tooSavvy Posted August 8 Author Share Posted August 8 Nice to see the 'fuze of rational debate' lit about here.... I'm sure the ATF cooler will continue to do as good a job as it might, in any event - age not playing a significant role in that.... Plakkie/leaky rads KILL trannies 😲. Regards my personal fantasies, ref Wings 🤪 This place isn't PH... Rivet counters should go there. *Babelfish translator optional 🚙💨 Pat Earrings and loserone 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 8 Author Share Posted August 8 .... apologies for 'rivet counter' snipe, not appropriate at all. Rephrase 'just because you can, doesn't mean you should', there.. betterer 🚙💨 Jim Bell, AnnoyingPentium and privatewire 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 9 Author Share Posted August 9 AVAS tailgate width = 42 1/2" BMW trim = 42 1/2" .... a start, anyway ✔️🔧 🚙💨 Jim Bell and privatewire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 9 Author Share Posted August 9 Well, hmm...... .... closer to what I'm after. Some neat fit, straight outta the box 😎 🚙💨 Jim Bell, Rustybullethole, privatewire and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 9 Author Share Posted August 9 These 'flat twin' wipers, standard on Astra... going by forum browsing 🙄... They are $hit on AVAS >> stutter and drum (it was raining when we were out yesterday) and clear fairly well on upsweep/smear like chipfat on the downstroke 😵💫. The 'great skip in the sky' beckoned.... However, I couldn't find 'plain blade' replacements locally... eBay doesn't help because if they don't fit then your in the 'return loop' 😕 B&M to the rescue 🚀 I had bought crappy RAC 'branded' blades there in the past.... They came with a Lego kit of adapters!! As luck will have it, they seem to be Destocking their wipers = odd mixup of end-of-line with reduction stickers 👍 I got my 18" for £1:50, but 22" is still full price £8:00. £9:50 still seems a good deal ♥️ This type of packaging ... Fitted them up = sweeps silently and no smears* *we'll give it a couple of months 😶🌫️ 🚙💨 Jim Bell, AnnoyingPentium and privatewire 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Had to form a gentle curve.... hatch not flat 🙄 Well & truly gummied on now!! 🚙💨 privatewire, AnnoyingPentium, rm36house and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 11 Author Share Posted August 11 I'm having trouble with my size!! 😯 I have my extending wheel brace, tool roll, inflator, spare bulbs &c.. In one of these >> Ah haa, you say.... Gudd Gudd ✔️ Well... In Mr Getz & SuziQ the boots were so small it was a neat fit 👍 ..... It is currently clattering back n forth in the estate rear 😕. A bungy has been procured, lash down loops popped up & we now have a real tight rein on all the goodies.... I have stashed my Hi Viz weather jacket in the bungy too, all nice n tight now 😎 🚙💨 Jim Bell and privatewire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 11 Author Share Posted August 11 In case anyone is coy about asking... 😶🌫️ YES... My 'Carribbean scuba holiday' fund is wilting under the remorseless demands of fuel station operators... Drinks like Olly Reed 💰🤪 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 Just dropped off the Trannie Cooler, job on for Wed. The lad who is doing it agrees it's wise & we chatted about crimping the orphaned trannie alloy pipes [into the rad core] because, should the dreaded core fail in future, all my coolant won't trickle out redundant Trannie pipe ports. He has done the job before... and on Citroens. Just settling down for a hefty bill 😐 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 Oof!! Another 'mind how you go, marrer' passing event earlier 😯.. Cruised up behind a tractor/trailer, out in the boonies behind Lanchester, doing 35. I scanned the horizon.. clear to go.. buried the pedal and just 'hit takeoff mode' >> in basically the rigs length I was doing 80 from 35 🚀 Sheer hooliginnizm 🚙💨 privatewire, AnnoyingPentium and Lacquer Peel 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 Just dropped off the car.... *Remembered to tell them the wheelnut locknut is in the rear wheel well, by the tyre ✔️ 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 ....... actually sitting in the client waiting area = my BussPass doesn't kick in till 9:30 🤣 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 14 Author Share Posted August 14 Hmmm.... 🙄 My garage rang to say they can't finish AVAS today cos, as of 1 PM, the belt kits hadn't arrived 🤬. To continue the drama... no laughing, there... they are doing OK on the Trannie Cooler >> have the front off + drilling holes for fabbing up tin bracketry ✔️.... 