The grumpy thread

[Stinkwheel]

The Maestro is dead.

Bunged in for MOT to see what it might fail on rust wise before doing anymore work. Answer is welding, lots and lots of welding. Mostly in awkward areas and tricky to do without stripping out front end completely, and the misses needs transport, so its dead.

Welsh small roads, salt, various types of animal shit (not shite) and the humid and damp environment here have polished it off. 

Oh well, never mind, next.

[BorniteIdentity]

30 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

The Maestro is dead.

Bunged in for MOT to see what it might fail on rust wise before doing anymore work. Answer is welding, lots and lots of welding. Mostly in awkward areas and tricky to do without stripping out front end completely, and the misses needs transport, so its dead.

Welsh small roads, salt, various types of animal shit (not shite) and the humid and damp environment here have polished it off. 

Oh well, never mind, next.

Get it up on here. All you need is a maestro sympathiser who can weld (ahem @Angrydicky) and it may well live to fight another day.

[Stinkwheel]

2 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Get it up on here. All you need is a maestro sympathiser who can weld (ahem @Angrydicky) and it may well live to fight another day.

Mate, i would, but im a Maestro sympathiser who can weld. And even I dont want to do it 🤣 Its failed 'badly'  on rust. I looked at the bits mentioned, cornflakes city

Seriously though, it will get advertised as being 'Free to any taker' on here for the brave/masochistic on here. Annoying that i took care of the rear suspension now, but thats old cars for you

[Split_Pin]

29 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

rear suspension

@JMotor, could this be a better solution to your Corsa D dampers perhaps? Or other suspensio-parts-finding related headaches that might arise in the future?

[JMotor]

54 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

@JMotor, could this be a better solution to your Corsa D dampers perhaps? Or other suspensio-parts-finding related headaches that might arise in the future?

It was Corsa D bump stops I managed to get cheap. Managed to get Maestro rear dampers, the bump stops had gone all dust on mine.

Would sooo be interested in parts off that thing. Or too tempting to get the whole car if getting it transported wasn't going to be mental money.

[Zelandeth]

Just had to fix a water leak under the bath in the main bathroom.

Another old pipe run that had been capped off rather than removed.  With a plastic push fit cap on a copper pipe.  Which hadn't apparently been fitted properly.

Removed, pipe deburred properly and a proper metal compression fitting blanking cap fitted.  Now I've got to fix the utility room ceiling.  Again.  That's the...fourth, I think...leak I've had under that sodding bath.  I keep thinking I've found and checked everything that could leak, but keep finding more!  Hadn't even seen that pipe existed as it was buried right at the back hidden by building debris (because why would you both removing and disposing of rubble when you can just leave it behind?).

I guess on the plus side this was just a drip.  The last one was a push fit fitting that came off downstream of the pump for the shower, which successfully emptied the entire cold water header tank in the time it took me to get to the isolator - which was probably a couple of minutes at most.

[JMotor]

Sad to hear about the Maestro @Stinkwheel.

But I know where you are coming from too. Had this dilemma with a Vectra B estate I had. Just kept finding more and more rust. Just gave up in the end.