close to the legal limit (4.1.E.1)

now I am not competent enough to do the rack myself and the garage have said they are not available (does anyone know any different?).

Should I look to find a refurbished one or cut my losses and look for a new(old) car.

For it's age it is quite clean with a couple of scabby bits, is it saleable as spares or repair?

Worth asking Primeradonor as they're quite popular as bangers so someone will have kept a spare rack

[dave21478]

Speaking of the Max Power style making a come-back I just fitted a set of JDM yo drift FastnFurious not Blitz Tein HKS AAA++++ seller bonnet pins to the pickup truck. In my defence the bonnet flaps around in a very alarming manner at anything over about 45mph which is due to my nephew crashing it into a hedge while I was teaching him how to drive in a field and he slightly buckled the bonnet to the point where it wont sit right. Also the rod where the latch engages seems to be held on with rusty flakes and hope, so to prevent a bonnet/windscreen interference problem I put the pins on. I sprayed them body colour to make them slightly less obvious, but I still now look like the kind of choob that fits bonnet pins to an otherwise standard car.

I am also on the verge of fitting a subwoofer and amp in the rear footwell so I can further deafen myself with my mid-90s dance tunes. Judge me. I dont care.

 

 

In other news i got four tyres for the MGF as I noticed last week that all four were down to (and slightly beyond at the rear) the limit markers. Fuckin Uniroyal rainsports....excellent tyres but piss-poor wear rates. I would normally have bought Falken Zeix tyres as replacements which have wet grip as good as the Uniroyals and seem slightly hardier but spotted Kumhos online with good ratings for not too much dollar so I will give them a try.

The courier turned up to deliver them the other day while I was out at work and in an exceedingly fuckin rare display of common sense DIDNT just piss off back to the depot for redlivery sometime next week maybe, but lobbed them over the gate into the back garden instead.

I normally fit all my own tyres but....I dunno....getting old maybe? The thought of messing with the bead breaker, tyre levers, pot of lube, then fannying with my temperamental manual balancer just didnt appeal so I left the car up on blocks of wood and took wheels and new tyres into the local garage for local people in the local village who fitted them for a ten eurosheckels a corner and disposes of the old ones so I dont add to the already ridiculous tyre mountain at the farm. 

[dollywobbler]

Had the 2CV's wheels powder coated, then clad with brand new Michelin 125s. I am very happy.

 

That's actually a reduction in tyre width, as I was running Toyo 135s on the front - not a bad budget tyre, but hopeless in the wet and not much cop in the snow. It's nice to be back on proper Michelins.

[DodgyBastard]

Yesterday I went to look at another car, if I buy it I might stick my audi up for sale...

 

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New car bought!

 

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[SiC]

This could take a while.

[SiC]

Turns out blowing compressed air into a fuel tank outlet is a bad idea. I hoped it would clean all the last bit out of the pickup pipe. In reality it fills the tank with compressed air, so when you remove the air line the fuel in the tank sprays out the outlet at quite a pressure.

 

I now stink even more of petrol.

 

[SiC]

Is the fuel cap vent blocked?

 

Ben

Good question. Where is it on an MGB fuel tank?

[richardmorris]

Had the 2CV's wheels powder coated, then clad with brand new Michelin 125s. I am very happy.

 

That's actually a reduction in tyre width, as I was running Toyo 135s on the front - not a bad budget tyre, but hopeless in the wet and not much cop in the snow. It's nice to be back on proper Michelins.

 

I’ve found my Tokyo’s ok in both rain and snow. Not got stuck anyway. Of course they’re certainly not as grippy as Michelin’s but then they are a third the price. My last set of Michelin’s didn’t last either and cracked around the thread after only three years. Led to me ignoring the CCC website as some people won’t hear a word against them and got increasingly rude.

[beko1987]

Uniroyal rainsport

I agree. Had a new set on my old Zx and their fucking good, I had to physically slow down a bit when pressing on in the pissing rain just because i would suddenly realise I was doing 80, they just made it drive like it was bone dry and sunny...

 

Wore the fronts over halfway down in 8 months/15k. Nearly fitted them to the xantia when I got new tyres for that but didn't (not that that mattered as I got rid of it 2 weeks later)

[Mally]

I saw someone blow an industrial compressor into a Reliant tank.

