FatHarris - tales of a motoring moron ***Full house 1/10***

[AnnoyingPentium]

4 minutes ago, fatharris said:

The green one?

Nah it was a red/maroon one. X-reg.

[Supernaut]

I guess it says more about me than anything else, but these huge shows like Rustival and FOTU that go "lololol OLD CARS AMIRITE" just make me want to cringe my face inside out.

However, I'm now spending my life these days hiding on a farm without talking to anybody for days/weeks at a time. So I'm not speaking from a balanced perspective.

[fatharris]

4 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

I guess it says more about me than anything else, but these huge shows like Rustival and FOTU that go "lololol OLD CARS AMIRITE" just make me want to cringe my face inside out.

However, I'm now spending my life these days hiding on a farm without talking to anybody for days/weeks at a time. So I'm not speaking from a balanced perspective.

You're lucky you edited

[beko1987]

20 hours ago, IronStar said:

Pwoah, what a selection of cars! Looks like great fun being there! When I first saw the date I was a bit* skeptical about having a huge car show in a country renowned for rain this late in the year, but I’m really glad it was a lovely weather. 

Oh, and every time I see your photos, I want to go out and buy an MG/Rover for some reason. If I ever succumb, and we both know it’s a matter of time, I’m telling missus you’re responsible! 😄

I think we had the last nice day of the year. As mildly chilly as it was when the sun went in it was still lovely! 

Raining today, it will be at Gaydon too

[fatharris]

So, morning of Rustival, 0130 alarm, bag kids and wife up into the car, setting off for 0220.

Eldest slept on the way up, the youngest didn't. Got close enough to the venue to have breakfast at 0611. BX ran great the entire time pootling along at 60-70.

Great time was had at the show, although funnily enough, my youngest turned into a bit of an arse bag halfway through the day - still refused to nap though in her continuing acts of defiance.

We filled up at the beginning of the journey, loaded up with meal deals and did the entire drive home without stopping. All was well until we finally turned off the dual carriageway, where the car suddenly ran like shit at anything between light and half throttle, but would pull cleanly on full.

This cleared itself after a couple of miles and several subsequent drives have been trouble free so I'm going to assume that was a random occurrence.

Either way, we got home around 9pm, shattered.

My eldest had been an absolute superstar for the entire day and got to choose a gift from the museum, so he chose this number plate 🤣

Sunday was very much a pyjama day - we popped out for a spot of breakfast, picked up some kindling, lit the fire for the first time in the season, and just relaxed.

Monday however was a different kettle of fish. Did the school run in the Rover, then dropped Herman back off at Phills garage, before heading down to the local BMW to pick up my new ABS relays.

Got a free coffee and tiny biscuits out of the transaction so that was a win!

The relays were fitted the car cleared of codes. The transmission adaptions was set to reset and then....nothing happened about from the spinning circle of doom on the diag tablet.

After 30 minutes, I decided to leave the car plugged in and went for t'big food shop with MrsH as I was concerned with what would happen if I cancelled it halfway through the reset process.

Came back an hour later and still the circle was there, spinning. Elected to attempt to cancel it anyway as there was something not happening.

Thankfully, it didn't seem to have affected anything so I went for a quick test drive to check for absence of ABS Lights. Success! I tried a few ABS stops (all good) and then attempted to trigger the traction control on some wet grass.

This ended up causing a new issue - the traction light stayed on and the ABS light stayed off, even when cycling the ignition.

Sigh. Plug it back in.

There was a code for the throttle damper, which I imagine is tied into the remaining sticky throttle cable I've yet to change. Cleared it and left it with Dan and David to change the idler arm.

This had the desired effect!

So we headed back down to collect Herman with his fresh ticket.

That means that all the vehicles we currently own have a current MOT, a first for our household since 2015!

To celebrate, I SORNed the Beat, taxed the Laguna and Herman, and slapped the hardtop onto the Mazda. I'll use this for one more month before parking it up.

As a side job, I said I'd fix Phill's workshop PC as it was kippered - would power on, but no bios, no display, no beeps, nothing.

The PSU was okay, so that was a start, then I noticed this little doozy on the motherboard.

That was less than ideal, so a replacement motherboard was sourced on eBay for a whopping £18.

Board was swapped over but it still wasn't playing ball.

Eventually found this defective RAM stick.

Removed that, and success!

All booted up fine and windows was working too, so this was dropped back off at Phills when I collected Herman.

And that's me all caught up from a very busy three day weekend.

Here's a Daihatsu that has just cropped up on the school run. Won't be lasting long as it's already looking pretty battered.

Cheers!

[mk2_craig]

6 hours ago, fatharris said:

Daihatsu

That’s done well. My aunt scrappaged an R-reg Charade in that colour for a new i10 back in 2010, and I think that’s now also dead after she belted it off a traffic island last year.