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jeepmadmike Mud Obsessed
Joined: 08 May 2005 Odometer: 4573 Location: between 6000+7000 rpm and Devon
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:31 pm Post subject: Car maintainance
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I cannot belive how some cars stay in one piece
My wife's friend left her car here this weekend (citreon Picasso that was my wife's 4years ago) I noticed the wiper blades where at very odd angles and asked what had happened "they have been like that since the windscreen was changed..... (By a company which operates nationally!)
Anyway I thought I would have a look see and they where all over the place going off the screen etc! After 10minute bending the mechanism arms back into shape and fitting the arms the right way around they work:)
So I thought I will check the oil, none on the stick at all! 3.5 litres later it half way up the stick
__________________________________ Land Rovers are the root of all evil!
Now i have gone and bought a D4!
one day i might buy a 86" series one like my dad had when i was a boy. |
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DD Mud Obsessed
Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Odometer: 9761 Location: Aberdeenshire
1986 Land Rover Defender
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:26 pm Post subject:
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Sounds about the norm really. Many people seem to think a car will look after itself between services ( IF it ever sees a service)
__________________________________ Disco 'DD' Don
90 v8 for fun
110 XS CSW daily drive
'I came, I saw, I locked the diff' |
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mmgemini Mud Obsessed
Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Odometer: 3096 Location: Stockton on Tees
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:10 pm Post subject:
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So true.
I saw many a car that should never have been on the road when I worked.
However one day when picking my wife up from school, I noticed a Cavalier with four flatish tyres. Was the owner interested ? Not one bit. the tyres were in the same condition the next week.
How is it these people can get away with it ?
__________________________________ mike FOAK
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
I can cause trouble in an empty house !!! |
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Xpajun Mud Obsessed
Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Odometer: 3245
1988 Mitsubishi Shogun
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:13 pm Post subject: Re: Car maintainance
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jeepmadmike wrote: |
So I thought I will check the oil, none on the stick at all! 3.5 litres later it half way up the stick |
Don't they do that on the MOT then?
What do you mean NO? SO what do I spend out all that money on if they can't be bothered to check the oil
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jojo Mud Obsessed
Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Odometer: 5422
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:45 pm Post subject:
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mmgemini wrote: | So true.
I saw many a car that should never have been on the road when I worked.
However one day when picking my wife up from school, I noticed a Cavalier with four flatish tyres. Was the owner interested ? Not one bit. the tyres were in the same condition the next week.
How is it these people can get away with it ? |
Yep, a mate of mine had a couple of squashy tyres and I asked him when he last checked the pressures and he said that he had the car serviced 8 or 9 months ago and he "presumed" the garage had checked the tyres.
Some people never check the essential things on their cars including vital safety checks. We should have random roadside checks and if it is clear that essential things, especially safety critical things haven't been checked then they should have their car taken away just as it is if they have no insurance. People who don't ensure the safety of their vehicle don't deserve to have one.
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DD Mud Obsessed
Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Odometer: 9761 Location: Aberdeenshire
1986 Land Rover Defender
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:24 am Post subject:
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I was on an advanced driving course along with 9 other colleagues. Not that it makes much difference, but 10 (well, 9!), supposed intelligent professionals; mostly engineers. The instructor was ex-traffic.
During the course, the instructor checked out the 10 cars of the participants and found 40, yes 40, endorsable problems or general issues.
bald tyres,
chipped windscreens
low pressure tyres
no oil
no water
blown bulbs
cracked light surrounds
The mind boggles.....
None no my motor I should add (smug grin).
__________________________________ Disco 'DD' Don
90 v8 for fun
110 XS CSW daily drive
'I came, I saw, I locked the diff' |
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jojo Mud Obsessed
Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Odometer: 5422
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:06 am Post subject:
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That doesn't surprise me, I think most people don't check their cars but have an expectation that everything will be right. At night just see the number of cars that have lighting faults, and what annoys me most about that is that a high proportion of them are minicabs, or private hire taxis if you want to be posh about it!
J
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dxmedia Mud Obsessed
Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Odometer: 2185
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:43 am Post subject:
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I keep an eye on an old cargo horsebox for a friend.
