GrandeGuy said:

Nephews 1.4 grande is using oil, like A LOT of oil, 1st check was 1 litre top up,
then oil light Came on a month later, it took 2.9 litres to get to full mark :O

Blue smoke, the garage doing warranty are gonna try some magic oil treatment sigh . .
Cos that will fetch the ring
Metal back.

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but 2.9 means it was empty, it may have just been a sticky ring before and that can be cured by forte motor flush run for 2 weeks, but if it was driven far empty its probably new engine time.

doing a turbo swap on my Mjet getting right down to the last stud and it will not come out no matter what! .

I give up time to book it in at the local Italian Specialist :slayer:

dave said:

but 2.9 means it was empty, it may have just been a sticky ring before and that can be cured by forte motor flush run for 2 weeks, but if it was driven far empty its probably new engine time.

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I don't know, nephew is a cant be bothered kinda person, we told him last time to keep checking it, but he "forgets" you don't get the truth, to be honest I think he's ran it out a couple of times and done the damage him self.

Latest job interview :-(
Didn't go too badly but wasn't great :-/ felt I should have done better...

Most Easterly Pandas said:

Correct, you've answered it yourself, your son had none as his previous insurer (the one he was with at the time) reduced it to 0. Hence why everyone else would only give 0 also.

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The point I was trying to make was that even though no claim was made, in fact as I stated, the "victim" fully accepted that the incident was not the driver's fault and signed the PC's pocket book to that effect, the insurance company decided to remove the NCD on the off-chance that a claim would be made some time in the next six years.

When he spoke to other companies they said they would follow the same policy.

The Beard said:

The point I was trying to make was that even though no claim was made, in fact as I stated, the "victim" fully accepted that the incident was not the driver's fault and signed the PC's pocket book to that effect, the insurance company decided to remove the NCD on the off-chance that a claim would be made some time in the next six years.

When he spoke to other companies they said they would follow the same policy.

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Six years is not standard procedure....hell even ppi claims have a shorter time limit than that usually its six months to allow possible for counter claims before it could be closed (although it could be reopened and resettled after that if new evidence or claims are made) unless the policy holder was the only one involved and states they have no intentions of claiming in which case that could be closed immediately.

If that was standard procedure a huge percentage would have their no claims stepped back for years at a time, also if it did reach the end of the 6 year period and could be reinstated then how would anyone know as the most anyone keeps a track of claims wise is 5 years and a lot only keep track of 3.

Any who my grump...the roof of next doors lean to is in my yard...for the 3rd time in 18 months, either change the design or stop putting it back FFS..

Currently engaged in the thankless task of making the micra look more like a car you'd buy for 1300 quid and less like a scrapyard refugee...

I have shampoo, polish, t cut and touch in paint to undo 4.5 years of my OH not giving a ****...

Good luck!

I thought my tax was due at the end of the year. I was wrong, it's due in 22 days... :-(

Unlucky just what you don't need just before xmas

the british movement aka ukip have won clacton-on-sea and their leader is already calling its supporters the ukip peoples army, what does he mean by that? army's normal physically fight (except the salvation army, they fight with crap music)

dave said:

the british movement aka ukip have won clacton-on-sea and their leader is already calling its supporters the ukip peoples army, what does he mean by that? army's normal physically fight (except the salvation army, they fight with crap music)

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Tis the season...politics always goes to the extremes after a long economic slump. Hopefully it'll go the same way as the previous attempt by Oswald Mosley.

I got a punture, didnt notice i had punture as car driving fine, man pointed to it when waiting in traffic, i got out n put space saver on drove to tyre place, tyre ruined full of rubber dust handful's of it, looks like winters are going on early not buying a new summer to use for just a few weeks then take it off leaving it to age

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I got a punture, didnt notice i had punture as car driving fine, man pointed to it when waiting in traffic, i got out n put space saver on drove to tyre place, tyre ruined full of rubber dust handful's of it, looks like winters are going on early not buying a new summer to use for just a few weeks then take it off leaving it to age

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I dont blame you

But if its full of rubbery bits - it means pressures been too low for a while.... unless you were loaded/been nippy on it....

Tbh dont blame you for putting winters on now, the rain were getting you'll only benifit now

i had to fit 2x new summer rubbers because i didnt realise i'd gone back the markers....
But been very good wet tyres and temperatures still above 10 most of the days i dont see point yet in switching

Ziggy

it could have been a slow un since last weeks trip to the scrappy, i checked them on the way there at sainsburys as its free still but not since
just went to get winters out of tyre shed and found 1 old summer that i'd kept from last set as a spare, now not sure if to fit 1 odd tyre and save a few weeks winter wear or not :chin:

Depends which are more expensive to replace lol
A summer tyre in summer will still be okay at 3mm
As u know a winter tyre at 3mm is just a tyre

Ziggy

wrightyy said:

I thought my tax was due at the end of the year. I was wrong, it's due in 22 days... :-(

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Unless you've already removed it there's no excuse for not looking at your tax disc. However, as soon as we no longer have one in the windscreen some of your slightly more elderly/senile members will have to rely on a postal reminder. One thing at the back of my mind though is that I'm sure you're not supposed to rely on the reminder. This was simple with your Guinness label sitting in the corner of the screen but now........

ChrisUK said:

doing a turbo swap on my Mjet getting right down to the last stud and it will not come out no matter what! .

I give up time to book it in at the local Italian Specialist :slayer:

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Are you going for a like for like swap or something different? A Holset from a Big Cam Cummins or a KKK from an '80s Porsche perhaps?

Thinking about it though, a failing turbo is something that's been mentioned before when it comes to MJ engines. Is yours on its way out?

StevenRB45 said:

Tis the season...politics always goes to the extremes after a long economic slump. Hopefully it'll go the same way as the previous attempt by Oswald Mosley.

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My Grandmother threw eggs at Mosely as he marched through the East End. My Grandad was a bit hacked off as apart from some bread there was bugger all else in the pantry.

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Are you going for a like for like swap or something different? A Holset from a Big Cam Cummins or a KKK from an '80s Porsche perhaps?

Thinking about it though, a failing turbo is something that's been mentioned before when it comes to MJ engines. Is yours on its way out?

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Nah, doing a like for like swap. It's a Garret Variable Vane Turbo this is a "1 piece cast" with the manifold. The turbo itself was absolutely fine the manifold cracked all the way from top to bottom in-between cylinders 1 - 2. This made it "puff" like a Big cummins diesel truck :devil: and drink diesel!

Bought a Turbo with 30,000 miles on from a Suzuki SX4 for £160 :slayer: