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[Wack]

Try South West Salvage in Tewkesbury - I bought my Cat C van from there and apart from the fact it's a bit beaten up it is brilliant and was buttons compared with a straight one

Thanks, It's a dropside pickup I'm after, one with dents would be great but straight ones for reasonable money are hard enough to find

[Wack]

When I say hard enough to find, this is what I'm talking about.

 

 

Reasonable mileage , £10k

 

Guy rings me, sounds good so he goes away to get a ballpark figure for a well used transit

 

while he's doing that I check the MOT history

 

Repair immediately (major defects):

• Offside Rear fog lamp lens defective such that emitted light is adversely affected showing white light (4.5.1 ( (ii))
• Oil leaking excessively from engine (8.4.1 (a) (i))

So that's what 25k service intervals does , nobody lifts the bonnet for months because the wheels are still going round

 

I'm not even ringing him back

[Kiltox]

30k service intervals!

[Wack]

30k service intervals!

 

 

2016 65 Citroen Relay 2.2 L2H1 <------------- Haven't you noticed

[busmansholiday]

Anybody know why an Astra 1.4 Ecotek would suddenly start using oil at a frightening rate ?

[DodgeRover]

Anybody know why an Astra 1.4 Ecotek would suddenly start using oil at a frightening rate ?

Oil filter or sump rusted through.

[sierraman]

Leaking it or burning it? Most Vauxhall 4cyl units use a bit of oil but if it’s going through it at a rate then check for smoke. Could be rings or stem seals at a guess.

[busmansholiday]

Right, it's a mate's car. I've had a look and it appears to be leaking, somewhere around the air con compressor. Any known problems?

[Kiltox]

2016 65 Citroen Relay 2.2 L2H1 <------------- Haven't you noticed

No I meant it’s 30k not 25.

 

My van had its first ever service at 29k miles

[Wack]

That's just nuts, I've done 40k in this transit in 2 years and it's had 4 oil changes , 25L of the right grade chevron oil is about £40 at costco , does around 3 services

[Kiltox]

It’ll get serviced much more often now like!!

 

I agree it’s fucking mental. Especially for a van.

[Slappy]

Been quoted £quite a lot by my one-garage town to fit a new pair of front springs to my Focus, so I've looked up the part number and I'm presented by 23 manufacturer options! Can someone give me a lowdown on a recommended brand close to OEM and also who to avoid out of this lot?
 

• RIDEX KAMOKA KYB MAPCO STARK LESJÖFORS CS Germany MONROE FAI AutoParts Magnum Technology SWAG NK RUVILLE METZGER KILEN BILSTEIN DIEDERICHS MEYLE FEBI BILSTEIN SUPLEX TRISCAN EIBACH JP GROUP SACHS SPIDAN OPTIMAL TRW
  
  Edit: or anyone else that you can recommend!

[Rocket88]

Anyone of you lads and lasses in the 'Shite masseve any good at photoshopping? Need some ideas on ye olde 403 before I commit myself to paint!

[yellowperil]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-WAY-SIEMENS-INJECTOR-LEAK-OFF-CONNECTOR-FOR-5WS40677-/182006873020?redirect=mobile

 

How do these work?

Someone else popped them off my car, when they diagnosed a leaky injector seal.

I cannot figure out how they go back on, they push onto a spigot and somehow lock.

 

The answer has to be simple, but I'm buggered if I can figure it out, I have already broken one.

[anonymous user]

Anyone of you lads and lasses in the 'Shite masseve any good at photoshopping? Need some ideas on ye olde 403 before I commit myself to paint!

Is this the estate, is there a thread on it? Can someone photoshop a trompe l'oeil 403 cabriolet on the side so it looks like Columbo's car

[Rocket88]

Is this the estate, is there a thread on it? Can someone photoshop a trompe l'oeil 403 cabriolet on the side so it looks like Columbo's car

 

There is...............................ancient Peugeot in search will reveal all

[C1am]

I don't know where else to post this. I switched on my TV Freeview box adaptor at the wall socket this evening and it exploded - see attached photo of grinning electricals. It didn't blow a fuse in the fusebox and the socket is working normally. Anyone know what could have caused this?  

 

[twosmoke300]

A case for BigClive if ever there was one

[SiC]

I don't know where else to post this. I switched on my TV Freeview box adaptor at the wall socket this evening and it exploded - see attached photo of grinning electricals. It didn't blow a fuse in the fusebox and the socket is working normally. Anyone know what could have caused this?

 

Adaptor 003.JPG

Shit, dangerous Chinese design with crap quality parts. I bet there isn't even a proper fuse in it either.

 

Looks like something in the bottom left corner - picture doesn't show enough detail to say exactly. Possibly a drive transistor for the high voltage side given the mess. They tend to fail short circuited, which then causes a catastrophic failure with the energies involved.

