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I rebuilt all the calipers off two 4x4s last weekend, using kits from tinternet.
Needed three pistons over the eight, not bad and all in less than £200.
Must be the season for tyres and brakes, need to do the Golf next and the Transit needs fresh rubber up front. Maybe it is the way I drive.
I rebuilt all the calipers off two 4x4s last weekend, using kits from tinternet.
Needed three pistons over the eight, not bad and all in less than £200.
Must be the season for tyres and brakes, need to do the Golf next and the Transit needs fresh rubber up front. Maybe it is the way I drive.
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Four wheels worth of pads and discs on the Subaru in the last fortnight plus a blowout on Skye on Wednesday which caused the purchase of two new tyres too :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Last month the throttle position sensor packed in so it was either £350 plus VAT from dealer of £60 guaranteed from breaker
LR in for MOT and should be back next week :xmas-big-grin:
Promise to upload pics of VW van eventually
Four wheels worth of pads and discs on the Subaru in the last fortnight plus a blowout on Skye on Wednesday which caused the purchase of two new tyres too :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Last month the throttle position sensor packed in so it was either £350 plus VAT from dealer of £60 guaranteed from breaker
LR in for MOT and should be back next week :xmas-big-grin:
Promise to upload pics of VW van eventually
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Sold the Forester we just acquired, got offered a silly price. Now on the hunt for an auto one with all the leather as well as everything else. Decided I want the Turbo after feeling it was a little ponderous fully loaded, though in all other aspects it was perfect.
Pajeros gone now.
Wife returned her new Mini after numerous problems.
I am too used to 'comfort' to look at an old Landy again, but my dad is thinking about 'retiring' his Land Cruiser.
Bingo! I hope..
Have you seen the size of the driveshafts on the Land Cruiser?
Right now I have my mum's Golf as a daily driver, until I have finished 'lifting' it.
Forgot how nice they were to drive.
Sold the Forester we just acquired, got offered a silly price. Now on the hunt for an auto one with all the leather as well as everything else. Decided I want the Turbo after feeling it was a little ponderous fully loaded, though in all other aspects it was perfect.
Pajeros gone now.
Wife returned her new Mini after numerous problems.
I am too used to 'comfort' to look at an old Landy again, but my dad is thinking about 'retiring' his Land Cruiser.
Bingo! I hope..
Have you seen the size of the driveshafts on the Land Cruiser?
Right now I have my mum's Golf as a daily driver, until I have finished 'lifting' it.
Forgot how nice they were to drive.
zigzag":2m16bwry said:Did my first bit of spannering on a car in about 10 years. Seized caliper on the MX-5 replaced with an overhauled unit (wasn't about to spend £300-odd quid for a new from Mazda), plus new pads.
Didn't die on the test drive afterwards either!
Mk3? How old is it? Mines only a year old but suffers from squeaky rear brakes so I think I need to do a bit of fettling.
Just had the BBR 180 hp kit fitted to it though, which has transformed it from a tame mild mannered little roadster into something with more "balls". Didn't have the cash to go for their 270hp turbo option, even though my Mazda dealer offered it without affecting the warranty. Probabley just as well, I think I'd have found the limits of my talent fairly quickly and have disappeared arse first through a hedge. The 180hp manifold and remap is plenty, and the new manifold is rather pretty...
My other everyday car/van/mobile shed was in need of tyres the other day, so I confused the monkey at the local tyre centre to the point where I almost had to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on his brain. All I did was order winter tyres in June, surely its not that uncommon...
Lovely, didn't know BBR were offering that upgrade - that's a pretty decent hike in power. Does it still have a cat after the manifold and another in the exhaust? I remember following one bloke's story on one of the MX-5 forums from several years ago when he tried a supercharger kit - I don't think he ever quite got it running right.
Mine's an early Mk3. 8 year old 1.8, Winning Blue (still the best colour!) - just gone past 105k. Been rock-solid reliable till this year - new exhaust, then the caliper above and a dodgy replacement front hub that had my mechanic pulling his hair out - ABS light kept coming on, he thought it was a wiring issue and spent a Saturday trying and failing to trace it, eventually tried another front hub from a different supplier and the problem was fixed. He wasn't a happy chappy.
Already been through a hedge in mine (well actually it was a fence), wasn't quite pointing backwards though. Had the good fortune to crash next to a garage who heard the crash, trundled over and dragged me out of the field
Mine's an early Mk3. 8 year old 1.8, Winning Blue (still the best colour!) - just gone past 105k. Been rock-solid reliable till this year - new exhaust, then the caliper above and a dodgy replacement front hub that had my mechanic pulling his hair out - ABS light kept coming on, he thought it was a wiring issue and spent a Saturday trying and failing to trace it, eventually tried another front hub from a different supplier and the problem was fixed. He wasn't a happy chappy.
Already been through a hedge in mine (well actually it was a fence), wasn't quite pointing backwards though. Had the good fortune to crash next to a garage who heard the crash, trundled over and dragged me out of the field
epicyclo":2gxup8w7 said:I used to be a car enthusiast, a temporary perversion of my youth back in the deluded days when derailleurs seemed a good idea.
My first car was a barn find - one of the Singer team cars from the 1934 Le Mans race - cost me £15. Bit of petrol, a borrowed dud battery, some energetic work with a bicycle pump (lots and lots of it!), about half an hour of maybe this time with the starting handle, and I drove it home unencumbered by a driving licence (too young), registration, insurance, or MoT. It had a crunchy diff, and that was the first of several major jobs I had to do on it. Luckily I didn't know diffs were supposed to be difficult, I just thought I wasn't very good at it and stripped it a few times to reshim and rematch cogs until I got it right.
Singer LeMans Special Speed "Porthos"
You didn't buy anychance buy it from a chap in Leeds did you?
My father had a Singer Le Mans and sold it off when the garage it was living in started to fall down around it... He of course blames the arrival of me for the car having to go.
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Bought this last weekend
Had to sell the big BMW to fund it, so i've gone from a comfortable, well built, quiet, reliable car to a cramped, poorly built, noisy, unreliable one :roll:
On top of all that the Disco is dead, started blowing out tons of blue grey smoke and misfiring on Thursday night, so i have two knackered cars and no transport.
There is no cure for me :roll:
Bought this last weekend
Had to sell the big BMW to fund it, so i've gone from a comfortable, well built, quiet, reliable car to a cramped, poorly built, noisy, unreliable one :roll:
On top of all that the Disco is dead, started blowing out tons of blue grey smoke and misfiring on Thursday night, so i have two knackered cars and no transport.
There is no cure for me :roll:
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