tooSavvy Posted November 8 Author Posted November 8 Finis..... Dbbl sided tape under + gorilla. R.A.F. lol 🚙💨 auntiemaryscanary, privatewire and Jim Bell 3
tooSavvy Posted November 8 Author Posted November 8 I have my £20 Halfrauds E-voucher 🎈 Thinking oil filter(s) 🤔 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted November 10 Author Posted November 10 Whilst idly thumbing thru Utoobs, about ICE combos in Astra..... I happened upon a chance reference to my CD30 MP3 sound system and it having AUX-in 😯 Seems there was a little port by the cupholder, behind the handbrake 🙄 The FM sound widget is working great but sometimes gets swamped by (I imagine, another in some nearby car...) not really a problem BUT I'm resolved to try a cable AUX connection ✔️ Fleebay provided a bit of junk [+ AUX out] & a 90° fly lead.... Change out of £12! .... Give it a GO 👀 🚙💨 privatewire, AnnoyingPentium and Jim Bell 3
tooSavvy Posted November 12 Author Posted November 12 @Minimad5.. re: Vectra. My AVAS is (blissfully) silent on fire up..... Are VVT solenoids &/or cleaning $hite out of them something to consider...medium term 🤔 I'm on 68k and the car is now on a 6k oil regime. Are they 'consumables' or best left? 👀 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted November 14 Author Posted November 14 Now on AUX....✔️ Super Sound = no fuzzy/fadeout 🚙💨 privatewire, Pat Earrings and Marshall2810 2 1
IronStar Posted November 14 Posted November 14 Does your stereo support CD changer? If yes, you could wire BT to CD changer inputs. tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted November 14 Author Posted November 14 @IronStar.. Cheers for that. Actually, I'm confident the 'sweet spot' has been achieved here 😉 My 'stick player' has Random Play, which is a neat feature, and I have a hefty MP3 catalogue, parked on my caddy.... It will take some while to roll them all out 🎶 🚙💨 privatewire 1
Popsicle Posted November 14 Posted November 14 Appreciate you're happy with the set up @tooSavvy, for future reference some Vauxhalls this age have a cable under the trim by the gearstick that is for an aux in plug. If you have it it needs enabling with tech2 and a jack plug socket fitting. I had one on my similar aged Zafira, I think the forums reckoned they were fitted 2007 onwards. tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted November 14 Author Posted November 14 6 minutes ago, Popsicle said: Appreciate you're happy with the set up @tooSavvy, for future reference some Vauxhalls this age have a cable under the trim by the gearstick that is for an aux in plug. If you have it it needs enabling with tech2 and a jack plug socket fitting. I had one on my similar aged Zafira, I think the forums reckoned they were fitted 2007 onwards. @Popsicle.. Yupp 👍. It is the full fat Vx 'AUX' CD30 Mp3 radio setup. GR9.... 🚙💨 privatewire and Popsicle 2
tooSavvy Posted November 15 Author Posted November 15 Popped into Halfrauds @Cramlington and spaffed my "£20 E-voucher". No probs at the till ✔️😉 Filter ✔️.. ATF✔️.. and 2x Zip ties to make up the value. Sweet 😎 🚙💨 privatewire, Popsicle and RayMK 3
tooSavvy Posted November 17 Author Posted November 17 My 'divorce' is proceeding, with strategic foreplanning.... That 10mm heating pipe is blobb-on for connecting the tranny hoses to cooler 👍 I dip the auto level, from time to time, [no movement] and NO MAYYO 😁 .... however it isn't blood pinkie, over time, and now more brown tintish 😯 Strategy [after the divorce] will be 3x box drain down - getting as much churned/diluted over time. 10mm hex key, for the drain plug. 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted November 19 Author Posted November 19 My mechanic has me booked in @07:30 Wed, next week. "You KNOW all this is going to be straightforward?... !" I need to modd a cola bottle, with a plastic pipe/spout in cap, so we can cut it into a funnel & dribble ATF down the Dipstick tube for that lost... He's brimming with confidence 🤣 🚙💨 privatewire and Cookiesouwest 2
tooSavvy Posted November 19 Author Posted November 19 AVAS.... the *S keeps giving 😵 Come the Frosts... Comes the Screen Muck... Being a conscientious citizen I endeavour to check my Screen bottle is topped up 👍 I scored 'maximum points' for Hidden in Plain Sight idiocy >>> looking for the Screen wash filler 🤔.... Yes >> not in engine bay BUT in the Slam Panel by the latch 🙄 Goody 💦♥️ 🚙💨 privatewire and Matty 2
tooSavvy Posted November 25 Author Posted November 25 Swift* observation.... I did the 'need to nip swiftish down this outer lane to slot in for the racetrack, round the tunnel roundyboot'.... 😲🚀 FUCK I'm really glad I potter @55 in NSL. I keep my toe in & feel the years fall away 😁 🚙💨 privatewire, Cookiesouwest and Dave_Q 3
