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[Jenson Velcro]

Whilst not as high a mileage as some Vehicles on here, my old Defender has just clocked up 200,000. Shame the digits have decided not to line up

[Cord Fourteener]

Air filter done.

Of course two of the three screws are knackered!

Old filter looks ok though, but fresh is in.

Spark plugs can wait until I have got more time.

[Cord Fourteener]

Just farmed out a full service including rear brakes and MOT, and it cost as much as the car! 🤣

 

[Zelandeth]

Oh joy. It looks like I have a water ingress issue in the Xantia judging by the level of condensation I've just walked out to find in the car.

[Cord Fourteener]

6 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Oh joy. It looks like I have a water ingress issue in the Xantia judging by the level of condensation I've just walked out to find in the car.

Let's hope it's just some soggy item of clothing or something...

[Cord Fourteener]

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[Zelandeth]

43 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Let's hope it's just some soggy item of clothing or something...

Nope, it's definitely the car that's damp rather than anything in it.  Hopefully something simple light a tail light seal.  Xantias aren't usually had for water ingress so there are only a few likely suspects.  At least being a series 1 car it doesn't have the roof mounted rear window washer.  They liked to leak for fun and would make the headlining disintegrate.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, Jenson Velcro said:

Whilst not as high a mileage as some Vehicles on here, my old Defender has just clocked up 200,000. Shame the digits have decided not to line up

TADTS.

[brownnova]

I’m sure there was a thread for this but I can’t seem to find it now... but my haven’t you grown! 
 

[320touring]

18 minutes ago, brownnova said:

I’m sure there was a thread for this but I can’t seem to find it now... but my haven’t you grown! 
 

I think the original 1 series track and wheelbase was but a bawhair off an E30.. and you can get a 1 series MK1 with a 3.0...

 

That modrin wan can GTF though

[puddlethumper]

8 hours ago, N19 said:

Those new generation of transits are like driving a car, certainly come a long way! 

The MK1 Tranny drove like a car as well. That was part of the advertising at the time if I remember correctly. So I don't know if they have come that far.

[loserone]

I would have a 130i.  Except for the small matter of all those previous owners

[320touring]

24 minutes ago, loserone said:

I would have a 130i.  Except for the small matter of all those previous owners

#naesmellofweedhonist

[Cord Fourteener]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

I would have a 130i.  Except for the small matter of all those previous owners

I remember reading (I think in the blue forum) someone commenting about how such and such a car was an M3 killer (probably the S80R), the response was that the only things that kill M3s are M3 drivers and the rain.

It tickled me.

[N19]

No Internet connection tonight; problems at the exchange apparently. So what to do other than mess around with some Bluebird mirrors? 

New unit has 3 cores, old had 5. Hmmn. 

[egg]

7 minutes ago, N19 said:

New unit has 3 cores, old had 5. Hmmn. 

One type from Japan one from Sunderland?

[catsinthewelder]

Bloody Mackem copper fairies

[SiC]

3 hours ago, Tim_E said:

I remember reading (I think in the blue forum) someone commenting about how such and such a car was an M3 killer (probably the S80R), the response was that the only things that kill M3s are M3 drivers and the rain.

It tickled me.

The 135i and 145i are a bit notorious for biting hard too. Which explains why so many Cat S examples end up for sale.

[Cord Fourteener]

9 hours ago, SiC said:

The 135i and 145i are a bit notorious for biting hard too. Which explains why so many Cat S examples end up for sale.

I bet they do. What kind of nut-nut puts a turbocharged 3.0 6cyl making over 300 of the finest metric horse power in a 1 series?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Trying one of those Aerotwin flat wipers on the CX, hoping it could cope with the curvature at the side of the windscreen. That looks like a "no" there....

[clayts450]

620 passed its MoT this morning at the first attempt- the GunGum patch on the exhaust worked a treat:

CO Max 0.30% - reading 0.01% (at fast and normal idle)

HC Max 200ppm -reading 15ppm

Very chuffed indeed. Does need some rust treatment, which I said last year I'd do, but never did.

The benefit of an Autumnal MOT test date is that I can do it over the summer, rather than the colder months. Cheers Boris.

[rusty998]

59 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Trying one of those Aerotwin flat wipers on the CX, hoping it could cope with the curvature at the side of the windscreen. That looks like a "no" there....

 

I wonder if it would get pushed onto the screen better once the car is in motion?

[somewhatfoolish]

57 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Trying one of those Aerotwin flat wipers on the CX, hoping it could cope with the curvature at the side of the windscreen. That looks like a "no" there....

are they not too long; if an inch or so shorter would the fit be better?

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, rusty998 said:

I wonder if it would get pushed onto the screen better once the car is in motion?

Valeo worked best on my CXs, but nothing quite sits flat at the end.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

I wonder if it would get pushed onto the screen better once the car is in motion?

Doubt it; they are flexible, but not that flexible. 

2 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

are they not too long; if an inch or so shorter would the fit be better?

They are the correct 24 inch. Any shorter would not sweep the top of the screen. 

[320touring]

Exactly the same issue on the GSA with 16" wipers 

Right it off as a "quirk"

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Trying one of those Aerotwin flat wipers on the CX, hoping it could cope with the curvature at the side of the windscreen. That looks like a "no" there....

They also look gash on pre-2000 cars (imho).

[mitsisigma01]

18 hours ago, 320touring said:

#naesmellofweedhonist

Could be worse.. 

#naesmell of wee honist

[Tadhg Tiogar]

20 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

They also look gash on pre-2000 cars (imho).

They seem slightly more effective than the original type, but whether they last as long before going all hard is another thing...

[wuvvum]

I never last long before going all hard when I'm in close contact with a CX.