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[dean36014]

 In surprise I received a phonecall this morning. So before he changed his mind again I went and grabbed the zx! It drives just like a new car and the autobox is so smooth.

[tommotech]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

It rained a lot last night and, happily, the bits I sealed up yesterday on the BX have stayed sealed up.  That means the water - much less than expected this time - is getting in elsewhere.  Tip off from Blackpopracing over on the blue forum that it might be the membranes behind the door cards, a fault of Mondeos, and having now removed all the door cards it looks like that's the problem.  There's various points along the bottom of all the membranes where the glue has failed and water is just sitting there.  This is an easy fix, at least, the hardest thing is going to be getting the lid off the tin of contact adhesive.

Good tip and yes, I’ve also had problems with those plastic membrane inner covers. They’re called water shedders on some parts guides. 

I use silicon gasket to put them on, easier than contact adhesive and maybe more durable. 

[Skizzer]

1 hour ago, dean36014 said:

 In surprise I received a phonecall this morning.

So before he changed his mind again I went and grabbed the zx! It drives just like a new car and the autobox is so smooth.

Excellent result.  MOAB is your washpot after all.

[Spurious]

 In surprise I received a phonecall this morning. So before he changed his mind again I went and grabbed the zx! It drives just like a new car and the autobox is so smooth.

That looks lovely, spotted it on bookface. Great colour.

Is it the TD?

[wuvvum]

Don't think you could get an auto 'box with the TD on the ZX.

[dean36014]

It's a n/a diesel, so stately performance.

Driveway looks good now though, colour matching cars!

[Spurious]

Anyone like free Citroen mags?

[Mally]

4 hours ago, tommotech said:

Definition of failure and success in one shot;

Having four major jobs to do on eldests 207 I decided powertrain removal was the easiest option, Wheel Bearing, Clutch, Head Gasket and Timing Belt to do. Just tightening on the final sequence and the b*satard snapped.  

Luckily I have spare bolts, but I don't have another Head Gasket.

You did well to get it out.

I'd call it total success.

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, HMC said:

Bon Voyage!

I may even come back.

[stuboy]

6 hours ago, dean36014 said:

It's a n/a diesel, so stately performance.

Driveway looks good now though, colour matching cars!

need to paint ur windows and door burgundy

[HMC]

That’s very few wipers on your driveway, top purchasing though!

[Lankytim]

Repaired a broken pipe on the fuel pump assembly that lives inside the diesel tank on my V70 with araldite. Will the diesel melt it? Let’s find out! 

[wuvvum]

Some pretty impressive flooding on the rural roads of Norfolk this afternoon - the 75 handled it happily enough but there were a couple of bits where I was worried water was going to start coming in over the sills.  Most of them had gone by this evening, but there was one place where the fire brigade were pumping water away from the road.

Oh, and I got the Renault 6's heater valve unseized.  It's still rather stiffer than I'd like, but it does now open and close.  I'm hesitant to refit the original (and slightly brittle) plastic control lever though given the level of force that is required to move it - I might just keep a 6mm spanner in the car and adjust the temperature that way.  Thanks to the spectacularly shit weather that's all I got done today.

[Split_Pin]

I don't think I ever got my 75 to aquaplane, it just shrugged the standing water out of the way.

[wuvvum]

I had it aquaplaning once, on the M11 on the way back from collecting the Raleigh Runabout from PBK.  I only realised it was doing it because the revs suddenly went up.  That was before I had the front tyres replaced though, and one of them was very borderline.  Agree that in general it just pounds road obstacles into submission with its enormous weight,

[Split_Pin]

Speaking of aquaplaning, currently at the garage waiting on Fatha_Pin. Dropping off the 172 for new bottom arms and track rods. He is kindly letting me borrow his Volvo v40 Cross Country (I think?) to do the school runs. It's a diesel auto so I'm looking forward to driving it!

[Ohdearme]

Psyching myself up to book the 323 in for an mot as runs out 6/11.

Three chips in the windscreen probably the only major item to scratch head about.

[dozeydustman]

My wife's friend's son has just bought himself a brand new Skoda Fabia, and wants me to sell/roffle his old car. Also a Fabia. All I know it's 03 plate, has about 63k on the clock, it's a 1.2 and it's got MoT until may 2020. He was offered £320 by WBAC.

