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my mums inner cv boot had split and had been split for a while so i said id just buy her a new inner cv
of i trundle to the parts place to find out you cant buy an inner cv you have to buy a full driveshaft, hmm ok then price please........£90 haha no thanks
got one from the scrappies for a tenner
the old d/s basicly fell out after removing the hub but left a part in the gearbox, its held in with a stupid pin thats about 3mm diameter and never been out in its life
i smashed it for a while and gave up as i couldnt get it out, the outer cv on the new d/s was ****ed so had to swap them over
to get the rubber boot on the inner cv you have to first take the outer cv off and the big rubber damper thing thats around the d/s
what the hells wrong with just a normal inner and outer cv?
i hate working on my mums car now, stupid french crap
A few cars are designed similiar. There only "crap" because your used to how easy Nova's fall apart when you undo bolts...
yeah they could have even put a thin nut and bolt through it instead of a stupid pin that was stuck solid, and as for the driveshaft what a palava lol
It just depends on what your used too. Corsa C;s are similiarly **** to work on aswell. Out of every car Ive ever owned the Nova's were definetly the easiest to work with though.
even my 3 year old daughter knows how to work on nova's.She's assisted me with 2 2litre conversions and 3 engine pulls outside on my drive+countless other shiz ive done lol
ever tried removing a turbo from a punto GT haha, thats a mission
ever tried removing a turbo from a punto GT haha, thats a mission
Heater matrix from a Sprinter 311 with the dash & engine still in place, only took me 4 hours :(
Heater matrix from a Sprinter 311 with the dash & engine still in place, only took me 4 hours :(
you one of those guys with 3 wrists and 2 elbows haha
thats why i like simple old cars...i bet the reason they used a pin was because it saved them a couple of quid.
it wouldnt have been so bad if i had the car on its side or something to get a good swing at it lol
brainsnova
31-08-11, 09:09 PM
French = junk
French = junk
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to brainsnova again.
Cambelt and head/ancillaries back on on a ford pinto, 11 hours after exhaust studs broke, whole front of the engine+rad etc has to come off to do cambelt, which is generally a pain in the ****. autodata quotes just over 4 hours to do the belt.
Engine out and engine in including ancillaries on a nova (1.2 to 1.6) a day, cambelt, 5 minutes lol
Cambelt and head/ancillaries back on on a ford pinto, 11 hours after exhaust studs broke, whole front of the engine+rad etc has to come off to do cambelt, which is generally a pain in the ****. autodata quotes just over 4 hours to do the belt.
Engine out and engine in including ancillaries on a nova (1.2 to 1.6) a day, cambelt, 5 minutes lol
2 mins if you stretch the new one on :)
I've just put an engine in an A8 at work. 22 hours later........... lol
Yep french = shoite!
But then again if you'd replaced the split boot when you first spotted it you wouldn't have needed to change the cv :p
But then again if you'd replaced the split boot when you first spotted it you wouldn't have needed to change the cv :p
Exactly what i was thinking-a sign of cv grease all over the front wing is a general indication that all is not gravy........
Exactly what i was thinking-a sign of cv grease all over the front wing is a general indication that all is not gravy........
it was the inner cv so would have been all over the road lol
just burn everything if it takes to long, or if it gives me the **** to much, smash the **** out of it with an axe.
just burn everything if it takes to long, or if it gives me the **** to much, smash the **** out of it with an axe.
haha believe me if i could get a good swing i would have, it dosnt help when my mum comes out and asks "you finished yet"
grrrrrr
same on my cav cant buy inners only on shaft grrrr
Renault Traffic Van, 3 years old, 100,000 miles and the gearbox has eaten itself.
Renault Traffic Van, 3 years old, 100,000 miles and the gearbox has eaten itself.
Wow it did that many miles! lol vauxhall vivaro (same van) when i used to work on them would perhaps see 40!
it was the inner cv so would have been all over the road lol
nope, all over the exhaust...
Either way you would know about it
All french cars are crap, the end
Simple jobs are made mega hard by rubbish design
Electrics are absolutely shocking
Front suspension components are brittle
All that torsion beam crap was nothing but a joke aswell lol
Send them all to Mr merris for some axe loving lol
Either way you would know about it
my mums inner cv boot had split and had been split for a while
Clearly he already did, so my comment stands alongside yours lol
All french cars are crap, the end
See i can only vouch for renaults as i work at a mainstealer and tbf, they're the safest and one of the most reliable car manufacturer on the road, they all get top marks in the ncap safety tests, the amount of toys you get on them as standard spec is unreal, and as ive said before, newer renaults ive only ever really seen in our workshops for servicing and nothing else!
