Stupid things non petrolheads say....

[iva cosworth]

jogger1976 said:

iva cosworth said:

BTW you've bought a 9-5 not a 95 which is a V4 engined estate from the 1970s or a 2 stroke engined estate from

the 1960s.

HTH.

Thanks for your expert knowledge.I would have NEVER been able to tell the two apart. So I guess that means I can't rev the tits off of it while left-foot braking and executing a Scandy flick - Stig Blomqvist style - through a forest?

My first job was 16 years at a SAAB dealer and I occasionally worked

on the antiquated 95.

I left in'95 before the 9-5 was launched.

I owned a 99 at the time.

I've run out of nines......

[jogger1976]

iva cosworth said:

jogger1976 said:

iva cosworth said:

BTW you've bought a 9-5 not a 95 which is a V4 engined estate from the 1970s or a 2 stroke engined estate from

the 1960s.

HTH.

Thanks for your expert knowledge.I would have NEVER been able to tell the two apart. So I guess that means I can't rev the tits off of it while left-foot braking and executing a Scandy flick - Stig Blomqvist style - through a forest?

My first job was 16 years at a SAAB dealer and I occasionally worked

on the antiquated 95.

I left in'95 before the 9-5 was launched.

I owned a 99 at the time.

I've run out of nines......

So many '9's. I think I'll be a bit more careful and add that little dash next time, or both of our heads might explode.

[TREMAiNE]

[MKnight702]

Does the "are these considered supercars" thread count?

[R8VXF]

MKnight702 said:

Does the "are these considered supercars" thread count?

It must do. ISTR that a Golf was mentioned

[john2443]

On a thread on PH, someone was asking for help on a car that wouldn't start - it was reasonably new so was injected - someone suggested that it might be flooded.

<Waits for parrot> As far as I know you could flood a carb due to having a choke and a float, but you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.

[marshalla]

john2443 said:

you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.

As long as everything is working properly...

[Triumph Man]

john2443 said:

On a thread on PH, someone was asking for help on a car that wouldn't start - it was reasonably new so was injected - someone suggested that it might be flooded.

<Waits for parrot> As far as I know you could flood a carb due to having a choke and a float, but you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.

BMW M50 engines (fuel injected) are notorious for flooding, mine did the other day because I moved it a matter of metres and switched off. I was apparently lucky though, because it sometimes takes a full charge of the battery to get them going again!

[john2443]

Triumph Man said:

BMW M50 engines (fuel injected) are notorious for flooding, mine did the other day because I moved it a matter of metres and switched off. I was apparently lucky though, because it sometimes takes a full charge of the battery to get them going again!

What gets flooded? The bores?

[RizzoTheRat]

john2443 said:

but you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.

My mother managed. Mind you had been raining heavily and was dark when she tried to drive through the dip near the river...

[xRIEx]

Triumph Man said:

john2443 said:

On a thread on PH, someone was asking for help on a car that wouldn't start - it was reasonably new so was injected - someone suggested that it might be flooded.

<Waits for parrot> As far as I know you could flood a carb due to having a choke and a float, but you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.

BMW M50 engines (fuel injected) are notorious for flooding, mine did the other day because I moved it a matter of metres and switched off. I was apparently lucky though, because it sometimes takes a full charge of the battery to get them going again!

XJ8s too, if switched off before the engine has started to get warm.

[Martin350]

john2443 said:

What gets flooded? The bores?

It's only fuel vapour that will ignite so if there is liquid fuel in there, and usually by then the spark plugs are wet too, then ignition won't occur.
It really doesn't take that much excess fuel for this to happen.

[karma mechanic]

My wife's Alfa Mito 1.4 petrol was moved a couple of metres the other day when cold, just to move the wheely bins.
Next day it wouldn't start, cranked for ages with not a hint of ignition so I then left it for an hour. At that point it started normally and was absolutely fine therafter.

Mind you, her old RX8 would have been a goner under the same circumstances - it needed a new starter the last time it flooded. (That was just before it was traded in...)

[TREMAiNE]

karma mechanic said:

Mind you, her old RX8 would have been a goner under the same circumstances

Poor rotary maintenance!

[scarble]

john2443 said:

On a thread on PH, someone was asking for help on a car that wouldn't start - it was reasonably new so was injected - someone suggested that it might be flooded.
<Waits for parrot> As far as I know you could flood a carb due to having a choke and a float, but you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.

This thread can be so meta.

[Rich1973]

I thought the Jag was bore wash as opposed to flooding per se

[xRIEx]

Rich1973 said:

I thought the Jag was bore wash as opposed to flooding per se

I don't know the specifics, but the solution is to crank the engine with full throttle (cutting the fuel pump) or with the pump fuse pulled, emptying the cylinders of fuel and then backing off throttle/sticking fuse back in.

[98elise]

marshalla said:

john2443 said:

you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.

As long as everything is working properly...

My mothers 1.4 rover 25 can easily be flooded if you run the car for a less than a minute or so. The first time it happened the RAC diagnosed a flooded engine, and advised to to avoid running the car for such a short period while cold.

I didn't believe it and simply forgot it....until the first time I caused it by running the car for a few seconds. I had to leave the car for a while before it would start again, and when it did it gradually caught rather than just firing up like normal.

[MADRod]

The Missus is a proper non petrolhead.

'My Boss has got this incredible new car'. Knowing his last one was a fully loaded Mercedes it had to be something rather special. ' Whats model has he bought Love' the reply is Classic. 'Its a Red one'. In the Wifes eyes a Red Peugeot 107 would have trumped a Black Mercedes AMG. Recently had our 43rd wedding anniversary so her Petrolhead skills are not about to improve

[karma mechanic]

Our drive is shared with the people next door, the wide part of it has enough room for two or three cars outside each of the two houses. Unfortunately next door often has visitors who end up doing 39-point turns on their side, sometimes involving tangles with gate posts and/or hedges. Eventually I was told that their visitors always got flustered when leaving because 'they are scared of hitting one of your expensive cars'.

One was a 6-year-old Mito, the other was a 9-year-old Subaru, neither of them being at all shiny due to unforgivable laziness.

Next door have a newish Honda Jazz.