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[Mally]

Nearly everything in the last 20 years or so runs on OAT antifreeze or the makers specific I.e Nissan. Mixing the 2 is a no no unless you use something like Prestone universal. I’ve no idea why they still sell the blue glycol stuff as it’s totally unsuitable for most stuff now, you still see a few cars that’s been maintained at home by someone who knew all about Marinas and Cortinas with the blue stuff in, would put me off if I saw that tbh.

 

The Oat stuff was responsible for leaks on old engines. Something to do with gasket material IIRC.

They denied it for a while, but someone took them go court I think, and proved it legally.

Hence blue is still available. Use blue in Pintos and Red in Zetec is the only rule I need.

[sierraman]

Blue n Pink antifreeze mixes fine, it's OAT you can't mix them with. The only real difference between the two is blue is meant to be changed every two years & pink lasts for five.

Pink/green/purple usually denotes that it’s OAT antifreeze. Most engines from about the K Series onwards use it. If I doubt drain the lot and replace, cost will be no more that £15-20 if you use the concentrated stuff with some soft water.

[richardmorris]

Most automatic cars do this if the hill is steep enough don't they? Mine all do.

 

Mine doesn’t. It’s the only one I’ve owned though. W124 auto.

[twosmoke300]

Don’t mix pink and blue ffs!

[DSdriver]

Don’t mix pink and blue ffs!

Why?

[twosmoke300]

They can turn into a jelly/ sludge that blocks radiators and stats etc

[95 quid Peugeot]

Thank you very much; but Irish sea

Wouldn't even have a clue how to do it but would happily pay postage plus beer for you and some wine or fruit based drink for mrs 95quid and whatever else for your trouble; I haven't come across one yet anywhere here second hand and didn't want to just buy a universal o e

Go on where. I'll get a postage quote for you

[Dirk Diggler]

Go on where. I'll get a postage quote for you

Co. Wicklow; can collect from any parcel ðepot / parcel motel around though.

 

I've missed the 2003 I wanted but have seen a 2006 I'm going to see tomorrow, an Ocean Race special edition with 5seats

 

Are the later ones better or am I better looking for an earlier one of anybody know?

 

This is the one I'm hoping to view tomorrow or Friday

[3VOM]

Car I checked today is M reg Volvo 940. The coolant appears to be a pinky color, I always used blue in the other 940s I had.

All the reading I have done for my 960 says run it with blue.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Whenever I do a coolant change on my fleet I use blue as its cheaper ☺

 

The cooling systems are the same on most cars ( steel, aluminium and plastic with a bit of brass) never had an issue yet, but none of my stuff is fancy

[D Spares & Tyres]

I have some 1950s cars

 

In the gearboxes I use normal gear oil but someone was telling me that the modern gear oils are corrosive to old gearboxes and that I should use 20/50 engine oil instead.

 

Is there any truth in this??

[Soap Distant]

EP oils contain additives that are corrosive to copper and brass and will damage older diffs over time.

[forddeliveryboy]

Very roughly speaking, GL4-rated oil is safe for yellow-metal (older) transmissions and many GL-5 rated ones aren't, but googling is probably helpful.

[Guest Hooli]

Very roughly speaking, GL4-rated oil is safe for yellow-metal (older) transmissions and many GL-5 rated ones aren't, but googling is probably helpful.

 

That's how I always understood it when I had LRs with their old fashioned boxes.

[DodgeRover]

The Oat stuff was responsible for leaks on old engines. Something to do with gasket material IIRC.

They denied it for a while, but someone took them go court I think, and proved it legally.

Hence blue is still available. Use blue in Pintos and Red in Zetec is the only rule I need.

 

Opps broke that one then, been running the red stuff for just over a year in my pinto, no leaks to report (fingers crossed obviously)

[Squirrel2]

Co. Wicklow; can collect from any parcel ðepot / parcel motel around though.

I've missed the 2003 I wanted but have seen a 2006 I'm going to see tomorrow, an Ocean Race special edition with 5seats

Are the later ones better or am I better looking for an earlier one of anybody know?

This is the one I'm hoping to view tomorrow or Friday

Hi, My XC70 is an Ocean Race edition and is a 2005 car and has the Euro3 version of the D5 engine. If the one you are looking at is 2006 and is a diesel, it may be the later E4 version with 185hp engine and DPF. The quick way to tell which engine is the colour of the plastic engine cover; grey is an E4 and black is the E3 version. Evidence of regular oil changes are a must if you want to get the moon ship mileage that these engines are capable of.

 

It is one of the nicest cars I've owned. The only thing that can make it hard to live with is a massive turning circle... which is my only grumble!

 

 

Squirrel2

[Mally]

Opps broke that one then, been running the red stuff for just over a year in my pinto, no leaks to report (fingers crossed obviously)

 

http://rrtechnical.info/miscellaneous/coolantoatwarning.pdf

 

I may* be wrong about court, and unless your pinto is in a RR don't worry about it.

