The grumpy thread

[D Spares & Tyres]

Either a blockage or an air leak

 

1.Has the primer bulb sucked in on itself? That will be a blockage on in tank filter

 

2. Could be actual filter again

 

3. Air leak off one of the connections or the filter housing not sealing

 

Get some clear pipe and then you can see if there are air bubbles

[beko1987]

Haven't checked if the primer bulb was sucked in, it wasn't when I got to work, but it's been started and stopped since leaving home. Will check the fuel filter when I get home, even if to just have it off and on again and check it's sealed.

 

Do you know what size clear pipe I need? Heard 10mm on a few forums.

 

I would coast to a halt on the hard shoulder of the m40 and check but I don't want it to cut out again when re-joining the road.

Going to sit in it over lunchtime and leave it idling (at 1300rpm) and see what happens. If nothing else it will use the veg up a bit incase I need to get some derv in there.

 

May check the in tank filter at the weekend, how much of a bastard of a job is it, and the tank is full, Moog said it's better on an empty tank in his thread...

[taxi paul]

I had a pair of flip flips once. Sadly they were two left feet. So they were flip flops. Boom boom.

[beko1987]

New fuel filter bought. Might see if I can find any allen keys in stepdads garage at lunchtime and see what the current filter is like

[andy18s]

I had a pair of flip flips once. Sadly they were two left feet. So they were flip flops. Boom boom.

^^^^Goddamn autocorrect strikes again.....lol

 

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[STUNO]

Woe is me....I have to change the oil in the Mazda, but it has been too hot and humid to lie underneath it on burning hot concrete to do it. I have also been wearing flip-flops every day now for over a month and don't think shoes will ever fit again. Also finished mowing the lawns this afternoon and was forced to endure a nearly cold shower afterwards to stop the sweat running off me. Now it has started raining and that noise on the roof is keeping me from going to sleep even though the air is cooler and fresher....life must surely get better.

[320touring]

Beko dound exactly like the issues the Octavia had tbh- good idea re filter

[beko1987]

Beko dound exactly like the issues the Octavia had tbh- good idea re filter

I'll try the filter once it gets me home, but that doesn't sound good, you had to send yours to the great bridge in the sky over it...

[320touring]

I'll try the filter once it gets me home, but that doesn't sound good, you had to send yours to the great bridge in the sky over it...

Incompetence and a lack of fucks combined with an impending mot made it so..

 

If only you knew someone with a 306..

[beko1987]

If only you knew someone with a 306..

I have no funds, but a years MOT.

 

It's bonus month at the end of feb, so if needed I would have £2/250 for an emergency car.

 

Hopefully the high idle will get me home, like a spanner I left all my tools at home, normally have my socket set in the boot just in case, had it in the house last night to put a Dyson motor back together...

[The Moog]

Haven't checked if the primer bulb was sucked in, it wasn't when I got to work, but it's been started and stopped since leaving home. Will check the fuel filter when I get home, even if to just have it off and on again and check it's sealed.

 

Do you know what size clear pipe I need? Heard 10mm on a few forums.

 

I would coast to a halt on the hard shoulder of the m40 and check but I don't want it to cut out again when re-joining the road.

Going to sit in it over lunchtime and leave it idling (at 1300rpm) and see what happens. If nothing else it will use the veg up a bit incase I need to get some derv in there.

 

May check the in tank filter at the weekend, how much of a bastard of a job is it, and the tank is full, Moog said it's better on an empty tank in his thread...

 

 

Give the bulb a squeeze and see if it returns. If not as Tom says dodgy tank strainer.  Pretty easy to do. Back seats up, unplug sensor, undo two pipes and unscrew it.  If it is bastard tight then a screwdriver and hammer to start it. Just lifts out then. 

 

I tend to stick to 10% pez as maximum to avoid that issue.  Cant remember off hand what diameter pipe it is (soz) but I bought a big roll and use it every time I get a new XUD. Bubbles (not the chimp) arent your friend 

[taxi paul]

I tried to correct three times. Auto gadgets bloody nuisance! Like my modern tells you when to change gear. I can drive thank you, I will make my own mind up.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Beko, do you just add petrol or shake it all together in a drum? The latter is much better, I run used pas, gearbox oil and a bit of engine oil out of the scrappers but you have to shake the drum to get it to mix properly!

[beko1987]

Beko, do you just add petrol or shake it all together in a drum? The latter is much better, I run used pas, gearbox oil and a bit of engine oil out of the scrappers but you have to shake the drum to get it to mix properly!

Nope, I put 15l in at Dannys to get me home (and work the next day), then £10 of pez (which someone said was too much at the time tbh) then brimmed with probably 35l of veg.

 

It ran fine for ages, then started to be a bit down on power (at about the time the drone started). It got down to 1/2 a tank on the needle so I put another 20 odd litres of just veg in

 

Do you reckon the petrol has not mixed and just sort of burped into the fuel system neat?

[D Spares & Tyres]

Hard to say without seeing it could be allsorts of issues

 

I had a 306 plagued with air leaks due to the thicker fuel I reckon. In the end I just ditched the lot and ran an inline filter with a copper pipe running the length of the car straight into the tank. No more problems after that

[beko1987]

Sat in it now having a rolly. I moved the adjustment back on the throttle cable and primed the bulb and it started not too badly and settled at a 500rmp idle. Just risen to 1000 but looks steady.

