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General Car Chat / Re: Old Diesel Fuel

« on: 20 March 2024, 09:44:57 »

Draining any water out of it would be a good start, but allow for filtering any biomass out of it. Diesel bug is a real thing and will kill pumps and injectors before you can say Oops.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 19 March 2024, 22:44:29 »

£160 a corner for mine... Must be a Jaaaag thing

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.

« on: 18 March 2024, 16:17:59 »

I have purchased an Imperial Green Insignia Elite Estate.  That runs on Forklift fuel. 1.owner full history

Is that the Lotus Carlton colour?

Good car... .....just needs AWD to make it perfect. 

How old?

How much?

 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 18 March 2024, 11:22:46 »

There's no change at the motor when the switch is actuated up or down... Zero voltage and continuous circuit between + and -

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.

« on: 17 March 2024, 23:42:46 »

A diesel Signum then

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 17 March 2024, 23:35:49 »

True enough, thinking about it, I have only owned two cars with manual front windows... A 1985 Sierra L and a 1988 VW Polo.

And only 6 cars with manual rear windows... The problem with modern cars is that everything runs off a network of boxes rather than old school mechanical switches, fuses and relays. Downsizing in the name of progress

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 17 March 2024, 21:28:11 »

Managed to get two of the screws undone. Turns out they're actually E10 torx. The garage can fight the other two as they have a bracket stuck over them making it almost impossible to get a decent purchase on them so rather than round them off I have soaked them in oil and let them be.

Also started to investigate why the rear windows don't work. Some basic poking got the motors out and established that the motor physically turns freely and its gearbox moves without issue, as do the regulators... I did wonder if the windows had stuck in the frames, but the regulators move without issue if you manually move the windows, so frames lubed with PTFE spray.

Electrically, the switches work but there's something amiss in the door ECUs as there is a short between the two power feeds to the motor regardless of switch position which suggests a fault within the door ECUs as they contain relays  that supply the motor rather than a software issue.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 17 March 2024, 12:29:29 »

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.

Well, they used the same system on the W220 and at least the W221 uses an external hex head instead of an Allen one

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 16 March 2024, 18:28:24 »

Replacement tyre delivered and fitted whilst I was away. Garage kindly swapped it for the spare.

Partial retest booked for next Saturday.

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 16 March 2024, 16:33:29 »

Not far from me. Tempting. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166651027339?itmmeta=01HS3DYS3HKDKJYXGC5GXCWN0B&hash=item26cd2cdf8b:g:q8kAAOSw5oll9VSD&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HkYa9TcYMajI5DbUiToKMzpghrZor%2FKz7FRTrWjwcUuKsRk%2BqwnpfVXeEftRUdrhsjJ4HrEqzcxauK5Wnyl%2BAU1BLbczES3Eg6WIyWPdxWYqGSQlRVa0z6z0mTEQ4I37yti3VbiG82kXDgm6WlsMBhxc0qkUDoNxt4Lx2bQ1SonNaa%2F1L%2Bm%2BaCHKP%2B9HkeYkAj%2BlCQt0MBqP5gMQNjUCGhWpIP%2FIx0XT66R9EGavtm0qe%2BJgl6N5n8JrVpGx3IkAhvBracRXwFPfsI5db8Unic%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_SR--3IYw

has trees growing in it or has partially collapsed/rotted away

cut out the middle man (me ) and say it as it is 

I normally do but people start crying 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Jock cop woke joke.

« on: 16 March 2024, 15:05:48 »

Scotland is fast becoming a clone of urban Canada.

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 16 March 2024, 11:37:29 »

To your last, yes if it has trees growing in it or has partially collapsed/rotted away

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

« on: 16 March 2024, 11:35:48 »

If it does, its likely that Putin will then carry on into other countries, hoping to rebuild his beloved USSR.

He'll be dead long before that ever happens.

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

« on: 16 March 2024, 02:16:48 »

Leave them to it. Ukraine will eventually become two places.

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General Car Chat / Re: Mark Drakeford

« on: 16 March 2024, 02:10:47 »

There's an environmental argument against such low speeds as vehicles simply aren't designed to travel so slowly... Not to mention the fact that localised pollution is increased by virtue of traffic build up.

Lundun being a case in point as localised pollution increases in direct proportion to each drop in traffic speed/flow.

Yet, some motorways have displayed the Matrix boards to reduce the speed limit to 60mph to 'improve air quality' (supposedly)...the M1 near Sheffield being one 

That's just ended because......work this one out.....air quality has improved. Now, has it improved because of the speed reduction, in which case why increase it again? Or is it just magic?

Or was it because all the traffic took a different route because that one was too slow?