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[fairkens]

Curl one off on his doorstep.

Reckon he'd like an argos catalogue

[egg]

renewal quote for Mondeo through at £172. Can't fault it really, only 3,000 miles - but that's full multi-location business use included. If I could find a classic insurer that would accept it, I'd have the advantage of agreed value, but the price benefit really isn't going to be that much.

[dome]

I am sure someone on here has complete shed of a car that can be deposited on said persons doorstep.

Get his number and get sheefag to give him a call

[JJ0063]

Golf needs at least 2 tyres, were advisories in September.

 

Thought I’d have a quick look on FaceAche marketplace before buying new... 27 mins earlier someone had listed 4 x 225/40/18’s in a village 15 mins away.

 

Was there straight away.. they had been on a car for 9 weeks last winter and sat in the rafters of his garage since.

 

£40 for the 4.

 

 

Yes they’re winter tyres but for that price I’m well chuffed.

[DodgeRover]

Today I have mostly been taking the interior of the 75 to bits to try and find out why the towbar electrics aren't working. So far I have ascertained that there is no live power to the 7-way switching relay thing which is conveniently* buried underneath the boot floor. There is a thick red wire which I assume is the live feed, but it's dead. It disappears off behind the boot trim and down towards the front of the car, but I have hitherto been unable to discover where it resurfaces. I've traced it down as far as the front passenger seat, but then it seems to turn off towards the centre of the car, and I can't follow it any further without taking the passenger seat out, which I really can't be arsed with.

 

So I'm still none the wiser as to where it should be picking up its feed from - it's nowhere to be seen around either fuse box or in the engine bay. It might have been routed to some random permanent live somewhere under the seat or centre console, but tracking that down will likely need a greater level of dismantling than I am prepared to undertake. I am going to have another look in the morning when it's light again and see if I can spot it coming out anywhere, but if not I'm going to have to take the easy* option and run another live feed straight from the battery and then join it up (via an inline fuse) with the existing wire somewhere around the B pillar. I love* modern car electrics.

Is it fed from a rear fag lighter?

[wuvvum]

That would be a good shout, but the 75 doesn't have one.  I'm wondering whether the wire runs through the centre console and up to the front fag lighter though - the only other permanent live through there would be the hazard switch which is just behind the gear lever, but I don't know if that would be man enough to power a full set of trailer lights.

[Ohdearme]

Today I plan to find something to stick in the ciggie lighter of the Galaxy and see if all my tinkering has fixed that.

 

Also, I can' stop unnecessarily googling old V6 Galaxy/Sharans and being jealous of their heated seats and 200 bhp.

[Guest Hooli]

That would be a good shout, but the 75 doesn't have one. I'm wondering whether the wire runs through the centre console and up to the front fag lighter though - the only other permanent live through there would be the hazard switch which is just behind the gear lever, but I don't know if that would be man enough to power a full set of trailer lights.

Why would you need a perm live to trailer lights? Surely it's fed off the car's sidelight circuit. Possibly using the sidelights to trigger a relay which then powers the trailer's lights.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Today I plan to find something to stick in the ciggie lighter of the Galaxy and see if all my tinkering has fixed that.

 

Also, I can' stop unnecessarily googling old V6 Galaxy/Sharans and being jealous of their heated seats and 200 bhp.

And 12mpg

 

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[DodgeRover]

Why would you need a perm live to trailer lights? Surely it's fed off the car's sidelight circuit. Possibly using the sidelights to trigger a relay which then powers the trailer's lights.

Modern canbus/ bulb warning light get around is to use a separate power feed for the trailer but trigger it from the existing rear lights via a. Lack box.

[Vince70]

My weekend has been spent under the bonnet of cars as first my girlfriends 206 died as the release bearing went so it has no gears and she decided she doesn’t want to spend any money on it so it’s going to the bridge.

It’s a shame really as it’s a good little motor but I can’t talk her out of it.

 

The car also has a some lovely condition alloys and a new set of Firestone’s fitted but I cannot find anyone who wants them even for free but it had a parrot Bluetooth so I took that out and it’s going in the mini so she’s using the daughters Ka which has been unused for months so it needed a quick MOT and then that also packed up but a quick look on the code reader and a set of leads and it’s now sorted.

 

Also it was lucky I had my Pela pump as the Peugeot had a full tank of fuel so that’s now in the Ka and I also put a gallon in the Mini.

