***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

Toyotafanboi

cringing just reading that. hope it heals fast! i'm sure you can detail with one hand for a while :pac:

Voodoomelon

Hope so! Doctor that stitched it attended to me when i cracked my ribs falling off a ladder 6 months ago. Shook his head when he saw me.

toastedpickles

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Hope so! Doctor that stitched it attended to me when i cracked my ribs falling off a ladder 6 months ago. Shock his head when he saw me.

That's always the case :P when i was younger I was always breaking bones from skating and the like, at one point the receptionists in the hospital all knew me by my first name :pac:

Voodoomelon

Haha, funny and horrible at the same time. At least it eases the blow when you go in. I sawed about 3-4mm from the bone, just grabbed it together instantly and was in hospital in 5-6 minutes. I always go into shock when i f meself, at least there was no queue for once.

toastedpickles

Jaypers, you're lucky so, that could've hurt a lot more than it was

Noccy_Mondy

Hope you get better soon man! Last year I was resting my hand on one of them electric sanders and some fool :mad: turned it on, sanding my hand from the wrist bone that sticks out right to the top of my baby finger. It hurt..... a lot :pac:

challengemaster

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Went straight through my hand with a handsaw today, 17 stitches. Totally worth not hiring a tree trimmer for an hour. No more car work for a few weeks.

Know how you feel, I've a few stitches in one finger(tip) at the minute from something a few weeks back.

Not the most fun of things to do to yourself!

Voodoomelon

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Hope you get better soon man! Last year I was resting my hand on one of them electric sanders and some fool :mad: turned it on, sanding my hand from the wrist bone that sticks out right to the top of my baby finger. It hurt..... a lot :pac:

Ah Jesus! Can just about deal with the thoughts of me own!

Voodoomelon

challengemaster wrote: »

Know how you feel, I've a few stitches in one finger(tip) at the minute from something a few weeks back.

Not the most fun of things to do to yourself!

Was she worth it??

toastedpickles

I propose a support group :pac:

The motors forums injury thread

Noccy_Mondy

We are all liabilities, I don't know how our premiums aren't sky high :pac:

Voodoomelon

One thing i'm super, ridiculously careful about is being under a car. I have six axle stands setup all over the front end of the car whenever it's in the air, including two jacks. Really gives me the willys hearing stories of people being squashed.

Worst jobs are like during transmission work and the whole car is the air, running and all. Can't wait to get from under there.

And yet still manage to saw through my hand no probs!

toastedpickles

Better safe then sorry, sure didn't dgt tell a story of some poor fell being beheaded due to only having a sissors jack on the car or something a while back?

You've also reminded me I need to do my gearbox oil change, pity I have no idea where to start

challengemaster

toastedpickles wrote: »

You've also reminded me I need to do my gearbox oil change, pity I have no idea where to start

The gearbox might be the place to start

toastedpickles

challengemaster wrote: »

The gearbox might be the place to start

I was waiting for you to say something :P

Where on the gearbox :P derp, I have an idea of where but nobody has any how to's on it

challengemaster

toastedpickles wrote: »

I was waiting for you to say something :P

Where on the gearbox :P derp, I have an idea of where but nobody has any how to's on it

It took me all of 5 seconds to find this:

http://www.genuinesaab.com/psi/files/93-95man-oil.htm

Voodoomelon

I'd well believe it, so easy for jacks to fail, even axle stands, don't trust them. A local foreign chap died recently doing work with a jack, shocking stuff. Trans fluid/filter changes are surprisingly straight forward, half the effort is getting the car in the air.

toastedpickles

challengemaster wrote: »

It took me all of 5 seconds to find this:

http://www.genuinesaab.com/psi/files/93-95man-oil.htm

I've seen that before

Mines 00 though might not apply, but sure! I'll give it a go when I'm bothered, I finally found the root of my no starting issue, the fuel pump, yay!

toastedpickles

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I'd well believe it, so easy for jacks to fail, even axle stands, don't trust them. A local foreign chap died recently doing work with a jack, shocking stuff. Trans fluid/filter changes are surprisingly straight forward, half the effort is getting the car in the air.

I'm terrified of that happening, sure when I was dropping the sump in mine I was using something like 4 tyres, a concrete block, stands and a jack, even just doing little bits and bobs now I always use a stand or two as well just to be sure

challengemaster

toastedpickles wrote: »

I've seen that before

Mines 00 though might not apply, but sure! I'll give it a go when I'm bothered, I finally found the root of my no starting issue, the fuel pump, yay!

Can't be that much different :P I'd bet the drain/fill holes are in the same spots

toastedpickles

challengemaster wrote: »

Can't be that much different :P I'd bet the drain/fill holes are in the same spots

Probably not, I've a list of little things building up to do, so when I'm finally off for summer I'm getting to them

one more month

challengemaster

toastedpickles wrote: »

Probably not, I've a list of little things building up to do, so when I'm finally off for summer I'm getting to them

one more month

I've been the same... no time to do anything. Going to get the finger out. Picked up a set of alloys which has prompted me to actually get shít done. I've more parts lying around than I do on the car :pac:

toastedpickles

challengemaster wrote: »

I've been the same... no time to do anything. Going to get the finger out. Picked up a set of alloys which has prompted me to actually get shít done. I've more parts lying around than I do on the car :pac:

23rd of may is my last exam so, hopefully then I'll be able to get a few tools and the like and get stuck in, I've a rocker gasket, fuel filter, the gearbox oil to do, (which I just found a deadly how to guide on) and other boring little bits

What are the alloys like?

challengemaster

toastedpickles wrote: »

23rd of may is my last exam so, hopefully then I'll be able to get a few tools and the like and get stuck in, I've a rocker gasket, fuel filter, the gearbox oil to do, (which I just found a deadly how to guide on) and other boring little bits

What are the alloys like?

I've a general service to do, wire in & fit power seats, braided brake lines, msport steering wheel, some carbon fibre repair, and probably a load more I can't think of right now :pac:

They aren't too bad. Kerbing on the fronts which I'll DIY, rears are a bit worse off. Got them cheap for genuine BMW wheels, decent rubber on them too.

toastedpickles

challengemaster wrote: »

I've a general service to do, wire in & fit power seats, braided brake lines, msport steering wheel, some carbon fibre repair, and probably a load more I can't think of right now :pac:

They aren't too bad. Kerbing on the fronts which I'll DIY, rears are a bit worse off. Got them cheap for genuine BMW wheels, decent rubber on them too.

Happy days, I want to attempt a diy refurb on a wheel, just to see if i can do it,

Stick up some pics of it when your doing all that lark, I'm eyeing up braided brake lines myself

Kaiser D

Someone give me a reason not to buy iiiiiiiiiit

GvidoR

Kaiser D wrote: »

Someone give me a reason not to buy iiiiiiiiiit

Soft top.

Red.

Quazzie

It's a mk3.5 Golf not a mk4 btw.

Not a great car.

Kaiser D

Ahhh, It would be Golf MK3.5 #4 though

And it looks really good on those steelies...

GvidoR

Those steelies should be one of the first things you should change if you bought it.