Swift... eh? Nah!

[Jikovron]

Look at the glass area going down on your suzuke machine, it's like a greenhouse of visibility!

[ProgRocker]

I wonder how small children manage to let themselves into the rear seat of a new Swift? Those door handles look quite high up.

[tooSavvy]

There was one of those 'bling' new vehikklees behind me, t'other day..

In all its shineyness I realised I had NO brake lights, Bar Highline LED.

Wilco do a great deal on a twopack... Less than webland!

Quick 10mins just now and all is returned to 'rudolf glow'😉

I hung my phone over the parcel shelf, on video setting, and was able to check they were working .... Singlehanded 🧐 !

[Jikovron]

It's all about the St Marie's lighthouse triple brake tap,,classic!

[tooSavvy]

I had a truly surreal conversation with the daughter, last evening....

She said remembering I had lamented the end of my aerial having broken off (likely car wash brushes). She had put up a general request on some ArseBuk page and a guy popped up claiming to have an unused aerial for my (she put up a piccie) Swift... free to collect! Subsequently adding he had a #Rear Hatch Spoiler... free to collect 🤪

RockyHorsePoop.... We Will See.

#L8 Noose# ..... For a '05 on 'new shape'!

[tooSavvy]

Hmm..... 7 days left on MOT 😱

.... need some prepp 🤔

😎TwoBuckets

👍

[tooSavvy]

Looking for a 'hatch spoiler', very trendy on SuziQ b i t d.....

Blue is possibly avail, but I don't think it will sit right on my 5 door....

 

[tooSavvy]

MOT booked 9am Wed 1st......

*May not do TwoBucket 😉

 

[tooSavvy]

MOT..... 'white winkers' orange bulbs 😱

..... I have had a bit of a lonnggg stare at both rear winkers, tonight.

They are NOT ORANGE (obvz...) but this is the first MOT with these "well, it's a matter of opinion, m8!" winkers.

New orange bulbs soon after I got SuziQ.... Can Do No More 🤔

[tooSavvy]

Spectacular FAIL .......

Having put £30 fuel in we discover 'tank venting pipe (rubber)' is weeping. Tank down to fix! #should have cancelled my test#.😱

While he is at it, I thought he may as well put on the Discs+Pads I have in the cupboard (he observed we are down to the Rizlas) = good guess then!

Using the MOT as a 'pre annual service' flag system is a bit Edge Of Seat Excitement.... but he is a great guy and we 'get things sorted- no praablem!'

Back in next Wed 👍

[tooSavvy]

#note, to add....

The EPIC EMISSIONS nosedive *might be resolved with £48 of 'non type approved' CAT action, as the car is before 01/03/01 🤡

Part No.   BM90651H @ClickCarParts.

[wuvvum]

I've just bought one of these for mine - even cheaper.

Fuel Parts Catalytic Converter AS91505 for SUZUKI SWIFT 1.0 (1989 - 02/2001) | eBay

[tooSavvy]

Ooooooooof! 👍

.... That's TWO they've sold!! 👍

[tooSavvy]

Bloody hell! Cat pipe arrived in a box the size of a fridge 🤪

GuddGudd

[tooSavvy]

Took the cat pipe up to my MOT place, with pads + discs.... He just did it, straight off 👍

Just waiting to pick it up 🤡

[tooSavvy]

£Ton..... Replace fuel tank vent pipe, fit discs + pads, fit CAT frontpipe.

Retest (foc).... Emissions effectively Zero = CAT was toast!!

[tooSavvy]

Just popped £11.99 for a Timing Tooth Belt. QTB493

I will fit that myself (bottom pulley comes off = 20min job) 😎

[tooSavvy]

HaHa.... Stuck a 'will she/won't she' lowball onto eBay. My alt belt was up for £7.99 [or offer] so I hit them with £6.00.....

