What's made you smile today?
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You'll probably find it gets more complicated! The second electric water pump will probably be to provide turbo cooling during stop start operation and after the engine is off. They tend to fit them to remove the need to cool down the turbo with gentle driving or a turbo timer before shutting down.
Thanks Andy. I suspect that will be a pleasure compared to what I'm facing with Becky! By the way, very pleased to be able to say I can also report that the front light bulbs - side, head and turn, are all accessed fairly easily from under the bonnet. Unlike my daughter in law's Jazz which requires a dwarf with 21" long fingers to attack it from under the wheel arches after having climbed inside the arch liners! I still bear the scars!
Advice coming thick and fast - thanks Andy. My typing speed can't keep up. I had wondered if it might do that having recently read an article about water cooled turbos. I'm ever so glad I'm on friendly terms with the guys at AVW!
Off to bed now - more grandchildren duties tomorrow so I must go and refill my pockets with dolly mixtures and tic tacs! I'll have time to check back here though before we set off.
Night all, as PC49 (Jack Warner from Dixon of dock green) used to say!
Jock
OOPs sorry Steven. That last post was yours wasn't it. I'm just too tired and cross eyed from doing that big bit on the Ibiza. I'm really off to bed now
Night night all
J
Renault Espace 3, heater blower.
First remove the top of the dash, easy.
Then, go get your 8 foot, double jointed arms, so that you can work on it, while standing outside the car, looking through the windscreen to see what you're doing inside!
On a janurary night at -15 C, naturally.
You have a choice, you can see it, or you can reach it, but not at the same time.
Apparently, Renault techs would place a bathroom mirror on the windscreen.
That sounds interesting. I'm very familiar with various rust converters, as most people who work on older cars probably are, but I can't remember using a paint which specifically contains a rust inhibitor itself. I'd be very interested to know what you use?
Bright and sunny this morning so decided to walk down to our local Honda independent in Bangor road in the hope he might let me have some type 2 coolant for topping up my daughter in law's Jazz when I service it next week. Only need a cup full or so.
Walking down Ferry road and approaching Newcraighall road (a difficult turning to make a right turn at due to volume of traffic on Ferry road) I can see there's something unusual trying to make this turn. Oh my, it's a Bugatti and it's an old one, 1930's? 4 seater with the top down. More or less as I'm level with it the traffic stopped and let him out - it was driven by an elderly chap wearing a dark blue french bonnet. Worn in the manner of the french, on top of the head, not drawn down on one side as a soldier would. - It accelerated very rapidly away towards Golden Acre with a glorious exhaust note and a distinct whine maybe gearbox, maybe supercharger. I had to stand for a minute to allow my knees to recover from the jelly like state they had assumed and as I did so a wonderfully aromatic aroma of slightly rich burnt fuel and lubricating oil drifted over me. Haven't smelt that in some time with our super efficient catalysed particulate filtered modern cars.
Talking about Honda antifreeze, anyone with Honda knowledge on here? I went to the factor to buy some but "only Honda themselves do that" Their product chooser showed their standard red OAT product as being suitable but, as it's name implies, it's red. So if you mix it the colour will change and I don't want that. This, blue colored, type 2 is, as far as I can ascertain, an OAT product so I would expect it to be red - it's not the older silicate type (which was usually blue or sometimes green) If I ever do a complete coolant change on it I would be happy to use the red stuff but I don't want to use it for top ups. Comments anyone?
Walking down Ferry road and approaching Newcraighall road (a difficult turning to make a right turn at due to volume of traffic on Ferry road) I can see there's something unusual trying to make this turn. Oh my, it's a Bugatti and it's an old one, 1930's? 4 seater with the top down. More or less as I'm level with it the traffic stopped and let him out - it was driven by an elderly chap wearing a dark blue french bonnet. Worn in the manner of the french, on top of the head, not drawn down on one side as a soldier would. - It accelerated very rapidly away towards Golden Acre with a glorious exhaust note and a distinct whine maybe gearbox, maybe supercharger. I had to stand for a minute to allow my knees to recover from the jelly like state they had assumed and as I did so a wonderfully aromatic aroma of slightly rich burnt fuel and lubricating oil drifted over me. Haven't smelt that in some time with our super efficient catalysed particulate filtered modern cars.
Talking about Honda antifreeze, anyone with Honda knowledge on here? I went to the factor to buy some but "only Honda themselves do that" Their product chooser showed their standard red OAT product as being suitable but, as it's name implies, it's red. So if you mix it the colour will change and I don't want that. This, blue colored, type 2 is, as far as I can ascertain, an OAT product so I would expect it to be red - it's not the older silicate type (which was usually blue or sometimes green) If I ever do a complete coolant change on it I would be happy to use the red stuff but I don't want to use it for top ups. Comments anyone?
I think it was just a smooth finish hammerite paint which has zinc phosphate in it.
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I have never had any luck painting over rust with rust stopping paints. Hammerite or any other. One of the worst was Hammerite's own fancy primer which (they said) made their finish paints even better. The rust came through just as it would with any paint. Worthless IMO.
Ideally grit blast the area AND use a zinc phosphate primer. For large areas this is the most cost effective and (other than zinc coating) by far the most effective on corrosion.
The gel treatments work but you have to repeat the wire brushing and retreat with gel there are always some specs of rust to come back and haunt you.
The same method works for paint on emulsion treatments but the gels are better though very messy.
I have not tried the dipping solutions (such as sold by Frost), but they should do a good job as the active treatment is working for much longer than any paint on stuff. Not low cost though.
