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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 26 March 2023, 09:44:25 »
Personally I think that's the best looking BMW ever produced, an old neighbour of mine had one always admired it.

Yep, it's not often I like a BMW, but those, the 2002 and the old CSL are absolutely lovely.


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General Discussion Area / Re: The Windsor Framework
« on: 23 March 2023, 20:18:48 »
So are we expecting fertiliser and sugar sales to rocket given the 'new' not liked agreement?
My misspent yoof.  Mr Fothergills and haircare products, scaffold tubes and empty coke cans.  Usually with the RAF MP is close pursuit ;D

Industrial fertiliser (as the stuff from Wilkos had an antioxidant in it so only went off like a rocket and lacked the 'boom'), icing sugar and a bit of meths, mix appropriate proportions to a thick paste, slop onto item you wish to educate, cable tie a crushed coke can (or other beverage container e.g. Trent bitter) over the top, insert a cut elastic band, light, and scarper like hell
Ahh, yes. A friend's dad ran a garden centre, so that came in handy. ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Ford to relaunch the Capri
« on: 23 March 2023, 07:17:13 »
But Ford will be trying to push junk on the back of a name that had a following, much like Vauxhall tried with the particularly crap Viva.

Not as crap as the original Viva, fortunately. ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Ford to relaunch the Capri
« on: 23 March 2023, 07:15:56 »
Can't imagine that it will be anything very exciting, if like you say it's comparable to the Mustang,  I won't be rushing to view one.


Most Capris were about as exciting as the Cortinas that their engines and gearboxes came from.


A modern one would use the running gear from a Focus, in a coupeish body based on those measurements. VW tried this a few years ago with the Scirocco, and ended up with a car that was just a squashed Golf. Traditional long bonnets and short tails don't really suit FWD mechanicals!

No, everything has to be an SUV* these days otherwise the "competitive mums" on the school run don't want them.

It's fine to make the Mustang an ugly electric monstrosity these days, so it'll be fine for the Crapi too!

* - Sluggish Uninspiring Vehicle?

155
General Car Chat / Re: Shaguar anyone
« on: 17 March 2023, 18:42:20 »
The old original XJ had presence, class  and style, even if the non sporty versions were a tad pipe & slippers. Still on my bucket list of cars to own.
The more recent versions are just a Mondeo on steroids to me. May be very good cars, but I have zero interest in them .
I think you are thinking of the X Type, which did heavily borrow from its (then) stablemate's parts bin

Nope. Im thinking of the recent shaped Mondeo. Recent Jags appear to be  a bloated version of that in my eyes.

Having test driven both when I was looking to replace the Omega, I can assure you that that's where the similarity ends. ;D

Not sure how they managed to make the Mondeo driving experience so detached and numb.

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Omega General Help / Re: What does this pipe do?
« on: 14 March 2023, 07:19:08 »
The Lambda sensor heater will be monitored for resistance by the ECU, so it's probably a wiring fault, not related to the CTS, in my view.

Lambda sensor heaters are normally PTC heaters that stabilise their own temperature, so are only connected to the ECU for monitoring purposes.

First job for me would be to check the resistance of the heater lines between ECU and lambda sensor socket.

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Omega General Help / Re: What does this pipe do?
« on: 12 March 2023, 09:25:39 »
The horizontal one? It comes from the white T by way of the rubber tube. What looks to be a spigot left of the OWV is actually one and the same line as the horizontal one.

Yes, looking at it more closely I see what you mean. Might just need the clear section replacing with something more robust, then?

I'm struggling to remember how it's all supposed to go together and haven't got an Omega to go and look at. ;D

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Omega General Help / Re: What does this pipe do?
« on: 11 March 2023, 23:38:30 »
Where does the small vacuum hose in the background by the brake lines go? Is it loose?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nazi.
« on: 11 March 2023, 12:41:25 »
I might watch MOTD just to see what they do tonight.  :)
It might be less tedious than usual  :D

Certainly, it would be funny as fook watching Google Box next week if the MOTD ratings went Up without any presenters ;D

I'm looking forward to watching some paint dry later, so I'm out.

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Omega General Help / Re: What does this pipe do?
« on: 11 March 2023, 11:47:30 »
I suspect that hasn't been plumbed right. There should be 2 separate vacuum feeds from that point. One to the heater controls reservoir and one to the multiram one.

I think one has failed and the two haven just been bridged there with an elbow to stop it leaking. It may even be bypassing the one-way valve, looking at it, which would be potentially unsafe.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nazi.
« on: 09 March 2023, 22:22:26 »
Just been listening to Matt LeTissier talking about Lineker on GB News.
He was careful to stay on the right side of the law, re being sued, but he said he knows for a fact that Lineker is nothing like the nice caring saintly like person he makes himself out to be. He has a lot of skeletons in his closet, and must have friends in high places who have helped him keep them there.
Oh how I would love to see the details of that exposed in the media.  :)
You don't get to the top in any field by being 'nice'.
What field's that? Oh, yes. Selling crisps. :y

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General Car Chat / Re: End of life no parts anymore
« on: 09 March 2023, 21:33:00 »
Dissimilar metal corrosion would be one reason ;)

Copper doesn't corrode though?  ???

It oxidises in air, but I can't see an issue with copper pipe with oil on the inside and coolant on the outside?  :-\

It's not like it's got to last decades or anything like that either.  ;)

It's a long way down the galvanic scale from aluminium, but then again, so is the stainless steel that the original cooler is made from.

It'll be the aluminium that corrodes, hence the importance of coolant changes.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Snow?
« on: 09 March 2023, 21:12:46 »
Had about 6" of snow yesterday morning, which made my normal back road out of the village interesting on my commute.

About 1/2 way down the A32 it all disappeared.

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General Car Chat / Re: End of life no parts anymore
« on: 09 March 2023, 20:09:11 »
Failing that, just cut off the current cooler pipes somewhere convenient, swage the ends and bridge with rubber oil hose and a couple of jubilee clips.

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General Car Chat / Re: End of life no parts anymore
« on: 09 March 2023, 20:07:42 »
Dissimilar metal corrosion would be one reason ;)

Might be an issue if under the cooler plate in coolant, but probably not an issue if just bridging the ports on the block.

Even then, with decent coolant, you might get away with it.

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