Happy to see good progress. If you attempt the heat gun treatment, find a piece of old ABS plastic (that's probably what it is) to practice on first, keep it moving, check for pre-filter foam that will melt below the scuttle and MOST important, protect the windscreen and it's seal from the heat. If you repaint the wheel trims, after rubbing down, be sure to use some plastic adhesion promoter or plastic primer as it's more commonly called. She deserves it.
I think that the unnecessarily hard toil and frustration of changing the Rover 75's alternator had the long-lasting effect of removing all the joy and satisfaction from tinkering. Glad to see that joy is returning.
You know why you enjoyed tinkering so much with the Matiz. It is more modern and more sensible in terms of design than some of the weirder stuff on the fleet, that requires a higher level of skill to work on then you or I might possess. I tinkered with our 10 year old Skoda on the weekend, changed the battery over (the original Varta lasted just over 10 years and sadly had to be changed, you'd expect a bit more surely, LOL), a note to owners with more electronics in their cars, a sad battery can really affect how everything runs. The idle improved and the choke reappeared after the battery change. So fitting the new battery with a higher CCA made a big difference and I checked the oil, which was nice light brown shade and she was ready to go.
Ian, I have experienced poor idling on a car before, which drifted between running rich and running lean. After changing the idle control valve to no avail, I discovered it was simply a duff engine temperature sensor giving poor readings to the ECU and consequently messing up the air/fuel mixture. A very cheap fix! Simply unplugging the bad sensor worked in the short term before replacing it.
For your plastics, I'd recommend just scotch brite then a quick coat of satin black, a much more permanent solution for faded plastics and easy to "top up" if it ever flakes off.
Having had a look at the spark plugs Ian I think you may well have an air leak on the inlet check the small vacuum hoses first ,then with the engine running gently spray a drop of brake cleaner around the pipe work and inlet manifold to head joint and see if it makes any difference to the way that the engine is running good luck.
Idle control valve might if faulty give you a leaner mixture as it will be out of range,bearing in mind that the lamda sensor will to a certain amount adjust the fuel ratio to compensate for a poor burn,was your car pinking at all Ian ?.
Ian should check out the Forensic Detailing Channel where Jon has always recommended a gel-like coating called CarPro Perl to darken up those scuttle and bumper mouldings. Only available to order online, one application made the original rubber rear spoiler and black plastic bumpers on my 1984 CRX look brand new again. Perhaps more importantly, it also makes door shut rubber seals nice and soft as well. Absolutely phenomenal product.
"Interesting amount of steam coming out here.." another top notch Hub Nut tinkering session. I always find these mechanicing videos strangely relaxing and satisfying.
For black plastic, I've used the very expensive C4 Gtechnic and it did nothing, a heat gun works but can be patchy and doesn't last long. Various other fluids from Halfords lasted no time. The best thing for me was Cherry Blossom liquid shoe polish, applied by the sponge end or paintbrush. This lasts for ages. It might all depend on the type of plastic though.
Nothing like a bit of tinkering on one of the old favourites to bring back the enjoyment! Sadly I fear the Rover and Chrysler may have knocked that out of you lately.
Great little tinkering video, while watching while on holiday having to keep up with Hubnut. Got to say I prefer myrtle without the wheel trims for some reason!
Don’t use a heat gun, it draws oil up out of the plastic to darken it. This leads to the plastics becoming brittle as they are effectively dehydrated. You need to feed the plastic with oil. Linseed oil is the classic, but cheap smooth peanut butter works a treat.
The coolant leak looked to be because the clip was around the hose and not clamping the hose to the metal pipe. Dodgy idle and going a bit high can be down to air leaks around the inlet manifold. Vac hoses maybe cracked or holed due to chafing.
I can confirm the heat gun method is the way to go for faded plastics,have done it on my iveco minibus’s side panels,worked a treat,but would remove the part on yours as I wouldn’t want the windscreen to crack.
