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[Ghosty]

 

Good weekend in Fife. 

40mpg  

[Ged]

Found a crack in the saabs radiator which I am oddly happy about as I can stop being anxious about impending headgasket failure, touch the finest Ikea wood.

[Fumbler]

Followed a rather fresh looking Anglebox on the way home. I noticed it was very smokey and smelled of lead, but the smoke wasn't coming from the exhaust pipe at all, in fact nothing was coming out of it- it was coming from the right side of the engine bay! I hope the chap has a look at his exhaust manifold when he gets home.

[wuvvum]

Assuming he hasn't died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the meantime obvs.

[jmsguzzi]

Had a go at replacing the knackered Sony stereo in the 205 tonight, was an absolute bastard to get out for some reason.

Found a Blaupunkt salvaged from my Dads old 190E about 20 years ago but will it work….. 

err not really, I’ll probably just upgrade to a new Bluetooth unit, any recommendations, ideally something that doesn’t look to out of place? 
 

 

[C3C3]

Replacing the wings on the base spec escort, found a big o hole in the drivers floor and the back third of the drivers side sill needs doing.

 

Replacement wings line up pretty much spot on other than the vertical due to some excess material. Going to save the reach arches almost in the entirety as the material is solid just all bent up, nothing a dolly and some elbow grease wont fix.

 

 

 

 

[Ghosty]

Oh, forgot this one too - happened just off the M6 south of Carlisle: 

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Found out why I'm getting abysmal fuel economy (saw 13mpg this morning). Second lambda sensor appears to have went nuts according to the diagnostic shite I was using, reporting it to be running lean and the ECU has been compensating for it. Ordered a replacement up (£40 quid, fucking hell) and am planning to be going under the car to fit it whenever it arrives. Should be interesting.

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Assuming he hasn't died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the meantime obvs.

It certainly was loud when I was behind him. It may have explained why he was also bimbling along rather slowly.

[RoverFolkUs]

27 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Found out why I'm getting abysmal fuel economy (saw 13mpg this morning). Second lambda sensor appears to have went nuts according to the diagnostic shite I was using, reporting it to be running lean and the ECU has been compensating for it. Ordered a replacement up (£40 quid, fucking hell) and am planning to be going under the car to fit it whenever it arrives. Should be interesting.

I really hope for your sake that the sensor is the only cause of it's fuckery! My cockup slightly, the reading was rich not lean, but the principal is the same because it's overcompensating it so much it's making it rich rather than in the middle (i.e 14.7:1 air:fuel) 

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I really hope for your sake that the sensor is the only cause of it's fuckery! My cockup slightly, the reading was rich not lean, but the principal is the same because it's overcompensating it so much it's making it rich rather than in the middle (i.e 14.7:1 air:fuel) 

I went and got a second opinion as well before splashing the £40 on the sensor and got the same confirmation. So I reckon that's exactly what it is.

[Floatylight]

1 hour ago, jmsguzzi said:

Had a go at replacing the knackered Sony stereo in the 205 tonight, was an absolute bastard to get out for some reason.

Found a Blaupunkt salvaged from my Dads old 190E about 20 years ago but will it work….. 

err not really, I’ll probably just upgrade to a new Bluetooth unit, any recommendations, ideally something that doesn’t look to out of place? 
 

 

Have you had a look at the New Retro Blaupunkt range like the Bremen!

[RoverFolkUs]

5 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I went and got a second opinion as well before splashing the £40 on the sensor and got the same confirmation. So I reckon that's exactly what it is.

I'm glad someone else thinks the same! I don't usually like giving people proxy diagnostics but I'm 90% confident

[OM646]

1 hour ago, jmsguzzi said:

Had a go at replacing the knackered Sony stereo in the 205 tonight, was an absolute bastard to get out for some reason.

Found a Blaupunkt salvaged from my Dads old 190E about 20 years ago but will it work….. 

err not really, I’ll probably just upgrade to a new Bluetooth unit, any recommendations, ideally something that doesn’t look to out of place? 
 

 

Maybe a Blaupunkt Madrid 200 BT?

[OM646]

24 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Have you had a look at the New Retro Blaupunkt range like the Bremen!

I love this unit but it always turns up so expensive

[Zelandeth]

3 hours ago, jmsguzzi said:

Had a go at replacing the knackered Sony stereo in the 205 tonight, was an absolute bastard to get out for some reason.

Found a Blaupunkt salvaged from my Dads old 190E about 20 years ago but will it work….. 

err not really, I’ll probably just upgrade to a new Bluetooth unit, any recommendations, ideally something that doesn’t look to out of place? 
 

 

I'm quite a fan of the Kenwood KMM-506DAB.

Looks pretty inoffensive when off.

Plus has infinitely adjustable display illumination colour available so you can perfectly match it to the car.  In the case of my Caddy a hyper-saturated green with just the slightest hint of yellow.

Buttons and display can be adjusted independently too.  When I had it in the S123 I had the buttons red and display warm white which matched the heater controls above.

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

6 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I'm quite a fan of the Kenwood KMM-506DAB.

Looks pretty inoffensive when off.

Plus has infinitely adjustable display illumination colour available so you can perfectly match it to the car.  In the case of my Caddy a hyper-saturated green with just the slightest hint of yellow.

Buttons and display can be adjusted independently too.  When I had it in the S123 I had the buttons red and display warm white which matched the heater controls above.

 

I had a similar unit, but with CD, a Kenwood KDC-BT640U. It's now in the caravan instead since I fitted the cassette system in my Fabia.

