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[Andyrew]

Room for another across the space aswell!

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

 so they’re getting used at least.

 

 

this happened here modern the old git uses to potter to shops or go to sisters to sort dog and or kids

due to lockdown not been anywhere near kids (over 70) and the small shop is 5 mins walk - shes been out twice in 6 weeks

so i go out - canvas bag full of stuff she couldnt carry it anyway - - needed to go to bank cashpoint so once warm ragged in first and second with revs up to give it some charge

bike got pottered round the front path once - have a trickle charger for that - not been out on it for three weeks :(

 

[beko1987]

11 hours ago, Bren said:

Job done. Advisories on MOT for oil leaks - cured when the valve cover gaskets were done as part of the valve stem oil seals. Both covers full of congealed oil that had to be scraped off. Not that much oil on the mechanicals - it just wiped off.

My old zx got an advisory for an oil leak on its last mot... Never did find it, just filed it under ignore! Never used any oil, so it couldn't have been that bad

[TrabbieRonnie]

10 hours ago, wuvvum said:

One of the parking spaces in the residents' car park on my road is substantially wider than the others, due to the layout of the car park.  Normally I try to nab that space if I'm working on a car, as it gives more room to work around it.  At the moment though working on cars on public land is frowned upon, but it occurred to me that I have two quite narrow cars each taking up a space, and if I could fit them both into the one wider space it'd free up a space for one of the neighbours.  So I gave it a go.

Loads of room!  Even with that Fiesta parked right on the line.  They'll be staying like that until lockdown ends.

I've got to ask wuvvum, what is the wee thing on the left?  Lovely duo and a great park job!

[Cavcraft]

19 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Make a spray bottle with washing machine liquid/powder and a bit of washing up liquid. Spray, scrub with a brush then suck out with the karcher. Repeat a million times! 

 

Looks satisfying! Can't wait to do mine when the weather picks up

Thanks, that worked a treat. I used an old, mostly washed out kitchen cleaner thing with washing machine liquid and washing up liquid mixed with boiling water from the kettle. Found an alloy wheel brush that was t too harsh then got to work.

The difference was amazing, did every square inch of the interior I could get to, in the end the sun is drying it out just nicely. Did the headlining, seats, carpets, the whole thing. The driver's door card cloth bit was so black I actually thought it was plastic trim, and the windows were so disgusting it must have been almost impossible to see out if in the sun. I used the hot water/washing up liquid/sponge/wipe off with newspaper thing, the windscreen took 3 goes of that.

 

 

In first going back out to it this morning, it did smell a touch better after yesterday's efforts. 

After a 2 hour go today (above pictures) it was much better again. Went out to it just now and sprayed Febreeze and air freshener inside, will try it again later and see if smell is much better. Fingers crossed.

[Split_Pin]

10 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Thanks, that worked a treat. I used an old, mostly washed out kitchen cleaner thing with washing machine liquid and washing up liquid mixed with boiling water from the kettle. Found an alloy wheel brush that was t too harsh then got to work.

The difference was amazing, did every square inch of the interior I could get to, in the end the sun is drying it out just nicely. Did the headlining, seats, carpets, the whole thing. The driver's door card cloth bit was so black I actually thought it was plastic trim, and the windows were so disgusting it must have been almost impossible to see out if in the sun. I used the hot water/washing up liquid/sponge/wipe off with newspaper thing, the windscreen took 3 goes of that.

 

 

In first going back out to it this morning, it did smell a touch better after yesterday's efforts. 

After a 2 hour go today (above pictures) it was much better again. Went out to it just now and sprayed Febreeze and air freshener inside, will try it again later and see if smell is much better. Fingers crossed.

That's a very pleasant interior indeed, I like that.

[junkyarddog]

Decided to crack on with my 1990 Mk2 Golf.

Superior German quality right there!!

Thing is more rusty than my '86 205!

Getting there,I dislike welding though.

It's miserable. 

Best get used to it for the time being though.

[danthecapriman]

3 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Decided to crack on with my 1990 Mk2 Golf.

