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[DodgeRover]

Exactly and compressing over time I thought.

[oldcars]

Need to get some No Nonsense on the 75 door latches. It was a frosty morning on Thursday and when I opened the drivers door to get my scraper the door wouldnt close again, instead it just bounced open, very annoying. Working the lock off the key sorted it.

 

Also, need to keep an eye on the temperature, looks like it is still struggling to reach operating temperature. The longer run to Scotoshite on Wednesday should confirm. I'll be very annoyed if the inline thermostat repair hasn't workwd because the experts* almost say its a guaranteed fix. I bought it from DMGRS so I' m confident it's fit for purpose and I followed the instructions to the letter/mm. It was also a ballache to fit. If it's still playing up I might sack it off.

 

I don't mind things breaking but when you carry out a correct repair and the car still doesn't want to behave, it makes me pretty cross.

The bouncing door lock thing is a pain. Mine does it a lot, never managed to sort it out. I got a stat in mine, but the proper one. I didnt fit it but it was a nightmare i was told. Hopefully yours should work. Mine still takes ages to get up to temp.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

News from the gearbox workshop: CX radiator is not far off springing a leak and some of the pipes are corroded....

 

Great.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Due to the fog here in Wake's field this morning it was the sound of the 70's with my Fiesta 950 deciding to flatten its battery in only about three tries.

 

As it's only three days since I've used it and the battery is an ancient square pin one I ordered a new one from Euro car parts at 1400 which has just been delivered, which was nice.

 

Came with these which we only £4

 

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With every barging set of mats come the realisation that I forgot to order battery post converters...

 

£3 something, have to go collect them so the old batterys on charge again. Other stupid thing is listing on the website says 1 but the picture shows 2 so do you get a 'set' or not?

 

I'm sure all this excitement and more will be revealed when I enter the mysterious world of Euro car parts!

[vulgalour]

Hmm... it may not be the condenser at fault on the Princess after all.  Just removed the old one completely and the eyelet fell off the internal earth wire, the wire has fatigued and split right at the crimp.  This will be the second time that's been repaired in my ownership, when I first got the car the same wire was just bare copper wrapped in electrical tape and causing all sorts of weird issues.  I do wonder if this wire has been split for a while and could be the source of the intermittent splutter/stumble that I've been unable to pin down, because it's been providing an unreliable earth.

 

New condenser does look and feel substantially better made than the one that's fitted and will drop straight in so if the old one has failed as well (still very likely) at least I can fix everything.  Or Mike can, because he's better at herding electrons and volts than I am.

[xtriple]

Just been to the shop in the XJ, once again the battery was flat (sod! Thank God for tiny boost packs    ) but then as it was flat and driven slowly with lights, wipers and air con on, no great surprise it didn't charge up. So of course, I have just done exactly the same again so it will still be flat tomorrow/whenever I next use it.

 

Just checked the 'average fuel consumption' on the computer, it made dire, almost suicidal reading. Granted, it does a couple of miles from stone cold and then gets parked until it's cold again, so every journey is with it stone cold, but even so, bad is not a sufficient word for it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.6 MPG which fell to 7.5 while I was watching it!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just been to the shop in the XJ..... it does a couple of miles from stone cold and then gets parked until it's cold again, so every journey is with it stone cold, but even so, bad is not a sufficient word for it!....

 

Can't be good for it if it never really gets the chance to warm up?

[Mally]

That's 3 whole trips to the shop, ample!

[AlabamaShrimp]

7.5 isn't car off what my Frontera is doing. £30 worth goes nowhere.

 

Anyway joy of joys went for battery converters only for me to drive of about a quarter of a mile and have the sodding exhaust fall off

 

 

Both rubbers rotted through. Tied it up got some more. Cars are ungrateful cunts.

[red5]

N182DMK lives on. ????

 

1xMot pass thank you very much. Fronterror 2eight ftw. Now just the window regulator, yadda yadda.

[Steve79]

Just been to the shop in the XJ, once again the battery was flat (sod! Thank God for tiny boost packs ) but then as it was flat and driven slowly with lights, wipers and air con on, no great surprise it didn't charge up. So of course, I have just done exactly the same again so it will still be flat tomorrow/whenever I next use it.

 

Just checked the 'average fuel consumption' on the computer, it made dire, almost suicidal reading. Granted, it does a couple of miles from stone cold and then gets parked until it's cold again, so every journey is with it stone cold, but even so, bad is not a sufficient word for it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.6 MPG which fell to 7.5 while I was watching it!