The coolant leading to the throttle body may be there to act on a wax based idle controller. Perhaps not properly bled. Also, the power steering full lock idle speed override might be playing up. Or it could be your encabulator trunnion flange (that last part I just made up).
What I learned from this is , don`t tinker with mine. My Keg ( short for duck egg ) also lives on a farm. Sheltered life , Nah ! Gets shifted & lifted on a forklift , the spiders don`t mind. As long as it goes when I need it, which often means a drive over a mountain range and back. Rear seats removed ,backs laid down and there`s plenty of room for tools , groceries etc , and with small roof bars for furniture if needed.
Exellent tinkering Ian 14.30 hour day your tinkering helps me relrel before another day in paradise , see you end of month at festival 100/ 10 quite a enjoyable tinkering session ,Neil
I’m astonished that you’re cleaning the fleet. How about washing and polishing Elle?. You’re doing a great job and when you get the opportunity of coming to New Zealand again please come and visit me in Levin. Regards Gordon
I think maybe you have a vacuum leak - air getting in that's not been metered or accounted for. I say that because the plugs you took out look like the engine had been running too lean, plus the ecu is running the engine too fast at idle, trying to compensate for the mixture being off. Unless, like you say - someone before you was messing with the idle settings, because in theory on an ecu controlled engine you should not have to touch that at all. I hope that is the case, and you are just putting it back to where it should be, rather than you have just tried to mask a problem by lowering the speed down. Might be worth having a quick look for vacuum leaks, get a length of rubber hose, put one end to your ear, then go around the inlet manifold and other joints that could be letting in air. But great to see you out tinkering again - and enjoying it, that is what it's all about!
Cramp is a sign of depleted Potassium levels in your body Ian. Potassium is one of the elements that your body will actually store up and use over a long period time - only a trace amount of it is needed for good muscle function. You would be likely to get enough Potassium from your diet if you have quite a varied intake, but possibly not, so a recommendation would be to eat a banana every couple of weeks. Bananas have a lot of Potassium in. Also, from seeing your sudden recoil when working there, it looks maybe like more of a 'tendonitis' issue than cramp, cos that hits you right on the inside of your wrist when grasping tightly.
Plugs. First check they are the right ones for the engine (temperature of plug). If ok maybe you are running a bit lean. They look brand new so 30 seconds in a plug cleaner, check the gap and back in they go. Look at them again in a years time.
I don't know if Daewoo products were the same as the ones we got through GM here in Canada, but I tried to get an idle air solenoid for an Aveo, and you had to buy a complete throttle body to get it. I think in some countries it went by the name of Barina.
looks like Myrtles lights are starting to go cloudy again. Apparently the stuff that they put on aircraft polycarbonate windows is great for restoring headlights and other lights that are fading away.
@@HubNut I have condensation currently in the side repeater indicators on my car so much for VW group quality parts although the car is 7 years old now.
Peanut 🥜 oil is good for bringing back plastics, you need to keep applying it but it's relatively cheap, but I'm interested to see if the hot air gun works for you
Have you tried the liquid black shoe polish, which you apply with the attached sponge applicator, on the black trim? I've found 'Scuff Stuff' to be the best. Just a thought.🤔
You often seem to have idling issues Mr S, one of those things that get upset if you play with it! Hope you find that "Goldilocks" idle, not too revvy, not too slow😉
I missed the tea time. The steam probably comes from water that has come up against the radiator when cleaning the wheels and now evaporates as the radiator heats up.
Those wheels look better naked imho. As regards wiper arms a quick removal, rub down and spray with some stone chip is all it needs. And as someone further down says, get the liquid shoe polish for restoring the plastic.
Fuel injected engines have white plugs. Totally normal. Nice bit of tinkering! No matter what vehicle, I always like it. Were you able to clean up the coolant passage way?
Hi idle on a MAP sensor controlled car would indicate a vacuum leak. My matiz did this. Broken Vac line near the air box somewhere. That. Might be the steam you're seeing.
