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***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

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    #2132
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Ah that's terrible but such is life I guess. I hope the holidays weren't to hard on him not having her around.
    I wish my girlfriend had half the interest in cars you have, if I asked her to help me change a radio she'd kill me. Sure I asked her to pop the fuel cap one day and she looked at me like I had ten heads. Haha

    Could be on its way out I guess, I might chance a new bulb before having a look at LEDs. I'm constantly pulling out my phone to see things, it gets old.
    My GF got me a hoody so I had something to open on the day, the little things is right. :)

    Oh don't mention the steering! I've a knock when I lock it left, mechanic said its grand for now but to start saving to get it done. Looking at about €250 again. :(


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    #2133
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    How long has that bulb been gone now at this stage???you've mentioned it enough times.


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    #2134
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Cian you've just reminded me of another set of parts I have to add to my shopping list: top mounts.

    Gonna be a long, expensive day today if the scrappies are open.... :(


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    #2135
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Ah that's terrible but such is life I guess. I hope the holidays weren't to hard on him not having her around.
    I wish my girlfriend had half the interest in cars you have, if I asked her to help me change a radio she'd kill me. Sure I asked her to pop the fuel cap one day and she looked at me like I had ten heads. Haha

    He's doing ok, thanks Cian :) We're both now busy making sure his Dad is ok, he's a bit of a loner, he ribbed me today that he got his George Foreman cheaper than I did :D My OH is like you GF. When he last looked for a car, he wanted one, that was big, black, and had a big boot.

    And no he didn't get an Octavia.

    He literally test drove it after I checked it out, handed over the cash and that was it. Four years later, it's still going strong, about to pass another NCT, and we are saving for something nicer.

    He's no interest in cars, but he's good enough to take mine every week along with his, clean out the interiors, get all the rubbish out and put them through a carwash.

    Myself and my mechanic have decided that his next car will either be an Accord or possibly a C Class, but most likely an Accord, I reckon he'll love it as does our mechanic, OH has seen loads online, and loves the look of them, but is leaving the rest up to me tbh.

    He's fecking great when it comes to trying to figure stuff out though, we'll sit down and go "how do we fix this" and figure it out, he's much more patient than I am.


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    #2136
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Stheno wrote: »
    Do you want the good news or the bad news first?

    give him the bad wishbone neus :pac:


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    #2137
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Greetings of the season to all, I not hold grudge about no one anser my brake friction halford question :)


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    #2138
    Stheno
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    cabb8ge wrote: »
    give him the bad wishbone neus :pac:

    You mean the bad news that if the front bushings are gone the steering rack needs to be either reconditioned or replaced?


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    #2139
    Stheno
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    cabb8ge wrote: »
    Greetings of the season to all, I not hold grudge about no one anser my brake friction halford question :)

    link?


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    #2140
    166man
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Stheno wrote: »
    Do you want the good news or the bad news first?

    Ah shure g'won hit me with it... What's the news? :(:D


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    #2141
    Stheno
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    166man wrote: »
    Ah shure g'won hit me with it... What's the news? :(:D

    See above post before yours.


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    #2142
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Stheno wrote: »
    You mean the bad news that if the front bushings are gone the steering rack needs to be either reconditioned or replaced?

    How does this occur exactly? :eek:


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    #2143
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Well not in all cases is that a must do, but if he escape with only not replacing wishones I be very surprised. Can't see €500 sorting the car unless he do work himself, as bulb abd ignition plugs seems a big projects I cannot imagine him do anything to car. Steering rack I would not concern about 166man, not wanting upset Steno but maybe Steno not correct on this point.


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    #2144
    Stheno
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    dgt wrote: »
    How does this occur exactly? :eek:

    The bushings are not sold seperately from the rack, you can either:

    1. Buy a reconditioned rack on ebay (plenty of recommendations)
    2. Have it reconditioned
    3. Replaced it

    the first two options cost about €250 the third costs €1000 plus.

    It's a serious fault with the car, most cars, the bushings are seperate from the rack, in the 156 they are not.


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    #2145
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Stheno wrote: »
    link?

    :confused:


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    #2146
    Stheno
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    cabb8ge wrote: »
    Well not in all cases is that a must do, but if he escape with only not replacing wishones I be very surprised. Can't see €500 sorting the car unless he do work himself, as bulb abd ignition plugs seems a big projects I cannot imagine him do anything to car. Steering rack I would not concern about 166man, not wanting upset Steno but maybe Steno not correct on this point.

