The new news 24 thread

[mrbenn]

1 hour ago, xtriple said:

On the plus side, the number of places to park a bicycle in Torquay has just increased by 1 ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, mrbenn said:

On the plus side, the number of places to park a bicycle in Torquay has just increased by 1 ?

What else were you expecting to see from a Torquay hotel bedroom window? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

[xtriple]

18 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Maybe that Pela pump is the exact same one you gave him, destined to be passed back and forth like festive ping-pong?

Not quite. I handed him a huge box filled with 9 litre pump thing and he handed me another huge box filled with 9 litre pump thing Yes, we bought each other the same thing and he carted one from Coventry to Torquay and then swapped the exact same model and carted it back to Coventry. There's no insanity in our family...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

20 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Not quite. I handed him a huge box filled with 9 litre pump thing and he handed me another huge box filled with 9 litre pump thing Yes, we bought each other the same thing and he carted one from Coventry to Torquay and then swapped the exact same model and carted it back to Coventry. There's no insanity in our family...

Tell you what, let's cross out the "in"...

It's like giving Ferrero Rocher at Christmas, and then finding someone else has given you the exact same....

[EssDeeWon]

Finally back home with a cuppa after  200 miles in the Rover visiting family over Christmas down in Kent. Weather coming back this afternoon was atrocious, had to gingerly drive it though some flooded farm roads then the A2 from Dover was under water in places. How we didn’t aquaplane I’ll never know but relieved to be home with the car and myself in one piece.  

[Bren]

2 hours ago, xtriple said:

My new wheels/tyres are flawed. To wit: one flat back tyre. Well, flatter than it should be at about 15 psi. I am not well pleased.

Number 1 son turned up today bearing not only gifts (new shoes, 6 NGK platinum/irridium spark plugs and a Pela pump that, strangely matches exactly the one I bought him, but also a Vauxhall Vectra estate. I had a look at it and it looks bloody decent to me! Certainly better than the price would suggest and apart from the seats (which are just a 'tad' grubby) is in bloody fair condition. I believe you (us) lot have unfair expectations and it is a solid tharsand parnd car. To prove that it gets the love and attention it deserves, have a picture...

 

This is the most embarrassing picture of Kyle I have so  enjoy hairy arse!   

I am off for a round of toast

[MorrisItalSLX]

11 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

What else were you expecting to see from a Torquay hotel bedroom window? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Well might I suggest you move to a hotel closer to the sea. Or preferably in it.

[New POD]

12 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Tell you what, let's cross out the "in"...

It's like giving Ferrero Rocher at Christmas, and then finding someone else has given you the exact same....

Except ferrari-rosher(sic) are horrid and nutty and are only good for the packaging. 

[New POD]

On 12/24/2019 at 6:12 PM, HillmanImp said:

 

Incidentally there's a guy I was racing against called OP_OMEGA_V8 which I assumed was nothing to do with Vauxhalls but I've looked and theres a whole section on Wiki about prototype V8 Omegas. So its been educational too. 

You know that Holden made cars and pickups that appear to have very similar profiles to the front half of the omega right ?

Just buy a Monaro and retrofit the front panels off an omega. I'm sure it would fit. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

You know that Holden made cars and pickups that appear to have very similar profiles to the front half of the omega right ?

Just buy a Monaro and retrofit the front panels off an omega. I'm sure it would fit. 

Might be a bit wider than an Omega, though....

[hairnet]

Two inches

[HillmanImp]

Been out to do a 2 minute job changing the headlight bulb on the Subaru. 

Access was good, old bulb straight out, new bulb straight in, just need to clip it tigh.... 

Fucksticks. The plastic holding the retaining clip had snapped. 

I remember L1 saying the other side had broken too. Had a look and it was cable tied so I've done the same but not before I'd dropped my phone and half a packet of cable ties into the engine bay. 

It then took me about 10 minutes to get the bonnet down as it wouldn't shut. Managed it eventually. Now worried its gonna just pop open when I'm driving it as it was so reluctant to shut. 

Now the new light is about 400 times brighter than the other side so I'll have to go back tomorrow to get another to cable tie it in again and no doubt face more shenanigans. 

[loserone]

Yeah, the cable tying was a bitch.  Not sure why the headlights do that, I guess they get hot and it degrades the plastic.  That bulb can't be that old either, they were both changed in May.

[HillmanImp]

28 minutes ago, loserone said:

Yeah, the cable tying was a bitch.  Not sure why the headlights do that, I guess they get hot and it degrades the plastic.  That bulb can't be that old either, they were both changed in May.

Plastic just degrades doesn't it. It's just standard as stuff gets older innit.

I've got a light restoration kit too to de-yellow the lights. Will try and do that over the next few days as well. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

Two inches

Fill the gaps with wob. Nobody* will notice...

[N19]

Today is turning into a "one job leads to another" type of day... 

Decided to give the Bluebird some attention, discovered a damp spare wheel, traced to... Oh. Missing floor bung and an extra hole. And a spare wheel covered in rust. 

