New one on me / This Astra is ____ing cursed!

SB118

SB118

SB118

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Cleaning up the Astra so we could get rid of it, i spent last night sorting the extrerior, wife spent today cleaning the interior.

Went to B&Q to get some more paint for another job, to the garage to put a fiver of diesel in the car, then parked in the local "car sales spot"

Get a call within an hour, person asks if i'll take my ideal price (i've priced it up £150 more than i actually want so i've got some haggling space)

Brilliant, buyer already :D

Get down to the car, show her around it, thinks it great, so we go for a test drive.

And it's got no brakes! WTF! :eek:

The test drive ends after 30m and the potential buyer does a bunk (don't blame them really)

Get the car home, find one of the back wheels covered in brake fluid....

NEVER seen a cylinder do this before ...

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Pretty sure this car was built on an indian burial ground on a friday afternoon, just want rid of the bleeding thing!

ARGH!!!
 
Fix it, put back in sale spot, and hope someone else spots 'a bargin' and it goes well that time.

No point in dropping the price if it looks like it can fetch the asking. :)

InvG
 
whitecrook said:
Unlucky, maybe use the extra 150 in the budget, fix the brake yourself and shift it for you min price asap
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Already fixed, cylinder was only a tenner, DETERMINED to get rid of this damn car!
 
Should have tried to sell it to Phil_W :p

Seriously unlucky mate, its sods law really. Never mind, youll sell it eventually. At least you can say you know the brakes are 100% next time you get a potential buyer.
 
If they did a bunk after that they were an amature, i'd have used that as leverage to get you to pay me to take it off your hands :) It may not have worked however your mood at the time following a mechanical issue like this would have had you at a significant disadvantage.
 
2nd potential buyer last night, went for a test drive.

Car died after 300m with what felt like fuel starvation. :( And refused to restart. :rolleyes:

Just had to tow it back to the flat this morning, cracked the injectors to see if there is an airlock and the battery is too flat to turn the engine over. :mad:

Anybody know a good priest or witchdoctor?
 
SB118 said:
2nd potential buyer last night, went for a test drive.

Car died after 300m with what felt like fuel starvation. :( And refused to restart. :rolleyes:

Just had to tow it back to the flat this morning, cracked the injectors to see if there is an airlock and the battery is too flat to turn the engine over. :mad:

Anybody know a good priest or witchdoctor?
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I hope you were cheeky enough to ask them "so, what do you think?" when it conked out :p
 
Rich1988 said:
You really dont seem to be having any luck with this car do you, it knows your selling it so its gonna keep busting itself :p
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It's like an reverse "Christine". Instead of fixing itself after somebody damages it, it damages it self so that nobody else wants it.

I wouldn't mind if it had a good engine, but knackered body/chassis, i'd just rip the engine out for my SJ. But instead i've got a nice shell and a fragged motor.
 
silversurfer said:
A poor ground can give weird problems on old cars :confused: Is it a mechanical fuel pump with the rubber suction maybe worn out
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Damn confusing, it went from fine to duff within 12 hours without it actually moving.

Mechanical injector pump, don't fell like coughing out £400 to get it rebuilt to find out if it's the problem though!
 
silversurfer said:
I doubt many would buy a car that had failed brakes nevermind a women, whatever the price.
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OK perhaps i'm in the minority in that if it was otherwise mechanically sound (and i'd have checked it thourghly by that point) then i'd not be put off by something as minor as it needing a new calliper or brake lines *if it was cheap enough* but the fact it died on a test drive i'd be pulling you all over on the price.
 
If it was selling at a scrap price but you cant even get it home safely if the brakes are gone. I would skip it, depends if you can tell what else is wrong or not
 
Hmm, crack the injector line and the fuel just weeps out of the back of the pipe, not the usual squirt of fuel under high pressure.

Crank it with the the lines loose, then tighten the lines up, it'll start, but won't rev out. Revs to about 3k but no further.

Runs for 30 seconds(ish) then dies. Doesn't restart until i repeat loosening the injector lines.

Plenty of fuel going to the pump, just naff all coming out.

Sound like (another) busted injector pump to anybody else?
 
lol the day i bought my 106 a similar thing happened. The brake shoe lining came cleanly off and that meant the one of the pistons pushed right out the cylinder and lost all brakes. Did 500 miles that week with no brakes at all! (omg lol child killer wtf :))

Pushed the piston back in and its done 10k miles since despite everyone saying i needed a new cylinder :cool:
 
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