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[stuboy]

LBC?

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LBC?

 

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[GrumpiusMaximus]

Bought a new rear wiper motor for the Golf.

 

Easy to change.  Change the motor in 20 minutes or so.  Test.  Great, it's working. 

 

Except for the fact that it doesn't bloody switch off again.  Bugger.

 

Strip down the motor, replace the cheap aftermarket bits that I think might be failing with original teutonic OEM parts from old motor.  Same problem.  Bugger.  Re-strip, re-fit, check electrics inside for shorts.  Look at the relay:

 

 

Spot the dry solder joint.

 

Went inside, fired up soldering iron:

 

 

Took it outside to admire my genius.  Doesn't fucking work at all.  Must've overheated the tiny IC on the board to buggery re-soldering the joint.

 

For fuck's sake.  Ordered another one.  Fortunately, I got £10 off my order because of a Post Office cock-up last time around.

 

[mercrocker]

'Tis the true Autoshite way.   Spend fucking hours mending something before realising its fucked anyway and buying another one.   I think I am starting to resent the time more than the money these days, though.

[Simonsays]

Bought a couple of new toys recently. Firstly a 12V air compressor to top up my tyres. Got the cheapest one ECP had at £15. It seems pretty flimsy tbh but seems to work okay and the pressure dial agrees with my tyre pressure gauge.

 

I also took delivery of a 12V impact driver to remove lugnuts. The lug wrench included in every car I've ever owned has always been about 10" long and totally unsuitable for the job at hand. This driver just spins the nuts off in a couple of seconds. I'm really quite impressed.

[meshking]

Went to FoS yesterday, first time in ten years. Had a great day, but it's definitely grown since I was there last.

 

Couple of photos of mine for your enjoyment.

 

 

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[Bren]

Drove my first convertible today. My mate's bmw. It has the 3.0 td engine and goes surprisingly well. It made me wonder how quick a 335d must be.

[MarvinsMom]

today we has been to the Rover club(s) classic car day at East Kirkby.

 

we went with the Rover 75 club. but as mine is slightly broken as one of the ball joints is shagged we went with this car instead

 

we saw this

 

and this

 

these flew over head

 

and so did this (crap picture of a Hurricane.....)

 

which was much lower than it looks, in the picture it just small, not far away......

 

there were some cars there too including

 

[Squire_Dawson]

A PCB in a wiper motor, that's what's fucking wrong.

[richardmorris]

Went to FoS yesterday, first time in ten years. Had a great day, but it's definitely grown since I was there last.

Couple of photos of mine for your enjoyment.

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I haven’t been for a few years- I went to them every year when it started as it was about £25!

Did you like Ragnar’s ripple 2cv?

[richardmorris]

I’m just back from France. Car making a squeaking noise round corners, but not over bumps. I think it’s the roofrack and bike combo. Hopefully not the new balljoint! Maybe the anti roll bar bushes?

 

About 600miles at 32mpg. I was taking it easy as I really don’t like the bike on the roof but it seems to have done wonders for the mpg. A good job since super essence 98 is €1.59 at the cheapest!

 

Anyway, my main worry, such as it is vexing me, is the oil pressure gauge. I think* the pressure itself is fine. The engine purrs perfectly and kicks down to 6000rpm on the m25 just now very happily. But the gauge is currently reading just over 1bar on the move. It used to read over 3 (the max). Revving it like above to 6000 doesn’t move the needle at all, it’s like it decides in the morning what pressure to read and that’s the lot. It never drops whilst driving but usually in the morning it’s slightly lower than it read the day before. Even with cold oil.

 

This morning in France it read just over 1bar, and this evening in Surrey it’s not moved despite driving some 300miles in high 20s temp.

 

Anyway, advice please peoples. As far as I know there are three possible theories...

1. It is really low oil pressure and the oil pump needs replacing?

2. The oil pressure switch /gauge is faulty and needs replacing ( is it one single item?)

3. The Dashboard needle is faulty and needs replacing / masking off with black tape.

 

It’s on 116k by the way. Oh and the last time Mercedes ascot had it they did mention an oil weep from somewhere - could it be the oil pressure switch/ meter?

 

Thanks.

Richard.

[HMC]

^ When you start from cold what does the guage do?

[richardmorris]

^ When you start from cold what does the guage do?

It goes up to just over 1bar at the moment. Never drops below that on the move even when the water temp is reading 100( tunnel queues!). Last week it was reading 1.5 at max when cold or hot. It doesn’t fluctuate from what it read when cold at the start of the day. And a month or two back was definitely over 2. And a couple of years ago was 3.

