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Apr 24, 2006 20:02:42 GMT
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I seem to be making a habit of killing cars lately... after the Skoda a couple of months ago, the Sunny is displaying some strange symptoms. It's missing under load, there are bubbles in the expansion bottle, and the top hose gets very hot, while the rad is cold and the temp gauge is on cold... but the fan cuts in, because Nissan, in their wisdom, put the switch in the thermostat housing, rather than the rad... Another head gasket??? Looks like I'll be getting the Sceptre insured... but the MOT runs out in a week...
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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Apr 24, 2006 20:15:33 GMT
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oooooh. simple task?
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Apr 24, 2006 20:45:43 GMT
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Its not a stuck thermostat is it, it would explain the cold rad. But if you are getting bubbles in the expansion bottle the head gasket might already be gone.
Not sure what sunny you have but a lad at work had an E reg sunny hatchback. Headgasket had gone between cylinder and water and also water to outside, and he drove it like that for three years doing 20 mile a day before he finally scrapped the car.
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Apr 24, 2006 22:19:21 GMT
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don't worry! i blew up my skoda and yammy fazer in one day last year!!!!
Rich
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1974 Fiat 130 Coupe 1987 Saab 900 turbo 1988 Mercedes 300ce coupe 1988 Skoda Classic Trials Car 1988 Skoda road rally rapid 1990 Saab 9000 Carlsson
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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I've done it again...bstardchild
@bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member 71
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don't worry! i blew up my skoda and yammy fazer in one day last year!!!! Rich Fark me I thought those Fazers were bulletproof - when you say blew up you mean comprehensively?
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yeah i thought so too... it was high milage... a very cheap dealer part x
the piston was in bits! a new engine job
Rich
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1974 Fiat 130 Coupe 1987 Saab 900 turbo 1988 Mercedes 300ce coupe 1988 Skoda Classic Trials Car 1988 Skoda road rally rapid 1990 Saab 9000 Carlsson
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Apr 25, 2006 19:59:27 GMT
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Rang Footman James tonight and got the Sceptre insured, swapped all the junk I carry around from the Nissan to the Sceptre and got it out and put the Nissan in the garage, booked it in for MOT next Thursday (runs out tuesday, the O/H can take me to work for a couple of days...) I was going to use the Sceptre anyway, this has just bought things forward a bit... Looks like the 'Red Shed' will be following the Skoda to the scrapy... ... unless of course anyone wants it?
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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