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[RetroShite]

Picked up this Suzuki from Tickman during the week. It ran ok when I bought it but now is refusing to start and I can't really be arsed spending any time on it.

I thought fuck it, I'll raffle it off at £2 a go thinking that I might get £20 for it but it's went absolutely crazy overnight and currently has 463 entries. 

[Tickman]

I wonder why it is being a shit and not behaving, it has always just worked using the choke.

Glad that the ticket sales have covered your costs and hopefully some for the hassle.

[richardmorris]

[Ghosty]

On 10/4/2023 at 10:13 AM, egg said:

what a spot from this lad!  Taxed and insured...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx59jDmoGZS/

Haha, he's a right character is Brisdion. He's just bought a Carina II after he somehow snapped the cam (!) on his Sunny.
That 305 is something of a landmark to spotters.

[RetroShite]

3 hours ago, Tickman said:

I wonder why it is being a shit and not behaving, it has always just worked using the choke.

Glad that the ticket sales have covered your costs and hopefully some for the hassle.

Not entirely sure, rode it around the yard when I got back, put it away and now won't start. Seems to be getting a spark but if fuel is left on it starts pissing out of the overflow. Perhaps a fuel blockage of some sort, probably an easy fix but I have zero enthusiasm at the moment.

[stuboy]

God's sake pop by erindoors and just as I'm leaving oh yeah your galaxy's making a strange noise... pas is low ... looks ill be grabbing a bottle in the morning and top it up.   Arrrggghhh

[RetroShite]

Got the 205's together earlier, I think we're going to keep the petrol 5 door and raffle off the diesel.

I prefer the way the petrol one drives and 4 doors are more practical for me.

[egg]

You may have had to write in a weekly 'news' book when you were at primary school. I still have mine, cos my parents hoarded, and now I can't throw 'em. I like this entry.

Friday 15 February 1985 - If I were a millionaire - If I were a millionaire I would have a cottage in the country with a field behind it. With a pony in it. and I would buy a TR7 and I would get married and have a baby. And if a war came the house would sink under the ground and breathing holes would come out of the roof and guns would come out of the roof too.

[trigger]

When I bought my Capri the drivers seat had a annoying hole from where the original elderly owner used to slide into the car 

It's been bugging me all year, I've been struggling to find a replacement without spending silly money but last weekend i managed to find a replacement passenger seat and rear seat about a hour away on Facebook so £65 was handed over and I bought this home

I went to see a local trimmer with the seats Wednesday, last night I get a text saying they are ready to be collected.

What a difference! She swapped the side panel over, replaced the foam bolster, repaired the side vinyl and even cleaned the seat and charged £110.

 I can't say fairer than that!

[GMcD]

Looks great 👍

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, egg said:

You may have had to write in a weekly 'news' book when you were at primary school. I still have mine, cos my parents hoarded, and now I can't throw 'em. I like this entry.

Friday 15 February 1985 - If I were a millionaire - If I were a millionaire I would have a cottage in the country with a field behind it. With a pony in it. and I would buy a TR7 and I would get married and have a baby. And if a war came the house would sink under the ground and breathing holes would come out of the roof and guns would come out of the roof too.

Cottage, pony, TR7. Plus guns. Sounds ideal!

[egg]

New Nexens on the front for the i10 today...replacing Nexens. They are a bit expensive because 175/60/14 is quite a rare size compared to 175/65/14.

[richardmorris]

British ironworks, Oswestry.

[richardmorris]

[artdjones]

On 10/6/2023 at 12:10 PM, RayMK said:

 We've spoken to a couple on the 'phone.  They were not keen to take it further because, although there is a rudimentary diagnostic connector on the loom under the bonnet, no-one (including long established Fiat dealers) has the original Fiat diagnostic device or anything compatible with it.  It would be a project to get anything to read it.  There are a couple of UK companies who could repair or clone the Digiplex ECU if that was found to be the problem.  Prices start at £200 .... much more if it proves a difficult one.  The car is worth £600.  I'm not an eBay optimist who would try for £2K.  My preferred budget is <£400 to fix the Tipo.  I'll update with my findings after waving my multimeter leads about next week 😁. 

