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[barefoot]

17 hours ago, barefoot said:

I'm off to the inaugural Castle Donington Classic Vehicle bollocks meeting ...

It was OK

The Corsair had a 302 ci V8 lump in it, the Scirocco does not.

[JJ0063]

Can someone please buy this, it had a sign in the window with a £1500 ono price tag. 102k and MOT until October. I had to stand there for 10 mins talking myself out of it as I really can’t afford it.

I have a close up of the number if anyones keen. It’s in Mildenhall. 

[RoverFolkUs]

On 5/26/2022 at 5:45 PM, HMC said:

I love how Huggy's bonnet is pretty much the same length as the entire Micra lol

[Crackers]

Holy exhaust, Batman! 

[The Vicar]

On 5/26/2022 at 3:58 PM, The Vicar said:

Some character building in the form of a rear ending for my Italian stallion this morning:

Shite update for a shite car:

The broken backbox rubber seems (to my untrained eye) to be the worst of things. There is a bit of distortion around the lip of the boot but the floor itself seems in one piece still.

[Crackers]

Of course when you remove the exhaust from a car you are legally obliged to do the following:

Mmmm, farty.

[Crackers]

Fix = Did.

Brand new Shitpart exhaust box sourced and fitted. 

Sounds a lot better now! And the rear exhaust hanger is absolutely not a cobbled-together bodge in any way shape or form. Not one bit. 

[artdjones]

I spent the afternoon on my brother in law's Peugeot J5. It had a test last December which it failed, so the rear air springs were replaced, and it was resealed at a camper specialist, then collected by me to have the other test work done, mainly welding and problems with the lights. One thing and another, including COVID-19 intervened and it couldn't be retested until early this month, where it failed on brake efficiency and the fact that 6 months of sitting around had caused lots of metal brake pipes to rot. Basically every pipe from the cab backwards. The tester said the efficiency problems were mainly down to the fact that the back brakes were doing very little. He attributed that to problems with the rear compensator. I started on the brakes last Saturday and completed making up and fitting all the rear pipes and a new compensator today. There's one other pipe to replace in the front wheel arch. 

[JJ0063]

200k club membership started today

 

[andyberg]

That's a pass then for the ex @Cavcraft Micra. Just needed a new rear number plate and a touch with the sparkly stick on a sill. Cost £120 for another years motoring, very happy 😁

[Crackers]

2 hours ago, Crackers said:

Fix = Did.

Apparently the thing now doesn't run right after replacing the back box. 

Yeah, I don't quite understand how that happens, but never mind. 

[MrDuke]

How many mass-produced 04-plate 5-door cars would induce a random stranger to accost you in a car park to ask, in detail, about your ownership experience?

I love Rovers.

[Fumbler]

6 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Apparently the thing now doesn't run right after replacing the back box. 

Yeah, I don't quite understand how that happens, but never mind. 

Ooh that sounds like a backpressure issue to me. I wonder if a re-tune would help.

[Broadsword]

21 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Off collecting this tomorrow: 



It's replacing my Civic Coupe. Trading it with a mate, his Civic sedan met an untimely end, and this replaced it after I sent him a link to it. He didn't gel with it and missed having a Honda - I've been looking for something with a bit more of an involved driving experience and started looking at MX5s again, we've managed to arrange a swap so I get this to run about in and keep miles off my sedan while having many grins and lols. It's a UK spec 1.6 with amongst other things, an LSD, HSD coilovers, a fibreglass hardtop and an MX5parts exhaust.  
I've already ordered/started gathering a few bits for it including Japanese spec deep pile checkerboard floormats, that Nardi steering wheel, a Bluetooth radio, white gauge faces to brighten the interior... Thought I'd missed the boat on usable MX5s and fancied another so I'm feeling pretty lucky. 

Gorgeous!!!

[JJ0063]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/719483349257404/
 

Nearly 600k on the clock, looks immaculate. Much better condition that a lot I’ve seen! 
 

