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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: 2boxerdogs on 24 January 2017, 12:41:39

Title: Dead as a Dodo.
Post by: 2boxerdogs on 24 January 2017, 12:41:39

Put the dog in the 4x4 this morning  ready for our morning stroll, turned the key & zilch. Took the battery off which as far as I'm aware was the original from 2005!
 Phoned my local motor parts shop (Linco) one in stock
RRP £141.90 trade £89.11+vat, all sorted within an hour well pleased.

Title: Re: Dead as a Dodo.
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 24 January 2017, 14:51:27

Hmmmm, I have a TerribleCan to look at with a goosed gearbox, swap you for a simple battery replacement

Title: Re: Dead as a Dodo.
Post by: 2boxerdogs on 24 January 2017, 16:07:52

Quote from: Marks DTM Calib on 24 January 2017, 14:51:27

Hmmmm, I have a TerribleCan to look at with a goosed gearbox, swap you for a simple battery replacement

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Often quite a few breakers on the bay you might be able to source a cheap replacement some have done mega miles though,  I've been pretty lucky with mine bought it from its first owner in 2012 with 25,000 miles on the clock, now just over 60,000  been a great workhorse brilliant for  towing

Title: Re: Dead as a Dodo.
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 24 January 2017, 16:10:50

This dam thing has the gearbox totally locked up (manual) so I am expecting a pretty major internal failure or multiple gears selecting.

Title: Re: Dead as a Dodo.
Post by: X30XE on 24 January 2017, 16:40:36

Time for some percussive maintenance. With a lump hammer  :y

My old man's subaru legacy tried that party trick once. Selected two gears simultaneously and wouldn't let go. Blocked both other cars on the driveway. I was not amused  >:(

Recovery man came to drag it out the way, and in the process of jacking up each wheel to put low friction material under, it must have freed some pressure as when he got in it and instinctively went to knock it into nuetral it dropped the gears  ::)