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If you are going to have one of these or the Seat Arosa then I reckon the post facelift 1.4TDI like this is the one. We had the earlier Arosa in 1.7SDi flavour and although the car was very decent in many ways, about the best you can say about that engine is that its economical. The 085 gearbox is very fragile too. Nice handling car though (even better with the lighter 3 cylinder I imagine), and the total absence of grunt teaches you to conserve momentum!
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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Nice car. My brother had a 16v GTi and that was quite a beast. When it worked. It was great initially, fast, comfortable, great handling, but that was before it started to get old, and then it was only great when it was working.
Not the easiest to work on..... he reckoned garages used to close when they saw him coming. He needed a clutch and no one would do it apart from the main dealer, who wanted big money . He finally found a fast fit place who reckoned they could do it in a day and quoted a reasonable price. He got it back about a week later. The manager admitted it was the first on they’d done, and would be the last. Three days later the starter motor fell out. Apparently the bolts were particularly inaccessible so they’d only put one back, and not very tight.
The sun roof killed it in the end. It leaked, which made the floor wet, which made the ECU unhappy, so it stopped working in wet weather.
I think it’s engine ended up in a 205 GTi, but I reckon the BX was the better place for it.
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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Seems the bandit vehicle crashed and wound up in a police impound yard. Presumably the driver did a runner.
Sir had a text from his insurer asking why he hadn't reported his accident..... so he rang them to explain that he hadn't had one! Photo required to show his car safe in the works car park and they were happy. We'd quite like closure from whichever police force finished up with the car - if only so we have something to wave at those with their hands out for money - but may never get it.
Hopefully that's the end of it provided there aren't any other demands still in the system.
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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Holy Moses...... an update!
Looks like good progress Mr S
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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Ok thanks. Not found that before. This it what it has to say on the subject "10 What to do if your vehicle has been ‘cloned’ If you’re receiving fines or charges you’re not responsible for because someone else is using the registration number from your vehicle, your vehicle may have been cloned. Cloning involves copying the identity of a similar (not-stolen) vehicle already on the road. Criminals find an exact make, model and colour of the car they have stolen, and use the same registration number on the stolen vehicle to make it look legal. If you suspect your vehicle has been cloned: • Contact the police so they can try to trace and prosecute the culprit to prevent this illegal activity from continuing. • Return any fines or letters to whoever issued them, along with any evidence you have to prove your case. • Write to us at DVLA, Swansea, SA99 1ZZ, giving us the crime reference number the police gave you. We will keep a record of the matter for future reference." Not all that useful really as the police make it fairly difficult and time consuming to report. We've done 4 forces so far and mostly they don't seem to care. Essex deserve an honourable mention for getting back within a couple of hours and actually offering some half useful advice (cover your car in stickers!). None are offering the crime number that the DVLA seem to want. As for the DVLA.... we shall see, but I don't suppose much will happen and and what does likely to be slow. Meanwhile, the offences keep coming in Currently our policy is to report them all to whatever police forces area the latest "offence" has occurred. Trouble is, once you get lovely people like Parking Eye involved, they probably aren't going to give a stuff whether it was you or not, they just want the money and you are the name they have. Yes... we had a demand from them today. 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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I rang the DVLA today. Waste of my time. You can only report it by post. But of course you have to ring them (30 mins on hold!) to discover this as there is nothing on their website on the subject, or nothing I can find anyway, and I've been looking.
The attitude was that it wasn't really their problem...... talk to the police. Strange. Pretty sure they usually claim that registration marks always remain their property ultimately, so you'd think they'd be interested in fraudulent use - if only because it's costing them VED! I will be commenting on that in the letter I write.
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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Thanks to all for you comments and thoughts. It’s my sons car and he’s been struggling to contact the DVLA as it seems to be phone or nothing and their phone hours more or less match his work hours. I’ll try ringing them tomorrow. I may also try reporting to the police in the areas the offences occurred.
He has written to the councils concerned and we’ll see what shakes out.
Thanks Nick
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Last Edit: Oct 1, 2020 20:29:31 GMT by vitesseefi: iPhone autoscramble
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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How will you arrange the circuits?
Modern stuff is mostly diagonally split. But to stop them pulling violently towards the working front side they tend to have large amounts of caster angle, which you won’t want on a classic, even if it were achievable as it would make the steering unreasonably heavy amongst other things.
Older dual circuit systems tended to be front/rear split, which doesn’t raise the pulling issue. The drawback is that if the front circuit fails, the rear brakes alone tend not to be very good at stopping you and can easily lead to a spin if braking really hard. As already mentioned there were a relative few models (Volvo, Austin Princess) with true dual circuits retaining some braking effort on all four wheels. Clearly the best from the safety perspective but complex.
