Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:10 am
Bollocks
- that's what this thread is all about! - that's what this thread is all about!Page 180 of 1234
- that's what this thread is all about!Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:14 am
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:19 am
That's the part about motoring I enjoy the most. Keeping stuff running and not listening to the OMG-it-has-doned-ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES-tards.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:49 am
If I bodge a repair to my dishwasher will that be interesting too?JLv3.0 wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:19 am That's the part about motoring I enjoy the most. Keeping stuff running and not listening to the OMG-it-has-doned-ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES-tards.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:56 am
Well, yes it will, but only in terms of it SAVING THE PLANET and that's for the other thread.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:26 am
He's been on the alternative highland runs without you lot....Marv wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 4:45 pmRoss had been on a Highland run with me, YK and Duncs... He's been invited to subsequent Highland runs wth us, and hasn't taken up the invite
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:19 pm
When we bought this car 12 years ago, we bought it from a family that had it from new & were emigrating to Canada. They were lovely & were genuinely sad to part with it. We both remeber him looking at us saying 'take care of it' when we left, so we often wonder, stupidly I guess, if we were to bump him him again somehow, whether he'd be chuffed that it's still going & with the same family.JLv3.0 wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:19 am That's the part about motoring I enjoy the most. Keeping stuff running and not listening to the OMG-it-has-doned-ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES-tards.
I suspect not, He'd probably not remember it at all
Still, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to think that he just might.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:09 pm
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Two AA batteries JL
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Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 2:35 pm
All those posts take a lot of electrical energy.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:41 pm
911 MOT due in a month and there’s 2 issues I am aware of: the headlight switch often takes many goes to wake them up, seems a common fault so will replace that in advance.
Also only 1 headlight seems to be working- it has litronics (Xenon’s) so I need to get the voltmeter out and see if I can see what’s what, hopefully a simple fix.
Will give it a service at the same time, engine and gearbox oil and possibly get a couple of bits of rust attended to.
Once all that’s done I suspect it will go up for sale
Also only 1 headlight seems to be working- it has litronics (Xenon’s) so I need to get the voltmeter out and see if I can see what’s what, hopefully a simple fix.
Will give it a service at the same time, engine and gearbox oil and possibly get a couple of bits of rust attended to.
Once all that’s done I suspect it will go up for sale
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:32 pm
Turns out I'm not going mental - the ebayer accidentally sent me an MPPS flash interface (for pushing ECU maps etc), *not* the actual device I'm meant to be using. Which explains why I found the above info related to it's hardware IDs on the USB bus.Beany wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 4:55 pmYes, you can use the FTDI gear to do very low level stuff (it's the same hardware used to do ECU flashes, following some hardware mods) but I'm not fucking with that.
Another - correct one - being sent out.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:20 am
Not that great a car then? Shame they all seem to be wallet drainers one way or another.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:42 am
That seems such a shame after all the attention you've lavished on it! Have you done much mileage?Foz wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:41 pm 911 MOT due in a month and there’s 2 issues I am aware of: the headlight switch often takes many goes to wake them up, seems a common fault so will replace that in advance.
Also only 1 headlight seems to be working- it has litronics (Xenon’s) so I need to get the voltmeter out and see if I can see what’s what, hopefully a simple fix.
Will give it a service at the same time, engine and gearbox oil and possibly get a couple of bits of rust attended to.
Once all that’s done I suspect it will go up for sale
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:42 am
I don't think they're that bad. I think the problem is that people treat them like VWs and don't keep on top of stuff, leaving large bills to the next owner, but once you fix things they tend to stay fixed. The 996 is a 15 - 20 year old car now so it's going to take some fettling, but the values are rock solid.
Do you pour £300 a month into a Golf R you have to hand back but won't cause you any running issues, or do you pour it into something that probably won't depreciate and may appreciate if you keep it in good condition and keep hold of it for long enough?
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:56 am
Its an interesting question. I spent a lot on my m coupe at the time so have experience of both. I'd rather have something to jump into that gives me no grief to be honest - plus modern cars do things so well / better with tech you can't compare the two really and they are as quick / quicker.NotoriousREV wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:42 am Do you pour £300 a month into a Golf R you have to hand back but won't cause you any running issues, or do you pour it into something that probably won't depreciate and may appreciate if you keep it in good condition and keep hold of it for long enough?
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:58 am
I swing from one to the other, if I'm honest. Depends how much grief I've had at any given timeBroccers wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:56 amIts an interesting question. I spent a lot on my m coupe at the time so have experience of both. I'd rather have something to jump into that gives me no grief to be honest - plus modern cars do things so well / better with tech you can't compare the two really and they are as quick / quicker.NotoriousREV wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:42 am Do you pour £300 a month into a Golf R you have to hand back but won't cause you any running issues, or do you pour it into something that probably won't depreciate and may appreciate if you keep it in good condition and keep hold of it for long enough?
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:00 am
I think Broccers is having a Mickday where he's Doing It Right and no-one else is.
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:02 am
Im not at all - everyone has different views and thats great - for me tho I just like an easy life 
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:03 am
OK maybe I'm having a Mickday then
Re: Your fleet running reports
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:05 am
When I was using mine every day it was faultless but within a couple of months of it being a second car parked up or garaged for weeks before runs it started to deteriorate and jobs mounted up.NotoriousREV wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:42 amI don't think they're that bad. I think the problem is that people treat them like VWs and don't keep on top of stuff, leaving large bills to the next owner, but once you fix things they tend to stay fixed. The 996 is a 15 - 20 year old car now so it's going to take some fettling, but the values are rock solid.
Do you pour £300 a month into a Golf R you have to hand back but won't cause you any running issues, or do you pour it into something that probably won't depreciate and may appreciate if you keep it in good condition and keep hold of it for long enough?