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[dollywobbler]

Oh dear. Poor ed.

overheated or just failed?

 

Just failed he thinks. His cars always seem to get him to events, then break down.

[For Fiats Sake]

Had a missed call from the bloke I bought the donor brava from, rang him back, he was taking an engine out of a mk3 panda, a reg check later it turned out it was an 1108cc (55hp) so not really worth the effort in changing out a 999cc 50hp mk2 engine.

 

The garage has the Uno mot'd and will be swapping it for the last of the fleet needing one for a few weeks at least.  I really haven't enjoyed multicar ownership in the months where the majority of the mots fall and have decided to pass on the Maestro and the Uno.  I'll do a proper fox-ale threads later.

 

I had the v5 reverting the mk4's reg back to its original one so I'll pass that on to the garage.  Turns out I didn't get a reminder for the tax as it was still registered at my old address, one of the reasons for losing two cars from the fleet is missing the obvious and getting clamped on my doorstep just wasn't a good experience.  With two gone (and three if I get the donor car gone) the drive widened next month, I can get all of the them on my property without having to play car tetris.  

Oh and the doovla can go fuck themselves if the want to clamp a car I forgot to tax.

[phil_lihp]

It's all about the giffery shite around here at the moment.  There's an older chap in the area who has a lovely gold F-plate Peugeot 405 petrol saloon, must be one of the earliest ones.  It's absolutely spotless whenever I see it, it has an unusual but original-looking grill with rectangular spotlights in it.  Unfortunately I saw it again yesterday and whilst him, his magnificent beard and his wife looked perfectly happy and the car was, as usual, spotless, the amount of blue smoke it left in its wake suggested that it was not well.  Hopefully it'll be fixed.  

 

There's also an elderly chap I see occasionally, who has a pastel-blue Lada Samara, again very early on a G-plate I think.  Spotted it again this weekend, it's straight and tidy although the paint is as flat as a flat thing and having seen it coming the other way in the dark, the headlights are hilariously bad.

[wuvvum]

I'm 200 miles into the 350-mile drive home, now installed in Bradford. The XJS (not mine in case you missed it) is running well, though town driving today has seen the MPG drop back down to 23. I very, very nearly had it up to 25 today.

 

Anyway, it's been an incredible weekend of old shite. Fantastic day with RatDat yesterday, and today involved many good things I can't yet tell you about, including this.

 

Only got to drive it around a car park, due to lack of legals. Just 15,000 miles on the clock! Tomorrow, off to see the 2CV get chopped to bits, then home.

My Starlet had exactly the same interior as that, although mine was beige on the outside.  Not the most supportive seats on a long drive...

[trigger]

Today was the day that i said goodbye to the Mk3, i took it to a nice little show in Little Clacton and then delivered it to my dads house as he's bought to use along side my old Mk1 Cortina what he also owns.

 

I had mixed feelings driving it to his, part of me was sad that after 4 years of ownership (the longest I've ever owned a car) and a lot of time, money and good times spent with the car (Shitefest probably being it's peak) that i won't get to enjoy it anymore but the more i thought about it the more my back started to ache and i started to get pissed off with having to keep concentrating to keep it in a straightline and not bouncing all over the road on very bump so that I'm not that bothered it's going really.

 

Is also now means that i have £5000 to spend on a new toy, i wonder what it will be!

 

[wuvvum]

Got a few of the jobs on my list done this weekend.  Yesterday I refilled the cooling system on the A35 (chucked in a bottle of radiator flush I had lying around as well, as it was a bit gunked up in there), then started it up and let it run for 20 minutes or so - probably the longest I've run it for since I bought it.  It seemed quite happy, and top & bottom hoses got warm so it's obviously circulating as it should.  I've said it before, but you can't beat an A series.

 

I didn't manage to sort the back brake on the Spacy.  The problem appears to be that the brake cable retaining clamp on the swing arm has fallen off, so there's nothing holding the cable in place - so when I press the pedal it's pulling on the whole thing rather than just the inner cable.  Which would explain why it only starts braking near the bottom of the pedal's travel.  A quick prod of the pedal on the spares bike seemed to suggest that the setup is still intact on that, but unfortunately due to the Movano's increasing use as a shed / rubbish dump over the 8 months or so since I last needed the spares bike, it would have taken me more time and energy than I had to get to the bit of the bike I needed, so that's been put off until next week.

