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One car we had, a pretty tidy B4 Legacy with a blown engine, was bought on finance. Owner brought it into the shop, never heard from her ever again. After sitting for two or so years before sorting it out, the finance company paid for all outstanding costs and signed the car over to the workshop. Free car yay!

Boss bought a new engine, we slapped it in, gave it a good thrashing and then sold it.

We've had a few vehicles ditched at our shop over the years, after long enough they get sold off to pay the balance

Basically you have to have made a reasonable effort to contact the owner, but that doesn't mean going out of your way or anything. A letter to the last known address telling them they have 28 days to collect is good enough. Doesn't matter if they receive it. I think then post an add in the paper even though no one will ever read it. After that you can take ownership of it / scrap it as you wish.

7 hours ago, ajg193 said:

What are the rules around adding catalytic converters to old cars?

 

There are none

Nope, coz they are unsprung

2010 I thought, but yup. After that they need an emissions cert, whatever that is.

Good for cleaning out the jets though

Could you also whip up an 8mm spacer to stick between the flywheel and crankshaft?

If others have run into this problem then surely someone has found a solution?

Unless their solution was a vvti delete..

It definitely wasn't a Honda alternator, I can't remember what it was from, pretty sure Cressida or Corolla from my stash, but the alternator itself worked mint. The problem we had was the pulley, it was supposed to run dual V belts but we boogied up a single Lucas pulley coz it's all we had and it suffered constant belt slip and totally sucked. I had thought Keegan had solved it but I guess not.

Unless of course he replaced the alternator again later, in which case never mind.

Cool! I had wondered what happened to this whip, glad it's still kicking!

From what I deal with on the daily, NZ New Mazda is the way to go. Don't get the diesel though.

No issue with these come cert time right?

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I've done that with graphics cards a few times. Might give an ECU a go one day and see what happens.

On 30/08/2019 at 18:20, Flash said:

faulty fuel sender

Oooh yep you have bigger issues than the keys. That's fucked ECU right there.

I fucking hate VZs. Whoever designed the computers must have been on meth or something.

VZs shit PCMs, BCMs and PIMs all the time. Annoyingly they all present near identical issues regardless of which module fails. As Tom said, the Service Vehicle Soon displaying while not starting is a giveaway of this issue.

Oh yeah nah sounds like timing is way up the shitter.

Has that raspy running tone to it and trying to crank against an ignition stoke. Wind the dizzy back, or figure out wtfs gone wrong with the tone wheel. Whatever that engine runs, 4G64s had both at some point in life.

Fucked cam timing won't cause that kinda shit on its own, but if the ign is triggered from a cam then that could be the issue.

It's been awhile since I've played with one of these fucks so I can't recall exactly how they operate off the top of my head. I recall some junk running off the cam pulley and being shit.

I got bored of reading all that about 12 words in and have concluded that it needs to be tossed into the ocean where it belongs

40 minutes ago, ThePog said:

Thankfully she seems to have gone off the idea and is now looking at 10 year old minis *sigh*

Could be worse I suppose.

If she's gonna buy a shit car, at least trick her into thinking she needs the supercharged version

22 hours ago, cletus said:

Anyone had a cvt fail? Or worked on one/ pulled it apart? 

I've heard some stories about them being shit but I dont actually know anyone who's had one that has been a problem 

Nissan Jukes shit them left right and centre.

I've diagnosed a lot of faulty CVTs, but unless the car has lost drivability they usually go ignored because the cars are worth the price of a rebuild.

I usually tweak the handbrake so it drags, go for a thrash around the block a couple of times hard on the brakes then tweak again.

Deeper than the angle grinder you didn't use

And that's why you don't buy cars from Christchurch