Your fleet running reports

[integrale_evo]

I do have one of the pioneer oled ones, but mine had the f1 car and eagle, not the dolphins. Too new anyway, I bought it in 2001 for my metro

I can’t find it though, I’d like to see if it still works.

Found it. Box, instructions, removal tool, faceplate case etc
Me and a uni housemate drove my blue metro into central London, paid £20 for an hours parking, went and picked it up from an electronics shop on Tottenham Court Road.

I’ve had it fitted in the metro, the lancia, and the e36 M3 until I replaced it with an alpine unit.

Shows lots of signs of wear, and the faceplate connections need cleaning up, but all seems to be working. Looks awful now, but in 2001 it was pretty impressive

[MikeHunt]

One thing that the Yaris does is show a summary of the journey when you press stop. This highlighted to me that the mpg on regular journeys such as the local shops in the village or into town for the school run are often 21 or 22 mpg. Ive compared the Z4 for similar journeys as see that it varies between 26 to 29 mpg.

This isnt a huge deal, even with inflated petrol prices were are talking 50p here and a £1 there over 5 miles, which I know adds up but is a drop in the ocean in terms of tco. Im surprised given that it literally has double the engine and another 400kg, you would expect the figures to be the other way around.

[Delphi]

Replaced the fuel sender on the 928 and although the gauge is better, it seems to be under reading by about 1/5 tank (when brimmed it's showing just above the 3/4 mark). This is probably down to some earth corrosion on the instrument pod introducing resistance in the circuit. I'll attend to that when I pull the pod out for the LED upgrade.

Porsches In The Park on Sunday in and the car drove faultlessly there, although I think my front right is out of balance there's a slight vibration around 70mph and the instrument pod starts to bounce. On the way home, the belt tensioner warning light came on. As there wasn't far to go I limped the car home, gentle throttle inputs, not exceeding 2k RPM. The engine was running fine, so it's clearly still in time, but I don't want to risk driving it again until it's been checked out. Given the tensioner and belt are less than 2 years old, I think it's more likely to be an electrical issue than anything else although it's possible the tension needs some slight adjustment. On the plus side, engine temps were nice and cool, even in stop/start traffic and higher speed runs, so the repaired final stage fan controller is doing a grand job.

[drcarlos]

Replaced the fuel sender on the 928 and although the gauge is better, it seems to be under reading by about 1/5 tank (when brimmed it's showing just above the 3/4 mark). This is probably down to some earth corrosion on the instrument pod introducing resistance in the circuit. I'll attend to that when I pull the pod out for the LED upgrade.

Porsches In The Park on Sunday in and the car drove faultlessly there, although I think my front right is out of balance there's a slight vibration around 70mph and the instrument pod starts to bounce. On the way home, the belt tensioner warning light came on. As there wasn't far to go I limped the car home, gentle throttle inputs, not exceeding 2k RPM. The engine was running fine, so it's clearly still in time, but I don't want to risk driving it again until it's been checked out. Given the tensioner and belt are less than 2 years old, I think it's more likely to be an electrical issue than anything else although it's possible the tension needs some slight adjustment. On the plus side, engine temps were nice and cool, even in stop/start traffic and higher speed runs, so the repaired final stage fan controller is doing a grand job.

Given that the 928 has a rep for being glitchy electrics wise it's probably a minor electrical issue. It doesn't stop you having a aa squeaky bum moment, like I had last year when the oil pressure sender failed on the TVR and it chucked a low oil pressure warning at me (didn't help the gauge sender was also on it's way out at the time too).

Replaced the elderly fuel tank breather yesterday on the TVR. It kept blocking and causing huge whooshing when the fuel cap was removed and the tank would boom as it expanded or a vacuum built up. Original part no longer available from Ford (Mk1 Fiesta apparently) but a generic alloy part was available for £20. Made a small aluminium bracket the bolted to the original mount so I could cable tie it securely, made and fitted it in less than an hour.
Also ordered a 20w solar panel to hopefully keep the battery topped up over winter without it having to be attached to the mains.

[Gavin]

screw in the rear tyre not fixable and two fronts are humped, rear discs ands and two rear sensors for the suspension. Theat will be £1000 please!

I guess for a yearly cost for owning a car that cost about £60k I can live with it.

[Matty]

One thing that the Yaris does is show a summary of the journey when you press stop. This highlighted to me that the mpg on regular journeys such as the local shops in the village or into town for the school run are often 21 or 22 mpg.

Is it broken? It's not far off what I used to get from the VXR8...3x the capacity and probably weighed about 1/2 ton more

[MikeHunt]

One thing that the Yaris does is show a summary of the journey when you press stop. This highlighted to me that the mpg on regular journeys such as the local shops in the village or into town for the school run are often 21 or 22 mpg.