 

I did finally manage to find the wires for the fuel gauge though.  I knew they were there somewhere as I remembered unplugging them when I removed the original (fecked) fuel tank, but I'd never been able to find them since.  So the bike now has a working (in theory at least) fuel gauge for the first time in the five or so years I've owned it - time will tell how accurate it is.  I also reconnected a wire that had come apart for the auto choke, although I don't know how much difference that will make as I hadn't had any difficulties starting the bike from cold.

 

Next job was the Saab, which had been going into limp mode more and more frequently.  It was throwing up the same code every time, and a quick search of the Saab fora suggested that the most common cause was a sticking throttle butterfly, caused by gunk in the throttle body.  So I pulled off the inlet pipe, and indeed it was gungy as feck in there.  I sprayed carb cleaner liberally into the intake, then wiped it out as best I could and scraped out some of the more solid chunks of gunge with a screwdriver.  I had a bit of an issue when putting the pipe back on as the jubilee clip snapped when I was tightening it up, and the only spare clip I had was slightly too big (as in when it was fully done up it was just about holding the pipe in place, but I think a sustained bout of full boost driving would have seen it pop off).  That was solved by nicking a slightly smaller clip off a slightly larger pipe, which was able to clamp the boost pipe in position properly (and without snapping); the larger jubilee clip then took its place on the larger pipe.  If that makes any sense at all.

 

I've now done about 45 miles in the car and it's not yet gone into limp mode, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that's sorted it.

[wuvvum]

Is also now means that i have £5000 to spend on a new toy, i wonder what it will be!

 

[hairnet]

matra.

 

murena.

[M'coli]

Put 3 new tyres(Yokohama Bluearth or som such pish) on the ZX on Saturday, really impressed with the lack of road noise compared to the old ones.

Popped up to Malham for some cabbage juice and to pick up the Krujoe A-frame for Bub to use (don't feckin blame me if it goes tits-up, I'm just the mule!)

Delivered the 'frame to Bub after having to tie the exhaust to the back axle at Woodall services...

[Angrydicky]

Driving along Southend seafront yesterday, I passed a familiar looking dark green BX estate parked up. J798TPC, is that jackytwoshoes? Unfortunately no shiters were in the car at the time, but it was good to see a BX as there's really not many left around here.

[oldcars]

Some one localish to me was offering hgf diesel mk2 mondeo, i asked him if he would sell me the wheels and he agreed, so popped up to collect them on the a20 was getting small thudding noises from the front wheels, got home and seems both fronts had obtained some bulges.. thankfully i just bought the black 5 spokes to replace the knackererd 18's... and i decided to pump up the tyres and give the old girl a bath.

That brush makes me cringe. Please use a wash mitt and 2 buckets 

[fordperv]

My thought was that must be covered in swirls and small scratches from the wash brush

[Hertz]

I sold a car yesterday to a nice German chap. He came over to buy the GTA with the rusty chassis I bought last month. With the exchange rate in their favour more classics might go over to France and Germany and such like in the near future.

 

[stuboy]

Angyl -  stuboy has carefully (and obviously successfully) crafted his image to attract teh ladiez.

 

i am trawling ebay for bumper packs of stickers right now

Shes 11 years younger than me my gf... so guys or girls grab ur stickers and get some fine arm candy

[tooSavvy]

Bastard front reg plate has gone AWOL

 

Prefer sticking them on to drilling thru plastic film.

 

Balls... Screwed on now but with alloy tappers so no rust.

 

Plate was made just up the road, took 10mins @ £12.99

 

Totally plain white, no borders no flags

 

 

TS

[SiC]

Due a bit of an update on my main thread, but keep procrastinating, as it'll end up being essay long.

 

Anyway, did a ATF change at the weekend (amongst other things) on The Gooner .

 

This is the goodness that came out.

 

This is what fresh ATF looks like for comparison.

 

Yummy.

[vulgalour]

Fresh ATF looks like strawberry jelly ready to go in a mould.  Don't though.  It won't taste anywhere near as nice or set anywhere near as well.