Ideally grit blast the area AND use a zinc phosphate primer. For large areas this is the most cost effective and (other than zinc coating) by far the most effective on corrosion.
The gel treatments work but you have to repeat the wire brushing and retreat with gel there are always some specs of rust to come back and haunt you.
The same method works for paint on emulsion treatments but the gels are better though very messy.
I have not tried the dipping solutions (such as sold by Frost), but they should do a good job as the active treatment is working for much longer than any paint on stuff. Not low cost though.
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Peugeot's Aldi Q3 anyone???
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-48614354?fbclid=IwAR02EkgYfVfJBezvqy97icLDChxUSMUIZCqRXJ65P5oiVnQCw5vo-83ZtMw
Should have got a Panda 4x4 :devil:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-48614354?fbclid=IwAR02EkgYfVfJBezvqy97icLDChxUSMUIZCqRXJ65P5oiVnQCw5vo-83ZtMw
Should have got a Panda 4x4 :devil:
This is why I'm forever dodging stuck and sliding off roaders whenever theres a flake of snow.
A 1.0 Vauxhall Corsa has a 0-60 time of 18.2 seconds....EIGHTEEN POINT TWO.
Not a smile in itself but the reason I looked it up was someone who owns one described it as nippy and that surprised me..well you can't help but think the old corsa owner stereotype is alive and well. The car you buy because you know nothing about cars.
Tbf guy who owns it wouldn't give a stuff..and I guess that's the point, will say I didn't look it up on the spot and laugh in his face...as well it was real life not the internet.. and he's a nice guy.
Not a smile in itself but the reason I looked it up was someone who owns one described it as nippy and that surprised me..well you can't help but think the old corsa owner stereotype is alive and well. The car you buy because you know nothing about cars.
Tbf guy who owns it wouldn't give a stuff..and I guess that's the point, will say I didn't look it up on the spot and laugh in his face...as well it was real life not the internet.. and he's a nice guy.
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The Corsa 'C', the one with the high-level rear lamps was light enough to use this engine adequately. If the engine was revved well up its range, the car went very well. Joining a dual-carriageway, 3rd gear, keep foot planted all the way to 70, then take 5th. Loved the ones I had with BSM, taught the learners that they had to be in the right gear. Acceleration in 2nd and 3rd was quite nippy. A quick overtake would require temporary cancellation of the aircon.
The later 'D' was a heavier car, and even the 1.2 struggled until they lowered the gearing and lost some economy, the 1.0 became a town car only.
Got a 2014 d..
What you are describing there is how I would drive the Mazda, other than the bit about AC..it has climate control so automatically declutches the compressor if you go flat. 16v, naturally aspirated with VVT needs thought and careful use of the gearbox and available rev range to keep up with modern cars and their turbos and torque at 1200 rpm..but I would describe the Mazda as just about fast enough not to be dangerous..and it's a clear 6 seconds + change faster to 60 than this Corsa. Without taking into account the ingear advantage of twice as much torque..which sounds like a boast.. it isn't the Mazda has no torque in a modern context..its just that a 1.0 Corsa wouldn't stretch a rice pudding skin.
If anything I'm amazed that something slower than an Uno fire (my first car..45 asthmatic Italian ponies) from 1991 was available in 2014.
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My 1st car was a 796cc Daewoo Matiz. The 0-60 time was 17 seconds, and up to around 35-40mph, it was genuinely nippy. I remember its eagerness taking my Dad by surprise the 1st time he drove it.
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Typical SUV moron, lol!
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That reminds me of the Twingo we hired in France. It had AC which you had to turn off to get up the hills/mountains. It was like a Turbo Boost button as the whole car would do a little jump and then lurch forwards. It was hilarious!
Still faster than the corsa mentioned above.
Nippy always feels like a word people use to justify slow or poor performing cars, I’ve never heard a Ferrari, Porsche or Lamborghini described as “nippy”
I’e it’s not fast but it’s “nippy”
I've never lived anywhere that lets me enjoy "nippy" cars.
Unfortunately I have to quite regularly join a busy 60 mph or 70 mph road from a standing start, sometimes uphill. In my Punto 55s it was either wait 10 minutes for a suitably sized gap or pick a slightly small one and absolutely cane it mercilessly until you were no longer a rolling road block. As a result the fuel economy was appalling (37mpg from a 1.1) and it was always blowing oil seals out and other such fun.
Even without that there's plenty of steep national limit hills, most without crawler lanes so people tend to stack up behind you, which again leaves you battering the engine far harder than you really should if you care about it to maintain speed.
When I finally got a Mk1 16v while it wasn't a fast car not having to flog it like a mule every day just to keep up with traffic was a much more relaxing experience. I wasn't necessarily going faster it just didn't feel like absolute abuse.
Unfortunately I have to quite regularly join a busy 60 mph or 70 mph road from a standing start, sometimes uphill. In my Punto 55s it was either wait 10 minutes for a suitably sized gap or pick a slightly small one and absolutely cane it mercilessly until you were no longer a rolling road block. As a result the fuel economy was appalling (37mpg from a 1.1) and it was always blowing oil seals out and other such fun.
Even without that there's plenty of steep national limit hills, most without crawler lanes so people tend to stack up behind you, which again leaves you battering the engine far harder than you really should if you care about it to maintain speed.
When I finally got a Mk1 16v while it wasn't a fast car not having to flog it like a mule every day just to keep up with traffic was a much more relaxing experience. I wasn't necessarily going faster it just didn't feel like absolute abuse.
