isn’t life typical, my car broke down this morning, and it only happens to be My Birthday! The RAC patrol man, told me it’s the auxilary belt tensioner.
Archive for the ‘car’ Category
Car Broke Down
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Car Maintenance
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009I put on my mechanics head today, to perform some simple maintenance on my car. One small rubber damper had fallen off which holds on the engine cover. Whilst I removed the engine cover, another one had fallen off, so I had to replace two. Simple job with a 14mm spanner and items from eBay.
If you look at the top (rocker cover) and bottom right (of picture) you’ll see the dampers (or lack off)
- Missing engine damper
close up of missing rubber damper, the rubber eventually gives and snaps off!
- dampers installed
14mm spanner and all done.
- dampers installed
cream spikey things are the new dampers.
- Engine Cover replaced
this was a little more difficult, to re-align the holes with the dampers than I thought!
Mobile Speed Trap! Damn! Damn! Damn!
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Appoximatelty fourty miutes ago, I was double flashed in the dark, 10 feet later, I passed national speed limit applies signs, I turned the car around to check, and the signs going back in stated 30mph. I later drove up to a Van full of the fuzz in the dark, with a mobile speed camera!
Who were laughing!!!
Umm.
Live by the sword die by the sword!
I’ll have to keep an eye on the post! See what drops through the letterbox, I was also programming my TomTom at the time!
Environmentally Friendly Air Filters for cars
Friday, October 30th, 2009I’ve just fitted a K&N High-Flow Air Filter to my new car.
- Designed to increase horsepower and acceleration.
- Washable, reusable, lifetime product.
- Wash every 50,000 miles.
- Warranty for 1,000,000 miles.
Yes, another car, it’s a Citreon Xsara LX 2.0 HDi (turbo diesel).
Over 100 million disposable air filters are discarded each year. This filter is cleanable and will last for the life of the vechile. My bit for the environment. and I don’t have to change it for another 50,000 miles.
I’ve got some nice K&N stickers for my car as well!!! (I’ve stuck them on!), I think these could be to warn the doppy mechanics not to through away the lifetime air filter.
Chilli plants
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
I’ve now planted out all my tomatoe plants, so the porch is empty except the chilli plants and butternut squash seeds I’ve just planted.
butternut squash seeds planted
Although my early tomatoe plants did very well this year in the porch early on, too much light has caused them to bolt, and become very thin and long, I’m not too sure If I’m going to have another disaster, last year, the cold in the green house was causing them issues, this year, the heat was right in the porch, but too much light, so next year I think I’m going to have to grow on early, and transfer them to the greenhouse under cover.
But the chilli plants love the heat and light in the porch, so maybe next year, I’ll just grow chillis!
Anyway I hoping I get some chillis off these plants for making chilli for Paul/Sally and David when he visits in his new Nissan GT-R!
eh, David pictures of the last but one car… (not the Fiat!). I preferred this one to the VW EOS, isn’t that a hairdressers car? (no offense intended to hairdressers!)
Subaru Impreza
Subaru Impreza under the bonnet
Let me introduce you to our new car…
Saturday, January 26th, 2008This is the first time I’ve seen the car in the daylight, I collected the car on Monday 21st January, and it was raining and getting dark, by the time, I arrived home it was dark. We’ve been driving and returning home from work, all week in the dark. So this is the first time, I’ve had a good look at the car and take her photo! On-board computer states we’ve averaged 36.9mpg, and we’ve only done 127 miles!
Suzuki Swift VVTS 1.5GLX 5 Door Petrol in Galatic Grey Metallic.
If you were wondering it’s just been newly registered on 21st January 2008, so it’s on a ‘57 plate!
New 1490cc Petrol Engine. Checking where I top up the wash bottle!
Checking where I check the oil! All seems very new!
The Peugeot 205 nearly didn’t start today! Must do something with it!
New Car
Monday, January 21st, 2008I collected our new car this afternoon at 4.00pm, and have just had the pleasure of driving it back from the dealer in York. It’s fantastic. I’ll post pictures when daylight permits!
New Year: New Car!
Monday, January 7th, 2008We’ve Ordered A New Car!!!!
Those of you that know us, will know that we have been driving a Yellow Peugeot 205 Raylle Sport Special for a very long time. (Yes, we still have it, and we are still driving it on a daily basis, it’s now coming up to 168,000 miles, with the same engine, okay, the gearbox maybe new and it has a new water pump recently fitted in the last 6 months!).
So after many weeks of searching and test driving cars, Suzuki Swift 1.5GLX, Toyota Yaris TR, Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 16v, Reanult Clio and a Skoda Fabia 1.4 16v, we have decicded to order a new Suzuki Swift 1.5GLX 5 Door in Galactic Grey Metallic from Glen Garage, York
It should arrive in approximately 14 days.
New Gearbox .. Ouch!
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Oh and just when I thought I was flush with money this month, the gearbox in the Yellow Peril broke, it’s not been happy selecting 2nd Gear for over 12 months, and then it stopped going into 2nd Gear!
New gearbox required!
If you look carefully, the new silver thing is the new shiny gearbox! Hope this one does 157,000 miles!
A Bit of Car Loving!
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Most of you probably know we drive a Peugeot Talbot 205 Rallye Sport Special.
Yes : We still have it!
We’ve had the Yellow Peril for many years, and despite 157,900 miles on the clock, it’s still going, unlike many other 205s which have since gone to the Great Scrapyard in the Sky.
This isn’t anything to do with the house, but what the heck, it’s my blog, and the site is about Andysworld.
The Solex carburetor has been playing up for many years due to possibly a worn throttle linkage or ice in the carburetor on cold mornings, in the winter it can sometimes be a pregnant dog, and in the summer also or it just needs a knew carb, or someone that understands them that can strip it down and clean it!
Today, I thought it was time to give the car some luvvving…So I’ve cleaned the leather seats ready for some leather nourishment cream, fixed a hole in the boot with Isopan P40/aluminium mesh and cleaned the carburetor with Redex.
Here is the video of The Redex Experiment hosted on You Tube.
After test driving the car, it certainly has more poke than before, and the throttle seems more responsive! We will see what those damp/cold mornings are like next week.
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