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[TheOtherStu]

27 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

The 2.2 is not a horror of an engine, just as the K Series isn’t (in any tune). What it does have - is a very well documented issue. But, in fairness, it’s a far more advanced and (I think) superior engine. In rude health, the 2.2 is streets ahead of the 2.0. Immeasurably.

The 2.0 has a great reputation, and I’m a fan. But, in all honesty, a 2.0d knocking out 115bhp in the year 2010 really OUGHT to run forever. And ever.

Just the same as the 3sfe petrol engine has a better reputation than the 1zz-fe. But the latter is still a far superior thing. They didn’t all suffer after all.

Just my 2p.

Appreciate your thoughts and thank you.

Agree about the 2.0D. That's absolutely woeful. Mercedes get ~170bhp out of their fairly recent 2.1 unit and yet keep the CO2 down to 104g.

3 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Swine! 😅

Now has a Lotus cover on it (neither the Corolla or Celica ones actually fit inside an MR2 engine bay)

[Dick Longbridge]

6 minutes ago, TheOtherStu said:

 

Now has a Lotus cover on it (neither the Corolla or Celica ones actually fit inside an MR2 engine bay)

Swine ad infinitum! 

I really regret selling the bargainous Corolla T Sport I bought to 2ZZ my MR2 a few years back. The 190 lumps seem to be harder and harder to source for reasonable ££ now. 

I bet it's a proper hooligan on the road. Any videos? 

[brownnova]

Little catch up from yesterday’s outings… 

Took the 2CV down to Shrewsbury to a meeting of the “Revs” group at a cafe there. Bacon was adequate and whilst I was the youngest person there by some way, a nice bunch. 

I knew of another event too, at the Iron Works centre, and as the Revs thing was only brief and I had to pass anyway it would have been churlish not to pop in wouldn’t it. Turns out that they forecast 400 cars and got about 1500!!! A fair few fiestas with pop and bang maps etc but amongst all these there were a few nice things… 

Oooh a Micra! 

My friend Mark owns this hilarious specimen! 

This 100NX looked lovely (until you looked closer and saw the rust…)

There were even things like this if they floated you boat! 

But undoubtedly the weirdest specimen…. 

P100 based by the looks of things. Mental! 

[stuboy]

12 hours ago, brownnova said:

moist...

[Zelandeth]

I don't usually like Beetles...but that pink one looks great I think - albeit the LED lightbar on the front bumper being a bit jarring.  The colour just suits it perfectly.

[brownnova]

Yeah he was quite proud of his light bar.. I thought it was easily the worst thing about that car! He was at both events like me! 

[doobietoo]

On 10/24/2021 at 6:50 PM, stuboy said:

Mini meet up with some friends at the a249 diner.. Great food as usual and there was some of those fabulous people cruisers...lol

mmm a gold Street Cruiser how wonderful. I almost added one to my Cruiser collection a few months ago but it was f°cked 

[C3C3]

20ft from work in the mk3 escort estate bASe this happened:

Well shit. Rear axel felt like it god damm fell straight off. Same thing happened on my Mk1 fiesta but with the front drivers side tie bar about 2 years ago. Had an ask around and can't seem to find any so looks like I'll have to fabracooble some together for both sides.

[Jon]

I'm having an absolute nightmare with Mrs_Jon's Clio 172 and its braking system and would love some knowledgeable advice, if anyone can help! 

For reasons of ineptitude on my part, I ended up replacing the NSR caliper, after the tiny metal bar that holds the pads in place dislodged - and took the pads with it. This meant the piston over stretched when applying the brakes (all without danger, thankfully) and filled with fluid, hence the replacement. 

Now, despite all being put back together and no leaks present, there's either something else broken as a result, or I just can't purge the system of air. Bleeding the brakes multiple times the traditional way gives little/no bubbles, so Clio 172 forum answers suggest I could've got air in the ABS system, which needs a diagnostics tool to purge. There's a version called rstuner which seems to be able to do this but the results seem sketchy at best, with some users being able to get it to work and others having no luck. Plus it's over 200 quid, so hardly something to try on a whim.

