Grumpy Old Men (& Women) Thread.

[Conniff]

Depends how you read it Conniff. Had over 100K before LPG fitted. Just eats exhausts now every 18 months so get 2 year guarantee and get 36 months!

 

get a stainless one you tight git.

[heliosuk]

Go to VW dealer and ask for compressions to be checked. No 3 will probably be low. You need to act now as the VW will cut off the goodwill before long. See blinkeys thread. I've assisted in I think 4 cases now but you have to follow a set procedure in getting help. Initially VW will tell you to sod off but you need that to get them to pay eventually.

[Ell-enn]

Compression test has been done and it was ok

[Conniff]

Crikey Phil, I read that quickly then and thought it said be seeing you In THE Bath!

Should have gone to Specsavers...

 

If you put on a Yorky accent, it could say that

[Conniff]

Compression test has been done and it was ok

 

Was that done by VW - I'd be suspicious if it was.

[heliosuk]

get a stainless one you tight git.

 

Have thought of it but it would have to be specially made. As I buy them trade and the mark up is 100% it's really sweet FA and as ever I don't know what to do with the car. There is nothing wrong with it apart from that. Handles round the lanes like a dream, can hold it's own on the motorway 38 to the gallon at 75p per litre. Why change.

 

The hound loves it as well.

 

Of course Conniff.........what do you currently drive??? Apart from your Bentley of course!!

[Ell-enn]

No, it was done by a local garage - I'd read the thread on here about one of the Polos with a similar problem so asked the garage to do the compression test.

Strangely enough when my son drives it the light goes off ! I just want rid of it now as it's starting to get me down, but can't trade it in with the damn light on

[heliosuk]

Was that done by VW - I'd be suspicious if it was.

 

Can you post what the readings were. Generally you would see a reducing value. If one is near 129 psi it has a problem.

[Ell-enn]

I don't have the readings - the garage rang me to say they had done the test and there was nothing wrong, they also checked the valves, coils, injectors etc. They said that for some reason petrol wasn't getting though to the injectors, but was sporadic.

[heliosuk]

No, it was done by a local garage - I'd read the thread on here about one of the Polos with a similar problem so asked the garage to do the compression test.

Strangely enough when my son drives it the light goes off ! I just want rid of it now as it's starting to get me down, but can't trade it in with the damn light on

 

The mod to the head to get over the issue was done around 2007 but no VW contacts I have in Wolfsburg can confirm this which is why I say 2009 being the cut off point when it won't be an issue. At 20K miles the problem just starts to show and gets progressively worse. Cars used at high spped don't seem to suffer but those used as normal will see it.

 

The problem is that it's a bit like a regressive disease. Everything checks out OK but there will be a point when it starts to misfire and be low on power. Misfires are hard to detect to the uninitiated on 3 cylinder cars. When your son drives he probably gives it a bit of stick so it will clear the emissions but there will come a point when it wont. Let us know what the compression readings were and I'll know straight away.

[Ell-enn]

OK, will do. Thanks for your advice, I didn't mean to hijack this thread - I was just having a moan lol

[heliosuk]

Get the readings Ell-enn even if they have to do them again. They should al be equal. If they show variation at that mileage it has the issue. Thing is you will have detected it early. The garage cannot check the valves per say, only the clearance for which the engine needs to be stone cold for some considerable time to let the oil pressure in the followers out. To say the petrol isn't getting through to the injectors is pathetic. It's the fact it is and not being burnt which I would suggest is causing the light to come on.

 

Of course, it could be a French car but the last I heard VW don't have a French plant. Conniff might know different.

[silverfox1961]

 

Ear worms! The latest one is the O2 ad. Every time I hear the ruddy thing, it pops up at bedtime and can I get to sleep without singing 'Little Boxes' NO!

[heliosuk]

MOTHER IS THINKING OF GETTING A FRENCH POODLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Any advice as to how I should train my working ENGLISH working cocker spaniel to deal with her? I have Murphy well versed in Agincourt and Joan of Arc already.

[Conniff]

I was going to suggest that you took mum somewhere that dogs are not allowed and left them locked up in the same room but then I though no dog in his right mind, and especially an English dog, would go for something that had such a stupid haircut as a French poodle and if it's pink, I think you will have one hell of a job taking them out for walkies as the Cocker spaniel won't want to be seen in the street with it.

[heliosuk]

The good thing is that Murphy has "been done" so I don't have any worries there. Further the only decent Anglo French collaboration project has been Concorde. They only screwed the thing together. We did all the rest.

 

Do French dogs smell of Garlic as most of the ones I have come across do.

 

Think carefully before you answer!!

[Conniff]

Do French dogs smell of Garlic as most of the ones I have come across do.

 

 

Garlic, so it won't be the cat then.

 

French poodle, English cocker - who the hell chose a name like Murphy.

[heliosuk]

Garlic, so it won't be the cat then.

 

French poodle, English cocker - who the hell chose a name like Murphy.

 

Errr I did as his colouring matched that of a pint of Murphey's that was being pulled at the time. I know it's somewhat Irish but it seemed appropriate at the time and has proven to be the right choice. I.e. drinks a lot and has a penchant for digging!! Off to barricade the house now:madgrin:.

[Conniff]

lol - have you noticed how the vast majority of problems are with foreign built cars - German engineering is no better than Chinese electrical engineering.

[heliosuk]

No I haven't actually but what I have noticed is that sales of any car are supposedly more important than aftersales, used or second hand. It's not the engineering it's the ******* merchant bankers who don't understand what they are selling. Then the pub lawyer comes along with his mate pub mechanic, not forgetting the green brigade who seem to think that because they eat nuts and spinach that all cars and lorries should be made of bamboo and fueled by the advert "go to work on an egg", which ends up in a court case with a ****ed old fahrt of a judge who still thinks a car is an Austin heavy 12 and believes that the sales of goods act is a licence to sell cars.

[Conniff]

an Austin heavy 12

 

Your older than you would have us believe

 

I bet you drool when someone mentions 'sidevalves'

[heliosuk]

Perhaps not side valves conniff but the mention of a sleeve valved engine............................sorry just got to clean up the wet key board!!

[Conniff]

Is life any better or are we still having problems H ?

[Conniff]

Someone must have something to grump about - surely I can't be the only miserable sod in the world.

[heliosuk]

Well crap telly, crap Government, crap weather, wife who thinks money grows on trees so grows chinese money plants and a dog who thinks a two hour walk over heavy fields is a stroll and a 2.25%pay rise. Not withstanding of course the fact that this years weather is causing havoc with my sceptic tank, the golf pro next door who won't let the kids play in the garden because he and his wife think e coli might be present due to having a sceptic tank. Not helped by sitiing in airports waiting for delayed planes i far away countries.