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[Doctor Gollum]

It has blue anti freeze, but it's meant to be inside the engine, not frosting the engine bay

Bleed screw spigot has sprung a leak...

[Doctor Gollum]

Been recovered halfway home, just waiting for the second half of the relay which someone forgot to book

[Doctor Gollum]

Having finally got home, ordered new pipe...

Ebay price £19, delivery on Friday.
Local factors price £71, delivery tomorrow.
BMW price £38, "Be with us by 3pm"

Be a week friday if Vx were involved

Collected and fitted but car decided to die whilst warming up... no throttle response and finally stopped restarting. No codes present, but all six plugs were fouled

One flat battery later, and the car is back together, but whether it is actually going to start or not is anyones guess

[VXL V6]

Be a week friday if Vx were involved

Very rare I've had to wait more than 24 hours for non-stock VX parts in my experience. Only exceptions are parts that are over in Germany, even then it don't recall it being more than a week.

[Doctor Gollum]

Battery back on, but still not starting...

Off to get fresh plugs and will drop some oil down the bores to restore some form of compression.

If that doesn't work then it will be on ebay before tea

[STEMO]

Battery back on, but still not starting...

Off to get fresh plugs and will drop some oil down the bores to restore some form of compression.

If that doesn't work then it will be on ebay before tea

Spares or repairs, like most cars when you've finished with them. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Battery back on, but still not starting...

Off to get fresh plugs and will drop some oil down the bores to restore some form of compression.

If that doesn't work then it will be on ebay before tea

Spares or repairs, like most cars when you've finished with them. 

Ceeky chunt :-P

Not my fault that modern cars are so susceptible to flooding... Borewashing is something that Lord Sittapong should do to his scullery maids...

[Doctor Gollum]

On a positive note, plug change won't take any longer that the Omegas

[aaronjb]

Not exactly "today" but did ~800 miles over the last week in the BMW; Northampton to Portsmouth, Caen to Omaha Beach, Omaha Beach to Le Mans, Le Mans to Gold->Juno->Sword and back to Caen, Portsmouth to Northampton.

I learned several things:

1) The Dynamic Drive (hydraulically actuated anti-roll bar) is well and truly donald ducked, so more often than not I effectively have a car with no front ARB and a stiff rear ARB (hello, oversteer)
2) I hate the BMW "bong" .. same bong for you're nearly out of fuel, the roof is up or "your car is about to fall apart"
3) French women are beautiful and when the sun is out and there's a beach nearby they don't wear much 
4) I really can't speak very much French so have no idea what the two girls who came up to me in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer and asked me something (while wearing wet dresses & swim suits  ) were saying .. I want to believe they were saying "Hey Mister, please take us home and have your way with us" but it was probably more like "€20 sucky sucky?"
5) Despite having the lower arms changed before the trip the car is back to trying to wobble the front end apart under breaking (y'know, like an Omega with knackered front bushes) and clunks like the wheels are going to fall off over rough ground. Really must get that fixed before something really does fall off..

[Doctor Gollum]

Want to buy a 525? The engine will drop straight in

When I say buy, I obviously mean collect

[aaronjb]

  I'll pass on that one thanks Al 

Having been at Le Mans and ogled all the cars, what I'd really like to replace the BMW with requires about another £50k of cash..

[Doctor Gollum]

Finally got it going

Took it for a decent blat to get it upto temp and clear everything out. Hopefully jobbed...

[Viral_Jim]

Having been at Le Mans and ogled all the cars, what I'd really like to replace the BMW with requires about another £50k of cash..

Do tell... I'll bet there was a pretty broad selection! 

Finally got it going

Took it for a decent blat to get it upto temp and clear everything out. Hopefully jobbed...

Glad its working again  . What caused the initial issue with the plugs do you think? Or had they simply had their time?

[Doctor Gollum]

It had been idling for a couple of hours when the hose went, then run once for around 5 mins to confirm leak source, then for two minutes to load it, a further two minutes to unload it. This was repeated for getting it on and off the second truck and it was missing quite badly by the time I got it on the drive.

It barely idled when I sorted the hose out and eventually choked itself when I stuck it in gear. Plugs were badly coked and wet, so cleaned them at which point the battery died. Charged that and still no starting, so pulled them again and found them still wet with petrol.

De flooding these is a shit as they loose all compression once the bores are petrol flushed. Put about 10cc of oil into each bore, cranked it, refitted the fuses, along with new plugs and eventually it caught... took seven attempts to finally catch.

The Omega is a pain when it happens, but a minor inconvenience compared to this... it was a full on youdon'tunderstandsogetthefruckoutofmyroom strop

[Viral_Jim]

it was a full on youdon'tunderstandsogetthefruckoutofmyroom strop

And I'm guessing the car was no better