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[Mally]

Guernsey?

[worldofceri]

 

[Six-cylinder]

82 OO is a UK 2006 Audi RS4

[wuvvum]

Been having a play with the Y10 today.  First I took some pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoll car is smoll.

 

 

 

Alcantara on the driver's seat is showing slight* signs of wear.

 

 

 

Hidden stereo, just like a Bentley (or a Laguna 2).

 

 

 

Anyone for some warning lights?

 

 

 

Green means go!

 

 

 

Then I had a fiddle with some electrical stuff.  The heater fan proved to be a relatively easy fix - the motor was indeed seized, but when I took it out and turned it over by hand it came unstuck and is now working again.  Interior light was simply missing a bulb, so that was easily sorted, although the driver's door pin switch is dodgy.  The non-functioning horn turned out to be the horn itself which was knackered, so I nicked the one off the LDV (which will be getting an air horn shortly).  Some rewiring was required as the terminals on the LDV horn are tiny, and I also had to find a way of mounting the LDV bracket as the holes in the Lancia's bracket were too small, but all sorted eventually and it now goes beep.  I also treated the car to a new wiper blade as the one on there had had it.

 

Of course it wouldn't be a Lancia if the electrics were all straightforward.  Since fitting the replacement horn the speedo has developed an interesting* trait - as soon as the car starts moving the needle shoots round to 140 and stays there until the ignition is switched off, with the stepper motor whirring away in the dash and the milometer and trip meter spinning over just as quickly.  I'm wondering whether I've somehow managed to disturb the wiring to the speed sensor in the gearbox whilst fitting the horn - the speedo was working fine beforehand, even after I removed the original horn.  I'll have another look tomorrow in daylight, weather permitting - hopefully it's just a loose wire, although if the sensor has shat itself then replacements are available off eBay.  If it's the clocks themselves which have gone wrong then that's more of an issue, although I can't see why they would have - it seems too much of a coincidence that I was buggering about in the vicinity of the gearbox just before it started to play up.

 

I've had a look through the paperwork and this car continues in the long* tradition of my ACA purchases by being smoll, white, unusual and having had far more money spent on it by the previous owner than what I paid for it at auction.  In this case a bill from a Lancia specialist for £2,057.48 in September 2016 for rectifying various faults - water and oil leaks, dodgy brakes, clutch cable, fabrication of a new gear linkage bush and diagnosing a running fault.  Most of the bill was labour - 35.5 hours at £45 + the dreaded per hour.   I also found a bill for an oil change - as suspected, fully synth and probably much too thin for the engine, so I've bought a gallon of nice thick mineral oil and I'm going to do a swap as soon as I get around to it.

 

I had a look underneath while it was up on the ramps and it looks sound enough under there - it's been quite heavily Waxoyled.  There are a couple of bits on the sills which I'll have to keep an eye on (although nothing sounded crunchy when prodded with a finger), and a couple of rubber bushes look like they've seen better days, but overall it's remarkably sound for a 28-year-old Lancia.

 

I'm still quite chuffed with it.  The speedo thing is mildly annoying and I'll have to do something about it (if nothing else, it's making the recorded mileage go up very quickly...) but the remaining issues I can easily live with, and now it's got a properly functioning heater it's a lot more usable - and an enormously fun thing to hoon around the back roads in.

[somewhatfoolish]

I have a lovely pair of bolt croppers that stand a full 4 feet tall, they appeared in my back garden one night where I assume they had been thrown to avoid police attention.

 

Might be an idea to contact the local dibble and ask if they want to fingerprint it.

[Wack]

Someone paid money to make their new Audi look like a T reg one!

Hope the expansion tank is just cracked and it's not an underlying head gasket or head issue.

 

 

I pissed a girl at work off when I told her the car she was driving looked in good nick for 13 years old.

 

IT"S NEW

 

why is it on a 55 plate  then

it said something like

LM 55 ANG

 

It's my name innit

 

what ANG , youre called ANG,

 

No angela

 

close enough for £250 then

[Wack]

Arse

Set off for Stratford in the transit pickup , got to J20on the M6 and its dropped what looks like all its water, lost power but the temp gauge didn't get to the red , slowed and it dropped to normal so I crawled along the hard shoulder hoping to make it to McDonalds (priorities)but the twats have coned the hard shoulder off so that's fucked that then

[Wack]

Some cunt has just stopped right in front of me , almost had a truck run up his arse as he did it , fucked about on his phone for 5 minutes then pulled out from a standing start back on the motorway causing a lot of braking and horn blasting

[DodgeRover]

Might be an idea to contact the local dibble and ask if they want to fingerprint it.

Lol they don't in my experience turn out when you have weapons left at the scene of a disturbed burglary, no point wasting my time trying to call

[New POD]

Arse

Set off for Stratford in the transit pickup , got to J20on the M6 and its dropped what looks like all its water, lost power but the temp gauge didn't get to the red , slowed and it dropped to normal so I crawled along the hard shoulder hoping to make it to McDonalds (priorities)but the twats have coned the hard shoulder off so that's fucked that then

 

All Fords are shit ???? 

[lisbon_road]

Doing the front shocks and top mounts on my wife's Zafira A on Friday.  Last night, free'd off the wiper blades as they were stcuk.  Other than that it seems straight forward enough, though any suggestions welcome.

