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[SRi05]

The super duper reliable Mitstubishi threw an EML on me this morning, ARSE. plugged my quality* code reader and it's a fault with the 02 sensor. Thankfully cheap to replace

[barefoot]

I actually repaired one of my vehicles myself this morny.

 

Put it in your diary, it doesn't happen very often. I replaced a headlamp bulb in the Scirocco. Not a single tool was required!

Pull off the block connector, remove the rubber weather shield thing. Squeeze the two wire clips together and out with the H4.

 

I had to have a bit of a sit down after, all that bending over under the bonnet made me come over all queer.

[Ghosty]

Just got a text off the mother saying the Civic is HGFing.

 

FOR FUCK'S SAKE, D-SERIES

[Guest Hooli]

RELIABLE HONDA ENGINE - You never said what they can be relied upon to do.

[stuboy]

Step dad finally seen sense and getting rid of his modern shitroen that has been nothing but a pile of poop and returned to the blue side with a c-max...

 

 

Yay

[fordperv]

Stevie wonder did the paint mixing for the front bumper

[holbeck]

Bad News: 405 Dead, possibly fuel pump fubar'd.

 

Good News: Xantia Collection Friday

[bramz7]

Bad News: 405 Dead, possibly fuel pump fubar'd.

 

Good News: Xantia Collection Friday

 

Ah what a bummer about the 405. Bosch isn't it? I think I've seen a couple for sale for sub £100 if that's any help?

[holbeck]

Ah what a bummer about the 405. Bosch isn't it? I think I've seen a couple for sale for sub £100 if that's any help?

 

Pompe Lucas. TBH I'm probably going to weigh it, or sell spears/repears

[320touring]

Pompe Lucas. TBH I'm probably going to weigh it, or sell spears/repears

Sure there will be some demand from 405 lickers here re spares/resurrection:)

[vulgalour]

Another FTP.

 

Everything was going so well until the car got fully warmed up and then I had an erratic idle to the point that fine adjustment with the choke was required.  After getting it going in the car park I managed to coast into  I managed to limp home at 20-30mph with a wandering idle and having to compensate with the choke just to keep the car from stalling out.  On inspecting it looks like the condenser has failed, and it's burned the points so badly they now need replacing too.  Rather than fork out for parts that might be unreliable (as is often the case) or fit the condenser I do have, I decided to just fork out £30-ish for an electronic ignition kit that replaces the points and condenser.

 

If it works then super!  If it doesn't then I'll know electronic ignition is not the magic cure all folks claim it to be.

[R9UKE]

Reunited with an old flame.... and yes, that's where my username comes from 

 

 

This beauty found ME loads of years back.  Was selling a petrol Volvo V70, guy turns up with his p/ex and when I saw it was a V6 Laguna I had to do my best disinterested act to avoid giving away the excitement.  

 

Anyway I daily-ed it for a good while, then a mate bought it off me as a "stop-gap" which ended up becoming two years.  I sorted him out with a Rav-4 a few weeks back and the Lag is back with me, 22k miles and no MOT later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It needs quite a bit of work now despite being utterly reliable and never letting anyone down.  It hasn't had an oil change in my time with it, the brake discs and pads are done on all four corners, two springs broken, key card disintegrated (starts the car but nothing more), sat nav thinks it's back in France, tyre pressure sensors need deactivated.  Probably not worth spending the money on but there's something about it, it just never gives up and performs work horse duties brilliantly under the hushed tones of a thirsty V6.  I do have the '06 V6 Initiale Estate too, but the phase one Lag II is really becoming a rare sight, and I know it's got so much more to give.  We'll see what the New Year brings...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[320touring]

Nice one, hope you enjoy having it back:)

[davehedgehog31]

Pompe Lucas. TBH I'm probably going to weigh it, or sell spears/repears

 

I'd have some bits... Would rather it lived on right enough.

[anonymous user]

I have the Land Rover back, still a few jobs to have finished but it's transport (the gearbox replacement snowballed a bit). The C15 is back tomorrow, I stuck my head under it earlier at the garage and the welding is very tidy. While at the garage they were doing a couple of Mot jobs on a Peugeot 107, it is 9 years old but has only done 3600 miles from new. The jobs are mainly things that have dried out/cracked from lack of use. It looked like new, apparently the lady owner doesn't really need a car anymore but keeps it parked outside her house to stop anyone else parking there.

[SierraMikeHotel]

Good luck R9UKE, I went back to an ex once and it didn't go too well - not to piss on your chips, I sincerely hope you'll be happier than we were!

[taxi paul]

Getting petrol yesterday when two twenty something dolly birds came into the garage shop. Driving a 67 plate Q7. They needed ad blue. They ended up with a 10 ltr tub of the stuff. Qué lots of looking around the car and wondering what to do with it. Don't worry fit ladies lots of willing men rushed to help you has I drove off , mainly because I didn't have a bloody clue either.