[Guest Hooli]

Modern canbus/ bulb warning light get around is to use a separate power feed for the trailer but trigger it from the existing rear lights via a. Lack box.

That makes sense. I hadn't thought of such black magic.

[HillmanImp]

Hmmm.

 

 

Broken down at a car dealers in Dewsbury.

 

Think its the immobiliser.

[brownnova]

Saab built planes you know....

 

Not this plane, but just so you know what a plane looks like...

 

 

Nice day for breakfast at the local airfield cafe.

[MarvinsMom]

^Mig 21?

 

does anyone know where that picture was taken?

[chadders]

Certainly looks like a Mig 21 to me

[HillmanImp]

Hmmm.

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Broken down at a car dealers in Dewsbury.

Think its the immobiliser.

Bloke from Yorkshire Rescue came out, thought it was the battery and dragged it back to his yard.

 

Turns out the positive had come off the starter motor.

 

All sorted.

 

[dollywobbler]

I seem to be a car cleanerer now. Matiz looked filthy next to the Skoda, so I washed it. Then the Nippa looked completely minging next to the Matiz. I'm glad other cars are parked elsewhere...

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I seem to be a car cleanerer now. Matiz looked filthy next to the Skoda, so I washed it. Then the Nippa looked completely minging next to the Matiz. I'm glad other cars are parked elsewhere...

That is a stunning line up. Good job sir. Personally think the Favorit looks bang on now. Too shiny and new wouldn't work for me.

 

Tempted to do a wide shot of all the cars lined up together? Guess that would be tricky with the Reliant

 

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[Supernaut]

That is a stunning line up. Good job sir. Personally think the Favorit looks bang on now. Too shiny and new wouldn't work for me.

 

Tempted to do a wide shot of all the cars lined up together? Guess that would be tricky with the Reliant

 

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How would it be tricky with the Reliant? It's plastic and has no engine in it! Must be fairly easy to push.

[stuboy]

Well today started off gloomy with spitting with rain, trackrod end on nearside all ok, jack up offside, took wheel off to change lower arm( what a palaver with rear bolt), wheel i turned disc to get better access i noticed brake pad had seperated from its back plate, so new pads needed, only halfords was open and missus when off and got them £14.99 so three jobs all done ready for mot retest.. im fucked... ????????????

[mrbenn]

You've done well there. Glad you had a large enough clamp to push the piston back for the new pads. I didn't, had to push it with my thumbs, they hurt for days afterwards!

[problemhamster]

Six months ago I  made the financially sound decision to have the engine of my heavily pregnant wife’s family car (a previously reliable 2004  1.3l 4 door Mazda) rebuilt when it failed at 50k miles (rather than waste money buying a whole new car), but it turns out I may have made a slight miscalculation as the pregnancy resulted in yet another child, which we now struggle to get into the car. 

 

A second family car was thus needed (no point getting rid of the one I’ve spent all that money on, that’d be madness).  Ideally, it should be easier to park than the Mazda, which has front doors of such prodigious length that you struggle to open them in a normal space.  As my wife’s not working now this other child has turned up we’ve decided not to lease something which could be rather expensive, so have sensibly gone for a 12 year old low mileage car (which did all it’s miles in the first years of it’s life, then spent the last few years doing a few hundred miles a year – pretty sure that’s be best way around). 

 

The service manual has a ‘full service history’, this isn’t worth quite as much as it sounds however as having a look at the document in detail reveals that the first service apparently didn’t happen until the car was three years and 20k miles old, and was not exactly from a main dealer.  Or a garage that didn’t have wheels of it’s own.  Still, at least it was to 'maufacturers specification', and it speaks wonders to the authenticity of this document (and/or the attention to detail of the chap performing the servicing) if this spelling error on his stamp wasn't corrected over all the years he serviced this car.  

 

That doesn’t really worry me, however - as the service manual is for an estate, and ours is a saloon – so it’s likely not my problem.

 

 

 

We avoided the obvious expense of the diesel, as there’s a whole load of problems that can go wrong with those complicated beasts when they get older (not to mention the fuel is considerably more expensive).

 

Had a quick look at it today in the daylight.

 

It’s got cool looking premium branded vintage tyres

 

 

And seems in generally good condition. 

