Reply to: Cars hate lockdown

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[vetran]

FFS, this isn't facebook.

You wanna show me your puppies?

[jamesbrown]

FFS, this isn't facebook.

[Fraidycat]

Wait until you need to change the battery on your EV.

Hopefully i will still be able to afford the Tesla end of the market and not the Leaf end when ICE cars are banned.

Tesla batteries are designed to last well over 250,000 miles.

[d000hg]

Wait until you need to change the battery on your EV.

[GigiBronz]

I had a similar issue with car battery draining. In my case it is an older car so potentially parasitic losses somewhere.
got one of switches below and I disconnect the battery every time I know I won't be using the car for a long time.

1 year on and the battery is still going.

[OwlHoot]

Wasn't one version obsessed with the A303?

Pretty sure I narrowed down his house to a short stretch. He went curiously quiet when I posted a Google street map link!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Oh, I wouldn't say that, he did have his moments with the recumbent bike, the banana suit, & pissing out of the windows of moving trains.

Wasn't one version obsessed with the A303?

[northernladuk]

FOG... that said even Gricer doesn't stoop to this level of unending tedium.

[vetran]

Our Cmax has a similarly hard to get to battery, so I ended up paying Halford's the tenner fitting cost earlier this year. When did this sort of nonsense start, anyway? It's a pain to even get to it for jump starting.

When all the professional engineers designing cars retired now its just kids playing on computers who have never fixed a car?

Also its in manufacturers interests to make it hard to fix, all those lovely main agent fees.

[NigelJK]

Wait until you have to change the bulb on most modern cars, French ones in particular are very difficult.

[mattster]

Our Cmax has a similarly hard to get to battery, so I ended up paying Halford's the tenner fitting cost earlier this year. When did this sort of nonsense start, anyway? It's a pain to even get to it for jump starting.