Cars hate lockdown

[jamesbrown]

FFS, this isn't facebook.

[vetran]

FFS, this isn't facebook.

You wanna show me your puppies?

[xoggoth]

Was my daughters Mini and i had to remove half the engine to get at the battery

Yeh, cars used to be easy to repair and service once, with more modern ones it's hard just to change the oil filter. Gave up car DIY years ago.

PS Cars used to have grease nipples, greasing those was fun!

[ladymuck]

Getting to the battery on my 'zed is easy. It did go through a spate of dying from lack of use but the solar trickle charger I got seems to have sorted that out nicely.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Yeh, cars used to be easy to repair and service once, with more modern ones it's hard just to change the oil filter. Gave up car DIY years ago.

PS Cars used to have grease nipples, greasing those was fun!

I found a couple of grease guns in the shed the other day, I assume there's some long forgotten reason for having two, probably different types of grease.

The last grease nipple I recall was on a propshaft I had made for a Dutton Phaeces kit car.

The grease nipple prior to that was on the powersteering ram on a Ford Zodiac Mk IV.

Which, at a guess, explains the two greaseguns.

There's also the giant economy size tin of Castrol LM that will probably last until doomsday at its present rate of use.

[vetran]

Well my car's alternator decided to commit seppuku yesterday on the way back from the UNI run. Plenty of waiting around then hours on the back of the truck from up north!

Will be happy to renew the AA next year.