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but what year is the car? Because Multiecuscan (Vagcom for Fiat's) list the software as suitable for Bosch Monomotronic Tipos through the 3pin connector. 

There is a limited free edition of Multiecuscan.

https://www.multiecuscan.net/SupportedVehiclesList.aspx

 

[RayMK]

27 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but what year is the car? Because Multiecuscan (Vagcom for Fiat's) list the software as suitable for Bosch Monomotronic Tipos through the 3pin connector. 

There is a limited free edition of Multiecuscan.

https://www.multiecuscan.net/SupportedVehiclesList.aspx

 

Year of manufacture 1994, first registered August 1994.  The fuel injection system has its own ECU.  All indications on mine (symptoms, wiring diagrams etc) point to an ignition problem which is controlled by a Magneti Marelli Digiplex 2 ECU.  The 1.4ie 1372cc engine in my Tipo has,  according to all information unearthed so far,  got a late configuration set-up which is listed in many sources as being very similar to the 1.6ie.  With the help received from the Fiat forum and more recently from a few posts back on this thread, I now have sufficient information to carry out a number of straightforward checks (mainly continuity/test light)  and measurements (mainly resistance) without needing to find diagnostic equipment compatible with the Digiplex 2 ECU.  I hope to do the checks and measurements next week.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Anybody here at Cobham Services on the M25 in a Peugeot 205 earlier?

[Bren]

New shite purchased. Details to come.

As you were.....

[SiC]

2 hours ago, RayMK said:

without needing to find diagnostic equipment compatible with the Digiplex 2 ECU

This appears to be the diagnostic system for the Digiplex 2

http://baddinsbits.altervista.org/fltmods.html

I don't think it'll be of much use to be honest. Reading from Ferrari/Lancia owners who some cars use a similar Digiplex 2, the readout is essentially giving the current timing angle and rpm. Also starter signal and idle switch. There isn't much in the way of inputs into the Digiplex to give much more information! There's nothing it even can do to detect misfire, knock or stuff like that as it doesn't have the sensors going into it to detect that.

[egg]

12 minutes ago, SiC said:

This appears to be the diagnostic system for the Digiplex 2

great sleuthing, love seeing an old school website like that 👏

[loserone]

Swift pint at the Esso garage before getting back on the road.  Brakes are freeing up but the rear wheel bearings are fucked.

 

Nice to meet you @Aston Martin

[dozeydustman]

Various PMs sent to another shiter, then a few texts and a 20 minute phone chat.

Collection caper tomorrow PM.

[loserone]

Ye gads.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

6 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Anybody here at Cobham Services on the M25 in a Peugeot 205 earlier?

Don’t worry, I saw it again half an hour later on the M25, driving along happy as anything!

[loserone]

5 hours ago, loserone said:

Swift pint at the Esso garage before getting back on the road.  Brakes are freeing up but the rear wheel bearings are fucked.

 

Nice to meet you @Aston Martin

Home uneventfully, but not before midnight.  Twelve and a half hour collection.   And I still have stuff in the back of the Duster.

[Split_Pin]

Just a few gratuitous shots of my Swedish tat after a wash following all the floods I had to negotiate yesterday. Never missed a beat and I managed not to rip off the shiny new splitter in the puddles!

 

[dozeydustman]

No caper thread, but destination achieved.

Just outside of Sevenoaks

[RoverFolkUs]

On 10/7/2023 at 12:19 PM, egg said:

New Nexens on the front for the i10 today...replacing Nexens. They are a bit expensive because 175/60/14 is quite a rare size compared to 175/65/14.

Odd, I've always known these to have 165/60/R14 which are comparatively one of the cheapest sizes out there. I wonder if someone has erroneously fitted 175's in the past and your fitter has quite rightly/understandably just gone with a like for like

[egg]

3 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Odd, I've always known these to have 165/60/R14 which are comparatively one of the cheapest sizes out there. I wonder if someone has erroneously fitted 175's in the past and your fitter has quite rightly/understandably just gone with a like for like

I think it's because it's an auto it has it's specific size - and the label on the door jam says 175/60/14, it does have 65's on the rear which I'll switch to 60's when the time comes. 

[dozeydustman]

Car purchased.