It burst the tank, petrol everywhere.

Regarding the vent, early caps were vented with a small hole, but the hole is that small the air wouldn't escape fast enough,

[SiC]

I saw someone blow an industrial compressor into a Reliant tank.

It burst the tank, petrol everywhere.

Regarding the vent, early caps were vented with a small hole, but the hole is that small the air wouldn't escape fast enough,

Yeah it's in the cap on mine.

 

[dollywobbler]

I’ve found my Tokyo’s ok in both rain and snow. Not got stuck anyway. Of course they’re certainly not as grippy as Michelin’s but then they are a third the price. My last set of Michelin’s didn’t last either and cracked around the thread after only three years. Led to me ignoring the CCC website as some people won’t hear a word against them and got increasingly rude.

 

That's a bit disappointing to hear. Mind you, the way I drive, there might not be much tread left after three years...

[Hawkeyethenoo]

Yon loon (son) Jake's Honda Jazz (which was a handmedown from his big sister in Oct last year) rear exhaust silencer rotted through & fell off about 2 months ago. MOT is due in May, so on route to the classic car auction at Errol today we dropped it off for a free inspection and quote to repair with yeh olde National Tyres. The car is an 04 and has covered 165,000 miles. Hard to kill bastard of a thing.

They (National) phoned while we were at the auction with the bad news. The flanges are also rotten on the CAT and the Mid section so it needs a complete exhaust and that is - £720.00.

Jake did a double take, excuse me Mr National man, did you just say, £720.00?

Yes sir, I'm afraid so, yes. 

When he told me I almost wet myself laughing - £720.00 is the man a lunatic, I enquired? That's more than double what the car is worth...

So on the way back we check the car out which is still up on the ramp and yes the CAT and Mid section are original and yes the flanges are rotten and would probably break/crack when tools are applied, but £720.00, man! You're squeezing my melon, man....

Thanked the lad for his FOC time and brought the car hame, it runs away fine and isn't much more noisy without the back box which is currently resting in the boot. Although avg MPG has dropped from about 50 to about 43mpg. Shocking I know... 

Full system including an aftermarket CAT (bloody bollocks malarky) from Europarts is £200.00. Maybe £100 in labour to fit as long as the front pipe studs come out without too much bother.....? WCPGW.

Or and this is the plan - take it to Mark the bloody good welder at Almondbank and he'll weld on the back box to the mid section (both of which are fine) with an outer sleve for about £30.00. Jake can then bag the MOT and if the car lasts another 12months it's owe him/me nothing. I'm not committing to spending £300 on an shiny as feck exhaust only for the clutch to give up the ghost 6 weeks later. It cannot go on forever!

£720.00. I ask you... They must think my last name is Carnegie.

 

Enjoyed the madness that is the classic car auction at Errol and on the basis of today: my tidy R170 SLK 230 is deffo worth 26.5 millionty eleven pounds!

[Hawkeyethenoo]

New car bought!

 

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Sheer class, was admiring that fine automobile myself from a safe distance today while having a fly fag. Hence the safe distance....

[nacho man]

 

I had a Vito 9 seater the other day to do a family airport run.

 

On the way back it popped up with a coffee cup. I thought that’s nice it’s telling me to have a drink.

 

Turns out it’s telling me that it’s been monitoring my driving and it thinks I am getting tired and driving badly.

 

F@&k you benzo I am just a crap driver okay.

 

 

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after giving the CX a long overdue wash and polish. Auto 'box still slipping but marginally better than last weekend.....

 

[catsinthewelder]

We've just got a brand new Sprinter at work so I'll watch out for the coffee cup.

 

Obviously it's been here a week and has already been slightly crashed into a telegraph pole.  Customer was very apologetic while I dashed around cable tieing and gaffer taping (and cracking) a Boxer mirror lense onto the tattered remains of the N/S mirror and tried to source a new numberplate when we haven't got the V5 yet.

 

 

[DodgeRover]

New car bought!

 

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Want to share how you appear to have travelled back to the car auctions of the early 90s?

[blackboilersuit]

I've just replaced the complete exhaust on my 167,000 mile 2002 CRV. After welding it up a couple of times in the last few months I finally bit the bullet and replaced the lot. Same as you flanges on the cat weren't up to being touched. £225 including one lambda probe that galled its threads when trying to remove it even with using copious amounts of heat. Shudder to think what National or Kwik Fit would have charged. Ebay came to the rescue.

