What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Timewaster]

Did Vulgalour say FREE PIES?!!

[Richard]

[gm] I'm such a smart arse and I fixed my heater blower for only 99p, aren't I a clever dick ? [\gm]

 

Arsebiscuits ! My super duper mega fix lasted half way to the shops before there was a faint whiff of smoke and the heater stopped running ! Cruel fate, why do you mock me ?

 

A trip to the scrappies tomorrow then

 

I think these things rely on airflow to avoid overheating and blowing the thermal fuse. I ended up punching a hole in the new pollen filter on my C5 after going through about five resistor packs, it didn't blow again after that.

[J-Rod]

Maybe Vauxhalls are not so shit after all. In other news, it's a simple thing but with all this hysteria and outrage on social media about Muslims being 'offended' by Remembrance Day, it pleased me greatly to see several of our Muslim students observing the two minute silence this morning.

That's the tabloids for you... They never say something like 'Bunch of 2nd Year Undergrads And Their Daft Lecturer Offended by Remembrance Day' do they?  

 

I remember a D-Day veteran being interviewed on the 60th Anniversary of the landings. He was asked the question "What do you think future generations should take from these landings and the remembrance of them?" and instead of giving some sort of jingoistic reply (as the interviewer expected), simply said "I hope that future generations simply forget what the word 'war' means," 

 

Stuck with me, that. 

[cort16]

if you're on Facebook and you're not following teuchter wagons then you should be.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/TeuchterWagons/

[Sigmund Fraud]

[gm] I'm such a smart arse and I fixed my heater blower for only 99p, aren't I a clever dick ? [\gm]

 

Arsebiscuits ! My super duper mega fix lasted half way to the shops before there was a faint whiff of smoke and the heater stopped running ! Cruel fate, why do you mock me ?

 

A trip to the scrappies tomorrow then

 

This suggests that there's a fault elsewhere ! Don't waste money on a new resistor pack before finding out why the fuse has blown (twice !), otherwise it's likely that the new resistor pack's fuse will do the exact same.

 

Edit : Checking that all the contacts of the resistor pack are free of corrosion may be a good start ?

[gm]

I'll take the multimeter with me to the scrappies and see what readings I get off another unit, at least it still works on full belt

[Stanky]

I did one of the heater resistor packs in next door's son's Corsa, what a pig of a job! I'd changed the one in the Nissan a few weeks earlier and while I had to be upside down to do it, it wasn't that bad. The one in a Corsa D is above the narrowest part of the footwell and is a total shit to get at. I ended up having to fit it blind as I couldn;t see it lying on the ground, or upside down in the footwell.

 

In retrospect it migh have been OK to do had I removed the front passenger seat, but that wasn't an option at the time.

 

Good luck!

[Sigmund Fraud]

 

_{I'll take the multimeter with me to the scrappies and see what readings I get off another unit, at least it still works on full belt}

 

_{If it still works on max, it's probably the resistors that have gone rather than the fuse - perhaps this had caused the fuse to go the first time round ?}

 

_{In which case you may indeed need a new resistor pack. The one in your pictures looks very similar to the one in my 6N Polo - I bet that various 90s VAG_SHITE will use the exact same unit.}

[MarvinsMom]

Did Vulgalour say FREE PIES?!!

[myglaren]

I think these things rely on airflow to avoid overheating and blowing the thermal fuse. I ended up punching a hole in the new pollen filter on my C5 after going through about five resistor packs, it didn't blow again after that.

That's interesting.

I'm on my second one, the first one fell out of the airway and burned through it's own wiring - wasn't fixed in.

The new one (about a year old) will run full pelt for a while then shut itself down - it is clearly too hot but recognises that.

It then starts up again when it has cooled a bit.

I wonder if the airway is clogged.  I have to park under trees all the time, Leylanii during the day, car is always full of 'leaves', if that is what you can call them.