If it wasn’t for the fact it’d be a nightmare to resell, I’d probably have a dabble.

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, JJ0063 said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/719483349257404/
 

Nearly 600k on the clock, looks immaculate. Much better condition that a lot I’ve seen! 
 

If it wasn’t for the fact it’d be a nightmare to resell, I’d probably have a dabble.

Looks like a new yin to me.

[RoverFolkUs]

32 minutes ago, MrDuke said:

How many mass-produced 04-plate 5-door cars would induce a random stranger to accost you in a car park to ask, in detail, about your ownership experience?

I love Rovers.

This actually happened to me when I had my 45 a few years back as well! A gent with a 75 parked next to me and was eyeing up my 45 and looking around it just as I was walking back to it, at first he seemed startled and apologized for being nosy but assured him not to worry then we had a quick chat about general Rover enthusiasm. It was nice and as you say being such a relatively modern car not something you really expect - only something with Rovers! 

Never seen him or his 75 about since sadly, guessing he wasn't local. Should have exchanged contact details in hindsight! 

[High Jetter]

He might be on the 75 & ZT forum.

[Ghosty]

This says it all. 

No PAS, no electric windows, stainless exhaust, hardtop. 

Many many grins.

[New POD]

5 hours ago, Ghosty said:

This says it all. 

No PAS, no electric windows, stainless exhaust, hardtop with heated rear window.

No central locking, no airbags, no remote boot latch, no electric airiel, no aircon, no clock

Many many grins.

90 bhp Monza.  Them wheels aren't standard. 

[Crackers]

12 hours ago, Ghosty said:

This says it all. 

No PAS, no electric windows, stainless exhaust, hardtop. 

Many many grins.

Very nice! Saw you in the Miatas in Predicaments group earlier. Loving the wheels especially. 

[Ghosty]

8 hours ago, New POD said:

90 bhp Monza.  Them wheels aren't standard. 

Snap, yes 90hp Monza. 

Well aware it's on different wheels, it was on 15" JBW minilites before my mate had it, he fitted the 14" Asso wheels because he didn't want to take the JBWs with the car. It did look daft. 

The 90hp definitely isn't as quick as my previous Eunos Roadsters, but it seems more lively and responsive somehow. The sound from the exhaust is just fantastic, sporty in all the right ways without being asbo. 

[Crackers]

20 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Ooh that sounds like a backpressure issue to me. I wonder if a re-tune would help.

I can confirm this was bollocks. I've just taken it out and there's no difference in how the engine runs. Dad like to imagine things. 

[Fumbler]

7 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I can confirm this was bollocks. I've just taken it out and there's no difference in how the engine runs. Dad like to imagine things. 

Silly Dad.

[Zelandeth]

5 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Silly Dad.

It's quieter so seems slower!

[RoverFolkUs]

18 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

So the Micra of reliability* with the stock air filter housing etc all on the TPS sensor likes to go from .48 (good) to .65 (bad) which means 2,000 rpm idle. 

I mention the air filter housing, because the nano second you remove the air filter box etc, the TPS sensor goes to .48 and stays there.

When the air filter housing is installed it is touching nothing, no wires are caught or being pressured,  and the mass air flow sensor is inside the throttle body itself.  The filter is clean, I am obviously a bit confused how removing a lump of plastic that is OEM fixes the problem?

Altering the tps sensor to read .48 with the housing installed causes multiple problems when cold starting because for a strange point bonus the issue mentioned above only comes in when the engine is warm/hot.

 

 

So placing the housing in the vicinity of its location under the bonnet causes the idle to jump? I'd be triple and quadruple checking any nearby wiring...

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

I agree, my confusion is to how? I can put my hand between the airbox and the wires when it's on the car!

I am really tempted to get a cheap eBay pod filter job and bin the OEM setup and see how it goes, surely worth it for the chance it runs long enough for us to save for a replacement vehicle!