Superior German quality right there!!

Thing is more rusty than my '86 205!

Getting there,I dislike welding though.

It's miserable. 

Best get used to it for the time being though.

Nice! I always thought these Golf’s were pretty resistant to rust, for their age anyway. You sure someone hasn’t hammered a Golf body over a Fiesta chassis!?

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

Thanks, that worked a treat. I used an old, mostly washed out kitchen cleaner thing with washing machine liquid and washing up liquid mixed with boiling water from the kettle. Found an alloy wheel brush that was t too harsh then got to work.

The difference was amazing, did every square inch of the interior I could get to, in the end the sun is drying it out just nicely. Did the headlining, seats, carpets, the whole thing. The driver's door card cloth bit was so black I actually thought it was plastic trim, and the windows were so disgusting it must have been almost impossible to see out if in the sun. I used the hot water/washing up liquid/sponge/wipe off with newspaper thing, the windscreen took 3 goes of that.

 

 

In first going back out to it this morning, it did smell a touch better after yesterday's efforts. 

After a 2 hour go today (above pictures) it was much better again. Went out to it just now and sprayed Febreeze and air freshener inside, will try it again later and see if smell is much better. Fingers crossed.

Winner, nice! I need to get my seats shampooed whilst it's nice weather really. The carpets could also do with it but that's not so bad to do then drive the car before it's dry. Days like today I could have the seats out in the morning and back in before tea all dried. 

Maybe next weekend! 

[stuboy]

EGG.. saw this on that app tik tock and thought of u..

[andy18s]

Yep,spring has definitely sprung 

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, danthecapriman said:

Nice! I always thought these Golf’s were pretty resistant to rust, for their age anyway. You sure someone hasn’t hammered a Gold body over a Fiesta chassis!?

No,they like to rust.

Lots of repair panels available though.

I have a scrap shell for cuts stashed down at my cousins farm yard,so that'll come in handy.

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

15 hours ago, wuvvum said:

One of the parking spaces in the residents' car park on my road is substantially wider than the others, due to the layout of the car park.  Normally I try to nab that space if I'm working on a car, as it gives more room to work around it.  At the moment though working on cars on public land is frowned upon, but it occurred to me that I have two quite narrow cars each taking up a space, and if I could fit them both into the one wider space it'd free up a space for one of the neighbours.  So I gave it a go.

Loads of room!  Even with that Fiesta parked right on the line.  They'll be staying like that until lockdown ends.

I must admit, I thought this area was the private compound of Wuvvums Rare Vehicle Emporium, it certainly seemed that way when I visited last year. I’m sure the old boy in a Freelander asked permission to drive through it.

[rickvw72]

Mine was rough on the jacking point but only drivers side. I also had rust on the sunroof drains on a pillar, and petrol filler cap and neck mounts.

Didnt consider it bad for 25 years old / 180k to be honest.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On 4/18/2020 at 12:49 PM, Cavcraft said:

Mo was totally on the level about the state of the interior of this car, and this is in no way a complaint against him. 

 

Started cleaning the inside of the 406 this morning, the stench is unbearable. Left windows open slightly for a day, didn't make much offs. Got the old Karcher out of the garage, the pump for the wash bit doesn't work though. However bad the driver's seat looks, the front part was 20 times worse before I started. In the end, I used one of those scouring pad on a stick things that are normally for cleaning fish tanks.

 

 

Did the headlining where I could, too. The interior light switch area looks like some sort of brown mottled bakolight, or some old bag who smoked 300 bifters a day's net curtains. Although better it's still horrible by any other standards. Some perfume I found in another car has been liberally sprayed inside.

I once bought 2 406s from a Taxi firm, both this colour although one was an LXso not as veloury plush. They both stank of fags, so I left the windows open before potential buyers viewed them. I sold the nicer GLX to a couple and they came back the next day to collect, it had been raining so windows left up all day. The bloke was convinced I’d swapped the cars over and insisted on smelling inside the other one on the drive. I pointed out the different specs, upholstery wheels etc, but he was adamant. It was only my keenness to let him take the other one that perversely made him want the smellier one.

