Hall of shame

Hal1

What's that burning smell? Ah shure it's grannnnd :pac:

CianRyan

We opened a gearbox in a Qashqai that wouldn't engage second the other day, of course the casing and clutch were left beside my toolbox.

I genuinely had to hold my breath every time I went near it, it just choked you with the burning smell!!

Greyfoot

brembo26 wrote: »

he got value for money out of that clutch :pac:

Kia Rio with 10k on the clock, yo man was so big he could not take his left foot off the clutch. :eek: I wonder how he used the other two pedals though. :pac:

fancy pigeon

As I pottered away in my yard, a local fella called into me with a question about his car...

"Mr Pigeon, the brakes are makin an awful racket, can you have a look at it?"

"Aye, bring it on in!"

Good f*cking grief :eek:




The caliper I managed to save, but the bang it gave when the piston was pushed back in.... :eek:

I wouldn't let him leave till I got 2 discs and pads. I'd never forgive myself if he had an accident and I knew I could do something.

Bled, tested and now happy motoring once more

A week earlier, a young fella called into me saying his car wasn't driving right (a mint 406 D-Turbo :cool::cool::cool::cool:)

This was the problem


That's the pump bracket. Not attached to anything in particular. It was so loose I could slip the belt off the sprocket :eek:

A new belt and pump bracket later and the car was back driving as normal

And just for good measure, here's a picture of me looking concerned with the whole merry lot

NickDunne

Your camera quality/picture taking ability has improved immeasurably :eek:

But good work

Odyssey 2005

A "Pigeon Selfie "

Slideways

This is what happens when a CAT C175 slips the timing...

Kencollins

A family member recently bought a 2004 scenic. She complained that the injector warning lamp came on intermittently, but the car was driving fine.

Full service was ordered, so I started with an injector leak off test. Surprisingly the injectors passed with flying colours.

I went on with the service, only to discover the horror of the fuel filter. Never have u seen one so bad! Full of sludge, totally blocked, and utterly filthy.

The filter is in an awkward spot under the wheel arch, so I suspect it has been sitting there unloved for 12 years.

As a parting gift, the car decided that the primer bulb was going to have a failed valve. After much sucking, and a mouth full of lovely diesel later, the car started first try!

Ken

Guy:Incognito

Clutch was slipping so said to myself I'd do it over the coming week or so. Heading down the M50 and suddenly lose drive . What was left of the friction material shredded itself (was all over the inside when I took the box off.

EDIT: Woah, image way too big, abort.



http://i.imgur.com/onlFsXa.jpg

Slideways

you got your value out of that one. What was that in?

Guy:Incognito

An MGF.

Slideways

A dumptruck transmission decided it had enough

case_sensitive

I was driving along Parnell Road (D12) behind a slow-moving lorry today. When it went to turn right at Rialto Ford, I filtered up the left of it at the traffic lights. I pulled up alongside and caught a look at why he was driving so slowly.

Just wants a bit of a retread, and the wheel will buff right out.

Nekarsulm

Mud-guard might need a spot of plastic welding, thats all!

spiggotpaddy

Less teeth than you granny. Not my shame, bleeding Germans cutting corners.

fancy pigeon

Ah the good old M271. They never give timing chain issues sure

TeaBagMania

Bend any valves?

spiggotpaddy

TeaBagMania wrote: »

Bend any valves?

No it didn't jump ship amazingly. Just trying to figure out how to strip the sprocket hub.

spiggotpaddy

Low mileage (100,000) never missed a service, fully synth oil. Just cheese.

Slideways

Half shaft snapped. Very strange for this to happen



Universal joint failed and the resulting vibration ripped the front off the transmission





And the new one back in...

ba_barabus

Are you working on Mars Slideways?

Slideways

ba_barabus wrote: »

Are you working on Mars Slideways?

Sometimes it feels like that! I work in central Western Australia in an area known as the Pilbara on iron ore minesites

Neilw

Slideways wrote: »

Sometimes it feels like that! I work in central Western Australia in an area known as the Pilbara on iron ore minesites

Any jobs going there?

jca

Neilw wrote: »

Any jobs going there?

Propshaft welder needed for an immediate start:D

spiggotpaddy

spiggotpaddy wrote: »

Less teeth than you granny. Not my shame, bleeding Germans cutting corners.

Just trying to find away around photobucket nonsense.

fancy pigeon

Tame one this time

2 types of weight fitted


Other wheels had one long strip of weights in the middle of the wheel

Tyre was from 2003 too :mad:

Nekarsulm

"Its been making a noise all week, and now you have to pump the brakes. Can you take a look at it ? "

http://i.imgur.com/i7tJHjd.jpg

SCOOP 64

How did that have a NCT ? surely didn't get that bad in last 12 months.