I know corsa D's are prone to thermal incidents relating to power steering and or air-con faults, i posted up a video of a zafira that got bored out the back of the dealership next door to ours and decided to ignite itself, ive not seen a renault do that:p
And im guessing were talking about an older model clio with more than likely a few miles under its belt, and the cv boot problem obviously boils down to owner neglect (imo) as the problem was known about and ignored for whatever reason, so you cant really blame the car for that one can you!
haha im not blaming the car for the boot splitting, i noticed it had split a few weeks ago and didnt look healthy so i said to her id buy her a new cv and just replace that
untill i found out you cant
and its an 95 with 55k miles, has all the goodies too electric windows/mirrors fog lights blah blah lol
Lol ill admit things like that are damned annoying but ill bet its a bang on little runner and wont have let you down:p
well i bought it for my mum just over 2 years ago for £200 in that time ive put a clutch, a clutch pedal mechanism and the driveshaft
starts first time every time lol
Thats nothing for its age in all fairness, sounds like its doing her proud, you fixed it yet then:p
Thats nothing for its age in all fairness, sounds like its doing her proud, you fixed it yet then:p
yeah its all done thank feck, i dont mind doing akward crap on my car but hate when its other peoples even more so since im not even getting paid for it
Lmfao, thats all this thread was about wasnt it, the fact you had to fix your mums car and werent going to be paid for it, hahahahahaha lol
well i kinda had to fix it, my engine coming out in the next couple days so need transport haha
Hahahaha i can hear the conversation now, 'muuuuum' 'what' 'can i borrow your car, my engine isnt fitted yet and im without transport, i did fix it for you didnt i, pleeeeaaasseeee, muuummm' lol
Hahahaha i can hear the conversation now, 'muuuuum' 'what' 'can i borrow your car, my engine isnt fitted yet and im without transport, i did fix it for you didnt i, pleeeeaaasseeee, muuummm' lol
haha you know me well lol
All french cars are crap, the end
Simple jobs are made mega hard by rubbish design
Electrics are absolutely shocking
Front suspension components are brittle
All that torsion beam crap was nothing but a joke aswell lol
Send them all to Mr merris for some axe loving lol
I know this a vauxhall forum but is there any car you like other than a Nova sport?
Whatever faults they may have,you cannot say a sh1te french hot hatch has ever been built-they always make a good one,every single one out performs the vauxhall rival,and out corners it-they simply are good at making small fast cars-the end-as you put it...
they always make a good one,every single one out performs the vauxhall rival,and out corners it-they simply are good at making small fast cars-the end-as you put it...
This (if our head tech/service manager at work is correct) is proven by the fact that vauxhalls turbo charged vxr range wont meet upcoming emissions regs, whereas renaults range of (more powerful) turbocharged and even the n/a hot hatches smash the emissions regs by a long way, shows how good the french are at making engines, and indeed hot hatches!
Even lookswise the current RS range are winners imo:d
Megane RS250
http://www.sacarfan.co.za/wp-content/gallery/renault-megane-rs-250/sacarfan-renault-megane-rs-250-01.jpg
Clio RS200
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvAeDPnEeSEr9VkxFzAEo_FxwNwJs05 Z-acFEiB2dgbJDOEtuT
Interior of clio, Recaro nom-ness:d
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSIvC2cCqYj-xfILkJVC4lM9HrmWQPBpPAbFNtNKz-AVZ7JqfrDkw
yep i'll hand it to you spud, the french are good at making engines, but not this good. :p 350 bhp hatch, yes please! lol
http://www.autotia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2011-Audi-RS3-Sportback-Wagon-Engine-Photo-580x410.jpg
http://www.audi.co.uk/content/audi/new-cars/rs/rs3-sportback/tfsi-engine/tfsi-engine/_jcr_content/main-stage/tab_content/container1/generic_image.img.png
fitted in this.
https://www.carleasing-online.co.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Audi-RS3.jpg
But, what cc is that beasty, pretty as it is:d
Does it matter? lol (2.5) Audi germany have already tuned it to 400bhp+!
