Never Again!

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Never again will I joke about Lucas Electrics.

Here I sat, chortling at our jokes, comfortable that my old sportscar is far superious to those flickering, sparking, oh so intermittent faulting GB toys, and the next day, my regulator kicks the bucket! So I grab a replacement (good BOSCH regulator, FERY GUT, JA?), pull the bottom hose so I can get to the alternator, pull the alternator to get to the regulator (manifolds in the way), replace the regulator, put it all back together, turn the key, and YAY! the ammeter is reading normal again!

But wait! There's smoke coming out of the back of the alternator...

Never again. God loves British Sportscars, it seems.

Cheers,
Steve
(1968 Datsun 2000 Sports with erm, no lucas bits in sight)
 
He is talking about "get home before dark" - LUCAS that he strangely is praising - my partner in the company has a Land Rover and she curses LUCAS all the time so I guess we should pay no attention to his minor Bosch problems :)
I do not think there are any LUCAS parts not Bosch parts in my M6
 
I drive a Land Rover and accept all the Lucas jokes and kidding from friends and family, but fact of the matter is the electronics in my Rover are by Denso (probably why it runs!), I just don't have the heart to tell all those that have been kidding me.

D2
 
Something is flying over my head and I have no idea what it is.
Are we talking cameras here? Or is this car shop 101? :)
 
Remy, this is all referring to another thread where we had a few chortles over notoriously-bad British-made Lucas "Prince of Darkness" electric bits for automobiles. Lucas is the manufacturer of these unreliable electic parts on some British autos... or have they all switched now to Bosch or Nippon-Denso?
 
I know what he's on about. My previous car (205 GTi) suffered at the hands of dodgy parts from likes of Lucas, Repco, etc.

My current motor (93 Honda Prelude V-TEC Type-R) only has Honda parts in it... well the parts Honda NZ acknowledge that exist. The "other" go-faster bits that Honda doesn't acknowledge (which always makes service time interesting) came from a 300ZX performance shop.

Sure it's expensive to get genuine parts replaced and fixed, but it has guaranteed trouble free driving. Would you send your M6 to KMZ for a CLA or repair?

Stu :)
 
Car Stories Huh...

My (Late) older brother had an early '60s VW Beetle for MANY years. One day, the engine died. He put it in gear and drove home from work, 2~3 miles, using the starter motor. The original Hybrid Car.
 
Present company excepted and all that, and especially Doug (D2) and Steve, and all my mates over in good old Blighty too, but anybody who buys a British car is IMHO a lunatic. They have always been rubbish and they always will be rubbish. :rolleyes:
 
peter_n said:
Present company excepted and all that, and especially Doug (D2) and Steve, and all my mates over in good old Blighty too, but anybody who buys a British car is IMHO a lunatic. They have always been rubbish and they always will be rubbish. :rolleyes:
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Thank goodness the British are know for their fine cuisine, or they'd have nothing going for them.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
At least the beer, ale, and stout is good. Warm....., but good!
 
stevew said:
At least the beer, ale, and stout is good. Warm....., but good!
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I think you're referring to another island in the vicinity. Just to one side of England and they call it Ireland.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
peter_n said:
Present company excepted and all that, and especially Doug (D2) and Steve, and all my mates over in good old Blighty too, but anybody who buys a British car is IMHO a lunatic. They have always been rubbish and they always will be rubbish. :rolleyes:
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Too late!

I take delivery of a spanking new Mini Cooper S convertible end of march :)

Red with white stripes, black hood, Minilite lookalike wheels, red and black leather trim, DVD navigation so one of us knows the way home!

And I'm pretty shure this one will be more reliable than my 1275GT with supercharged Rotary Speed 1.8 litre engine. And I won't have a Weber 45 carburator on my dashboard. Although the Weber didn't annoy me as much as the two tanks in the trunk which it sucked empty in no time :)
 
By golly your'e right. I should have never bought that Jag! As penitence, I'll have to live long enough to hate it over and over again. I can't afford to sell it due to the amount I have in repairs.
 
Socke said:
Too late!

I take delivery of a spanking new Mini Cooper S convertible end of march :)

Red with white stripes, black hood, Minilite lookalike wheels, red and black leather trim, DVD navigation so one of us knows the way home!

And I'm pretty shure this one will be more reliable than my 1275GT with supercharged Rotary Speed 1.8 litre engine. And I won't have a Weber 45 carburator on my dashboard. Although the Weber didn't annoy me as much as the two tanks in the trunk which it sucked empty in no time :)
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Well I'm happy for you Socke. Twin Weber carbs, ah that takes me back! :) My first car was a mini and I used to rally & auto-cross it (this was a while ago when I used to live in Ireland). It was fun to drive but it kept on breaking up into little bits and pieces. Of course the fact that I was constantly driving it into walls and trees and all sorts of other things that used to jump out and hit me didn't help. I wouldn't charactarize that car as a rubbish car but it wasn't far off it, and that was the dominant rally car in its day.

The new minis may be more reliable than the old ones, they are German cars after all. But they're built in England, right? So its the same old rubbish anyway! ;)
 
stevew said:
By golly your'e right. I should have never bought that Jag! As penitence, I'll have to live long enough to hate it over and over again. I can't afford to sell it due to the amount I have in repairs.
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Yes indeed. But you have a great topic for a PhD dissertation in behavioral microeconomics Steve - Cognitive Dissonance and British Car Retention. :)
 
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