Should have put a can of Liquid Moly flush in the oil for 15 minutes prior to changing the oil. Would have cleaned up the valve train nicely after your lack of maintenance in 2 years. Try spraying some Quick Start in the engine bay once it's all buttoned up, if the revs raise you have a hole in a pipe somewhere pulling in air.
Myrtle is looking smart now, she looks better without the wheel trims which if not held by cable ties can become lethal Frisbees. Glad you did not drop a screwdriver or wrench on your tootsies. What with the burn and the muscle strain you had enough injuries without having to hobble as well. Take her for a long run to settle her down again after investigating the source of the water vapour.
Now Miss. Hubnut is working you could help her by cleaning the toilet with your drill and Chinese brush . 🤔 Myrtle looking great. The farmer must wonder why you seem to be constantly talking to yourself.
The best thing you can do with that black trim is take it off and paint it. The sun brats up all that plastic and degrades it. That is why it's chalky. Paint it and forget it. I would also paint all the wheel covers as close a color as you can find so they all look the same.
you didnt fix another unsatisfactory car , i love this channel , have some tea and dont fix anything else , my car is the same , it works but isnt fixed
You should not be messing with the throttle stop screw, idle is controlled purely through the stepper motor air bypass. The position of this stepper for various engine conditions are "learned" by the ECU, so if you disconnect the battery it's quite normal for idle control to be poor until it has re-learned these settings.
Cheers. Problem is, someone had already messed with that screw, presumably because the idle control valve was already failing/gummed up. I started her yesterday and she ran much better. Need to put some miles on her now.
I had an old mk1 Shogun with a failed stepper motor on the idle control. Couldn’t find a replacement for a sensible price so I just disconnected the stepper motor, found the sweet spot position on it and all was good.
If you haven't done so already, I would recommend purchasing a decent / branded headlight lens restoration kit. Once they've been cleaned up and protected and what with the new front plate, Myrtle will look showroom fresh once again.
The headlamps are annoying. Last time I washed her, both lamps steamed up and now the cloudiness is on the inside! Looks like you can remove the lenses though. I may have to (though I do also have a spare pair of lamps).
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Proper tinkering……fabulous!
I quite like the look of the plain black steelies!
Can we see a shot without trims on
Yes, me too!
Yes!! Me too
Add some small beauty rings, and chrome nuts, and it would be beautiful.
Yes, looks way better, smarter. Wheel trims are rarely an improvement to the looks of a car.
White plugs indicate a very lean running condition ,maybe drawing in air somewhere hence the high idleing .
Yes thought he would have known that
@@pauldavies6037 He's certainly got enough Haynes Manual's that always include the picture page of plugs and how to read them
yeah I was thinking that there might be a vacuum leak which can cause "chaotic idling".
@@moxx064 should show up on a scan tool
Very plausible.
You don’t know why you’re recording this? I don’t know why I’m watching it. But don’t stop.
So true!
Its Ian i 5hink we all love him.......hahaha he's classic.
Yes this
I just got a 2000 matiz for free because it wasnt working. Fixed it with 1 relay and it rips! Mine even has Air con and electric windows!
What a show off. LOL
The toilet brush drill thingy is really useful for many things.... I no longer use a toothbrush...
They are good.... until you drop your drill down the toilet bowl.
You must have a big mouth!
Just remember to use a new brush
You must get through toothpaste fast.
better than Andrex after a dodgy curry :-)
Proper old fashioned Hubnut episode, thanks
Lovely Jubbly, takes me back to when you were tinkering and the train was whizzing past in your old garage Mr HubNut.
Ah, happy days.
Happy to see good progress. If you attempt the heat gun treatment, find a piece of old ABS plastic (that's probably what it is) to practice on first, keep it moving, check for pre-filter foam that will melt below the scuttle and MOST important, protect the windscreen and it's seal from the heat. If you repaint the wheel trims, after rubbing down, be sure to use some plastic adhesion promoter or plastic primer as it's more commonly called. She deserves it.
I think that the unnecessarily hard toil and frustration of changing the Rover 75's alternator had the long-lasting effect of removing all the joy and satisfaction from tinkering. Glad to see that joy is returning.
