Motors Chat - Round 6

ShadowHearth · 12-09-2014 12:57AM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Your taking a chance being 40k overdue to be honest.

Stheno, sorry to hear it. It's never nice to get your car completely break down on you. Keep strong!

wotzgoingon · 12-09-2014 12:59AM

Jesus. wrote: »

You're right Wotz. I'm going to book her in in the next couple of weeks. Its just not worth chancing it, is it? Even if it is a bit of a banger.

Thing is, there is a chance it might have been changed before I got it but I doubt it as its not recorded in the service book.

What I done with my last car is just took the cover off and inspected it myself. Seemed fine to me anyway so I never got it changed.

Foxhole Norman · 12-09-2014 01:26AM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What I done with my last car is just took the cover off and inspected it myself. Seemed fine to me anyway so I never got it changed.

Is this how that went

bear1 · 12-09-2014 09:53AM

Stheno: When was the water pump last changed? If the pump failed then it would have thrown the belt off as well.
Seriously though bad luck. I remember being in a similar situation to you many years ago whilst driving through Europe.
I was in an Alfa as well, I hadn't seen a fairly bit drop in the road surface and went over it at about 80kph.
Smacked the under carriage off the road. Stopped, got out and saw nothing wrong so I continued on my way.
A minute later the oil warning light comes on but I was in the middle of nowhere and thought that maybe the knock had fecked up a sensor.
A minute or so later (Stupid I know) the car just died.
Hours later a tow truck comes and brings it to the garage.. diagnosis? sump split. I had smacked the sump and cracked it and kept driving while the oil poured out.
Cost me an engine and eventually a turbo.

Stheno · 12-09-2014 10:54AM

bear1 wrote: »

Stheno: When was the water pump last changed? If the pump failed then it would have thrown the belt off as well.
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Changed when the belt was done. Mechanic going to check it today but is fairly certain it is the belt and is going to see how much damage is done

Armaghmagic · 12-09-2014 11:47AM

Anybody have any dealings with Oliver Geoghean Motors in Galway or H&H Autos in Kinsale? They are looking at cars for me at the minute. Thanks

Alanstrainor · 12-09-2014 11:52AM

The auto leveler on my passenger side headlight has stopped working...I can hear it trying to lift the headlight and failing. I'd say one of the plastic gears has stripped itself...ugh

RandomAccess · 12-09-2014 11:57AM

Cannonballers just ripped through the port tunnel.
Some noise in work, I had the window open of course!

bear1 · 12-09-2014 12:27PM

Stheno wrote: »

Changed when the belt was done. Mechanic going to check it today but is fairly certain it is the belt and is going to see how much damage is done

I'm sorry to hear that.
I think though that when you tried to restart it then even more damage will have been caused.
If it is the belt and the big ends are gone then a replacement engine would probably work out cheaper than the repair.

quadrifoglio verde · 12-09-2014 01:27PM

Stheno wrote: »

Changed when the belt was done. Mechanic going to check it today but is fairly certain it is the belt and is going to see how much damage is done

There's a 2.0 sitting in my donor gtv. It's not much use to me, as my gtv is cf1 and it's a cf2, the same as yours.
The belt was done 2 years ago, but it's been sitting up for a good while, and it's just a tippex receipt. However it does run mighty fine.

dgt · 12-09-2014 01:47PM

Gumball rally passing through Navan. Saw a green Aston and Lambo

Why are they passing through this kip??!!! Still, gives me something to look at :cool:

YbFocus · 12-09-2014 02:03PM

I'll beat that and tell you that they came through Clonaslee 2 years ago! Clonaslee! Sure nobody even knows where that is

toastedpickles · 12-09-2014 02:04PM

YbFocus wrote: »

I'll beat that and tell you that they came through Clonaslee 2 years ago! Clonaslee! Sure nobody even knows where that is

I do :P my car was the main highlight one day sure :P :pac:

YbFocus · 12-09-2014 02:10PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

I do :P my car was the main highlight one day sure :P :pac:

Main danger you mean

The whole back of it across the road like a rigid lorry :pac:

toastedpickles · 12-09-2014 02:32PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Main danger you mean

The whole back of it across the road like a rigid lorry :pac:

:pac: it was brilliant though :P

pred racer · 12-09-2014 03:31PM

Stheno wrote: »

Changed when the belt was done. Mechanic going to check it today but is fairly certain it is the belt and is going to see how much damage is done

sorry to hear that, fingers crossed.

pred racer · 12-09-2014 03:32PM

YbFocus wrote: »

I'll beat that and tell you that they came through Clonaslee 2 years ago! Clonaslee! Sure nobody even knows where that is

I do :cool:

YbFocus · 12-09-2014 03:44PM

pred racer wrote: »

I do :cool:

Oh no :pac:
Your not far from Roscrea are you?
I'm working there now, probably running into you the whole time!

pred racer · 12-09-2014 03:46PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Oh no :pac:
Your not far from Roscrea are you?
I'm working there now, probably running into you the whole time!

