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[beko1987]

I was bloody tempted with the passat estate for sale on here earlier this year. The belt job doesn't look too bad on them either (2.0 cr engine I think) 

[Spottedlaurel]

13 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Every time you tag me my heart flutters! In the absence of any Toyota product on my driveway, I’m hoping to view a Corolla imminently. But if there’s a chance that the Avensis may become available I’ll bite your arm off. 

Good luck on the Corolla.

I did remind of them your interest in having it back off them should they decide it's surplus to requirements one day.....

[Wgl2019]

3 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

Price

Difficult with the miles as most would shy away..... £1500 sounds like a good deal for you without taking the piss (and considering it might potentially need a grand spending to bring back to full health with belts, service, brakes etc)

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, Wgl2019 said:

Difficult with the miles as most would shy away..... £1500 sounds like a good deal for you without taking the piss (and considering it might potentially need a grand spending to bring back to full health with belts, service, brakes etc)

I’m a grumpy pessimist, £1000 max and £2000 in major servicing.

[autopaul]

28 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I’m a grumpy pessimist, £1000 max and £2000 in major servicing.

Trade-in price will be £1100-1300 on one of these now with that kinda mileage.  Check for water pump leaking, heater being shit (silica bags split) dual mass noise, alternator bearings can start to seize.  Cambelts are pretty straightforward on these, just avoid gates kits.

Nice cars though and if you could get it for under 2k I'm sure it would carry on carrying on for a good while yet.

[GagaStan]

New wheels for Mr Stan 

not sure if it counts as shite, but certainly obscure enough. Nissan Note 3rd generation.

(for bonus points, the Corolla estate behind, owned by a neighbour, has 650,000km and leaves its sign everywhere it’s parked!)

[hairnet]

8 hours ago, richardmorris said:

St David's day...

no car shit just animals??

 

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, hairnet said:

no car shit just animals??

 

I drove to the supermarket first thing in very dense fog, did a ride with Chris hoy on zwift and decided I couldn’t be bothered to go out in the car again.

[hairnet]

man misses joke

[richardmorris]

Sorry

[Popsicle]

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

If you could get it for sub £2k you'd be doing well, although I'd bid a grand and work up! they are great cars, don't think you'll get anywhere near 70mpg though.

 

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

I was bloody tempted with the passat estate for sale on here earlier this year. The belt job doesn't look too bad on them either (2.0 cr engine I think) 

 

1 hour ago, Wgl2019 said:

Difficult with the miles as most would shy away..... £1500 sounds like a good deal for you without taking the piss (and considering it might potentially need a grand spending to bring back to full health with belts, service, brakes etc)

 

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

I’m a grumpy pessimist, £1000 max and £2000 in major servicing.

 

1 hour ago, autopaul said:

Trade-in price will be £1100-1300 on one of these now with that kinda mileage.  Check for water pump leaking, heater being shit (silica bags split) dual mass noise, alternator bearings can start to seize.  Cambelts are pretty straightforward on these, just avoid gates kits.

Nice cars though and if you could get it for under 2k I'm sure it would carry on carrying on for a good while yet.

Cheers for the input guys, I was hoping for around £1.5k, discussions will take place Monday. The last cheap car I picked up from a friend was our Qashqai, it turned in to a moneypit (sorry @beko1987), I'm sure yours is a goodun.

[Popsicle]

Took the potential new to me Pisshat for a night time spin, wanted to see if the lights are any good - yep they're very good. Went the 5 miles up the A52 to the M1 to go down a junction to the A50, 50 mph average signs all the way down 🙄, set the cruise control to 51 mph and got good mpgees.

Once onto the A50 I set the cruise to 70, not good enough for the 'my diesel is a shitbox and does 70 mpg' thread, but still pretty respectable, not that I have any idea how accurate this is.

 

[PhilA]

Bought this today. 

[Popsicle]

4 minutes ago, PhilA said:

Bought this today. 

Wow - that sir is magnificent - fantastic purchase - enjoy.

