Car D.I.Y.

[Fastpedaller]

Driveshaft be changed..

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It was a bit awkward getting the gearbox side out due to.the engine mount being in the way but I got there.

Didn't replace the oil seals due to the Honda Parts department being rubbish. I did mark it with the drift but fingers crossed it's okay. If it does weep it's only three bolts (and wheel nuts) to get get to it.

Of course now I've fitted it, I've seen loads of bad reviews for the driveshaft supplier, but hopefully they're from people running exotic limit pushing set ups in performance cars.... Not Honda Jazz

If the new one is better quality than the old then that's good. Whatever, it's better than a broken one.
We bought a brand new, pre-registered Fiat Grande Punto in 2009. In hot weather there was a 'tap-tap-tap' sound which seemed to be under the dash. I made the 'management decision' which SWMBO agreed with ....... If we take it to the dealer they'll remove the dash, break things and we'll have a lot more rattles. When the first MOT was due at year 3, they found a small amount of play in the anti-roll bar links but only advised. i decided to change them anyway and the noise we'd had from day 1 wasn't there any more. So the replacements were better than the original ones. At year 7 we traded the Fiat in and bought a Ford (we should never have strayed from Ford )

 

[Drago]

Don't want to dip your headlights when driving towards me?
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Then gaze upon my works ye mighty and despair!
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Phone the insurers this morning. The good news is Ailing Fux don't want any extra premium. Yippee.

Bad news is it needs noting on the policy and that's incurred a £30 admin charge for 2 or 3 minutes work by their call hamdler - that makes their labour rate about £900 an hour!

So either way they bend you over and pull your pants down. How nice of them.

 

[lazybloke]

Son arrived home with a car on a trailer yesterday. It belonged to a mate but the car, an Audi A3 S Line is knackered. He had a thought of doing it up and selling for a grand.

Let's say I was not pleased. Where are you keeping it then ? He didn't know. So much for doing a mate a favour and taking the car from his back yard.

I said aren't you better scrapping it for a couple of hundred. Anyway on further investigation the car has its own swimming pool and eco system. He decided to scrap it. I said the alloys and tyres look OK. So he got £200 to scrap it and kept the wheels which will clean up and sell for a fair few hundred with good tyres. Far more profit and less time.

You've just given me an insight into the experiences of my parents when I was a teenager and had TWO rusting wrecks cluttering the front garden.

 

[dicko]

This cold snap we are experiencing has led to Police warning drivers about warming your car up on the drive unattended. Insurance companies are warning on the radio that if you do warm up unattended then you invalidate your cover. We no longer need to do this as we are retired but several in our street start ‘em up and go back indoors.
One advantage to EV owners who program a warming period.

 

[Fastpedaller]

This cold snap we are experiencing has led to Police warning drivers about warming your car up on the drive unattended. Insurance companies are warning on the radio that if you do warm up unattended then you invalidate your cover. We no longer need to do this as we are retired but several in our street start ‘em up and go back indoors.
One advantage to EV owners who program a warming period.

My wife does this, but she uses the other set of keys to lock the car after she comes indoors. As it's not an automatic and it's on our drive I don't think it's breaking any rules or insurance conditions. Unless, the insurance co (in the even of theft) disregards the fact the car is locked.

It's like insurance companies have this 'rule' that house windows must be locked ....If the house is burgled I can understand no cover if the windows have been left open, but with double-glazed units the burglar can't open the window even if it's unlocked unless he breaks the glass, in which case it makes no sense.

 

[Fastpedaller]

What has any of that got to do with me?

It's 'part of the job', like when I was told by my BIL that he'd been 'held up' by a cyclist as if I could do anything about it
As he is about 5stone overweight I told him that he should be using a bike himself so he could appreciate that a car trying to overtake a bike on a bend isn't good (yes, that's what he was trying to do ). He did buy a bike (but it was EV) - maybe if he disconnected the battery he could get his weight down quicker.

 

[november4]

In Canada used to use remote starter, or sump plugs - like a kettle lead hanging from front that kept oil warm from element in sump. Needed that if car parked outside.

 

[CXRAndy]

My wife does this, but she uses the other set of keys to lock the car after she comes indoors. As it's not an automatic and it's on our drive I don't think it's breaking any rules or insurance conditions. Unless, the insurance co (in the even of theft) disregards the fact the car is locked.

It's like insurance companies have this 'rule' that house windows must be locked ....If the house is burgled I can understand no cover if the windows have been left open, but with double-glazed units the burglar can't open the window even if it's unlocked unless he breaks the glass, in which case it makes no sense.

Yes the insurance will likely refuse to pay out for you have left a car unattended with keys in it. A quick punch with a sharp object on the driver's door window and thief will be in and gone in seconds.

My neighbour had his car stolen by leaving the keys on the driver's seat whilst he walked up a drive to a house to drop off a letter, by the time he turned around the vehicle was gone. Extremely bad timing and luck to have a scrote in close proximity. Then again this government and previous one have opened the flood gates to lawlessness

 

[CXRAndy]

It's 'part of the job', like when I was told by my BIL that he'd been 'held up' by a cyclist as if I could do anything about it
As he is about 5stone overweight I told him that he should be using a bike himself so he could appreciate that a car trying to overtake a bike on a bend isn't good (yes, that's what he was trying to do ). He did buy a bike (but it was EV) - maybe if he disconnected the battery he could get his weight down quicker.

Using an ebike is an excellent way of maintaining your effort in Z2 far burning zone.

Re overtaking a cyclist on a bend is dick head move unless you can clearly see around the bend

 

[Fastpedaller]

Yes the insurance will likely refuse to pay out for you have left a car unattended with keys in it. A quick punch with a sharp object on the driver's door window and thief will be in and gone in seconds.

My neighbour had his car stolen by leaving the keys on the driver's seat whilst he walked up a drive to a house to drop off a letter, by the time he turned around the vehicle was gone. Extremely bad timing and luck to have a scrote in close proximity. Then again this government and previous one have opened the flood gates to lawlessness

I guess it depends to a large extent on the neighbourhood (although there is rural crime ie farm equipment theft) local to us. I left the door keys in the front door all night once , but nobody came in. Our daughter left her door keys (including car keys) in her front door when she was living on the outskirts of Cambridge - she found them the next morning but it (understandably) scared her and she's never done it since.

 

[raleighnut]

I guess it depends to a large extent on the neighbourhood (although there is rural crime ie farm equipment theft) local to us. I left the door keys in the front door all night once , but nobody came in. Our daughter left her door keys (including car keys) in her front door when she was living on the outskirts of Cambridge - she found them the next morning but it (understandably) scared her and she's never done it since.

Maz accused me of nicking a tenner once, I opened the front door to let one of the cats out and there's a ten pound note laying on the doormat outside

 

[fossyant]

Phone the insurers this morning. The good news is Ailing Fux don't want any extra premium. Yippee.

Bad news is it needs noting on the policy and that's incurred a £30 admin charge for 2 or 3 minutes work by their call hamdler - that makes their labour rate about £900 an hour!

So either way they bend you over and pull your pants down. How nice of them.

Don't go burning any camper's tents down with them, they won't be happy ! LOL.

 

[Drago]

Don't go burning any camper's tents down with them, they won't be happy ! LOL.

I shall be very careful. I don't want to accidentally trigger a nuclear war.