The pedal feel is OK when bled but when the engine is switched on, the pedal goes to the floor and the brakes don't work well. Engine switched off, the pedal feel returns to OK but I can still get the NSR disc to shift a bit by hand, if I really try. Internet folklore in general suggests this could be the master cylinder or brake booster goosed, which could match up with the piston stretching and filling with fluid, originally.

The main issue is that this is a daily driver and if it does need to go to a Renault garage for diagnostics, I don't have much choice here in rural(ish) NZ....

So yeah, any advice/further things to test would be much appreciated!

[Tickman]

2 hours ago, Jon said:

I'm having an absolute nightmare with Mrs_Jon's Clio 172 and its braking system and would love some knowledgeable advice, if anyone can help! 

For reasons of ineptitude on my part, I ended up replacing the NSR caliper, after the tiny metal bar that holds the pads in place dislodged - and took the pads with it. This meant the piston over stretched when applying the brakes (all without danger, thankfully) and filled with fluid, hence the replacement. 

Now, despite all being put back together and no leaks present, there's either something else broken as a result, or I just can't purge the system of air. Bleeding the brakes multiple times the traditional way gives little/no bubbles, so Clio 172 forum answers suggest I could've got air in the ABS system, which needs a diagnostics tool to purge. There's a version called rstuner which seems to be able to do this but the results seem sketchy at best, with some users being able to get it to work and others having no luck. Plus it's over 200 quid, so hardly something to try on a whim.

The pedal feel is OK when bled but when the engine is switched on, the pedal goes to the floor and the brakes don't work well. Engine switched off, the pedal feel returns to OK but I can still get the NSR disc to shift a bit by hand, if I really try. Internet folklore in general suggests this could be the master cylinder or brake booster goosed, which could match up with the piston stretching and filling with fluid, originally.

The main issue is that this is a daily driver and if it does need to go to a Renault garage for diagnostics, I don't have much choice here in rural(ish) NZ....

So yeah, any advice/further things to test would be much appreciated!

@jaypee @320touring

Any pointers after recent bleeding

[320touring]

2 hours ago, Jon said:

I'm having an absolute nightmare with Mrs_Jon's Clio 172 and its braking system and would love some knowledgeable advice, if anyone can help! 

For reasons of ineptitude on my part, I ended up replacing the NSR caliper, after the tiny metal bar that holds the pads in place dislodged - and took the pads with it. This meant the piston over stretched when applying the brakes (all without danger, thankfully) and filled with fluid, hence the replacement. 

Now, despite all being put back together and no leaks present, there's either something else broken as a result, or I just can't purge the system of air. Bleeding the brakes multiple times the traditional way gives little/no bubbles, so Clio 172 forum answers suggest I could've got air in the ABS system, which needs a diagnostics tool to purge. There's a version called rstuner which seems to be able to do this but the results seem sketchy at best, with some users being able to get it to work and others having no luck. Plus it's over 200 quid, so hardly something to try on a whim.

The pedal feel is OK when bled but when the engine is switched on, the pedal goes to the floor and the brakes don't work well. Engine switched off, the pedal feel returns to OK but I can still get the NSR disc to shift a bit by hand, if I really try. Internet folklore in general suggests this could be the master cylinder or brake booster goosed, which could match up with the piston stretching and filling with fluid, originally.

The main issue is that this is a daily driver and if it does need to go to a Renault garage for diagnostics, I don't have much choice here in rural(ish) NZ....

So yeah, any advice/further things to test would be much appreciated!

Hello @Jon

We recently had success after replacing a both rear calipers on the burd's 172 by doing the following (as researched by @jaypee)

Engine off bleed the car in the following order:

Right rear

Left front

Left rear

Right front

This bleeds both the brake circuits independently and should get all the air out.

For each corner, the process was:

Pump pedal a few times

Hold down

Open bleed nipple.

Close bleed nipple.

Repeat as required.

 

Other potential issue especially if it's a phase 1 square headlight 172 is that the servo may be rotten. If you discover that is the case, let me know and I can likely source one here

[flat4alfa]

Stow on the Wold this afternoon.  2 hour roadside parking bay

Nissan Stanza SGL

Daily use Shocker!

Photo to prove it happened 

Bar a dink in the door it was clean clean inside and out.  Proper Badermatic too

The reason for the excitement ?

Yes of course I snuck about waiting for the owner, to strike up that purchase conversation.  

