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[Stanky]

Out of curiosity Cheggers, whats the yachts name? The reason I ask is that my late father used to sail in the round-the-island race in the 1980s and I know you're local to me so would be a colossal coincidence if it was the one he used to crew.

 

anyway, great work on finding and fixing the leak! I think there are a fair few of us on here who can sympathise with the fun of tracking down leaks, albeit not always in yachts!

[DeeJay]

Cheggers, does it have a sunroof?

[Cheggers]

Out of curiosity Cheggers, whats the yachts name? The reason I ask is that my late father used to sail in the round-the-island race in the 1980s and I know you're local to me so would be a colossal coincidence if it was the one he used to crew.

 

anyway, great work on finding and fixing the leak! I think there are a fair few of us on here who can sympathise with the fun of tracking down leaks, albeit not always in yachts!

The boat's a Mark 1 Figaro class racer (scene tax Mexico RS2000 yo) called Aardee. If you or any other shiters fancy a day on the water next summer, the offer's always there...

[Christine]

Cheggers , is it a   Rossiter ? 

 

 

 

edit . No  

[dave21478]

Yachts and Bentleys?

 

This place........

[Cheggers]

Cheggers, does it have a sunroof?

I suppose it does in a way...overhead hatches in the saloon, khazi and forward cabin

[Cheggers]

Yachts and Bentleys?

 

This place........

Am I redeemed if I tell you it runs quite happily on veg??

[Stanky]

The boat's a Mark 1 Figaro class racer (scene tax Mexico RS2000 yo) called Aardee. If you or any other shiters fancy a day on the water next summer, the offer's always there...

 

I'll ask mum next time I ring her, I have a photo on the wall here of 'White Wings' which I think was featured in The Times in era, but I am not too about anything else.

 

I believe it could be this:

 

http://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/white-wings-4/

 

but the internet suggests its a fairly common name so could be wrong!

[DeeJay]

Am I redeemed if I tell you it runs quite happily on veg??

I thought it ran on water.  

 

 

 

(I'll get my coat).

[andy18s]

Cheggers, does it have a sunroof?

Your getting confused with a LandRover Discovery.......

 

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[Sloth in a bowl]

The Pride's temperature gauge never reads above a quarter but the fan and everything kicks in as it should. Demisters aren't tye warmest but the feet heaters are toasty

 

 

Pride also got a new thermostat at the beginning of last year as I didn't believe that the temp gauge should be there. New thermo readings, same as the old thermo readings.

All as it should be.

 

P.S.  it was a complete arse to get that thermostat housing sealed properly after, so NEVER touch the bugger.

[the judge]

Even better,marine diesel. Dont put it in the car though,my mate who had a yacht used to be followed loads to the marina

[crapcarcollector]

Can haz Alfa 155

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I fugging love that. Much want

[plasticvandan]

After not even bothering to bid on a tidyish Mitsy Shogun at Cannock,I managed to snap this on the way home...

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http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C555821

 

Only taken 2 years to sell..

[Angrydicky]

I'm home, back in Southend for Christmas now. To show its appreciation of my lovely home town, the occasional drip from the Maestro heater matrix pipes has turned into a constant drip and the passenger carpet is soaked again. Couldn't face grovelling around upside down in the footwell disconnecting and attempting to seal the pipes again, so I washed it instead. And noticed part of the sill flange was looking a bit crusty towards the back (a bit I didn't replace last year). Of course it came off in my hand, nae bother I thought, I'll drag the welder out and mig it up. Dragged it out of the shed, spent ages looking for all the tools for the job, went out and bought some new goggles cos I couldn't find my old ones anywhere and...Hang on, what's that petrol smell? Now, I'm not especially safety conscious but the bit of sill I was about to weld was reasonably close to the petrol tank, and there was clearly petrol vapour in the air. That must be the problem that causes it to leak everywhere if you fill the tank all the way. Turned out it was the rubber overflow/return pipe on the filler neck, split through age. Only a couple of months back another fuel pipe split under the bonnet, so BL rubber must have about a 30 year lifespan! Went to the motor spares shop in Rochford, new hose lovely, went home, fitted it on with new clips then triumphantly went and filled it to the brim with petrol. No leaks! (apart from the nozzle not clicking off and spurting petrol down the wheelarch). Stopped just up the road to check again for leaks, then I noticed the cable tie hadn't been holding the new pipe secure and the bastard thing had almost chafed through on the tyre! Arrrrgh. Could I find that big bastard pack of cable ties anywhere? Could I fuck, so tied the pipe to the suspension strut with a bit of wire.

 

Until I can sort the heater pipes (has anyone got a set?) and that bit of welding on the sill, I've taken the 'stro off the road. Went to my grandparents earlier and picked up the Victor to take over daily duties. Despite sitting on their drive for at least a month it started without too much fuss and is running really well, no problems at all! I washed it, went to the petrol station (obviously) and I even felt quite cool cruising around in it this afternoon after driving the Maestro for so long! I had my arm out of the window, one hand on the steering wheel and Dire Straits playing on the tape deck. Kinda glad I didn't sell it in the summer now, but it does need to go soon

[xtriple]

I appear to have a puncture in the left rear tyre. It is a new tyre. It is a very BIG tyre. It is on a Bentley.

 

Fuckstix!

[Ghosty]

'faulty'?

