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[anonymous user]

with it being a Rover I did wonder if it was a regulator for the clock, in case it's running fast or slow

[Pillock]

What does it do on a 15+ year old British car? Probably nothing.

What did it do? That's the question you need to be asking.

 

Could always pop the dash out, find the cable behind and see where it goes. My guess is an empty fag packet behind the glovebox and a note saying "don't forget to hook this up" written on a bit of masking tape wrapped around the end.

[bub2006]

If i remember right,my r8 414 centre vents only blew cold air so that may be the same. Memory a bit fuzzy but i am sure its the same. White for closed blue for fresh air.

[bub2006]

If i remember right,my r8 414 centre vents only blew cold air so that may be the same. Memory a bit fuzzy but i am sure its the same. White for closed blue for fresh air.

[Cavcraft]

K-sealometer.

[RobT]

This weekend reminds me why I love cars so much. After yesterday's collection I spent today out in the sun cleaning the interior of the 75 as it was a bit rank. The seats still need a proper clean with shampoo but it's come up a treat.

 

I also adjusted the handbrake on the 220 and put a new wheel trim on to replace the old mismatched one. Cost me 20 fuggin' quid for an old Rover trim, so here's a photo of it. Note the oil stained bit of cardboard in the background of the 75 pic. That's the 220's incontinent T-series dropping it's load onto the garage floor. Has been getting worse of late so that's another job to sort, although the likelihood is I'll just keep topping it up and ignore it.

 

 

[wuvvum]

I took part in my first traffic light GP in the Vel Satis this evening, on the Norwich ring road, against a young lad and his bird in a 56-plate Mégane.  The Vel Satis won.  Three times.  The lad kept pulling into the right lane coming up to red lights and trying his luck again - I don't know whether he was expecting his car to have got faster since the last light or if he was expecting the Vel to go into limp mode (which it does sometimes, but only right after a hot start - if it survives the first 15 seconds it's fine for the rest of the journey), but he kept coming back for more.

 

Anyway, the upshot of such childishness was that the cooling system got rather over-excited and I had to keep an eagle eye on the temp gauge all the way home.  It didn't overheat, but I had to stick rigidly to my 65mph cruising speed and avoid prolonged bouts of enthusiastic acceleration or the needle would creep northwards.  This was 15 miles after the events of the ring road.  I really don't understand this cooling system at all.  I could get my head round a logical pattern of behaviour, like drive like a twat -> car overheats.  I don't understand drive like a twat -> car is absolutely fine, but then threatens to overheat 15 miles later after 20 minutes of gentle driving.  I know it's French and I shouldn't expect it to behave in a logical manner, but in my previous experience such illogicality has been confined to electrics and electronics, and hasn't affected the actual mechanical bits.

 

It's annoying as other than that I do actually rather like the old heap.  OK, it's rather thirsty for a diesel, but 35mpg average for a big automatic barge isn't too bad really, and it's so relaxing to drive.  Ironically all the electrics work too - I tried the foldy-inny door mirrors today for the first time, and also used the sat nav to actually find my way to somewhere, and both worked perfectly - as do the rear parking sensors, the electric windows, the seat heaters and all the other stuff that usually fails on Renners.  I know though that if I start trying to chase the overheating problem I'm going to end up spending several times the car's value, which ain't gonna happen.

[Lacquer Peel]

Since it's an Isuzu engine, could you fit, I dunno, a 50hp woodchipper engine in its place when it fails?

[phil_lihp]

Ah, good to see my grass verge-find hubcap has finally been shown the door!  They're stupidly expensive trims, aren't they?  Also glad to see my amateurish paintwork repairs are still holding up.  

 

It was oozing a bit of oil when I had it, it was suggested that re-torquing up the head bolts might help but I somehow doubt it.  It is unfortunately the head gasket as per T-Series usual, as it's not contaminating the coolant (or at least it wasn't) it's only a mess problem really, doesn't seem to hurt it as long as it's kept topped up anyway!  

 

The 75 looks spot-on too, hard to believe there's only 4 years between those two cars!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That is a serious problem on those T series engines innit. I bought and fitted an expensive Klinger gasket specifically to stop that oil leak from happening. Total waste if time & money.

[wuvvum]

I drove the Renner Six the 20 or so miles to its winter home this morning.  It drove absolutely spot on, and was even idling properly.  I'd forgotten how bloody noisy it is at speed though.