Eventualy wife and child pulled me away as they spotted ANOTHER EFFING fudge shop

[louiepj]

Searched for the part number on ebay but on Opel and found this below in Lithuania for 35,99 GBP

https://www.ebay.com/itm/393511571154?epid=1515294743&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item5b9f1e0ed2:g:a5sAAOSw1uhhGldF&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAACoPYe5NmHp%2B2JMhMi7yxGiTJkPrKr5t53CooMSQt2orsSU8qUIAeVPdz29zRlje3Lg4i6U2pcDv1XTTwCKdBrwwfNNJLaVz9hlX%2BKJOKQAVKFMkQmQUweSKU8MH8d5x94v7oNx%2BTeQTZs9Pz3AuT%2BgCd40Bj1Jn25akhuCXWSV6rEIkutykWhkhcN0v6u8t%2B%2FPfTxRF3Z0h9O%2BaRg32t4V7jOqp8vsXmSxIZmRWUwsbEVKer0tyIxjse8MJkwJOpI95F75nx1uMzGIHb9nQ%2BwUVWunicXrxjIo7sjNhNMgcSE%2FLjye3eCAZsIRC03BFCKGrrSkTRiUcdscjxinxZ%2BOW7YDsMUfbaY23rkGeNDA3LcAAQoa3mx09gKZG1dsBbg0B1gH03C6HQsWKqNorIXrPnYK8scuoTpDlruAmekNebD0sNz6v%2BW66fbrJ%2BVjfn6bZ7YhyIAr4uAGWIDSWJc3ToDuYJtXV2U1DX8ie0pq0j8hqJtTFz7iQE7pQNZc2AwIH%2FZOVdKiQ5oAIqllcMXGjS9ktLOZzWClhWe9q9N0u7FwnI6IB5LLyONwORyw7%2BnLX4iZ9iuJoSm1lLiuxlg%2BPDNK4p5e%2FJVc1wL1WNP8tRnqdtU1mrARogcT2cvlU%2B0tKX3ypQ22U4ygvbL1zHxFMbE8gwgUdd%2F724sY8Dhou12GQ3YBDDRW3yiPFIY318GHghNxm6TlCkUeThN8W4KELaYKEUMdp2h93Kb8s1plmCl5oEQRe3sLsbv7d8dujSSMveHT0lLQ60ew%2FCu34nCHL7f2H2JABlmYdp7USE4TibAaJvdabXYzlq3YtzdI3ZCeuOp3HVxSztAeSpGjxM1x0WdRSGgA6U6A2p61zZaJqLXG9%2FHp4b8ERseP7F5tldPuQ%3D%3D|clp%3A2334524|tkp%3ABFBM9sfbjJdf

Exactly what I need but the postage says a week to a month for delivery and that is stopping me from just buying it immediately. It is even fully stripped so no worry of snapping the lower egr bolts again.

[AxWomble]

Heck of a day yesterday - job interview first thing after a white-knuckle commute on the M40 and M25 (reason for white knuckles later), then over to Worpleston, Surrey, to pick up an old B+D Workmate - turns out I’d stumbled across a couple in their 70s clearing out the wife’s late brother’s house. I was shown the garage and told “help yourself, take anything you can fit in the car and you can come back tomorrow if there’s anything that won’t fit”. Needless to say, I wandered off two hours later with the 106 nearly on the bump stops, laden down with delicious quantities of beautiful 1940s/50s handtools and a hefty quantity of all-but-unused Draper Professional/Makita/Bosch clobber. 
 

Next stop of the day - a friend’s garage with an Automotech scissor lift and a lovely Dewalt battery impact. I’d been here a fortnight ago replacing the rear brake shoes but found that the brakes were still at brown-trousers levels; massive brake travel before anything approaching lockup, at any speed. The theory with these is that you fit the rear shoes, back the (automatic) adjusters off as far as they’ll go, fit the drum and stomp on the pedal and listen for the adjuster ratcheting in and taking up the space in the drum. That didn’t work last time so I took the drums off, manually adjusted the ratchet so that the shoes were as close at possible to the drums, while still allowing me to refit said drums over the top. Old shoes shown in picture - suspiciously new wheel cylinders and shoes, which makes me think someone else has been in here trying to improve matters relatively recently. I’ve kept the ‘old’ shoes for spares. 
 

