The new news 24 thread

[MJK 24]

Borderline euphoria alert…..

Im putting a new engine in the Scirocco, soon.  It’s complete apart from the air intake pipe from the air filter to the turbo.  I thought it would be a nightmare to find one and I’d end up (unsuccessfully) trying to make something myself.

Last available from VW dealers in 2016 for £190 plus VAT.

€19 plus postage from Volkswagen Classic Parts in Wolfsburg.  Arrived in 7 days!

I’m a happy man!

 

[wuvvum]

Last night I did my first buy of 2024.  It's pretty dismal.

2007 Zafira B 1.6 Life.  It's basic, gutless, has three weeks' MOT, at least one knocking ball joint and the start of a noisy wheel bearing.  It also needs a thermostat as the heater is shite.  However it was basically scrap money, and it's got plenty of room in the back with all the seats down so it's going to be used as overflow storage for now until I decide what to do with it.

[grogee]

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Last night I did my first buy of 2024.  It's pretty dismal.

2007 Zafira B 1.6 Life.  It's basic, gutless, has three weeks' MOT, at least one knocking ball joint and the start of a noisy wheel bearing.  It also needs a thermostat as the heater is shite.  However it was basically scrap money, and it's got plenty of room in the back with all the seats down so it's going to be used as overflow storage for now until I decide what to do with it.

🎵Life, oooh Life, aaahhh Life... 🎶

I really want to know how miserable it is. Do you have to wind your own windows? Is the seat cloth made from purest grey? 

[wuvvum]

6 minutes ago, grogee said:

Do you have to wind your own windows? Is the seat cloth made from purest grey? 

Only in the back.  And yes.

[SiC]

39 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Last night I did my first buy of 2024.  It's pretty dismal.

2007 Zafira B 1.6 Life.  It's basic, gutless, has three weeks' MOT, at least one knocking ball joint and the start of a noisy wheel bearing.  It also needs a thermostat as the heater is shite.  However it was basically scrap money, and it's got plenty of room in the back with all the seats down so it's going to be used as overflow storage for now until I decide what to do with it.

Peak grim, proper chod!

[stuboy]

56 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Last night I did my first buy of 2024.  It's pretty dismal.

2007 Zafira B 1.6 Life.  It's basic, gutless, has three weeks' MOT, at least one knocking ball joint and the start of a noisy wheel bearing.  It also needs a thermostat as the heater is shite.  However it was basically scrap money, and it's got plenty of room in the back with all the seats down so it's going to be used as overflow storage for now until I decide what to do with it.

the 1.6 in the astra was slow wonder how it copes in a bigger body

[Spottedlaurel]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Last night I did my first buy of 2024.  It's pretty dismal.

2007 Zafira B 1.6 Life.  It's basic, gutless, has three weeks' MOT, at least one knocking ball joint and the start of a noisy wheel bearing.  It also needs a thermostat as the heater is shite.  However it was basically scrap money, and it's got plenty of room in the back with all the seats down so it's going to be used as overflow storage for now until I decide what to do with it.

They seem to be popular with seasonal/food factory workers, with a fresh MoT I would have thought it would sell OK? Otherwise let it go to the banger racers?

[wuvvum]

20 minutes ago, stuboy said:

the 1.6 in the astra was slow wonder how it copes in a bigger body

It doesn't really.  Official 0-60 time is 14.3 seconds.

[AnthonyG]

Christ, now that is grim. Alloy wheels though - is ‘Life’ higher than ‘Club’?

My friend has a proper basic 2010 Corsa D, I think that is an ‘S’, which I had thought was just a VW thing. 

[wuvvum]

I think the alloys were an option - pretty sure Life was the base model.

[Markeh]

Life was base, we had a 56-plate Club from new which had those shaped 5 spoke steels with plastic covers.

[SRi05]

11 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Last night I did my first buy of 2024.  It's pretty dismal.

2007 Zafira B 1.6 Life.  It's basic, gutless, has three weeks' MOT, at least one knocking ball joint and the start of a noisy wheel bearing.  It also needs a thermostat as the heater is shite.  However it was basically scrap money, and it's got plenty of room in the back with all the seats down so it's going to be used as overflow storage for now until I decide what to do with it.

I thought all of these would have burst into giant balls of flames by now

[JakeT]

On 07/02/2024 at 23:55, SiC said:

While driving back from looking at a car, my neighbour phoned. 

