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jeepmadmike
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:31 pm    Post subject: Car maintainance Reply with quote

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 Shocked

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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
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Location: Aberdeenshire


1986 Land Rover Defender

PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds about the norm really. Many people seem to think a car will look after itself between services ( IF it ever sees a service)
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mmgemini
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 ?

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Xpajun
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1988 Mitsubishi Shogun

PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Car maintainance Reply with quote

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 Shocked



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
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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1986 Land Rover Defender

PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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).

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jojo
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!

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dxmedia
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Rolling Eyes

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
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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Xpajun
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Rolling Eyes

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
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Rolling Eyes

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!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think part of the problem is that modern cars are not really easy to self service - although that doesn't excuse it
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Wilbert Robinson
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone ever notice that motor mechanics usually own the worst maintained vehicles Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
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dxmedia
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

. 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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