The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

  On 02/03/2019 at 17:49, Lacquer Peel said:

Is there any way to unstick the turbo? I assume it's the vanes that are stuck, bung a load of Mr. Muscle down there.

More likely fooked bearings? Ran too hot then seize nicely when the engine is next stopped. No idea what turbo is on those so don’t know if they are prone to that or not.

[Cavcraft]

  On 02/03/2019 at 17:34, dean36014 said:

Found out why the newly purchased C4 is so slow, the turbo is seized. It's just not worth lashing out on a new core and associated pipe work as there are so many other faults on it. Can't get a quote on cartakeback as it's already registered on there! Looks like I'm going to have to take the hit on this one and buy something else. Kinda of wished I'd kept the C2 now.

 

1.6HDi, by any chance?

[sierraman]

No shit Sherlock!

[dean36014]

Yep 1.6hdi, I just wasn't expecting it to be seized and still driving! I think the bridge is beckoning once I find another cheap motor as a daily

[SiC]

At least it's seized and not pissing oil out causing a runaway. That still may happen though...

[ruffgeezer]

  On 02/03/2019 at 18:51, dean36014 said:

Yep 1.6hdi, I just wasn't expecting it to be seized and still driving! I think the bridge is beckoning once I find another cheap motor as a daily

We will have a Vectra Cdti for sale soon.

 

Edit; and we'd give you a trade in on a shit c4 too.

[Fumbler]

Range Rover is beginning to lean. Oh boy.

[The Moog]

  On 02/03/2019 at 20:35, Fumbler said:

Range Rover is beginning to lean. Oh boy.

If you need P38 bits tap up njgleeds .... He has got a few!

[Fumbler]

Already have!

 

 

 

1 Window regulator, please.

 

That'll be all.... for now!

[Squire_Dawson]

  On 02/03/2019 at 18:04, captain_cal said:

Peeled a large chunk of my big toenail back at the gym this morning. Only realised when the blood began to seep through my shoe and when I investigated half of the nail was standing bolt upright. Throb throb throb.

 

I always knew exercise is bad for you.

[Aston Martin]

The mk1 Vectra had interesting wing mirrors... And with that, the most depressing thing I've ever typed, I shall now end it all.

 

...

 

Knowing Vauxhall it probably made the aerodynamics worse as they dropped them for the mk2.

[sierraman]

The dodgy garage near me had a Focus 1.6 ‘non turbo’ for sale, so presumably they’d took a bollocksed turbo off it and ran it without. Don’t off hand know how you’d do this but you could take the turbo gubbins out and run it without. It’ll be slow as shit mind.

[andy18s]

I once bought a Mondeo 1.8td with all the wastegate parts removed for "increased fuel economy "....

[HillmanImp]

Bollocks if I'm reattaching that in this weather, I'm using the Visa

 

[HillmanImp]

  On 03/03/2019 at 17:29, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Please tell us the Visa did the same but with the other wiper.

 

Without wanting to tempt fate, the Visa is working superbly.

[MikeR]

those grim reaper chilli sausages from Aldi .....

 

I think I have damaged my internals ....and I must be missing a rear seal

[beko1987]

I had a spicy chicken wrap from McDonald's on the way home last night. I'm good with spicy food, and usually the words spicy and McDonald's mean nothing...

 

Oh it was hot! Aritifial hot, made purely to just burn, no flavour or slow heat. Had to bin most of it, I just couldn't do it.

 

I'm just glad it was a chaser to a big mac bacon meal or if have been really angry!

 

Not been a good weekend this one, and that didn't help

[cobblers]

Yeah, I can handle a proper curry with the best of them, but those fiery wraps from macdonalds are deadly,

[Tamworthbay]

Macdonald’s food is shit, who would have thought it?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I live in a new build estate where each house has at least one off-road parking space.  Some have two.  Mine officially has two but I can get three cars on my drive when visitors come by.

 

Why the fuck then, do I have to do a slalom down the road every fucking morning?  Why the fuck can't the twats down the road actually use their assigned parking spaces and driveways?

 

One day one of them will need an ambulance.  On that day, I might remind them that emergency access is a priority.  Not storing a fucking mattress in your car barn.

[Sheefag]

  On 03/03/2019 at 19:04, MikeR said:

those grim reaper chilli sausages from Aldi .....

 

I think I have damaged my internals ....and I must be missing a rear seal

 

You know you're supposed to eat them and not...  Never mind.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The speed with which a five-day holiday* passes. I blinked and it was all over.

The thought of going back to the orifice tomorrow.... 

[hairnet]

Bastard

[bub2006]

Wheres that ?

[beko1987]

I know wagons in l2. Boils my piss too

[myglaren]

  On 04/03/2019 at 00:11, hairnet said:

Bastard

Just started here too.  Had a callout

[Eddie Honda]

  On 04/03/2019 at 01:01, beko1987 said:

I know wagons in l2. Boils my piss too

They're in L1, tis Ireland and there isn't much motorway with more than that.

[PhilA]

  On 03/03/2019 at 22:24, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I live in a new build estate where each house has at least one off-road parking space.  Some have two.  Mine officially has two but I can get three cars on my drive when visitors come by.

 

Why the fuck then, do I have to do a slalom down the road every fucking morning?  Why the fuck can't the twats down the road actually use their assigned parking spaces and driveways?

 

One day one of them will need an ambulance.  On that day, I might remind them that emergency access is a priority.  Not storing a fucking mattress in your car barn.

Roll the clock back to about 1989. Our street was much the same. Empty driveways, cars parked all up along the street (which is wide enough for 2.5 cars).

 

Late one evening my neighbor arrived home in his rather beaten up Toyota.

Via most of the cars on the street. A pint or three too many of scrumpy saw a smattering of scratches, a few missing wing mirrors.

 

Thereafter, the road was surprisingly devoid of cars...

 

 

All I can say is they were lucky it was the Toyota, not his usual steed, a battered JCB.

 

Phil

[Ghosty]

My road's also becoming a slalom, I sympathise. Nobody can see further than the pavement outside their own house, and most of them don't realise you can fit a car in a garage, it's just a waste of space. We keep three cars in the space most of these families keep one or two... it's daft. As a result there are cars constantly parked on the pavement...

[Mrcento]

Finally found a car i'm interested in, in budget....

 

I always do my due diligence on a car, rake through all the available info and see what tallies up and what doesn't.....

 

This is fine........

 

 

The 346,777 one isn't really a concern on its own, that "could" be an error at the MOT station entering it, although quite how they managed that, i don't know, it's not like hitting the key next to the right number or getting the point in the wrong place!, but equally i don't think it's entirely plausible it did near 300,000 miles in one year.... Perhaps some kind of mileage readout failure?

 

The bigger concern for me is the next one, 63,984, almost exactly 10k less than it read 2 years previous... i'm assuming either the dial pack has been changed or engine replaced and mileage reset to replacements (alleged) mileage.

 

Regardless, that car hasn't done the 171,000 it's being sold as. Even assuming a dial fuck up, there's 2 relatively undocumented years where the next ones were doing 15-20k a year, In fact, the year after that, the mileage almost doubled from 63k to 118k (maybe been mileage corrected after dial replacement?) so a guestimate would be that it's done at least 35k more than read, maybe more if you include that -10k or if the 55k plus a year after wasn't a one off..... and that's assuming it didn't drive around the world 10+ times that one year... if it did it could be knocking on for 500k miles! (but it isn't, and condition seems to confirm that, gut feeling is that it's 200k miles).

 

Regardless, too many alarm bells in my head, the search continues.