What goes around reverses around.
Assuming anyone it actually reading the drivel, then you'll know that I eventually managed to take out some money from my current bank account. This was for my daughter's new car that was to replace the old Peugeot 106 that some random woman decided to reverse into last month.
Usual long story: Her fault, take in for repair. "£1300", "How much?", please don't write it off. Oh you have. Here's £900. I take that - I only paid £600 for it two years ago.
So after much trolling around UCD's1 I find a nice Corsa on eBay - with aircon, power steering and the like. We collect from the depths of Essex and it's all fine. On the way home the engine management light comes on and the aircon stops working. I pull the codes the next day and it's the "you have a problem between the air intake and the tail pipe (code P0170)" which turns out to the MAF unit - new on eBay for £30, job done.
The aircon, err, yeah. One secondhand compressor and gas recharge later it's all anti-toasty. Except that it doesn't turn off - that's why the pump fried - the compressor ran continuously even though the electronics were assuming it was off and there was some antagonism going on somewhere (that's my theory anyway).
So I read the Haynes manual and find there's a permanent "on" signal to the clutch. This comes from the relay in the box which is fed from the fuse. Fuse 31, oh that's easy, but where the bloody hell is the a/c relay? NFI? Nope, neither has the Haynes Manual. So *a friend* uses his copy of Vauxhall EPC to locate the relay, which I pull and find it has welded shut. Sorted. Now go to breakers to get a relay...
Drive up to breakers and carefully park my smart Roadster Brabus in front of a small sign that says "No responsibility for anything" and go inside whereupon the uninsured YTS lad on his third day reverses a small van out of the yard and straight into the back of the smart.
Buying a car: £1400
Buying a relay: £5
Fixing your daughter's car: priceless.
For everything else there's always some twat who doesn't look behind them.
1Used Car Dealerships.
Usual long story: Her fault, take in for repair. "£1300", "How much?", please don't write it off. Oh you have. Here's £900. I take that - I only paid £600 for it two years ago.
So after much trolling around UCD's1 I find a nice Corsa on eBay - with aircon, power steering and the like. We collect from the depths of Essex and it's all fine. On the way home the engine management light comes on and the aircon stops working. I pull the codes the next day and it's the "you have a problem between the air intake and the tail pipe (code P0170)" which turns out to the MAF unit - new on eBay for £30, job done.
The aircon, err, yeah. One secondhand compressor and gas recharge later it's all anti-toasty. Except that it doesn't turn off - that's why the pump fried - the compressor ran continuously even though the electronics were assuming it was off and there was some antagonism going on somewhere (that's my theory anyway).
So I read the Haynes manual and find there's a permanent "on" signal to the clutch. This comes from the relay in the box which is fed from the fuse. Fuse 31, oh that's easy, but where the bloody hell is the a/c relay? NFI? Nope, neither has the Haynes Manual. So *a friend* uses his copy of Vauxhall EPC to locate the relay, which I pull and find it has welded shut. Sorted. Now go to breakers to get a relay...
Drive up to breakers and carefully park my smart Roadster Brabus in front of a small sign that says "No responsibility for anything" and go inside whereupon the uninsured YTS lad on his third day reverses a small van out of the yard and straight into the back of the smart.
Buying a car: £1400
Buying a relay: £5
Fixing your daughter's car: priceless.
For everything else there's always some twat who doesn't look behind them.
1Used Car Dealerships.
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