 

The new lens for the offside rear light arrived yesterday, so I fitted the whole cluster.  Whilst it does look better with two Series 1 lights (rather than one Series 1 and one Series 2 as it had before), it isn't quite there yet.  The Series 2 lights screwed into the bodywork in the normal manner, but the Series 1 lights are held in by a sort of claw thing that clamps onto the inside of the wing behind the light aperture and is tightened with a 10mm nut.  Unfortunately on the driver's side the aperture has rusted away around the edges to the extent that the claw had nothing to clamp onto.  I had to cut a thin strip of steel and fibreglass it into place inside the wing (I was buggered if I was going to try welding metal that thin somewhere that was a) so awkward to get at and b ) going to be blindingly obvious if I fucked it up).  The light is now firmly in place, but it's a few mm too far over to the right.  I can't move it any further in or the other end of the claw would be grabbing onto rust, so it's going to have to stay like that for now.  It's not really that noticeable tbh, but it's still mildly annoying.

 

The garage I've rented is nearly new so should be a somewhat drier place for the car to spend the winter than the tumbledown shed I used to rent.  There's also space down the side of the car for a couple of mopeds - or even possibly the boat if I slide it in on its side.  That's another thing that really can't spend another winter outdoors.  Nor can the Innocenti really, but I'm not sure quite what I'm going to do about that at the moment.

[ruffgeezer]

Managed to acquire this today, so the latest project is on...

 

 

[vulgalour]

That's an old Merc grille, is there an old Merc to go with it?

[RobT]

I did an oil and filter change on it last week and noticed the underside was caked in oil, but no big deal I suppose as it still drives spot on.

 

The repairs are holding up well Phil, although rust is coming back through on the NS rear arch. Now I've got the 75 I might SORN the 220 to spare it this winter. I like it so much I'm getting a wee bit precious about the thing!

[DS20]

The T-series engine in my old 820 leaked a considerable quantity of oil all the years (and 60,000 miles) I had it, despite all the seals and gaskets being replaced - some of them twice. The head gasket was chief culprit.

 

It didn't seem to hurt the car, though, what with the constant top ups, the engine oil was always clean. Performance and economy didn't deteriorate, and it was terminal rust (fuel tank, doors, sills, wings, PAS pump) that sent the car to the scrap heap, not the oil leaks.

[rml2345]

I don't think there's a T-series on earth that doesn't leak oil somewhere. It'd be strange if it didn't.

[DS20]

Mine leaked worse (in that it used far more oil) than the 2.25 petrol engine in a friend's Series 3. I didn't think it was possible for anything to lose oil faster than a Land Rover, and still be in good* running order, well not until I had the Rover, that is.

[barefoot]

I was sent a link to this, this morning.

 

http://minerva-automobiles.com/en/

 

It's a Supercar that does a millionty miles an hour, but look at the fucking dashboard.

It's like they've taken every last shit dash in the world and shoved them all together.

[ruffgeezer]

That's an old Merc grille, is there an old Merc to go with it?

Alas no, this is to be a decorative installation, the grille having been hung on a barn wall for many years.

[vulgalour]

"Minerva (Etruscan: Menrva) was the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy."

 

so... nothing to do with automobiles then.  Cretins.

[Richard]

The website makes a noise when I haven't told it to. I'm out.

[ruffgeezer]

Bugger me, several decades on a Lincolnshire farm's wall and there is still some shine to be had!

 

[Fat_Pirate]

I saw a Chrysler 300C hearse today - it was just as badly proportioned as you'd imagine, but it was badged as a Bentley too, to maximise the indignity of your final trip.

[HillmanImp]

Still in Northern Cyprus surrounded by Renault 9s.

 

Impressively blacked out windows and bodykits still seem to be the order of the day if you are one of the more affluent Renault 9ers. Its like being back in Teville Gate in Worthing back in the early 90s but with less Ellis Dee and more Bangraesque wailing coming from the poorly secured subs.

 

Class.

[scruff]

Its like being back in Teville Gate in Worthing back in the early 90s 

 

 

Let's cruise up to Sterns

[HillmanImp]

If you used to go to Sterns there is a good chance we have gurned to each other (as was the fashion at the time) at length about old cars before.

[Pillock]

The website makes a noise when I haven't told it to. I'm out.

The website doesn't work at all without Flash.

I'm out.

[nacho man]

I have just come back from my summer holiday in October and didn't take too many pics but there was a few crackers knocking round but seeing as it was Egypt there was too many new flash cars and not enough imported from export motors.

 

 

 

 

 

[Craig the Princess]

A few highlights from last week's trip to Ireland in the allegro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cavcraft]

"Meriva (Etruscan: Menrva) was the Vauxhall goddess of wisdom and sponsor of spare parts, trade ins, and tragedy."

 

so... everything to do with automobiles then.  Cool.

 

 

FTFY