His 2010 118d shat itself near home and he urgently needed a tow. Driving along to find it suddenly just cut out and die.

I did the right thing and assisted him. He did keep pressing the brakes and tightening the tow rope up. 

Anyway got him home. I did a quick scan to find cam sensor and low fuel rail pressure. He's fully expecting it to be dead. 

He's the type that never services a car. I think he's done 100k+ in it so far some how. 

I might unplug the cam sensor and see if it starts. The engine turns over but sounds lumpy and not an even note. My first thought was chains given the engine on it. But perhaps maybe it is simply a sensor gone and bad information is making it sound lumpy on turn over as it's injecting in at the wrong time?

This sounds like it’s shit its timing chain. Cam correlation and the HPFP is driven off of the timing chain too.

[richardmorris]

[beko1987]

19 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Last night I did my first buy of 2024.  It's pretty dismal.

2007 Zafira B 1.6 Life.  It's basic, gutless, has three weeks' MOT, at least one knocking ball joint and the start of a noisy wheel bearing.  It also needs a thermostat as the heater is shite.  However it was basically scrap money, and it's got plenty of room in the back with all the seats down so it's going to be used as overflow storage for now until I decide what to do with it.

I didn't hate the zafira B the ex had. Was the 1.8 so quite spritely if asked, and it only cost us £250 from her sister and didn't catch fire. 

But I found it as comfy as a Vauxhall with slab hard seats can be (couldn't sit in the back, only the front), had OK visibility, large and easy to drive. Night and day 100% nicer than the equivilant age/era Meriva A we had before which I utterly hated in every way. 

Dare say a derv one in low spec with comfy seats is a nice place to be, but I don't know if I could lower myself to that... Plus finding a nice tidy one must be a fucking minefield nowadays! 

[HMC]

Daily driving in damp and drizzy Dartmoor…

[vulgalour]

Definitely one way to spend all that money you've been saving for a rainy day, and more power to you really.

[High Jetter]

Bloody Wurzels & their contraptions!

[4wheeledstool]

Next one cued up.

An awful lot less welding required on this one. 👍

[richardmorris]

21 hours ago, HMC said:

Daily driving in damp and drizzy Dartmoor…

For some reason it reminds me of the type of film bob hoskins would be in disposing of a body in the bosses car.

[richardmorris]

21 hours ago, HMC said:

Daily driving in damp and drizzy Dartmoor…

Calendar shot for next feb?

[lesapandre]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Calendar shot for next feb?

February and June. Monarchs have two birthdays each year.

[HMC]

And they have to go to the shops occasionally

[lesapandre]

5 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

For some reason it reminds me of the type of film bob hoskins would be in disposing of a body in the bosses car.

Be good to take it back to Liverpool sometime.* 

*I estimate £140 in petrol or £280 round trip.

[richardmorris]

Just now, HMC said:

And they have to go to the shops occasionally

Doesn’t it look tiny next to the Peugeot!

[lesapandre]

1 minute ago, HMC said:

And they have to go to the shops occasionally

But they never carry money...

[HillmanImp]

Got out before the rain hit today and changed the oil on the Elgrand. 

The filler cap is comically far back so I had to use this to put the oil in. 

Nice touch on the Elgrand that I don't recall seeing on cars I've changed filters on before is under it, there is a bit of metal to catch the oil and direct it into the pan. 

This means that during the oil change procedure I managed to not actually spill any oil on the fucking driveway. 

Not a drop. 

Miracles never cease eh? 

Anyway, I then poured all the oil into my jerry can.... 

Fuxake. 

[richardmorris]

Nothing very productive today, but did wash the car ready for its first mot on Wednesday. Nice sunset too.

[reb]

Spent a couple of hours sorting out my lockup today.

I've had it for something like 8 years now, it's slowly filled with crap over that time. I hadn't been up to it in over a year until this week, so it was a bit of a time warp tbh.

Highlights of stuff that I found include my copy of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and my favourite jumper that I thought I'd lost.

 

Also about 10 delivery bags from [pizza chain], oops.

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, reb said:

Also about 10 delivery bags from [pizza chain], oops.

I’ve still got a couple of uniforms from [pizza chain], I don’t throw them out ‘in case I need them’. I’m not quite sure what for though, maybe some sort of daring pizza heist or a clichéd porn film perhaps.