Also replaced a totally destroyed handbrake cable - slightly suspicious that the complete lack of n/s handbrake effort didn’t show up on the last MoT, but that’s all sorted now. In amongst all this fiddling around, one piston on the o/s wheel cylinder decided to escape, necessitating taking the shoes off on that side too - the side I shouldn’t have needed to touch, adjusters aside! To top it all off, after that faff, I refitted that drum without putting the shoe retaining pins back. Cue 40 minutes of pain and hammering to get the drum off again. A long day, but brake pedal feel is much improved.
 

A full brake fluid exchange will occur as soon as I can work out how to get the sheared off o/s bleed nipple out of the calliper. Any great thoughts on this? I’m wondering about hammering a small torx bit into the hollow centre and using that to unscrew it, but a secondhand calliper may be the best bet. The car fought me the entire day but the brakes are far less scary now - so I can forgive it! 
 

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

23 minutes ago, louiepj said:

13 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Searched for the part number on ebay but on Opel and found this below in Lithuania for 35,99 GBP

https://www.ebay.com/itm/393511571154?epid=1515294743&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item5b9f1e0ed2:g:a5sAAOSw1uhhGldF&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAACoPYe5NmHp%2B2JMhMi7yxGiTJkPrKr5t53CooMSQt2orsSU8qUIAeVPdz29zRlje3Lg4i6U2pcDv1XTTwCKdBrwwfNNJLaVz9hlX%2BKJOKQAVKFMkQmQUweSKU8MH8d5x94v7oNx%2BTeQTZs9Pz3AuT%2BgCd40Bj1Jn25akhuCXWSV6rEIkutykWhkhcN0v6u8t%2B%2FPfTxRF3Z0h9O%2BaRg32t4V7jOqp8vsXmSxIZmRWUwsbEVKer0tyIxjse8MJkwJOpI95F75nx1uMzGIHb9nQ%2BwUVWunicXrxjIo7sjNhNMgcSE%2FLjye3eCAZsIRC03BFCKGrrSkTRiUcdscjxinxZ%2BOW7YDsMUfbaY23rkGeNDA3LcAAQoa3mx09gKZG1dsBbg0B1gH03C6HQsWKqNorIXrPnYK8scuoTpDlruAmekNebD0sNz6v%2BW66fbrJ%2BVjfn6bZ7YhyIAr4uAGWIDSWJc3ToDuYJtXV2U1DX8ie0pq0j8hqJtTFz7iQE7pQNZc2AwIH%2FZOVdKiQ5oAIqllcMXGjS9ktLOZzWClhWe9q9N0u7FwnI6IB5LLyONwORyw7%2BnLX4iZ9iuJoSm1lLiuxlg%2BPDNK4p5e%2FJVc1wL1WNP8tRnqdtU1mrARogcT2cvlU%2B0tKX3ypQ22U4ygvbL1zHxFMbE8gwgUdd%2F724sY8Dhou12GQ3YBDDRW3yiPFIY318GHghNxm6TlCkUeThN8W4KELaYKEUMdp2h93Kb8s1plmCl5oEQRe3sLsbv7d8dujSSMveHT0lLQ60ew%2FCu34nCHL7f2H2JABlmYdp7USE4TibAaJvdabXYzlq3YtzdI3ZCeuOp3HVxSztAeSpGjxM1x0WdRSGgA6U6A2p61zZaJqLXG9%2FHp4b8ERseP7F5tldPuQ%3D%3D|clp%3A2334524|tkp%3ABFBM9sfbjJdf

Exactly what I need but the postage says a week to a month for delivery and that is stopping me from just buying it immediately. It is even fully stripped so no worry of snapping the lower egr bolts again.

I reckoned that it would probably be a bit long delivery time. But I saw that there were some in the UK also on ebay but they are new and seem to be made of plastic so am skeptical of the quality and how well they fit but post pictures of one of these below.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

.....  Eventualy wife and child pulled me away as they spotted ANOTHER EFFING fudge shop

You might want to, er, fudge the issue next time. 

[MikeR]

that was a interesting visit to the petrol station ,

some drunk guy drove off with the nozzle still in the filler , it apparently hit a guy and 2 cars   , staff all out , people waving arms , phones out taking pictures ..

the guy drove off .......

