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[HMC]

I won’t but a Passat w8 would be a nice stablemate.

Then maybe an A2 3 cyl TDI then a Touareg v10. It’s like they thought let’s see how many left field combinations we can churn out, or presumably because f. Peich grabbed a subordinate by the lapels and demanded it, or his head on a spike. By the following Tuesday.

[Mally]

22 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

The fact that £3,600 is now considered cheap for an MOT'd 2CV depresses me immensely.

Me too when I got a Moggy for £950.

[dollywobbler]

23 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I sold these new in 1987 but I guess it has been too long to remember how they felt compared to mine that I have had for 5 years, how is it different?

Is the gearchange because it is broken, modified or just different because it is a late car? 

I'm not sure why the gearchange is off. Might be from a different car as different A Series had different crank angles.

[barefoot]

My 944 failed & passed its MOT today.

The headlamp surrounds are decaying but the alignment was succesfully adjusted, the rear fog lamp is on the nearside, the left hand side, and has been since 1987 when it was built. Chap failed it, but when I pointed out there was no wiring, bulb holder or anything on the O/S he relented and it passed. 

[egg]

10 hours ago, N19 said:

Coolant woes continue. Checked the Mondeo and it appears to have leaked out overnight which is very odd, especially since nothing appears to leak when the car is running. 

Could be that there's a slight weep from the hoses going into the temperature sensor housing... Although I'd have thought they'd leak under pressure rather than of their own accord. I think I'll have a shifty and put new hose clips on and inspect the ends of the hoses anyway. 

Was the stat changed? I think an OEM gasket is recommended?

[RayMK]

I took the Tipo on a 70 miles jaunt today. It was a pleasure to have a decent and consistent clutch action with the new slave and master cylinders fitted yesterday. My trip included driving around RAF Halton married quarters where we lived in 1964-66 and again in 1972-75. It felt quite strange because the place had hardly changed, and I could vividly recall setting off to RAF Bruggen, Germany, in the back of Dad's Vauxhall Victor FB estate in July '66 for our next posting. I also drove past the church in the village of Halton where my Dad and Mum were interred in 1986 and 1992 respectively. Dad was born on 17th September 1921 and would have been 99 today. Now I'm nearly 71 ..... enjoy life whilst you can, it does fly past!

The road surfaces around Aylesbury and in Bucks generally were atrocious. If I had used my Mitsubishi Mirage it would have been unbearable. The old Tipo is good over rough roads but I still had to slow down even in that.

[Split_Pin]

Hopefully I have fixed my 75s water ingress problem. Strangely, despite the previous owner telling me that the sunroof drains had been rebuilt with straight 13mm pipe, the passenger side drain exit behind the wheelarch liner still had its original duckbill end, which had sealed shut with crud and the water was backed right up to the sunroof.

After snipping the end off, manky water gushed out and it ran clear when tested. 

Shame that the lovely leather smell inside the car has been ruined, it now smells like wet dog. The same thing happened with the Audi though, when the fusebos seal was leaking into the driver's footwell and the tyre fitter commented last week on the lovely leather smell inside so I guess it will return!

[vulgalour]

On 9/16/2020 at 7:06 PM, vulgalour said:

Finally booked the Kennedys to come out and regas the Princess.   I do hope... that the car doesn't throw any toys out the pram about it.

Me and my big mouth.  Head gasket shat itself AGAIN.  Brown coolant, bubbles in the expansion bottle, lumpy idle.

Before you ask:

• I have checked the head bolts, none were loose, all were at the relevant spec
• It was fine the last time I took it out, the coolant was still blue
• No I haven't done a compression test
• No there isn't signs of water in the oil
• Yes there is signs of oil in the water
• The quantity of bubbles increases the longer the car is running

What to do.  If it were the first failure that's easy, just bob it all back together again, job done.  Thing is it's not the first failure and I've already spent quite a bit of money on trying to fix it previously which kinda says something is wrong.  Maybe the last head skim wasn't as good as it should have been, maybe the head gasket was bad, maybe the block is damaged, maybe I did something wrong... I just don't know.  What I know is it's a repeated failure and as much as I love the car and don't want to let it go, even if I fixed it I'm not sure if I feel like I could trust it at this point.  I'll have a think about it and figure something out.

[N19]

Capri has an MoT! Rear seat belts confused the NT, as he couldn't find the exemption for them in the manual... He just put down "child seats fitted"...! 

[vulgalour]

I have made a decision and ordered a new gasket set.  Maybe I'll get lucky and it was just a bad gasket, I won't know until I pull it apart and have a look.

[egg]

Sorry to hear your woes, Vulg, but you're the kind of chap who can solve it!

I was parked up today and I saw a man in cowboy boots leaning very close to the fuel flap of his R-reg XJ Jag. I didn't think this was odd, probably checking for fumes or something, it's a an old Jag after all (in appropriately scuffed condition).  Then he did it again, and I realised he wasn't leaning over it - he was KISSING it and then he proceeded to kiss the rear window frame a couple of times too and wandered off.

That is a true story.

[doug]

Unreliable pile o shite.

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[HMC]

^ was that the sump?

[doug]

4 minutes ago, HMC said:

^ was that the sump?