 

 

Are your o2 sensors working correctly? When I had the 3.2 xj6 both of them were knackered and it had a catastrophic impact on mpg!

[AlabamaShrimp]

N182DMK lives on. ????

 

1xMot pass thank you very much. Fronterror 2eight ftw. Now just the window regulator, yadda yadda.

I need a window regulator too. Where do you get your bits from?

[red5]

Ns or os rear?

Ps, think I found the rear headrests for yours.

 

PPS, first refusal still on her.

[Guest Hooli]

Just been to the shop in the XJ, once again the battery was flat (sod! Thank God for tiny boost packs    ) but then as it was flat and driven slowly with lights, wipers and air con on, no great surprise it didn't charge up. So of course, I have just done exactly the same again so it will still be flat tomorrow/whenever I next use it.

 

Just checked the 'average fuel consumption' on the computer, it made dire, almost suicidal reading. Granted, it does a couple of miles from stone cold and then gets parked until it's cold again, so every journey is with it stone cold, but even so, bad is not a sufficient word for it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.6 MPG which fell to 7.5 while I was watching it!

 

TBH I doubt mine would do much better on such short trips.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Ns or os rear?

Ps, think I found the rear headrests for yours.

 

PPS, first refusal still on her.

Nearside front. Tbh it might just be a bit of plastic I keep forgetting to take the door apart.

 

I have the rear headrests in. There's two and no slot for a third (I think). I do want one of those little rubber trays for the dash is you've got one knocking about.

 

You'll always get the first call if it's ever for sale but I can't see that being anytime soon. It's a twat on petrol but it drives so well and so far no welding...

[red5]

What's it do? If it's come off you need some Tiger seal and ability to trust my somewhat odd instructions. Assuming it still goes whirr.

[Craig the Princess]

7.5 isn't car off what my Frontera is doing. £30 worth goes nowhere.

 

Anyway joy of joys went for battery converters only for me to drive of about a quarter of a mile and have the sodding exhaust fall off

 

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Both rubbers rotted through. Tied it up got some more. Cars are ungrateful cunts.

Sympathies, BeeP noticed the exhaust on the Multipla was low, one hanger had rotted through as had half of the other and most of the final half.

 

Must be the season for it.

[dollywobbler]

Shouldn't they be wound back to zero after use to keep them in spec? Something about the spring stretching over time rings a bell.

 

Ah crap. Something else I've been doing wrong.

[richardmorris]

Are your o2 sensors working correctly? When I had the 3.2 xj6 both of them were knackered and it had a catastrophic impact on mpg!

C reg won’t have them will it?

[MarvinsMom]

i thought mr 3x XJ-S was a fuel injected one, so will have oxygen  sensors?

 

in rover news, we got the brake wear sensor things changed, and have also changed the mutilated, and crusty caliper bolts for nice new ones. so next time we need to take the brakes to bits hioefully we won't have any issues getting them apart. only thing been of course cos its wet and horrid outside, the underneath of the car was soppin' wet......

 

and with new wear things added, the warning light on the dash is no longer coming on.

 

which is nice.

 

the lexus is it seems, touch wood, all well and the little cars, well the orange mini and the metro, they are locked away in the dry.

 

the black mini we've not bothered with it, so i assume that its ok? if not, then it is still insured......

[AlabamaShrimp]

What's it do? If it's come off you need some Tiger seal and ability to trust my somewhat odd instructions. Assuming it still goes whirr.

Still makes a noise. Was loudly clicking on closing then it made clicks and wouldn't open which made me think it was a cog (Fiesta ST has eaten 3 cogs doing the same, design fault apparently), not trident it again since.

 

I still need a diff oil seal kit and possibly O2 sensor/s as it's yet again going up and down at idle (it had calmed down when the exhaust was welded but it's back again). It's not bad but it's killing the mog.

[wuvvum]

The 75 estate is still having door-closure-related alarm issues, despite me lubing the fuck out of the catch mechanism this morning.  For now I've unplugged the alarm horn (to avoid pissing the neighbours off) and deactivated the interior lights (to give the battery half a chance and also to avoid attracting unwanted attention to the car).  I'll check it again in the morning to see if a) the alarm has gone off (it pings up a warning on the dash display if it has) and b ) the battery has survived the night with the horn and lights switched off.  I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet though and take the door card off to see if I can unplug the door switch.  What I'm not sure of is whether closing the door makes or breaks the circuit - if it makes it then I'm going to have to bridge the wires to the switch somehow.