[anonymous user]

That ad blue goes in the washer bottle, doesn't it, I think

[stuboy]

Car insurance is up for renewel, for the daddy wagon and it was £720 with one years no claim, rAng them up sayung really thats the best price and miraculously it dropped by £120, it may seem high but its got both me and my toygirl fiance on the policy

[Mally]

Getting petrol yesterday when two twenty something dolly birds came into the garage shop. Driving a 67 plate Q7. They needed ad blue. They ended up with a 10 ltr tub of the stuff. Qué lots of looking around the car and wondering what to do with it. Don't worry fit ladies lots of willing men rushed to help you has I drove off , mainly because I didn't have a bloody clue either.

 

I took our Motability car back because they serviced it and didn't do the adblue, which is included on Motability.

Took them ages, when I complained it turned out it filled where the spare wheel should be if they existed nowadays.

I'd taken the floor panel out and replaced it with 12mm ply, all screwed down nice and tidy to support the electric wheelchair and scooter.

Being mechanics they couldn't get it out.

[vulgalour]

I just reminded myself that I have another big Princess expense coming up.  The rear suspension is a bit too firm because it's a bit low on gas, it's quite noticeable on some road surfaces too, and it's been getting steadily worse.  Thankfully, the Kennedys do a reputable re-gas service and I do have spare rear displacers.  Unfortunately I have no idea whether or not the pivot shafts on my spares are seized so I'm not really looking forward to stripping those down.  I shan't get the front displacers done straight away since the front rides really nicely.  It will have to wait until January, all the same.  The individualiser adaptors have at least helped identify where suspension problems are, so they're proving to be a really good idea all round.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Anyone who can keep another living being in a cage has serious issues.

EFA

[Ghosty]

Further to the Civic shitting its headgasket (not a surprise considering it's done half its typical yearly mileage in six weeks), the blower motor on the 850 has completely shat itself. Thankfully, it seems likely it'll just need a bit of lubrication. I hope it doesn't need replacing as they aren't the cheapest - though it's only a glovebox out job to do so that's not so bad (had to replace the 740 glovebox too, was a piece of piss), and a replacement resistor pack is on the way to enable the other three fan speeds.

Also, one of the sprung retaining pegs on the tonneau cover has fallen off (though I still have it), so that's been rendered useless too, for the time being until I work out a way to get it back in (glue? silicone?). The tailgate trim is off as all the clips broke when I took it off to see why the rear wiper was seized out of its resting position, though Old Man unseized the wiper linkage in my absence (had to go to work). Also one of the leather inserts in the door cards is out as the fibreboard backing to it needed bracing - it'd been snapped by a previous idiot trying to take the door card off for some reason - they also left a bolt finger tight behind it. It's a bit of a mess at the moment. Also the lambda light has come back on - this equates to 'check engine' so I'll have to check that if it's still on tomorrow.
This all leaves me in a bit of a pickle as the Volvo is just a mess, and can't be demisted easily at all, and I can't really use the Civic for worry of it overheating.


These two cars are the only ones I've had so far where the previous owners have referred to them as 'she' as they've been selling them. For reasons unknown to myself, I've just gone with it, maybe it's the right thing to do. The Civic has found itself being named Renée - I don't know why.
I feel more of a connection with the Civic and the 850 than my previous cars though. I certainly feel I'd be happy settling down with them, and not having something going in and out every three months or so as 2018 has been. Probably something to do with them actually being decent, reliable cars that have charm and appeal, as opposed to a series of worthless Rovers that don't do one thing particularly well once you realise what they're going against.

[somewhatfoolish]

Getting petrol yesterday when two twenty something dolly birds came into the garage shop. Driving a 67 plate Q7. They needed ad blue. They ended up with a 10 ltr tub of the stuff. Qué lots of looking around the car and wondering what to do with it. Don't worry fit ladies lots of willing men rushed to help you has I drove off , mainly because I didn't have a bloody clue either.

Isn't it basically urea, so the VIZ Top Tip is to piss in the tank in an emergency?

[Guest Hooli]

These two cars are the only ones I've had so far where the previous owners have referred to them as 'she' as they've been selling them.

 

All cars are female due to their endless ability to absorb time, money & effort, yet we still want to get inside them.

[bub2006]

That's a fucking grand description fella!

[angle]

Jesus bloody Christ. I've just sprinted down the road after a lady in an Aygo, and caught up with her at the traffic lights. She was merrily doing 30mph with her back OS wheel seized solidly, smoke coming off the tyre and sounding like a bag of cats being fed into a threshing machine.

 

'oh, I thought it didn't feel quite right, do you think I should take it to the garage at lunch?'

[Amishtat]

Or maybe take the fucking handbrake off..

[angle]

She didn't have it on, the other wheel was moving fine...

[vulgalour]

That's incredible.  How does anyone think it's fine to just drive around with a wheel completely locked up?