Ever had a car test your patience?
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Currently working on my Celica to give it a refresh and to say it has tested me is putting it lightly.
Suspension, corrosion, rusted bolts, random steering issues, broken glass being found inside the seats etc.
Working on this car lightly to give me something to do and stay a little active in daylight hours when time permits (I have fibromyalgia, so am limited to what I can do).
Currently, the front suspension pinch bolts look to be torqued to over 9000. Try as I might, they didn't budge. Wasted a few hours yesterday. Right at the end I borrowed an electric heat gun to heat the bolt and in a lapse of 3 seconds burnt through the CV boot. b
ks.
Currently waiting for a new boot and new bolts so that I can simply angle grind the fker out. Everything so far has needed some kind of angle grinding treatment. Not giving up with the wker yet but I feel temporarily defeated.
Anyway, over to you guys. Make me feel better.
Suspension, corrosion, rusted bolts, random steering issues, broken glass being found inside the seats etc.
Working on this car lightly to give me something to do and stay a little active in daylight hours when time permits (I have fibromyalgia, so am limited to what I can do).
Currently, the front suspension pinch bolts look to be torqued to over 9000. Try as I might, they didn't budge. Wasted a few hours yesterday. Right at the end I borrowed an electric heat gun to heat the bolt and in a lapse of 3 seconds burnt through the CV boot. b
ks.Currently waiting for a new boot and new bolts so that I can simply angle grind the f
ker out. Everything so far has needed some kind of angle grinding treatment. Not giving up with the wker yet but I feel temporarily defeated.Anyway, over to you guys. Make me feel better.
I loved the looks and the way it drove, when it worked, but it repaid my adoration with constant engine management lights, despite fastidious maintenance, and ended our relationship, unceremoniously, with bore score. Like boat ownership, the best days were when I bought it and then sold it.
My current supercharged ep3 civic
-rotrex supercharger shaft snapped, nobody was rebuilding them at the time so had to buy a new one at £2500
- 4 bar map sensor went so couldn’t drive it without it cutting out and jolting everywhere. New sensor and remap would sort it but put a standard sensor on and standard map in the mean time.
- it got stuck in reverse and dropped all its fluid driving back from fitting a standard sensor and map.
All that happened within 12 months and it Hasn’t turned a wheel in 18 months because I was so fed up with it, should be back on the road this summer though.
-rotrex supercharger shaft snapped, nobody was rebuilding them at the time so had to buy a new one at £2500
- 4 bar map sensor went so couldn’t drive it without it cutting out and jolting everywhere. New sensor and remap would sort it but put a standard sensor on and standard map in the mean time.
- it got stuck in reverse and dropped all its fluid driving back from fitting a standard sensor and map.
All that happened within 12 months and it Hasn’t turned a wheel in 18 months because I was so fed up with it, should be back on the road this summer though.
Edited by sheepman on Thursday 8th May 18:18
Leftfootwonder said:
I loved the looks and the way it drove, when it worked, but it repaid my adoration with constant engine management lights, despite fastidious maintenance, and ended our relationship, unceremoniously, with bore score. Like boat ownership, the best days were when I bought it and then sold it.
Edited by Lester H on Thursday 8th May 18:12
This. Bought for £1500, knew it needed work but didn’t think it would add to the list. It has suffered from every common problem at this point.
At this point it’s near enough a new car just with crap paintwork.
Just spent a load of money on it before I went to the Nürburgring. Everything was going well until I was on the way home. Maxed it out on the autobahn then when slowing down the undertray ripped off and a CV boot split. That’s the third CV boot and second undertray in the 2 years I’ve had it.
2 years ago I had the air con compressor replaced. Last year the new one seized. Got a new one under warranty and I think that is now on its way out.
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I remember being without my Cerb for 9 months while the engine was being rebuilt etc. It got dropped back off at my home on a trailer, and I went out to it on the drive about an hour later, and the bloody thing wouldn't start! So it went back to the garage on the trailer again to be fixed! 
The fecking thing...
3 years trying to track down an intermittent misfire on my 1973 P5B coupe.
SD.