 

   

 

The unbearable wheel wobble above 60mph means speeds are kept sensible, so new disks/pads may be in it’s future, but luckily a quick look at the suspension reveals things look pretty much like they did when it left the factory!

 

 

I have made a series of financially sound decisions, and I am sure everything is going to be fine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

That is a stunning line up. Good job sir. Personally think the Favorit looks bang on now. Too shiny and new wouldn't work for me.

 

Tempted to do a wide shot of all the cars lined up together? Guess that would be tricky with the Reliant

 

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I want to do this, but we're out of light today. Will probably wait until the Fox gets its turn in the garage. Hopefully not too long away.

[mrbenn]

I want to do this, but we're out of light today. Will probably wait until the Fox gets its turn in the garage. Hopefully not too long away.

 

You need moar garages. You're not alone in that, actually.

[Bren]

Saab built planes you know....

Not this plane, but just so you know what a plane looks like...

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Nice day for breakfast at the local airfield cafe.

Good photo. Aircraft look like SU 22 fitter.

[Skizzer]

Made some very slight progress today; I wrestled the failed fuel pump off the Audi 80.

 

I started this last weekend but got nowhere as everything was rusted up to buggery, so I sprayed it with the outstandingly good Screwfix No Nonsense fuck-you juice and left it to think about its behaviour until today.

 

 

Take that ya bastad.

 

Quite liking those blue plastic hose clamps, by the way - set of three from Machine Mart, easy to use and effective.

 

 

That clamp bolt is toast, too. BFO bolt cutters soon persuaded it to let go and I’ll replace it with a stainless one, with some nylon washers to prevent galvanic corrosion.

 

I ended up having to cut the fuel hose as there was no way it was coming off the banjo fitting and the banjo itself was going nowhere. It’s impossible to get a spanner on the locknut properly because the terminals are too close. I’ll get a new banjo fitting.

 

 

The fuel pump and filter are mounted on a bracket that’s fixed to the car by three rubber mounts. The tiddly M4 bolts through two of these mounts have sheared, so they’ll have to be replaced (although I have to admit cable ties flashed into my mind).

 

 

So another round of penetrating oil and another instalment next week.

 

The correct Bosch pump is NLA so I’ve procured an ersatz replacement made of finest Chinesium. At least it’s a similar weight.

 

 

And so the sun sets on another unfinished job...

 

[cobblers]

The service manual has a ‘full service history’, this isn’t worth quite as much as it sounds however as having a look at the document in detail reveals that the first service apparently didn’t happen until the car was three years and 20k miles old, and was not exactly from a main dealer.  Or a garage that didn’t have wheels of it’s own.  Still, at least it was to 'maufacturers specification', and it speaks wonders to the authenticity of this document (and/or the attention to detail of the chap performing the servicing) if this spelling error on his stamp wasn't corrected over all the years he serviced this car.  

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If "Mark Davies Specialist mobile servicing" has ever existed, he's never once advertised his name or phone number on the internet, nor registered as a company and had any of his details scraped. But he did remember to swap to a blue pen for one of the services at least so it does show some willing. I wonder what was in the real service book which made this seem better?

[spike60]

Some of you good folk may have seen my thread of when I acquired a Merc SEC just after Christmas so here's a uneventful update. It cut and refused to restart about halfway home from collection, not entirely unexpected as it was last taxed in 2002. Unfortunately it fired up instantly when brought home so I decided to replace the fuel pump ( not really likely cause),fuel filter, pump relay (possible) and over voltage protection relay which seem to get blamed for must things on old Mercs. The OVP relay supplied was the wrong one and I shit out  decided to do pump and filter when the tank wasn't 1/2 full, think of a petrol tank holding 50L with an 8" piece of 34 year old garden hose straight from the bottom going directly into the pump. Hmm.  The pump relay had been previously repaired and smells a touch burnt, hopeful but not a certain cause.

So, I had to man up and just use it to see what happens next. And the answer so far is nothing, it's done about 80 local miles with a cheapo Chinese pump relay so I may step up and take it to work tomorrow, not far but dark and busy.Wish me luck!

It's also had fresh oil, anti freeze a central locking pump and a light coat of tlc. 

It pulls to the left, the coolant temp fluctuates and it smells like a museum inside. I love it! 

Have an unwashed pic from Asda this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[beko1987]

It probably just needs a good run! Get a few filters in and run expensive petrol/snake oil through.