Citroen C15 and Visa Appreciation Society Jottings

[doug]

4 hours ago, 500tops said:

Massive want! No online MoT history recorded!£600

 

https://ebay.us/m/rcVeGM

 

This was on my watch list as well. The seller is accepting offers.  

[lesapandre]

Couple papped in markets in France - straight out of a French movie 🎥 

[lesapandre]

French scrapyard ad...

[lesapandre]

Visa GT. A GT van would be fun...

[500tops]

Just now, lesapandre said:

French scrapyard ad...

I bet @doug wished he paid £107 for that 😂

[lesapandre]

15 hours ago, doug said:

This was on my watch list as well. The seller is accepting offers.  

At least it's parked on a hard standing in the open which will have helped a bit to keep the dampness down. May not be too rotten.*

*opinions may vary.

[doug]

Any use to anyone? FOC

[Mrs6C]

3 hours ago, doug said:

Any use to anyone? FOC

Yes please! Will send a PM...

[doug]

Sloooowly getting there with the C15. I have ordered another bonnet. Just waiting on it coming from God knows where. I though it was a UK breaker but the order confirmation came though in Spanish/Portuguese. So nothing to loose i attempted to weld the old one up. It turned out sort of presentable. 

A little problem had appeared in that the front wheels are hard to rotate. The brake discs and calipers are removed so it's not the brakes. It goes into gear and neutral fine and drives back and forth fine. I haven't gone further than 10 feet driving it. So hoping it's just needing a longer run to free the gearbox/diff up. 

[Mrs6C]

5 hours ago, doug said:

Sloooowly getting there with the C15.

That is starting to look very smart!

[500tops]

Spotted this at the top of Haldon Hill, Exeter earlier.  He peeled off down. The back way towards Kenford so I gave chase!

 

So good to see one in the wild!

[Sunny Jim]

MOT booked for this coming Tuesday so today I set about trying to work out why I'd lost full beam although my side lights and dipped still worked ok.

As both headlights were affected the switch seemed like a good place to start. After confirming it was getting a 12v feed from the plug I checked for continuity through the switch in its various different positions and didn't find anything amiss.

I then removed the plug from the back of the O/S bulb holder and after sussing out that blue was earth checked for voltage on both the other terminals with the switch set for both dipped and full beam.

Properly confused by this as I was getting near as damn it 12v from the appropriate terminal with the switch in the appropriate position for dipped and full but no full beam when I connected a bulb. Eventually I figured that as the O/S is fed off the N/S perhaps I should check what was occurring there.

11.2v on dipped (note O/S bulb lit) 

but 0.0v on full beam - confirmed by O/S bulb not being lit. So I'd found the problem but was still no wiser as to the cause. I guessed it couldn't be an earthing problem as dipped and full share a common earth and dipped was unaffected.

Figuring I had nothing to lose I traced as much of the wiring as I could and undid any connectors I came across, scraped any crud off contacts and doused everything in contact cleaner. The threatened rain then started so I quickly shoved everything back together and

full beam is back! If I'd been a bit more systematic testing after each connector I cleaned I probably could have pin pointed the problem mais ça marche, alors tant pis!

Needs a good wash and I might bleed the brakes tomorrow if I can get someone to give me a hand and then fingers crossed I'll be as MOT ready as I'm ever likely to be.

[dean36014]

It might be something to do with the finest quality Chinese headlight relay kit that I fitted. The identical kit I fitted to the bx lasted one month before failing, so that one is doing well.

[Sunny Jim]

2 hours ago, dean36014 said:

It might be something to do with the finest quality Chinese headlight relay kit that I fitted.

Thanks Dean, you were right. Not the best pic but the circled connector is slightly deformed/melted and is the one for full beam so has been running hot/high resistance and some point.

Yesterday's clean up has restored full beam for now and will hopefully last for the MOT on Tuesday but I'd better replace it sooner rather than later so I don't get stranded without headlights.

 

[Sunny Jim]

A couple of Halfords finest relays have been procured and shoved in the dash alongside spare leak off pipe and supplementary air conditioning.

As the lights are currently working I thought why poke the beast? If the beast subsequently dies it can be summarily replaced.

[500tops]