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General Car Chat / Cam Cover Goo

« on: 13 February 2025, 11:27:09 »

In the garage I still have an unopened tube of the black goo for cam covers, I bought it for my old 3.2 Omega.

I need to do the cam cover on the Zafira soon, guides mention putting a blob of goo near the chain area of the cover, where the block goes bigger for the chain. (top/bottom)

Can I use this? Assuming this would still be suitable. 

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General Car Chat / Re: 1.4T Zafira - Oil Feed Pipe

« on: 11 February 2025, 16:13:17 »

If it’s boosting ok, not smoking or making a racket, leave it alone it’s fine👍

No smoke, turbo boost ok, no whine/unwanted noise. 

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General Car Chat / Re: 1.4T Zafira - Oil Feed Pipe

« on: 11 February 2025, 13:55:13 »

I don't think it's that easy on these, from what I can see.

*skip to 3:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkwCKRwp4w&ab_channel=IDoCars

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General Car Chat / Re: 1.4T Zafira - Oil Feed Pipe

« on: 07 February 2025, 16:32:48 »

Probably ok, very tolerant of low oil those engines (the pickup is cast into the sump and pulls from literally the bottom via a plastic strainer), its usually the top end gets noisy first so if that was quiet then all should be good.

Music to my ears, thanks!

Just took it on the school run and everything felt ok, power was fine. (what little it has, being normal)

Noise sounds ok, trying to remember from before. But nothing alarming I would say than previously when I've done oil changes. As I normally change it every ~5k.

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General Car Chat / Re: 1.4T Zafira - Oil Feed Pipe

« on: 07 February 2025, 13:08:08 »

Old O-Rings were knackered!

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General Car Chat / Re: 1.4T Zafira - Oil Feed Pipe

« on: 07 February 2025, 13:04:29 »

Just took off the pipe and took it a local auto-factors, fitted new o-rings on it. Re-fitted the pipe and no more leak 

Sounds ok as well when cold, may have caught it just in time. Time will tell!

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General Car Chat / 1.4T Zafira - Oil Feed Pipe

« on: 07 February 2025, 11:18:06 »

Came home to see oil on the drive, MrsT's Zafira has been loosing oil. From what I can see it's feed pipe to the Turbo from the oil filter housing.

The dip stick had no oil on it 

Needed 1.5L to go in, really concerned that will have done damage to the Turbo and chain, as it could have been like that on a couple of school runs. Even seen oil where she parks at school. 

Pipe looks easy to replace and have one on order, but concerned the turbo has been starved of oil as it was pi$$ing it out of this pipe, meaning the Turbo was probably getting nothing!

Did start it once I topped it up, engine sounded ok but Turbo sounded a little off to me. But that still could be it's lack of oil flow.

Thoughts?

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General Car Chat / Re: Further drop in cost of a new leccy Jag.

« on: 24 January 2025, 19:43:38 »

I've researched these quite a bit, they appear to suffer with battery cell issues, windscreen issues. The Jag forum basically says not to get one without a warranty.....

They also all slate the dealers being horrific in support, given you must use them and can't use an indie.

Temping by price, but think it's for good reason.

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General Car Chat / Re: iPace Buying Advice

« on: 28 June 2024, 21:32:11 »

The BMW has memory seats, but she finds the car to low to drive. 

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General Car Chat / Re: iPace Buying Advice

« on: 28 June 2024, 16:34:15 »

Thanks for overview. 

Anything in particular I should look out for?

8 years is a Jag one right? So any second hand purchase should get that?

HSE spec assume is one to aim for and avoid base S.

Main thing the wife wants is memory seats 

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General Car Chat / Re: iPace Buying Advice

« on: 28 June 2024, 09:21:29 »

Interesting only 1 year lease? Ours our 3.

Basic RWD only Model Y is £550.

3's are more as it's a newer shape.

iPace was £680.

But these are net loss, not gross, which are always near £900+

Which I'm still cannot justify in my head as an acceptable deduction

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General Car Chat / Re: iPace Buying Advice

« on: 27 June 2024, 21:33:55 »

TB is correct that some tariffs are time limited, afaik the two that aren't are octopus and ovo. Both give you as much cheap EV charging as you need, with slightly different strings attached.

One thing I would say is that if you are paying for your own 7kw charger install (and having run two EVs without one I would say it's mandatory for a big batteried car), you don't need to pay for a smart ev charger.

We had one because Octopus paid for it. But the octopus app talks directly to the car to schedule charging and apparently can do the same with the iPace. So we could have had the cheapest basic one going, and had the same result.

Also FWIW we've done 855 miles in six days in the car and no public charging was required. I've charged twice at my work because it's free, but I need not have done. 

Yes seen the Octopus ones look fairly good for planned charging. 99% of the time a 4hr window would easily cover daily drives.

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General Car Chat / Re: iPace Buying Advice

« on: 27 June 2024, 21:33:01 »

On our scheme, Teslas and iPace are massively different, like around £30 a month.

As a rule, I'm wary of the first year or so of production and wait for the niggles to become known and revised.  That said, we bought a very, very, very early XE

2nd hand, all TVs have crashed.  Also, look at insurance prices, not just for this year, but for the last couple of years (so you can gauge what it would be after a year), as they look to be cripplingly high, possibly why used prices have tanked - this reason alone makes our schemes if you wanted an EV quite affordable.  Sadly, our schemes are EV only, and I'm not yet ready for that hassle.

Surprised given the list price difference, it's about £150/m more for an iPace on SS.

It's around £500 for a Tesla Model Y (net loss) ~£900 gross.

Insurance is reasonable, not dirt cheap like the Zaf. It's around £700 on quotes, but yes they do tend to attract a premium.

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General Car Chat / Re: iPace Buying Advice

« on: 27 June 2024, 19:57:54 »

Nice   

Maybe a missed post, but I’m considering a second hand iPace.

Like Omegas their value sinks faster than a brick in a pool.

£20k gets some very nice looking examples. But I fear they will be riddled with faults at 4 years old.

Via work the iPace is considerably more, due to its high list price. (£74k)

Where as Tesla at a mere £43k list, results in the monthlies being much more reasonable.

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General Car Chat / Re: iPace Buying Advice

« on: 27 June 2024, 11:55:34 »

Considering Tesla Model Y and VW ID Buzz via work. Their prices are good at the moment, better than I’ve seen for a while.