😵💫 .... however, the rubber hoses on Trannie &or tails on Cooler aren't enough to meet = some hose/connectors may need sourcing [£££ oh oh.. ] "Really?", says I .... "Try two lengths of copper pipe and snipp to length" ..... Tomorrow is another day #GWTW 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 15 Author Share Posted August 15 Cars is back..... I'm going to get some copper pipe 🙄. All belts + w/pump inc... coolant refreshed. 🔧✔️ 🚙💨 Lacquer Peel and privatewire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 15 Author Share Posted August 15 As a 'side issue'.... 😎.... NOW the belts are refreshed I'm not so coy about using 'Launch Control' from lights, on urban clearways. That Zexxer lurves revs 🚀🚀🚀 Here's me >> believes the brochure 😐 Nowhere does it say "SportzzWagen".. huh 🚙💨 privatewire and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 16 Author Share Posted August 16 AVAS did about 3000 miles between last MOTs... Since 01Aug it's done 1200... 🚙💨 privatewire, loserone and Matty 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 You've bought an Astra? tooSavvy and Carl1981 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 19 Author Share Posted August 19 12 hours ago, Lord Sterling said: You've bought an Astra? SavvTowers, always a 'broad church' 🎱 🚙💨 privatewire and Ted Eggs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 21 Author Share Posted August 21 Lip blade spoiler.... V2.0 😎 I have gutted the shiny blade, melting the glue + peeling off the inner membrane. This now allows the shiny outer to flex/flatten fully. I'm going to nip the leading edge - after heating up with SWMBO hairdryer - and Gclamp twixt two flat planks.... Inducing a permanent 'flat' land 👍 I will of course be fitting & finessing before '3M Tape' day 🚀♥️ 🚙💨 Marshall2810, Matty and privatewire 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 22 Author Share Posted August 22 I have [... dusty in a cupboard, somewhere] a boxed Bleep..Bleep.. reversing kit. Does anyone know if AVAS has 'old world' rear/reverse 12V bulb wiring... Or the CanBus mojo 😕. I'm an 'old fogey' but parking by braille is not my preferred M.O. 👍 🚙💨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 19 minutes ago, tooSavvy said: I have [... dusty in a cupboard, somewhere] a boxed Bleep..Bleep.. reversing kit. Does anyone know if AVAS has 'old world' rear/reverse 12V bulb wiring... Or the CanBus mojo 😕. I'm an 'old fogey' but parking by braille is not my preferred M.O. 👍 🚙💨 It’ll work fine from the reversing light and grounded to the body. tooSavvy and Pat Earrings 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 22 Author Share Posted August 22 Nice run out, up by Kielder, for our lunch ... Auto swish...mmmmm 🚙💨 ProgRocker, Liggle, privatewire and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 23 Author Share Posted August 23 Lip spoiler will be 'spoiling' my nice AVAS soon...... 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 Run out to Carlisle [... in the Rain ☂️] Along A69, past the [Ex] Sycamore Gap... Hilarity ongoing, with 'I know best' CANBUS wipers/rear wipe 😵💫 More I drive = More I like ♥️ 🚙💨 privatewire and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 ..... Home thru Penrith, down A66 off at Bowes, Bp Auk, past old Black & Decker factory and onto A1(M) to Teams.... Stretched AVAS legs a little, with all new belts now on 👍.... I understand the Z18XER is a 'Rev Monster' (not even pushed the [SPORTS] button!). I've frightened myself with 🚀 gobs of *surely not, officer!* alarmingly illegal needle pointing >> and it's not wound up to 4k 😯. Firmly in the 'walk quietly and carry a big stick' zone of competence 😎 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 Cabin Filter on for tomorrow ⚙️🔧 ... 👍 🚙💨 privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 Cabin Filter *resched 😕 PAS sounds like a washing machine, yes TADTS.... However, it's marking it's territory in the street outside = ZF fluid to be bought & investigations to be made 🙄 I found out (reversing out at the pub, after Sunday's Lunch) one of the tail lights is out. I understand these Astra sense bulb voltages.. and will flag up a duffer 🤔. It seems the bulb out 'flag' pops up when you fire up/switch off but I haven't noticed it 😐.. New PAIR of tail lights going in tomorrow 👍 🚙💨 loserone and Matty 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Bonny car Savv. Much underrated these. tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted September 2 Author Share Posted September 2 Halfrauds.... Here We Come! 🚙💨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted September 2 Author Share Posted September 2 ⚙️🔧😵💫..... ..... Looking £££ 😲 *Mine is ZF 🚙💨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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