Just wondering, as imo, 250bhp from a 2.0 engine aint to be sniffed at, but that is a definately impressive acchievement by Audi there, i love the RS4 estates for some reason lol
LOL love all this french car hating lol Vauxhalls must be that good they had to actually drop out of the WRC (shocker!) where as over recent years french marques have been owning lol
Ahhhh, here steps up a very well knowledged chap lol
Was waiting for your take on this thread Mike:d
lolage, Ive been watching this thread over the last day or so tbh.
Ive had a few Novas & also a few 205's (1.9s & 1.6s) like for like as standard, the Pug handles sooooo much better then a Nova! Then moved onto 106 GTi's, sooo easy to get near 180 horse out of them compared to ANY GM 1600 16v from that kinda time line.
If only i could re-rep you, i think youre one of the few who actually have real life experience as to what an out of the box french hot car will do, and to see you reply in the face of the blinkered ones is just awesomeness:d
I don't think anyone could honestly say a Nova outhandles a cardboard box as standard, doesn't make french cars any less crap. Running them leaner than Vaux to get a nice emissions statistic doesn't make them awesome either lol Ze French produce more track orientated cars than anyone else, but that doesn't mean they're well built at all.
BTW for those waiting to pile on the "blinkered" comments, Vauxhalls are ****e too :p
Having owned A 106 GTI i can honestly say it is the worst car i have ever owned
Yes a standard nova would get creamed by a 106 but if a decent suspension kit was fitted to the nova then there's no contest, plus you don't have to be constantly worried about losing the rest end on a nova
The turning circle on the Pug was nothing short of embarrassing tbh
The GTI i had was a low millage one, after about 5k of driving out to my mums on country lanes the whole front end was ruined, top mounts, ball joints, shocks, bushes, rack etc. This never happened on my GTE even after I fitted a XE.
All that added to shocking electrics and the crap torsion beam makes a awful car
Yes some people can have blinkers on with vauxhalls but I'm just speaking from experience :)
There must be something about shonky old nova's to make you lot hang around on here, if its not the cars it must be the community. Yes that's right, us nova owners are awesome!
End of and all that :p
Mrs's 106 was a hideous car to work on due to ropey packaging, but I think some of the reliability issues it had were down to her getting in and flicking the switch that was the throttle pedal lol.
I had a shagged 205 TD for a while and all it cost me was a new rad and a service, both easy to do.
Have to say I'm impressed with the 182 brapmobile thus far. Done 9K in it and all I've had to change is the brake pads (mainly because all 1*2's I drove didnt meet my braking requirements). Its on 100K now and as I've said before all it looks like its had is servicing.
ALL cars are **** thesedays due to costdowns etc. Some are nicer to work on than others and some just need a little experience to work on properly.
Feck it took two of us 35 mins to work out how to remove a MK2 Audi TT rear light to change the bulbs lol
well the car was in for its mot today, and it passed
when she took it in last week they said it would fail on the rear brake pipe, i had a look and there was nothing wrong with them just the nut was a tiny bit rusty
a little bit wet and dry and it passed lol
hmmmm.. our local mot place always says track rod ends.......
we put an L200 truck in there at 3years old, and sure enough the worker who went was told TRE....& told to drive it back at no more than 25mph... so i checked it & there was minimal play on the lh tre... so they fitted a new one on the RH.. but we pulled a fast one on them by demanding the old one back as we were not out of warranty from the dealer......and miraculously never got billed for it.....
most of the garages here are always brake pipes, mine passed yesterday 1st time with no advisories :)
its an easy con... what with the salt useage on the road up there.
haha its not that bad lol, i live closer to england than i do edinburgh
Hmmm.... Unless there is an englishman in the room.....cough cough
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I can honestly say out of all the french motors Ive owned (mostly pre or very early NL usage days) the only issues I ever had was x1 seized 205 engine (1.6) and a perished rad & associated hoses on a 1.9. Other then general servicing like disc's & pads etc Ive never really had many issues at all.
(Other then landing a Saxo on its roof but thats another story altogether).
i fixed up my brothers 205d 5 dr.... the front lower arm bushes were shot & when you cornered, it would keep turning, with no self centering.. that was scary.....
new arms & tracking made it remarkably good again.
we had a clio van (went for scrappage) and it kept wrecking the front exhaust joint... the garage couldn't understand it.. cos the idiots weren't looking at it with the engine running.. i rear mount later, and it ran great.. until the lad who used it had a mishap with the spare.. he fitted a plywood floor in it & decided a tek screw would do the trick to hold it, so banged one straight thru the floor & spare. we only found out when he couldn't get the spare out when he had a puncture.......
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