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[fordperv]

Amazing. Best tell her to buy a lottery ticket!

Safe to say she was over the moon, I did tell her she has used up next year's luck on this one

[egg]

To celebrate the birth of each of his children, my Motor trade dad made up a number plate for each of us. Given I'm old*, mine is proper raised digits . By the time my sister was born, she got a standard reflective effort...

[mrbenn]

Love the name plate! Excellent choice of name, too

[egg]

There were four Ben's in my first class at school. Popular name then.

 

I was called Big Ben.

 

Frankie Howerd mode...

 

because of my height, what's wrong with you people...

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Discovery scores 4 new tyres! This now provides me with 3 good spares. I wait in anticipation to see what major mechanical catastrophe will occur with it in the next few days to equal the universe out...

[MarvinsMom]

POS Rover 75......

 

in recent months its had a clutch, DMF, and new brake pads and discs, so today its thrown up a ABS fault and no speedo.

 

thank you you fuckin' turd.

 

given its done 168000 miles, and kerry has managed to turn it into a horrid filthy skip inside, i'm ready to run it straight up to the scrap yard and just have done.

 

Rover 75 forum suggests* that the fault will be in the o/s/f hub sensor cos that is the one which works the speedo, and that pone is the one we had to change the hub on cos the old one wasn't holding the bottom ball joint, cos it was fucked. and been a second hand one which has a siezed sensor stuck in it, so we had to join the existing wiring to the second hand hub. 

 

so kerry has bought a new ABS sensor, in the hope that it will cure the speedo/ABS warning light. if of course we can fit it.

 

we wont, and the new bit won't either.

 

fuckin' thing, anyone want a shitty old diesel etate?

 

no, no i didn't think so,,,,,,,,,,

[DodgeRover]

 

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I've stripped it and cleaned everything out and reassembled with a new float bowl gasket, but there appears to be a significant gap between the float bowl and its cover - I realise that the retaining bolt is well off to the side, but still, it shouldn't look like that - it's definitely not air- or pez-tight like it is.  I'm assuming something must have got warped at some point.  I'm going to try bodging it up with Hylomar, at least for now - the alternative is to purchase a replacement carb, and given that I'm trying to get the bike sorted on a fairly restricted budget I'd rather avoid that if at all possible.

I've run into a bit of an issue with the carb on the Raleigh.

 

If thats the same as the similar carbs i have come across before, then one of the jets sits proud, it needs to locate into the recess in the other half for the joint to close up. While this sounds obvious and simple its neither and usually requires twisting and faffing with the body halves before tightening screws up, could also be a miss shaped gasket?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Soooooo

 

Roomster no.1 passed MOT last week.

 

This week, it's rewarded us by flashing a low oil pressure light and promptly seizing. Bumhats.

 

As the Mrs does big miles, we've decided the policy of many disposable cars isn't working, so we went all out and bought a nearly new Hyundai i30 with barely 25k on the clock and a couple of years warranty left on it.

 

Hopefully she can now enjoy a few years of hassle free motoring. She deserves it, it's the nicest car she's had after me foisting various heaps on her over the years.

 

So that now leaves me with a working Roomster with many niggles, a borked Roomster and a borked W203.

 

After Christmas I'd sorely love to consolidate them all into something more interesting.......

 

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[richardmorris]

Soooooo

Roomster no.1 passed MOT last week.

This week, it's rewarded us by flashing a low oil pressure light and promptly seizing. Bumhats.

As the Mrs does big miles, we've decided the policy of many disposable cars isn't working, so we went all out and bought a nearly new Hyundai i30 with barely 25k on the clock and a couple of years warranty left on it.

Hopefully she can now enjoy a few years of hassle free motoring. She deserves it, it's the nicest car she's had after me foisting various heaps on her over the years.

So that now leaves me with a working Roomster with many niggles, a borked Roomster and a borked W203.

After Christmas I'd sorely love to consolidate them all into something more interesting.......

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Bumhats, to quote a published author.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Bumhats, to quote a published author.

Indeed.

 

It's worked out for the best, and for an appliance the Hyundai is actually quite nice. It drives really well and because it's so kind to kittens it costs zero money to tax.

 

I'm curious to see how long we can make a car last in our care owned from nearly new. We tend to look after things. Official service interval is a frightening 20k but I intend to at least do the oil every 5k. It's a modern diesel.

 

I'm actually a bit scared now. We've dumped many thousands on something that has much complication.........

 

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[mrbenn]

I think doing the oil super regularly (at least twice as often as specified) is one of the best bits of preventative maintenance you can do with a modern diesel!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I do think I'll have to restore the balance by buying something monumentally shite in 2019

 

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[stuboy]

Watching die hard and a lovely treat for us all

[vulgalour]

Did anyone else feel bad for the little Yugo?  I thought they were very mean to the poor little thing.  It did its best!

[stuboy]

Did anyone else feel bad for the little Yugo?  I thought they were very mean to the poor little thing.  It did its best!

great fun wee things

[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.