my car is testing my patience!

[jv]

I am having a 'time to buy a nice new car' moment. One that you just give to the dealer when it doesn't work!

The last few weeks the bad weather seems to have finally got to my car electrics. If you leave it for more that a day it won't start so I have got used to jump starting it. I ordered a new alternator the other day and it should arrive today.

Last night I go out to the car after work and the remote doesn't do anything. Get in with the key and the alarm goes off. Silence the siren with the key, connect up jump leads and no joy as the alarm/immob cuts in each time you try and start it. Headlights work, stereo works so the battery is not dead. Go all the way home and return with other remote just in case that will clear it, no joy.

Leave it at work, come in this morning and try and jump it again. Still can't stop the immobiliser getting in the way. Then this is the good bit, I had been getting in the passenger side with the key, sat in the drivers seat I open the drivers door - it opens. Eh? I never opened it, press the door pull and it disappears into the door. Shut the door and now it doesn't open from the inside or the outside and the key doesn't do anything. Beautiful.

Just called out some auto elec company. Feckin car. 

[topher]

you get moments like that with new cars too ! stick it out mate .. every now and again there's always a moment when you think to yourself "bloody hell i love this car !!" with a big silly grin on your face and it makes it all worth it. 

[jv]

It's just such a money pit at the moment! The amount it costs me I could have something shiny and new on finance!

Hopefully by the end of the weekend it will have a new alternator and the new boost hoses fitted. Ideally I would be able to open the drivers door as well  :'(

[topher]

Ideally I would be able to open the drivers door as well? :'(

now you're just being picky ! 

i'll shutup now though since i'm going forecourt window shopping tomorrow 

[Len]

Oh Dear

Not had that with this car yet, but certainly had it with my Mi 16.
So i know how ya feel mate.
Ya wanna do that John Cleese thing and hit the car with the nearest thing, a stick, yer boot etc.!

[Blue MK2]

this on the rallye JV ?

[gibby]

jv, I had exactly the same feeling a couple of weeks ago and I started looking through the classifieds at mk2 16Vs and Rallyes etc, this was due to a couple of niggly bits that were getting on my nerves, I've since had them sorted and I love it again now, hang in there, get the niggles sorted and you will wonder why you ever had those "getting something newer" thoughts. ?

[jv]

I have resisted kicking it so far Len

Yeah the Rallye blue

I don't mind that much paying to keep the beast going, so things like the comedy expensive boost hoses are ok-ish, it's when it gets unreliable that it gets on my nerves. It was why I traded in my first mk2 years ago. If I had another car and the Rallye was for sunny Sunday's it would be ok but it's my only car and I need to use it every day 

[tobz.]

As everybody has said stick in there, every old dub has a bad day once in a while. When it's sat at inters gleaming away next year it will all seem like a distant memory. The door problem sounds like the straw that broke the camels back but will probably turn out to be something really simple that has come undone.
My last valver had a bad run with a rattly camchain, got that fixed then a week later a big-end shell broke, it ended up costing me loads. But once it was run in the grin soon returned..........until I wrote if off of course ?

Hope you get it sorted soon John.

[Blue MK2]

ill give u a tenner for it right now
messin.

Im thinking fo buying a newer car myself. Something practical.
but its all apart of owning an older car. if things didnt go wrong then i would have sold the bugger faults/fault finding just keeps me interested.

dont u think?