22 mpg

I have an Inovv C3 with a 120 degree lens as a forward facing camera in the fairing on my bike and the 90 degree version in my topbox facing backwards. They are around £100 each when you factor in a 32gb sd card but worth every penny. https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/innovv-c3-with-remote-lens-with-exchangable-wide-and-narrow-fov-lens.6406/

Adjusted the bracket on my new exhaust cos i'm fed up of it constantly bashing the heat shield . Removed a nicely toasted snail from inside said heat shield . Gave her a good thrashing (car not snail) up and down the motorway to test :D . Had a chat with another scooby driver at the petrol station.

I love a happy ending :)

Christmas is coming so he has to be good to santa.

Fitted a new cv axle on front n/s with the aid of my new 40 quid impact wrench from machinemart (wish i,d bought one years ago). Was gonna do the otherside but my back went taking the wheel off so had to get my 15 year old son off his xbox and teach him how to use a torque wrench while the wife made me a brew. I could get used to this supervising lark. haha

are they the same symptoms as these for a bad cv joint http://www.ericthecarguy.com/faq/diagnosing-noises-in-your-car?start=5

just had a quick tug on the inner cv joints since I can reach them from above and there seems to be quite a bit of up and down play on both front axles. Looks like that might be my starting point.

Atherton, near leigh

Got to restock my man cave from somewhere. :D

It's attached to the other thread in reply number 18. Ta

I'll have to get it up on the ramps again at weekend if the weather holds out.

The Karcher demo's i've seen on qvc just put a hose in a water butt with a filter on the end to stop it sucking up crap.

Thanks Rick but the welding isn't the issue anymore. I got my Landrover toolkit out and welded it up again. It's the clanging noise under engine breaking that's the problem now. btw, I work on the other side of manchester on Oxford road.

I'm in Atherton near Leigh.

Sorry. It's here http://uk.subaruownersclub.com/forums/topic/10389-is-it-worth-welding/ I'm useless at forums, I can't even workout the how to video's lol.

Thanks Rick. It's all in the thread, Is it worth welding. I've put lots of info and sound file in there. Cheers

Think i'm gonna have to take her in for some professional tlc re my thread, Is it worth welding. Can anyone recommend a good garage in the Manchester area (Preferably North). I don't want to drive her too far as she sounds very poorly. :(

It seems to happen at speeds from around 40 to 70 mph, Mostly going down hill under engine braking and tends to stop when I use the brakes. It will also do it going up hill but you have to be doing about 70 and again only under engine braking. There's a little voice in the back of my head that keeps saying UJ on propshaft or transfer box as I also get a bit of a recuring bump but at very low speeds, as if there is something stuck to my tyre. That added to the fact that it sounds remarkably similar to when my propshaft fell off the diff on my old cortina and bounced off the road. Ah the old cortina, those were the days.

Tom do you know some pressure washers will draw water from a bucket or a water butt.

It did for a while but then I heard an old familiar noise that started all this in the first place. Once the car gets fully warmed up say 10 miles I get this loud clanging noise which appears to come from the passenger footwell. I can only discribe it as sounding like a cow bell, now i'm sure I haven't run over a cow recently so don't know how it's got there. On top of that I have a new noise that sounds like someone is tapping under the passenger footwell with a rubber mallet about 5 times a second, I've had a look and there no one there. The cow bell noise is most noticable over 60 mph under engine braking and the knocking under gentle acceleration at around the same speed. This is my cowbell. Voice 002.wav Please tell me someone has had this before. I've checked all the heat shields and fitted the new exhaust.

The answer is absabloodylutely. Took her for a spin up the motorway and she's as good as new. Even the new exhaust sounds good. it's only a cheap pattern part but it gives off that sound that only a scooby makes and at a volume us oldies appreciate.

Finished welding up my sills,loads of zinc primer and even more waxoil. Got the garage to fit the new exhaust I bought (Best £48 I've ever spent) and gave her a !Removed! good wash.

I bought one about 10 years ago cos I was on the road all the time and it was crap. Had to switch it to local to stop it picking up shop doors, as scooby Pete said. It picked up the cameras as you went past them. The laser detector used to sound going past the services on the M61 when there was no one there. I think there was also something about the newer windscreens cutting down the sensitivity. Especialy the ones where you had to put your phone aerial behind the rearview mirror, and I believe the !Removed! coppers changed the frequency of the radar which made them even more useless.

Lots of good advice to digest. I decided to cut a section from the outer sill to gain access to the inner sill. This is not my car. I just pinched the picture from a website as an example. See profile pic as it won't let me put it here. The outer sill was fine so i cut along the back where the rust was and where it joins the floor pan (I'm not a mechanic so excuse if the terminology is incorrect). I then cut across the top as in the above pic and down the sides to remove that section. The inner sill looked remarkably similar to the picture. I drilled out the spot welds on the bottom lip of the sill and removed all the remnants of the old inner sill and floor pan. I treated all the rust with a good dose of rust remover and welded a new piece to the inner sill down to where it should have been. After spraying the inner sill with a few coats of zinc primer I welded the outer sill back on and redid the spot welds to the new metal. I'm now in the process of plating over the floor pan before seem welding it along the bottom of the outer sill and spraying more zinc primer and waxoil. Regarding waxoil inside the sills. I don't mind waxoil where I can remove it to complete any future repairs but it got a bit tiresome stopping every 5 minutes to put the fires out when welding my old landrover. Now I have typed all this I may have made a complete tit of myself in assuming the piece with the big holes stamped in are actualy the inner sill. I did notice another box section at the back of this that was fine, so I may have done all this for nothing. Thanks again.

Thanks for the tip re the stepped wooden blocks. It took 11 14 inch long (35 ish cm for you youngsters) x 3 inch thick blocks and a new pair of underpants when I nearly drove off a 3 block stack. There's not much fine control in the auto box.