Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

OSI wrote: »

It'll end up falling out again. The plastic holding the glass is bonded to it with a special glue. Once that glue goes you won't be able to rebond it, only solution is a new window.

Wonder, wouldn't tiger seal do the job ? clean both surfaces , degrease with something , and stick tiger seal on, put somewhere under pressure for day or two. i would try go that way, before get new window.

renofan wrote: »

At least you can fix yours. Went to put the driver's window down to use the buzzer to let me into the car park at work and nothing happened. Just whirring noises from the electric motor.

Took the door trim off thinking the window had popped out of the two whatchacallits but no. The fooking cable coming out of the motor has snapped. So it means no window for at least 3 weeks as it'll be then before I can sort it. Bloody annoying!

Owww... sorry to hear that.

OSI wrote: »

It'll end up falling out again. The plastic holding the glass is bonded to it with a special glue. Once that glue goes you won't be able to rebond it, only solution is a new window.

That seems quite excessive. Wouldn't it be possible to find this 'special glue' somewhere?

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I don't think they sell really strong grip glue to the public for safety reasons. It's like the glue they use to hold rear view mirrors. Ever have a car where the mirror falls off and no glue will hold it like the original.

Or...



:pac:

GvidoR wrote: »

After coming home a little past midnight, opened the front passenger side door and tried to open the window, as it did not open about half an hour before that. Instead of normally sliding down, it just dropped down. Mind=blown, and it was obviously dark and all, so I covered the door with some plastic until the morning.

Took off the door panel. Turns out, the glass is only held up with just two whatchacallits. Snapped it back into place and was able to wind it up to the top.
Then it was time to put everything back in place.

Tadah!

This is a comman problem on VWs Boras mk4 golfs and seat telidos. Them whatchacallits can break. It happened to a friend of mine he bought an 02 mk4 golf there 3 weeks ago. The mechanic told him to put water and washing up liquid down inside the door frame to lubricate the new set of whatchacallits. As oil can make the rubbers (giggidy) swell. (But to be honest I don't think id ever use washing up liquid.) Although it did seem to do the trick on the electric windows on the golf. They now go up and down like a fiddlers elbow.

Is whatchacallits the name of an actual part, or am I just not awake yet? I think it's the latter :pac:

Long time, no see

NCT failed on handbrake which I suspected it might - its a common enough issue on the MR2 to happen I believe

On further inspection the passenger side was seized half open and the drivers side was working but on the way out

Picked up 2 PAGID handbrake cables on eurocarparts that come in a nifty racing blue :P



My cables were like this:



Before:





20 minutes passenger side - 1.5 hours drivers - could not shift the clevis pin on the handbrake -blowtorch, vicegrips, hammer nothing would shift her - in the end I used a balljoint separator and a deep impact wrench socket to take the pin - out in a minute grrrrr -



Rusted clevis pin - can to file rust off both this and the holder as it wouldn't fit back in




Well I've now a working handbrake again , its the small things in life you take for granted

Ordered wind deflectors, red front and rear badges, LEDs and new number plates.

Special Circumstances wrote: »

What model acceleras? Found Accelera Alphas to be pretty much what you'd expect from a tyre cheaper than ling long, sailun, hifly, sunni, maxtrek etc.

Can't make it out - but I will say they weren't too bad - the ones I had were made in Indonesia I know that much - probably got a middle of the road ones as they weren't too bad - running them the last 4 years and no issues stoopping in wet

Was being a bit cheap and should have binned them ages ago but I lived to tell the tale - I binned the ones on the back as it was dancing on every corner


these are them if you can make it out- :
I think they were called phoenix or something

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Greek symbol alpha there as far as I can see. Rated alpha for nothing at all. Omega for many.

Lucky you didn't have em on the rear of an MR2!

I did I binned the rear ones 4 years ago - dancing on every corner.

OSI wrote: »

2 years.

Thanks. Didnt know whether it was that or just til next May when it should be due if it was through the original procedure (08-12, 12-14, 14-16)

I am away myself at the minute but the avesnis passed the NCT