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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17445 on: 19 December 2018, 20:24:48 »

Yesterday actually.

Replaced all 3 UJs and the centre bearing on the work hack rear propshaft and refitted it.......

I did this some months back on the Navara, although it was the front prop UJ's clanging like a good'un. Nissan wanted silly money to sort it but when I saw the UJ circlips I knew it was do-able with my little press, as this is how we always did them in my younger days. Cost twenty four pounds for two UJ's.  :y
Hardest part was keeping mild heat on the flange bolts so that the thread lock would let go.

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« Reply #17446 on: 19 December 2018, 23:17:38 »

I'm really (pleasantly) surprised tbh.

Left to my own devices I may have gone manual, but a £1400 car on my doorstep with a clean 12m MOT was too tempting to walk by.

Let's see how long it lasts  ;D





Had mine for almost 7 years & has never let me down, maintained regardless of cost & goes anywhere & tows anything .
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17447 on: 19 December 2018, 23:36:06 »

Yesterday actually.

Replaced all 3 UJs and the centre bearing on the work hack rear propshaft and refitted it.......

I did this some months back on the Navara, although it was the front prop UJ's clanging like a good'un. Nissan wanted silly money to sort it but when I saw the UJ circlips I knew it was do-able with my little press, as this is how we always did them in my younger days. Cost twenty four pounds for two UJ's.  :y
Hardest part was keeping mild heat on the flange bolts so that the thread lock would let go.

Being a Toyota the bolts are bloody tight but once cracked undo with fingers! Changed the 3 joints the old fashioned way - soft hammer and drifts - not ideal but perfectly acceptable. I suppose if you include dropping the prop 10 days ago the whole job probably took 4 leisurely hours, a good 45 minutes of which will have been trying to work out how to hold the prop to undo the centre bearing! And, of course, drinking tea!!

Incidentally, I contacted a local engineering place about fitting the 3 UJs and bearing if I dropped the prop and parts off - it’s a pity they weren’t just honest and said “we don’t want to fit your parts” instead of “we can’t do those”. Especially as I laughed down the phone at them  ::) :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17448 on: 20 December 2018, 00:03:26 »

I don't understand why places do that :-\

Surely a quick easy job, sensibly priced is better for business than basically telling people that they can't be arsed to even bother quoting  ::)

Have a couple of useful places locally, one only does aluminium (for tooling reasons), and tother does steel work. Both do quite well out of each other by way of referrals  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17449 on: 20 December 2018, 08:18:36 »

I was only asking as a time saving exercise - cost wasn’t a huge issue as the company was paying anyway.

But I’ll not be referring people there any more  :-X

This is the second time... First was “Can’t do it for 2 weeks mate” which I let slide as their loss as it was £1500 of work. Now this. I’m just not confident making a recommendation for them.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17450 on: 20 December 2018, 14:57:34 »

I can see it in some cases, people rock up with sh!te chinese parts, as them to fit the stuff and then complain when it goes bang.

Doesn't sound like it was the case here though.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17451 on: 20 December 2018, 21:09:58 »

This week I had the last astra G estate collected for "re-cycling"
(still a pair of hatches in the fleet)
took the financial loss on the chin  ::)
I paid £200 for it 5 years ago, put 30,000 miles on it .
got £120 back for it ,cash  :)
I removed the cat and complete exhaust ,battery etc and put scrap tyres on etc
chap who picked it up is going to banger race it before weighing it in
so that works out at £2.67 per 1000 miles or £16 a year depreciation  :o

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17452 on: 20 December 2018, 22:36:16 »

This week I had the last astra G estate collected for "re-cycling"
(still a pair of hatches in the fleet)
took the financial loss on the chin  ::)
I paid £200 for it 5 years ago, put 30,000 miles on it .
got £120 back for it ,cash  :)
I removed the cat and complete exhaust ,battery etc and put scrap tyres on etc
chap who picked it up is going to banger race it before weighing it in
so that works out at £2.67 per 1000 miles or £16 a year depreciation  :o

Moneybags!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17453 on: 21 December 2018, 00:24:18 »

After 6 months and over 15,000 miles, I sold my £25 Cortina for £75. That was £5 more than I'd spent on the MOT, service, inlet gasket for a 32/36DGAV carb and a new back box(supplied and fitted by a mate at Kwikfit on Sunday afternoon for £12). I also used it for a number of work trips that paid 38p a mile when it actually cost 9p.


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« Reply #17454 on: 21 December 2018, 09:18:25 »

That's the key to not losing money on a car: don't pay anything for it.

Anyone got one they want to give me? ;D

Not Terry, though, sorry Terry but you do seem to know how to seek out a lemon! ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17455 on: 21 December 2018, 11:23:45 »

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That's the key to not losing money on a car: don't pay anything for it.
buy the right car.....
knowing it's faults (and the cost involved fixing them)
and knock more off the price for the faults you don't know about  ;D
(because people sell cars when there is a problem with it)

I doubt you'd get a rustina for £75 now

think I have a computer virus.....
all my smileys have gone freaky  ::)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17456 on: 21 December 2018, 14:14:56 »

buy the right car.....
knowing it's faults (and the cost involved fixing them)
and knock more off the price for the faults you don't know about  ;D
(because people sell cars when there is a problem with it)

I doubt you'd get a rustina for £75 now



Twenty years later, the modern equivalent is a £200 Focus. Or an Astra in my case, as I don't like the Focus enough to ever buy one.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17457 on: 21 December 2018, 17:40:50 »

Charged it.  As its not really drivable at the moment.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17458 on: 21 December 2018, 17:45:51 »

Charged it.  As its not really drivable at the moment.

What with?  Dereliction of duty?  :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #17459 on: 21 December 2018, 17:52:15 »

Charged it.  As its not really drivable at the moment.

What with?  Dereliction of duty?  :D
;D ;D ;D very good, Tigger.
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