Thank you for another video, Ian. This is one of the classic HubNut staples: You in a garage tinkering, often to good effect!
You know why you enjoyed tinkering so much with the Matiz. It is more modern and more sensible in terms of design than some of the weirder stuff on the fleet, that requires a higher level of skill to work on then you or I might possess. I tinkered with our 10 year old Skoda on the weekend, changed the battery over (the original Varta lasted just over 10 years and sadly had to be changed, you'd expect a bit more surely, LOL), a note to owners with more electronics in their cars, a sad battery can really affect how everything runs. The idle improved and the choke reappeared after the battery change. So fitting the new battery with a higher CCA made a big difference and I checked the oil, which was nice light brown shade and she was ready to go.
A nice bit of tinkering there 👍 I did some the other day after a short break and found it most satisfying.😁
Beautiful little Myrtle, so deserving of some love. So glad that you enjoyed this tinkering session.
Destressing by degreasing. Who knew.
I really like the way it looks on the black steelies.
It’s always nice on a day off to open up TH-cam and see a new HubNut video 👌
Enjoyed this video, love listening to your ramblings
'Fettling Myrtle' - carries a custodial sentence does that
it seems a bit salacious when one doesn’t know what it means…..😏
@Alfred Wedmore Myrtle is leaking sounds more like the Attends are on back order.
Nice to see some good old fashioned tinkering again. When Myrtle has her bonnet raised something about the shape made me think of a yawning hippo 😂
Ian, I have experienced poor idling on a car before, which drifted between running rich and running lean. After changing the idle control valve to no avail, I discovered it was simply a duff engine temperature sensor giving poor readings to the ECU and consequently messing up the air/fuel mixture. A very cheap fix! Simply unplugging the bad sensor worked in the short term before replacing it.
For your plastics, I'd recommend just scotch brite then a quick coat of satin black, a much more permanent solution for faded plastics and easy to "top up" if it ever flakes off.
I’m no doctor but cramps can be a sign of dehydration or lack of essential salts like magnesium etc. drink more water (not tea)!
Having had a look at the spark plugs Ian I think you may well have an air leak on the inlet check the small vacuum hoses first ,then with the engine running gently spray a drop of brake cleaner around the pipe work and inlet manifold to head joint and see if it makes any difference to the way that the engine is running good luck.
There was a leak on the elbow, which has since been replaced. I wonder if the faulty idle control valve could also cause a lean mixture.
Idle control valve might if faulty give you a leaner mixture as it will be out of range,bearing in mind that the lamda sensor will to a certain amount adjust the fuel ratio to compensate for a poor burn,was your car pinking at all Ian ?.
Awesome v log glad you recorded it good to see you back tinkering again 👍
Ian should check out the Forensic Detailing Channel where Jon has always recommended a gel-like coating called CarPro Perl to darken up those scuttle and bumper mouldings. Only available to order online, one application made the original rubber rear spoiler and black plastic bumpers on my 1984 CRX look brand new again. Perhaps more importantly, it also makes door shut rubber seals nice and soft as well. Absolutely phenomenal product.
"Only one mild injury -OW!- maybe two". :-) Really nice to see Myrtle getting all the love and attention, she deserves it.
"Interesting amount of steam coming out here.." another top notch Hub Nut tinkering session. I always find these mechanicing videos strangely relaxing and satisfying.
Myrtle got mad, after neglecting her so many years and now she looks like new, she is not used to so much care, hence the steam.
Well, I never expected to see such steamy content on Hubnut! :-)
Good to see you putting some schmoo on after you got rid of the schmutz!
For black plastic, I've used the very expensive C4 Gtechnic and it did nothing, a heat gun works but can be patchy and doesn't last long. Various other fluids from Halfords lasted no time. The best thing for me was Cherry Blossom liquid shoe polish, applied by the sponge end or paintbrush. This lasts for ages. It might all depend on the type of plastic though.
I used it on my wife's Corsa last year and it's still black.
