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[Floatylight]

Buy a modern car they said... it’ll be more reliable they said... 

I borrowed the Mrs’ C5 to nip out, booted it to overtake a pensioner doing 28 in a 60. The C5 bogged down went bing bong and threw this up. I had hoped a restart might clear it but no... 
Wish I’d taken the Saab now... 

Suggest error codes relating to overboost, dpf etc etc... have you got a cheap ELM327 bluetooth dongle, if not get one..

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[HMC]

New back box and centre section for the 216

And a note left under a sorry looking metro....

[wuvvum]

56 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Buy a modern car they said... it’ll be more reliable they said... 

I borrowed the Mrs’ C5 to nip out, booted it to overtake a pensioner doing 28 in a 60. The C5 bogged down went bing bong and threw this up. I had hoped a restart might clear it but no... 

Wish I’d taken the Saab now... 

There is, however, a pleasing symmetry to the mileometers.

[brownnova]

Quick call there the brother in law who dropped this round 
Code relates to fuel pressure sensor. Now cleared. Let’s see if it recurs. French car forum search suggests a new fuel filter may be in order. 

6 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

There is, however, a pleasing symmetry to the mileometers.

So there is!! 

[BL Bloke]

Just seen my brother's Fiesta advertised on Facebook. Looks like I won't get a photo of mine and his together after all. ? On the plus side this means that I can try and sell mine so that I can get the Rover back on the road. ?

[paulplom]

The oil light came on, on the bini while hot idling for a minute last night. I fixed it by turning it off and re starting. I must check the level this morning. Failing that....

[New POD]

8 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

Just seen my brother's Fiesta advertised on Facebook. Looks like I won't get a photo of mine and his together after all. ? On the plus side this means that I can try and sell mine so that I can get the Rover back on the road. ?

Is it any good. Daughter wants a Fiesta or Ka 

[paulplom]

Just checked the oil. Not even registering on the dipstick. I took her to work in it at 4.30 this morning. Oops.
What spec does it take?

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[loserone]

When it's that low, if it's dark that's an improvement.

[Mally]

It was dark at 4.30!

[Kiltox]

@paulplom I don’t know the exact spec but if it’s that low I’d be banging in any 5/30 synthetic I could find -or anything else if not - and provably sorting an oil and filter change in the not too distant future 

[loserone]

21 minutes ago, Mally said:

It was dark at 4.30!

No, it was absent.

 

Oh.

[Jazoli]

10 hours ago, brownnova said:

Quick call there the brother in law who dropped this round

 
Code relates to fuel pressure sensor. Now cleared. Let’s see if it recurs. French car forum search suggests a new fuel filter may be in order. 

So there is!! 

Its probably the fuel filter as you suggest, I had the same issue on the wife's car with a fuel pressure code and a new filter sorted it.

[loserone]

@brownnova it's totally fucking fucked mate, scrap it.  I'll do you a favour etc.

[Six-cylinder]

11 hours ago, wuvvum said:

There is, however, a pleasing symmetry to the mileometers.

And there was me thinking that was broken as well, displaying 9 and 0 only!

[tooSavvy]

11 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

It's entirely this; because of the shitty lease deal Fluences are about as attractive as a dose of Ebola, whereas if Renault released the batteries from the lease deals(they are well beyond the pay back period anyway and are deep into Kerching! territory) or if they must have a further suck on the teat sell them on a pro-rata depreciation basis, then Fluences would become solid gold electroshite. There's also the issue that you would be waiting until after the heat death of the universe before Renault UK responded to to a warranty claim for a replacement battery.

Really, really, realllly *boring vid on why Renault made everything so French, on their sparkkie cars....

*unless you are into YouTube 'forklift motor into my chevvy pick up' ?

[paulplom]

Nowt but wilkos finest for this beaut. I swear I heard it sigh as I poured it in

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[paulplom]

2 litres achieved this.
I reckon it needs another 2!

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[Noel Tidybeard]

On 2/20/2020 at 12:17 PM, egg said:

After driving the Mondeo, the Rover rides like a Merc S class ?

FIFY

[paulplom]

Canny difference. All the rattly harshness has gone.

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[BorniteIdentity]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Canny difference. All the rattly harshness has gone.

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Who'd have thought?!

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

I am a hypocrite, i think jeff amazon will ruin the world, But 4 brand new pirelli 205 55 16 for Euro 46 each delivered next day !. That is less than 40 of your uk pounds each. I can't get decent part worns or linlongs for that here in italy.

 

[Scotball]

I feel like these pictures I took just now are worthy of news 24

seeing this led me down this street to find..

[LightBulbFun]

25 minutes ago, Scotball said:

 

[MarvinsMom]

pictures of that Rover P4 above make me sad.....

[paulplom]

Who'd have thought?!

The oil light came on again while ticking over earlier. I'm hoping to fuck it's not terminal.

I'll put another 2 litres in tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed.

Is this where you normally put sawdust in and lob it in the for sale section? Or is that for big ends? My memory's shocking

 

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[Scotball]

It's been repainted since Alan took a Pic of it in 2018

[Split_Pin]

42 minutes ago, paulplom said:

The oil light came on again while ticking over earlier. I'm hoping to fuck it's not terminal.

I'll put another 2 litres in tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed.

Is this where you normally put sawdust in and lob it in the for sale section? Or is that for big ends? My memory's shocking

 

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Different engine but my R56 needs a close eye kept on the oil. Since I upped the grade from 5/30 to 5/40 the consumption has slowed to about 1cm on the dipstick per week, regardless of whether you do 40 or 400 miles!

 

[gm]

2 hours ago, Scotball said:

I feel like these pictures I took just now are worthy of news 24

seeing this led me down this street to find..

Leith ? 

[Scotball]

19 minutes ago, gm said:

Leith ? 

Yeah. Gordon street. Filled with dodgy backstreet garages that look like you just turn up with some money rolled up and hand it over to fix your shitter, which sounds good to me as my skoda has been in a collision recently.. the big L plates give a hint it wasn't me driving at the time