[artdjones]

16 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

But, in all honesty, a 2.0d knocking out 115bhp in the year 2010 really OUGHT to run forever. And ever.

I thought they were 125 hp. Anyway, they've got to be better than the warmed over N47 BMW that replaced them.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I suspect my working day may already be over...

[MikeR]

13 hours ago, C3C3 said:

20ft from work in the mk3 escort estate bASe this happened:

Well shit. Rear axel felt like it god damm fell straight off. Same thing happened on my Mk1 fiesta but with the front drivers side tie bar about 2 years ago. Had an ask around and can't seem to find any so looks like I'll have to fabracooble some together for both sides.

had the same happen to the wifes escort many years ago , the spacer bar in the flexi joint rusts and swells to jam the joint , in our case it left a short stub .

a piece of steel tubing and a sparkle stick fixed it up ..  and the flexi joint got cleaned up as well ...

[Zelandeth]

Well that was quick.

One new leisure battery for the van.  No idea if I'll have time to install it today, we'll see I guess.

[JJ0063]

After no more than a couple of time waster enquiries on Facebook for the Disco I’ve today had 4 people all wanting to come and view, one offering a deposit if I’d let him come first.

I’m true to my word so first come first serve and the original person had asked to come for 6 so have given them the address.. deposit man can be next in line. 
 

Hope it sells as I’ve got to go and pick the Triumph up tomorrow from Kent…

[richardmorris]

1988 Aston Martin V8 Volante Zagato | London 2021 | RM Sotheby's (rmsothebys.com)

6,700 miles from new and a recent £8900 service bill!

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

[brownnova]

One out!! 

Mrs B’s C5 moved on. To be honest, I was going to offer it on here, but the clutch really was hanging on, there was a hideous cold start rattling and to top it off I think the DMF started it’s death rattle at the weekend too. Thankfully none of that affected its trade in value when it was inspected (and not driven).

It’s replacement is not really fit for these pages as it has an official virtue signalling plate… 

[Stanky]

36 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

1988 Aston Martin V8 Volante Zagato | London 2021 | RM Sotheby's (rmsothebys.com)

6,700 miles from new and a recent £8900 service bill!

I may be in the minority here, but these AM Zagatos look totally shit to my eyes. It looks like a low volume kitcar, based on some utterly uninspiring mechanicals. Why would anyone ever pay actually money for one, let alone the market prices they seem to command? Baffling

 

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

More tinkering on the K11 has returned a much happier car, learning a bit more each time right now.  Such as the throttle position sensor even when slotted in right, needs a good hard thwack to really seat the bar into the sensor, otherwise when configured to 0.48 in DataScan I once the engine is warm it will bounce from 0.48 to 0.60 causing loads of lovely idling issues with the wax stat attempting to set the cold idle. 

While this car is knackered it's a good learning tool and right now I've had 200 trouble free miles out of it.

I'm not being funny, but the time you've spent pissing about with alternate throttle bodies & what seems like endless fiddling, faffing, cleaning & adjusting to be rewarded with just 200 trouble free miles, beggars belief. It's a K11, it's barely one up from a Morry Thou, can you not find a Nissan dealer or a Nissan specialist, pay them thirty bob, have it sorted properly and just get on & enjoy it running properly for the next 20,000 miles?

[Asimo]

3 minutes ago, Stanky said:

I may be in the minority here, but these AM Zagatos look totally shit to my eyes. It looks like a low volume kitcar, based on some utterly uninspiring mechanicals. Why would anyone ever pay actually money for one, let alone the market prices they seem to command? Baffling

 

I really like them, as long as they are coupes. Smallest body that V8 can be had in. (I fucking hate soft-tops, just so wank.)

I get what you mean about the kitcar looks, but I find those looks much more interesting than anything Aston Martin has done since the V8 Virage. I just wish that I had listened to myself 15 years ago when these looked a snip at around £15k when I had that much cash looking for a sensible investment.

[Soundwave]

Had a cheeky bid on the beige BX estate that was on eBay... didn't win, but I'm not too fussed. Went for more than I was willing to pay, so it's not meant to be.   Now considering keeping the 216 a bit longer instead.