[paulplom]

15 hours ago, tom13 said:

Wealth of knowledge there. You have done your research.

Mine didn't have a rev counter (does now) but does have electric windows and remote central locking. It also has these black wheel trims which I thought were after market but apparently they are genuine pug.

I paid £700 at a mates body shop to have a full respray as the body was starting to look a little bit rough after ten years on the street. I've also upgraded the four speakers which improved the sound loads. 

It is bright red not pink!

[jmsguzzi]

10 hours ago, OM646 said:

Maybe a Blaupunkt Madrid 200 BT?

I’ve ordered one of these, pretty much the only thing on the market that isn’t horrible shiny plastic.

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Mine didn't have a rev counter (does now) but does have electric windows and remote central locking. It also has these black wheel trims which I thought were after market but apparently they are genuine pug.

I paid £700 at a mates body shop to have a full respray as the body was starting to look a little bit rough after ten years on the street. I've also upgraded the four speakers which improved the sound loads. 

It is bright red not pink!

Looks pink to me. 

[loserone]

13 hours ago, jmsguzzi said:

the knackered Sony stereo in the 205 tonight, was an absolute bastard to get out for some reason.

That's the first car that stereo has ever been fitted in, it's been in storage since the insurance company provided it after my dad's 98 almera was broken into for the second time.

 

The tape deck works fine, but I don't know why the radio didn't work.  The previous stereo didn't work for the radio either, and I even replaced the aerial to see if that was it.

 

[tom13]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Mine didn't have a rev counter (does now) but does have electric windows and remote central locking. It also has these black wheel trims which I thought were after market but apparently they are genuine pug.

I paid £700 at a mates body shop to have a full respray as the body was starting to look a little bit rough after ten years on the street. I've also upgraded the four speakers which improved the sound loads. 

It is bright red not pink!

Was it pink originally, or did you choose to have to resprayed in that colour?

How old is it. You must really love it to have had the respray done.

[andy18s]

15 hours ago, Ged said:

Found a crack in the saabs radiator which I am oddly happy about as I can stop being anxious about impending headgasket failure, touch the finest Ikea wood.

I picked up a 9000 Carlson cheap as the seller thought the head gasket had gone

Turned out to be a split rad spitting coolant at just the right spot on the block to dry off and leave a stain..  

[SiC]

12 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Found out why I'm getting abysmal fuel economy (saw 13mpg this morning). Second lambda sensor appears to have went nuts according to the diagnostic shite I was using, reporting it to be running lean and the ECU has been compensating for it. Ordered a replacement up (£40 quid, fucking hell) and am planning to be going under the car to fit it whenever it arrives. Should be interesting.

Usually the post-cat lambda is used for catalytic converter efficiency checking, rather than fuelling. That being said, a few engine setups do use it to tweak the maps - most notably (iirc) BMWs. 

Sure your pre-cat lambda is behaving correctly? Could be causing the post cat readings to be bonkers too.

£40 seems cheap. Is it genuine Bosch? 

Generic random brand sensors are shit and not worth the money. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, SiC said:

Usually the post-cat lambda is used for catalytic converter efficiency checking, rather than fuelling. That being said, a few engine setups do use it to tweak the maps - most notably (iirc) BMWs. 

Sure your pre-cat lambda is behaving correctly? Could be causing the post cat readings to be bonkers too.

The pre-cat lambda wasn't behaving, frayed wiring, bit of insulating tape and it's stopped the car from cutting out and/or trying to kill me again.

1 minute ago, SiC said:

£40 seems cheap. Is it genuine Bosch? 

Generic random brand sensors are shit and not worth the money. 

It's a genuine new OEM/VW one from eBay that was recommended by a guy on Briskoda. It was up for £45 but I pinged the seller an offer of £40.

[jmsguzzi]

26 minutes ago, loserone said:

That's the first car that stereo has ever been fitted in, it's been in storage since the insurance company provided it after my dad's 98 almera was broken into for the second time.

 

The tape deck works fine, but I don't know why the radio didn't work.  The previous stereo didn't work for the radio either, and I even replaced the aerial to see if that was it.

 

Unfortunately I couldn’t get the radio or tape deck to make sound even though the beeps were definitely coming through the speakers, looks like it’s had some water damage to the back of the unit, hopefully that’s not happened whilst fitted in the car!

I’m not sure there’s owt wrong with the aerial though as the old blaupunkt picked up a station as soon as I plugged it in, it just wouldn’t stay powered but that’s a problem with the unit itself rather than the car.

[loserone]

Ah bugger!

[SiC]

11 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

The pre-cat lambda wasn't behaving, frayed wiring, bit of insulating tape and it's stopped the car from cutting out and/or trying to kill me again.

Pre cat lambda is commonly referred to as the first sensor. It's the first out of the two to receive the exhaust gases. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, SiC said:

Pre cat lambda is commonly referred to as the first sensor. It's the first out of the two to receive the exhaust gases. 

Aye, this one:

It's the second one that was bringing back erratic figures when I checked it with the ELM327 thingy. If it's a result of the first one then I'll just replace both.

[puddlethumper]

Mot this afternoon for the van. Twitchy bum time. It might be a fail because of a hole in the sill but I'm hoping my mate will let it go because it's getting done on the 24th. Didn't want to take it in after because it only leaves six days for anything else that turns up. Trusted welder bloke had a look underneath and says it doesn't need any welding there. The only welding it's had underneath is the drivers footwell coz of a leak. Not bad for a 33 year old Pug van. Body work is looking a bit shit so if anyone knows where I could get an offside wing, or even both, I would be grateful.