General requirements of car ownership ..

[weltweit]

I have a friend with a sportsbike who has cracked the frame, when I suggested getting one from a breakers he said there was just so much in the way of electronic modules and complex wiring that he didn't dare try to move all the gear from one frame to another. And this is a very practical person with plenty of common sense.

For some reason welding the existing frame wasn't an option.

 

[Chilli.s]

If I knew i was going to be driving a long distance then yes I'd do all those checks, stupid not to.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Are you going to?

Sure, if you're going to come round here, point to them and ask "What's that one?"

 

[Saul Goodman]

I have a friend with a sportsbike who has cracked the frame, when I suggested getting one from a breakers he said there was just so much in the way of electronic modules and complex wiring that he didn't dare try to move all the gear from one frame to another. And this is a very practical person with plenty of common sense.

For some reason welding the existing frame wasn't an option.

I've built more than a few motorbikes from the frame up. Doing a transplant is child's play.

 

[weltweit]

I've built more than a few motorbikes from the frame up. Doing a transplant is child's play.

Yes, I have done 2 from crashed bikes admittedly not as complex electrically as his, but these days we have phone cameras to record what goes where, it has to be easier. He seems to have a mental block, that and I forget why welding was ruled out.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Yes, I have done 2 from crashed bikes admittedly not as complex electrically as his, but these days we have phone cameras to record what goes where, it has to be easier. He seems to have a mental block, that and I forget why welding was ruled out.

It really is as simple as putting the bikes side by side and swapping bits across.
The wiring loom will come off in pretty much one piece, and it's all but impossible to plug things into the wrong place.

 

[weltweit]

It really is as simple as putting the bikes side by side and swapping bits across.

Yes, having both frames side by side would make it much easier.

 

[weltweit]

The wiring loom will come off in pretty much one piece, and it's all but impossible to plug things into the wrong place.

I was selling a bike in bits, the buyer loaded everything up and said "wiring loom?" I had a shufty around my garage, no loom, no idea .. later I had a deeper look but no, it wasn't there. I thought perhaps years before one of my buddies might have used it for one of their projects. Still, I would have liked to have been told.

 

[moose]

All of that, plus careful lubrication of moving parts of the cabriolet roof at the start of summer, servicing at least twice a year, to keep my 30 year old baby on the road. Sadly, since the pandemic hit, it's been languishing on the street, quietly dying.

 

[moochedit]

I have breakdown cover and take it to to a garage for it's mot/service once a year. I used to check the lights were working before i gave up weed.

 

[WouldBe]

I know where to top up the levels if I need to and the car lets me know when this is required

My sister hired a van today to move some stuff to parents new house and a message came up saying "reduce oil level" as it was too high.

 

[stolinski]

1. Be ignored until the beast is hungry
2. Meat delivery at 6am, 12noon,4pm, 8pm without fail
3. Supply rubs between 9pm and 10pm
4. Litter changed every week AT LEAST
5. Protection against the ginger tom

 

[Saul Goodman]

1. Be ignored until the beast is hungry
2. Meat delivery at 6am, 12noon,4pm, 8pm without fail
3. Supply rubs between 9pm and 10pm
4. Litter changed every week AT LEAST
5. Protection against the ginger tom

Glasses may be required. CAR, not CAT!

 

[Sprocket.]

Check washer bottle level regularly.
All lamps and brake lights functioning. I once had a car drive into me due to a dodgy brake light actuator switch.
Change oil and filter regularly, half way between recommended service intervals, (both cars are over thirteen years old)
Investigate any new noises, if cause not found you can always turn the radio up.

 

[mauvais]

Change oil and filter regularly, half way between recommended service intervals

Why?

 

[bellaozzydog]

Remove the empty water bottles and crisp packets when you can no longer fit the the same number of people in that the car was designed to carry.

Empty coffee cups and sandwich wrappers for me

It’s a Land Rover so it gets serviced by a garage that bolts new stuff in when old stuff fails.

 

[Sprocket.]

Why?

Habit from my old high mileage diesel days. I suppose I should pack it in.
We used to have service intervals of 6,000 miles but on the cars I have at the moment it’s 12 and 15,000.

 

[mauvais]

Yeah. Unless you're doing a lot of mileage or something interesting like motorsport, I would just do it annually.

 

[Sprocket.]

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Yeah. Unless you're doing a lot of mileage or something interesting like motorsport, I would just do it annually.

Though of course until recently I used to get oil and filters as payment for doing small jobs on the side for a mate and his plant hire business.
But I packed that in about two years ago

 

[BassJunkie]

On a private race track, or at a drag strip, using a Sat Nav, or application on your phone, regularly test the 0-60 times and quarter mile times to make sure the engine hasn't lost any of its "horses".

 

[Teaboy]

Cars bore me quite a lot. The nearest I get to maintenance is putting fuel in and topping up the windscreen wash. I know where the oil dipstick thing is but never bother to check it. It gets serviced once a year and that seems to work fine.

 

[Sprocket.]

Of course the best thing about Caterpillar diesel fork trucks was they had Peugeot 2.5ltr engines in them. When I worked at the company who had them, all the engineers all owned Peugeot diesel cars, purely by coincidence of course.

 

[mauvais]

I had a new one today: unblocking the sunroof drains. Involved getting some wheel arch liner off and unblocking a drain tube. One was blocked but I did both sides.

 

[Leafster]

I had a new one today: unblocking the sunroof drains. Involved getting some wheel arch liner off and unblocking a drain tube. One was blocked but I did both sides.

Modern cars don't seem to have the rubber lip at the bottom of the side windows to stop water getting in. Instead they seem to rely on the water draining through the doors and out through the drainage holes in the bottoms. My parking spaces are under a sycamore tree and an ash tree. The seeds have a habit of sticking to the windows when it rains and then slowly sliding down and into the doors. I have to regularly clean out the drainage holes in the doors as they get clogged and would otherwise fill up with water!

 

[mauvais]

They have a lip but it's not fully watertight, so as you say it drains down through the door. Been like that a long time though, since the 90s at least.

 

[Leafster]

They have a lip but it's not fully watertight, so as you say it drains down through the door. Been like that a long time though, since the 90s at least.

Yeah, I think my previous car was probably the same as this one. I moved to my current home (with the trees) at about the same time I bought the car so didn't notice the issue with the old one.

 

[Roadkill]

They have a lip but it's not fully watertight, so as you say it drains down through the door. Been like that a long time though, since the 90s at least.

Tbf my 1980 Ford Escort did that too, which probably explains why the passenger door had no bottom in it.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Tbf my 1980 Ford Escort did that too, which probably explains why the passenger door had no bottom in it.

I think the fact that it was a 1980 Ford Escort might explain why the door had no bottom in it

 

[Roadkill]

I think the fact that it was a 1980 Ford Escort might explain why the door had no bottom in it

Strut tops plated once and coming through again, sills gone, front wings tatty, rear arches getting frilly, drainage channel under the boot lid gone through. You name it, it had it. When my mate rolled it the sill came away from the floorpan.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Strut tops plated once and coming through again, sills gone, front wings tatty, rear arches getting frilly, drainage channel under the boot lid gone through. You name it, it had it. When my mate rolled it the sill came away from the floorpan.

Holes held together with rust.