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Automatic Transmission Failure.

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  • #32
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    That's not exactly proof though is it. I could just as easily say that Edd is my brother and its all factual.

    Couldn't ask your brother Ed what might be wrong with a Galaxy Autobox could you?

    If it's the Jaytech box it's also fitted to the Rovers and has a common fault of solenoids going open/short circuit Autotranz in Walkinstown have fixed mine


  • #33
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Couldn't ask your brother Ed what might be wrong with a Galaxy Autobox could you?

    If it's the Jaytech box it's also fitted to the Rovers and has a common fault of solenoids going open/short circuit Autotranz in Walkinstown have fixed mine

    :D:D


  • #34
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    veetwin wrote: »
    Great arguments there bud. Very well articulated.

    hehe :pac: , thanks for that, but I'm not your "bud" - as for articulating my arguments - I'm not arguing - just making known what I know in relation to the tv show WD, and boxsters, and auto gearboxes amazingly fixing themselves after the Wheeler Dealer Ed China "nice easy fix" - :p

    I now also have the time to properly reply - I did not have the time yesterday evening.

    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Go ahead then. Provide proof that the gearbox flush and new filter didn't fix the tiptronic boxon the WD Porsche Boxter S.
    MidlandsM wrote: »
    Ermmmmmmm, because my cousin in the uk works in attaboy

    Well, I don't expect you nor do I care if you believe me or not Henry, but I have the inside track on WD production stuff for tv, so take it or leave it, I don't really care.
    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Forgive my ignorance but what exactly does that proove?

    wha?
    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    That's not exactly proof though is it. I could just as easily say that Edd is my brother and its all factual.

    As above.

    now, re; wheeler dealers - like come on - and MB buying that Boxster s for 1k. It never happened. He paid more than that.

    Like come on, some of the nievety shown here beggers belief, expecially from "petrol heads". Anyone with half a brain cell would not believe all the staged car and mechanical storylines portrayed in WD. Like the seller of the Boxster S was a member of an online community, and thats where MB saw the car for sale iirc. Boxster owners on forums like boxa.net etc, are and will be only too well aware of the ims issue with their engines, and the fact that the engine can and will sh!t itself at anytime if the ims is not uprated, making shyte of the engine. Therefore secondhand engines are sought after, and command good money. A breaker will offer a lot more than 1k for a boxster s, for the engine alone the can charge well over £2500 - then all the rest of the car could easily fetch another 2 or 3k, with the Boxster s sharing many parts with a 911, many parts can be sold off at a premium for the 911.


    http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xboxster+s+engine&_nkw=boxster+s+engine&_sacat=0&_from=R40

    so, any porschehead will know he would get more than 1k for his porker :rolleyes:




    ..all this guff of MB bagging himself a Boxster S for 1k. Horsesh1t..!

    and EC with his nice easy fix on the gearbox. Unbelievable Horsesh1t!

    Add all of that to the questionable car mechanical issues they encounter, the staged sales, the phantom buyers, the fact that they never seem to loose their shirt on a car, Mikes Wig, everything - you take WD with a large pinch of automotive salt, and sprinkle that very salt over yer popcorn, because thats all it is.

    Its popcorn Telly - for the masses, who are clueless, and don't care, they just want entertaining for an hour.

    It just a pity some round here buy into the horsemanure thats fed to them, and then in return look clueless themselves, when really they know better!


  • #35
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    You've delivered more opinion MidlandsM and not an iota of proof.


  • #36
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Anyone remember the Jag XK WD had that was showing the CEL, hence some terrifyingly unfathomable fault within the hulking V8 gubbins?? The Eddmeister General used a £10 OBD-II scanner (I have the same one) to diagnose a faulty throttle body, which was replaced for £100 courtesy of the Bay of Gee. Class. :cool:


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  • #37
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    You've delivered more opinion MidlandsM and not an iota of proof.

    ha ......you're just sore because you look like one of the clueless on here .....get back to your popcorn! :D


  • #38
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    To be fair while MidlandsM is doing a great job of grinding everyones gears I'm inclinded to agree with him. I have an insider friend who says it's great fictional TV. Also the amount of work done on the cars and not shown is pretty incredible as can be seen when they get listed for sale. It's a TV show selling to the public so everything has to be right and done correctly. It's a lot more expensive than it appears so most of the cars are proper bargains although I do recall a brown Porsche coming to Ireland that sh!t it's engine soon after getting here.

    I still enjoy the motoring based entertainment show however in the same way I enjoy TopGear.


  • #39
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    ha ......you're just sore because you look like one of the clueless on here .....get back to your popcorn! :D

    Not at all. You've totally failed to back up your assertions however.

    Come on where's the beef?


  • #40
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    To be fair while MidlandsM is doing a great job of grinding everyones gears I'm inclinded to agree with him. I have an insider friend who says it's great fictional TV. Also the amount of work done on the cars and not shown is pretty incredible as can be seen when they get listed for sale. It's a TV show selling to the public so everything has to be right and done correctly. It's a lot more expensive than it appears so most of the cars are proper bargains although I do recall a brown Porsche coming to Ireland that sh!t it's engine soon after getting here.

    I still enjoy the motoring based entertainment show however in the same way I enjoy TopGear.

    I'll buy that, up to a point. What I would say is that the profit is basically Edd.


  • #41
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I'll buy that, up to a point. What I would say is that the profit is basically Edd.

    Yep!

