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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 

Time to get the advert written!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Should Europe send troops to Ukraine?

« on: 19 March 2024, 00:40:27 »

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.

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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! 

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General Car Chat / Re: The future: EVs or ICEs?

« on: 13 March 2024, 16:59:27 »

Alternatively, perhaps the driver is a lying little toe-rag who got the anti-ev brigade unduly excited...   

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13192851/Police-arrest-Jaguar-Pace-driver-31-suspicion-dangerous-driving-control-car-rammed-road-officers-went-rogue-speeds-120mph.html

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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 

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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 

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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General Car Chat / Re: C1 (The skate) serious misfire.

« on: 12 March 2024, 13:59:08 »

Fuel filter would be my first choice (must cost about 60p on one of those.

Also, how long did you run it for after you put the fresh in? May not have worked it's way through yet? 

Edit: CW beat me to it 

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General Discussion Area / Re: London Eye

« on: 12 March 2024, 11:14:56 »

Is it true it was only on loan and is heading off to Scotland at 10 mph?

I saw this doing the rounds on X.

Apparently it's heading to the shores of loch lomand and is to be renamed the Scottish Aye 

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General Car Chat / Re: Signum ATF.

« on: 09 March 2024, 14:21:41 »

Thanks Jim, I appreciate the OOF kindness.

She seems to be behaving herself again now and I'm hoping it was just some sort of 17 year old female 'hissy fit' that won't happen again.   

No worries, I hope that's how it stays. But if you change your mind (or the car changes it for you) the offers open.

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira B 1.6 top end noise.

« on: 09 March 2024, 13:46:20 »

Finally got her stripped down last night, but didn't want to draw any conclusions in the dark under a work light.

This morning revealed that the timing is still cock on, checked and set this time using the flat bar to lock the end of the cams and the metal pin to lock the ring gear. So, I'm now sure that the timing belt was done correctly.

The cam sprockets both have play. The inlet side exactly matches a YT video showing buggered cam dephasers. The exhaust one (where the noise mostly seemed to be coming from) was actually better, but was absolutely full of oil, whereas the inlet only had an egg cup full. Not sure if this is correct or indicates some internal breakdown in the exhaust cam. 

For the sake of it I'm going to strip them both down later when they've finished draining oil, mostly to see how they work.

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General Car Chat / Re: Signum ATF.

« on: 09 March 2024, 10:43:31 »

Opti, I've got an iCarsoft here with Vx files on it, that will read the gearbox codes. Happy to loan it out for a week if you would find it useful.

PM me if you'd like it. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira B 1.6 top end noise.

« on: 06 March 2024, 10:51:56 »

You may have inadvertently "pre-loaded" the cam phasers when you did the belt change 
putting a strain  on them, resulting in their failure .
did you use ALL the kit 
the kit contains a flat bar (to lock cams ,rocker cover off)
2 "wedges" to hold/lock the cam sprockets 
a crank locking bracket

that said, parts fail on their own without any "help"
new-fangled VVT sprockets failing IS common

don't beat yourself up about it , unless you're in to that sort of thing 

No worries, I've been hanging onto the end of a spanner long enough to know we all make mistakes. Pre-loading is a possibility, I didn't use the flat bar to lock the cams at the gearbox end as a) I didn't want to disturb the rocker cover gasket and (fairly rusty) bolts and b) the couple of online guides and the Haynes manual all pointed to it not being necessary unless you're going to remove the cam sprockets. I did use the little right angle bar thing with a hole in it to lock the flywheel using a gearbox mounting bolt and the 2 wedges to lock the cam sprockets. I would have thought that would have been sufficient. I also followed the installation 'order' for the belt as per Haynes.

Finally, the timing was also visually checked twice, each after 2 full rotations of the crank and was bang on (to my eye).

I'll get it stripped down on my breaks over the next few days and hopefully that will tell  me more.