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Post by Karl on Jan 30, 2024 12:55:39 GMT 1
Here’s one with no teeth left ha ha
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Post by Noberator on Jan 30, 2024 15:43:44 GMT 1
Karl What engines that off etc?
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Post by Karl on Jan 30, 2024 21:16:44 GMT 1
1.0 ecoboost 68 plate
On around 115 k
Just in for a belt change
No oil light on
But would have been very soon
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Post by Noberator on Jan 30, 2024 22:26:51 GMT 1
1.0 ecoboost 68 plate On around 115 k Just in for a belt change No oil light on But would have been very soon That's high mileage for the year isn't it. Somebody's been very lucky IMO.
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Post by studabear on Jan 30, 2024 23:02:33 GMT 1
One of my relations has recently bought a 2015 mk3 Focus 1.0 ecoboost. Why on earth they never asked me about them first I will never know.
First I've heard of him having it is that it's leaking coolant, he spotted temp getting warm and got the RAC out who have said its around heater matrix hoses. They have dropped it at my works in Sunday. Still not looked at it yet, not had time.
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Post by Karl on Jan 31, 2024 7:48:15 GMT 1
People cut and join them
I’ve never tried and often see the failed attempt
If it was my car I’d give it a go I guess
How ever removal of the dash is quite a nice job believe it or not
You can actually leave it almost complete and remove like they do at the factory
I do take the steering column out though to reduce the weight
And you need to people to lift the dash in and out
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Post by Karl on Jan 31, 2024 7:49:21 GMT 1
New heater core comes without the joints
Fit once and forget about it then
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Post by remmington on Jan 31, 2024 8:19:15 GMT 1
That photo made me smile mate. I been up against some huge tax bills of late - I just think my bank accounts are looking healthy and off the money has to go.
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Post by spud on Jan 31, 2024 14:00:58 GMT 1
That photo made me smile mate. I been up against some huge tax bills of late - I just think my bank accounts are looking healthy and off the money has to go.its in the grounds of trago mills in cornwall
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Post by rhyds on Feb 3, 2024 20:02:00 GMT 1
Today was a fun day of helping my folks look at a new Yaris hybrid at our local family run Toyota dealers. However, the really fun bit was that said dealer has apparently been dealing in Toyotas for 50 years, having took on a franchise in October 1973, and they had a little table in the corner of the showroom with old brochures etc. The really fascinating thing however was the receipt for the first Toyota they sold, a 1973 Corolla estate in white. Seems that £1,282.18 was enough to buy it (with seatbelts an £11 option!) and you'd get £350 trade in on your 1967 E Plate Hillman Hunter!
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Post by valhalla on Feb 4, 2024 23:28:41 GMT 1
Today was a fun day of helping my folks look at a new Yaris hybrid at our local family run Toyota dealers. However, the really fun bit was that said dealer has apparently been dealing in Toyotas for 50 years, having took on a franchise in October 1973, and they had a little table in the corner of the showroom with old brochures etc. The really fascinating thing however was the receipt for the first Toyota they sold, a 1973 Corolla estate in white. Seems that £1,282.18 was enough to buy it (with seatbelts an £11 option!) and you'd get £350 trade in on your 1967 E Plate Hillman Hunter! View AttachmentThat's not a bad allowance on the Hunter, when you think of it. OK, the Hunter was a posher car than the Corolla, but it was 6-7years old by the time this receipt was written-out. In those days, a car would be lucky to see its 10th birthday, and I'm guessing that the Hunter was already displaying a few scabs by then!
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Post by rhyds on Feb 4, 2024 23:51:05 GMT 1
Especially given that Harlech is right on the coast!
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Post by studabear on Feb 8, 2024 21:58:07 GMT 1
Got a puncture today, heard it bubbling and hissing in the rain. Went to work to sort it out as I'm off this week.
Screw right in the middle of tread. Thought that will do! Wrong.
Screw was right through the repair patch I put in it 12 days ago. FFS
Had to order another Michelin Cross climate 2 in as we didn't have any instock.
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Post by valhalla on Feb 8, 2024 22:18:20 GMT 1
Got a puncture today, heard it bubbling and hissing in the rain. Went to work to sort it out as I'm off this week. Screw right in the middle of tread. Thought that will do! Wrong. Screw was right through the repair patch I put in it 12 days ago. FFS Had to order another Michelin Cross climate 2 in as we didn't have any instock. That's incredibly bad luck - do you know where all the screws are coming-from?
I have been very lucky, myself, this last year or so, and that is no small part due to the magnetic floor sweeper that I use after all the fiddly jobs - the ones where all the screws get dropped, and I just reach for a new lot out of the box!
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Post by studabear on Feb 8, 2024 22:27:39 GMT 1
No idea where the screws have originated from. I only spotted the initial 1 I repaired when I had the drums off the back of my Focus whilst trying locate a groaning noise.
I now suspect the noise is coming from the front so I will have to go work again in the morning and strip front brakes down see if anything is a miss.
Also think I will be having a look at the offside driveshaft I fitted before Xmas as I had noticed inner cv boot had failed so I just fitted a new shaft made by Apec.
So I've a groan and a clunk to look into, clunk is usually just when setting off to work. Groan sounds a bit like when you are just creeping off the brake in an automatic. Only my car is manual. Trouble is it doesn't do it everytime but I have been able to get it to do it tonight by just letting the car roll down a slope.
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