[Bobthebeard]

As some may know, my recently acquired Rover 416 has been lowered in a previous life.

Drastically.

Whilst looking nice* it is virtually undriveable on our local roads. Jarring teeth and smashing heads into roof liner. It came with a set of replacement springs, but these are 35mm lower than standard. I appreciate that these cars were low as standard, but will the 35mm shorter than standard springs just be a waste of time? I suspect so. They may raise the ride height slightly, but probably not enough to convey a 56 year old plump bloke plus wife and dog around without discomfort.

Not wanting to waste money, was just wondering.

[AlabamaShrimp]

If those springs are anything like the length of the ones that are on then I'd chuck em straight in the bin and get some more normal hight. At least then for a bit you aren't having a terrible drive.

[Matt]

Pop rivets. Am I thinking about this wrong? I have one of these that I want to attach to the front bumper of my car:

 

(Edit: this attached to the bumper then the number plate is screwed into the bumper through another hole).

 

The holes I want to attach it through are 6mm in diameter. Do I want 6m rivets or will 4.8mm do because as far as I can tell 6mm ones simply do not exist.

[RayMK]

Pop rivets work best when the rivet and hole diameters are closely matched.  You can sometimes use suitably sized washers to bridge the difference in diameter to enable the pop rivet to pull down and form properly.  Are captive nuts used with a suitably headed type of bolt not an option?

[Matt]

Are captive nuts used with a suitably headed type of bolt not an option?

 

Not without pulling the bumper cover off of the actual bar and the problem with using a bolt is that the head would get in the way when installing the numberplate (which screws into the bumper through different holes on that bracket).

[Noel Tidybeard]

Pop rivets. Am I thinking about this wrong? I have one of these that I want to attach to the front bumper of my car:

 

(Edit: this attached to the bumper then the number plate is screwed into the bumper through another hole).

 

The holes I want to attach it through are 6mm in diameter. Do I want 6m rivets or will 4.8mm do because as far as I can tell 6mm ones simply do not exist.

 

they serpently do exist

http://www.ukfixings.net/6mm-x-10mm-Aluminium-Pop-Rivets-Dome-Head-Box-of-250.html

https://www.transtools.co.uk/fixings-hardwares/screws-and-fixings/pop-rivets/aluminium-pop-rivets-6mm-x-18mm-steel-mandrel-250-pack

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Metric-Aluminium-Steel-Open-Pop-Dome-Head-Rivets-2-4-x-6mm-To-6-4-x-25mm/371138794789?hash=item5669989525:m:m0vDWQcLZJ0JXbuBiHC30tQ

[bezzabsa]

why dont we have a search for existing post fixed to main page..

Pissed off posting summat then to be 'outed' for posting summat for which a post already exists...

 

sorry but I aint gunna trawl through x amount of pages just in case there is a post!!

 

 

 

Rant over-ish!!

[Sigmund Fraud]

As some may know, my recently acquired Rover 416 has been lowered in a previous life.

Drastically.

Whilst looking nice* it is virtually undriveable on our local roads. Jarring teeth and smashing heads into roof liner. It came with a set of replacement springs, but these are 35mm lower than standard. I appreciate that these cars were low as standard, but will the 35mm shorter than standard springs just be a waste of time? I suspect so. They may raise the ride height slightly, but probably not enough to convey a 56 year old plump bloke plus wife and dog around without discomfort.

Not wanting to waste money, was just wondering.

 

R8s don't have much suspension travel to begin with - I'd personally suggest a set of normal height springs.

[Guest Hooli]

It's in the top right corner.

 

But it never works. Search for 'car' and it shows every thread that never contained the word 'car'.

 

You're better off checking how to use google to search a single site. Infact I've seen some forums use google for their search function & they are the only ones where search works.

[twosmoke300]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that the search doesn’t work for

[SiC]

Put "site:autoshite.com" into Google and then your search phrase. E.g. "site:autoshite.com Broken Lagunas".

 

It will then only search Autoshite.

[Dave_Q]

There's a little cog next to the search box for advanced search.

 

This will let you search for a specific author, title only, any word or all words, and any combination of those.

 

I find the search function works OK from the full site, the Tapatalk search is pretty shit though.

[Mally]

Pop rivets. Am I thinking about this wrong? I have one of these that I want to attach to the front bumper of my car:

 

(Edit: this attached to the bumper then the number plate is screwed into the bumper through another hole).

 

The holes I want to attach it through are 6mm in diameter. Do I want 6m rivets or will 4.8mm do because as far as I can tell 6mm ones simply do not exist

 

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-8-x-14MM-BLACK-POP-RIVETS-LARGE-FLANGE-3-16-X-9-16-WIDE-RIVET-ALUMINUM/390764980791?hash=item5afb686a37:g:~mYAAOxy63FS85Ns