24hrs later (I watched the clock for last 2 min...) No Dice 😱

Fu##em! Banged my second choice @£6:20 p/free.

My money is always waiting for them......

[tooSavvy]

Quick 'itchyfingers..ooops!' eBay snip....

Piccarsed mk1 HiLevel brake light @£9.99

I will chop up to suit installation in SuziQ 🤐

#arrived... No Bulbs!! £2.99 has me 5 W5W White LED on the way 👍

[tooSavvy]

Oil filter just thrust into my hand, by the Caribou Guy [nope... Me either! 🤔 ]

So now, with my cheappo Tesco lards, I can sort things out for a further 12M/5K.

[tooSavvy]

On 04/09/2021 at 11:18, tooSavvy said:

Just popped £11.99 for a Timing Tooth Belt. QTB493

I will fit that myself (bottom pulley comes off = 20min job) 😎

Hmm.... I feel an utter fraud 🥺

I'm going to do my oil+filter but - frankly - I'm inclined to slope off the timing belt to the garage....

I have the tools/skill/jack's & axle stands BUT can't be bothered 😱

..... age kicking in, bastard (bus pass next!!)

[Jikovron]

I also get those moments where clarity fleetingly arrives to foresee the sheer oxymoronic nature of the '5min' car task which only reveals its true 2hr53min length after the car is immobilised with the raggy wood chiselled remains of an oil filter stuck to the block like 'Fram 5304h by michealangelo' and the only thin wall socket for the T belt tensioner cracked and flapping like a leach upon your toolbox space.

[tooSavvy]

6 minutes ago, Jikovron said:

I also get those moments where clarity fleetingly arrives to foresee the sheer oxymoronic nature of the '5min' car task which only reveals its true 2hr53min length after the car is immobilised with the raggy wood chiselled remains of an oil filter stuck to the block like 'Fram 5304h by michealangelo' and the only thin wall socket for the T belt tensioner cracked and flapping like a leach upon your toolbox space.

This...... But In Spades 👍

#i suddenly feel much better#

[tooSavvy]

OTOH..... Bolt On mods.... I'm all for that!

My plan to install an Oil Pressure Gauge is progressing nicely.

After much consideration of tapping existing engine/head 'oil galleries' I elected to use a Sandwich Plate. This one cost £11 from Hong Kong!

It is a substantial chunk - extruded form and machined for threads and faces. Good thread on the step/extension. Very good match to the filter rubber seal/the plate o-rings are at the same diameter as the existing filter.

This is totally 'fanny fucking about' free... I will replace one of the NPT with a BSPT plug (crappy but ok with a wrap of PTFE tape) - do the oil change/filter in the next few days and then run the capillary gauge tube down to it at a later, convenient time.

Uncomplicated.... That's me 🥰

[tooSavvy]

My '5 LED' strip is fitted....

..... Looking Gudd!

*bloo-tak to establish correct location, then a steel bracket to fix 👍

[tooSavvy]

Before & After......

TBH 6 of 1/half a doz the other 🤔

The broad array is lower in the rearview mirror - thus gets my WIN 😍

[tooSavvy]

I made a posting, over on Swift Repository site, about my brake light....

A chap took time out to comment he would have done it differently....

I look forward to commenting on HIS effort!

FFS 🤐

[tooSavvy]

The 'oil filter sandwich plate' is now ready - for my oil change ONLY.

You can see my iron 1/8bspt plug (+ PTFE tape) is set.... It will screw out/replaced by brass fitting when my wet Oil Pressure Gauge is ready to be fitted. The two other ports are sealed shut forever.... Alloy NPT plugs (supplied in kit) PTFE tape & a dab of thread lock 👍

[tooSavvy]

I am 'planning' a mod!

Clearing all the restrictive ironwork from my TB neck (custom micro-bellmouth) and casing it all in a BIG Fiat airbox.

I love a good 'fuc# onn', with bitz 🧐

[tooSavvy]

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