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[sierraman]

If money is tight for god sake don’t take out a PCP.

[DeeJay]

This may have been asked a thousand times before, but what turgid and flexible impliments do folk use for unsnotifying water drain holes round cars?

 

Asking for a me.

 

Net curtain wire. 

[SiC]

This may have been asked a thousand times before, but what turgid and flexible impliments do folk use for unsnotifying water drain holes round cars?

 

Asking for a me.

Trombone cleaning brush are popular tools for MX5 owners to clean their drain holes.

 

Like this one: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F371979829166

[barefoot]

The bloke next door has recently bought an E Type.

Now it's not new, but it does look in nice restored condition,

although it's had a power steering rack added & just failed MOT because it wasn't securely attached!

Whilst perusing the MOT history, it appears to have done about 3-400 miles every year for the last 12 years.

I've seen elderly cars that seem to do that previously as well, but

How does that work?

That's a single tankful annually.

Where would you go?

How could you rely on it to actually get anywhere?

[SiC]

The bloke next door has recently bought an E Type.

Now it's not new, but it does look in nice restored condition,

although it's had a power steering rack added & just failed MOT because it wasn't securely attached!

Whilst perusing the MOT history, it appears to have done about 3-400 miles every year for the last 12 years.

I've seen elderly cars that seem to do that previously as well, but

How does that work?

That's a single tankful annually.

Where would you go?

How could you rely on it to actually get anywhere?

See my MGB GT thread...

 

 

 

 

 

[Squire_Dawson]

Unfortunately a significant number of people owning classic cars wouldn't know a crown wheel from a con rod, so they drive them every seventh summer Sunday 4 miles at 30 MPH. Consequently they are all completely fucked mechanically.

[LightBulbFun]

Long shot time but "I have a m8" in Israel with a "1992 JCB 3cx-4" (Digger excavator bob the buildery type thing)

 

which has sat dormant for many years and is currently playing British by having electrical issues, which is an issue because he wishes it to no longer be dormant and its blocking access to something so he wants to get it running

 

I dont suppose anyone happens to have a wiring digram/schematic for it? (something tells me they dont make the Haynes book of lies for diggers  )

 

I dont know what the issues are exactly so it would not be much use asking me questions about it sadly (plus I dont like playing man in the middle)

 

but this guy is a good friend of mine so I figured id at least ask around here for him

 

(TL:DR is I want a Wiring digram for a 1992 JCB 3cx-4)

[mitsisigma01]

https://www.scribd.com/document/355166211/jcb-3cx-backhoe-loader-service-repair-manual-sn400001-to-4600000-pdf

 

Have a look at this , it says 3cx

[mitsisigma01]

Bollox , it seemed free then it says it's a preview. Download costs $ , sorry

[sierraman]

The bloke next door has recently bought an E Type.

Now it's not new, but it does look in nice restored condition,

although it's had a power steering rack added & just failed MOT because it wasn't securely attached!

Whilst perusing the MOT history, it appears to have done about 3-400 miles every year for the last 12 years.

I've seen elderly cars that seem to do that previously as well, but

How does that work?

That's a single tankful annually.

Where would you go?

How could you rely on it to actually get anywhere?

If you can get 400 miles on a tank in an E-Type your a better man than me.

[Tamworthbay]

If you can get 400 miles on a tank in an E-Type your a better man than me.

My mates used to get close to a thousand miles on a tank pretty much every time. To be fair that was because it seemed to do nine out of every ten miles on the back of the recovery truck.

[Eyersey1234]

One of my neighbours runs a 2009 Ka that she bought new under the scrappage scheme. In the last year it has only done 19 miles. Can anybody beat this?

[sierraman]

Yeah I had a Micra once that had lost 38,000 just in time for the next MOT.

[Eyersey1234]

Yeah I had a Micra once that had lost 38,000 just in time for the next MOT.

That was careless of it did the 38000 miles ever turn up again? Lol

[panhard65]

One of my neighbours runs a 2009 Ka that she bought new under the scrappage scheme. In the last year it has only done 19 miles. Can anybody beat this?

Can't quite beat it but I collected a customers mini today for mot. Bearing in mind it is about 6 miles each way from his house to the mot center it has done the grand total of 27 miles and I have done at least half of them picking it up and dropping it off. It doesn't get a lot of use and was being serviced every year until I started looking after it 7 years ago. Now it just gets a check over and told that it must have a service if they are going to start using it. Since 2006 it has done 836 miles and in the last 5 years the most it managed was 97 miles one year and the lowest was 23. They are finally starting to think about selling it now but what a 1986 Mini city is worth with 59k on the clock I have no idea.

[Kiltox]

Far more than you’d expect I’m sure!!

[Cavcraft]

Anyone know how bad (good?) these things are?...

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VonHaus-Cordless-Angle-Grinder-3-0Ah-Li-ion-20V-MAX-Battery-115mm-Cutting-Disc/302671431355

 

 

.specifically, will it be good enough to grind off thick rusty bolts and chains? Despite the apparent nature of my question, I'm not off out on the rob but I need something suitable for that type of work.

