tooSavvy Posted January 11 Author Posted January 11 My Oily Spanner guy has me on his lift @07:00 Wed. He weilds the spanners and I make tea 👍😁 🚙💨 Jim Bell and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted January 13 Author Posted January 13 ..... the groaning from the n/s/F disc has deteriorated to the extent slow stopping sounds like a filing cabinet being dragged across a concrete floor 😮😕. This has come on in only a few days, but before I could get booked in @07:00 Wed 🙄. I'm not driving today or Tues.... The OUTSIDE pad has meat >> likely 'classic' siezed sliders = inner pad (on the piston) gets all the wear 👀 AVAS.... huh 😐 🚙💨 Jim Bell 1
tooSavvy Posted January 15 Author Posted January 15 Brake pads were @5MM.... OK so deffo shot 👍.... However, the n/s inner was AS SUSPECTED polished to the metal 😮 My 'el cheappo' discs proved troublesome.. The bell I.D. is 137mm , Astra H is 139mm 🙄 I did know this but was unaware that it is a machined fit onto the hub (not a nominal/clearance) so they won't go on [ATM!] Original discs will chugg on for many a mile yet so I'll cross this bridge when we arrive.... in a few #000 miles 😉 £30.... and I always give him some biscuits 😁 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted January 15 Author Posted January 15 .... Don't we *love "since you touched it, it has started doing..." 🙄 Jumped in the car to go out for lunch >> door open light >> check all doors/hatch/BONNET >>> light still ON. BONNET was opened to take brake fluid cap off 🤔 .... Drove to pub, with light ON.... Opened and closed all doors/hatch >> still ON.... Open and SLAMMED bonnet TWICE!! Light 'out' ..... Cannot arm plipplock if door ajar. FFS 👍 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted January 15 Author Posted January 15 V2.0 #door open 😕 Light on again when we left the pub.... Went back home, via Tesco, and dropped round to pay my oily spanner = £30+biscuits! I commented [not complaining....] about the turn of events, since being in his lockup. He shot out to the car, opened the hatch >> poked his finger hard into the latch slot, wiggled about a bit then slammed it down. Light Out 🎉 His expert opinion (Astra is his bread n butter) is to keep the micro switch arm lashed up with silicone spray. Known to be troublesome 🤔 He's a Keeper 😉 🚙💨 privatewire, Jim Bell, AnnoyingPentium and 1 other 4
tooSavvy Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 🙄.... IIRC someone reckoned the cheappo H7 bulbs would go pop... soon. ..... Here we have my *soon to be fitted replacements 🤬 🚙💨 Jim Bell and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 Bulbs here!! Rather than run about with just one lamp on >> I have switched on sidelights + FOGS ✔️ *look like DRL, but at least a PAIR! not as likely to get a tug off plod 🙄 Fitting ASAP 🚀👀 🚙💨 privatewire, Marshall2810 and Jim Bell 3
tooSavvy Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 73,000 oil change..... Too damn cold!! Kev is doing it @ 07:00 Thurs. [All parts supplied] & also swapping my duff dipped bulbs 👍😉 🚙💨 privatewire, Jim Bell and auntiemaryscanary 3
tooSavvy Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 Just dragging on my kit..... 06:25 Bloody antisocial 😐 ..... BUT 🔧cheepz 🎉🤣 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 So very relaxing...... Watching a guy do an oil change with the car @chest height 👀 ..... And headlights at the same time 💡 The years I've spent lying on my back/oil running up my arm.... *this is the future 🤣🤣 = £30 🚙💨 loserone, auntiemaryscanary and privatewire 2 1
loserone Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Don't need that adblue can anymore then now you're paying folk to do it tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 7 minutes ago, loserone said: Don't need that adblue can anymore then now you're paying folk to do it Woahhh..... When it's a midsummer day, 70° and dry 👍 £30 buys a LOT of oil 😉 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 12 minutes ago, loserone said: About three litres of the stuff! 🚙💨 loserone and privatewire 1 1
loserone Posted January 23 Posted January 23 Ooooh my next oil change will be out of warranty, so I can just use any old RN17. What a saver! tooSavvy 1
