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[dollywobbler]

I shall attempt to get things back on track, having contributed to the diversion...

 

I have sold our trailer today. Yes, the one I used to take the 2CV's bodyshell up to Bradford. Don't worry. I have a different plan to get it back.

 

That means I have a bit of cash, and I think I'd like to blow said cash on clutch replacement for the XM. Of course, quite a lot of people are telling me to DIY it, but I really, really can't be arsed. I know it's going to be an absolute arse of a job, with minimal access to change the clutch and a pretty high chance of it all buggering up.

 

One person has suggested going back to the chap I bought the car from. Not a bad shout, and I may go for that. Would be nice to let him know how well the car has been doing. Also, he may be ideally placed to tackle some of the other jobs such work usually uncovers, like the shafted engine mounts. It could transform this car.

[Ghosty]

There's loads of Teslas round here in Surrey. They're the current must have cool accessory and there's a dealer in Sunningdale. They do look just like a jag though.

South's full of them - this hotel was in Bishop's Stortford.

[Timewaster]

I read recently that the new Golf size Tesla has pre orders in excess of all the Nissan Leafs (leaves?) sold in the last 5 years.

From memory I think there have been 240000 leafs sold and Tesla pre orders were in the region of 325000

 

Expect to see extention leads across the paths all over suburbia soon.

[Coprolalia]

When I manage to hold onto £1k long enough I will put it down on a Model3.

Massive man crush on Elon Musk.

[Ghosty]

The Model 3's going to have a longer waiting list than the Trabant...

[RayMK]

Re: My 205.  I have decided to get its head gasket fixed and work has started.  If the work throws up any additional major expense there could well be another decision point.

 

I have yet to see a Tesla but have seen a BMW i8 - fabulous looking machine, and a Fisker Karma - visually spectacular rather than beautiful, and sounded like a spaceship (the vacuum of space makes space ships silent to outside observers, but the Fisker sounded like a Hollywood spaceship i.e. it was humming). 

[chodweaver]

First, a big thanks to all those making suggestions as to what might be wrong with my Renner (apart from it being properly ugly, er and built with electrical bits from gooner IIs, but I digress...)

It's definitely running differently, with its new plugs and air filter, though I couldn't describe the idle as smooth as silk, but there is a dose of crud-be-gone still working its way through.

Anyway, after a run out to meet up with some capital shiters, I put the code reader on and I think I might be onto something, unless there is an acceptable tolerance for the crankshaft sensor output - according to it, the engine was doing 234 rpm when it was most very definitely not running at all

 

 

Perhaps I'll read the ENGINE(RPM) value again tomorrow with the engine running and see if it is able to sense anything other than this steady background reading.

To my distinctly novice eyes, the other readings seemed reasonable, but I'll update again tomorrow

[twosmoke300]

Some cheap code readers can get the wrong crank speed .

[SiC]

First, a big thanks to all those making suggestions as to what might be wrong with my Renner (apart from it being properly ugly, er and built with electrical bits from gooner IIs, but I digress...)

It's definitely running differently, with its new plugs and air filter, though I couldn't describe the idle as smooth as silk, but there is a dose of crud-be-gone still working its way through.

Anyway, after a run out to meet up with some capital shiters, I put the code reader on and I think I might be onto something, unless there is an acceptable tolerance for the crankshaft sensor output - according to it, the engine was doing 234 rpm when it was most very definitely not running at all

 

 

 

Perhaps I'll read the ENGINE(RPM) value again tomorrow with the engine running and see if it is able to sense anything other than this steady background reading.

To my distinctly novice eyes, the other readings seemed reasonable, but I'll update again tomorrow

That's standard on Renault's this era with generic scan tools.

 

What is your car? Vel Satis?

[purplebargeken]

I have noi hatred for the Tesla range. Would if I could.

[Asimo]

Because Mrs Me has replaced her car, I now have my old Subaru Legacy back.

Because youngest is off travelling (again) I now have Mrs Me's old Honda Civic as well.

Because I still haven't bodged the airbag I don't love my Honda Insight.

So garden full of cars I don't want. Grrrrrrr.

And now Van has a nail in a tyre.

But I still love Van so got a set of hub caps for it.

I have been told I do not have my vehicular priorities right.

[Junkman]

There was a problem with the haunted Rover.

 

 

See the headlightage?

Obtrusive, shoddy, post 1986 pathetic tat. Possibly even of - yikes! - Chinese manufacture. Newfangled tosh. Shit.

 

The solution: Out with the new, in with the old:

 

 

And look:

 

 

Dignified. Not in your face. Decent, unobtrusive and understated. Shite.

 

They even work:

 

 

Note the beautiful soft yellow glow. An island of tranquility in a sea of chav, blinding xenon burners.

