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General Car Chat / Re: Costs of running a car
« on: 24 March 2024, 23:13:14 »
I keep all the receipts for my cars ..... don't add them up though.  ;D

Probably for the best! I don't make a habit of it, I choose not to think about what 8 months of Discovery 5 ownership cost me  :o

Less than three hundred quid a year/10,000 miles sounds OK to me.  :y

Fair point, especially considering there were some chunky items in there (clutch and timing belt). I wouldn't want to know what it would cost to have it all done at a garage  :-X

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General Car Chat / Costs of running a car
« on: 24 March 2024, 22:44:20 »
In the course of writing the ad for the Zafira, I discovered that I've spent just shy of £875 in maintenance costs (ex. MOT fees) over the past three years and 31,000. I can't make my mind up if that sounds like a lot or not, in the grand scheme of things.  :-\

Considering I've worked the car hard over that time, with lots of travel 6 or 7 up, lots of miles towing a trailer etc I suppose its not too bad.

Anyone else know what they've spent, or am I the only one who's this sad  :-\

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 23 March 2024, 20:36:03 »
Just a thought,.have you got a diagnostic that could read the pressure at the fuel rail? That might tell you more...

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 23 March 2024, 19:34:33 »
But not sure if thats reasonably possible ?

Tbh without some equipment to bench test it (and a spec sheet to test it against) I'm not sure how you would. Assuming it is the problem it clearly it still work partially, but all the tests I can think of (flow rate etc) involve knowing what good looks like. Hard without another one on hand  :-\.

Do you have any other fuel pump you could use to rig up as a temporary to test the car with?

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 23 March 2024, 18:53:57 »
Ok, fwiw I think you should look at the lift pump.

I'll bet cylinder 3 is the last on the rail, so any fuel supply deficiency will manifest there as cylinders 1 and 2 take the available fuel first.

As the fuel level drops, the lift pump has to work harder to suck the fuel out so that's when any weaknesses will show. Tbh I think the old fuel is a red herring, it would have mixed when you fill the tank and by driving around so I don't see why it would wait until there's only a 1/4 tank left before it shows an issue.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 March 2024, 19:31:55 »
Built the zafira back up after replacing the cam dephasers and she's once again back to her quiet old self  :y

Time to get the advert written!
Do you think it might work on the wife?

Not for the £75 the zafira cost me I'm certain!

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 March 2024, 15:49:17 »
Built the zafira back up after replacing the cam dephasers and she's once again back to her quiet old self  :y

Time to get the advert written!

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Lots of news and analysis about the Russian elections not being free and fair tonight. Unnecessarily poking the bear, in my opinion. As if Putin gives the tiniest shite about what the west thinks.

Got to fill the 24hr news cycle somehow  ::).

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 17 March 2024, 09:30:20 »
Unfortunately, the strut attached to them and is secured by grub screws which are prone to seizing.in place.

Clearly a Friday afternoon in Sindelfingen when someone decided that was a good idea. :D

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 14 March 2024, 10:29:59 »
Either that or a loose connection to an injector that you unintentionally fixed when you swapped them over.

Either way I hope it stays working for you!  :y

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General Car Chat / Re: The future: EVs or ICEs?
« on: 13 March 2024, 16:59:27 »

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 13 March 2024, 13:59:21 »
Plugs swapped over but code remains at cylinder 3.
Now removed injctors and will attempt to rig something up so I can operate them and clean them.
Pretty sure they are 12v, so hopefully not too difficult.


Looking on eBay it seems you can get a whole (used) injector rail plus three injectors for less than £50, is it worth putting the effort into running and cleaning them, vs getting a new rail and keeping the two known good injectors you have as spares?

** Linky **

All a question of £££ vs CBA I guess  :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega in Iceland
« on: 13 March 2024, 12:49:23 »
There's a ferry there from Denmark, so it's not impossible  :y

That's got to be the roughest crossing going!

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 13 March 2024, 12:46:20 »

Failed on both fronts lower arm ball joints, headlight adjustment and NS brake light..

Can you replace the ball joints, or is it time for new arms?

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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.
« on: 12 March 2024, 16:36:51 »
Going back to simple things, have you pulled/inspected/swapped the spark plugs over to see if the misfire moves?

A quick Google indicates they have an issue with oil deposits on plugs. Maybe slightly crappy fuel just tipped a minor problem over into a misfire.

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