Liquid Knight said:

If you have a weeping wheel cylinder on a post millennium VAG take it to the scrap yard and leave it there. :bang: :bang: :bang:

Twenty minute job on a Fiat and I'm three hours in on my dads Skoda Fabia with no sign of being done before Easter 2018!

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You simply dont have a big enough flame

Ziggy

Another two hours later and it's all done, both side bled and ready to go.

Oh the rear wheels are now locked solid. No chance of getting the drums back off to see what's wrong. Stupid six spring set up with a self adjusting pin that drops while you are putting the drums on and lock the wheels as soon as you try to move the car.

I know VW wanted people to buy Golfs and Polos but sabotaging Fabia brakes so you need the virtues of a saint is below the belt. No wonder there are so many 2002-2005 Skodas in scrap yards.

Ziggy122 said:

You simply dont have a big enough flame

Ziggy

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and hammer needs to be much bigger..

I spoke to a chap who works for a VW dealership...

Me said:

How much for a pair of wheel cylinders and shoes fitted?

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VAGman said:

£140 in parts plus eight hours labor at £30 per hour. £20 per hour if we M.O.T (£45) and service your car (£140) as well

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Me said:

We're in the wrong game here lads.

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cant get petrol hedge cutter to run, stripped cleaned and rebuilt carb, cleaned spark screen in exhaust, fitted new plug, it will fire up on full throttle but then die again :bang:

dave said:

cant get petrol hedge cutter to run, stripped cleaned and rebuilt carb, cleaned spark screen in exhaust, fitted new plug, it will fire up on full throttle but then die again :bang:

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Bin it an get electric, that what I've always done, hate petrol hedge cutters with a passion!

Check diaphragm dave

Most Easterly Pandas said:

Bin it an get electric, that what I've always done, hate petrol hedge cutters with a passion!

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its for daughters new flat over run with think brambles my electric one will say no. plus will have to run it off a generator as garden is long way from flat i don't think i have a lead long enough

Andy Monty said:

Check diaphragm dave

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that looked fine when i stripped the carb, i suppose its time to double check every thing

Selling the micra privately...jesus wept.

1st bloke looks round the car, I like it I'll have a think...comes back what's the mileage? 86k...thats far too much!, it's 11 its an average of less than 8k a year get stuffed. I hope he's very happy when he buys a super low mileage one that's never been in regular use so drops to bits the moment it sees at as everything has perished and its been serviced once in the last 5 years..

2nd bloke I'll give you a grand, ok soddit we'll take it, adverts down, insurance cancelled, actually no 650...although at least he took it for a grand in the end.

So glad the new car is leased so we don't have to deal with these sort of people again.

Yup I hate selling cars. Don't have the patience or the ability not to say what I'm thinking. I've told someone to f@#$ off before.

ChrisUK said:

Yup I hate selling cars. Don't have the patience or the ability not to say what I'm thinking. I've told someone to f@#$ off before.

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Tbf that is the very abridged version....I missed out the endless f**king on of the guy who eventually bought it who had the audacity to turn up the a quote for it from we buy and car and ask to buy it for 10 quid less than that....when that's the start point you can imagine how much fun the rest of the process was. Lets just say I've seen ones advertised with severe front end damage and spares or repair for more than he wanted to pay for it..

StevenRB45 said:

Tbf that is the very abridged version....I missed out the endless f**king on of the guy who eventually bought it who had the audacity to turn up the a quote for it from we buy and car and ask to buy it for 10 quid less than that....when that's the start point you can imagine how much fun the rest of the process was. Lets just say I've seen ones advertised with severe front end damage and spares or repair for more than he wanted to pay for it..

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I always ebay, goes for price sold at auction, never tend to get any time wasters personally luckily, had one once, but was to the point and said you bid, it's that price or p*** off basically.

Tbh we probably sold it for less than it was worth but we both work full time having people round to kick the tyres and insult your intelligence isn't worth the extra hassle. It's gone tax is off it, insurance is cancelled and all in all we got 2.5x more than we got offered for it as a trade in at Arnold Clark.

Bloody conspiracy in my house today. For me to cycle to work I have to leave at half five. The bathroom was occupied from 05:08 to 05:32

So I had to drive to work. No problem I can set off at five to six instead. The bad Penny Punto had a flat battery so it needed a jump start.
No problem it's only five past six I'll still have plenty of time.
The tills shut down at the petrol station. I couldn't leave cash and go so after all that I arrived at work two minutes late.

Grrrrr! :bang:

My car and its electrical gremlings turned up again today also iv ran out of electric in my flat

My car not starting

On the way home tonight and I changed lanes about 2-3 cars gap ahead of some bloke who then gave me plenty of flashing for no reason. He then sped past and I noticed he was driving with his wing mirrors folded up and only his sidelights on .... :tosser:

:,( struggling to surive this mental torture of Final Masters year at Uni...
Human resource management, Reasearch using paper back books and old records which are classed as missing?! The troubles continue...

Being awake at this time due to the jeb ends next door..(I'm off work till mid November yay) I'd have thought their friends blasting their horns everytime they passed would have got old by now but apparently not. However they also yell woo everytime they've had a sniff of drink (ala how I met your mother) and are inconsiderate enough to wait for a brand new car to be unloaded and park up in front of the house before drilling into the front wall 3 feet away above it. Hadn't even been on the sodding public road yet and it was covered in brick dust...

Breaking my driver seat frame... Just snapped in two...