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[mrbenn]

£100 for two bulbs?

 

Bloody hell fire.

[SiC]

Just found this interesting post about HIDs and their construction:

https://priuschat.com/threads/not-all-hid-bulbs-are-created-equal.101472/

 

Complex little beasts.

[Kiltox]

£12 a year in headlight bulbs - progress?

[320touring]

£12 a year in headlight bulbs - progress?

Cheap for blinding the fuck out every cunt;)

 

Seriously though SiC - nice to see you installing these - they have been a mystery to me this far, but it looks a relatively painless experience!

[vulgalour]

Hang a couple of Tilley lamps off the door mirrors, job jobbed.

[dean36014]

It's March, therefore it's spring which means it's time for the bx to come out of hibernation. Great fun driving into work until the first of the water temperature warning lamps came on. A quick check at the side of the road and it didn't seem like it was a hot engine so onwards with the journey watching for the next warning light like a hawk. However the first warning light went back of and he drove perfect the rest of the way. On the way home the same thing again. I'm going to change the thermostat incase it's gone lazy while it's been parked up. The main radiator hoses didn't feel overly hot so I'm hoping it's just a thermostat issue.

 

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[Craig the Princess]

I bought a pair of lightbulbs for £100 once, it did come with the rest of the car for free mind.

[stuboy]

I bought a pair of lightbulbs for £100 once, it did come with the rest of the car for free mind.

I bought a pair of lightbulbs for £5 once, it did come with c reg beige maestro

[stuboy]

Top work. You have lots of snazzy stuff. My way of testing it would have been to balance it on the wing of car. Put wires to battery. Try and turn it on and then knock it off wing onto floor. good work all round.

 

id gone battery charger in the kitchen

[SiC]

Cheap for blinding the fuck out every cunt;)

 

Seriously though SiC - nice to see you installing these - they have been a mystery to me this far, but it looks a relatively painless experience!

Key thing is to make sure no power is going to the light when doing it. Obviously on the Audi the whole light cluster is disconnected so you can guarantee that.

 

Why? The bulbs startup with 15-20kV and then use 45-120v to sustain the arc. Enough to at least give you a nasty shock.

[SiC]

£12 a year in headlight bulbs - progress?

Wait till cars built recently with their LED dipped+main beam headlights get older. AFAIK they're sealed units and require the replacement/refurbishment of the whole light cluster to fix them.

[320touring]

Key thing is to make sure no power is going to the light when doing it. Obviously on the Audi the whole light cluster is disconnected so you can guarantee that.

 

Why? The bulbs startup with 15-20kV and then use 85-120v to sustain the arc. Enough to at least give you a nasty shock.

Good to know cheers!

[mark1986]

Not had a great run of luck this week. Tuesday morning on the way to work in the Clio, decent sized lump of something flicked up by the van in front. Big chunk out of the screen, Autoglass guy came to have a look but as I'd half expected, it's too much damage to be repairable so new screen on order.

 

Thursday, same bit of dual carriage way (must have been less than 300 yds from the 1st incident), front right puncture. Managed to get to a safe spot & get the spare swapped on but with an MoT in two weeks & tax just done for the end of Feb I could do without the extra cost right now. 

[MikeR]

Grim reaper sausages from Aldi for breakfast .....

 

Thats the eyes and nose cleared ...

 

Digestive tract later ...

[Jim Bell]

What is this car abandoned in the Fukushima exclusion zone?

 

Looks a bit like a 306 sedan.

 

[Rocket88]

This must be the spot of the year! Even after millions of those mis-labelled Corsas, this is what I first think of as a Nova.image.jpeg

 

Wonderful that one is still in use. A beetle-based kit car with a fibreglass body has to be a likely candidate for "last shite still drivieable" in my pension-poverty future....

 

That's probably the only one that ever got finished!

[Rocket88]

There's a bit about headlights in this week's Autocar in the letters page. Apparently, on some modern stuff, you can't fit beam deflectors OR adjust the lights for continental travel.............

[beko1987]

When I broke my old blue laguna for spares the tatty but fully working xeon headlight assemblies sold for £40 each in about 3 seconds when I put them up for sale! The ballasts do a Renault apparently and are very expensive new.

 

Should have listed it for more really but meh, got them out of the way

[Squire_Dawson]

I think I'll stick to £1 414 bulbs thank you.

[mercrocker]

As we trip into page 1961 it is appropriate that I have been grovelling under a Minor.   Springtime y'see..... 

 

I've not used it in anger over the winter because I was getting into a petulant frenzy about this time of year regarding the state of it underneath.   So this is the first grease job since December (usually a monthly chore)  

 

Yes I should paint my wheels.   But I won't - why do you think I bought £3 full trim rings at a car boot instead of a five pound aerosol.... 

