antni
Part of things
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Sept 20, 2020 23:11:42 GMT
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I borrowed my mum's polo for a few days last year and decided I had to "fix" the horrible random suspension and braking creaks coming from the front right somewhere that two garages had failed to diagnose and fix. Took me about 2 minutes but had been driving her mad for months.
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Sept 23, 2020 15:01:57 GMT
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Had a marcos gt developed a very loud thumping noise speed related, scary enough that i pulled over and did not want to drive any further.
Turned out some bitumen based sound deadening on the transmission tunnel melted, fell off and restuck itself to the propshaft and acted like a flail.
Granted did not take that long to diagnose but was a simple fault that initially seemed quite serious.
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Adey
Posted a lot
Posts: 1,343
Club RR Member Number: 171
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You're twisting my melon man.Adey
@adey1984
Club Retro Rides Member 171
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Sept 25, 2020 16:31:41 GMT
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not on a retro but i was using my old mk2 twingo for the commute, had a really annoying plastic rattle, whilst being french and kind of normal it started to get to me. So i started removing and refitting everything in the car including the dash. Some times i thought id solved it and then others it would come back. I started to think it was heat or weather related. The speakers wernt all that great so i could feintly hear it.
My new work pass that hung around my neck sometimes whilst driving was the culpret. Sometimes id take it off and throw it on the pass seat. I did this once whilst the noise was occuring and just thought "oh you curse word"
took over a month and an easy 10 hours of tinkering to sort that one out.
idiot
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Sept 25, 2020 20:07:05 GMT
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Street ka with a knock over bumps, changed every bush and the top mounts plus the drop links, no difference(they were all past their best) eventually turned out to be a collar clamped around the front anti roll bar hidden behind the bush, the bush looked perfect but even a tiny amount of wear allows the collar to knock on the subframe. Simple 1/2 hour fix parts were only £12 from ford in the end.
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Sept 25, 2020 20:21:26 GMT
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Audi A4 avant B6 1.9TDI.
Younger sons car previously my brothers for many years. Came cheap with a couple of known issues.
One was a small water leak from the bulkhead which would run down the throttle pot wire and cause throttle action to cease. Had been to the garage several times to be fixed and each time the fix was disproved by the car conking out on the M25 in heavy rain with the whole family on board. This is what got it evicted from brothers household. This was a fairly easy fix if time consuming. Previous “professional” garage chimps had obviously moved it to gain access to the wiper mech. As well as butchering the wiper mech they’d trapped the lower seal so a small loop of it was hanging into the car, right over the throttle pedal wire. Easy....
The other was that the auxiliary belt was a terrible squealer. Mostly when manoeuvreing at low speed. This got worse and worse until the steering would kick back quite violently.
Looking back through the history file the car had had several belts, a tensioner and even a power steering pump. The internet though said it was probably the over-run clutch on the alternator...... Who knew such things even existed..... Clearly not the garage chimps..... So I changed the clutch thingy (bit of a trial) and ...... instant cure. Bro wants his car back now!
Nick
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Sept 25, 2020 20:40:58 GMT
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Going back a bit now, senior management had an early (B reg) Peugeot 205 1.4 GR. low mileage, 1 owner main dealer car. Not Peugeot’s finest work. Riddled with faults. Mostly irritating, some a bit more serious. Broken door locks, self dismantling gear linkage, self unbolting brake caliper, persistent, endless pinking when hot.
Dealer useless and not very local, so I gradually worked through the issues. The pinking though..... had clearly been an issue from day one and was all over the service history. Check timing, renew distributor, renew distributor again. I checked the timing and found it was already retarded by several degrees. Putting it to them book figure made matters worse. Though it ran much better when stone cold. I was mystified. Finally, while tinkering I dropped a screw in the air box and ended up having to remove and dismantle it to retrieve the screw. In doing this I discovered the air diverted flap that was meant to select either cool air from the main intake or hot air from a pipe to a shroud on the exhaust manifold. This was supposed to be controlled by a ex capsule and a wire pushrod. But the pushrod was not engaged in the flap so the flap was permanently selecting hot air..... Bingo!
Reassemble correctly, set timing to book figure.... and wow! No more pinking and many more horses released.
She had already had enough of it though and it got traded for a ratty Mk2 Golf GTi, which was just so much better...
Nick
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Sept 25, 2020 21:28:17 GMT
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Has anyone got any stories about annoying faults on their car which took ages to trace and turned to be something ridiculously simple? It'll make me feel better about a clicking noise on the Herald I can't fathom. If the clicking noise on your Herald is road speed related, it's almost certainly a driveshaft inner UJ on the way out!
My own favourite fail was a Polo Diesel which failed to restart 1/2 an hour after being switched off in B+Q car park. Afrter recovering the car and a week of head scratching, fruitless attempts at cures on advice from others much swearing and 3 different diagnostic machines failing to communicate with it, I finally tracked the problem to a broken and shorting wire across the tailgate/body hinge.
How on earth, you may well ask, does a busted wire in the tailgate stop the engine from starting? Simple when you know! The short in the tailgate is from the wire to the high level brake light blowing the brake light fuse which also supplies power to the ECU. no ECU power = no start (and no diagnostic reading, which is the clue that lead to solving it)
The sneaky bit was that the fuse blowing did not instantly stop the engine, it would continue to run until switched off, then fail to restart, cranking fine but not firing!
Steve
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ferny
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 984
Club RR Member Number: 13
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You're twisting my melon man.ferny
@ferny
Club Retro Rides Member 13
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Sept 27, 2020 2:35:43 GMT
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Has anyone got any stories about annoying faults on their car which took ages to trace and turned to be something ridiculously simple? It'll make me feel better about a clicking noise on the Herald I can't fathom. If the clicking noise on your Herald is road speed related, it's almost certainly a driveshaft inner UJ on the way out! I know this. I've just been trying to chase it down to somewhere else in hope! 😄 I only replaced it two years ago after failing on the RBRR. 😪
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