- Replace points and condenser with electronic ignition - better, but misfire returned after a few months.
- Replace coil with branded sports coil - better, but misfire returned after a few months.
- New HT leads - no difference.
- Replace the replacement coil - no difference.
- Full carburettor service and balance - no difference.
- Replace fuel filters - slight improvement.
- Replace mechanical fuel pump with low pressure electric pump - Success!!
SD.
cerb4.5lee said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I remember being without my Cerb for 9 months while the engine was being rebuilt etc. It got dropped back off at my home on a trailer, and I went out to it on the drive about an hour later, and the bloody thing wouldn't start! So it went back to the garage on the trailer again to be fixed! The fecking thing...
Edited by 2 sMoKiN bArReLs on Thursday 8th May 19:59
This fking thing. Failure after failure. I got very good at removing and fitting it. The well known 'specialist' responsible for the kit and repairing it was a . I eventually found a reputable specialist to rebuild it and sold it without even trying it.
When it was working it was fantastic, the torque and acceleration was great, and the scream it made on full throttle was epic.
king thing. Failure after failure. I got very good at removing and fitting it. The well known 'specialist' responsible for the kit and repairing it was a . I eventually found a reputable specialist to rebuild it and sold it without even trying it.When it was working it was fantastic, the torque and acceleration was great, and the scream it made on full throttle was epic.
My MX5 ND RF
The windows operate on a cable system and these cables corrode, fray and the next thing, they look like a brillo pad and your window won't go up or down and your roof may get stuck.
My roof didn't but I purchased a new regulator ( about £70) with spooled cable which is cable tied together. The idea is you remove the old motor from the f#cked spool so you just have the motor then press the new tensioned spooled cable into the motor then cut the cable tie and voila.
Except the motor crank wasn't quite in the right position so the spool won't go down, you try to adjust and BOING, it all explodes. After several hours trying to rethread the spool, I got to the point where the cable would have to be inordinately stretched to ever get it together, tensioned, again and it seems you need machinery.
So it's going to be another £70 and I just pray I don't screw it up again. What a bloody stupid design. Yes, you can buy it with the motor already attached but they are over £250 used, god knows what they are new.
The windows operate on a cable system and these cables corrode, fray and the next thing, they look like a brillo pad and your window won't go up or down and your roof may get stuck.
My roof didn't but I purchased a new regulator ( about £70) with spooled cable which is cable tied together. The idea is you remove the old motor from the f#cked spool so you just have the motor then press the new tensioned spooled cable into the motor then cut the cable tie and voila.
Except the motor crank wasn't quite in the right position so the spool won't go down, you try to adjust and BOING, it all explodes. After several hours trying to rethread the spool, I got to the point where the cable would have to be inordinately stretched to ever get it together, tensioned, again and it seems you need machinery.
So it's going to be another £70 and I just pray I don't screw it up again. What a bloody stupid design. Yes, you can buy it with the motor already attached but they are over £250 used, god knows what they are new.
Edited by LuS1fer on Thursday 8th May 20:40
Oh yes
My hyundai coupe, it ran flawlessly for years and I adored it then out of nowhere, it rattled, a spot of rust appeared, the suspension went harsh and the exhaust snapped.
Everything I tried to get sorted went wrong, I hurt myself working on it, I paid to get it fixed and the workman ship was awful and they sorted it out eventually after many arguments. The rust meant in my head it was an old wreck too so I lost interest, I then completely lost patience, bought a new car and put the coupe in the garage where it still is now. It was the first car I bought new I must do something with it really.
My hyundai coupe, it ran flawlessly for years and I adored it then out of nowhere, it rattled, a spot of rust appeared, the suspension went harsh and the exhaust snapped.
Everything I tried to get sorted went wrong, I hurt myself working on it, I paid to get it fixed and the workman ship was awful and they sorted it out eventually after many arguments. The rust meant in my head it was an old wreck too so I lost interest, I then completely lost patience, bought a new car and put the coupe in the garage where it still is now. It was the first car I bought new I must do something with it really.
Edited by Greenbot35 on Thursday 8th May 21:25
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