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[captain_70s]

In the words of my supervisor when I told him why I wouldn't be at work today:

 

 

I think the general conscientious is that it's not the car but the fucktard behind the wheel. To be honest at this point I'm half considering moving into a city and doing away with cars altogether, we just don't mix.

[The Moog]

Missus civic did the same. Is it where it goes through a rubber bearing? 

[captain_70s]

Missus civic did the same. Is it where it goes through a rubber bearing? 

Yeah.

[Craig the Princess]

Captain70s, I think you may be the only person in the country who I would advise to get a Kia/Hyundai on something like £150 per month, warrenty and courtesy cars would be there if required and it would be cheaper than your existing running costs.

[Lacquer Peel]

The roads of the north of Scotland are hard on cars. Heavily salted, rutted and pot-holed for most of winter and into spring.
My van lived in Aberdeen and failed its second MOT on rotten brake pipes.

[The Moog]

They rust through. Wasnt expensive to fix. Stupid Honda design... 

[artdjones]

Yes,I bought a 205 that had spent a few years in Aberdeen. It already had had the brake pipes renewed for copper ones,but when I needed to disconnect the calipers, the steel unions had corroded to the copper and wouldn't undo without twisting and ruining the pipes.And the back end of the car had more surface rust on it than any other 205 I'd seen,although no actual holes.

[Christine]

xtriple would say ..fucksticks.

 

2pm    I buys  2 new 205 60 16 tyres for the Honda hrv  for £100 ,  at  3.30  I win 4 snow tyres same size on ebay for £3.75  !!

[xtriple]

The paint experiment I thought I'd try, has only bloody worked! Yes, my car is the same shade of 'Brewster green' as any other shade of 'Brewster green'... what a surprise. The paint code under the bonnet is just an internal code for the NEW mix/type of paint but the colour is no fucking different. That simplifies life no end.

 

Also, as I was cleaning out the car (Phoebe sat in a big, muddy puddle while we were waiting for the fat chap to appear and then splattered mud all over the inside of the car - whippy tail big time fail!) I discovered that the rear wheel arch has been welded. A whole new piece welded in from the swage line down under the car. Bloody good job they did of it as well. It's the bit that includes the bottom of the sill (cill?)  at the rear. I've always wondered why the stupid rubber anti stone chip thing on the front edge of the wheel arch had been off and then glued on.

 

To be honest, it is nearly impossible to see. It was only because there was a dodgy reflection that showed a dimple. Really close inspection (and I mean laying on the floor peering into a recess type 'close inspection'!) showed a weld on the inside of the sill. Of course, my personal paranoia now means I shall spend days, if not weeks, wondering 'why?'  Couldn't be .....rust?

 

On a Bentley?

 

Never.....

 

Also, the front of the same sill (I still prefer Setrights version: cill) is dented and the stone chip is damaged and has been roughly repaired - just painted over. It is right under the car so not really visible unless on a ramp or a demented owner is determined to see. It least it caused a certain amount of amusement to the neighbours seeing a cripple dragging himself along a dirty, wet road with a walking stick in one hand while flat on his belly!

[Christine]

Sill, it is

[tooSavvy]

I'm already wondering how hard it would be to make a Lego Rover 800.

... easier to make one drive out of a LEGO garage?

 

 

 

TS

[anonymous user]

No, I have not changed my car!, by the time the fourth person had asked me today in work I was getting fed up; nobody believed that a garage would loan me a Land Rover that looked nearly as old as my own.

 

Verdict on driving the 110 is that the turbo diesel pulls well with 260,000 miles on the clock and once I had found where reverse gear was hidden, reversing and the extra length was no problem. I had to collect a colleague this morning and she was most impressed with the Station Wagon version, especially by the emergency underpants left in the centre cubby box. My 90 is now fixed with a new servo and the leaky hub done at the same time.

[derskine]

Lost drive while pulling away from a roundabout in Aberdeen, some passers by helped shove it onto the grass and out of traffic. Once off the road I had a look underneath and under the bonnet thinking it was a clutch issue. Nope, O/S drive shaft no longer connected to the wheel, snapped. Didn't get home 'till 1:40am.

Recovery driver said he was getting a lot of suspension and drive shaft failures recently due to the shit condition of the roads. As a bonus he liked repairing engines and had owned Triumphs so we had a good chat on the 60 mile drive back...

 

Timing belt + service carried out 4 days ago for £350, bastard of a thing.  Now back at the garage, should get it back tomorrow. 

