Things you "live with"
Discussion
Or have done in the past, foibles, faults, damage and Design Flaws on a car you just work around or put up with or have put up with in the past.
Currently our 500 has an epically bad gearchange, the Saab has a slow puncture and a tendency, like an angry wife to lock me out, get back to it and no ammount of plipping gets me in so I have to put the key in and set the alarm off, of and every now and again for a few days the clutch slips and the minute I decide to take it in, it sorts itself out !
The Galaxy occasionally conks out when cold, for the wife anyway, doesnt do it for me.
Other ones, my mums Marina back in the eighties (TC No less, the BL RS4 of its day
), the choke didt lock so she had pegs in the cubby hole to hold the choke open, between 1 and three, maybe four pegs depending on the ambient temperature.
Capri Mk1, worrying tendency for the gearstick to come off in your hand.
Golf Mk1 GTI, momentary loss of all electrical power when passing the radar thing at Manchester airport, nowhere else !
Audi 100, on full bore acceleration, the PAS pump got overwhelmed and stopped providing assistance, a worrying combination of speed and no steering to speak of.
Golf MK2 GTI, constand leaks of water into the cabin, smelt like a pond but could not sort it, in summer it was like a mobile Mangrove swamp, one cold winter it filled with water froze and I lifted rear footwell shaped blocks of ice and it was dry for a while.
Currently our 500 has an epically bad gearchange, the Saab has a slow puncture and a tendency, like an angry wife to lock me out, get back to it and no ammount of plipping gets me in so I have to put the key in and set the alarm off, of and every now and again for a few days the clutch slips and the minute I decide to take it in, it sorts itself out !
The Galaxy occasionally conks out when cold, for the wife anyway, doesnt do it for me.
Other ones, my mums Marina back in the eighties (TC No less, the BL RS4 of its day
), the choke didt lock so she had pegs in the cubby hole to hold the choke open, between 1 and three, maybe four pegs depending on the ambient temperature.Capri Mk1, worrying tendency for the gearstick to come off in your hand.
Golf Mk1 GTI, momentary loss of all electrical power when passing the radar thing at Manchester airport, nowhere else !
Audi 100, on full bore acceleration, the PAS pump got overwhelmed and stopped providing assistance, a worrying combination of speed and no steering to speak of.
Golf MK2 GTI, constand leaks of water into the cabin, smelt like a pond but could not sort it, in summer it was like a mobile Mangrove swamp, one cold winter it filled with water froze and I lifted rear footwell shaped blocks of ice and it was dry for a while.
Seat Leon - steams up something chronic. Can only clear with a/c, but as soon as it's switched off it comes back twice as bad as before.
Dealer can't see any problem. No leaks or blockages.
A number of times last winter I had to scrape the ice from the INSIDE of the windscreen. Never had to do that before, not even on my £600 Peugeot 205.
Dealer can't see any problem. No leaks or blockages.
A number of times last winter I had to scrape the ice from the INSIDE of the windscreen. Never had to do that before, not even on my £600 Peugeot 205.
J4CKO said:
Other ones, my mums Marina back in the eighties (TC No less, the BL RS4 of its day ), the choke didt lock so she had pegs in the cubby hole to hold the choke open, between 1 and three, maybe four pegs depending on the ambient temperature.
I had this on my MG Metro ), the choke didt lock so she had pegs in the cubby hole to hold the choke open, between 1 and three, maybe four pegs depending on the ambient temperature., I had all but forgotten about this, makes me smile looking back at it thankyou 
Peugeot 106 Rallye- Engine cuts out for a couple of seconds around 3,500rpm in 2nd or 3rd, then springs back to life and pretends nothing happened. Does this pretty much every-time I pull away from a junction/roundabout. Could be one of about 10 different things causing the fault, some of which are £60 each to replaced, so I just leave it.
MX-5: 3 of the tyres losing air. I suspect they just need re-fitting but I can't be arsed.
GTV: embarrassingly loud, even more so when starting from cold
. The noise is so intoxicating I now tend to leave it in a much lower gear than necessary, so it's drinks even more now 
Chimaera: alarm problem/sticky relay that leaves one of the indicators on all the time when it does the double-flash when locking and unlocking. Cue lots of standing there repeatedly locking and unlocking the car until it goes out. The relay is buried deep inside the dash so we live with it.
GTV: embarrassingly loud, even more so when starting from cold
. The noise is so intoxicating I now tend to leave it in a much lower gear than necessary, so it's drinks even more now Chimaera: alarm problem/sticky relay that leaves one of the indicators on all the time when it does the double-flash when locking and unlocking. Cue lots of standing there repeatedly locking and unlocking the car until it goes out. The relay is buried deep inside the dash so we live with it.
mnkiboy said:
Seat Leon - steams up something chronic. Can only clear with a/c, but as soon as it's switched off it comes back twice as bad as before.
Dealer can't see any problem. No leaks or blockages.
A number of times last winter I had to scrape the ice from the INSIDE of the windscreen. Never had to do that before, not even on my £600 Peugeot 205.
Same here - MX5 but only in the rain...and the drain holes are regularly cleared out!Dealer can't see any problem. No leaks or blockages.
A number of times last winter I had to scrape the ice from the INSIDE of the windscreen. Never had to do that before, not even on my £600 Peugeot 205.
mnkiboy said:
Seat Leon - steams up something chronic. Can only clear with a/c, but as soon as it's switched off it comes back twice as bad as before.
Dealer can't see any problem. No leaks or blockages.
A number of times last winter I had to scrape the ice from the INSIDE of the windscreen. Never had to do that before, not even on my £600 Peugeot 205.
That is quite a common problem with Leon's if it is a Mk1 one, ie Mk4 Golf platform?Dealer can't see any problem. No leaks or blockages.
A number of times last winter I had to scrape the ice from the INSIDE of the windscreen. Never had to do that before, not even on my £600 Peugeot 205.
Have you got damp carpets anywhere?
Normal culprit is the pollen filter.
My Transporter has a high level oil indication light and it's flashed since day one when you start it, even after a service it's still the same, but I now just live with it, oil level is fine so I dunno what's wrong with it.
That and the bulkhead squeaks occasionally but it's a van afterall
That and the bulkhead squeaks occasionally but it's a van afterall
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