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[Jazoli]

32 minutes ago, barefoot said:

My 2.5 litre Porsche 944 is doing 3,400rpm at 70 mph.

My 2.0 modern VAG is doing 1700rpm at 70, half the revs and probably half the fun too!

[paulplom]

Goimg to look at this for the boy at 12 today. It looks exceptionally clean and has relatively low miles for the age. Mot history is wonderful too. Bit of a downer being 50 miles away but it's hopefully worth it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FMR6Sr5GL/

[loserone]

It's advertise at least twice on gumtree, we were looking at it for @Jim Bell before he bought his [redacted]

[paulplom]

I wonder why it hasn't selt.  I hope there are no underlying/hidden problems. I looked at tons and they look fine till you read the mot history.

I looked at a 2012 one in Houghton. It was full of her bloke's work tools and gear. It was filthy inside and out and they'd made no attempt to prepare it. There was fuck all oil in it and to top it off the fucker wouldn't start.

[paulplom]

It's £200 cheaper on gumtree. Cheers for the heads up.

[Jim Bell]

Good luck Paul. It looks really good so hope it works out. 

[paulplom]

Cheers man.

[Split_Pin]

19 minutes ago, paulplom said:

I wonder why it hasn't selt.

That's the first thing I thought, espexially when I saw the price. These are mega popular and I would have thought any timewasters would be well drowned out by the number of genuine interested buyers. Decent advert, well prepared and cheap.

Check the rear axle mounts, I think Tickman needed to weld his there. Might be worth checking it's not been in a smash too. 

Otherwise, get it bought!

[Tickman]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Goimg to look at this for the boy at 12 today. It looks exceptionally clean and has relatively low miles for the age. Mot history is wonderful too. Bit of a downer being 50 miles away but it's hopefully worth it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FMR6Sr5GL/

Looks a straight enough car in the pictures.

Look for rot at the back, sill end/wheel arch where mud sits, the lower shock mounts on the rear (take a torch and have a good luck there, you will need to get properly underneath it for this) then all the usual car checks after that.

[paulplom]

There's no mention at all of rust in the mot history which is very rare for one of these. Remember I still own one of these but it's currently kidnapped.

The bitch.

[Split_Pin]

Currently in Inverness for my son's final basketball game of the year against the local team.

75 did well for being laid up for over a month, 45mpg plus thanks to 60mph maintained on the A9.

Hoping the burning smell on the huge descent into Inverness was the brakes of the lorry in front and not the auto gearbox being unhappy at holding the car's speed down.

[Stinkwheel]

New alternator arrived for the 206, excellent next day service from a dedicated starter & alternator company with Saturday delivery. The most impressive bit was they sent me an AutoShite branded remanufactured alternator 

 

[bramz7]

14 hours ago, artdjones said:

What's Alfatex, some sort of Alcantara?

Yes. 

Anyway, dropped off for MOT. it will fail! 

[paulplom]

4 hours ago, paulplom said:

Goimg to look at this for the boy at 12 today. It looks exceptionally clean and has relatively low miles for the age. Mot history is wonderful too. Bit of a downer being 50 miles away but it's hopefully worth it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FMR6Sr5GL/

It's not too bad underneath. Probably want a patch on the sill in the future. Although I think we can catch it.

[artdjones]

10 minutes ago, bramz7 said:

Yes. 

Anyway, dropped off for MOT. it will fail! 

I like it. I prefer leather with a cloth centre panel anyway, but that's even better.

[paulplom]

36 minutes ago, paulplom said:

It's not too bad underneath. Probably want a patch on the sill in the future. Although I think we can catch it.

Anyway..

[bramz7]

156 MOT update...

 

 

It passed!!!!?!!!!

Really though, I will get the advisory items done. Maybe AutoLusso down in Bournemouth. 

[paulplom]

Home and he's just took his tools off the van and away to Newcastle to do a fiddle job!

[Zelandeth]

1 minute ago, paulplom said:

Home and he's just took his tools off the van and away to Newcastle to do a fiddle job!

Good little cars.  Keep an eye on the oil level (some do apparently like a drink), rustproof the underneath properly and it shouldn't ask for much.

[Split_Pin]

310 miles completed, about 70% of it on cruise. Falkirk to Inverness last night, a few miles to the school for my son's basketball game (they won), into the town for lunch (Victorian Market food hall 100% recommended, we chose Chinese food) and then home. 45.5mpg, bang on 1/2 tank.

75 performed well apart from blocked skooshers. Gearbox is fine, was definitely the brakes of the truck in front!

[barefoot]

There's a bit of a classic car club in the villiage with monthly meets, it began slowly but has become rather interesting of late...

This was my favourite today.

2nd Saturday of each month, Castle Donington community hub, DE74 2NR. 

[Popsicle]

As the Pisshat is now firmly on the fleet.