 

I've also nicked a couple more bits of trim off the "new" 75 to go on the estate (door kickplates etc).  I tried fitting the (known working) parking sensor unit from the saloon to the estate, but it didn't bring the sensors back to life, so the problem must lie elsewhere.  I've discovered that my knock-off Delphi software will talk to a number of systems on the 75 - including the climate control - but it won't talk to the airbags, which is annoying.  Also the saloon's battery is now completely dead (it refused to restart after fuelling up at Tesco this afternoon, which was embarrassing) so it's now on a borrowed 063 which looks completely lost in the massive battery box but starts the car OK.

 

The Raleigh Runabout came as close as it's come so far to starting - it backfired quite impressively and stank my kitchen out.  The daft thing is I wasn't actually trying to start it - in fact it doesn't even have a carb fitted at the moment - I was just turning the engine over with a drill to see if the lights worked (they don't).  The carb has been off for a week now (and is going to be off a while longer as the gasket I ordered is wrong ) so feck knows what it was combusting - there must have been a bit of fuel made it through after all.

 

As the lights didn't appear to be working I removed the headlight bulb for a look.  One for LightBulbFun here:  dafuq kind of bulb is this?

 

 

It looks for all the world like a brake / tail light bulb (it even has the offset pins) but both filaments are 15w.  Is it a really half-arsed attempt at having dipped and main beam?  I've found 6v 15/15w bulbs on eBay, but they're set up more like a headlight bulb (longitudinal filaments with a wee deflector between them), and they don't have offset pins either.  I can't find one like mine at all.

[red5]

Looks like a 15w/3w BAY fitting to me? Deffo says 15/15w ?

[MorrisItalSLX]

7.6 MPG which fell to 7.5 while I was watching it!

 

That makes my 13 MPG XJ6 look efficient!

[panhard65]

i thought mr 3x XJ-S was a fuel injected one, so will have oxygen  sensors?

 

Lambda sensors are only required with catalytic convertors so mr triple's XJS won't have any. I suspect his fuel consumption woes are due to the V12 and short runs rather than any fault.

[xtriple]

Yes to all the above comments re the Jag(uar), it is fuel injected, it doesn't have any sensors in the exhaust and the dire fuel consumption is entirely down to me and my short trips. The car, after a lot of work and faffing about, is (touch wood, cross fingers, whistle) running really well! Gauges all work (still) heater/air con works, it goes like a rocket and is the most comfortable car I've had in years! Yes, the ride is nicer than the bloody Bentley ffs!

 

I shall get it's few bits of bodywork done soon(ish) and then it will be perfect until it next goes wrong.

 

I also note that I have a habit of looking back at it whenever I park it, this, I'm sure means I am really enamoured of the damn thing, I think it looks better now than it did back in the 80s and it is sooooooo low compared to everything else on the road - yes it's long and wide but it really is low but then I guess a lot of that is down to how tall and ugly modern cars are.

[wuvvum]

Looks like a 15w/3w BAY fitting to me? Deffo says 15/15w ?

Yep, says 15/15w and the filaments are both the same size as well.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Current fleet, only missing the 1985 Honda Vision that I’m still to collect and the X1/9 in storage.

[dozeydustman]

 

Didnt really know where to put this?

 

I can see this going down well!!

 

Whats ya name mate? Turkey what? Tunkeyton? Now we got non of those intermeadiates in we can have them for Monday?

You need them now? race about to start.............

We got some nice Bridgestones or we can do you some runways for £20 a corner?

Wayne will be with you in a minute hes just do an MOT!

Help yourself to a cold Coffee we will have you out of here by 6pm

 

 

 

http://www.btcc.net/2018/11/25/toca-announces-kwik-fit-as-title-sponsor-of-british-touring-car-championship/?fbclid=IwAR3-Cpd556B2I-bwbsl6Yfs58AKK1siMserbc1fBzjUxJILvh_zhYtOuMnY

 

 

 

I'm sure they'll get to the race scrutineers area poking about for jobs that don't need doing.

[egg]

I've found that on the first Sunday of every month in summer (Apr-Oct) there is a car meet in Central Calais (Place d'Armes). I've asked to join the Facebook group for the organisers - Calais Vehicles Anciens.

 

Surely something for 2019, where we can arrange a delegation??

 

Also they seem to have a vide grenier as well!

 

 

And here's a pic from a meet in St Omer this morning! (Similar group from the town)

 

 

I think we need to do this folks!!