 

TIA, M8s. 

[Kiltox]

Anyone know how bad (good?) these things are?...

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VonHaus-Cordless-Angle-Grinder-3-0Ah-Li-ion-20V-MAX-Battery-115mm-Cutting-Disc/302671431355

 

 

.specifically, will it be good enough to grind off thick rusty bolts and chains? Despite the apparent nature of my question, I'm not off out on the rob but I need something suitable for that type of work.

 

TIA, M8s.

Usually actually quite impressive if you just want to do the odd job with it now and again. Battery life won’t be amazing.

 

If you have any other battery tools (eg Dewalt, Makita) i would suggest buying a bare angle grinder that matches because it’ll be better quality but you’d probably be spending double that if you don’t already have batteries and charger.

[xtriple]

When we took my wifes Colt for its first MOT, the tester remarked (quite rightly) that it would be cheaper to have a taxi everywhere than the car given the pathetic mileage it had clocked up in three years.

 

And absolutely no miles were mislaid!

[DodgeRover]

Anyone know how bad (good?) these things are?...

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VonHaus-Cordless-Angle-Grinder-3-0Ah-Li-ion-20V-MAX-Battery-115mm-Cutting-Disc/302671431355

 

 

.specifically, will it be good enough to grind off thick rusty bolts and chains? Despite the apparent nature of my question, I'm not off out on the rob but I need something suitable for that type of work.

 

TIA, M8s.

I have the dewalt version with lithium ion batteries, it's excellent when fitted with ultra thin slitting discs.

It does absolutely hammer through batteries though, I've gone through 5 fully charged ones before the first one to go flat has recharged.

Cutting bolts, shackles etc a pair of quality industrial bolt croppers will do the job, they need to stand about 4 or 5 ft tall though. The last time I used mine I didn't realise it had gone through the padlock there was that little increase in resistance. You do need to be able to brace one arm of them on something immobile though if you come up against something tough.

 

Edit thick chains usually aren't security type so easily cut.

[w00dy]

Is there a decent, but cheap OBD II reader out there? For a Honda Jazz that has thrown a check engine light.

[Mally]

Far more than you’d expect I’m sure!!

 

No, even more than that.

Why did it go for an MOT?

[sierraman]

That was careless of it did the 38000 miles ever turn up again? Lol

Eventually several years and several owners down the line yes it probably did.

[DeeJay]

Yeah I had a Micra once that had lost 38,000 just in time for the next MOT.

 

You are Quentin Wilson AICMFP.

[clayts450]

Is there a decent, but cheap OBD II reader out there? For a Honda Jazz that has thrown a check engine light.

 

Common consensus is a cheapie ELM327 bluetooth reader and a copy of Torque on your phone (although I find OBD Doctor a bit better for the Rover) - can be had for buttons these days

 

eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-ELM327-OBD2-II-Bluetooth-Car-Auto-Diagnostic-Interface-Scanner-Tool-YT/283268119715?hash=item41f4187ca3:g:poMAAOSw3fxb8uO~:rk:30:pf:0

[Dead_E23]

I had to send a couple of OBDII readers back before I got one that worked.   I found those made by Xtrons to be ok though - I've got one in each car and no problems with either.

[Jerzy Woking]

My Saab had a new clutch and slave cylinder fitted (by a Saab garage) 2000 miles ago. Since then clutch pedal feels normal, then every so often feels "slack" with about 2 inches of travel between in and out. Then it goes back to normal for a few pushes, then goes slack again. No fluid is disappearing, clutch itself works fine. Any ideas why it does this, or how I can fix it? Saab place reckons it's fine.

 

Also the EML was on AFTER I took it for a service to the same Saab specialist (wasn't on before I took it in) and they said it was the Lambda sensor, which has the wires cut, which sounds odd to me.

 

Few days ago I topped up with super unleaded, drove it to a mates house  parking on the steep driveway. On the way home, noticed the EML was off, and apart from when I switch on the ignition. Odd, but because Saab?

[Guest Hooli]

I recall ohdearme saying his Aero sometimes put the EML on due to the knock sensor  when running on normal fuel & that super fixed it.

[dozeydustman]

My Saab had a new clutch and slave cylinder fitted (by a Saab garage) 2000 miles ago. Since then clutch pedal feels normal, then every so often feels "slack" with about 2 inches of travel between in and out. Then it goes back to normal for a few pushes, then goes slack again. No fluid is disappearing, clutch itself works fine. Any ideas why it does this, or how I can fix it? Saab place reckons it's fine.

 

 

 

What model Saab? Some of them with the CSC have a little bleed tower poking out the top of the bell housing, as mine did. Had exactly those symptoms you describe in mine - there was an o-ring in that bleed tower that had failed. Took ages to find it by both myself and our friendly garage.

[Jerzy Woking]

Sorry-its a 2005 Aero HOT.

 

IT feels like there is air in the system, but there is no leak anywhere.