Quick processing by the DVLA.

Time for a service. I will admit to being an unashamed Mann fanboi, its a hill I will die on, bestest filters ever.

Oil, air, fuel and pollen filters from GSF, I've 40 litres of finest Mannol 507 spec oil as I use it in the caddy - incidentally the cabin and air filters are the same for the Pisshat and the caddy.

Although the Pisshat engine is a bit more modern than the Caddy, everything seems to be set up similarly, so nice and easy to get at everything.

Looks fairly clean and leak free for 214k miles.

The mate who I got the car off said it was last serviced about a year ago, he uses the same garage I use, so I knew it would have been done properly.

Air and pollen filter didn't really need changing, but I've done it.

Blue one is the old fuel filter, orange is the new one, again probably didn't need doing.

Oil filter was black, as expected, other than removing a bracket out the way to get to the oil filter, it was really easy to service.

Reset the service and inspection reminders on the dash display, fuck knows why it says a service is due again in 9400 miles? Thought it would be longer than that.

Once serviced I tried again to sort out the DAB reception. Fitted my new glass mount ariel, still no signal ☹️. Had a brainwave and took the stereo out of the Caddy, plugged it in to the Pisshat, DAB's working fine. Looks like the DAB part of the stereo units fucked in the Pisshat then. Replacement stereos aren't overly expensive, but I'll see how the car behaves for a bit first.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

There's a bit of a classic car club in the villiage with monthly meets, it began slowly but has become rather interesting of late...

This was my favourite today.

2nd Saturday of each month, Castle Donington community hub, DE74 2NR. 

Saggy Prinz, tho?

[Popsicle]

Once the Pisshat was finished I was on a bit of a roll, time to look at why the Caddy was stuttering a bit when it got up to temperature. The only things I could think of are the bits I ballsed up doing the last service. Some of the fuel filter screws had rounded off and I broke a bit of the air filter box while removing the rusted screws.

Seemless glue repair on the air filter box.

Shiny new bolts and washers on the fuel filter, all correctly torqued up.

All this made not a jot of difference!

Starts perfectly, drive it for 5 miles and just as the temp gauge gets halfway the engine judders like fuck for about a minute, then it runs fine all day, no fault codes showing, such a really weird fault and it does it everytime.

[SiC]

21 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

Reset the service and inspection reminders on the dash display, fuck knows why it says a service is due again in 9400 miles? Thought it would be longer than that.

It's almost certainly been reprogrammed for fixed service intervals rather than the variable. At this age and mileage, no bad thing. 

Either was done deliberately or accidentally with a scantool. VCDS can easily change modes. 

[Popsicle]

So with the Pisshat and Caddy worked on time for my first oil change on the Elgrand we picked up late last year.

Wasn't sure how my knackered old ramps would feel with such a weighty bugger on them, it seemed good though.

Nice big 3.5 litre engine has the tiniest oil filter!

Which you have to get too through a letterbox.

Quite clever really that a ramp has been put there to allow the old oil to run away from the undertray, but its a bit in the way for getting a filter tool on the filter.

All easily enough done though. The spark plugs look interesting to change, around 6 hours labour apparently, due to the amount of stuff that needs to be removed, I'll give that a swerve for now!

So three down, one more to go - our Beetle was running like shit, misfire on cylinder 4, I assumed coil pack even though I changed it about 18 months ago.

To the right of the inlet manifold, beneath a lot of stuff, lies the coil pack. Upon closer inspection I could see a spark jumping from number 4 lead to the bracket on that big round thing. Had a closer look and the lead was damaged. I changed these 18 months ago with the coil pack. Managed to find the old ones, popped it on, running sweet as a nut again. Really not sure how it got damaged, but classing that as a nice easy win.

So I've worked on 4 vehicles today, I'm knackered, old, fat and unfit. How you guys in the trade manage this day in day out is beyond me - fair play to you all.

 

[Popsicle]

25 minutes ago, SiC said:

It's almost certainly been reprogrammed for fixed service intervals rather than the variable. At this age and mileage, no bad thing. 

Either was done deliberately or accidentally with a scantool. VCDS can easily change modes. 

Thanks for the info Si, makes sense. I usually do an oil change every 10k, everything else every 20k. I always thought I over serviced stuff!

[Metal Guru]

Hottest day of the year so far , the joys of no a/c!

[Mat.T]

I've finally got My Silver Shadow project running, it's sat in the corner of a yard at work for 25years. Now got to try and sort some brakes! Currently the fully hydraulic system is non functional so the only brakes are the tiny master cylinder that acts on the rear calipers to give brake 'feel'. Actually the car is very solid and only 60k. Plan is to get it on the road but leave the paint as is.

[Mat.T]

Front end shot, grill and headlight surrounds had been stored in the boot