[vulgalour]

Mike and I took the Rover on an epic journey to The South the past few days.  Epic because what was according to Mike a "4 hour journey" turned out to be 9 hours.  Stockton-on-Tees to Maidstone via Amersham and almost all the M25 anti-clockwise.  Rover hit a massive pothole on the way down and felt really peculiar for the rest of the journey.  The return trip ended up being 12 hours!  12 fucking hours!  We got stuck on the M25 after Amersham and covered about 5 miles in 2 hours.  Rover still returned 44.4mpg on the way down and 47.5mpg on the way back, clearly it was happier travelling north, as are we all.

 

Anyway, today we took Rover to the tyre place because I looked at the front wheels and the driver's front - the one that clobbered the pothole - looked decidedly wonky.  Not only that, for the entire journey after the pothole (about 400 miles) it was really hard work keeping the car in a straight line, speeds over 65mph were a massive no-no and even 55mph required a lot of concentration.  Tracking was out on that wheel by 11 degrees.  I also found the tyre on that side has a flat spot and the wheel the other side has a massive dent.

 

On the plus side, I got a look under the car and it's really rather excellent, it's all tidy and black and not at all frilly.  The backbox I want to replace has developed two small pinholes and the mystery clonk appears to be the exhaust hitting the gear selector rods in a really particular way, it's the only thing with any movement that could be doing it.

 

Overall I'm dead chuffed with the Rover.  It managed to transport Mike and I in perfect comfort for about 650 miles over two days and I have absolutely no back or leg pain.  I've never had a car I can travel that many miles in so short a time without feeling like I've been pushed down a flight of stairs while holding a wooden chair.  Now I've seen how solid it is underneath and how new the exhaust looks - there's still a sticker on the centre box and it's all still silver - I'm comfortable spending large sums of money keeping it all good too.  I think I've *finally* got a good one!

 

In addition to all this, I spotted a green Citreon XM estate with a single digit number plate, a white Peugeot 405 estate with a roofrack that appeared to be welded on, a Nissan Figaro and a pre-war car that may have been a Rover 16 (cheers Google, couldn't identify it at the time) none of which I photographed and a Reliant Scimitar SE 4C at Donnington services with I did but will appear in the December spots thread when I get the files together.

 

Finally, my computer died on Tuesday so this is posted from my spangly new one, my first ever new PC, and Autoshite is the very first website I've visited with it since Mike got it all set up for me.

[Sealtainn]

Bad News - I didn't win the Volvo

Good news - I won £25 on the lottery

Worse News - It's not going to do much towards the garage bill for the Granada

 

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[dollywobbler]

A day of mixed emotions.

Went for a drive in the XM over the Elan Valley mountain road. WOW! The suspension is absolutely remarkable now. So THAT'S what it should have been like for the past year!

 

But, the Nippa has a seized wiper wheelbox. Annoyingly, it looks like you can't replace just one wheelbox so I now need a complete wiper linkage. Anyone got anything? It is at least very easy to remove!

[vulgalour]

Can you get into the wiper box to unseize and grease it at all?

[dollywobbler]

Further to the Nippa, soaking the spindle in oil and easing it back and forth many, many times seems to have done the trick. Refitted to the car and I left the wipers running on full speed for about ten minutes, occasionally adding a touch of spray grease to the spindles. Seems to have worked its way in and it is now quiet!

 

Sadly, found some rot around the windscreen aperture, so have lifted the seal, dosed it in Kurust and will try and get some zinc primer on it before I can call this job done. Also, the plastic trim below the windscreen is held in place with horrible one-use clips. Of which I don't have any replacements. I thought I did, but I must have used them all up on the Sirion. Wonder if I can bodge a replacement with screws or something?

[dollywobbler]

Can you get into the wiper box to unseize and grease it at all?

 

Nope. They're pressed together at the factory by the look of it. Not intended for disassembly.

[vulgalour]

But luckily you appear to have fixed it.

[DVee8]

Re-reading some 10 year old Auto Express mags i found these

 

 

Even 10 years ago they new they were shite

 

[HH-R]

I thought Unos were pretty good for the old tin worm? They still seemed to all disappear overnight about 15 years ago though.

[Asimo]

Mrs Me's Subaru is 6,000 miles into it's third set of tyres since we bought it 75,000 miles ago. It came on a new set of Vredesteins, then it was on Semperits and now it rolls on Falkens. Today it had it's third puncture since the Falkens were fitted after no punctures at all in the previous tyres.

 

Are some makes of tyres much more puncture prone or is this just random Khama catching up?

[alf892]

Nope. They're pressed together at the factory by the look of it. Not intended for disassembly.

There is usually a little wire snap ring down a bit from the spline......remove it with a srewdriver and you can push the shaft down. Often if wipers judder it will be improved by doing this to both wheel boxes...........best done before it buggers the wiper motor too.

[dollywobbler]

But luckily you appear to have fixed it.

 

Aye. I suspect not for very long, but we'll see. Still, it's definitely better than it was, and Mrs DW is pleased. It ate up time I'd hoped to use on brake overhauling on the XM though. Didn't even have time to give it a much-needed wash in the end. Now we're in for more and more rain. A soggy Christmas it shall be!

[dollywobbler]

There is usually a little wire snap ring down a bit from the spline......remove it with a srewdriver and you can push the shaft down. Often if wipers judder it will be improved by doing this to both wheel boxes...........best done before it buggers the wiper motor too.

 

I couldn't see anything like that. Oh well. It's back on the car now.