.....Am I the only one who has really bad outbursts at them like 'This ****ing car' and 'What the ****s wrong now' or 'Ahhhhhhh, For **** sake :bang:'?
Well this has been one of those weeks
Where does it start? (This could be a long post at the beginning of what could be a long thread!)
Wednesday night, out an about, and randomly lift one of the floor mats only to hear squelch. So remove all four matts and the foot wells are sodden . So obvioulsy water is getting in somewhere. Deffinatly not the sunroof. I noticed a few weeks ago that one of the pedals was wet when I got in it, but assumed I must have knocked it with my foot when getting in so thought nothing of it. And am now beginning to wonder if water is somehow getting in through down there . Any Idea's
I also hit the pylon in the garden of our college digs, my fault, pratting around, but no damage luckily.
Thursday night, spend 6 hours fitting this bloody light bar. So much for a 30 min Job. It wouldn't sit properly at the front of the car because of the way it curves (who ever said Panda's are square is a liar ), so end up having to put it behind the sunroof. Now got all the light pooring in like blackpool illmin's (I recall someone else fitting one to a Panda and having to blacken out the sunroof iirc?)
Friday night (last night), finally got the light bar wired in properly. But had fun down a dirt track before, and now the battery warning light on the dash dosen't work (what could that be?). After wiring it in, went for a drive at 0200hrs this morning to see how effective it is. And my word it is. About 1.5 miles away from college digs and the steering goes all funny. Typical I think. A flat tyre. But no worse .
The wheel was loose. The nuts had undone themselfs. So tighten them up, worried about how they've become loose, and contine on my way.
Saturday (today). Get up and do my 30 mile journey to the cafe near home to meet dad. The gearbox is beginning to play up now, or the clutch rather. Can't get the bloody thing into gear easily. Grinding :bang:.
Got parked and when parking it was to bad I had to turn the engine off, put in gear, and re-start to move into the space. Call the AA out, only to get, 'oh it shouldn't be doing that' Me - 'I know it shouldn't. FFS why do you think I called you out'
AA - 'It's not normal for gear lever to move what much is it'
Me - 'WHAT :bang:, yes it bloody well is (no different to the 750L, which some tit from the RAC said the same about :nutter. Thats not the bloody problem. She won't enguage'.
AA - 'Oh yea, you have to push your foot all the way down on the clutch and it's still doing it'
Me to dad as he walks back to the van - 'OMG, he's a ****ing genious. WTF did he think I was telling him'
So he comes back and adjusts the clutch, so what is likly to have caused it to need adjusting? I know the clutch was done about 4000-5000 miles ago, just before I brought the Sisley.
So I get back home finally.
I know what I say, lets start my Selecta up as we've charged the battery in it during the week. So get the key's, turn the key - Click Click CLick Click Click.
FFS. What now, well the battery is US'ed. Put the jump pack on her and she started first time. So now got to get that changed
Panda's its just such a Love hate relation ship
:tempt:
Jon.
Well this has been one of those weeks
Where does it start? (This could be a long post at the beginning of what could be a long thread!)
Wednesday night, out an about, and randomly lift one of the floor mats only to hear squelch
. So remove all four matts and the foot wells are sodden . So obvioulsy water is getting in somewhere. Deffinatly not the sunroof. I noticed a few weeks ago that one of the pedals was wet when I got in it, but assumed I must have knocked it with my foot when getting in so thought nothing of it. And am now beginning to wonder if water is somehow getting in through down there . Any Idea's I also hit the pylon in the garden of our college digs, my fault, pratting around
, but no damage luckily.Thursday night, spend 6 hours fitting this bloody light bar
. So much for a 30 min Job. It wouldn't sit properly at the front of the car because of the way it curves (who ever said Panda's are square is a liar ), so end up having to put it behind the sunroof. Now got all the light pooring in like blackpool illmin's (I recall someone else fitting one to a Panda and having to blacken out the sunroof iirc?)Friday night (last night), finally got the light bar wired in properly. But had fun down a dirt track before, and now the battery warning light on the dash dosen't work (what could that be?). After wiring it in, went for a drive at 0200hrs this morning to see how effective it is. And my word it is. About 1.5 miles away from college digs and the steering goes all funny
. Typical I think. A flat tyre. But no worse .The wheel was loose. The nuts had undone themselfs
. So tighten them up, worried about how they've become loose, and contine on my way.Saturday (today). Get up and do my 30 mile journey to the cafe near home to meet dad. The gearbox is beginning to play up now, or the clutch rather. Can't get the bloody thing into gear easily. Grinding
:bang:.Got parked and when parking it was to bad I had to turn the engine off, put in gear, and re-start to move into the space
. Call the AA out, only to get, 'oh it shouldn't be doing that' Me - 'I know it shouldn't. FFS why do you think I called you out' AA - 'It's not normal for gear lever to move what much is it
'Me - 'WHAT :bang:, yes it bloody well is (no different to the 750L, which some tit from the RAC said the same about :nutter
. Thats not the bloody problem. She won't enguage'.AA - 'Oh yea, you have to push your foot all the way down on the clutch and it's still doing it'
Me to dad as he walks back to the van - 'OMG, he's a ****ing genious. WTF did he think I was telling him
'So he comes back and adjusts the clutch, so what is likly to have caused it to need adjusting? I know the clutch was done about 4000-5000 miles ago, just before I brought the Sisley.
So I get back home finally
.I know what I say, lets start my Selecta up as we've charged the battery in it during the week. So get the key's, turn the key - Click Click CLick Click Click.
FFS. What now
, well the battery is US'ed. Put the jump pack on her and she started first time. So now got to get that changed Panda's its just such a Love hate relation ship
:tempt:
Jon.
