When I were a lad

[DAPPH]

Perhaps Audi should have tried those oil rings on their tfsi engines

Is there a story here Fizzy ?

 

[JEZGUZ]

Vauxhall Viva, hole in the drivers side floor you could put your hand through, sold it 6 months later went back to my Trident.

 

[brewdexta]

Always liked the shape of the early TVR`s, I have one thats to be butchered into a replica of this.

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I took my then girlfriend to Blackpool for a romantic weekend. We spent most of a day in the TVR factory at Bispham, just up the tram line from Blackpool. I got loads of bits plus a tour of the factory.

The digs were pretty grim and it was Scotch week, which meant the place was full of Scots. I remember going to a nice pub and suddenly being surrounded by 'em. "you don't mind if we sit down and join you and talk to your girlfriend do you laddie?" I think it was a rhetorical question

 

[fizzy]

Is there a story here Fizzy ?

Indeed so.
VAG in the USA did a big recall on cars with the tfsi engine fitted. High oil consumption due to dodgy piston rings. That engine was used in many cars including VW - Audi, Skoda and SEAT. In the UK for a long time they denied there was a problem leaving many people seriously out of pocket. My brother bought a 3 year old A5 tfsi Quattro with 23,000 miles on the clock from a main dealer. Knew about the problem. Luckily by this time Audi were starting to admit there was a problem. And yes his car was one of them. They fitted a fully rebuilt engine - cost was £9000 - didn't have to pay a penny luckily. Audi tried to say before this that 1L of oil every 500 miles was normal

 

[premmington]

Indeed so.
VAG in the USA did a big recall on cars with the tfsi engine fitted. High oil consumption due to dodgy piston rings. That engine was used in many cars including VW - Audi, Skoda and SEAT. In the UK for a long time they denied there was a problem leaving many people seriously out of pocket. My brother bought a 3 year old A5 tfsi Quattro with 23,000 miles on the clock from a main dealer. Knew about the problem. Luckily by this time Audi were starting to admit there was a problem. And yes his car was one of them. They fitted a fully rebuilt engine - cost was £9000 - didn't have to pay a penny luckily. Audi tried to say before this that 1L of oil every 500 miles was normal

+1 for the above.

We don't rebuild these - for any reason - normal failures are cam follower wear or timing chain tensioner problems or full chain failure.

Reason why is - these engines can start using excessive oil at any time (piston ring problems). Once I have written a customer a big bill for a head rebuild or chain - they gonna blame me when it starts using oil out of the blue. I just gracefully refuse them now...

I owned one once - low mileage VW Passat 2.0 DSG Turbo estate - 200hp - mine did not drink oil. But the ticking noise from the HP petrol injection sounded awfull - nice car to drive thou.

 

[premmington]

Indeed so.
VAG in the USA did a big recall on cars with the tfsi engine fitted. High oil consumption due to dodgy piston rings. That engine was used in many cars including VW - Audi, Skoda and SEAT. In the UK for a long time they denied there was a problem leaving many people seriously out of pocket. My brother bought a 3 year old A5 tfsi Quattro with 23,000 miles on the clock from a main dealer. Knew about the problem. Luckily by this time Audi were starting to admit there was a problem. And yes his car was one of them. They fitted a fully rebuilt engine - cost was £9000 - didn't have to pay a penny luckily. Audi tried to say before this that 1L of oil every 500 miles was normal

I have heard 1L per 1000miles being quoted by a VAG dealer for a brand new car with a TFSI as being acceptable oil consumption.

I would not think that was acceptable - if it was my brand new car I had bought and paid for - would you?

I seen these engines breathing hard @ low mileages - puffing from dipsticks and smoking from inbuilt rocker cover mushroom breathers.

 

[Migmac]

Vauxhall Viva, hole in the drivers side floor you could put your hand through, sold it 6 months later went back to my Trident.

Where the inner wing met the floor? Mine had a hole there

 

[DAPPH]

I took my then girlfriend to Blackpool for a romantic weekend. We spent most of a day in the TVR factory at Bispham, just up the tram line from Blackpool. I got loads of bits plus a tour of the factory.

The digs were pretty grim and it was Scotch week, which meant the place was full of Scots. I remember going to a nice pub and suddenly being surrounded by 'em. "you don't mind if we sit down and join you and talk to your girlfriend do you laddie?" I think it was a rhetorical question

I also took my wife of four months to a two night over night stop off in Blackpool ( To see the tower ? ) on our way up to Troon .
T'was also Scotts week , we lodged in a tiny £10 for the night front upstairs bed room adjacent to the stair well in a 3/4 bed about 150 yards from the base of the tower . All night from 12 till about 06.30 hrs hordes of well oiled happy noisy jocks with their kiddies in tow streamed past our window.
Sleep was impossible so I sat on the end of the bed around 02.30hrs. talking to several groups , never realised till then that they called it Scotland on sea & it was a long standing tradition to go to Blackpool or Scarborough during their factory fortnight shutdowns. Second night in the digs we got numerous jars of brew down our necks & eventually slept well.

I have heard 1L per 1000miles being quoted by a VAG dealer for a brand new car with a TFSI as being acceptable oil consumption.

I would not think that was acceptable - if it was my brand new car I had bought and paid for - would you?