Peanut butter used sparingly on a rag works really well. Best bit is you can lick your plastics if you get a bit hungry! 😉
Nothing like a bit of tinkering on one of the old favourites to bring back the enjoyment! Sadly I fear the Rover and Chrysler may have knocked that out of you lately.
Yeah I find asian cars relaxing to work on compared to simularly aged German cars for example.
Great little tinkering video, while watching while on holiday having to keep up with Hubnut. Got to say I prefer myrtle without the wheel trims for some reason!
Love the tinkering. Love the brush
For hard plastics: 50% boiled linseed oil, 50% white spirit. Paint on and buff off after a while. Amazing.
Top tinkering footage! Very enjoyable!!
Don’t use a heat gun, it draws oil up out of the plastic to darken it. This leads to the plastics becoming brittle as they are effectively dehydrated. You need to feed the plastic with oil. Linseed oil is the classic, but cheap smooth peanut butter works a treat.
I absolutely love that Daewoo Matiz
The coolant leak looked to be because the clip was around the hose and not clamping the hose to the metal pipe. Dodgy idle and going a bit high can be down to air leaks around the inlet manifold. Vac hoses maybe cracked or holed due to chafing.
True words spoken and and cool piece of dedicated tinkering 'ASMR' from HubNut, Wales👍
I went through a phase of using peanut butter as black trim restorer, worked well
I can confirm the heat gun method is the way to go for faded plastics,have done it on my iveco minibus’s side panels,worked a treat,but would remove the part on yours as I wouldn’t want the windscreen to crack.
Tinkering on the matiz your getting there with a bit more tinkering you even make tinkering interesting
I treat all my black plastic trim with boiled linseed oil. Keeps the oils evaporating from the plastics.
Peanut butter is a useful one too - it's just the oils therein - you wipe it off again! ;-)
Where do you buy the stuff, any link?
The coolant leading to the throttle body may be there to act on a wax based idle controller. Perhaps not properly bled. Also, the power steering full lock idle speed override might be playing up.
Or it could be your encabulator trunnion flange (that last part I just made up).
I wonder if the butterfly spindle bushes are worn. I do love a tinkering video!
Hey, HubNut's inner-cool-dude is back. The mind works in mysterious ways!
Great to see oily hands. Well done Ian
Hi Ian, sometimes the best treatment of those fading scuttle trays is to plastic prep and spray it.
Blow torch
@@pastytit or a heat gun for less risky option
I noticed that the new Lotus Emira 3.5V6 is pretty much the same colour as Myrtle. Good choice Lotus!
What I learned from this is , don`t tinker with mine. My Keg ( short for duck egg ) also lives on a farm. Sheltered life , Nah ! Gets shifted & lifted on a forklift , the spiders don`t mind. As long as it goes when I need it, which often means a drive over a mountain range and back. Rear seats removed ,backs laid down and there`s plenty of room for tools , groceries etc , and with small roof bars for furniture if needed.
Exellent tinkering Ian 14.30 hour day your tinkering helps me relrel before another day in paradise , see you end of month at festival 100/ 10 quite a enjoyable tinkering session ,Neil
Fine bit of tinkering on Myrtle she's looking good 😀
Some enjoyable tinkering, but please can you bin the electric shower unit that has been in the doorway for months.
Could try some carb cleaner on the throttle body and Idle air control valve.
Drain the coolant and give it a Flush treatment to shift general crud and Radweld...
Have the valve clearances ever been adjusted ?
I’m astonished that you’re cleaning the fleet. How about washing and polishing Elle?. You’re doing a great job and when you get the opportunity of coming to New Zealand again please come and visit me in Levin. Regards Gordon
Car looks fantastic on steelys
Back in the good old days when cars came in real colours! Now your get color white, black, silver or dark gray. (grey?)