 

On average I spend about £350 on car repairs a month regardless of what I drive, so hopefully this is March's breakdown occurring slightly early...

 

Know the feeling, I've broken down 500% more in the past 3 months than I have in the past 3 years.

[Bear]

Does anyone know K-Jet 3 really well? I'm at the stage of just flinging sensors at the Audi, but want to sanitycheck an assumption I'm making.

 

As far as I can tell, the Audi is happy to run in a pretty dumb state - timing, temperature and feedback fuses and connectors don't affect the running particularly, a little like the MAF disconnect on the SLK chucking it into default engine map and thus, not cutting out when it had MAF issues. The Audi's strop is about cold starting, as as far as I can tell, the ISV and cold start injector aren't being asked to do anything - i.e. either there's a signal the ECU wants it's not getting to trigger a cold start programme, or the ECU isn't responding.

 

It's also not adjusting the timing I think. It feels flat, but that could be the MAF needing clean and maybe adjustment.

 

Conclusion right now is the 2-wire temp sensor on top of the thermostat housing is misbehaving - but it has varying resistance with temp, reducing with heat - disconnected should be FULL resistance and I think it would be on a single-wire (the kind with the spade connector on top) but maybe this ECU is smart enough to know the difference between infinite resistance and open circuit. That sensor tells the ECU what to do - the one under the housing is for gauge and A/C behaviour.

[MarvinsMom]

^ i recommend fire, lovely, lovely fire.....

[Bear]

Not my Audi, so fire is not an acceptable solution. And it'd probably take about 20 attempts to get it to catch.

[twosmoke300]

K jet has to one of the simplest yet most infuriating systems to fault find on .

[Urko]

Was listening t'radio earlier and Matt LeBlanc claimed to have crashed a Reliant Rialto on Cannock Chase - has Top Gear gone all Autoshite?

[Bear]

He's American, so a: hasn't had a lifetime of idiots saying Robin Reliant to him, and b: reads the instructions. Americans do read things - it's why their dashboards are all "BRAKE FAULT" and "OIL PRESS" instead of "(!)" or pictures of genies escaping from lamps.

[Lankytim]

I have mad(ish) ideas about sticking a Zetec in my Minor, and have been looking for a suitable donor. Ratdat very kindly offered his Dads old X reg 2.0 auto but now I have it at home it looks lovely. 91k, looks pretty smart apart from a gaffered front bumper and a rust hole in one sill. It drives great too. Should I kill it or get it roadworthy??

[fordperv]

I say roadworthy if it's not too bad and get a rot box as a donor

[twosmoke300]

Isn't the kit to convert the zetec to rwd an expensive bugger ?

Go for a puma 1.7 !

[dollywobbler]

I have mad(ish) ideas about sticking a Zetec in my Minor, and have been looking for a suitable donor. Ratdat very kindly offered his Dads old X reg 2.0 auto but now I have it at home it looks lovely. 91k, looks pretty smart apart from a gaffered front bumper and a rust hole in one sill. It drives great too. Should I kill it or get it roadworthy??

 

This is Autoshite. If anything, the suggestion would be to do the transfer the other way around. A-Series Mondeo FTW.

 

Seriously though, if somehow both of my cars sold, an auto Mondeo is on the possibles list. At the moment, neither has sold. In fact, bar one interested party in the XM, I've been stunned by silence. 

[richardmorris]

Was listening t'radio earlier and Matt LeBlanc claimed to have crashed a Reliant Rialto on Cannock Chase - has Top Gear gone all Autoshite?

[dollywobbler]

It's good how the TG saga has been resolved by a burst of new and exciting ideas!

 

Oh. Shit. 

[Lankytim]

Isn't the kit to convert the zetec to rwd an expensive bugger ?

Go for a puma 1.7 !

Nope, the type 9 box is the expensive part, then you need a water rail for the back of the engine block, but it's all very reasonable. I hope to run the original injection system on a cut down loom, the world of banger racing holds all the secrets for doing this stuff cheaply.

[skattrd]

Shirley nobody will compare one set of idiots with another doing different* things in 3 wheel Reliants.

[captain_70s]

Shirley nobody will compare one set of idiots with another doing different* things in 3 wheel Reliants.

Nah BBC TG have got cheapo Rialtos. New Old TG have bought more expensive Mk1 Robins. ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.

[plasticvandan]

Here's the brown one when I owned it

The Evans ones cost £1000 and £2000.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Lets see a pic of the Mondeo Auto!!!!!