Fleet Occurrences

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Realise I haven't updated this in 2021.

Rover 75, MOT'd in January no bother. Found the cause of my brake judder and noise:
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I also investigated the rear door which could no longer be opened from the outside. I found nothing apparently wrong and a liberal dose of silicone spray has seen it right.
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Audi, MOT'd in January no bother. Few water ingress issues now hopefully fixed, parked up in my garage with the windows down for good measure. Even got the roof down earlier this month!
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Bini: Running OK for now (Sshh)

Corsa:

Got so pissed off with the garage who have MOT'd it for the last 10 years that I took it elsewhere, who declared it essentially sound.
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New arrival in February was this Cavalier.

Bought from a friend for £100, it's a well running and solid car, bar a patch of welding needed on the boot floor.

The barrier to an MOT is the emissions.

The garage have had it nearly THREE FUCKING WEEKS and done absolutely Jack shit with it, despite my polite chasing.

I'll get them to do the welding next week and then I'm taking it back and sorting the emissions myself and going elsewhere for an MOT. I understand they are busy but 3 weeks is taking the piss. It's an old 8v Vauxhall not a fucking Tesla, fault finding should be easy.
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Split_Pin wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:32 pm Realise I haven't updated this in 2021.

Rover 75, MOT'd in January no bother. Found the cause of my brake judder and noise:
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A leaf?

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New arrival in February was this Cavalier.

Bought from a friend for £100, it's a well running and solid car, bar a patch of welding needed on the boot floor.

The barrier to an MOT is the emissions.

The garage have had it nearly THREE FUCKING WEEKS and done absolutely Jack shit with it, despite my polite chasing.

I'll get them to do the welding next week and then I'm taking it back and sorting the emissions myself and going elsewhere for an MOT. I understand they are busy but 3 weeks is taking the piss. It's an old 8v Vauxhall not a fucking Tesla, fault finding should be easy.

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C18NZ? 1.8 8v drip feed? (single point injection)

Failed on running 'rich' ?
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Yes it's a C18NZ and its definitely overfueling. We checked the injector as the car was running and the spray pattern looked good, you think it could be dribbling?
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BenHar wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:38 pm
Split_Pin wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:32 pm Realise I haven't updated this in 2021.

Rover 75, MOT'd in January no bother. Found the cause of my brake judder and noise:
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A leaf?

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Split_Pin wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:44 pm Yes it's a C18NZ and its definitely overfueling. We checked the injector as the car was running and the spray pattern looked good, you think it could be dribbling?
Possibly. I'd check temp sensor first though - resistance/temp check.
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Simple 8v engine but too old for most kids playing with spanners these days. If they can't plug an ODB2 in, they're lost.
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This exactly.
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It probably has a OBD port (or ALDL) that a Tech2 can plug into. GM were one of the first to have them.
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Tech 1.
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