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[SRi05]

Drove upto Fort William, Arisaig and Mallaig today, took the new (to me) Saab. Not what I originally planned for October week but making the most of it 😄

[Chris2cv]

Took the 2cv out on Saturday. Firstly to the garage , to get the oil leak checked out.  Both rocker covers leaking. That's a relief as gasket is cheap and an easy job, albeit I've got to get the garage to do it now as they did the diagnosis. (Engine was very dirty and I'm getting a lot of aggro about it leaking, while not currently having a driveway or garage)

Ordered the gaskets, in a good mood so rode up through various lanes and to Whitstable for a wander. Car was sounding increasingly loud as I went further. "Please be the air box come loose again", I thought.  Had a look. Not the air box.  Roughly 50p sized hole in the silencer. Bugger! It only passed an MOT a week and about 40 miles ago!  Went online to ECAS, who have supplied my parts for ever. They said, you'll probably need at least the tail pipe as well. Ended up buying 3 sections. Unlike many suppliers, I trust what they tell me, and would rather end up keeping spare sections than end up having to go back again when the next section comes. Back to the garage next week then!

Then to top the day off, in the evening monsoon, a LOT of water came through the roof of our new loft extension, in at least 10 places! Buckets lining the stairs  and loft and not a great night.  Almost glad to go back to work!  Almost.

 

[Cavcraft]

Tried my best, but it was an absolutely awful car so it's not so bad that it happened. The Daewoo had locked itself on the truck, the driver had to break the window to get in so he could move it to put the 406 on. Fair play to CTB, good price and excellent service.

 

 

 

Also, a recent eBay purchase arrived yesterday, to replace the missing boot badge...

 

[egg]

My wife has just had a minor accident in the i10. She is shaken up, car came round the corner and hit her down a country lane. Bloody glad she wasn't in the Mazda even though it was minor. 

Driver's door not opening.

Driver behind my wife caught the incident on dashcam.

She's 25 miles away in Charing (I'm at home) picking up my daughter. She is going to cautiously start coming home, but might need to go and get her.

Shit.

[SmokinWaffle]

On 10/8/2020 at 1:01 PM, SmokinWaffle said:

Picked up a Panda with 30k on it yesterday that's been sitting for at least a year.

 

Think this would be interesting to make a thread about as I clean/recomission? 

 

On 10/8/2020 at 4:56 PM, wuvvum said:

I love how you've gone to the trouble of replicating the shadow when blanking out the numberplate.  Top MS Paint skillz there.

Thread is now made, and I got written permission from the CIA to reveal the top secret numberplate (I cba to edit all of them, not even sure why I did at first...):

 

  Also put the MX5 on eBay, so I look forward to the interesting enquires!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184486702196

 

36 minutes ago, egg said:

My wife has just had a minor accident in the i10. She is shaken up, car came round the corner and hit her down a country lane. Bloody glad she wasn't in the Mazda even though it was minor. 

Driver's door not opening.

Driver behind my wife caught the incident on dashcam.

She's 25 miles away in Charing (I'm at home) picking up my daughter. She is going to cautiously start coming home, but might need to go and get her.

Shit.

If she/you need any help, let me know. I'm close to Charing.

[catsinthewelder]

Fingers crossed for you Egg, its never a nice situation but it sounds like it could have been worse.

 

I finally have transport,  the Focus stopped charging last week and I convinced myself that it would be an awful wiring fault I'd never be able to get to the bottom of as it came just after I'd been messing about behind the battery fitting a bonnet release.  Fortunately my tame mechanic convinced me to let him fit a new alternator and I've just picked it up, still need to reassemble various bits of airbox and glovebox that I removed but at least its going.

The 405 conked out on Friday with charging and steering issues.  I think I've fixed the power steering issue with a fluid change and I've just put yet another aux belt on but its flapping around like mad so I need to get new tensioners which isn't proving easy.

I've had the Safrane running and driving today too, it needs an ABS light extinguishing and fresh gearbox oil but apart from a tyre going soft it seems to have coped well with sitting for a few months since the test ran out just before the world went odd.  Would be good to get it back on the road soon.

[egg]

Just a new wing needed? Bumper damage was done by Ken!

 

[egg]

Door won't open because no longer have a panel gap...

[wuvvum]

That doesnae look too bad to be fair (although probably still quite scary when it happened).  Also i10 wings probably easier to get hold of (especially in Appliance White) than Mazda 323 ones...

[catsinthewelder]

If thats all it is it seems barely worth having to worry about declaring it to the insurance.  Could it be worse underneath though if the door won't open?

[wuvvum]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hyundai-i10-2011-13-5-Door-Hatchback-Crystral-White-O-S-Drivers-Front-Wing-RH/164399566968?fits=Car+Make%3AHyundai|Model%3Ai10&hash=item2646fa5078:g:Oa8AAOSwJJFfbKm1

[egg]

Yes, more minor than I'd feared, the Toyo that hit her was slightly worse off.

I want to report it but not claim, I think.

[egg]

Shame it's pissing down here, or I reckon remove the wheel and arch liner and I could pop it out enough to open the driver's door.

[egg]

Ok, so unscrewed a couple of arch liner screws and made it convex instead of concave. Door opens now, just rubs a bit!

 

[egg]

Took it out for a drive, and it drives fine. Obviously, possibly damage I can't see, but MOT in two weeks anyway!

[SiC]

Is that a plastic wing? I paintless dent repair place will likely sort that I reckon. 

[Kiltox]

2 hours ago, egg said:

Door won't open because no longer have a panel gap...

Oh shit   the bumper was utterly fucked anyway. 