 

When I went to change my pollen filter, there wasn't one, just the 'handle' but that fits in the airway.  Someone had destryed the rest of it

[scaryoldcortina]

Resistor pack - if replacing the thermal fuse made it work for a while on all speeds it isn't the resistors. I'd suspect either a blockage in the heater box (not that likely now you did the pollen filter) or the fan has come loose from the motor because that also got hot while the pollen filter was blocked. I've also seen half siezed knackered motors that work but draw over double their rated wattage.

 

Basically, pull the motor and have a look - it's probably that.

[twosmoke300]

I've just returned from my first go at nighttime green laning . Great fun and certainly adds a new dimension to lanes that I was starting to get bored with .

It also means I can get out for a few hours of an evening and not loose a whole day of weekend .

I was on the mighty KE175 with some extra led cycle lights helping the 6v candle .

[catsinthewelder]

Nighttime offroading is great fun,  don't do what I did (in a HiJet) and hit a tree stump though.  Even at a crawl that hurt.

 

if you're on Facebook and you're not following teuchter wagons then you should be.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/TeuchterWagons/

 

That's brilliant,  I'm not on FB but I'll have to get a TW sticker for the Disco.  My gaffer has spent most of the last 20 years on Shetland and Orkney so I'll put him onto it too.

[fred]

Having a good ''Hoooooo har'' watching Nigella again doing her dirty naughty stuff - bad girl whoooooop !

 

''For every hot piece of pork belly-  I place in a warm bap''

 

Ive just cumm!!

[Noel Tidybeard]

Complaints about the site have reminded me of the brilliance that the past year or two has been.  I mean, truly, epically brilliant stuff.

 

Shiter builds house in boat

Shiter buys Datsun in France and brings it home, practically restores it in a week.

Shiter buys XM for £nearlyfree and doesn't end up having to sell internal organs to keep it going

Shiter finds VDP covered in green, turns out to be not too appalling (ATCNBE)

Roffles.  So many roffles.

Shiter builds Proton pick-up

Another shiter agrees to take on said Proton, but only after he's used the tow vehicle to go drag racing in a storm on a cliff in Scotland first

Maseratis happen

Bentleys and Rolls Royces happen

Shiter in tiny house in Scotland is bullied by Triumphs

Southern Shiter acquires rare Triumph and produces excellent paint with minimal expense

Free pies

Vauxhall attempts dry stone walling

Elderly Austin used as nature intended

Barbara Cartland dog

 

So the list grows.  There's loads I can't bring to mind right now this minute but I've been thrilled at all the stuff that's been happening, the vast majority of it on tiny budgets involving far too many miles and the types of vehicles no sane person would ever bother with.

 

EDITED TO ADD

Terrible Talbots brought back from beyond the brink

FSOs likewise

Beetles

A-framing

Petrol station shots

Ineptitude, children helping*, skinned knuckles and wrong parts, usually all in the same post.

f00! you orgetted the renner 12 dacia pickup

[D Spares & Tyres]

Haha I did the same in a Terrano

 

Wasn't wearing a seatbelt as was only moving the car while wild camping

 

Stump caught cross member and stopped car dead

 

I nutted the windscreen, but the good part is there was already a 3 inch crack in the screen heading south. I nutted that and it did a u turn and went back up ☺

[MarvinsMom]

reasons to be cheerful-

 

other half has taken the XJ-R to the garage with failed traction control, the fella has plugged in the compooter thing, taken the traction controller/stepper motor thing off, took it to bits, given the moving parts a clean and checked the wiring and given the throttle body a good clean too, reassembled everything and its only flippin' working again!

 

TBH this was what he did about 3 years ago when it was playing up last time, and as this bit is different to other XJ6's and is NLA it is a result.

 

the bill?

 

something like £58 inc the drat for 90 minutes of the guys time. so that like £30 and hour, he has a living to make and overheads etc to clear and I don't begrudge him a living so I'm pretty pleased with that.

 

plus now I'm hoping to take the jaguar down to Brum at the weekend. which is nice.

 

and I'm on holidays tomorrow, and I've found out that the beer festival is on at home this weekend. the weather forecast may be crap, but there are 28 different ales to try, should we go.

 

 

now to just find the right time to mention that there is a Velshatis for sale.......