tooSavvy Posted November 25 Author Posted November 25 ..... There is a debate running about E- handbrakes.... I was interested in the automatic application, when stopping and opening the door 👀 Hearing many MOT stories of people failing, in Autos, because they use Park and never bother with the H.Brake 😮... Just to say I'm a 'solid cranker' ON, when parking up AVAS... In the morning when I drop the brake, pulling away from our kerb, I get the clonk of the pad release 😁 My MOT, due in Jan, will be in December but it looks like we will cruise that 😉 🚙💨 privatewire and Dave_Q 2
tooSavvy Posted November 26 Author Posted November 26 WebbieLore*assures us that cutting the trannie hoses will cause 'minimal leakage'... Ah, aye 🙄 ..... I have two mastic sealant nozzles [unused] and have blanked the tips... these will be available to stuff into the cut hoses should *suspicions be confirmed. Also another, larger nozzle for ATF filling down dipstick tube... 😉 🚙💨 privatewire and Matty 2
tooSavvy Posted November 26 Author Posted November 26 All my 'just in case he hasn't one/it's broken m8'..tools for the morning. Also gifting him my Getz [suitable...] OF, no longer required 👍 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted November 27 Author Posted November 27 JOB DONE ✔️👍 *hardly a drop dripped!! 😁 Arrived 07:30... Out 08:00 🚀 10mm c/h pipe slotted straight into 3/8" GM hose + hose clips. Banjo terminals/cooler/radiator fittings cut off & crushed + refitted (in case rad does leak in future) to seal heat exchanger 👍 Astra J style tranny cooler peeking through lower grille.... Ideal 😎 My mechanic is a top bomber and took my instructions to fit exactly as predicted.... Well chuffed, all round! 🚙💨 privatewire, jonathan_dyane, auntiemaryscanary and 4 others 7
tooSavvy Posted November 27 Author Posted November 27 #brief technical note# ABSOLUTELY a job for 'the lift' 😮 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted November 27 Author Posted November 27 ..... I know folks on here - equipped with Boulder Bolloks - who have conquered 'teh Fearz', driving stuff with truly £££ borkage potential [looking at you LR!] I may be overthinking the AVAS borkage around 'water in auto tranny'.... But I'm REALLY pleased this is sorted 🎉🎈 🚙💨 jonathan_dyane and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted November 28 Author Posted November 28 Anyone have an opinion, re: copper pipe? Will it fizzle away... Needs a splash of something over it... Inert 🤔 🚙💨
Jazoli Posted November 28 Posted November 28 28 minutes ago, tooSavvy said: Anyone have an opinion, re: copper pipe? Will it fizzle away... Needs a splash of something over it... Inert 🤔 🚙💨 A coat of bilt hamber will protect it, or anything really, brake lines are copper and last a long time so I’d not worry too much about it tbh. tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted November 28 Author Posted November 28 38 minutes ago, Jazoli said: A coat of bilt hamber will protect it, or anything really, brake lines are copper and last a long time so I’d not worry too much about it tbh. Yes.... Brake pipes!! You can get 10mil plastic [white] coated c/h copper pipe too 👀 Fit n Forget 😉 🚙💨
Lord Sterling Posted November 29 Posted November 29 Looks like the Astra is getting along ♥️🎱 🚙💨 tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted December 2 Author Posted December 2 Oops 😮 Big Number.... ....... then, later, we find 😕 Fortunately, I had procured a pair some while ago 👍 We Will See *perhaps betterer 🤔 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted December 2 Author Posted December 2 Further to my travails (over on COMPUTERSHITE!).... This ThinkPad 'eats CDs like pretzels' when burning MP3, for the player in AVAS 🔥🚀 Happy, happy man 🎉 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted December 2 Author Posted December 2 MOT @03 Jan 2025..... Will get a time off my Parkside guys later this week 👍 *do headlamps 1st 🤣 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted December 3 Author Posted December 3 A.B.S.O.L.U.T.E B.A.$.T.A.R.D Don't even think about it!! *headlights done 🤬🤬 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted December 3 Author Posted December 3 Oh.... You wanna know, eh 😐 One.. It's a tiny access hatch [big hands] Two.. The bulb holder cables [... on this car] aren't long enough to remove the holder out of the access hatch 🤬 Three.. The bulb holder 'poinggs' OUT easy enough >>> the 🤬🤬 won't 'oinkk' back in! The clip in wings, on the tin holder, locate behind the head of a screw (wedging under half the head) but seems to have a smidge of up-kink to ensure firm [...no laughing] grip 🤬 The first was a FKK ON @ 15 mins ✔️ The next was a 45 minute tirade of all the gods known oaths + almost an ambulance called for my wrist 😮 The 'tin wing' would ABSOLUTELY not go under that screw head.... Lateral thinking proposed loosening screw a smidge (star head) or needle nose pliers to crush the wing in!!! * This is managed through a small hole in arch liner * 🤬🤬 Pliers it was.... Sorted 😉 Piccies... ?? 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted December 4 Author Posted December 4 MOT booked in for 2pm, Mon 9th Dec ✔️ No Worries 😶🌫️ 🚙💨
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