Stupid things non petrolheads say....
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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? the 1960s.
HTH.
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......
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? the 1960s.
HTH.
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......
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.
<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.
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! <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.
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?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! <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.
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...)
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...)
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.
<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 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.marshalla said:
john2443 said:
you can't flood an injected engine even if it's single point.
As long as everything is working properly...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.
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
'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
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.
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.
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