 

The thought of lying under the car mid-winter to weld it up again was the encouragement I needed to get my wallet out! 

 

Still 16 years is a pretty good innings for an original exhaust.........

 

 

Yon loon (son) Jake's Honda Jazz (which was a handmedown from his big sister in Oct last year) rear exhaust silencer rotted through & fell off about 2 months ago. MOT is due in May, so on route to the classic car auction at Errol today we dropped it off for a free inspection and quote to repair with yeh olde National Tyres. The car is an 04 and has covered 165,000 miles. Hard to kill bastard of a thing.
 

[beko1987]

The meriva used to rot its flange out every other year or so. I could have got it welded, but the centre section and backbox were £60 the pair from euro car parts so I never bothered, just replaced the backbox and centre section again, only a 15 minute job

[bramz7]

 

Its not bad. The drive home definitely made me aware of some issues (thermostat needs replacing, wipers don't work intermittently) but it was fun and these are good to hustle. Pretty quick off the line too.

[Eddie Honda]

The flanges are also rotten on the CAT and the Mid section so it needs a complete exhaust and that is - £720.00.

My Jizz back box still hasn't fallen off yet... http://autoshite.com/topic/24385-honda-jizz-gd-exhaust-ftp/?p=1455389

 

Just weld the flange back onto the pipe and bolt it back. Don't weld it together and lose the joint.

 

When mid-sections need doing it is because they crack where the brackets are welded on. Mine were farting a bit so I got out the Gum-Gum and packed the voids.

 

The front only needs doing because someone fucks up taking off the mid. Best way is to remove mid and front as an assembly and deal with the separation off the car. Considerably less change of fucking up the pricey cat. Honda are well into four figures for the cat alone!

[Brodders]

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Its not bad. The drive home definitely made me aware of some issues (thermostat needs replacing, wipers don't work intermittently) but it was fun and these are good to hustle. Pretty quick off the line too.

 

Oooh, that is very nice. Is it a 200 or a 400, as I can't quite see the boot?

[twosmoke300]

Just a warning ref the jazz cat . If you put an aftermarket cat on a Honda ( exp a euro Parts cheapy ) it WILL put the eng management light on after 50 or so miles . Ecp cats are shit and hondas in built emissions monitoring is very tight . Try and save the original if at all possible. You can buy the flanges off eBay if you know the size and a friendly welder

[Shep Shepherd]

Inspired by the fitment of LED headlight bulbs to Cla$$ics Monthly's Jaguar XJ6 project car in this month's edition of the magazine, I have just ordered a pair of LED headlight bulbs for The Volvo, which has always had pretty poor headlights.

 

I wonder how well they'll work, and more importantly, how long it will be before they stop working?

[dollywobbler]

Nippa service today, as it's going on holiday to England next weekend (only the second time it has left Wales since we bought it three years ago). The oil was given to me by a friend about three years ago and has so far proved enough for three services. The filter and plugs were given to me by Pandamonium. Thanks! That really is cheap motoring.

 

The temp gauge is reading low again though, and the cheap Ebay sender I fitted a couple of years ago has mostly turned green. Might need to buy another one.

[bramz7]

Oooh, that is very nice. Is it a 200 or a 400, as I can't quite see the boot?

It's a 400. 416 to be precise. I'm conscious that the Honda lump can eat head gaskets if used heavily following a period of inactivity so I'm trying to take it lightly. It really really needs cleaning though.

Dare I say I prefer them as autos..?

[AlabamaShrimp]

So apparently there's a big car show all over the middle of Wakefield today.

 

Not seen any adverts for it at all. Lots of messed about with stuff and random American things.

 

Very nice brown Montego and a few nice original Fords. Still its nice that there's stuff here and that it's so busy.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Have a very bad picture of one of my friend's garages.

Am I jealous, of course I am.

 

 

He has another garage for the lotus Exige, the Monaro and the Holden VXR8

 

The BX is a Mk1 with a suitcase engine.

If anybody knows of a BX mk1 rear seat (pre-split fold) with the headrest post hole caps complete then he is interested, as his were broken when the seats were recovered (hence the GT interior currently in the car).