[Metal Guru]

8 hours ago, Jazoli said:

If you could get it for sub £2k you'd be doing well, although I'd bid a grand and work up! they are great cars, don't think you'll get anywhere near 70mpg though.

I had a 2012 model, supposedly 62 mpg, closer to 50 in real life, which I still think is pretty good for that size of car with decent performance . 

[BorniteIdentity]

13 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Good luck on the Corolla.

I did remind of them your interest in having it back off them should they decide it's surplus to requirements one day.....

Obviously the twunt sold it to someone last night. Because that’s what the human race has become. Brilliant. 

It’s a fucking sad state of affairs when the best car I own is a 42 year old sierra with half an exhaust and a door that doesn’t open. 

Fairly close to giving it all up and becoming an alcoholic who travels by penny farthing 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Mmmmmm - crispy

[RoverFolkUs]

That's the MG gone off to its new home already 

I wasn't really prepared for it to be sold and collected so quickly but the buyer has made a 12 hour round trip to get it and it's less than 24 hours since the advert went live!

No time wasting, no stupid questions, no bartering, he looked around the car and said it's as good as it looked and was just what he wanted. 

Nice sensible chap who was very much an enthusiast about them and already has another near identical but slightly ropier example himself 

Definitely a very refreshing car selling experience, couldn't have asked for any better

This does mean I've now taxed the Rover 600 and swapped the insurance over from the MG which is a nice logistical gain

[Tayne]

15 hours ago, PhilA said:

Bought this today. 

Nice.

Didn’t you already have one, is this a bigger engined model?

[Marshall2810]

Cute spoiler for serious down force on a saxo earlier today in Bolsover. 

[Split_Pin]

Had my first FTP in a while yesterday, as reported elsewhere. I went out to the shops with my wife and son and when I came back to the Saab, the battery was flat enough to provide insufficient cranking amps. I did wonder why the dashcam was going on and off (it makes a jingling sound) for a few minutes after starting for about the last week so it's likely been on its way out for a while.

My jumppack is now fucked off into some corner of the garage because it's DOA but I did have a pair of jumpleads. There was a WBAC hut nearby and I asked the guy if he could possibly help me out with some volts from one of the trade ins but he said no. Thankfully a passer by in a 208 was happy to help (thank you).

When I got home I nicked the battery off the E46 so we're good for now. I'll get a new one on payday.

Slightly concerning was the fact that when I got home, I could not turn off the headlights.  After about 5 minutes of fucking about I got them to switch off. They are a bit flaky and flicker badly when being turned off or on so I think something up there. They turned off OK today but still a bit flickery when doing so. Might be the switch but needs Tech 2 to code in a new one.

75 goes for MOT attempt 2 on Tuesday.

[Popsicle]

Further tinkering with the potentially new to me Pisshat, DRL bulb in the fog light cluster was a standard indicator type bulb, straight forward enough to do, side light bulb was a T10, again nice and easy to do.

So flushed with success at having got rid of all the warning lights on the dash I had a play with the pan roof, I'd noticed it a little hesitant yesterday, so wound it fully open, cleaned up the track and sprayed some lithium grease on everything, moved it back and forth a few times, it seemed to be moving much better now. Went to finish up and call it a day and the roof wouldn't close. It kept getting in to position to close, the deflector went down, the leading edge lined up, but the rear edge would not lower down. Moved it through the full cycle a few times and it kept getting stuck in the tilt position, oh bollocks. Checked it all over again and couldn't see anything obviously wrong, tried gentle persuasion, still no good, so did some googling and there is a manual overide in behind the roof lights, special tool should be inside the trim too, nice one. Well somebody must have had issues with the roof before, the tool was awol and it all looked a bit butchered inside - double oh bollocks and its getting dark now.

The manual bolt required an allen key at a slight angle to operate the roof, I managed to force one on the bolt at a funny angle, thankfully it worked and the pan roof is now closed.

First thought is to never use the roof again, but I have just watched a video on how to reset the system and make it relearn its sequence, I do think it stuttered earlier so it might have lost track as to where it is on the track, so I'll probably not learn from my mistakes today and have another go tomorrow when its not dark.