Which I seem to think means it’s a gauge or sender problem. Bit like the 2cv fuel gauge reading 3/4 full when it’s brimmed to the filler cap.

 

When hot at idle in D the needle doesn’t register anything, but moves off the mark a little in P. It’s done this for years though.

[Shep Shepherd]

Still looking for a replacement screw cover bit for The Volvo's right hand side rear roof trim, which fell off on the A127 in late May:

 

 

Does anyone have one? Colour is immaterial, as I'm a dab hand at painting smol things with aerosols. I'd be more than happy to take both the trim and the cover, and indeed the trim and the cover for both sides of the car if they're available.

[meshking]

I haven’t been for a few years- I went to them every year when it started as it was about £25!

Did you like Ragnar’s ripple 2cv?

This one? Very nice indeed!

 

 

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[Cavcraft]

One's a wheezy old clonker, mostly ridden at 5mph by geriatrics on a Sunday morning....

 

 

...the other is a garden tractor.

 

 

 

[richardmorris]

You can get a lot of bottles in the boot of the coupe! And that’s only the last row, there are two behind those. Plus all the luggage in the boot. I can’t stand having stuff in the cabin.

 

I may have drowned in a rear end crash!

[holbeck]

 

Trigger. Spotted.

[davehedgehog31]

The roads round here were extremely slippy this morning, it's been dry for weeks and we've got rain today.

 

Saw a woman spin on a roundabout then a totaled Focus about 2 minutes later.

[RayMK]

I forgot my camera yesterday for the FOD but my son snapped a couple as he tailed me on the way over, just as we left Towcester, and one of me sweating buckets on arrival.  We used minor roads for the short journey so that the benefits* of 17.5bhp could be fully accommodated. The bit of wire* visible under the car on the roundabout shot is the exhaust.  The fuel filter that I fitted the day before did its job.  No stops were required to blow the carb jets clear.  Posted here because it would be a bit self indulgent posting in the FotU thread, only having pictures of my car.

[egg]

I'm doing M3/A303 to Exeter tomorrow - any major roadworks or delays other than the usual?

[Amishtat]

A few pictures from a car show this morning

The Rover was a proper beauty, fourteen thousand miles from new

[Bren]

Normally dislike car boot sales but bagged this for £15 -

The paint glue and brushes are missing but you would'nt use them on a kit like this anyway.

[richardmorris]

A few pictures from a car show this morning IMG_20180715_110054.jpgIMG_20180715_110815.jpgIMG_20180715_110802.jpgIMG_20180715_120111.jpgIMG_20180715_111003.jpgIMG_20180715_110619.jpgIMG_20180715_120245.jpgIMG_20180715_115158.jpg

The Rover was a proper beauty, fourteen thousand miles from new

Is that a big Wolsey trying to be a packhard ?

[nacho man]

 

Bloody hell!!!!!!

 

Conked out. Had no tools on me as I don’t like to tempt fate by carrying them.

 

That will show me.

 

 

 

 

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[richardmorris]

Bloody hell!!!!!!

Conked out. Had no tools on me as I don’t like to tempt fate by carrying them.

That will show me.

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I carry all my tools with me and any spares I have. The theory being if I have them I won’t need them. It’s worked for the last twenty years!

[Squire_Dawson]

Aye. That's how the voodoo works. Carry spares and you're guaranteed never to need them. But the one time you forget, break down is a certainty.

[155V6]

today we has been to the Rover club(s) classic car day at East Kirkby.

 

we went with the Rover 75 club. but as mine is slightly broken as one of the ball joints is shagged we went with this car instead

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we saw this

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and this

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these flew over head

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and so did this (crap picture of a Hurricane.....)

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which was much lower than it looks, in the picture it just small, not far away......

 

there were some cars there too including

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Brilliant selection,there's really something there for everyone.

[Spottedlaurel]

Other 'stuff' going on in family life meant that I couldn't attend FOTU yesterday and I've spent most of the last week or two driving only the Avensis. Not a good state of affairs when it's the middle of summer and I should be using the older things.

 

Finally got a few minutes to fit some eBay purchase parts onto the Sunny:

 

 

Plugs, leads (to replace the originals dated 1987) and an air filter.

 

 

Even I managed to get them on without breaking anything and it still worked again afterwards. Hopefully it'll give me cleaner starting from cold, it didn't seem to like any dampness.

 

 

 

 

[HillmanImp]

Bloody hell!!!!!!

Conked out. Had no tools on me as I don’t like to tempt fate by carrying them.

That will show me.

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Its blatantly beyond fucked. No point carrying on with it at all. I tell you what I'll give you £300, no £500 for it as I'm feeling generous even though i have no use for it, just trying to help out a fellow shiter in need.