[fordperv]

He Sounds like a good un if he's willing to actually take things apart to clean/repair instead of the old "it's fucked mate" good price that as well

[gm]

Right then, back to this aldi heater fan nonsense - a trip to the local breakers drew a blank on aldi a3s of the right age but a poke around the vag area (ooh err) proved beneficial when I found this in a polo

 

 

the guts look to be close enough, a check with the multimeter showed the resistors to be the right range and working, only one snag, the plug is a slightly different fit.

 

 

a quick poke around with the screwdrivers and they're in bits.

 

 

that 5th pin was deemed unnecessary and chopped off, and here we have the finished article

 

 

which (drum roll please) sort of works - fan speeds 2&3 are the wrong way round but I'd just fitted the guts into the plug upside down, a quick swap round and the jobs a good 'un

 

now let's hope it lasts longer than the five minutes the previous fix did !

 

cost this time £10 (which included two of these polo fan packs and a replacement glovebox for the mazda as the last on fell off its hinges half way round knockhill a couple of months back)

 

a good days fettling I think

[Rusty_Rocket]

Nice fix gm!!

[nacho man]

I saw a E34 m5 earlier which made me seriously grin. But then it turned into a bit of a grump as I nearly bought a 3.6 m5 a few years ago, for less than 2k as it needed a windscreen and a tyre for an mot.

 

Think I bought a 106 rallye instead.

 

Verdict=I am a donut.

[gm]

Nice fix gm!!

Cheers, seems to have worked so far

[3VOM]

now to just find the right time to mention that there is a Velshatis for sale.......

Just after the 28th sample at a guess.

[vulgalour]

Mike put his ridiculous Supra in for its MoT and it went and passed with no advisories or anything and really good emissions.  I was expecting it to fail spectacularly on something because he did zero prep or checks and the front tyres are getting ready to be replaced.  Given the previous owner was Irish, maybe some of the luck rubbed off on it.

[dome]

I saw a E34 m5 earlier which made me seriously grin. But then it turned into a bit of a grump as I nearly bought a 3.6 m5 a few years ago, for less than 2k as it needed a windscreen and a tyre for an mot.

 

Think I bought a 106 rallye instead.

 

Verdict=I am a donut.

 

Any excuse to post up my old one...

 

 

 

Cost me very little over 3 years and 20 odd thousand miles. i only sold it as it was getting crusty and was going to get me in trouble with the law. Epic machines.

[phil_lihp]

I'm off on another collection mission on Saturday - I ought to start a business.  This time it's for a friend who's scored a rather tasty Peugeot 406 Coupe 3.0v6.  Apparently I'm a bad influence which can't be true as I have been totally unable to get him to even look at a Rover 220.

 

I'm just acting as taxi, advisor and support vehicle this time and it's only a couple of hours away in Cornwall so nothing major, the car looks good and has a new MOT and timing belt, lived in a garage and low miles so could be a good one.  I hope it's better than the utterly shagged Mk2 Golf we went to look at last time, that still rates as one of the most horrible old things I've seen for a long while and the owner is still trying to shift it months later.

[fred]

Had to smile at my Step dad today - he phoned me all excited and said ''theres a Ventora for sale round the corner come and have a look son;; 

 

By eck I thought - Jumped in the Fozzer and whipped round the Chez Old dears house , he jumped in the car and we sped off, and two streets up I found .................

 

 

 

 

A Frontera - ''Ummmmm thats a Frontera ''' .....''Is it??''   ''Errrrrr Yes '' ......''Sorry son'' - ' Felt so bad for him, I took him to the Chippy and got their tea ,

Gawd they do your head in sometimes but you love em to death

[twosmoke300]

That sounds just the sort of thing my dad does 😄

[AlabamaShrimp]

And mine. Was very excited last week to tell me about "an old fiesta" in the garage down the road. Turns out it was a Honda CR-V, that had been part burnt out.....

 

Anyway saw this in Asda the other day.

 

[MarvinsMom]

now if it was a princess or allegro then that t-shirt, apart from been unsalable to the general public, would be puuuurfect for me!"