[PhilA]

5 hours ago, Tayne said:

Nice.

Didn’t you already have one, is this a bigger engined model?

Yeah, I've had a couple. Sold one on, the other got beat on by the last big hurricane. 

This is the 6.4 which is adequate

[SiC]

19 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

Further tinkering with the potentially new to me Pisshat, DRL bulb in the fog light cluster was a standard indicator type bulb, straight forward enough to do, side light bulb was a T10, again nice and easy to do.

So flushed with success at having got rid of all the warning lights on the dash I had a play with the pan roof, I'd noticed it a little hesitant yesterday, so wound it fully open, cleaned up the track and sprayed some lithium grease on everything, moved it back and forth a few times, it seemed to be moving much better now. Went to finish up and call it a day and the roof wouldn't close. It kept getting in to position to close, the deflector went down, the leading edge lined up, but the rear edge would not lower down. Moved it through the full cycle a few times and it kept getting stuck in the tilt position, oh bollocks. Checked it all over again and couldn't see anything obviously wrong, tried gentle persuasion, still no good, so did some googling and there is a manual overide in behind the roof lights, special tool should be inside the trim too, nice one. Well somebody must have had issues with the roof before, the tool was awol and it all looked a bit butchered inside - double oh bollocks and its getting dark now.

The manual bolt required an allen key at a slight angle to operate the roof, I managed to force one on the bolt at a funny angle, thankfully it worked and the pan roof is now closed.

First thought is to never use the roof again, but I have just watched a video on how to reset the system and make it relearn its sequence, I do think it stuttered earlier so it might have lost track as to where it is on the track, so I'll probably not learn from my mistakes today and have another go tomorrow when its not dark.

No idea on vag sunroofs but many of them can be forced closed by holding the close button for a like 5-10seconds. 

[Popsicle]

2 minutes ago, SiC said:

No idea on vag sunroofs but many of them can be forced closed by holding the close button for a like 5-10seconds. 

Thanks for the info Si - I did read and try similar, but no joy. On the video I watched the guy removed the panroof fuse, popped it back in, then pulled the sunroof switch down, after about 20 seconds the roof went through the full range, tilting, opening, closing and seemed fixed - I'll have a go tomorrow.

[BL Bloke]

After being SORNED for two months and seeing hardly any use since October the Saxo had its first run out of the year today. 🙂

The lacquer peel on the bonnet continues to spread and I've noticed a couple of potential new areas.

[wuvvum]

Well the front strut on the Eos continues to be a royal pain in the arse.  I got the pinch bolt undone easily enough but I cannot get the bloody drop link off for love nor money.  I bought a set of the 12-sided spline bits and hammered the relevant size of bit into the end of the ball joint stud, then stuck my breaker bar on it and wedged it against the bottom of the inner wing.  Blasted the nut with the blowtorch for several minutes then got an 18mm spanner on it with a bit of scaffold pole over the end, heaved on it and the nut started to move.  Working it back and forth with copious application of Plus Gas got it undone a couple of turns, slowly and creakily.  Then the spline bit snapped off in the stud.  

The bottom ball joint stud isn't going to come undone easily either - that's more awkward to get to as the stud points towards the centre of the car rather than forwards or backwards.  I've taken the wheel arch liner out to improve access a bit and I reckon if the worst comes to the worst I can, if I'm careful, slice the thing off with a grinder without doing too much collateral damage.  That's a job for next weekend though, when I have a replacement strut to go in (the faff with the drop link has made me decide in favour of getting a secondhand leg rather than buying a new spring and fitting it to the existing leg - the two options are pretty much the same price).

I've been having a play with the newly-acquired Mitsubishi i-Miev over the weekend. 

I'm rather enjoying it so far, it's nippier than I was expecting and so far the range looks like it's going to be enough for the commute to the office and back.  I stuck my single-din Android touchscreen radio in - it already had ISO connectors under the dash and the aerial plug was the correct type too so all I had to do was bodge in a GPS antenna for the sat nav (not that I'm likely to need nav in this car, but I don't like having features that don't work).