I think maybe you have a vacuum leak - air getting in that's not been metered or accounted for. I say that because the plugs you took out look like the engine had been running too lean, plus the ecu is running the engine too fast at idle, trying to compensate for the mixture being off. Unless, like you say - someone before you was messing with the idle settings, because in theory on an ecu controlled engine you should not have to touch that at all. I hope that is the case, and you are just putting it back to where it should be, rather than you have just tried to mask a problem by lowering the speed down. Might be worth having a quick look for vacuum leaks, get a length of rubber hose, put one end to your ear, then go around the inlet manifold and other joints that could be letting in air. But great to see you out tinkering again - and enjoying it, that is what it's all about!
There have been some air leaks in the past. Will see how the new plugs look after a bit.
I've had good success respraying wiper arms on 2 MX5's I've had. Didn't chip at all in the months afterwards.
Good to hear you enjoy tinkering again!
Cramp is a sign of depleted Potassium levels in your body Ian. Potassium is one of the elements that your body will actually store up and use over a long period time - only a trace amount of it is needed for good muscle function.
You would be likely to get enough Potassium from your diet if you have quite a varied intake, but possibly not, so a recommendation would be to eat a banana every couple of weeks. Bananas have a lot of Potassium in.
Also, from seeing your sudden recoil when working there, it looks maybe like more of a 'tendonitis' issue than cramp, cos that hits you right on the inside of your wrist when grasping tightly.
Thanks. Tendonitis is something I struggle with from time to time. Given how much time I spend at a keyboard typing...
Those brushes also work amazingly well dry on carpets and mats...
Plugs. First check they are the right ones for the engine (temperature of plug). If ok maybe you are running a bit lean. They look brand new so 30 seconds in a plug cleaner, check the gap and back in they go. Look at them again in a years time.
Would have been nice to clean that rocker cover up while it was off Ian otherwise that was a satisfying tinkering session there!
I was going to say this myself but, you know, Hubnut!
Nahhh, leave it a bit dirty, otherwise it is not HubNut
I actually cleaned it up a fair bit BEFORE taking it off. Because HubNut...
@@HubNut Touche!
We talking about the mating surfaces always clean both sides before putting on new gasket
Space and Myrtle's engine bay, what do they have in common? It's darkness, absolute darkness... ✨😃✨
Brilliant video Ian 👍
I've just noticed that Myrtle's a lot more blue now - she used to be more purply!
I don't know if Daewoo products were the same as the ones we got through GM here in Canada, but I tried to get an idle air solenoid for an Aveo, and you had to buy a complete throttle body to get it. I think in some countries it went by the name of Barina.
looks like Myrtles lights are starting to go cloudy again. Apparently the stuff that they put on aircraft polycarbonate windows is great for restoring headlights and other lights that are fading away.
They actually clouded up on the inside after a wash. Condensation which then left them all murky. Not ideal!
@@HubNut I have condensation currently in the side repeater indicators on my car so much for VW group quality parts although the car is 7 years old now.
OMG. Something from China that actually came in Handy..!
I feel a little Disoriented..!!
Great Video as Per usual.
Cheers from Oz. 😎
Peanut 🥜 oil is good for bringing back plastics, you need to keep applying it but it's relatively cheap, but I'm interested to see if the hot air gun works for you
Have you tried the liquid black shoe polish, which you apply with the attached sponge applicator, on the black trim? I've found 'Scuff Stuff' to be the best. Just a thought.🤔
I've got a set of those brushes! Very useful for cleaning the shower :D
You often seem to have idling issues Mr S, one of those things that get upset if you play with it! Hope you find that "Goldilocks" idle, not too revvy, not too slow😉
That reminds me ... The three bears bought a new car. Unsure of the make but it's a gold deluxe model.
I missed the tea time. The steam probably comes from water that has come up against the radiator when cleaning the wheels and now evaporates as the radiator heats up.
Peanut butter on the faded black plastic. Rub on , wipe off after a few minutes and fantastic results that last around 3 months.
Those wheels look better naked imho. As regards wiper arms a quick removal, rub down and spray with some stone chip is all it needs. And as someone further down says, get the liquid shoe polish for restoring the plastic.