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 30, 2020 12:17:43 GMT
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So, imagine that a week ago you bought a "new" car. You've jumped through the bureaucratic hoops, paid you road tax, your extortionate insurance and the DVLA is informed......
Then, barely a week later, you get post. Demands with menaces from councils (yes, plural!) accusing you of traffic infringements with, apparently photographic evidence of your sins.......
But wait.... Cambridge? Where even is Cambridge? It's not round 'ere. You haven't been to Cambridge.... or even Chelmsford. In fact, looking at the dates and times of the alleged offences, one took place about the time that you saw the car for the first time.... in Exeter. More than 4 hours away as google flies....... At this point in time it would still have been in the previous owners name because you hadn't even agreed to buy it yet.....
And how has your new car been photographed in a Chelmsford bus lane, when it was actually more than 4 hours away in a works car park in Devon on the first day it took you to work?
The photos are quite convincing. Same make and model, same colour. Same reg number. Your car has an evil twin...... A worrying thought strikes.... perhaps your car is the evil twin...... perhaps the nice old couple you bought it from are actually scammers...... You rush out to check the VIN. But it's ok... the VIN matches your shiney new V5.
So how can your car be in two places at once? Simples...... some dishonest curse word saw the reg on Facebook market place and thought.... hey, that's handy, that's just like my car (or the one I've just swiped).
But what do you do about this? Obviously you have to write to the councils explaining why you have no intention of paying them anything. But a crime has been committed..... and this may only be the tip of the iceberg.
One might think the police would be interested. Devon police however it seems would struggle to care less. Crime no? curse word off son, that'll curse word our stats and it's nothing to do with us. Should you try the Cambridgeshire and Essex constabularies where the evil twin seems to be operating? What about the DVLA? The subject is taboo on their website. No mention. Zip. Zero. Nada.
You're on your own apparently. Guilty until you can (hopefully) prove your innocence......
So what should you do?
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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 29, 2020 19:52:28 GMT
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Cracking video of a cracking car. Sounds spot on from the inside and outside.
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 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 16, 2020 20:47:32 GMT
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When I saw this my first thought was “wtf...... lion cubs?!” Nick I know George likes animals so heres a nice picture for you Bearing in mind the bedroom area for them is 3.5mtr by 1.5mtrs with a ton of comfy stuff all over its seems a pile is the way to go, I guess the other 2 couldn't fit on!
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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 16, 2020 12:21:11 GMT
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Only partially.....?!
Just as well it was at the other end of the country or I might have been overcome by temptation myself.....
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 15, 2020 19:49:16 GMT
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Suzuki Jimny engine and box? M13A has 85bhp and very light. If the electronics are too much, SJ413 with the G13A.
Both have a separate transfer case so RWD only is easy.
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 14, 2020 20:36:50 GMT
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Yes, 35 slightly smaller than 38 obviously, but the throttle body does not have the restriction of the jet bridge and will probably flow more air than the SU. HIF38 is plenty big for a 998 anyway.
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 14, 2020 15:32:13 GMT
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It’s basically the same as a single 1.5”SU.
So should be fine on a 998 but a bit small for a 1275.
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 9, 2020 19:59:28 GMT
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Might be worth trying the multi-electrode plugs with 3 or 4 earth prongs. Though intended for long life not performance I have found that they work really well in some older engines. Triumph pushrod engines definitely like them and so do the older VW 8v water-cooled. I think it has more to do with the side electrode design rather than the number of electrodes. They are fairly cheap too. Although NGK do do them I prefer Bosch as I’ve had problems with NGKs failing if the insulators get wetted by fuel flooding. This on ordinary single and triple electrode plugs. I’ve not had great results with fancy plugs on older stuff even with high energy ignition. All you really need to do to take advantage of that extra voltage is to open the gap up a bit, but be aware that this will tend to find the weaknesses in you HT system components.
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 9, 2020 11:30:48 GMT
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Baku....
Spent an “interesting” week there in 1996 for an oil & gas industry exhibition. Many memories, quite a few of which are more fun as memories than the experience at the time though.
Not much to add on the wheels except I remember seeing several sets on different cars in fairly quick succession while on holiday in southern France. Memorable due to the cumulative WTF effect.
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 4, 2020 20:10:04 GMT
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Got to admire you tenacity!
Trouble is when right at the top (or bottom) of the stroke, you don’t get much leverage from the crank......
ATF & acetone? Block of wood and BFH from the top seems like the only option.....
May the force be with you!
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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