Grumblespeed - Swedish reliability! aye right.

[Grumblespeed]

Other car movement yesterday, Grumbleweed out in daylight for the first time in a few years, looking pretty sorry for himself.

And ready to hit the road

And safely stashed away at the other end, lovely garage this time

Maybe he'll get some attention this time.

[wesacosa]

looks like a nice garage to be doing some work. 

[Grumblespeed]

16 hours ago, Grumblespeed said:

 At least @Ohdearmehas a spare hub to put a fresh bearing in off the car. 

To borrow a phrase... @Ohdearme🥴

Just clearing the garage, that got chucked back in yesterday when the guy came to uplift the Panda when I was just finishing up the Sei.

Sorry @Ohdearme

[Ohdearme]

22 minutes ago, Grumblespeed said:

To borrow a phrase... @Ohdearme🥴

Just clearing the garage, that got chucked back in yesterday when the guy came to uplift the Panda when I was just finishing up the Sei.

Sorry @Ohdearme

haha!

Don't worry - I toyed with playing around today but have only got as far as insuring it and shuffling cars on the drive.

 

[Grumblespeed]

Well, done a thing on a car so maybe I'll post for a change. Getting to car stuff weather time of year again.

As per usual the reason I've tackled a car job is not because I've been caught up with enthusiasm to fix any of the niggles on any of mine, it's because the wife's did a  FTP (well, only P on 3 cylinders with a dash full of errors anyway) The stupid C30 which kept breaking has now been replaced by a diesel V50 because she liked the last one so much - which keeps breaking. Having bought it in December it smashed a rear top mount on the way home, then went in for a timing belt and needed a new fuel pipe from tank to engine bay, and meanwhile has always had an odd miss under load. So Friday said miss developed into an "anti skid error" on the dash along with an "engine service" error and limp home mode. Hooked up the code reader and it was giving an error for the injector on cylinder 2. Symptoms all fitted so ordered it up and had a go today:

The offending vehicle pulled up under the garage door to get some shelter from the inevitable rain.

After much swearing and despairing finally managed to figure out a way to get something under the stupid injector and get a big bar on to get it out the head:

and excellent, new one was right and went back in without too much more hassle.

Code cancelled, run round the block and all seems to be running right and no sign of any leaks so time will tell whether it actually must go to a dealer for coding and calibration as per the dire warnings on the internet😠... or not, also as per the considered information on said internet. Gotta love google.

 

Meanwhile, Rover's due an MOT this month and still haven't done the CV boots yet, and the Newfangled Panda is starting to feel like the Clutch master cylinder is going to need doing soonish. Hope the better weather starts to get a hold soon.

Oh and the C30 the wife replaced with this V50 is still sitting on the drive as she declined the dealer's £500 trade in as it was "definitely worth more than that" as  it only needed a new front lower arm to stop it knocking and it would be a great little car. Front lower arm duly replaced it didn't cure the knocking and now it has a distinctly rumbly probably DMF on the way out noise to accompany the cacophony of road knocks, and an alternator that now sounds like someone has fitted an over ambitious supercharger. Definitely no reason or motivation to tackle any of those things so anyone need a broken C30 for considerably less that the £500 she turned down dammit! Will get round to putting it in the classifieds at some point before we scrap it but not overly hopeful.