GSI no: 2.

[Robsey]

Not a problem my Cavalier ever faces.
It does about 8000 miles per year.
Tyres usually only last 3 or 4 years.
The current tyres have been on a year, so still looking very fresh.

Congratulations on the pass. It is always a relief when you get approval to use the car for another year.

[ilovedmymantas]

Well I got another years ticket for the car yesterday with only one advisory....

Congratulations on the new mot

Moral is if you don’t use the car much buy cheaper tyres.

...or is the moral drive your head-turning car more often

[iangsi]

Hoorah another years MOT got today with no advisories time to start driving but with no events on where to go

[Robsey]

In a Cavalier, it doesn't matter where.
All that matters is that you get out there and enjoy the ride.



Congrats on the pass.

[GP123]

Hoorah another years MOT got today with no advisories time to start driving but with no events on where to go

Congrats on the years ticket! Now go enjoy the cav.

[James McGrath]

Well done on the pass!
Maybe we should arrange a socially distanced club meet sometime soon?

[Robsey]

I can do that... is 260 miles away suitably socially distanced?

[ilovedmymantas]

Congratulations on another pass

I can do that... is 260 miles away suitably socially distanced?

[btcctroy]

Suits me and rob with our ornaments

[iangsi]

Well done on the pass!
Maybe we should arrange a socially distanced club meet sometime soon?

Sounds good to me when & where was you thinking ?
Simply Vauxhall at Beaulieu is on Sat 12th September this year.

[James McGrath]

Simply Vauxhall is firmly in my diary Ian.
Would be good to have a club meet up there.

[iangsi]

Well a couple of months ago the cav decided to spit out all of it's coolant through the water pump, a new one was dually ordered form Autovaux along with a timing belt, tensioner & idler pulley. With being busy I sorned the car.
Well this weekend I completed the installation of said items & got it running again but the car fort me all the way though. I had to buy a spline drive set to undo the 6 8mm bolts holding the bottom pulley to the crank shaft I also borrowed an impact driver from work which only undid 1 of them & stripped the heads of the other 4, someone had been there before me & replaced 1 with a normal bolt god knows how they got it in as I could not get a socket or a spanner on it as it touched the side of the pulley, I then had to drill off the bolt heads where upon the pulley just came off in my hands & the remains of the bolts just twisted out with my fingers. Once I got the rear belt cover off to access the pump it was seized in place a hammer & a piece of solid bar soon released it, then it was a small matter of reassembly.
Suffice to say everything took longer than I expected.
I just need to tax it & put some miles on it now.

[Mk3alan]

Just love jobs like that!

Alan

[ilovedmymantas]

Glad to hear you've overcome the wtf! problems and can now get back on the road

Is this the first full timing belt and pump kit since you got it?
I got my car around the same time and now i'm a bit worried. It was always a rule with me - get a 'new' car and change the timing belt/pump/etc , you don't know it's history.
I did this right up to the sri and don't know why the cdx hasn't had the same treatment, it's not as if I don't have experience fixing my last 'interference' engine

[iangsi]

Glad to hear you've overcome the wtf! problems and can now get back on the road

Is this the first full timing belt and pump kit since you got it?
I got my car around the same time and now i'm a bit worried. It was always a rule with me - get a 'new' car and change the timing belt/pump/etc , you don't know it's history.
I did this right up to the sri and don't know why the cdx hasn't had the same treatment, it's not as if I don't have experience fixing my last 'interference' engine

Yes it is, it was one of those jobs I never got around to doing I was waiting for it to hit the stated mileage of 107,000 before I changed it. I think I just got lucky with the belt. The old belt was in surprisingly good condition though,
I wouldn't normally change the water pump though except if it was used to tension the belt as on my old mk2 astra sri 1.8 8V.
On the early 16V cars like mine they have manual tensioners so unless the bearings have gone it's not really necessary to change them in my opinion.

[Robsey]

I have a slightly different "rule of thumb".
I have only ever had 8 valve engines, which makes things much easier.
But I have always changed the timing belts every 32,000 miles (or every three years) and the changed the water pump and auto-tensioner every 64,000 miles. (Every second belt change).

Our 2005 Vectra diesel 16v CDTi gives me the heaby-jeabies because you only change it every ten years or 90,000 miles. Last time I got a bit twitchy when it passed the 75,000 mark.

Still - it is always good when you have ticked off these bigger jobs on the "to do" list.

[vexorg]

I've for a 2litre diesel ds4, they book states timing belt at 10 years or 150k miles!
I done it a few months ago, 122k miles and 9.5 years, belt looked good, no play in any of the rollers.

[iangsi]

Well I managed to get another years MOT this morning with no advisories .
I was quite surprised as I used my regular place but it's under new management and the new owner is the tester, when he told me that it had passed his words to me were "I didn't expect it to be so clean" going to show that the preconceptions of some testers is not limited to where James lives and baring in mind that the car is now 31 years old it's probably older than he is !

[ilovedmymantas]

Congratulations again
You seem to be making a habit of this, what's the secret

[iangsi]

Congratulations again
You seem to be making a habit of this, what's the secret

Thanks, I wish I knew the secret just got lucky I suppose.

[iangsi]

And another year's ticket got but with some advisories this time, nothing I can't sort though probably not until after the Vauxvalves show next weekend.

[Mk3alan]

Congratulations! The suspense in the waiting area is on par with the Dad's room at the Maternity Hospital!

Alan

[ilovedmymantas]

Well done

[Robsey]

Lucky or not...
It is the end result that matters.

Congratulations dear chap, keeping the car alive for another twelve months.

[iangsi]

Well whilst I was at the VauxValves show the water level light came on the Silverfox and I had a quick look for the water leak with no luck so I just topped it up and went home & not having driven it since & as I had a bit of time on my hands today I decided to investigate and wish I hadn't as now I need to track down a new radiator, top & bottom hoses. I noticed steam coming from around the front of the engine but not the rad, it was coming from the top hose area which I thought was just a loose clamp but turned out to be the plastic hose spigot from the rad had snapped off completely how it never blew off I will never know !
So any suggestions for suppliers of said items would be useful.
So in a way it has decided it's own fate SORN it is.