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

some Citroën love in my local neighbourhood

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One of the things that happens is if the master cylinder fails the fluid can leak past the rear of the cylinder and down the pushrod then down to the pedal.

That baby citroen has been on a few internet classic car spots recently.

Big syringe or those pressure bleeders.

@BrickMan thanks! Mk5 yeah. I swung by the local garage this morning and the mechanic drove it for a bit and concluded it was pretty fine, but it could be the master. I have a haynes manual for it so i'll look if I reckon I could do it, but that sounds quite involved for a non-mechanic. Is there a name for the clip and is bleeding process is separate/ needing special tools? :)

@lynx will keep my eye on that

ah cool. apart from this thread and some dedicated 126 sites I don't visit classic car sites. the LNA is a little beauty

Am a member of a few classic car spotted pages on facebook and I remember that reg plate.

How about this for a london 4x4

Brought to my attention by someone posting one of these:

Hell yeah! To both of those. The dangel 505 is so good.

yes fuck yeah. Both so good

Any warning signs here? These are pretty good cars in general, right? 44mpg not too bad.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F113678737886

https://www.parkers.co.uk/skoda/octavia/vrs-2013/20-tsi-vrs-estate-5d/specs/

Don't remember ever hearing about these. Only recently saw a photo of one and then searched.

These were standard bodies, you bought the dangel kit and could get the dealer to fit it or you did. No idea how true that is, but I like the idea.

The 505 was/is very popular in africa and these were popular in the french and ex french colonies. Part of me want to see one with a 5ocal machine gun attached, but not sure if that is insinuating that Africa is at war alot.

Perfect motor for a Sunday afternoon trip to the retail park:

It's actually feeling a lot better at the moment!

Because you topped it off.

See how fast you lose fluid.

Still sounds like master clutch cylinder

Love to have a convertable ds, the lines just look right as a convertable.

Think they would make great electric vehicles.

Think they would make great electric vehicles

I've always wanted to engineer an electric ds.... Have to figure out the hydraulic system. I'd imagine the pumps would draw a lot of current.

The hydraulic bit is the easy bit, IMO. The hydraulic system does the brakes, power steering and brakes. The hydraulic pump is a low pressure pump (connecting pipes to the accumulator and from the reservoir are rubber) and just builds pressure in the system There is an accumulator sphere controls the fluid pressure in the pressurised bit. From there on the system is quite high pressure and connected by steel pipes to suspension . Alot of the time the pump is just recirculating back to the reservoir. The accumulator sphere clicks open and closed once every 30 odd seconds when the engine is at tick over at higher revs the click doesn't happen as the accumulator valve never fully opens. So a motor wouldn't need current or torque to keep the hydraulics working. But no regenerative braking tho.

Hmmm, seriously. One day...
There is a group near where I live that has experience doing projects like this (minus the oleopneumatics!) Would need a solid base car, problem is that even a rolling shell is worth decent money now.
I'd have to paint the thing a real metallic electric blue with white roof and a blue velour interior though.

Lfgss official rep/service course car?

Huge thanks for the tip, used a ratchet socket key with an extender for disassembling all of the hose clips, went really well!
Starting to reassemble slowly (after office work hours so a bit slow), for now it is going well I haven't broke anything yet but I was amazed about the simplicity of some of the stuff, the radiator/expansion tank unit is literally held on the car with big rubber grommets and two bolts only, once the hoses are removed it takes literally thirty seconds to get out of the car.
Grateful to start working on a somewhat older/simpler car as I have the feeling more recent cars do not have huge room in the engine bay to work with

No but here it is back at mine. Its really hard to photograph with a phone camera, The colour changes so much in different lights.

Am suffering garage envy/jealousy.

The vaguest fact pattern for an Internet diagnosis but here we go...

My OH drove over something today. It happened quickly so she can't say what it was or what size - but in the region of 20cm rather than 20ft.

There's now a sort of intermittent rattle at low speeds when going over bumpy surfaces.

I had a quick look under with a lamp but couldn't see anything obvious.

Any ideas?

We're now looking for a garage to get it checked out. And I just wanted to have a few ideas in case random shit gets suggested and we get bent over. Idk any garages nearby, so it's sort of pot luck or take it to VW.

Ding dong another lovely goddess