HOW MUCH !!!!? Page 18

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 11th June 2024, 8:11 AM

1st MOT due soon and I got a tyre pressure sensor warning. The nearside front wheel showed no pressure - but is OK.
The main dealer says the guarantee does not cover them as bad driving could cause it. (I'm a potterer)
They gave me a long story as to how complicated it was to change it and all four would have to be changed and reprogrammed.
To change all 4 pressure sensors and reprogram them so the car computer recognised them £640.

I went to the local tyre garage, he said he would replace the faulty one with an OEM sensor.
They took the tyre off, removed the sensor and put it in a handheld cloning gadget. Then put the new sensor in the gadget and downloaded the information to it.
The wheel was put back on and the fault light went out and the pressure was showing correctly. he even checked the other wheels with another gadget to check they were reading correctly. (he just held the gadget close to the air valves) All in £60.

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I have this device you stick into the tyre valve and the escaping air forces the inner guage to shoot out and it tells you what the air pressure is. Quite ingenious really. 2/6d I think it was.

Yeah - gone are the days of kicking tyres to see if they are soft. This would be an MOT failure even though the tyre was correctly inflated.

This is what hides inside the tyres these days. A little battery-operated transmitter

Cars have got over complicated these days - I remember in the 1960s doing all sorts of work on my old Consul and Dauphine. We just dived in and did repairs by logical thought - no effing computers telling you what was wrong.

We should have had flying cars by now. And been living on the Moon and Mars. The future is very disappointing.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 11th June 2024, 10:43 AM

Cars have got over complicated these days - I remember in the 1960s doing all sorts of work on my old Consul and Dauphine. We just dived in and did repairs by logical thought - no effing computers telling you what was wrong.

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I had a big 3Litre Rover SDi (well 2 actually) and regularly serviced it myself. I used to set the points and carburetor up by ear. Usually when the petrol consumption had dropped to 11 miles per gallon - with tweaking I could get it to 18 miles per gallon

Yes, amongst many, many things, I did a head gasket on the Consul and (naughty naughty) took the steering ball joints apart (that had gone egg shaped), wrapped a tin can around them and bolted the whole thing back together again - it passed the MOT! 😂

And another time, a friend of mine and me decided we could put a new clutch in the Dauphine on our own, and I can tell you it was VERY touch and go trying to lift the engine out with a rope slung between our shoulders - did it though in an afternoon!

Quote: Lazzard @ 29th March 2024, 1:29 PM

Mind you, you'd think the last thing he'd want to see is a cross.
Talk about flashbacks...

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Isn't this the whole reason they exist?