[Wack]

All Fords are shit ????

 

AA man found a rubbed through pipe because it's been routed wrong

[D Spares & Tyres]

Lol they don't in my experience turn out when you have weapons left at the scene of a disturbed burglary, no point wasting my time trying to call

Just tell them you think it's a hate crime and you feel upset. They'll be right round

[DodgeRover]

Just tell them you think it's a hate crime and you feel upset. They'll be right round

Sadly this is true even when claiming it's a hate crime is a blatant untruth.

[Lacquer Peel]

Good take.

[tooSavvy]

Just collected daughter from QE hossie and run her home. Good Deed n all that...

 

Opportunity to hoon down to the tunnel, from Testos rbt... Ahh, now THAT sounded good!

[stuboy]

Noticed today how many nissan cashcows have gaffa taped tailgate handles are about

[somewhatfoolish]

Cashcow door handles are the new Mondeo bumpers?

[wuvvum]

Y10 speedo is still playing up.  Couldn't find any issues with the wiring either at the sensor end or the clocks end (although it's such a tangle of bloody wires behind there that I would struggle to spot any issues that did exist), so I'm going to assume that the timing of it going haywire was coincidental and not linked to me fitting a new horn (the sensor is on the other side of the gearbox anyway).  So I've fixed* it by unplugging the wire from the sensor - I'll just use my phone as a speedo for now. 

 

Long term I should probably fix it, but I'm not sure whether it's the sensor or the clock causing the issue - is there any way of measuring the signal from a speed sensor?  Is it variable voltage or is it a pulsed signal?  Sensors are available but it's a twat to get to, at least without removing the brake master cylinder (which I'd really rather not do).  There is a replacement speedo on eBay but it's in Italy and thus in km/h (although one assumes the faces should be straightforward enough to swap over).

[cobblers]

Speedo sensor will almost certainly be a pulsed signal, X pulses per mile.

If it goes wild even after you've stopped, I reckon the clocks could do with a repair. If you can spare them for a bit I'm happy to have a look.

[r.welfare]

In answer to Stuboy, the plastic on the moulded clips used to connect the handle to the tailgate frame on a Qashqai isn’t up to the job and eventually snaps. I’m lucky, ours is black so I just bought an aftermarket unpainted one as a replacement. There’s three different types depending on whether you’ve got keyless entry and/or a reversing camera.

 

I’ve seen a lot of hideous chrome ones, Qashqai owners can go almost as mad with the stuff as PT Cruiser owners.

[bramz7]

 

Found the interesting corner in the car park. There is someone who commutes in a Viggen...need to find that and park there some day.

 

I find myself liking this car more and more each time I drive it. It's really hard to compare it to anything I've had beforehand as it's so different. It has a nice old car warm smell to it.

 

I really, really want to try out an NG900 or early 9-3 now. I've spotted a couple on eBay but really shouldn't. But might.

[wuvvum]

Speedo senser will almost certainly be a pulsed signal, X pulses per mile.

If it goes wild even after you've stopped, I reckon the clocks could do with a repair. If you can spare them for a bit I'm happy to have a look.

It goes wild as soon as the car starts moving, so it's obviously getting an input from the sensor to send it haywire.  It doesn't stop until the ignition is switched off though.  That's a very kind offer - I'll probably stop using the car once the council start salting the roads so will drop you a PM then.

[SiC]

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Found the interesting corner in the car park. There is someone who commutes in a Viggen...need to find that and park there some day.

 

I find myself liking this car more and more each time I drive it. It's really hard to compare it to anything I've had beforehand as it's so different. It has a nice old car warm smell to it.

 

I really, really want to try out an NG900 or early 9-3 now. I've spotted a couple on eBay but really shouldn't. But might.

You've hit the Saab epiphany. Not everyone does and not everyone is patience enough. However once you do, you wonder why the hell you didn't get one sooner.

 

Even after GM messed them around, the engineers still managed to keep Saab mostly feeling like a Saab. They're certainly not the best car in the world but there is something about them gets under your skin. Certainly not the most reliable either, yet people keep fixing them as they just seem right.

[Mally]

Can you buy another please?

So that I can buy it off you cheap when you have ironed out all the faults

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...I really, really want to try out an NG900 or early 9-3 now. I've spotted a couple on eBay but really shouldn't. But might.

See if you can find one with the Sensonic clutchless manual 'box.....

[wuvvum]

No, don't.

[anonymous user]

See if you can find one with the Sensonic clutchless manual 'box.....

But whatever you do, don't buy it

[stuboy]

In answer to Stuboy, the plastic on the moulded clips used to connect the handle to the tailgate frame on a Qashqai isn’t up to the job and eventually snaps. I’m lucky, ours is black so I just bought an aftermarket unpainted one as a replacement. There’s three different types depending on whether you’ve got keyless entry and/or a reversing camera.

I’ve seen a lot of hideous chrome ones, Qashqai owners can go almost as mad with the stuff as PT Cruiser owners.

Reminded me of the hooge side steps on my brothers car he just got when zafira got wrote off

[beko1987]

Does anyone have any opinion of Autogreen tyres before I get a pair nailed to the front of the Zafira over the weekend?

 

They are very reasonably priced, the same figures for fuel, noise etc as Avon zv7's and I'm sure I've seen the name on modern car tyres.