Aye, hit a wee pot hole on a forest road. My fault, picnic cancelled.

[stuboy]

2 brothers at work have got new motors... I prefer the mini..

[HMC]

31 minutes ago, doug said:

Aye, hit a wee pot hole on a forest road. My fault, picnic cancelled.

How quickly did you manage to react to your bit of rallying? Will the engine live on?

[HMC]

3 minutes ago, stuboy said:

2 brothers at work have got new motors... I prefer the mini..

I like both but haven’t tried a 500 yet so will take that. I watched on old top gear recently where they ragged one around the Monaco street circuit just before the gp. 2011 ish so the old line up.

[doug]

How quickly did you manage to react to your bit of rallying? Will the engine live on?

I was only going about 5mph. New sump and oil level sensor should fix it. As long as the oil pick up pipe didnt suck up any shrapnel the engine should be fine I hope.

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[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Me and my big mouth.  Head gasket shat itself AGAIN.  Brown coolant, bubbles in the expansion bottle, lumpy idle.

Before you ask:

• I have checked the head bolts, none were loose, all were at the relevant spec
• It was fine the last time I took it out, the coolant was still blue
• No I haven't done a compression test
• No there isn't signs of water in the oil
• Yes there is signs of oil in the water
• The quantity of bubbles increases the longer the car is running

What to do.  If it were the first failure that's easy, just bob it all back together again, job done.  Thing is it's not the first failure and I've already spent quite a bit of money on trying to fix it previously which kinda says something is wrong.  Maybe the last head skim wasn't as good as it should have been, maybe the head gasket was bad, maybe the block is damaged, maybe I did something wrong... I just don't know.  What I know is it's a repeated failure and as much as I love the car and don't want to let it go, even if I fixed it I'm not sure if I feel like I could trust it at this point.  I'll have a think about it and figure something out.

The approved course of action in that situation is to drop a V8 in it.

[blackboilersuit]

4 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I have made a decision and ordered a new gasket set.  Maybe I'll get lucky and it was just a bad gasket, I won't know until I pull it apart and have a look.

Is it worth running it on three with one plug removed (and repeating for each cylinder in turn) to see which cylinder(s) is the cause of the bubbles? Might be worth while to give you a clue just in case you pull the head and there's no obvious cause staring you in the face.

[N19]

Yeah, I think that's an error... A Capri having done 870k miles...! (I think you can get it adjusted at the VTS within a week?) 

[High Jetter]

Abarth vs Cooper? Interesting, discuss.

[Burnside]

After at lot of faffing, my troublesome Punto is finally back together and running. It's even sailed through the Mot too!  

So naturally I'm selling it now. 

 

[vulgalour]

2 hours ago, blackboilersuit said:

Is it worth running it on three with one plug removed (and repeating for each cylinder in turn) to see which cylinder(s) is the cause of the bubbles? Might be worth while to give you a clue just in case you pull the head and there's no obvious cause staring you in the face.

I don't know.  I'm not sure what that will tell me that I don't already know which is that the head gasket has failed, I don't think it really matters which cylinder it's failed on since a fail is a fail.  If it's anything like the previous times it's done it there'll be obvious witness marks to what's amiss.  I'm expecting cylinder two or three to be the culprits, they seem most prone to it.

It's fine, worst case scenario I just work on getting the Lanchester safe to use and have that as my daily instead.  That's the Autoshite way.

[Aston Martin]

1 hour ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

So was out yesterday pottering about doing some errands and the idle stuck at at least 1,500 rpm possibly 2k rpm, being a CVT this made things difficult.  The normal tricks did nothing and going from N to D was basically a damn neutral slam and not going to work for any period of time, not to matter the poor brakes. 

Ended up calling up a mechanics that luckily was under 10miles away that I've used and since I had the new throttlebody in the car just having that fitted to stop the headache.  

The one removed I had fitted in 2017 before I was on Autoshite by a local group that is now gone.  So upon removing the offending TB this was found.

1. The Gasket was GLUED down, a wire brush, razor and swear words where needed, not in spots quite literally ALL of it.

2. The throttlecable was setup in such a way that full throttle likely was impossible.

And the lads who fitted the new one had much to say about the outfits workmanship.  They did a good job hiding their shoddy work that is for sure.

So, got out on the road, and o'lee shit it's a different car.  Actually sets off from a standstill without having to drop to DS and 50% throttle, 30mph is a feathers touch over 20% down. 

Bear in mind this is my first car and when I got it the MAF was broken so to me it was normal, but now it's far better. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did they make a 1.3 CVT? 

[Fumbler]

15 minutes ago, Aston Martin said:

 

 

Did they make a 1.3 CVT? 

Indeed they did. Very zippy I'm told.

[Aston Martin]

6 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Indeed they did. Very zippy I'm told.

 

It must fucking fly.

 

 

Edit: 1.4!!!!!!

[Fumbler]

2 minutes ago, Aston Martin said:

 

It must fucking fly.

...off the green light to 30, definitely!

[Aston Martin]

lidl have this back in stock.

[brownnova]

18 hours ago, stuboy said:

2 brothers at work have got new motors... I prefer the mini..

Having driven both models I’d take the Abarth every time... the one I drove stuck to the road like glue....