maxxo Posted April 7, 2020 Author Share Posted April 7, 2020 Did some aesthetic work today, went quite well too ooooh shiny! of course these old ones broke the moment i tried to remove them, look rather nasty too i must admit with no chrome left prefer the older style ones anyway and we're done, a lot brighter too and look so nice and shiny! paulplom, Dan302 and rainagain 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 waiting a car park boredom stuck again! but wait......those connectors either side of the main plug almost look like sun visor light plugs! oh wait they are!! seems that will be my next job, gonna be a mega spec! paulplom, purplebargeken and theshadow 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 also stay tuned!!! much excitement coming to the car in the coming weeks! also quick thing, creaking when going over uneven roads, speed bumps and when stopping. can also make it creak by bouncing the car up and down.... assuming shock absorber or strut top? no way am i fixing it as i have nightmares about spring compressors paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Shouldn't need to use spring compressors when changing a strut top bearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 2 hours ago, paulplom said: Shouldn't need to use spring compressors when changing a strut top bearing. Depends on the car, I needed them on the Zafira and almost the 406 but we didn't get that far in the job as the rest of the front suspension wouldn't come apart... paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 12 hours ago, maxxo said: also stay tuned!!! much excitement coming to the car in the coming weeks! also quick thing, creaking when going over uneven roads, speed bumps and when stopping. can also make it creak by bouncing the car up and down.... assuming shock absorber or strut top? no way am i fixing it as i have nightmares about spring compressors Shame it's lockdown, I had the same with the Zafira and found a local garage through a post on facebook, chucked the entire struts in my car and took them over, 20 minutes later they had my new springs on, only charged me £20 to do the pair too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 5 hours ago, paulplom said: Shouldn't need to use spring compressors when changing a strut top bearing. i'm thinking worst case it's a shocker, i've seen too many videos of spring compression accidents to attempt it myself haha paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 3 hours ago, beko1987 said: Shame it's lockdown, I had the same with the Zafira and found a local garage through a post on facebook, chucked the entire struts in my car and took them over, 20 minutes later they had my new springs on, only charged me £20 to do the pair too! yup i have a garage like that (he seems to have no concept of profit) what i'm thinking is it may be logical to get the shocks done regardless as they are the originals paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prote Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 9 hours ago, maxxo said: yup i have a garage like that (he seems to have no concept of profit) what i'm thinking is it may be logical to get the shocks done regardless as they are the originals Just pondering - I have read on Sh1troen forums that creaking front suspension can be the mounting bolts at the top of the strut. Might be worth checking those are torqued up properly. Long shot, but probably you have plenty of time at home now.... Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 6 minutes ago, Prote said: Just pondering - I have read on Sh1troen forums that creaking front suspension can be the mounting bolts at the top of the strut. Might be worth checking those are torqued up properly. Long shot, but probably you have plenty of time at home now.... Â Â yup they are! has been getting gradually worse over the past month and tends to be louder if i use the car for it's intended purpose.....driving i've attached a very poor video trying to show the creak......me being a doofus forgot to mute the stereo, but you can still hear it and before someone says, yes, i know the radio and HVAC system are dusty 20200414_140302.mp4 Â paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 seeing as this car is easily going to be owned by me for the next 10 or so years, might as well fit some "individual" accessories i've been rather interested in adding some light gold touches to the door handles and hand trim on the door hards to match the centre trim, also seriously considering fitting some more exclusive spec stuff, such as the dashboard boxes which replace the "non slide" areas and seeing if i can track down a genuine fridge. of course the next jobs are the sun visors, wood trim and parking sensors as well as sorting out the creak and finally getting a wheel balancing session! as always with this car, no money is too much it's a great example of a good car....of course not keeping it "stock spec" but everything will be tastefull done oh yeah and i've bought some pinstripes for the sides as i have an idea! rainagain and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 pretty poor photoshop but it would look somehwat like this, hopefully with the stripe as a slightly brighter shade and the picasso logo on the rear quater more in the correct location but i think it looks really cool! please feel free to give me feedback, hoping to get this done next week when the stuff (hopefully) arrives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 So today we started on a job i've been putting off since july, the door straps! no amount of grease would solve this....stupid loud clicking, holding the door open far too well and looking absolutely awful dissasembly time! of course have to remove everything but i can show off the super easy speaker replacement! surprisngly the door cards on these are really easy to remove, and nothing really broke that badly, just a snapped clip but i don't care about that as i find it funny so after a nice bit of messing around trying to get the old one out here we go, including nice shiny new part! i didn't take pictures of the re assembly, it was a massive fuck on involving much swearing as it just didn't want to go in..... after what felt like many hours of this we finally got it in place! and after more faff with a non magnectic torx set we managed to get it in place ah wonderful! but wait!! theres more!! the door card would not go back on, well not easily at least but finally after again what felt like many hours, we finally got it mostly in place....again i find it funny so it's fine ah yes very nice door! but wait, i will have to do the whole thing again for the drivers side ahahahaha......wonder how long i can put that off for! but isn't it just lovely and smooth! need to spray a bit of silicone lubricant on the new strap but i'm just glad it's over with 20200420_145113.mp4 next jobs are the drivers side and the parking sensors, which again should be an absolutely awful job! purplebargeken, rainagain, paulplom and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 You need one of these for your drivers.Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk stonedagain and maxxo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, paulplom said: You need one of these for your drivers. Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk  i absolutely do! as that had to be one of the single most annoying things i've ever dealt with in my life haha paulplom and stonedagain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 It must be common,3 out of 4 doors on mine crack and groan. Must try to rectify it as I've seen them rip right out the door. Do you happen to know what dimensions the speakers need to be to fit the doors? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 14 minutes ago, bub2006 said: It must be common,3 out of 4 doors on mine crack and groan. Must try to rectify it as I've seen them rip right out the door. Do you happen to know what dimensions the speakers need to be to fit the doors? Thanks. i have also seen that, it really mangles them to bits inside as far as i know the front speakers are 17cm and the rears 13cm, at least that was the size of the ones i ordered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 So I gave the picasso some more love today, sorting the other door strap i'd heard they can be removed through the speaker hole I love how easy the speakers are to remove in these, really is a lovely design just some torx screws and out they come, obviously these aren't factory speakers as they actually sound good (and i will say what i always say, the factory head unit is pretty good it's just the speakers which let it down) Once i removed the speaker and the pretty broken foam padding it's obvious it's nice and easy to get the strap out! Well the moment before i spent 15 minutes fucking around trying to get it out, oh yeah it also broke as i was removing it so i was past the point of no return yay! oh and my hands were absolutely full of oil and grease! which was fun especially trying to remove sockets from the rachet wrench, but we managed to get it out after much swearing aaaaand we are done, obviously was a fuck on but i'm glad it's sorted now I dread to think what my neighbours think of me the amount of honestly foul words i was saying as i couldn't get it through the hole even shocked me........ obviously we couldn't leave the car being dirty could we....it's me after all and yes i was cleaning my car as it was getting dark, and yes i am a weirdo! i'm driving to the other side of town tomorrow to go for a walk where it's quiet and going to fill up with shell V power so we know i'll either have some form of major expensive exciting problem or a decent crash mind you that's more likely to happen on tuesday after i have had my wheels balancing......oh yes i'm actually fixing the wheel wobble...well paying a man to fix it paulplom, rainagain, jumpingjehovahs and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 had some unintended rear wiper action today! so the rear wiper activated itself (despite being turned off, but it's a comms2000 so was it actually off?) about an hour ago as i was getting ready to drive home it seemed to be on intermittent like it is when you use the switch, but acted like it was being turned on and off too it may be a coincidence but i wiggled the stalk and turned the headlights on and it then seemed to behave paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 So in a typical french way the wiper completely behaved itself today, of course it would i suspect it was due to the little niggles i've sorted out recently I also fitted a pin stripe down the side today! inspired by a proton i saw!! It's mostly straight and i think looks superb! oh yes i actually ordered the correct colour too! jumpingjehovahs, Cookiesouwest and paulplom 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 So you remember how i said i think this car is haunted? well i'm almost certain now! almost every time i've had a bad near miss, everytime i've had a problem or a failure to proceed it's been when i've been playing "the best of the human leauge" CD, changed CDs today not a single issue going through dashcam footage, every single one of the really bad incidents have had that cd playing, i hardly play it anyway as it tends to be a bit skippy, it's either a weird coincidence or something weird is going on The only times i've had bad cold starting issues has been when that CD has been in the player i swear i'm going nuts, but this is very weird paulplom and purplebargeken 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Toolstation have them for a fiver.Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk maxxo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 2 hours ago, paulplom said: Toolstation have them for a fiver. Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk  ooooooh! i need to go to toolstation at some point anyway so i shall get one sure will make jobs lesss exciting but far easier paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 So you know how i've given the picasso a fair amount of love recently? well i've been repaid by a burst shock! oh yes! much oil everywhere oh and my discs ummmm may look like this....... rather embarrasing for that to be seen buy the guy at ATS doing my wheel balancing oh and i've got a lot of play in both track rod ends.......yay, on the drive home yes i did notice it drives like shit and doesn't feel right at all as ATS didn't seem to want to rip me off.....and we bad mouthed kwik fit, they've got the job going in at 10:30 tomorrow morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Looks like the rear pad has been binding. Uneven wear by the look of it.Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk maxxo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, paulplom said: Looks like the rear pad has been binding. Uneven wear by the look of it. Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk  i thought the same! cars are fun! i'm pretty excited to get it sorted, probably drive completely different paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 of course i didn't go back to ATS i had a moment of sense..... taking it over to my usual guy, someone i actually trust and see how much he wants, annoying this lockdown as i could really do with going tool shopping but i take ages and have to inspect anything before i buy it in another exciting way the drivers side shock is knocking rather badly and the passenger side is creaking....much excitement! wheel wobble is between 59 and 64 now so an improvement but the wobble has become an entire vehicle wobble so even more exciting! suppose i'd better pay a man to fix it hahaha as i'll kill myself with spring compressors if i tried paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Can you not remove the strut yourself and take it to your man to swap the shocker? It'll save a labour charge and give you something to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 1 hour ago, paulplom said: Can you not remove the strut yourself and take it to your man to swap the shocker? It'll save a labour charge and give you something to do. don't have stands unfortunately and i have massive doubts about the jack i use... he's doing both shocks, discs and a ball joint for 220 so i can't complain, gives me the excitement of walking round a different town for many hours whilst it's getting done  purplebargeken and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxo Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 pablo is in the car hospital getting better...... 225 for everthing currently broken to be mended and a new fuel filter which isn't bad at all really hopefully picking it up later today and i really hope it drives better (should do as the wheel won't be wobbling around) paulplom, Cookiesouwest, The Moog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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