She phoned me up a few weeks back saying that she'd lost drive, can change gear but nothing else.
So spend a few minutes on the phone trying to work out if the clutch had gone (pig of a job since the cab tilt hydraulics dont work), or something else. Turns out that a few weeks back it had stopped leaking diff oil on the hardstanding at the yard.
That was just over a grand fitting a new rear axle, then inflating the tyres, replacing 2 cracked tyres, putting a few litres of oil in the engine, discovering that the truck only had fluid in the front circuit, replaced a fractured brake line. You think some cars are bad, just keep the hell away from horse boxes.
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RichardD Marshall
Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Odometer: 22856 Location: State of Confusion
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:54 pm Post subject:
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Too many stories to mention on this one, from the g/f car that was running hot and "needed to be thrashed to get going" but needed 4 litre of oil, to my ex BiL's motorbike that was making grinding noises because he'd never lubed the chain ....
It amazes me that so many cars have dodgy lights, flat tyres etc yet never seem to fail an MOT.
__________________________________ Poking the Grim Reaper with a stick then running away. The devil made me do it but God said it was okay with him. |
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Xpajun Mud Obsessed
Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Odometer: 3245
1988 Mitsubishi Shogun
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:07 pm Post subject:
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RichardD wrote: | Too many stories to mention on this one, from the g/f car that was running hot and "needed to be thrashed to get going" but needed 4 litre of oil, to my ex BiL's motorbike that was making grinding noises because he'd never lubed the chain ....
It amazes me that so many cars have dodgy lights, flat tyres etc yet never seem to fail an MOT. |
Flat or under aired tyres are not part of the MOT - not even an advisory
Lights only have to be working at the time etc.
To be honest a MOT is just a file on computer (no longer a bit of paper even) it doesn't mean that the vehicle is safe to be on the road a day later
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muddyman Off-Road Guru
Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Odometer: 1617 Location: Bedfordshire
1993 Land Rover Range Rover
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:13 pm Post subject:
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dxmedia wrote: | I keep an eye on an old cargo horsebox for a friend.
She phoned me up a few weeks back saying that she'd lost drive, can change gear but nothing else.
So spend a few minutes on the phone trying to work out if the clutch had gone (pig of a job since the cab tilt hydraulics dont work), or something else. Turns out that a few weeks back it had stopped leaking diff oil on the hardstanding at the yard.
That was just over a grand fitting a new rear axle, then inflating the tyres, replacing 2 cracked tyres, putting a few litres of oil in the engine, discovering that the truck only had fluid in the front circuit, replaced a fractured brake line. You think some cars are bad, just keep the hell away from horse boxes. | don't get me started on the Horse Box thing,, I work on a few, and a few weeks ago a mate asked me to look at one that was "ready to work" I could see day light thought the floor, all the brake lines were shot and the front disc had more pit holes and one had a crake in it.. the best thing was That this lorry had been Mot'ed 2 weeks before!!!!
__________________________________ You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me! |
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. Difflock Royalty
Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Odometer: 40007 Location: Northern Ireland's Gold Coast
2009 Land Rover 110 CSW
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:46 pm Post subject:
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I think part of the problem is that modern cars are not really easy to self service - although that doesn't excuse it
__________________________________ Bert the Defender 110 XS - because it's Cool (work it out yourself!)
Lolita the Lightweight
???? the V8 90 CSW
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Wilbert Robinson Articulating
Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Odometer: 685
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:15 pm Post subject:
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Anyone ever notice that motor mechanics usually own the worst maintained vehicles
__________________________________ Foreplay does not require a four wheel drive
Get your mind out of the gutter................it's blocking my view |
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dxmedia Mud Obsessed
Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Odometer: 2185
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:28 pm Post subject:
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. wrote: | I think part of the problem is that modern cars are not really easy to self service - although that doesn't excuse it |
? I'd disagree with that. A car's just a car. Take the plastic covers off the engine and it's the same oil, filters... Brakes are just the same as old cars. Servicing is just servicing. Fault finding with electronics is a different kettle of fish though.
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