Cleaned up for now, wheel wirebrushed and kurusted, need to sort the boot floor out properly at some point. Sprayed the well with WD40 temporarily. 

Poking around the engine, oil filter is done up v tight and not much access for a grips style tool to remove, might splash out on a chain remover. 

[DVee8]

35 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Plastic just degrades doesn't it. It's just standard as stuff gets older innit.

I've got a light restoration kit too to de-yellow the lights. Will try and do that over the next few days as well. 

We drove past a bloke using a restoration kit and drill polisher on a S-type jag this afternoon.

[Split_Pin]

More messing about with the Mini today. It kept wanting to stall when the revs were allowed to return to idle Although it would always recover before it cut out manoevering was a pain in the arse because the issue made it too easy to stall without riding the clutch a lot.

Unhelpfully, it doesn't have a separate Idle Control Valve, everything is integral to the throttle body so all I could do was clean it up.

Quite a bit of trunking had to be removed. The smaller box is some sort of resonator.

Theres a surprisingly large about of room round the back of the engine with all of that removed. Throttle body sits under the bog pipe on the left.

The butterfly area was fairly clean however I gave it a few passes of brake cleaner anyway.

I accidentally stripped the thread of the tiny bolt holding on that useless resonator box (it's before the main air cleaner) so it's now cable tied in. Might replace it with plain pupe if I can be bothered.

The fall to idle seems much smoother now.

Ordered a MAF sensor too however the car doesn't have one (only Turbo models do) hopefully I'll get a refund of some sort.

[HillmanImp]

5 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

We drove past a bloke using a restoration kit and drill polisher on a S-type jag this afternoon.

Thats the sort of think I've got. Think it was about £15 from ECP. 

Will be careful to keep it very wet when sanding, my mate burnt the lenses in his Boxster doing it. 

[SiC]

11 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

More messing about with the Mini today. It kept wanting to stall when the revs were allowed to return to idle Although it would always recover before it cut out manoevering was a pain in the arse because the issue made it too easy to stall without riding the clutch a lot.

Unhelpfully, it doesn't have a separate Idle Control Valve, everything is integral to the throttle body so all I could do was clean it up.

Cars haven't had Idle Control Valves for years. Pretty much everything that is a fly-by-wire throttle body doesn't have one. 

Does the car have a clutch switch?  I know some cars have it not just for cruise but also to tell the ECU that there is a substantial load decrease coming because the clutch pedal is down. Then not to overreact from loosing that load. 

[hairymel]

Sisters poxy rotten transit update:

50 mile round trip to collect a new starter motor this morning.

Would have been the afternoon if the ecp guy hadnt phoned ,and woke me up, to tell me they shut at 6pm instead of 8.

Bit of a struggle to fit the new starter until I got to the ignition feed to the starter. Last connection and the ring terminal fell off before I even touched it.

Trip to my buddy to borrow a box full of useful conectors. Pretty shoddy repair but it was the best I could do due to access issues.

Then the poxy top bolt on the starter wouldn't go in.

1 1/2 hours into darkness relying on my phone balancing on my forehead and I'm done.

In more ways than one!

Giving my sister 2 bills

One at realistic garage rates and one with just parts and a £43 bottle of whiskey.

Wonder which one she will want to pay?

Ps van starts and runs obvs

 

 

[SiC]

1 minute ago, hairymel said:

Ps van starts and runs obvs

Now you've worked on it, how long does the new warranty last?

 

[hairymel]

Warranty? You are joking right?

As long as it moves out of the spot my voyager normally parks on I don't give a shit.

*possibly warranty until it goes to Portugal, I love my sister and I am a mug.

[Jamie]

Wifes civic hit the milestone which millenials say to bin the car 

[hairymel]

Transit guilt trip payment update :

brother in law has paid the parts and whiskey bill and tried to add an extra tenner which was refused.

sister has asked if I am in at 7 tommorrow night for a 'delivery'

I'm hoping for strippers

*wire type obviously

*not obviously but still hoping?

[dave j]

8 hours ago, hairymel said:

Transit guilt trip payment update :

brother in law has paid the parts and whiskey bill and tried to add an extra tenner which was refused.

sister has asked if I am in at 7 tommorrow night for a 'delivery'

I'm hoping for strippers

*wire type obviously

*not obviously but still hoping?

The delivery will be parts for you to service it! ?

[Split_Pin]

15 hours ago, SiC said:

Idle Control Valve.

Does the car have a clutch switch? 

Indeed, only my Corsa left on the fleet which has one as it's cable throttle.

No idea on the clutch switch but good shout, I'll check that, cheers.

No refund on the MAF sensor as its outside 30 day return period. 

[Eyersey1234]

My OH'S Corsa hit 100k miles the other day, as I wasn't in the car at the time I don't know exactly when and she has no interest in cars so won't have noticed 

[HMC]

[SRi05]

14 hours ago, jamiechod said:

Wifes civic hit the milestone which millenials say to bin the car 

Scrap it m8