Would there be any interest before I set up a 4sell Fred?

[Floatylight]

My wife's friend's son has just bought himself a brand new Skoda Fabia, and wants me to sell/roffle his old car. Also a Fabia. All I know it's 03 plate, has about 63k on the clock, it's a 1.2 and it's got MoT until may 2020. He was offered £320 by WBAC.
Would there be any interest before I set up a 4sell Fred?

That's not a bad shout from wbac to be honest, as long as they don't go round knocking it down when he gets there..

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[dozeydustman]

Just now, Floatylight said:

That's not a bad shout from wbac to be honest, as long as they don't go round knocking it down when he gets there..

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That's what his mum (wife's friend) was worried about as I know there's an issue with one of the electric windows (dicky switch)

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Some pretty impressive flooding on the rural roads of Norfolk this afternoon - the 75 handled it happily enough but there were a couple of bits where I was worried water was going to start coming in over the sills.  Most of them had gone by this evening, but there was one place where the fire brigade were pumping water away from the road.

Oh, and I got the Renault 6's heater valve unseized.  It's still rather stiffer than I'd like, but it does now open and close.  I'm hesitant to refit the original (and slightly brittle) plastic control lever though given the level of force that is required to move it - I might just keep a 6mm spanner in the car and adjust the temperature that way.  Thanks to the spectacularly shit weather that's all I got done today.

1 of our Brit neighbours has a 75 they brought with them,drove under an underpass in the local town after a fair downpour

Aquaplaned a good 30 metres before the car stopped,and promptly sank upto the top of it's headlights....

Had to climb out the windows as the doors wouldn't open, gathered some locals to help push it out

The last i heard they had got it running again but the interior is toast

[Ohdearme]

Ordered a windscreen chip repair kit for the 323 from Amazon. Used before so should be ok.

Especially as this one is so easy even a woman could do it (Their words not mine!!!)

[brownnova]

Failed to make any progress on getting the Yugo started this weekend (despite having planned to) so to make myself feel like i’d made at least some progress I ordered new number plates for it. 

 

I also failed to fix the Mazda (although I did buy the bits I need), however I did take down two unsightly trees which were blocking the light to the front of the house! 

House 1 Cars 0

[Split_Pin]

Aaaand I've ordered the wrong suspension arms for the 172. I made a concerted effort to make sure I got the right ones too. Not enough it would seem.

Likely the garage wont be able to source them cheaply either, and plus vat.

[TataBobu]

On 10/5/2019 at 7:47 PM, brownnova said:

I bought myself a little present...

A copy of Motor magazine from 7th September 1985. 

 

The article that interests me is the best cars for under £3500...

Why? Because it features a head to head between a Panda, a Mini, a Skoda Estelle a Lada, oh and...

A Citroen 2CV and a Yugo 45!! 

Any magazine featuring two of my fleet is absolutely worth it! 

So? The suspense is killing me! Which one is better?

[DVee8]

22 hours ago, dean36014 said:

 In surprise I received a phonecall this morning. So before he changed his mind again I went and grabbed the zx! It drives just like a new car and the autobox is so smooth.

So how did that chat face to face go after he first pulled the deal?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, TataBobu said:

So? The suspense is killing me! Which one is better?

Surely which one is MOAR basic?

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

My wife's friend's son has just bought himself a brand new Skoda Fabia, and wants me to sell/roffle his old car. Also a Fabia. All I know it's 03 plate, has about 63k on the clock, it's a 1.2 and it's got MoT until may 2020. He was offered £320 by WBAC.

Would there be any interest before I set up a 4sell Fred?

Weren't those early 1.2 triples a bit notorious for burning out valves etc?

[dean36014]

46 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

So how did that chat face to face go after he first pulled the deal?

Well considering I'd called him a wanker on Saturday morning it went ok. It was due to a family issue apparently as it was their late fathers car and his elder brother wanted it scrapped!

[dozeydustman]

14 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Weren't those early 1.2 triples a bit notorious for burning out valves etc?

No idea. I know nothing about VAG engines.