Old Family Member Bites the Dust

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I suppose I asked for that... ;-)

 

[kaz7]

I had an old electrolux vaccum cleaner from my childhood but my twatty ex threw it out when we moved , **** !

 

[KS55]

What was the issue with the dryer?

Heating element gone

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Heating element gone

Bugger.

With older kit like that you can sometimes find spare parts. The motor in there could have been good for another 10 years.

 

[tweety]

My car has a dodgy sensor on the inlet manifold that sometimes causes a warning light on the dash when its cold. It latches the fault code, so even if the fault isn't present the warning persists unless it is reset.

I discovered that on my make/model you can do a manual reset without a code reader which clears any code no longer present and makes the warning light go off. On mine it involves a sequence of turning off and back on whilst pressing the accelerator pedal a number of times. Other cars it requires you to disconnect the battery for a short period.

Worth checking out to see if it can be done on your car.

YouTube is your friend

 

[jma]

RIP, another white good gone to the big utility room in the sky.

Too many being taken to young these days.

Carnt believe yuor gone. We was only talking about spin settings rhe other day. Didn't now yuo that well but yuo seemed a top, top dryer. Yuor wtih the angles know.

 

[KS55]

Bugger.

With older kit like that you can sometimes find spare parts. The motor in there could have been good for another 10 years.

Which would outlive me!

 

[Blue Maverick]

My car has a dodgy sensor on the inlet manifold that sometimes causes a warning light on the dash when its cold. It latches the fault code, so even if the fault isn't present the warning persists unless it is reset.

I discovered that on my make/model you can do a manual reset without a code reader which clears any code no longer present and makes the warning light go off. On mine it involves a sequence of turning off and back on whilst pressing the accelerator pedal a number of times. Other cars it requires you to disconnect the battery for a short period.

Worth checking out to see if it can be done on your car.

I have my own code reader mate that o reset them with but they are just annoying as hell

 

[Tuearts right boot]

I had a car rental business and had 3 Corsas on fleet, engineered by Lotus, 3 cylinder engines.... great. Just short of 15,000 miles one gave up and needed repairing so I just took it off the road until the contract was up and the leasing Co came to collect. Then a few weeks later another gave up at 15,000 miles so I did the same thing. When the collection drivers came to collect I got talking and it turns out that all the Corsas they had collected had all developed faults at around 15,000. I later found out that a fault was designed and engineered into the engine somewhere to give up at 15,000 miles thus forcing the owner to take it in to a Vauxhall dealership for repair or the warranty became null and void.
On the other hand I have quite a few old engines that where made in the late 50's early 60's, start first time and will run for another 60 yrs. Cant beat good old nuts and bolts engineering.

 

[melrose40yarder]

Nothing is made to last we came back of holiday 20 yrs ago to find fridge freezer had broken.Bought a hotpoint fridge freezer still going strong.In the same time we have had 3 washing machines,2 coookers,2 microwaves we are if its broke chuck it society and the manufacturers know it.