tooSavvy Posted September 30, 2023 Author Posted September 30, 2023 So then..... drilled 12mm x 35mm deep. Drilled at an off angle (to vertical through both 8s) so the 🎱 is more visible when in 5th [stick tilted forwards]. Rammed onto shaft, well tight 😮!! I like the feel, the 'aged ivory' discolouration of the white is very mellow 🙄... 🚙💨 egg, 500tops, privatewire and 1 other 4
tooSavvy Posted October 1, 2023 Author Posted October 1, 2023 Nipped over to Washington to collect these Ferodo pads... the guy selling them was really cool, fellow rwd Skoda enthusiast.... He liked the GM wheels treatment... £5.95 😮 .... 😎 🚙💨 egg, privatewire, 500tops and 1 other 4
tooSavvy Posted October 2, 2023 Author Posted October 2, 2023 Quick glimpse of sun..... ToolsOot 🛠️ Those neat mudflaps are now on, and new blades/Matt paint to smarten up arms 😎 The tyres fitted on these Corsa rims are proud about an inch, at the wing edge/sill. Quite manageable but obviously lashing $hite up the wing/door shut area 😕 ... Sorted! 🥳 AnnoyingPentium, RayMK and privatewire 3
tooSavvy Posted October 3, 2023 Author Posted October 3, 2023 😳 ..... these numbers just 'creep up' on you 😯
tooSavvy Posted October 3, 2023 Author Posted October 3, 2023 At 71,000 we will be doing the oil n filter.... ..... that's including postage! Less than, with petrol, driving to our local ECP 🚙💨 egg and AnnoyingPentium 2
egg Posted October 4, 2023 Posted October 4, 2023 I use exact same oil in i10, but I went all 'spendy' on a £9 OEM filter. tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted October 5, 2023 Author Posted October 5, 2023 Been racking up those miles..... need oil soon! privatewire and egg 2
tooSavvy Posted October 6, 2023 Author Posted October 6, 2023 Filter arrived with postie, oil due from Evri.. 🚙💨 egg 1
tooSavvy Posted October 6, 2023 Author Posted October 6, 2023 SWMBO lashes her handbag onto the dash... the metal studs sound like dragging an empty oil drum 🙉🤦 Bought a silicone sink drainer mat 👌 ..... if the light grey becomes noticeable, as a screen reflection, I'll crayon it over with black felt marker 🖍️ privatewire and egg 2
tooSavvy Posted October 6, 2023 Author Posted October 6, 2023 Top is an early Getz... Lower, mine.... Ba$tard 'bean counters' 🤬 egg and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted October 8, 2023 Author Posted October 8, 2023 Well Well Well..... ...... never knew about that 😯 beko1987, egg, privatewire and 1 other 2 2
tooSavvy Posted October 9, 2023 Author Posted October 9, 2023 I have just updated my app, for the boroscope/phone camera. Planning a trip into 'the dark, dark world' of box sections [sill ends]..... I will take a few snaps 😮 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted October 9, 2023 Author Posted October 9, 2023 What a beautiful day, today! 😁 ..... along the Tyne, to Hexham, over the tops through Carrshield, past Killhope Wheel, down to Stanhope, up Crawleyside, through Consett, and home along the Seaton Sluice coast road... GR9 🚙💨 RayMK, loserone, 500tops and 2 others 5
tooSavvy Posted October 14, 2023 Author Posted October 14, 2023 On 08/09/2023 at 10:11, tooSavvy said: So ... Results *partially, are in 😐 18.2 cold water tap running 24.2 ambient (see thermo display) 48.0 hot full cup, direct from kettle boil 85.0 immersed in hot, direct from kettle boil The area I'm most concerned about is the ability of the sensor to 'sense/register' a high temp (water) through a vessel wall (cup) 😕 I don't know how to discover the 'sensor spec' but they can be got as a 'washer tab' style - to bolt flat faced onto the 'hot' part... I may just buy one and run an identical set of tests 😉 *Power courtesy of SKY 12V router supply. ...... This, for instance, has the sensor in a splodge of resin (not a metal tube!) Further to the arrival of my 'resin tip' sensor... Tests are looking good.... 👍 A quick dip in water poured directly from a boiling kettle, into the test vessel [ally milk pan].... Display = 99° When the tip is taped to the bottom of the ally milk pan & kettle boiling water added = 89° ..... Hmm 🙄 I believe there is no problem with any of this BUT the tip will only accurately display engine/water temp if it is IMMERSED... Next best test (on the car) will be with a copper jacket over the sensor + computer chip grease. egg and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted October 15, 2023 Author Posted October 15, 2023 Totally grr🤬🤬.... Just done oil change and filter WILL NOT budge 🛠️🙀 I shall go again (ran out of time before needing to go out...) with some grit paper folded inside my webbing strap wrench, for EXXTRA grippz 🤦 privatewire and egg 2