Lord Sterling Posted January 23 Posted January 23 On 17/01/2025 at 16:39, tooSavvy said: 🙄.... IIRC someone reckoned the cheappo H7 bulbs would go pop... soon. ..... Here we have my *soon to be fitted replacements 🤬 🚙💨 Can I ask how these are? I made the mistake and bought some cheapo chineseum blue bulbs and am yet to fit them as the original ones seem OK. I bought them because occasuonally, some tossers would flash thier lights at me as if mine were on high-beam. I looked at them and they're fine so I think I'll leave them as they are. 💡 🚗 🌃 tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 Kev dropped the oil + swapped the bulbs.... As one had failed it really needed attention. .... So far So good 💡👀 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted February 1 Author Posted February 1 Such a bootiful day.... Quick hop to Carlisle for lunch.... So 'whooshhh' 😉 🚙💨 auntiemaryscanary 1
tooSavvy Posted February 1 Author Posted February 1 ..... came back home Via Penrith/Hartside (snow in the nooks!) 2.5°C on the dash. As today is our 6 month anniversary (1st Aug - 1st Feb) a quick check has 13,100 miles done!! Effortless + Storming..... It's been a blast!🚀 Summer's *just round the corner 😁 *unfortunately a pheasant, having been thwacked by a car 'just round the corner', was looking rather traumatized - as I too came round the corner, the other way - 👀 Put him out of his misery, to be honest 😕 🚙💨 AnnoyingPentium, Marshall2810, Jim Bell and 2 others 5
tooSavvy Posted February 3 Author Posted February 3 Since purchasing AVAS (... and doing 13k) I have had a feint 'washing machine rumble' up from the F/n/s 👀 A bearing has been done in the past [Dec 2021] but may have been 'cheese grade' 😮 I just popped for this..... ...... when my new (*to fit...) discs go on I shall have Kev wizz this on. Everyone reckon a Kwalitee made item 🤔 🚙💨 Jim Bell and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 RightyHo.... All ducks now aligned 👍 When Kev attempted to fit my *ElCheappo fleebay discs we discovered a significant difference/problem with the bell I.D. being 137mm but Astra is a 139mm hub. Simple plan = get a burr, mount in pillar drill, lash up MDF form/jig to hold disc... Introduce inner bell to burr & rotate until whole inner circumference has been shaved 1mm deep. Having a brand new Astra wheel bearing means 100% 'pre-fit' testing of compatibility. This job would have been SO much easier with my having access to a decent lathe... Will post piccies 🔧☕ 🚙💨 loserone and Jim Bell 2
Pat Earrings Posted February 7 Posted February 7 On 03/02/2025 at 12:24, tooSavvy said: Since purchasing AVAS (... and doing 13k) I have had a feint 'washing machine rumble' up from the F/n/s 👀 A bearing has been done in the past [Dec 2021] but may have been 'cheese grade' 😮 I just popped for this..... ...... when my new (*to fit...) discs go on I shall have Kev wizz this on. Everyone reckon a Kwalitee made item 🤔 🚙💨 Ridex is utter cheap rubbish. tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 @Pat Earrings.. "Ridex is utter cheap rubbish". Hmm.... Well, should it prove troublesome, it's a 'Three Bolt Fix' 👀 🚙💨
loserone Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Will we be seeing Yorick in a couple of Sundays time? Would be good to have you along.
tooSavvy Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 1 hour ago, loserone said: Will we be seeing Yorick in a couple of Sundays time? Would be good to have you along. That'll be the Daewoo 👀... Soz, no. 🚙💨 loserone 1
tooSavvy Posted February 11 Author Posted February 11 I have had, in my stash, the 'lip spoiler' for AVAS' tailgate.... The task of fitting it is straightforward.. BUT.. complex = fitting two differing curved surfaces together with a suitably shaped 'filler blade' 🤔 I have fretted muchly, doing it right & not looking like a lashhupp 😕 The indirect benefit of acquiring my burr/cutter [for brake discs] is I'm able to consider profiling two pieces of nylon plate stock/through drilled to suit the task 🎉 Of course..... I have been thinking of profile matching but shrank from hand filing/surforming/coarse grit paper >> a carbide cutter will allow me to simply cut to a stick-on mask/light fettling to finish 😁 🚙💨 privatewire and Dave_Q 2
tooSavvy Posted February 12 Author Posted February 12 Car wouldn't 'plipp' yesterday..... Took penny battery out of the key [non folding] and warmed it in my hands.... Working 🤔 £5... Screwfix. GuddGudd 😁 🚙💨 auntiemaryscanary and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted February 16 Author Posted February 16 Hmmm..... 17"..... Hmmm Anyone visualise AVAS being improved with a rash of these 🤔 🚙💨
privatewire Posted February 18 Posted February 18 I think the alloys that are already on AVAS look fine, are they in good nick? tooSavvy, Lord Sterling and loserone 2 1
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