 

May adjust it up one more so it sits at just over 1k then chance driving home. Will only see if it's still broken whwn i come off the m40 later.

[beko1987]

Also, if I lock to lock the steering whilst stationary, the revs dip right down then come back up...

[Split_Pin]

Fupping bellenderous thunderflaps, Facebook is the place to be if you want your self esteem to be kicked square in the fanny. Full of bunglecunts, obsessed with themselves, spouting inflammatory crap. Shame that the occasional funny posts and threads are outweighed by the tripe. As such I have fucked it right off until further notice.

[Lacquer Peel]

Sat in it now having a rolly. I moved the adjustment back on the throttle cable and primed the bulb and it started not too badly and settled at a 500rmp idle. Just risen to 1000 but looks steady.

 

May adjust it up one more so it sits at just over 1k then chance driving home. Will only see if it's still broken whwn i come off the m40 later.

It's 100% fuel starvation due to air ingress and/or clogged filters. Start at the filter and work back.

[Slartibartfast]

Parky jnr was a bit off this morning. He was going to school but called Mrs P to say he was a bit off but would go in a bit later. Ok says Mrs P and she calls the school to say he is off colour but will be in.

 

She called later in the day, no answer so assumed he had gone in....

 

Anyhow, turns out he didn't go in at all and claimed not to have heard the phone, or checked his mobile during the day. The school is pretty Dickensian about this stuff so I expect to be ordered in for a chat in the next few days which will impact my pay. Just on the train home now debating appropriate punishment....

 

Not happy or impressed at all.

 

With our lot if they're that ill in the morning they can't get to school then they're off for the day and get phoned in as such. If they then improve later in the day they get deputised for housework tasks or they do some homework. Or sometimes they just get left to chill, depends on if we think they need it, kids need recovery time too occasionally.

[panhard65]

"Can you just weld up that little hole in the inner wing of my Suzuki" my customer said.

The battery tray had rotted almost entirely away and not much left of the inner wing at all in the end.

I fucking hate welding

[strangeangel]

So much for my shite van purchase - seller hasn't replied to my emails so far and, thinking the worst of eBay users as I do, I suspect he's taken an offer on it and not bothered/forgotten to cancel the listing

[AlabamaShrimp]

With the ST still off road due to me buying a soggy seat for it the wife has been driving the Frontera.

 

Didn't see what revs she is taking it to but now makes a noise* when off the juice changing from first to second, then second to third. Didn't make the noise yesterday when I took it out.

 

No idea what it is sounds like air being sucked back in but it wasn't going fast enough for that, if that makes sense

[xtriple]

One of those days today.

 

Had to go to NA and the driving was enough to make you cry! The only fun was watching everyone and predicting when/where they would do something bloody stupid... I wasn't wrong once!

 

Had a cockend race me at a set of traffic lights: BMW Z4 (I think) and so I just set off normally and the bastard sat alongside me and matched me foot for foot. His passenger was staring and laughing and making gestures so I resorted to being childish.

 

Bentley: 1 BMW: 0

 

The old girl is seriously rapid and I love the whistle the turbo makes!

 

Also discovered that someone has cloncked it while parked: dent passenger side rear wing (not very big or impressive but annoying) so I rang the dent guy I use. He doesn't want to do private work anymore as the garages keep him so busy. (No, I haven't pissed him off) so been having a ring round PDR guys. One guy instantly said 'No!' to working on my car, another tried saying it was impossible to get a dent out of a back wing and it would need re-painting.... and the third said: ' No problem, can you bring it over tomorrow morning?'

 

It is a ficking joke round here getting decent people to work on this car. The same guy is also going to look at my front bumper - result! Of course, Bentley car tax will kick in at some point....

[captain_70s]

I can't find many people to work on my rusty Dolomite, probably because they suspect I'll scrutinise the work a bit more than the owner of a 3 year old Astra, what with it being a "cherished classic" and all that! If I was in the trade I'd probably not bother with Bentleys either, why bother when you charge un-caring Astra man the same amount with far less risk of the owner being displeased with the work?

[fordperv]

The thing that pees me off is the fact of ooh it's an expensive/classic car I'm going to charge more, I mean metal is metal so whether it's the wing of a Bentley or the wing of any cheap large car the prices should be pretty much in line, even if you think oh they may charge more because the Bentley owner will be more picky than the owner of a run of the mill motor so they have to do a better job, i say they should be doing the best job they can on everything so the car shouldn't matter

[twosmoke300]

Meanwhile - back in the real world 😄

[trigger]

We went around some friends this evening to see their new baby they had 3 weeks ago, whilst there my mate had just finished feeding her and was winding her when she stopped breathing.

 

 

She locked her body up with her back arched and started turning purple. My wife rang an ambulance for them whilst my mate had her on the floor trying to get her breathing and following the instructions the phone operator was giving him whilst his misses was hysterical and we was trying to calm her down until she fanted. :/

 

It was bloody horrible, after about 5 minutes we had a first response car turn up followed by the ambulance and 5 paramedics in the living room with machines getting her breathing again. Thankfully they managed to pump her with oxygen and her colour started coming back again, after they all rushed off to hospital me and my wife nearly burst into tears with the emotion of it all. It was absolutely terrifying.

 

We've since heard that she's fine now and they think she was choking on milk and wasn't able to clear it herself.

[cort16]

^^horrible. I can't think of much worse.

[Tamworthbay]

At least it's a story that ended well.