[Supernaut]

Shes 11 years younger than me my gf... so guys or girls grab ur stickers and get some fine arm candy

I don't fancy dating a 17 year old, so ah'm oot of this idea.

[Bren]

New battery for the A6.

 

Unipart Samson 800A with 5 year guarantee- £85 from my excellent local factor.

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I did'nt think unipart were still going - years ago if you bought anything samson from an AR dealer it was guaranteed for as long as you owned the car - I don't think that applies any more.

[SiC]

Fresh ATF looks like strawberry jelly ready to go in a mould.  Don't though.  It won't taste anywhere near as nice or set anywhere near as well.

With the sweet smell and juicy look, I can't deny it was tempting!

[anonymous user]

Bastard front reg plate has gone AWOL

 

Prefer sticking them on to drilling thru plastic film.

 

Balls... Screwed on now but with alloy tappers so no rust.

 

Plate was made just up the road, took 10mins @ £12.99

 

Totally plain white, no borders no flags

 

 

TS

What no letters or numbers either? So just a piece of white plastic then

[MarvinsMom]

kerry has managed to fix* the jaguar.

 

cutting off the drive belt to the A/C compressor, the horrible noise has stopped!

 

now, do we risk the second hand pump, or do i splurge out on a reconditioned one for £260....

 

i won't be spending £680-odd for a brand new one!

 

bloody cars, there is always something wrong

[Supernaut]

Deposit paid on new Snautmobile.

[Asimo]

Mrs Me's newly acquired modern has broken. Small print in "warranty" not looking encouraging.........

 

"Brake Pressure Sensor Problems
The MK60 ATE Teves ABS pump is fitted to a wide variety of vehicles from all makes of manufacture. This type of ABS pump has an internal brake pressure sensor manufactured inside the unit and is commonly known for it’s pressure sensor fault and is very expensive to replace. Earlier ABS pumps never had this fault because the pressure sensor was never before fitted inside the ABS pump – but these new type of ABS units are failing all day long and it’s a major design fault with all internal pressure sensor units.

 

How To Detect The  Brake Pressure Sensor Fault When the pressure sensor has failed on the ABS system, the traction control light will be illuminated and sometimes the ABS light as well. The traction control (ESP) button may also be illuminated and pressing the button will have no affect."

[tooSavvy]

What no letters or numbers either? So just a piece of white plastic then

 

... not quite - but several more of both than when I stood infront of the car thismorning......

 

TS

[HH-R]

GR8 4 BILKING.

[twosmoke300]

I'm guessing a vag car then ?

Vw do a abs modulator repair kit for less than two hundred iirc which isn't too bad to fit . First one is a bit daunting tho

[Kiltox]

Tonight's "buyer" cancelled on me - postponed until tomorrow evening

 

Chances of going to Edinburgh on Thursday to buy something ridiculous are slipping away

[stuboy]

My son somehow broke his pedal off his bike and i thought the pedal arm was aluminum and pedal is steel.. and thought its for the tip, well next thing i noticed there was rusty water on the pedal arm threads... so i thought grab the mig turn to to max and tickle it a bit

[SiC]

Mrs Me's newly acquired modern has broken. Small print in "warranty" not looking encouraging.........

 

"Brake Pressure Sensor Problems

The MK60 ATE Teves ABS pump is fitted to a wide variety of vehicles from all makes of manufacture. This type of ABS pump has an internal brake pressure sensor manufactured inside the unit and is commonly known for it’s pressure sensor fault and is very expensive to replace. Earlier ABS pumps never had this fault because the pressure sensor was never before fitted inside the ABS pump – but these new type of ABS units are failing all day long and it’s a major design fault with all internal pressure sensor units.

 

How To Detect The  Brake Pressure Sensor Fault When the pressure sensor has failed on the ABS system, the traction control light will be illuminated and sometimes the ABS light as well. The traction control (ESP) button may also be illuminated and pressing the button will have no affect."

Yup, exact same problem that my Laguna 2 is suffering from. I have a second hand part waiting to go in. Pretty certain the replacement one of the ones that is susceptible to failing too, but no code is showing on it at the moment.