Is it broken? It's not far off what I used to get from the VXR8...3x the capacity and probably weighed about 1/2 ton more

It will probably improve slightly with a few more miles under the belt but from what I’ve heard, they all do that.

I’m sure it would be better if you drove like miss daisy but I’m not talking about hard driving, just normal mixed driving.

[jamcg]

Is it one of these cars that runs really rich initially to get it up to a temp to pass emissions test? Does it get better if it’s already warmed up?

[MikeHunt]

Is it one of these cars that runs really rich initially to get it up to a temp to pass emissions test? Does it get better if it’s already warmed up?

Possibly does, although it does seem very slow to warm up too. The Z4 will be up to temp within a mile, the Yaris is much slower, probably closer to 2. Which is one of the few plus points of an electric car.

I didny buy either to compete with my brother in laws r line golf which he smuggle tells me does over 60mpg, its just the fact that the Yaris so prominently boasts about one of its downsides every time you get out of it.

[Alex88]

Bit of an odd one..

I've just put new discs and pads on the Mustang. All fine, however, when it rains, the discs get that typical surface rust.

Giving it a drive does help, but it obviously only clears the spots that the pad touches - the hub and outer lip and still offending my eyes with horrible surface rust.

Any ideas on what I can use to shift it?

[mik]

Bit of an odd one..

I've just put new discs and pads on the Mustang. All fine, however, when it rains, the discs get that typical surface rust.

Giving it a drive does help, but it obviously only clears the spots that the pad touches - the hub and outer lip and still offending my eyes with horrible surface rust.

Any ideas on what I can use to shift it?

Paint the hubs and the outer lip (ideally when you first fit them, but you can still do it now if you clean them up first with some wire brush / sandpaper action.

I changed my front discs and pads recently on the Evora. Didn’t bother doing the above. Next service at my Indie - “did you change your front discs & pads”. Yeah. “Ah no problem. We thought we’d forgotten to paint the bells when we fitted them, so we cleaned them up and painted them to match the rears we put on last year. No charge”.

[Sundayjumper]

Paint the hubs and the outer lip...

That ^^

Silver hi-temp paint.

[mik]

Paint the hubs and the outer lip...

That ^^

Silver hi-temp paint.

This does look best, but I should point out that other colours are available…. unless you are @Sundayjumper

[Alex88]

Cheers both. Very useful.

I must admit I didn't know that was a thing! I'll also admit that I wouldn't feel confident doing it myself. Wonder who I can pay to do this for me? Smart repair type, perhaps?

I did get the Beetle MOT'd today (flying colours, etc etc) and the mechanic knew exactly what you were both referring to but said it isn't something they do.

I definitely want it done. It'll make it look loads better

[Jimexpl]

Cheers both. Very useful.
I must admit I didn't know that was a thing! I'll also admit that I wouldn't feel confident doing it myself. Wonder who I can pay to do this for me? Smart repair type, perhaps?

When I ran Cadillac, Corvette and Hummer on Park Lane our prep centre used to do this to the hundreds of CTS and BLS that we had sitting in a field in Luton each time one was sold, along with swapping out the mouldy Astra side repeaters, to make them look like the brand new cars that they were meant to be!

[Beany]

Finally got an MOT.

As expected, all the things the other garage reckoned were HARD FAILS were considered to be not so by my usual place.

So I'm legal again, but do need to get some bushes (they are getting quite bad) and a new battery, and then I'll throw it back at the (good) garage to do the brake hard lines - I'm not buying pipe bending and flaring tools for a job that I'd probably only do do once every five years if I changed car every three, etc. I'd rather let them do it for, lets call it £150 and be done with it

They'll also fit the flexi hoses the last garage didn't bother with.

I really, *really* need to remember that I can afford to have a garage fix this stuff, and that waiting a week or two for them to fit me in isn't a problem. Still in 'poor and rushed' headspace I guess.

[Broccers]

Actually glad we're away in this as my car is too long geared for Cornwall.

Only smacked the bottom once

[Jimexpl]

I think I know that house - it’s about 2 min walk from mine!

[Broccers]

I think I know that house - it’s about 2 min walk from mine!

You're not the grumpy old person with a mobility scooter from the other number 10?

[Jimexpl]

I hope not!
Unfortunately couldn’t afford one of the houses on that development.
I expect Jam Jar is open for a decent pizza Fri-Sun.
Depressingly I haven’t had time to get to Crantock since July.

If anyone wants a cheap week (or month!) away our place is pretty empty until Christmas now, so I’m happy to do a deal!