I might be barking up the wrong tree but would actual air pressure/flow as a result of the OE filter housing be causing an issue somewhere? I guess the best way of trying is clamping a cone filter on it.

[RoverFolkUs]

5 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

I agree, my confusion is to how? I can put my hand between the airbox and the wires when it's on the car!

I am really tempted to get a cheap eBay pod filter job and bin the OEM setup and see how it goes, surely worth it for the chance it runs long enough for us to save for a replacement vehicle!

Hmmm, try putting the airbox in place, assembling it, but dont connect the intake hose, so the air isnt being drawn through it. Then connect it. If it plays up before connecting it then you know its to do with the airbox's presence somehow affecting it but if it only starts playing up when connected then surely that means the airflow (or perhaps lack/abundance of) is somehow upsetting it. I dont see how, but nothing is logical at this point!

edit - kind of cross posted Fumbler there!

[stuboy]

bloody alarm went off at 130am.... just to pee me off ... think it has dodgy door sensor.... or boot playing up again

[wuvvum]

Not been as productive a weekend as I'd hoped.  Annoyingly the 107 failed its MOT - the other front to rear brake pipe was deemed corroded enough to warrant a fail (didn't look too bad when I looked at it) and one of the front brakes must have been binding because the nearside pads, which were an advisory before, are now almost down to the metal on the inside.  I've ordered the pads which I'm hoping will be here by Wednesday, and I've got another brake pipe made up ready to go on, so that's my Jubilee bank holiday sorted.  I did manage to get the bleed nipple freed off this time so I should get away without having to buy another wheel cylinder.

The other job I'd been meaning to get around to for a while was having a good old poke round the offside rear sill on the Maxus, which was looking a bit wobbly.  Much stabbing with a screwdriver (and hammering) later and this was the result.

Yes, that is concrete.  The sill seemed to be mostly made of it, with some chicken wire and a random bit of red plastic shoved in there for support, and a skim of silicone over the whole to smooth it off.  It really is the most extraordinary bit of bodgery I've seen in a long time.  I now need to try and find someone to repair the sill - even if my bodywork skills were up to it I wouldn't be able to do it myself as the van won't fit in my drive and I have nowhere else to plug in a welder.

Last night I went to see a mate and I decided to take the Mazda 121 as it hadn't had a good run in a while.  I set off just after 8pm when it was still bright and sunny.  I realised when I got to his house that I'd put my sunglasses on before leaving the house and left my normal glasses on the kitchen counter.  So I had to drive home in the dark with my sunglasses on.  Which wouldn't have been too bad except that the headlights packed up not long into the run home and so I had to drive 12 miles or so on unlit country roads in the pitch dark with only the sidelights working.  And sunglasses on.  That was not fun.  Thankfully it's a road I know well - if I'd been somewhere unfamiliar it would have been a lot worse again.

So this afternoon was spent trying to fix the headlights.  Fruitlessly, as it turned out.  I'd worked out that it had to be a relay problem, but I couldn't find the headlight relay anywhere.  There are only two relays under the dash, one for the horn and the other is the flasher unit.  The intermittent wiper relay is built in to the back of the wiper stalk, but there's no similar arrangement on the headlight stalk.  I gave up in the end and I'm probably going to bypass it and fit a separate switch - it's not urgent as I don't use the car much and at this time of year I only need headlights if I'm out really late.

I've been doing some further investigation on the 164 and I've (provisionally) concluded that the running issue is due to the plugs having done an NGK.  When I took the front plug out it was soaking wet with fuel.  Laid it on top of a convenient earth point, cranked the engine and nothing.  Tried a known good plug in its place and was rewarded with a nice fat (albeit orange) spark.  So I've ordered some Bosch plugs for the front three cylinders, which are the ones that aren't currently firing.  If that fixes it I'll order a full set - it'll be a nice cheap fix if that is the issue...