  

 

 

It doesn't normally look this clean by March, I think its enjoying retirement....

 

 

 

 

 

Job's a good'un although the bloody grease cartridge ran out on the last nipple.  Got a new one in the shed but it was actually quicker to walk over to the motor factors and buy another.   I haven't done the propshaft yet as sod's law always dictates that the nipples are on the blind side facing the floor.   I need to get the back end up next week and sort out the knocking exhaust so I can do them then.  Oil change then, too - I fancy a stroll around the museum at Beaulieu (Mrs Rocker has some sort of meeting over that way) this afternoon.   Great having a winter shitter - all these jobs can be done at leisure.  

[vulgalour]

What is this car abandoned in the Fukushima exclusion zone?

 

Looks a bit like a 306 sedan.

 

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It's almost a Toyota Corolla, just not quite.  It has meant I discovered some things I didn't know about along the way http://autoshite.com/topic/18581-cars-you-didnt-know-existed-until-very-recently/page-93?do=findComment&comment=1760016

[wuvvum]

As we trip into page 1961 it is appropriate that I have been grovelling under a Minor.   Springtime y'see..... 

 

I've not used it in anger over the winter because I was getting into a petulant frenzy about this time of year regarding the state of it underneath.   So this is the first grease job since December (usually a monthly chore)  

 

Yes I should paint my wheels.   But I won't - why do you think I bought £3 full trim rings at a car boot instead of a five pound aerosol.... 

  

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It doesn't normally look this clean by March, I think its enjoying retirement....

 

 

 

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Job's a good'un although the bloody grease cartridge ran out on the last nipple.  Got a new one in the shed but it was actually quicker to walk over to the motor factors and buy another.   I haven't done the propshaft yet as sod's law always dictates that the nipples are on the blind side facing the floor.   I need to get the back end up next week and sort out the knocking exhaust so I can do them then.  Oil change then, too - I fancy a stroll around the museum at Beaulieu (Mrs Rocker has some sort of meeting over that way) this afternoon.   Great having a winter shitter - all these jobs can be done at leisure.  

 

Disc brake conversion - nice.  Does it have a servo too?

[mercrocker]

Disc brake conversion - nice.  Does it have a servo too?

 

Yes it does, with a remote m/c reservoir.   Not sure if I would have shelled out for discs but there are maintenance benefits!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

There's a bit about headlights in this week's Autocar in the letters page. Apparently, on some modern stuff, you can't fit beam deflectors OR adjust the lights for continental travel.............

Ive never bothered in nearly 40 years of driving in Europe. Not my fault they drive on the wrong side of the road.

In other news the Bentayga does it automatically from the GPS, as you come out of the tunnel it comes up " Continental headlamps" or something.

[andy18s]

Spotted today in a local diy centre

Paint is a bit flat but the bumpers are crack and duct tape free!!

[RayMK]

Found a place in Banbury which does paint matching and mixing while you wait.  The Tipo's offside rear door rust patch that I attended to the other day is now topcoated in the correct colour.  I'll lacquer it in a day or two.  Although I have not gone for perfection, you would have to look hard and closely to spot the cosmetic attention.  I have also washed and scrubbed the original three wheel trims so that, with a used fourth one obtained off eBay, they can be refitted.  I'll probably sand and spray them in the correct greyish silver beforehand.  The trims currently fitted are Fiat items but from a different or later model. I prefer the original style.     

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The e46 330d has gone to its new owner today. It's been parked up since December when the auto box would occaisionaly not change down. Advertised it on the Blue as it seemed more their kind of thing, guy came to look at it this morning and of course it's driving OK! Bloody cars...

Anyway he bought it and headed off to the M1 for Nottingam, hopefully it'll behave itself for him, we may even find out as I pointed him here. Think he'd fit right in, nice Lad, an engineer with a TVR and now a semi-broken e46.

[angle]

When I broke my old blue laguna for spares the tatty but fully working xeon headlight assemblies sold for £40 each in about 3 seconds when I put them up for sale! The ballasts do a Renault apparently and are very expensive new.

 

Should have listed it for more really but meh, got them out of the way

Yes. Yes, they do.

 

 

You get the same ballasts in the Citroen C5 though, which seem to be cheaper at breakers...

[Split_Pin]

Might as well keep it now, so I fixed the peeling door trim on the Audi. Glue didnt work as the strip is fairly stiff rubber with an inner metal membrane which has corroded and buckled.

 

They're £80 a side new, so I found an alternative fix*

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just about to leave Wales. No mobile coverage in the valley where I was (between Lampeter and Carmarthen), so like being back in the 1980s. Just what I wanted, and 100% horses. Going back there in six weeks' time....