I also removed that pretentious 'V8' badge. Gentlemen don't need such bling.

[hairnet]

Sploot

[Six-cylinder]

I also removed that pretentious 'V8' badge. Gentlemen don't need such bling.

When the rank is earned it is fitting for it to be displayed!

[doobietoo]

The Red PT went straight through its MOT today......  

[panhard65]

I gave the 806 a bit of love yesterday and changed the oil and filters. Today I had to go to Plymouth in it which it almost did. It was running lovely until about a mile from home and the alternator light came on. Bloody belt tensioner went and the belt came off. That will teach me to be nice to it.

In other news the C4 I bought last weekend is turning into a right money pit but I will save that for the grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

I have noi hatred for the Tesla range. Would if I could.

Oh me too, eilon Musk the company owner is a complete fruit loop- and in a good way!

[hairnet]

 

 

 

 

the old man worked for gec from 1968 to 2000 then for alstom when they took over till he retired in january

 

the building is now hq for adidas

[Junkman]

Your father made my headlights!

 

I IZ WELL HONOURED

 

Tell him that I thank him very, very much!

[dave21478]

Oh me too, eilon Musk the company owner is a complete fruit loop- and in a good way!

 

Hmmm, One or two big setbacks could very well turn him into a proper Bond villian.

[danthecapriman]

Rover looks much better Junkman, the old (new) headlights didn't look right at all.

 

I'm still struggling though! What's the significance to 1986?

[jonathan_dyane]

That was year zero after which the disintegration began.

[catsinthewelder]

Is it the year the Rover 800 was launched?

[Junkman]

Rover looks much better Junkman, the old (new) headlights didn't look right at all.

 

I'm still struggling though! What's the significance to 1986?

 

Cheers!

 

1986 is my personal watershed and it also marks the 100th and last birthday of the automobile.

After 1986 everything turned to shit, people started to use those mobile phones, and not a single car was launched ever since.

[SiC]

Cheers!

 

1986 is my personal watershed and it also marks the 100th and last birthday of the automobile.

After 1986 everything turned to shit, people started to use those mobile phones, and not a single car was launched ever since.

That's because Chernobyl happened or that I was born. It's one of the two.

[danthecapriman]

Cheers!

 

1986 is my personal watershed and it also marks the 100th and last birthday of the automobile.

After 1986 everything turned to shit, people started to use those mobile phones, and not a single car was launched ever since.

I thought there was some specific car that you liked that ended production in 1986, or something like that. I was trying to think what it might be!

[tooSavvy]

That's because Chernobyl happened or that I was born. It's one of the two.

I was driving down the M6, near Shap, and my IMP overheated... I pulled off the Mway - added 'premix'* whilst being drenched - and set off.

 

*the day the Chernobyl 'cloud' crossed Cumbria [cows milk poured down drain et al]...

 

OhShit

 

TS

[Junkman]

I thought there was some specific car that you liked that ended production in 1986, or something like that. I was trying to think what it might be!

 

ALL car production ceased after 1986.

[Junkman]

That's because Chernobyl happened or that I was born. It's one of the two.

 

There are two generations. The one that remembers Three Mile Island, and the one that doesn't.

Sadly you were born into a world that had already turned to shit.

 

I plead guilty on all accounts. I saw it coming. I wanted to halt it. But whatever I said in protest, I was ridiculed, mocked, and bullied.

But I was always right.

Sadly, most of my contemporaries are largely too dumb, fat and happy to see what's happening, so it's up to your generation to sort things out.

But please, please, please, don't start the revolution without me!

[SiC]

Funny enough I think it's actually happening. Most people I know of my age group hate waste, fed up with how things currently work and very disenfranchised.

 

It's an old cliché, but I'll use houses as an example because we all need somewhere to live.

 

I'm one of the lucky ones who have managed to scrape enough together to buy a house. Darn hardwork to do it, a bit of luck and being incredibly frugal. This is in part because I chose a profession to do my degree in that still pays good money and in demand (software engineering - but any engineering discipline does).

 

Most of my partners friends have literally zero hope of saving enough, quick enough to get enough deposit together before house prices raise more than they can save. So essentially stuck renting. To put renting costs into perspective, I left uni in 2009 and rented a 3 bed house. 5 years later landlord sold, same monthly rental got us a 2 bed. We were there a year and half (then we bought our house), when we moved the rental money then got a 2bed in a dodgy area.

 

To put it in numbers, in 6.5 years of renting in Bristol, we spent nearly £60k on rent. That would have been a very nice deposit on a house! However you have to live somewhere...

 

No wonder so many people of my generation are happy to spend xxx pcm on a car on finance. If you save to buy a house, you might as well get enjoyment out of the money that is coming in!