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Fuck me that's some snow!

I'm posting more about twats than cars at the mo, because both the Rover & the SCirocco are pissing me off. The VW needed some suspension bits & a mixture fiddle for the MOT, what feels like an eon later, I've finally got it running just how I like it again, but it still pulls to the right. The first specialist tyre place I took it to was staffed by young lads who were all called 'Half a job Bob'. Crap. No point complaining, I took it elsewhere to a bloke with a beard who tells me that there are siezed bolts with specialist washers which he will order. He will call me when they arrive & he promises that all will be sorted. The 75 on the othet hand has a minor coolant leak, the parts have arrived, but they came late & the car missed its repair slot. It will be sorted tomorrow and in theory I should be a happy bunny again in time for xmas.

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5 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Snow chaos day 4. Got only 30 centimeters with snow last night so snow clearing has gone a little easier today. Have without exaggerating over 1.5 meters of snow on flat ground now and snow piles are higher. Was also contacted by the news who wanted to take an interview about the snow chaos something I declined. Here are some pictures.

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Wow! Pretty, but I'm sure it's very annoying too! 

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7 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Mrs CSW messaged.

'Someone hit my car, while it was parked outside work', followed by a large number of expletives, including much use of C U Next Tuesday.

Much panic on my part, till she sent a picture. Not entirely sure how anyone managed to do this.

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I'm telling myself, it will polish out.

Similar happened to my aunties Lupo.  It will polish out.  It only took me 1hr 10mins to sort the Lupo 😪 

 

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22 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

 

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I'm telling myself, it will polish out.

It mostly will I agree! 

The ex's car got a similar love kiss and after a good polish, then a wax and glaze and normal wash, 5 minutes with a black sharpie over the time remains then another coat of wax and it vanished*

 

*for 3/4 months until the sharpie wore off and needed reapplying but she backed it into a bollard in another place a while later so it mattered less after that 😂

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Been a mad couple of weeks for the Mini. 

120 miles after buying it it became obvious that HGF had occurred. 

Called the trader I bought it from who offered to take the car back, or to get the HG replaced.  I agreed to getting the HG replaced, and paid to get the timing chain replaced at the same time. 

Car was delivered back to me a couple of days ago. I took it for a quick spin and after about 5 miles noticed that the heater had gone colder. That's never good when a cooling system has been flushed and the head has been off. Take the car back home, leave it for the night. Next morning I topped up the coolant and bled the cooling system until coolant ran steadily from the bleed screw and the heater was blowing hot. 

Let it run for 10 min and the fan kicked in and out so happy days. 

Now one of the daftest bits of car design in history means that if you have a Mini Cooper S with factory navigation it doesn't have a temperature gauge, just an idiot light. 

The BMW Mini has a two speed cooling fan. The low speed kicks in at 105°c, high speed at 115°c.  The one without nav also have a heavily weighted temp gauge where 104°c will read as normal, so the gauge doesn't move. 

There's a secret menu in the dash where it is possible to get a coolant temp reading. It's a fiddly thing to access, but I dialed it up and took the Mini for a spin. Temp comes up to 90°c pretty quickly, heater working well, all good. Then I get stuck in heavy traffic. The temperature starts to rise quickly. 95°, 100°c, 105°c, 110°c - at this point I'm beginning to get stressed - 114°c then it starts to drop quickly back down as the fan has kicked in. 

I drive back home and the temp stays between 84°-94° when the car is moving. As soon as I park up I open the coolant bleed screw and lots of air is obvious in the system as the heater matrix is gurgling away. When the gurgling stopped I ran the engine for another few minutes with the bleed screw closed,  when the temp reached 97° switched off the engine and opened the bleed screw again. More gurgling from the heater pipes for a few minutes until eventually a long, satisfying burp was heard from the bleed screw. 

I suspect the garage had attempted to bleed a coolant system that was above 100°c, and that's difficult to do as water turns to steam... 

Anyway. It looks like all the work that has been done to my mini was all down to a failed £5 100w 0.33 ohm resistor that controls the low speed cooling fan. 

Resistor ordered, I'll fit it over the weekend and hopefully the little Mini will be fighting fit. 

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Fitted after 18 months my reversing camera,  I ordered a camera to replace numberplate light,, as u can see it don't..grrr.

Followed instructions but somehow the screen is on permanently rather than just when reverse is selected,  but after 3 hours standing, in the cold irritated my hip and hands so it'll do for now.

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Well, a package has finally arrived from ECP, hopefully containing the Outback's new droplinks.

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It's as well their security seal system is totally* impregnable.

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Mmm... yeah, that looks about right.

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More or less.

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Fantastic choice of tagline from Starline:

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'Attractive solution'.

Not high quality.

Not long-lasting.

Not precision engineered.

Just an attractive solution.

Well, if it stops the front end from banging for a while, then it'll do the job...

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33 minutes ago, fatharris said:

Son has COVID so we've been told to self-isolate until an Omicron test kit arrives in the post.

Class.

Might wash the cars tomorrow.

Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk
 

Ooosh, fingers crossed it’s more negative than a EuroNCAP review of a Renault Zoe

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39 minutes ago, fatharris said:

Son has COVID so we've been told to self-isolate until an Omicron test kit arrives in the post.

Class.

Might wash the cars tomorrow.

Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk
 

Is there a special test for Omicron then? I didn't know that

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6 hours ago, Crackers said:

Just seen on Facebook.

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@Talbot, I think you need to step your death-mower game up.

 

@Six-cylinder @Mrs6C With the green Range Rover gone there must be a space in the field for another nugget of Green-Oval shite 😉

Could you show a bit more at the top of the photo please, for Advertisement purposes.

My DiL is a Manager at Althams Travel, but not that one.

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