Dave Henshall

esocs died on me again in Pwllheli over the weekend, low loadered back to sunny Macc at 2am in the mornig inthe wind and rain lat night,

ive never had a car break down on me before, and this fooker has got me on first name terms with the recovery people 4 times now

there is a lot to be said for jap stuff, it may not have soul, but by christ it works when you need it, i've done literally 3K miles in 2.5 years in this fooker and been toes from congleton, the trafford centre, alderley edge and now wales.

anybody have any psyco-babble stuf to not make me go and whip it to within an inch of its life...?

luckkily though, its now sitting on a trailer waiting for 2morrow for a trip up to blackppol for kenny and stu to have words with it...

THE RADMAN

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does get disheartening doesnt it dave,you loose confidence in the car and constantly worry if its going to pack up at the slightest little problem,mines been playing up intermittently over the last 6 months but hopefully sorted now,did 200 miles yesterday and it drove perfectly,stick with it you know itll be worth it in the end

Graceland

use reverse psycology when talking about the car - if its running sweet, tell people its running liek a sack of shit - works for me with the taxi

Dave Henshall

good point, its as if it can hear you say, shes running sweet as a nut, not a single fluff or miss since the last incident.

Graceland

hate to say it dave - a lot of reliability problems are down to previous owners dicking about and not looking after the cars - fortunatlely, i found a good example cheep - only been on a low loader twice in 14000 miles - and even then, it was for things that no-one could of predicted or anything

then again, my taxi can sniff money from my wallet and it usually gets everything it needs

Dave Henshall

thats the only gripe, treat it like lady and let it want for nothing and have al the work done "right" and make sure u use the best components and dont bodge anything and all it does is throw it back at you, i treated my old evo like a 2dollar whore and it never once complanied

DazC

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My Dad has had his Sapph about 7 years and it has only ever been recovered once and that was down to a coolant hose which had come away from a clip and was chaffing on the crank pulley. It has been in bits very often though.

It takes a lot of maintenance on a car which is..

A) now getting old

and

B) producing over 100% more power than it ever did when it left the factory. This is emphasised by a lot of parts on the car being designed around it's factory power output.

They can be reliable but they have to be kept up to standard to stay reliable. It's getting the car up to that standard in the first place.

Dave Henshall

best of it is, mine is as factory as it gets apart from poly bushes, pipe and braided lines, its only got a phase 0 chip in at the moment,

but like u say its whats happened before i got it, it may have been spanked to death, but yet appear ok at the outset. ive got more recipts for replaced parts in the last 2 years than the rest of the history folder

Graceland

there you go then - the previous owner obviously didnt give much thought to the upkeep of the car and treated it like any other eurobox

DazC

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As Gracie said!!

Dave Henshall

fingers crossed for 2morrow anyhow, i hope stu and kenny will be able to sort it,

Stu @ M Developments

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So do we.

Dave Henshall