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*******Motors Chat - Round 7*******
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Noccy_Mondy wrote: »Half 6 :eek: I was only ever turning at that time
Yep! Makes me laugh though, I should be wrecked by the time i get home, but I've still got energy, living embodiment of the energizer bunny :pac:0 -
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Have any of you noticed that there are 3 kinds of problems that a motoring enthusiast can have.
Car related problems
Financial related problems
and Personal/wimmins problems
If you have none of them then its major happy days! If you have just one life is still good. 2 and things aren't so good but manageable. When you get all 3 things are just about as ****ty as it comes!
The week that I collected the 166 I was suffering badly from all 3. After I collected it I cried the whole way home, literally, even the woman working the till in the petrol station was worried about me :pac:. Things seemed dreadful but at least I had no more car problems so things were at manageable again:). I had a car that I wanted to own and drive and work on, it felt great
Surprisingly over the last couple of weeks the wimmins problem resolved itself and then last week I was working all week too and then graduated on Saturday!!! Happy days:D:D
However, In my experience, having all 3 areas going well never lasts:o:(. It would appear that the 166 has a major sickness. Some of you might have seen that it mysteriously cut out on friday (thankfully on the drive!) and wouldn't even crank never mind start. Pushed it out of the way and left it in the ditch until today when I finally got a chance to look at it. Looked at and tried everything I could today but still could find no reason for it not to start. Eventually got it started off a push to be met with the most awful top end knocking imaginable
:(:( It was dark at this stage (fvcking winter!!!) so I did no more exploring of the problem but at least I got the car up to the house and out of the way. From a quick listen it sounds to be one of the cams on the rear cylinder bank thats having an issue. A bit of diagnostic work to be done tomorrow to see if I can find out whats what. 0 -
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Have any of you noticed that there are 3 kinds of problems that a motoring enthusiast can have.
Car related problems
Financial related problems
and Personal/wimmins problems
If you have none of them then its major happy days! If you have just one life is still good. 2 and things aren't so good but manageable. When you get all 3 things are just about as ****ty as it comes!
The week that I collected the 166 I was suffering badly from all 3. After I collected it I cried the whole way home, literally, even the woman working the till in the petrol station was worried about me :pac:. Things seemed dreadful but at least I had no more car problems so things were at manageable again:). I had a car that I wanted to own and drive and work on, it felt great
Surprisingly over the last couple of weeks the wimmins problem resolved itself and then last week I was working all week too and then graduated on Saturday!!! Happy days:D:D
However, In my experience, having all 3 areas going well never lasts:o:(. It would appear that the 166 has a major sickness. Some of you might have seen that it mysteriously cut out on friday (thankfully on the drive!) and wouldn't even crank never mind start. Pushed it out of the way and left it in the ditch until today when I finally got a chance to look at it. Looked at and tried everything I could today but still could find no reason for it not to start. Eventually got it started off a push to be met with the most awful top end knocking imaginable:(:( It was dark at this stage (fvcking winter!!!) so I did no more exploring of the problem but at least I got the car up to the house and out of the way. From a quick listen it sounds to be one of the cams on the rear cylinder bank thats having an issue. A bit of diagnostic work to be done tomorrow to see if I can find out whats what.
Post up a vid of the noise?
Bizarrely my door is normal this morning0 -
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Chris_Heilong wrote: »nah he should get something Japanese, be sorted then.
Yeah, like an RX-7. Maintenance free, or so I hear
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[...] there are 3 kinds of problems that a motoring enthusiast can have.
Car related problems
Financial related problems
and Personal/wimmins problems
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Once you get rid of problem no.2 for good, you'd never have problem no.1 nor no.3.
But, from my own experience, problem no.2 is the most difficult one to get rid of. 0 -
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Found a magazine from 1928 in a very old house i'm renovating. I remember there was a thread on old car ads a while back, but this takes the biscuit, take a look at this gem.
9hp, i'd say it went like stink. Must have been a hell of a prize all the same back then.
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I really need to give scooby a good clean up... Needs a good wash and just general carpet clean up... I can't do washing in new house and I still don't have a hover lol.
I wonder how much a fast wash up and valeting goes for these days? I know MM will go in to nerdrage fit over it, but I am just lazy and could not sit and polish one spot for 12 hours, I actually enjoy driving! 0 -
ShadowHearth wrote: »I really need to give scooby a good clean up... Needs a good wash and just general carpet clean up... I can't do washing in new house and I still don't have a hover lol.
I wonder how much a fast wash up and valeting goes for these days? I know MM will go in to nerdrage fit over it, but I am just lazy and could not sit and polish one spot for 12 hours, I actually enjoy driving!
50 quid would normally get you a good overall clean inside and out standard polish outside and inside trim, clean alloys and Hoover it. Then you can get normally a mini one for about 20 quid which is a clean bit of tyre shine and Hoover and give the dash a clean. Not sure though maybe them prices would be out for Dublin.0 -
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Got some good fun driving miles in recently, turbo spooled on windy back roads, AWD working its magic in crap weather.ShadowHearth wrote: »I actually enjoy driving! Dunno if it's all in my head or is the colder air giving noticeable extra power low down..
Just met a shnakey traffic corps car parked up in a layby :mad: on the way back into work 0 -
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Special Circumstances wrote: »Got some good fun driving miles in recently, turbo spooled on windy back roads, AWD working its magic in crap weather. Dunno if it's all in my head or is the colder air giving noticeable extra power low down..
Just met a shnakey traffic corps car parked up in a layby :mad: on the way back into work
Turbo engines prefer cold and dry weather. So I would not be surprised to see engine giving more umph. After all that's why these engines got intercoolers which, wait for it, make air colder before it gets in to engine!0 -
I don't understand that 'fiver' thing
The way I understood it was like this.
Pick any of the examples given and then select from 2-5 words that describe the example you have chosen.
So for e.g. (I'm going to make this up) bearing - spins a wheel.
If that isn't it then I'm fcuked if I know 0 -
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