Eyerseys Motoring Adventures.

[Eyersey1234]

It appears to be the n/s/r caliper sticking a bit, I've ordered some brake cleaner to see if that helps. 

[The Moog]

Has it been sitting much ? Discs rust up pretty quickly

[Eyersey1234]

14 minutes ago, The Moog said:

Has it been sitting much ? Discs rust up pretty quickly

Not really, it gets driven most days, I noticed that the n/s/r wheel felt hot after it had been driven today which is why I'm thinking caliper. 

[The Moog]

Sounds right then

[Eyersey1234]

I've spent the morning taking the n/s/r wheel of Henry and giving the caliper a good spray of brake cleaner, let's see if that does any good. 

[Eyersey1234]

Stepdaughter just been begging for no black box when she gets her first car, she was really pissed off when I said she might not have a choice 🤣

[DVee8]

14 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Stepdaughter just been begging for no black box when she gets her first car, she was really pissed off when I said she might not have a choice 🤣

From our recent learner Insurance shenanigans, it seems a dash cam is now the monitoring choice. No1 son doesn't have a black box fitted.

[Eyersey1234]

1 hour ago, DVee8 said:

From our recent learner Insurance shenanigans, it seems a dash cam is now the monitoring choice. No1 son doesn't have a black box fitted.

Oh I didn't realise they now wanted dashcams, SD will be pleased*

 

*For pleased read pissed off even more as will mean she won't get away with showing off 🤣

[Eyersey1234]

Henry has been at the garage today, turns out the n/s/r brake caliper was fucking fucked m8 and it had damaged the disc as well so he has had a new caliper and rear discs and pads. 

[sierraman]

Once those callipers start to seize it’s a new one I’m afraid. You can wind them in and out a few times but usually it’s the plating on the piston corroding. Not a difficult job at all though, almost a service job on any given Mk3 Mondeo. 

[Eyersey1234]

To be fair it may well have been the original one so it's done well really 

[Eyersey1234]

The last couple of mornings Henry has taken a bit of cranking to get going first thing and there has been a cloud of white smoke on startup along with a slight smell of diesel, I'm thinking injectors but is there anything else it could be? Once he has ran and been switched off he starts fine. 

[sierraman]

Injector seals? 

[Eyersey1234]

3 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Injector seals? 

Thanks sierraman I'll check them out

[Dan302]

Hope its nothing major

[Eyersey1234]

6 minutes ago, Dan302 said:

Hope its nothing major

So do I 

[Eyersey1234]

A bit of googling suggests it could be the injector seals, apparently they are prone to going on the 1.4 and 1.6tdci and the symptoms sound similar to mine. Anyone know how easy they are to change? 

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, Eyersey1234 said:

A bit of googling suggests it could be the injector seals, apparently they are prone to going on the 1.4 and 1.6tdci and the symptoms sound similar to mine. Anyone know how easy they are to change? 

Messy more than anything, I’d get some leak off connectors as they’ll possibly break taking them off, then you’ll have the job of digging them out. A disgusting messy job. 

[Floatylight]

I did mine recently on my C4GP 1.6..

When its warm can you hear a chuffing noise?

Not too bad a job but I didn't change all of them, the ones blowing were 1&3 (no 1 being far right looking at it)

Plenty of videos out there worth watching, top tip which wasn't in the videos was to use a short piece of dowel with a wood screw in the end to hook the old seal out with.

I bought a seal kit off ebay which included the leak off seals.

[Eyersey1234]

Not that I have noticed but its possible I have missed it. 

[Eyersey1234]

Henry had a door in him today

[Eyersey1234]

Just worked out, in 27 months Henry has cost £2822.35 in terms of servicing, Mots and running repairs giving an average of £104.53 a month, not bad at all. 

[Eyersey1234]

Henry clicked over 207k tonight

[Eyersey1234]

On 1/24/2021 at 2:33 PM, Eyersey1234 said:

Just worked out, in 27 months Henry has cost £2822.35 in terms of servicing, Mots and running repairs giving an average of £104.53 a month, not bad at all. 

Works out to about 8.5p a mile. 

[Eyersey1234]

It's not definite but there's a possibility of taking Henry on a road trip to Belgium towards the end of the year, as some will know from the Warshite thread I am one of the admins for a group that remembers WW1 soldiers and we might be going out there to go round some of the cemeteries and trenches. 

[Eyersey1234]

Changed the battery in Henry's remote today as the old one was fucking fucked m8 and gave the lock a good squirt of wd40, much better. 

[Dan302]

1 hour ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Changed the battery in Henry's remote today as the old one was fucking fucked m8 and gave the lock a good squirt of wd40, much better. 

Yeah I've just done the one in my Ceed's remote as it was taking a few presses to work.

[Eyersey1234]

Henry in the snow this morning 

[Eyersey1234]

Just been touching in some of the worst of the stonechips on the front of Henry, I've never been good at using touch in paint really neatly but looks a little better than it did.  He may also appear in a YouTube video at some point this summer on @Skizzerof this parishes channel

 

[Eyersey1234]

Another mileometer moment today