Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Great mpg for popping into Chelsea to pick up little Tarquin

Same again over a year or two probably.

Genuine lol. Thanks for that!

Was masturbating to this old Sothebys listing of a 205 T16 and had a little snort to myself at this line

Although only differing subtly in appearance from the myriad workaday Peugeot 205s that filled the streets of Europe in the mid-1980s...

U WOT??

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/lf15/london/lots/r128-1984-peugeot-205-turbo-16/180854

Same again over a year or two probably.

Genuinely?

Not quite the same but my 2007 5 series was a procession of fairly large bills at 6 month intervals. Annoying but still cheaper than leasing.

Edit: to expand, I think a lot of the gadgety stuff from that era is not as well made as the car itself felt and various bits of mechanical gear were reaching end of life and needed replacement.

Ah, hoping my low spec e46 won’t cost me several grand in the coming months. Fortunately it’s fairly unladen with fancy electronics/extras.

Although the to do list is growing slightly:
Thermostat,
Full Brake service, deffo new rotors, new handbrake shoes, bleed/totally refresh the fluid.
Maybe a battery replacement.
Need to figure out why the rear windscreen element isn’t working (potentially battery related).
Cooling system flush.
Air and cabin filters at some point.

Can’t say the prospect of doing any of the work on a driveway in the middle of winter has much appeal. I’ve already got to put the new cat and exhaust on the wife’s jazz in the next couple of weeks. Joy of joys.

Lets talk in a few days when I am better.

Is there a bolt and what left of a nut on the other side? Is it long enough to use plus gas and then molegrips.

Did you get the rona off your flat mate?

Only had a cursory look underneath so unsure what it’s like on the other side. I’m expecting some gas torch action elsewhere on the exhaust so it may well be an option.

If I do remove the old bolt I’ll have to rechase the threads as well. High chance I’ll end up just drilling it out and bolting through.

Saw this and thought of you.

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Seems on point.

Party time.

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Had a look here: https://www.parts-honda.uk/honda-cars/JAZZ/2012/14EX/ELECTRICAL-EQUIPMENTS-EXHAUST-HEATER/EXHAUST-PIPE-SILENCER/17TF0C01/B__0200/3/23008 to see if that helps but doesn't give details.

Cheers, I’d already ordered all the main parts and they arrived today. Annoyingly I had to order fitting kits from elsewhere as the place I ordered from didn’t list them on their site. But they rang yesterday to say that they could supply the fitting kits as well. Hopefully the fitting kits are compatible.

Small bonus was they rang to say that they didn’t have the cat that I’d ordered but had a different one I’d been eyeing up for only a tenner more (but £30 less than I’d seen elsewhere). Minor victory.

NB, total cost for fitting kits, hangers, cat and middle pipe was about £270.
If we’d bought from Honda the parts would have been around £1400-1500.
And a local garage offered to source a cat for £450.

Hopefully the new cat won’t be a total shiter, but the car isn’t worth enough to justify chucking that much cash at it!

We used to de-cat cars fairly regularly for performance and just put them back in for an MOT. TVR's were already close to the limit emissions wise so they needed them in but would something like a Jazz run clean enough to run without?

Maybe, but the post cat o2 sensor plugs in there, and with it missing, it runs rich as fuck (even pops a bit, lol). It’s also ridiculously loud in the cab without the rear box and middle muffler/silencer. And engine management is shitting a brick.

Even just driving round the corner to the flat bit where I can get it jacked up had lots of puzzled/annoyed onlookers, lol.

And very fortunately she’s been able to borrow her dads old Clio. It’s an automatic and is very slow to respond to any sort of throttle input according to my wife, but a complete life saver.

It's shit that even stuff that is nailed down is fair game to pondlife. I would have been tempted to get a cat bypass pipe made up and then run the rest of the exhaust and then hope it squeezed through another MOT. You're doing it properly though.

Bought (leased) a golf. 1.4 GT

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cat bypass pipe made up

For sure, if I had the time and space to work on it, I’d have gone this route and seen how we got on. As it stood originally, my wife just needed the car back on the road ASAP for work so it was just a scramble to get parts sorted.

Now the question is how to stop it getting nicked again. I was gonna write “cheap cat” on it, but I figure once someone’s under the car after a cat, they’re gonna take whatever’s there regardless.

Tynan’s anti theft paste or similar was one thought, until I realised that any substance as a deterrent would either stink or catch fire as the exhaust heats up!

lower the car, set the alarm to a more sensitive setting, engrave something on the cat that says "theft tracking number XXXXX, do not buy without proof of ownership" and put a sticker in the window that says "Cat is registered with police". The last one may seem stupid, but if you think about being on the other end of the situation it could be a pretty decent deterrent.

I added the site for no other reason than to see if it was a bolt or not.

As long as the cat is E rated, which if being sold within the EU it must be. But what happens now..who knows now.

Look at a catguard?

Was trying to remember who the UK OE exhaust makers and suppliers are. Looks like only TMA are left.

Good suggestions. Not sure she’d let me lower it tho!