[egg]

52 minutes ago, SiC said:

Is that a plastic wing? I paintless dent repair place will likely sort that I reckon. 

It's metal with a plastic bumper. I think I need to find a car that's had a rear ender and get a new bumper and wing.

51 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Oh shit   the bumper was utterly fucked anyway. 

Yes, this little car has been in the wars! Tough though. 

[Kiltox]

Yeah she’s a trooper. 

[egg]

You could boil my 13k posts on this forum down to this single post. Car's been in an accident? Bodywork a bit fucked?

Buy hey I found an OEM Kia/i10 brake pedal rubber on eBay to replace the other one that had a tiny hole it in! Hoorah!

Thanks for the support, folks.

[Zelandeth]

3 hours ago, egg said:

Yes, more minor than I'd feared, the Toyo that hit her was slightly worse off.

I want to report it but not claim, I think.

Hopefully your premium won't jump by nearly 100% at the renewal because of that.

Reporting a non-fault accident to my insurer (Direct Line I think it was) back when the tanker failed to give way to me back in 2006 was a huge mistake.

They hounded me endlessly for months about wanting to pursue claims, car and injury, and doubled my price at renewal as the accident meant I was "at greater risk of having an incident."

They were never involved in any way, we dealt directly with the other driver's insurers who just got the job done and save for a little haggling on the value of the car (which was absolutely a write off) the process couldn't have been easier.  Was back when scrap value was non existent too so they weren't even interested in removing the damaged car...I was able to strip the useful parts at my leisure and eventually scrap the remains...by which point scrap value had recovered and I got £150 for it!

[phil_lihp]

Glad that accident wasn't too serious.  I've mentioned on here before, my sister has had a very early 2008 i10 since it was 3 years old with less than 20k on the clock.  It's now on about 105k miles, I have done most of its routine servicing for the last 7 years other than this year as she couldn't travel down to me for it to be done.  I think the only parts it's needed outside of standard servicing is a CV joint and a new sump last year and a clutch around 55k miles - apparently early ones had very fragile clutches.  Otherwise it's been through a few sets of brake discs and pads, one caliper and one timing belt, next one is due next year.  The early ones have problems with the rear door tops rotting out which she's had fixed but the rest of the car doesn't have a spot of rust on it.

It's dull as dishwater but I can't knock it, it does lots of city miles, several long motorway journeys a year and gets used as a van quite a lot, costs buttons to run and never really goes wrong, never needs oil or coolant topups and the air con still works despite having never been touched.  It doesn't drive any differently now to how it drove when it was nearly new, she intends to keep it until it dies and the way it's going that's going to be a long way off yet.  Not bad for a very cheap budget car.

[egg]

15 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Hopefully your premium won't jump by nearly 100% at the renewal because of that.

Reporting a non-fault accident to my insurer (Direct Line I think it was) back when the tanker failed to give way to me back in 2006 was a huge mistake.

They hounded me endlessly for months about wanting to pursue claims, car and injury, and doubled my price at renewal as the accident meant I was "at greater risk of having an incident."

Yeah, I appreciate some folk would say, just carry on and don't report it, and there's bound to be some financial penalty. But, insurance T&C's do say to report any incident, so if they claim against us and there's no record.....we could be in a worse position.

Other car had worse damage so they may claim. Also, it wasn't the car owner who was driving, so I have some concern over their insurance status.

[Zelandeth]

1 minute ago, egg said:

Yeah, I appreciate some folk would say, just carry on and don't report it, and there's bound to be some financial penalty. But, insurance T&C's do say to report any incident, so if they claim against us and there's no record.....we could be in a worse position.

Yeah, aware the world is quite a different place to 14 years ago too!

[egg]

26 minutes ago, phil_lihp said:

It's dull as dishwater but I can't knock it,

Agreed, Hyundai/Kia seem to have boiled down the essentials of car building to a very fine art. Lots of parts sharing, building in emerging markets where labour is cheap, providing the features you actually need and read well in brochures and reviews with the end consumer in mind. Looking at parts diagrams as well it's notable how few components are used for certain features. 

I'm very impressed purely from a standpoint of how to build 'an car'.  There's modern annoyances of course, like fuel filter in the tank...

[phil_lihp]

Yep, the fuel filter is a lifetime item!  The garage she uses had trouble finding the right parts for it when it needed a new driveshaft/CV, apparently the very early i10s are slightly different in places and the only part that fitted in the end was meant to be for a Picanto.  That aside it really has been remarkably trouble-free.

[Chris2cv]

Hope that all is ok Egg.

It's horrible getting news like that and knowing that you can't really help. (at least not immediately) I remember, a few years back, my Dad had a crash about half a mile from where I work.  Ironically, I was 130 miles away in Bournemouth on holiday at the time, so he didn't want to worry me. Instead, I had messages from half of my colleagues asking if my Dad was ok! This probably caused me far more stress than if he had just told me. (My dad is a regular customer, so they all know him. He was fine, but the car was in a bit of a mess!)

[SiC]

Rimmer bros have 12.5% discount site wide today

https://rimmerbros.com/

I ended up buying stuff for the MGB instead of the Dolomite...

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, egg said:

 Also, it wasn't the car owner who was driving, so I have some concern over their insurance status.

be already on the phone to your lot and tell them this

glad boss is ok

i know where theres an xm but its baguette flavoured

 

[SmokinWaffle]

Glad all is okay @egg. 

 

Fellow BX lickers, this is a low coolant light, yes? @vulgalour maybe? 

Topped it up, wasn't really low, but it still persists every now and then. Thinking dodgy sensor. I did replace a belt and do some other tinkering yesterday, maybe I knocked something...