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[Sigmund Fraud]

If I can do them, a demented sloth can do them.

 

Plus, it's always helpful if your first one is on a car that you can afford to scrap if things go wrong.

[Tickman]

Only problem with that is I really don't trust myself around cambelts...

 

Got to start somewhere.

If I can do them, a demented sloth can do them.

 

Plus, it's always helpful if your first one is on a car that you can afford to scrap if things go wrong.

My first and only was on a car I had just bought and done at the side of the road over the grid of doom. 

[twosmoke300]

If you do the belt have fun with getting the engine mount off !

[Bobthebeard]

The Oldsmobile is now nearing the MOT after much time and work. Lots done. Tyres though. It has four, all with plenty of tread and not cracked or perished. All brands like Nanking etc. All around 10 to 15 years old.

Am happy to take it it for the MOT with these tyres, but will driving it afterwards invite certain death?

Am no racing driver and only expect to do around 1000 miles in the next year on them. Have spent way more on the car than I wanted, so can the tyres wait?

[jonathan_dyane]

I'd see how it drives with them on. They're probably terrible mind...

[egg]

Is it worth spending £38 on a spare new genuine Ford PAS pump for my Mondeo even though it doesn't come with the relevant pulley? Umming and aarhing on this one.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282531734381

[tooSavvy]

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I didn't realise it was specific to one publisher !

 

New one on me too m8

 

Handbook of lies (well, likely a Haynes but other publishers available)

 

TS

[bunglebus]

2000 Golf Mk4 TDI 115 bhp. Running fine at town speeds but as soon as it goes over 50 it heats up (to about 110 degrees) and the heater blows cold. Plenty of water in it and doesn't seem to be using any. Possible diagnoses?

 

I know it's been answered but a good test is to pull the small bore return hose off the header tank and see if coolant is flowing out of it - if not, pump is FUBAR.

[bunglebus]

The Oldsmobile is now nearing the MOT after much time and work. Lots done. Tyres though. It has four, all with plenty of tread and not cracked or perished. All brands like Nanking etc. All around 10 to 15 years old.

Am happy to take it it for the MOT with these tyres, but will driving it afterwards invite certain death?

Am no racing driver and only expect to do around 1000 miles in the next year on them. Have spent way more on the car than I wanted, so can the tyres wait?

 

Take for MoT. Then perform smokey one-wheel burnouts to impress the local teenagers, rotate wheels until they're all dead, replace tyres.

[bunglebus]

Is it worth spending £38 on a spare new genuine Ford PAS pump for my Mondeo even though it doesn't come with the relevant pulley? Umming and aarhing on this one.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282531734381

 

Listing ended so I assume you bought it - I would have done at that price, having just paid £42 a side (discounted from £63) for genuine track rod ends from VW. Pattern shite is OK for some things, but the last pattern TRE lasted a year and caused vibration to be passed through the steering wheel as it doesn't have the rubber insulation built in. As the original lasted 18 years I'd rather buy genuine if it's reasonable enough.

Buy cheap, buy twice. This doesn't* apply to cheap old cars.

[egg]

I left it, it remained unsold, so might relist slightly cheaper!

[DodgeRover]

How many PAS pumps have you ever had fail?

[egg]

True. But I'm thinking long term here

[wuvvum]

The Oldsmobile is now nearing the MOT after much time and work. Lots done. Tyres though. It has four, all with plenty of tread and not cracked or perished. All brands like Nanking etc. All around 10 to 15 years old.

Am happy to take it it for the MOT with these tyres, but will driving it afterwards invite certain death?

Am no racing driver and only expect to do around 1000 miles in the next year on them. Have spent way more on the car than I wanted, so can the tyres wait?

I drove it all the way from London to north Norfolk on those tyres, and I didn't die once.  You'll be fine.

[captain_cal]

Can anyone identify these seats?

[Guest Hooli]

Land Rover?

[Guest Hooli]

How many PAS pumps have you ever had fail?

 

One. Unsurprisingly it was a British made one on a Discovery.

[AndyW201]

Can anyone identify these seats?

They look a lot like mk1 Transit ones?

[jonathan_dyane]

Sherpa

[DodgeRover]

Deluxe landrover from Paddocks

[stephen01]

​middle one looks like  a Herald?

[Bobthebeard]

Fuel tank vent pipes.

Are they an MOT item? The Oldsmobile has two vent pipes running to what I assume is a carbon cannister. They are very crusty. Metal pipes between two rubber pipes. Rubber from tank, then metal, then rubber to cannister thing.

[Guest Hooli]

Says not here http://www.motester.co.uk/mot-guide

 

Unless they cause a fuel leak.

[blackbird]

I have a question

what's the current SHITE process for sorting out this new stupid " you can't keep a tax with the car " rubbish , when buying cars from a very long way away ?

what's the current "get you home tax" process ??

 

[andy18s]

You're supposed to go online and tax it straight away...

Or ask the seller nicely not to apply for the refund until you get home

[blackbird]

Someone told me they went buy a car , tried to tax it , on the sellers driveway before heading home

And the DVLA told them on the phone that as the DVLA didn't show them as the owner , he couldn't tax it !?

So how can you tax it straight away ??

my brain hurts

[Kiltox]

Someone told me they went buy a car , tried to tax it , on the sellers driveway before heading home And the DVLA told them on the phone that as the DVLA didn't show them as the owner , he couldn't tax it !?So how can you tax it straight away ??my brain hurts

You can tax it as a new owner either online, by phone or at a post office.

[Eddie Honda]

Use the green slip number: https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax

[cort1977]

Fuel tank vent pipes.

Are they an MOT item? The Oldsmobile has two vent pipes running to what I assume is a carbon cannister. They are very crusty. Metal pipes between two rubber pipes. Rubber from tank, then metal, then rubber to cannister thing.

 

I would be tempted to ditch the whole system.

[Des]

When I turned on my vans ignition a few days ago the charge light didn't come on, flickered a little while cranking and since has behaved. It's an alternator, actually from an old Rangy, big fat Lucas one I think. I assume this is the brushes being sticky or on their last legs?