    I worked it out on the Morgan before (very roughly) and the profit pretty much paid for his labour. Then again when extra work and everything is added in there isn't really ever a profit. The idea is sound that you are supposed to be doing this at home and if you go back to the original series of it there is some great hints and tips but it's gone a bit flashy now and aspirational with the cars.

    And while we're talking about the cars, why not BUY ONE

    http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/wheeler-dealers/buy-the-cars/


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  • #42
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Not at all. You've totally failed to back up your assertions however.

    Come on where's the beef?

    in my burger.......;)

    enjoy your popcorn........lol :D:D:D:D:D


  • #43
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    ...And while we're talking about the cars, why not BUY ONE

    http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/wheeler-dealers/buy-the-cars/

    Some kit there, bah! :cool:


  • #44
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    in my burger.......;)

    enjoy your popcorn........lol :D:D:D:D:D



    Caught spoofing then MidlandsM. Oh well better luck next time.


  • #45
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Caught spoofing then MidlandsM. Oh well better luck next time.


    ohhh, the irony of you suggesting someone is a spoofer...:D

    Henry, to be fair, you don't have a clue.


  • #46
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    ohhh, the irony of you suggesting someone is a spoofer...:D

    Henry, to be fair, you don't have a clue.

    It's you that have been unable back up your claims, not me.


  • #47
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    You've delivered more opinion MidlandsM and not an iota of proof.

    Can you prove Boxster was bought for £1000?
    Can you prove transmission fluid change fixed problems?


  • #48
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    Can you prove Boxster was bought for £1000?
    Can you prove transmission fluid change fixed problems?

    I'm happy with the content of the tv programme. Prima facie wouldn't you agree?


  • #49
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    Can you prove Boxster was bought for £1000?
    Can you prove transmission fluid change fixed problems?

    Bit hard to "prove" any of that without some sort of Tribunal, but I'm prepared to buy it on the basis that many people would be thrown into a panic over something like a Porsche displaying some hideous unfathomable problem with a Tiptronic transmission. I.e, "Oh Cheeses, must get rid of this before it explodes and get diesel Volkswagen, NOW!!". Same with the old Jag with the CEL light on. And fresh, modern synthetic ATF and a new filter has been known to do a tired old 'box a power of good! :D


  • #50
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    I think program is largely loose on facts etc to make entertainment, some swallow the hook and the line, some do not. Your alleged proof is what was on the TV.


  • #51
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    I think program is largely loose on facts etc to make entertainment, some swallow the hook and the line, some do not. Your alleged proof is what was on the TV.

    Well, I think it's reasonably clear to anyone who is awake that Edd puts a shit-load of time and effort into the less glamorous end of it. You wouldn't necessarily want to sit through that stuff in front of the TV! :pac:


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  • #52
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    I think program is largely loose on facts etc to make entertainment, some swallow the hook and the line, some do not. Your alleged proof is what was on the TV.

    At least the programme exists. That's conclusive enough.

    Now can you provide any firm evidence to rebut that?


  • #53
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    You asking me for firm evidense to rebute that program exists?

    I already think you might be not overly clever regarding cars as your advice to OP is ridiculous, when OP comes back with update we will have proof of this.


  • #54
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    ...your advice to OP is ridiculous...

    I disagree. I'd consider a fluid-and-filter change to be a perfectly reasonable move before jumping into a rebuild or replacement costing thousands.


  • #55
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Well, I think it's reasonably clear to anyone who is awake that Edd puts a shit-load of time and effort into the less glamorous end of it. You wouldn't necessarily want to sit through that stuff in front of the TV! :pac:

    I think some effort went into fixing gearbox too, aside from what was claimed on program :)


  • #56
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    I think some effort went into fixing gearbox too, aside from what was claimed on program :)

    Assuming Edd metered out and checked the various sensors and solenoids fairly lively, there isn't much you can usefully do with them yokes (outside of a fluid-and-filter change) besides a tear-down and rebuild. That would tidily miss the whole point of Wheeler-Dealing. :)


  • #57
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    jimgoose wrote: »
    ----That would tidily miss the whole point of Wheeler-Dealing. :)

    Indeed.

    but in real life things don't always go to plan, not make good TV though


  • #58
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    You asking me for firm evidense to rebute that program exists?

    I already think you might be not overly clever regarding cars as your advice to OP is ridiculous, when OP comes back with update we will have proof of this.

    No.

    I asked you for evidence that the gearbox oil/filter change didn't fix that Boxster S. You haven't provided it.

    Regarding the original advice as I said at the time it's a process of elimination. If a oil/filter change don't improve things move on to gearbox removal and stripping. It's quite logical.


  • #59
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    I think some effort went into fixing gearbox too, aside from what was claimed on program :)

    Is this simply another hunch of yours?

    No chance of a few facts presumably to back up your hunches, guesses and the like?


  • #60
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    Indeed.

    but in real life things don't always go to plan, not make good TV though

    ...and sometimes you're bang on the money annat, innit? Mint. Pukka. Lee-aaarfing! :cool:


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  • #61
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    No.

    I asked you for evidence that the gearbox oil/filter change didn't fix that Boxster S. You haven't provided it.

    Regarding the original advice as I said at the time it's a process of elimination. If a oil/filter change don't improve things move on to gearbox removal and stripping. It's quite logical.

    likewise you haven't proven that it did.

    tit tat, we won't agree.

    build bridge etc


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