I seen these engines breathing hard @ low mileages - puffing from dipsticks and smoking from inbuilt rocker cover mushroom breathers.

That's how VW cheated with their Bora's (1 litre oil per 600 mile / 1000 km miles ) to allow them to claim such long intervals between oil changes .. The tollerances between pistons and cylinder wall were at the best considered very excessive , They did lower the friction in the engine though as so much oil was being used . Which was channeled back via the exhaust emission control system to be burnt in the cylinders .

At that time ca 1992 IIRC. My eldest daughters partner had a brand new VW BORA as his company car and was horrified to have to put three litres of engine oil in it whilst driving from Cambridge to Inverness & back over a three day period . The company soon got rid of all of the Bora's as many were suffering engine failures because of the lack of oil situations .

 

[fizzy]

Another thing I have noticed with a lot of VAG cars - the idle speed is often 200 rpm higher than may other cars. Much easier to make it seem like a smooth running engine then

 

[Erie Fred]

Saw a brand new Ford Maverick truck in the parking lot yesterday, when he started it and idled out of the parking space, I thought...Huh, must be a diesel ?
Then as he pulled away, I could hear it wasn't a diesel...it sounded allot like a Briggs & Stratton.....

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[redlig]

In '67 a mate bought my 650ss and decided to race as well so needed transport . we shared my van. So he bought what has to be the cheapest vehicle ever ,until I hear different, a Bond 3 wheeler with Villiers 9e motor (197cc) he offered £1. 0 pound but the owner said it's not worth that and gave him 10/- change . Personally I thought he was still overcharged but it lasted a year or so.

 

[Cobbler]

In '67 a mate bought my 650ss and decided to race as well so needed transport . we shared my van. So he bought what has to be the cheapest vehicle ever ,until I hear different, a Bond 3 wheeler with Villiers 9e motor (197cc) he offered £1. 0 pound but the owner said it's not worth that and gave him 10/- change . Personally I thought he was still overcharged but it lasted a year or so.

A Bond Minicar presumably? I’ve put this before, but a local lad had one & was driving over the common & a horse sat on the bonnet, turned the convex curve of the front concave. You’ve heard the term @rse like a circus horse, well this was a bonnet like it.

 

[redlig]

A Bond Minicar presumably? I’ve put this before, but a local lad had one & was driving over the common & a horse sat on the bonnet, turned the convex curve of the front concave. You’ve heard the term @rse like a circus horse, well this was a bonnet like it.

The same . Any hill steeper than very gentle required the passenger to get out and 'assist'. My oppo proudly showed the chamfered off front left and right front lower corners and developed a controlled 2 wheel cornering style. Daring stuff at 35mph.
Can anyone imagine todays yoof having that kind of fun.

 

[Cobbler]

A friend of mine had a Coronet Talisman Twin three wheeler, that ended up with the fibreglass worn away on the rear corners. The previous owner had fitted a straight through silencer on it, totally unsuitable for a 2 stroke as it absorbed all the oil. I needed a silencer & fitted it on my Morris Minor, it was like a wartime battleship order “MAKE SMOKE MAKE SMOKE” until it burnt off, it obliterated the street!

 

[OJCar]

A friend of mine had a Coronet Talisman Twin three wheeler,

But you were a true friend and stood by him in his time of need !
(or at least tried not to giggle ... )

 

[Cobbler]

But you were a true friend and stood by him in his time of need !
(or at least tried not to giggle ... )

Actually it was quite a smart little thing ……….. for a three wheeler

 

[Blobber]

After posting I had to have a rumage in the photo box, the FD in all its glory 1982/83, I used to do a bit of work in the Wolfrace factory in Bedford so it gained some turbovec wheels I think they were called

 

[DAPPH]

The same . Any hill steeper than very gentle required the passenger to get out and 'assist'. My oppo proudly showed the chamfered off front left and right front lower corners and developed a controlled 2 wheel cornering style. Daring stuff at 35mph.
Can anyone imagine todays yoof having that kind of fun.

I used to have a self repaired roll damaged Reliant Super Robin , with a paving slab fibre glassed down in the back . Lovely little beast it kept my head and feet dry and at 70 plus MPG was brilliant at the time my ex wife walked out leaving me with £6 k of debts and two kiddies back in 1984 .
We went everywhere cut price for three or so years .

 

[RWD3M]

After posting I had to have a rumage in the photo box, the FD in all its glory 1982/83, I used to do a bit of work in the Wolfrace factory in Bedford so it gained some turbovec wheels I think they were called


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Quite a rare beast these days. Back in the late 70's I was working up in the north of Scotland where two lads (brothers) working in a small car workshop ran a couple of them Not sure what they'd done to them but they were bally quick (and noisy!).

 

[redlig]

In the early 60's one of our m/c group broke his back against a lamp standard and was eventually issued with a Three wheeled ,I seem to remember the name Invacar made by Greeves M/Cs finished in Greeves blue and driven by the Villiers 9e . He soon realised the fitting were the same as a 32a (250cc) so with a scrambles tune up kit he had a quick piece of kit .Relatively. The engine swap took only an hour or so which meant that come the routine service it got swapped back to standard . The service dealer could never work out how the 9e lasted so well.