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[JonMad]

Fabia has new brake pads. The pads themselves turned out to be £17.75 + VAT! Extortionate.

In other news, a blue thing has arrived.


First impressions - economical, sufficient torque from low revs, firm but comfy. Very blue. Wife had a spin round the block too and seemed to get on alright - she's only driven our Yeti in the last 6 years so getting her out driving this early on is key to her confidence.

[Marv]

Nice, they're a great little package Jon

[Beany]

Sigh.

[mention]Sundayjumper[/mention] [mention]integrale_evo[/mention] - any idea how to work out if I need a magnetic type wheel bearing on the car, without jacking the thing up and pulling the wheel off at the side of the road?

Apparently there are reluctor ring and magnetic bearing type ABS systems, obviously one requires a magnet, one doesn't. Does it matter if I just wang a magnetic bearing in there?

I think - think - my one would be magnetic regardless (possibly a post 2000 thing although I've only found one source for that), but it'd be just my luck that I'll install the wrong one and have to do the job again....

[Beany]

Er, OK, tyres were a bit low at the rear yesterday so pumped 'em up (OK, they were both sub 10psi - sidewalls doing a lot of heavy lifting it seems).

Scraping noise now gone.

Um....I'm not quite sure how that works

[Sundayjumper]

Was the handling not rather interesting like that ??

[Beany]

Was the handling not rather interesting like that ??

I've only been pootling around town and it's been pissing it down most of this week - not been taking the mick - so I didn't notice anything really untoward.

You know, until I inflated the rears again and the car felt like it had it's rear bushings replaced

[GG.]

Speaking of bushings... turns out mine also needed track rod ends when they had the front subframe down. Plus lower coffin arms on the rear (think I mentioned that before) and has now had full geo done on it so will be interesting to see if it feels tighter.

Ready for pick up tomorrow. Final bill is sub £4k at least... by £11.50 I now feel like I want to sell it and buy something newer. Which is guess is pretty illogical now it should have the major issues fixed...

[Beany]

Oof.

I think I'll still get me bro over and get that wheel bearing done so I know it's not an issue.

And also just wang a pry bar around the rear end as there's definitely some squish in there, and I can only think it's either diff housing support bushes, or the rubber discs on the propshaft - if you give it beans in first it'll kangaroo a bit, extremely annoying.

[Swervin_Mervin]

How was that not practically undirvable Beany?!

I can tell when mine have dropped 2-3PSI - I don't know if the E46 is the same but I find mine is incredibly sensitive to tyre pressures and will tramline and generally drive horribly if it isn't at the correct pressures.

[duncs500]

Fabia has new brake pads. The pads themselves turned out to be £17.75 + VAT! Extortionate.

In other news, a blue thing has arrived.


First impressions - economical, sufficient torque from low revs, firm but comfy. Very blue. Wife had a spin round the block too and seemed to get on alright - she's only driven our Yeti in the last 6 years so getting her out driving this early on is key to her confidence.

Love it Jon.

[Beany]

How was that not practically undirvable Beany?!

I can tell when mine have dropped 2-3PSI - I don't know if the E46 is the same but I find mine is incredibly sensitive to tyre pressures and will tramline and generally drive horribly if it isn't at the correct pressures.

A lot of just generally trundling around sub 30mph, gentle inputs etc. I know what you mean, the Puma would really change character if the tyres were a bit soft.

E46 just doesn't do that as much (I had noticed it was a bit squishy on the way to work yesterday, hence checking - tyres looked barely a little but under inflated, but giving them a squeeze showed they were a lot lower than I thought.

I think I should get back into the habit of checking the pressures more or less daily like I did with the Puma....

[Explosive Newt]

In solidarity with Beany, an interesting sideways moment in the Jag on a roundabout's culprit has turned out to be... the nearside rear at 5psi

My own fault, corner of the car is always right up against a hedge and the Jag never gets the same attention as the Porker but I realise I ought to be checking them!

Pumped back up last night, no obvious damage to the tyre, still retaining pressure this morning... will keep an eye on it.

[Jobbo]

Er, OK, tyres were a bit low at the rear yesterday so pumped 'em up (OK, they were both sub 10psi - sidewalls doing a lot of heavy lifting it seems).

Scraping noise now gone.

Um....I'm not quite sure how that works

The scraping noise was your rims bouncing off the tarmac

I checked my tyre pressures last weekend because I thought my wheels weren't quite correctly aligned; they turned out to be 2psi down all round. Being 20+psi down on one corner must have been pretty nasty to drive.

[Beany]

I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going mad or something now

[Beany]

Er, OK, tyres were a bit low at the rear yesterday so pumped 'em up (OK, they were both sub 10psi - sidewalls doing a lot of heavy lifting it seems).

Scraping noise now gone.

Um....I'm not quite sure how that works

The scraping noise was your rims bouncing off the tarmac

Just checked, I think Jobson wins.

I'll have a closer look when I can a torch under there, but wide, low profile, neg-cambered rear wheels + low tyres - that would make sense

Bet you lot didn't have that on your 'how will Beany fuck this up' Bingo cards!

[Mito Man]

I’d still get the bearings, maf, clutch and all the bushes changed just to be sure.

[Beany]

I’d still get the bearings, maf, clutch and all the bushes changed just to be sure.

Pfft, MAF doesn't need changing, you fucking moron.

Just polishing

[Delphi]

Picked up the 928 from Strasse yesterday after it had had the cam belt, tensioners, water pump, full service (oil, filter, air filter, plugs, brake clean, check and recalibrate and a check of everything else), and had the handbrake shoes changed as they were well past it. They also cleaned the auxiliary air valve which has cured the rough running issue.

I've now got a sizeable to do list that I need to sort into stuff I can do at the weekend when I have the time and stuff that's going to be easier to get Strasse to take care of when my wallet recovers from the massive battering it's just received.

[Mito Man]

On this weeks episode of “Your Fleet Running Reports”

GG has an expensive Porsche Bill

Delphi has an expensive Porsche Bill

Beany misdiagnoses ...again

[Beany]

On this weeks episode of “Your Fleet Running Reports”

GG has an expensive Porsche Bill

Delphi has an expensive Porsche Bill

Beany misdiagnoses ...again

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