March 2023
If you drop a (non-magnetic) check valve ball, you hear it hit the tiles, and the drain is blanked off, it MUST be in the room, right?
It cannot bounce to a greater height than that from which it was dropped, and go down the sink plug hole?
I mean, conservation of energy. It’s a basic physical law
Isn’t it?
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I guess this question is about motor traders.
I was watching High Peak Autos on YouTube. He will be offered trade in cars. Some he will take on (and repair any faults).
What is to stop a motor trader buying defective cars and then selling with third party warrantee, so to scam them to get free repairs?
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Note dealers do not have to sell perfect cars. They have to be roadworthy and "to a standard a reasonable person might expect" which isn't the same as like new.
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I park my car in a garage, with the handbrake off.
When it has been parked for a few days, the rear brakes seem to be stuck on and it requires some effort to get the car to move, as if something is sticking on the rear wheels, despite me parking it with the handbrake off.
The brakes are not binding as far as I can tell. What could be causing this? The car is fine once I get it moving. Read more
We assume this isn't an electric park brake automatically applying.
If you washed the car or drove on (especially salty) wet roadsjust before putting it away then it could be a film of rust on the discs sticking to the rear pads, or the brakes might need a good proper service, which means stripping cleaning fully inspecting and fully lubing with the correct brake grease on reassembly, could be sticking pistons or slide pins....
on average, which break pads (front or rear) will need replacing first from new? Read more
thanks for this info
My Clio is 6 years old now, The bonnet has a few stone chips and it also had a bit of a dent in it after someone fell over onto my car , but managed to pop the dent back out and you can't really tell any damage.
Regards the stone chips, I have bought a touch up, but been a metallic red , "Mars red" I think its going to stand out.... Read more
Either completely ignore it, or go to a bodyshop and ask them to repair. Touch up pens always look rubbish and smart repairs aren't a lot better. Getting it repaired will be a lot cheaper than buying another bonnet and getting it sprayed.
Given the choice between "looking rubbish" and "looking rusty" I much prefer the rubbish look, myself....
A news story just came my way that I thought migth both anger, amuse and puzzle at the same time (here it is in non-paywalled version on the Beeb):
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65013277... Read more
30+ years ago a car did a similar thing to an office I was working at in St Andrews Sq, Edinburgh
Listed building, iron railings, a bigger car = more damage - demolished the railings, broke the stone edging that held up the iron railings. The car was hanging half in the basement void and the rear end pointing skywards Car taken away quickly - a wreck....
I have the above car. The problem is when I am accelerating the car starts to shake, its ok till I get to 50mph, but when I accelerate more it starts to shake, I thought it was wheel balancing, but had all 4 done and still the same...... Soon as I take my foot off the accelerator, no matter what speed i am going the shaking stops. I was thinking maybe its the fuel filter, but I am guessing. Any help would be appreciated. Read more
Could be something like a coil pack failure (never had a coil pack either)
Doubt it, the OP's car is a diesel....
Quite a challenge.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-s...4 Read more
Hope they have packed a portable diesel generator and some fuel !
I posted earlier a possibility for this, in someone else’s appropriately titled thread.
That post got Guantanamoed, so perhaps a veil should be drawn.
Wouldn’t have worked anyway, due to petrol incompatibility.
I patched it up with superglue and PTFE tape, so didn’t need one, but it’s escaped.
Must have stuck to something (think I would have felt it on my bare feet, so something else, like an elbow) since it not tiny (about 1 cm Diam) and the shower room is. Sticky veg oil sticks again.
MIGHT be possible to do something with the bellows bit of a bendy straw, though it would need a flange, possibly a job for the dreaded RTV.
I have seen little polythene bellow pipettes in a makeup dept somewhere, but doubt I can when actually looking for them.
Any ideas (apart from buying an actual car. I know that one)? Read more
Shoulder of the tube forms a flange. Top of the tube has a couple of layers of thin polythene sheet trapped between the cap and the neck, with a couple of layers of PTFE thread tape, and a smear of silicone grease, between them. Shaft passes through a piercing in these.
I dropped the boat prop shaft stylee “rope seal” (waxed dental floss) idea due to drag on the shaft.
That’ll have to do for now
Be putting my meticulously cleaned carb back together as soon as I can make / improvise replacements for the bits I've broken or lost.
Since I had reason to suspect an air leak somewhere, I'm wondering about maybe applying some form of sealant (I used vegetable oil as a field-fix in situ last time around but that tends to gum up the springs on the throttle etc linkages.)... Read more
Thanks. I’ll have a look for it. Now you mention it I think I have us d that in the UK long ago, though I can’t remember what for. May of course be unobtainable in Taiwan
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The wee red plastic don’t-poke-your-eye-out pips on the hook end of standard (at least here) green wire coat hangars look purpose built for blanking off mystery vacuum ports on carburetors. Not much less losable, but more replaceable, than carb parts. I only got this running last time by blanking EVERYTHING off and then cautiously re-implementing vacuum advance ONLY, so if the car ever starts aigain that’d be what I’ll be doing. The wee red pips look much more pro than the bamboo I used last time. There are 10 of them. No wait. 11. I’ll have to buy some more coat hangars. And try not to poke my eye out.
No wait, 12