Fuel injected engines have white plugs. Totally normal.
Nice bit of tinkering! No matter what vehicle, I always like it. Were you able to clean up the coolant passage way?
Cheers. Yes, I did clear it through.
Sometimes dehydration can be a cause of cramp.And as you said the use of muscles that hadn't been used to their extreme for a while.
As we all do, you found your zen moment of no phone, no people, total concentration on the task to be done, until body pain kicks in 😛
Hi idle on a MAP sensor controlled car would indicate a vacuum leak. My matiz did this. Broken Vac line near the air box somewhere. That. Might be the steam you're seeing.
Hi ian take of wiper arms spray matt black same with the plastics
Gtechnic C4 Trim Restorer lasts for years.
Some spray can satin black will sort the wiper arms. Much easier to paint them off the car though!
I didn’t know Mirtle was steam driven, maybe the steam valves need bedding in.
Should have put a can of Liquid Moly flush in the oil for 15 minutes prior to changing the oil. Would have cleaned up the valve train nicely after your lack of maintenance in 2 years. Try spraying some Quick Start in the engine bay once it's all buttoned up, if the revs raise you have a hole in a pipe somewhere pulling in air.
As it happens, I did an oil change in February which I'd forgotten about...
Maybe the steam was Myrtle's way of thanking you. She's boiled some water for you to make a cuppa
Lol 😂
Are you sure it's not the old oil burning off from the leaking rocker cover. There must be some way of finding out what the tickover rpm should be?
Myrtle is looking smart now, she looks better without the wheel trims which if not held by cable ties can become lethal Frisbees. Glad you did not drop a screwdriver or wrench on your tootsies. What with the burn and the muscle strain you had enough injuries without having to hobble as well. Take her for a long run to settle her down again after investigating the source of the water vapour.
Hey Ian. Thought about chucking some Redex or STP Injector cleaner in? Tried it last week on my 90K Mazda, noticed a difference.
Hi Ian the car sparkle looks good as new
Now Miss. Hubnut is working you could help her by cleaning the toilet with your drill and Chinese brush . 🤔 Myrtle looking great. The farmer must wonder why you seem to be constantly talking to yourself.
The best thing you can do with that black trim is take it off and paint it. The sun brats up all that plastic and degrades it. That is why it's chalky. Paint it and forget it. I would also paint all the wheel covers as close a color as you can find so they all look the same.
Why does everything used to clean wheels look like a toilet brush? Is the toilet brush drill attachment another thing from Wish...?
you didnt fix another unsatisfactory car , i love this channel , have some tea and dont fix anything else , my car is the same , it works but isnt fixed
plastics can be Revitalised with Vaseline, or fine/light/sewing machine oil. More often plastics dry and are made of oil!
White plugs (and often exhaust too) indicate that the engine is running too lean. Does it have an inlet air leak?
You should not be messing with the throttle stop screw, idle is controlled purely through the stepper motor air bypass. The position of this stepper for various engine conditions are "learned" by the ECU, so if you disconnect the battery it's quite normal for idle control to be poor until it has re-learned these settings.
Cheers. Problem is, someone had already messed with that screw, presumably because the idle control valve was already failing/gummed up. I started her yesterday and she ran much better. Need to put some miles on her now.
I had an old mk1 Shogun with a failed stepper motor on the idle control. Couldn’t find a replacement for a sensible price so I just disconnected the stepper motor, found the sweet spot position on it and all was good.
Just an FYI regarding cramps, eating a banana helps!
If you haven't done so already, I would recommend purchasing a decent / branded headlight lens restoration kit. Once they've been cleaned up and protected and what with the new front plate, Myrtle will look showroom fresh once again.
I used 'compound' and a buffer, my Mazda's headlights looked like new.
The headlamps are annoying. Last time I washed her, both lamps steamed up and now the cloudiness is on the inside! Looks like you can remove the lenses though. I may have to (though I do also have a spare pair of lamps).
@@HubNut I used to have to heat my Volvo's headlights to get rid of the condensation.