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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15645 on: 27 January 2018, 18:29:39 »
Well, that's the front end done... and me too :-[ set up by eye, and drives nicely enough, which given the state the tyres are in :-X

Hopefully dry tomorrow so that I can get the back end done, then up early on monday to get the new tyres fitted

Pizza, beer and bed the order of today 8)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15646 on: 27 January 2018, 18:33:35 »
Fitted the new radiator.
Then I refitted it with the copper ring under the fan switch >:(
Fortunately, I noticed before I refilled the coolant.


Replaced the air filter which I've somehow not managed to change for 3 years and almost 21k miles.


Annual oil and plug change tomorrow in between ringing
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15647 on: 28 January 2018, 10:00:58 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 27 January 2018, 09:36:59
I need to fit new pads to back of Battlebus, but its 3C and damp outside.

CBA is currently winning, but its getting desperately close to its MOT.
Checked the troublesome side, and its OK.

Of course, its only now that I remember fixing the caliper bracket last summer  :-[.

Oh well, at least I have a spare set of rear pads for it ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15648 on: 28 January 2018, 10:02:04 »
DTM will be having flashbacks to the front spring saga, and the split boot saga from this time last year ;D

Albsheimers is clearly contagious!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15649 on: 28 January 2018, 11:24:58 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 28 January 2018, 10:00:58
Checked the troublesome side, and its OK.

Of course, its only now that I remember fixing the caliper bracket last summer  :-[.

Oh well, at least I have a spare set of rear pads for it ;D

So the pads have lasted a whole year? It must be gutless. ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15650 on: 28 January 2018, 13:29:53 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 28 January 2018, 11:24:58
Quote from: TheBoy on 28 January 2018, 10:00:58
Checked the troublesome side, and its OK.

Of course, its only now that I remember fixing the caliper bracket last summer  :-[.

Oh well, at least I have a spare set of rear pads for it ;D

So the pads have lasted a whole year? It must be gutless. ;)
Never over estimate the raw Vauxhall tractor power available from the 2.0DTi ;D


That said, I'm still not convinced that it is quite right, as its still the slowest car we've ever owned by some margin.  Including the Metro and the Nova!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15651 on: 28 January 2018, 13:31:05 »
Taken the NS headlight out again, run a hairdryer through it, and its now sat on the lounge windowsill in the sun.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15652 on: 28 January 2018, 17:31:38 »
Changed the alternator in daughter-in-law's Rover Streetwise today. It failed last Thursday - charging  light came on going to work, and she broke down on the way home. Son went out to rescue her, she returned home in his Omega containing my grandson Tom, then son rang me to rescue him. A spare battery got him to my place and he went home in my spare Omega. Tom, aged 3, announced that Grandpa would mend it; so I did.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15653 on: 28 January 2018, 20:56:40 »
This afternoons efforts resulted in replacing the three piece donut bushes with Pedders.

(They've tweaked the design of them from the group buy ones... The upper piece that sits between the subframe and the floor is much thicker and should eliminate the slight issue of the subframe riding up the main bush under duress which the original design seems prone to if driven hard.)

The hardest part, as ever, was getting the subframe realigned in order to fit the centre bolt. A combination of slope/a kerb/gravity/justenougtorquetomovethesubframebutnotenoughtolightuptherearwheels reliably gets the job done 8)

Also got the rear shock and fresh rear brake pads fitted to one side tother will be done in the morning. Springs and track Rods will wait until I get the diff mounts recast.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15654 on: 29 January 2018, 12:00:56 »
Well, that's that done... I took a handful of MTFU pills, and dropped the diff to change the springs. Good job I did as they weren't a pair :o

Does explain the previous waywardness when you threw it through a series of bends. Now new springs, shocks and bushes all round. Just having a pair of new front tyres fitted, but even on the old tyres it tracks true and no oddities or tyre squeal when you chuck it around 8)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15655 on: 29 January 2018, 13:26:41 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 29 January 2018, 12:00:56
Well, that's that done... I took a handful of MTFU pills, and dropped the diff to change the springs. Good job I did as they weren't a pair :o

Does explain the previous waywardness when you threw it through a series of bends. Now new springs, shocks and bushes all round. Just having a pair of new front tyres fitted, but even on the old tyres it tracks true and no oddities or tyre squeal when you chuck it around 8)
Well......maybe the driver?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15656 on: 29 January 2018, 18:57:57 »
Quote from: terry paget on 28 January 2018, 17:31:38
Changed the alternator in daughter-in-law's Rover Streetwise today. It failed last Thursday - charging  light came on going to work, and she broke down on the way home. Son went out to rescue her, she returned home in his Omega containing my grandson Tom, then son rang me to rescue him. A spare battery got him to my place and he went home in my spare Omega. Tom, aged 3, announced that Grandpa would mend it; so I did.

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15657 on: 30 January 2018, 13:13:08 »
National Speeding Awareness Course.  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15658 on: 30 January 2018, 14:50:51 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 28 January 2018, 10:02:04
DTM will be having flashbacks to the front spring saga, and the split boot saga from this time last year ;D

Albsheimers is clearly contagious!

Oh the joy.....I have changed my mobile number by the way.

And my address....
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15659 on: 30 January 2018, 15:23:38 »
Quote from: Lagondanet on 30 January 2018, 13:13:08
National Speeding Awareness Course.  :y
Interesting, aren’t they?  ::)
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