[dozeydustman]

23 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Shock! Horror! Dustman actually does something car related on a car related forum!

 

The old dear next door wanted to go and get her weekly shop but her 107 wouldn’t turn over. I know it’s not an ideal charger for a sealed battery but my smart charger for sealed batteries is kaput ?

She was told it had a new battery when she got the car a year ago but it’s date stamped 2012 so methinks seller was lying git, so quite possibly this battery is on the way out, especially as she only pops out once a week for shopping.

Looks like I’ll be getting her a battery soon.

Lady next door’s car battery didn’t take much of a charge. Had 13v before I connected it to her car this morning but it still didn’t turn over.
11.6v after one attempt at starting, so yes it’s definitely knackered.

Just ordered her one from ECP with my magic coupon browser plugin (honey) getting me 57% discount; a ‘£117’ Bosch battery coming in at just over £50 delivered.

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, TrabbieRonnie said:

I've got to ask wuvvum, what is the wee thing on the left?  Lovely duo and a great park job!

That's the Innocenti.  Wor Dollywobbler did a road test of it on his YouTube channel a couple of years back which gives a bit more info.

 

[Bren]

The e60 fettling continues. Some marks to the bumpers and o/s skirt - the white plastic was visible. Would sooner do it this way with an aerosol than touch it in with a brush.

[xtriple]

Took Phoebe and Chester to the park today. I didn't intend to (even though I am reliably informed it is okay to do so) ust meant to take Chuckles round the block. Phoebe however had other ideas and for an old cripple she can be surprisingly sprightly when she wants to be! She was out so fast she forgot her tennis ball...

Loads of people down there, dogs aplenty so Chester fell in love with a grey mutt and had a wonderful time and refused to come home, the fat twat!

Went to the shop and GOT BREAD! Not had any for ages so I was looking forward to some toast, two slices in the toaster and er, one slice came out toasted the other side disintegrated and the toaster blew up! Big bang and smoke it was like an old Ford with the valve seals u/s in the  kitchen for a while. Bugger, and indeed, damn. I was really looking forward to toast (we know a song about that, don't we?) but the one slice I had was forgotten in the rush to sort the kitchen out and it was cold and soggy so got left.

well, the aforesaid 'fat twat'ate it actually - waste not want not as my old Granny used to say.

[00833827]

The v50 being the most modern thing i have ever owned (2006) reported to me yesterday that a headlamp bulb was blown. Two results followed. 

1. I had one in stock and i changed it easily and quickly.

2. I found my odb2 scanner. Plugged it in a got faults on it even though no lights on dash. Those were :

Current Fault Log
------------------
P0341: Camshaft Position Sensor "A" Circuit Range/Performance (Bank 1 or Single Sensor)
P138B: Unknown code - More information may be available on the web

 

Since the thing is sluggish and lacking power especially when climbing any but of an incline i wonder if these are related. I will begin the research once the red wine has had enought time to breath

[richardmorris]

I had a busy half hour clay baring the bootlid on the merc which was going blotchy again. Then three coats of autoglym super resin polish and three or four ( lost count) of poor boys blue paste stuff. Looked perfect with a deep glass shine. Six hours later look at the amount of pollen I've just brushed off with my hand.

[Cavcraft]

Dull content warning:

 

Got the buffer out before, nice couple of hours graft including washing it twice, then polishing. The interior fag smell is nearly gone now, thank heavens.

 

[Andyrew]

That's a whole Bunch of win right there Mr craft. 

[GBJ]

59 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Dull content warning:

 

Got the buffer out before, nice couple of hours graft including washing it twice, then polishing. The interior fag smell is nearly gone now, thank heavens.

 

There's something very odd with the wheels.