    How am I wrong on this point? I've had that failure and had to replace the steering rack? Have I just gotten the part name wrong?


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    #2147
    166man
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Cheers Stheno, that's something I did not know, but now will budget for. This is going to be expensive isn't it...:(


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    #2148
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Stheno wrote: »
    The bushings are not sold seperately from the rack, you can either:
    ............
    Are you confuse sterring rack with other part of car by any chance?


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    #2149
    Stheno
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    166man wrote: »
    Cheers Stheno, that's something I did not know, but now will budget for. This is going to be expensive isn't it...:(

    Well depending on that cabbage poster telling me I'm wrong I don't know.

    The suspension and bushes are notorious for going, and you can't get the bushes seperate from the steering rack, I'd one that got reconditioned, and when it failed two years later I got my current car.

    Send it in for the test and get the results, I nearly had a heart attack as I've only one small thing to deal with on my car after it's last NCT.

    OH's car had six faults, heeeheeeeeee :D


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    #2150
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Stheno wrote: »
    How am I wrong on this point? I've had that failure and had to replace the steering rack? Have I just gotten the part name wrong?
    in my view you are mentioning reference to anti roll bar, not steering rack.


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    #2151
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    Are you confuse sterring rack with other part of car by any chance?

    I'm pretty sure there is no confusion with Sthenos post


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    #2152
    Stheno
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    cabb8ge wrote: »
    Are you confuse sterring rack with other part of car by any chance?

    Not that I'm aware of, I'd a bushes/bushings ( am crap with names) failure on my car, they were not a seperate part sold by alfa, so I had to either replace or recondition my steering rack as they were directly attached to it.

    Another alternative was a steering rack from ebay


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    #2153
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    dgt wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure there is no confusion with Sthenos post
    wishbone bushings nothing to do with steering rack, wishbones upper and lower can be altogehter replaced leaving steering rack the same.
    perhaps your problem was bushings on steering rack? not wishbone bushing? Most Alfa squek and knock for suspension bushings not steering rack bushings, play on steering rqck not as often as wishbone bushing knock knock.


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    #2154
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    wishbone bushings nothing to do with steering rack, wishbones upper and lower can be altogehter replaced leaving steering rack the same.

    There are bushings on the STEERING RACK that can't be replaced seperately according to Sthenos post. Nothing to do with wishbone bushings


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    #2155
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    http://www.ebspares.co.uk/news48.htm


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    #2156
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Stheno wrote: »
    You mean the bad news that if the front bushings are gone the steering rack needs to be either reconditioned or replaced?
    dgt wrote: »
    There are bushings on the STEERING RACK that can't be replaced seperately according to Sthenos post. Nothing to do with wishbone bushings

    no need to use the big writing, front bushings mostly refer to wishbone bushings.


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    #2157
    Stheno
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    cabb8ge wrote: »
    wishbone bushings nothing to do with steering rack, wishbones upper and lower can be altogehter replaced leaving steering rack the same.
    perhaps your problem was bushings on steering rack? not wishbone bushing? Most Alfa squek and knock for suspension bushings not steering rack bushings, play on steering rqck not as often as wishbone bushing knock knock.
    dgt wrote: »
    There are bushings on the STEERING RACK that can't be replaced seperately according to Sthenos post. Nothing to do with wishbone bushings

    Yeah completely seperate.

    You've upper and lower wishbones on the alfa 156 suspension that can be replaced independant of the steering rack, then you've got the bushings on the steering rack which are usually seperate from the rack but in the case of the 156 are a part of the rack so you can't replace them seperately.


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    #2158
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    cabb8ge wrote: »
    no need to use the big writing, front bushings mostly refer to wishbone bushings.

    There would be no need for big writing if the previous posts were read correctly ;)


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    #2159
    challengemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    LOUD NOISES

    :pac:


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    #2160
    cabb8ge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭cabb8ge


    Well when 166man tell us in Feb that he not need any work on steering rack we will see about correct posts


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    #2161
    Stheno
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    cabb8ge wrote: »
    no need to use the big writing, front bushings mostly refer to wishbone bushings.

    Eh with an alfa, you talk about the upper and lower wishbones, and the bushings/bushes (as I call them) seperately

    Makes a bit of a difference when you've a car where the bushings are part of the rack, and the wishbones can be replaced?

    I'm replacing a ball joint this week on my car, any idea how many on each side and if any are attached permanently to the rest of the suspension?


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