[C1am]

I bought it new in 2009 when the digital switchover was happening, so it lasted a while. Why is it a dangerous design?

[cort16]

What do you recon the chances of me getting 4 grand for my Cortina are?

 

I don't use it and if I'm honest (don't tell anyone) I've had way more fun in my Z4 than I have had in this even though I love looking at it.

 

 

Prices are all over the place.

 

Plus:

 

MOT and Tax exempt but MOT'd until May next year.

2 door

converted to 2.0 pinto race car/transit van engine

5 speed box

mega scene tax fishnet recaro seats

new water pump and fuel pump

electronic ignition

Mostly solid.

New subframe bushes and all the other ones that are a bastard to replace

new -1 springs

 

Minus.

Paint is shite in places, grinder rust in bonnet and I make a complete dogs breakfast of painting the wing and door

Needs new shocks

has had quite a lot of welding.

Is a shit to start sometimes

Interior is a bit crap

Has the wrong 1.3 diff in it

 

I wonder if it's worth spending a few  hundred quid and getting the paint fixed properly?

 

True to form here's a completely out of date picture

 

[Floatylight]

Saw a new RAC towing system today, as per pic, do we know if this sort of system can be used to transport or just for recovery, seems like a good solution for those without storage for a transporter trailer..

 

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[Mrcento]

Shit, dangerous Chinese design with crap quality parts. I bet there isn't even a proper fuse in it either.

 

Looks like something in the bottom left corner - picture doesn't show enough detail to say exactly. Possibly a drive transistor for the high voltage side given the mess. They tend to fail short circuited, which then causes a catastrophic failure with the energies involved.

 

I find with Chinese electricals, it often isn't the parts that fail first, it's the installation. Usually crappy soldering causing shorts/overheats and eventually something burning out.

[DodgeRover]

It's effectively an unbraked 2 ton trailer now isn't it? From memory I think in that situation one pair of the rear wheels should be braked as well as the fronts.

No mudguards - construction and use offense

No lights another offense but easily sorted.

I doubt you could make it legal to use in anyway other than an emergency recovery

[dozeydustman]

I don't know where else to post this. I switched on my TV Freeview box adaptor at the wall socket this evening and it exploded - see attached photo of grinning electricals. It didn't blow a fuse in the fusebox and the socket is working normally. Anyone know what could have caused this?  

 

Adaptor 003.JPG

 

 

Looks like the transformer has failed - possibly a winding has shorted. Capacitors look OK. It's scrap.

[Matt]

What would be the best way to fuse this headlamp upgrade circuit? Any other suggestions on how to improve it would be appreciated too.

 

I posted this to a make-model specific forum ages ago and there was some disagreement. Some said that there should be one before each relay rather than one on the single battery positive that way if a fuse blows only one headlight is lost. Others argued that this setup leaves the battery positive unprotected until just before the relays but putting a fuse there means that if it blows both headlights are lost at once.

 

[Richard]

You want the fuse as close as possible to the battery. If any wire between the battery and the fuse gets chafed there's no protection so you want to minimise the possibility of that happening. 

 

You can still have fuses at the relays.

[jcr]

https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/47860558

 

Why is this a CAT B? It's barely tickled

[Skizzer]

Yo shite fans. Anyone fancy a Bosch KE Jetronic fuel injection challenge?

 

Audi 80 is failing to start. There’s a big fat spark, so it’s probably not ignition.

 

The fuel pump makes all the right noises and the fuel pipe upstream of the metering head has petrol in it at the union where you undo it to depressurize the system. The cold start injector and the injector on number 1 cylinder are both as dry as a nun’s nasty though, as a Kiwi acquaintance of mine used to say. The plug-in controller thingy on the cold start injector tests ok on a circuit tester.

 

It ran fine a few weeks ago and I’ve not done anything obvious to break it.

 

Any suggestions what to try next? Hoping I don’t need a whole new metering head.

 

Edit: Have a pic of a dry and slightly sooty cold start injector.

 

[dozeydustman]

Yo shite fans. Anyone fancy a Bosch KE Jetronic fuel injection challenge?

 

Audi 80 is failing to start. There’s a big fat spark, so it’s probably not ignition.

 

The fuel pump makes all the right noises and the fuel pipe upstream of the metering head has petrol in it at the union where you undo it to depressurize the system. The cold start injector and the injector on number 1 cylinder are both as dry as a nun’s nasty though, as a Kiwi acquaintance of mine used to say. The plug-in controller thingy on the cold start injector tests ok on a circuit tester.

 

It ran fine a few weeks ago and I’ve not done anything obvious to break it.

 

Any suggestions what to try next? Hoping I don’t need a whole new metering head.

 

Edit: Have a pic of a dry and slightly sooty cold start injector.

 

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Not a stop solenoid or something somewhere else in the system is there?