tooSavvy Posted October 15, 2023 Author Posted October 15, 2023 OTOH..... having not 'actually' been UNDER at all >> we have a Full Ex inc. CAT [last but one MOT 🤔]. The clutch slave/pipework is mint... still that treacly lacquer brown on the steel pipe & all anodised fittings still shiny with the red and yellow spots of paint that get put on along the production line 😁. The fog/low lights are minty = no crud/mud and the clippy slide on/off electrical plugs are as new 😁😁. No gearbox leaks/driveshafts boots ok. The *easy access to that 🤬🤬 Oil Filter has been facilitated with the 'SavvLighteningProgram'™ aka 'ragg a slot with a pad saw and remove square of tray under filter 👌' ..... Sorted!! 🚙💨 privatewire and egg 2
tooSavvy Posted October 16, 2023 Author Posted October 16, 2023 FFF... FFF... SSS 🤬🤬🤬 Nope... Still won't budge Think I'll take it up to the garage (who did the belt + oil) and ask them to swap it over.... However, if 'Garth' gets the job again I may be in a loop 🤦 🛠️🙄 privatewire and egg 2
tooSavvy Posted October 16, 2023 Author Posted October 16, 2023 Might this be a worthy adversary...... 🤔 .... No! I have folded my hand 😕 My matey garage mechanic will put me on his ramp [07:30 Wed] and 'get manly' with his array of Brutish weaponry... He agreed with me that a Total Commitment Moment (... for me, alone in a back lane!) would have been whacking a screwdriver through it = if it STILL wouldn't budge I'd be F#CKED 🙀 Ahh..... Johnny NoMates, that's me 🙃 🚙💨 privatewire and egg 2
tooSavvy Posted October 16, 2023 Author Posted October 16, 2023 3 hours ago, loserone said: Driving past mine again I see Savvy! privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted October 17, 2023 Author Posted October 17, 2023 Anyone EVER seen one of these.... thort not! .... anyone spotted two of these, recently 🤔 .... anyone have, perchance, a hacksaw 😎🤦 🚙💨 privatewire and loserone 1 1
tooSavvy Posted October 18, 2023 Author Posted October 18, 2023 Just back from garage..... This got it straight off.... I looked such a 'girls blouse' 🤦 ..... Buying one of these !!! 🚙💨 egg, privatewire and 500tops 3
tooSavvy Posted October 18, 2023 Author Posted October 18, 2023 ...... just popped back to my mechanic, with a small token of my appreciation 👌☕ He was well chuffed (... having just boiled the kettle!) 🚙💨 egg, privatewire, 500tops and 1 other 4
beko1987 Posted October 19, 2023 Posted October 19, 2023 Just make sure the new filter is done up by hand and youll need no tools. I felt very smug loosening my filter by hand before going under and getting oily hands when dropping the oil. It's the future! My chain strap almost struggled on a friend's Vauxhall though, if we do it again next year it should be easier! tooSavvy and privatewire 1 1
tooSavvy Posted October 21, 2023 Author Posted October 21, 2023 My 'filter wrench' plopped thru the letterbox yesterday... And I just received confirmation the TWO Peugeot roof bars are coming up by courier.... WooT..WooT 🥳 500tops and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted October 24, 2023 Author Posted October 24, 2023 Arghhhhhh...... Roof Bars 'have landed' 😯 .... err, scale is 'relative' in any photo.... I had no means if anticipating the ACTUAL *omg of these things 🤦 *think 'undercarriage strut DC-3'...... They really need to be mocked up onto the roof..... for a 'reality check' 🙈🙉🙊 🚙💨 egg and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted October 26, 2023 Author Posted October 26, 2023 Some 'preliminary strategy' has been given consideration, I have a mind to truncate the rear rail foot.... ..... as shown 🤔 Both ends are cast alloy, hollow but have webs for the retaining bolts. My plans envisage an alloy plate fixed/screwed to the underside of each foot + 3M super stikkie tape [the plate will be marginally wider than the actual foot profile, so as to maximise sticking effect] The tubes are removable, either end, and will need some shortening!! Gloss black 😯 privatewire 1
wuvvum Posted October 27, 2023 Posted October 27, 2023 You don't make life easy for yourself, do you? 😂 tooSavvy and egg 2
loserone Posted October 27, 2023 Posted October 27, 2023 Could you not get away with just shortening the tubes? tooSavvy and privatewire 1 1
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now