 

 

[tommotech]

I reckon an Aircon bomb (at least that’s what I call them) will get the last of that stench out of the 406 @Cavcraft, the type where you run the A/C on recirc,  push the one shot nozzle and let the aerosol run out. They also disinfect the vents etc. 
I’ve got a coconut fragrance Würth one here if you want it, just pm and I’d be happy to post it. They’ve certainly done the trick for me with smelly cars, mind you they may not have been as rank as yours!

[00833827]

3 hours ago, 00833827 said:

The v50 being the most modern thing i have ever owned (2006) reported to me yesterday that a headlamp bulb was blown. Two results followed. 

1. I had one in stock and i changed it easily and quickly.

2. I found my odb2 scanner. Plugged it in a got faults on it even though no lights on dash. Those were :

Current Fault Log
------------------
P0341: Camshaft Position Sensor "A" Circuit Range/Performance (Bank 1 or Single Sensor)
P138B: Unknown code - More information may be available on the web

 

Since the thing is sluggish and lacking power especially when climbing any but of an incline i wonder if these are related. I will begin the research once the red wine has had enought time to breath

P138B seems to be glow plugs - I can see in the partial service history they have been changed about 100,000 km ago so could well be a bad one in there. I will get the multimeter out and stick it on them later to see what it tells me

[egg]

Nice article in the Observer about Lada's in Cuba. If you want to buy one there, they go for about £15k!!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/take-me-to-your-lada-cubas-passion-for-a-little-russian-box

[wuvvum]

This afternoon's task, after some time spent pissing around with the Merc's brakes, was to try and get the nearside rear door open on the V70. 

Got the door card off OK even with the door closed, which I was surprised about.  Frustratingly though I was unable to get to the bottom of what was preventing the door from opening.  Everything that I could see from looking inside the door was connected as it should be - the lock button raises and lowers the little brass lever, the cable to the internal door handle pulls on the bit it's supposed to pull on - but the catch isn't operating.  Pulling on the handles (either inside or outside) it feels like the door is locked.  I even tried sticking a screwdriver in between the catch and the door to see if I could get it to ping up that way, but no luck - although if it thinks it's locked it wouldn't ping open with a screwdriver anyway.

I can only assume that something has broken inside the bit of the catch mechanism which isn't accessible from inside the door due to being boxed in.  The boxed-in bit of the mechanism is held in with three Torx bolts, which are easy enough to access with the door open...  I must have been out there for a couple of hours trying everything I could think of, but the door is still resolutely closed.  I can foresee an appointment with an angle grinder in its future...

[Split_Pin]

Well fuck.

That's 2 out of my 4 cars now officially rotten.

This is the Clio's OSF jacking point to outrigger join, or lack of it. Its always been flat and chewed looking but thought it appeared particularly dodgy when I was under it at the weekend. It took no effort to get into this.

With no skills or facilities to weld it and garages only taking on key workers cars, Vactan and heavy stone chip will have to suffice for now!

[Volksy]

18 hours ago, wuvvum said:

This afternoon's task, after some time spent pissing around with the Merc's brakes, was to try and get the nearside rear door open on the V70. 

Got the door card off OK even with the door closed, which I was surprised about.  Frustratingly though I was unable to get to the bottom of what was preventing the door from opening.  Everything that I could see from looking inside the door was connected as it should be - the lock button raises and lowers the little brass lever, the cable to the internal door handle pulls on the bit it's supposed to pull on - but the catch isn't operating.  Pulling on the handles (either inside or outside) it feels like the door is locked.  I even tried sticking a screwdriver in between the catch and the door to see if I could get it to ping up that way, but no luck - although if it thinks it's locked it wouldn't ping open with a screwdriver anyway.

I can only assume that something has broken inside the bit of the catch mechanism which isn't accessible from inside the door due to being boxed in.  The boxed-in bit of the mechanism is held in with three Torx bolts, which are easy enough to access with the door open...  I must have been out there for a couple of hours trying everything I could think of, but the door is still resolutely closed.  I can foresee an appointment with an angle grinder in its future...

Could it be that the outside handle has failed, and the childlock is on?
I'm guessing that the trigger for the childlock isn't accessible from inside the door?