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

Yeah, I picked up a cheap sealey one off eBay.

In that case want me to pop over and laugh at you? Sorry give you hand?

I'm in Bulgaria until the end of the week but I can definitely give you a hand with the indicators if @lynx can't. Or even if he can.

Oi. well it can only be three things, either the steering column switches, the relay or the wiring. All depends if the hazards work.

Baaaaaaah. My up until now 100% reliable van has finally stitched me up. Stalled and wouldn't restart in the pissing rain in San Francisco on Saturday. The fuel pump wasn't priming when I keyed the ignition after so I suspected a dodgy relay or pump (the pump had been getting noisy.)

$700 bucks later, a local Garage got it running again with a new fuel pump assembly, which worked fine for 400 miles back on the freeway but now stalls with irritating regularity in stop start driving. It appears to be a small throttle / closed throttle problem. Nothing obvious I can think that would cause it - maybe a TPS or pump controller issue. I'll have to see if I can find any error codes.

I fucking hate intermittent problems.

OBD2?

Possible but unlikely all 4.

If it pulls up dead straight it is more likely to be master cylinder related, have the pedals been adjusted? if there is not enough clearance between pedal and master cyl rod the brakes can stick on

No it's OBD1 - I need to jump some connections and read the flashes on the check engine light to get the codes. I'll have to pull the dog house off the engine and see house easy it is to access everything.

If it pulls up dead straight it is more likely to be master cylinder related, have the pedals been adjusted? if there is not enough clearance between pedal and master cyl rod the brakes can stick on

The sticking on thing vanished between me parking up from getting the car out of the garage and the first AA guy arriving.

They'll call me tomorrow to tell me (hopefully!) what's up with it.

In the blue corner we have Hefty and Danstuff with the kink, in the red corner we have everyone else with the master cylinder, who shall win?

Hefty and Danstuff with the kink

We're both consenting adults, no shame in it.

Ah in that case is there a way for you to see what things are doing what?

I've used pop rivets on water hoses, before I got a TIG welder that could do AC so I could weld ali, but on an induction pipe I worry (almost certainly without any justification) about the end of the pop rivet coming off and getting somewhere it shouldn't.

Everybody's got their kink, right? Just don't tell @Cycliste...

If the brake pedal's not retracting properly then that can cause dragging brakes as the pressure in the brake line can't be released. In my experience this gets progressively worse, and ends up with the brakes binding completely though. Wouldn't account for the soft pedal - it usually has the opposite result, and you end up with a rock hard pedal, but the brakes jammed on solid.

Faulty servo, £608.40

Love the £8.40 :o$

Yep

Ooft, rich man's game. Your due a break! I'm sticking with shonky old motorbikes.

Buying a cheap Porsche is a rich man's game.
Buying an expensive Porsche has (touch wood) so far proved very cheap.

What did you get? All this Porsche talk has me looking at getting one when our Honda lease finishes but so far, horror stories abound!

He bought a cheap Porsche (Boxster).

Is that even a Porsche?

Pretty sure it made by Raleigh. #JustSayin

Sticking brake pun intended?
If so, top LOL.

I will admit to having once again bought a new car by first buying an old car, then buying all new parts for it.