Nekarsulm

Got that bad in about a week or so. Once it was metal to metal, it must have really ground away.
Never saw the entire pad to have escaped before!

Disk was down to half its original thickness, and the piston had pushed out so far the seals were coming out of their bore!

fancy pigeon

T25 Avensis...?

Nekarsulm

fancy pigeon wrote: »

T25 Avensis...?

Yes, diesel Avensis. Was towing a trailer seemingly.

fancy pigeon

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Yes, diesel Avensis. Was towing a trailer seemingly.

Thought it looked familiar!

mickdw

Ive seen it happen one particular person more than once. Brakes rub steel on steel yet take no action. Back plate of pad wears down and escapes when it becomes thin enough with the resulting pedal to the floor.
Cost that person a new caliper and discs on both occasions.

Atlantic Dawn

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Got that bad in about a week or so. Once it was metal to metal, it must have really ground away.
Never saw the entire pad to have escaped before!

Disk was down to half its original thickness, and the piston had pushed out so far the seals were coming out of their bore!

You would think they would have experienced sparks and smoke coming from the disc with that level of wear happening generating loads of heat, they were probably oblivious to it.

CJhaughey

I wouldn't fancy meeting a brake pad backing plate flying into my windscreen or on a motorcycle.

jca

Happened me once in Nissan Serena it just made a clunk and pedal went to the floor. Unfortunately I was travelling slowly and the dirty heap of diesel guzzling junk managed to live for another few years until the kind Nct man slapped a red sticker on the window.



Happiest day of my life seeing it being driven off to the scrapyard.

CJhaughey

jca wrote: »

Happened me once in Nissan Serena it just made a clunk and pedal went to the floor. Unfortunately I was travelling slowly and the dirty heap of diesel guzzling junk managed to live for another few years until the kind Nct man slapped a red sticker on the window.



Happiest day of my life seeing it being driven off to the scrapyard.

Is there any other speed in a Serena?

colm_mcm

Think it was the slowest car on sale for a good while, 2.3 litre engine but just 73bhp and 60mph in 27 seconds

davycc

colm_mcm wrote: »

Think it was the slowest car on sale for a good while, 2.3 litre engine but just 73bhp and 60mph in 27 seconds

I think I remember that from old top gear ripping the piss out of it.deservedly too awful yoke

Found it 2.50 mins into this video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJDIeeSdAE

jca

CJhaughey wrote: »

Is there any other speed in a Serena?

Stopped.....when you're out of diesel. It was the only diesel I ever drove on the shamrock. A neighbour had a petrol version which was actually lighter on fuel:)

pablo128

jca wrote: »

Stopped.....when you're out of diesel. It was the only diesel I ever drove on the shamrock. A neighbour had a petrol version which was actually lighter on fuel:)

Try servicing the bastards. You filled it with oil in the drivers door and had to go around to the passenger side to dip it!:mad:

They were a grim yoke alright. About 80 turns lock to lock.

jca

pablo128 wrote: »

Try servicing the bastards. You filled it with oil in the drivers door and had to go around to the passenger side to dip it!:mad:

They were a grim yoke alright. About 80 turns lock to lock.

Ha ha I'd forgotten about the labour intensive topping up procedure, the crock I had burned so much oil I never bothered changing it...

emeldc

pablo128 wrote: »

Try servicing the bastards. You filled it with oil in the drivers door and had to go around to the passenger side to dip it!:mad:

They were a grim yoke alright. About 80 turns lock to lock.

jca wrote: »

Ha ha I'd forgotten about the labour intensive topping up procedure, the crock I had burned so much oil I never bothered changing it...

I must have got a good one. 1997 Vanette Cargo 2.3 D, bought spanking new and still going like a (leisurely) rocket. Travels Kilkenny to Dublin and back every other weekend. 130km on the motorway no problem as long as you don't want to listen to the radio . Over 200k miles on the clock. I wouldn't be looking to get a new yolk only no one wants to insure it :mad:.

nct tester

Some people would class this as just a bit of dog hair.
Apologies that they're all coming out sideways, not sure why.

nct tester

more

TeaBagMania

never seen an oil filter that's been on a vehicle so long it rusted, just wow

hope you have all your shots and didn't get polio from touching the interior

god speed my friend

Toyotafanboi

There has to something wrong with the person who was about to let a stranger into their car with quite literally a cup holder full of used cotton buds and sees nothing wrong with it. Least of all would you do it to the stranger who you need to look favourably on your car.

No chance I would have gotten in to that car.

gibbon75

God,I was munching away on a Double Decker when I clicked on that photo with the cotton buds...

OldMrBrennan83

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Atlantic Dawn

I'd not have gotten in to that car without a biohazard suit, what an absolute pure filthy disgrace of a human being to subject someone else to it. Probably the same type of person who calls the NCT a money racket and scam while they drive around in their deathtrap.