No, far side of Birr towards Portumna.

YbFocus · 12-09-2014 04:48PM

pred racer wrote: »

No, far side of Birr towards Portumna.

You've told me that too..a lot

YbFocus · 12-09-2014 04:49PM

OSI wrote: »

Quite a bit of family in Clonaslee. Spent a summer there one year to.

That's funny i don't know any OSI's

I more than likely know them man, it's a small place!

YbFocus · 12-09-2014 10:04PM

Hello....ello....llo....

Can anybody hear me......... anybody hear me.........body hear me.........

toastedpickles · 12-09-2014 10:06PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Hello....ello....llo....

Can anybody hear me......... anybody hear me.........body hear me.........

No sorry I don't speak English :pac:

Stheno · 12-09-2014 10:08PM

Sooooooooooo, went down to my mechanic this evening.

He hasn't stripped the engine, but reckons from the sheer sound of the car that the engine has been badly damaged and that there is valve/piston damage.

I'd a couple of small jobs (exhaust/clutch pedal cylinder) to do on the car, and noticed in the past few weeks that the gearstick was sticking occasionally and my mechanic brought that up also (last time he did the big service I had he noticed it but at the time I'd told him I was planning to upgrade in a few months)

So overall, after talking about it, it really does not seem worth it to replace the engine, get the valves and whatever else fixed, to drive the car and wait for the gearbox to go, along with fixing exhaust/clutch pedal.

In the short term, I'm going to buy something mega cheap to get me to and from work.

I was planning to upgrade in January so considering it economically, spending less than 1k on a car in the interim is probably the way to go.

Would be different had I the skills to fix the car myself, but I don't

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 12-09-2014 10:12PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Hello....ello....llo....

Can anybody hear me......... anybody hear me.........body hear me.........

No.

dgt · 12-09-2014 10:13PM

YbFocus wrote: »

Hello....ello....llo....

Can anybody hear me......... anybody hear me.........body hear me.........

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel

toastedpickles · 12-09-2014 10:14PM

I'm off to sligo tomorrow it seems, should be interesting to see how the 9-5 fairs up to that length of a journey

Chris_Heilong · 12-09-2014 10:28PM

Stheno wrote: »

Sooooooooooo, went down to my mechanic this evening.

He hasn't stripped the engine, but reckons from the sheer sound of the car that the engine has been badly damaged and that there is valve/piston damage.

I'd a couple of small jobs (exhaust/clutch pedal cylinder) to do on the car, and noticed in the past few weeks that the gearstick was sticking occasionally and my mechanic brought that up also (last time he did the big service I had he noticed it but at the time I'd told him I was planning to upgrade in a few months)

So overall, after talking about it, it really does not seem worth it to replace the engine, get the valves and whatever else fixed, to drive the car and wait for the gearbox to go, along with fixing exhaust/clutch pedal.

In the short term, I'm going to buy something mega cheap to get me to and from work.

I was planning to upgrade in January so considering it economically, spending less than 1k on a car in the interim is probably the way to go.

Would be different had I the skills to fix the car myself, but I don't

Thats a shame, we all know you loved your car. Some engines suffer more than others when a timing belt snaps.

Stheno · 12-09-2014 10:35PM

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Thats a shame, we all know you loved your car. Some engines suffer more than others when a timing belt snaps.

Tis, and it was unlucky, but while I'm still quite ignorant (as in lacking of knowledge, not stupid) about cars compared to a lot of you guys, I learned loads in three years of gtv ownership. I also met/made loads of friends on here, got to drive a car I literally wanted from when I was about twenty, and passed on advice to people.

I've just said it over on the bangernomics thread, but between offers posted on here, and help offered privately, this place is a real community, I'm genuinely gobsmacked at how lovely many posters have been. Should I ever attend a beers/meet, I'll need to stand a round, I'm literally in shock at how people have gone out of their way offering help/suggestions.

pred racer · 12-09-2014 10:40PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

I'm off to sligo tomorrow it seems, should be interesting to see how the 9-5 fairs up to that length of a journey

All messing aside, and I know you love your car, but when thinking about a journey and one of your thoughts is "wonder if the car will make it" then it's time to get something else

In other news who would have thought an Alfa could get this far

Edit: sorry Stheno if it looks like I'm taking the piss, I'm really not

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