The heating is adequate but does eat into the range - the heated seat is pretty good though so I've just been giving it a quick blast of heat to defrost the windscreen when required then relying on the seat heater to keep the chill off the rest of the time - although I will need gloves if it gets very cold.  It seems comfy enough for such a tiny car, although the ride is a bit bouncy over bumps, and the turning circle is fantastic.

As it was such a lovely day there were quite a few classics out and about - in the drive to Wroxham and back to pick up a few bits for the Rover's upcoming MOT I passed an MG Y-Type, a Bond Bug and a 2CV.  I did take the Volvo for a quick spin round the block in the afternoon, but couldn't go far as I didn't have a lot of time and it was low on petrol.  It started up fine though - the ancient battery which I thought was knackered seems to have been properly brought back to life by my cheapo eBay pulse charger, it can now sit for a month or more and still crank the car over with no problem.

[Lord Sterling]

Some new stuff bought today.

Under bonnet tool kit for the Jag. These are usually quite expensive at £100+ a pop and usually get taken out of a car and sold seperately (like floor mats in other cars). But I got this for less than half that.

Back where it belongs:

Vectra has a plain steelie as a spare, so I thought it needed a spare alloy instead. Now just to get a new tyre on it:

[Rust Collector]

10 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Well the front strut on the Eos continues to be a royal pain in the arse.  I got the pinch bolt undone easily enough but I cannot get the bloody drop link off for love nor money.  I bought a set of the 12-sided spline bits and hammered the relevant size of bit into the end of the ball joint stud, then stuck my breaker bar on it and wedged it against the bottom of the inner wing.  Blasted the nut with the blowtorch for several minutes then got an 18mm spanner on it with a bit of scaffold pole over the end, heaved on it and the nut started to move.  Working it back and forth with copious application of Plus Gas got it undone a couple of turns, slowly and creakily.  Then the spline bit snapped off in the stud.  

The bottom ball joint stud isn't going to come undone easily either - that's more awkward to get to as the stud points towards the centre of the car rather than forwards or backwards.  I've taken the wheel arch liner out to improve access a bit and I reckon if the worst comes to the worst I can, if I'm careful, slice the thing off with a grinder without doing too much collateral damage.  That's a job for next weekend though, when I have a replacement strut to go in (the faff with the drop link has made me decide in favour of getting a secondhand leg rather than buying a new spring and fitting it to the existing leg - the two options are pretty much the same price).

I've been having a play with the newly-acquired Mitsubishi i-Miev over the weekend. 

I'm rather enjoying it so far, it's nippier than I was expecting and so far the range looks like it's going to be enough for the commute to the office and back.  I stuck my single-din Android touchscreen radio in - it already had ISO connectors under the dash and the aerial plug was the correct type too so all I had to do was bodge in a GPS antenna for the sat nav (not that I'm likely to need nav in this car, but I don't like having features that don't work).

The heating is adequate but does eat into the range - the heated seat is pretty good though so I've just been giving it a quick blast of heat to defrost the windscreen when required then relying on the seat heater to keep the chill off the rest of the time - although I will need gloves if it gets very cold.  It seems comfy enough for such a tiny car, although the ride is a bit bouncy over bumps, and the turning circle is fantastic.

As it was such a lovely day there were quite a few classics out and about - in the drive to Wroxham and back to pick up a few bits for the Rover's upcoming MOT I passed an MG Y-Type, a Bond Bug and a 2CV.  I did take the Volvo for a quick spin round the block in the afternoon, but couldn't go far as I didn't have a lot of time and it was low on petrol.  It started up fine though - the ancient battery which I thought was knackered seems to have been properly brought back to life by my cheapo eBay pulse charger, it can now sit for a month or more and still crank the car over with no problem.

What’s the range like on the Mitsubishi with the heater on? That looks like quite a cool little commuter. 

[davehedgehog31]

Safe to say I was feather footed in the 207 this weekend, this was probably only about 60% motorway too, it sips the juice.