gordy

Same here..But Merry Merry Christmus..

Hi there, just wondering if I'm on right car here as I thought all cars only had 2 wheels to a handbrake. Handbrake at front, ha, think I'll pass on this one. 

You are right the handbrake does not auto tighten. there is a blanking grommet in the bottom of the rear disk back plate that allows access to the adjuster. with the wheel off the ground tighten each one until the wheel binds with the handbrake two clicks up. the hand brake on GV's is poor at the best of times so don't expect too much. The cable in the cabin should not need tightening and definitely shouldn't be used to adjust the brakes.

In the past if you stuck something in a garage/barn for 40 years it would suddenly become rare and valuable, if it were actually worth something in the first place, it could then be worth quite a lot , and receive rose coloured praises from writers who actually never drove one in the first place. That said, I'm not sure how vehicles of today will fair in the future especially if say in another 40 years there's no such thing as petrol/diesel, or that if there is, it would be absolutely horrendous cost per litre.
 
A while ago I bought a Ford Explorer and had it converted to LPG, it drove superbly was extremely reliable and did everything and more that a full size 4x4 could be expected to do. After 9 years and 80,000 the timing chain broke and ruined the engine (and people worry about timing belts). I could of rebuilt the engine, but at that age and mileage it really wasn't worth it, so it went to the great recycler in the sky, mainly because there were many 4x4 alternatives around, most giving as much performance and better economy that an old 'exploder'. 
 
However for me the point is that I'm unaware of any suitable replacement for my Stow n Go (as and when it gives up the ghost), hence I will keep mine going as long as is practicable. When it does die I'm not sure what its replacement will be, and I can't really think of any new or vintage which could even come close to it. What else can be used as a large comfortable car one minute, a van the next, and take a full load on a 600 mile trip at 80mph and still touch 30mpg ? 
 
40 years ago you didn't worry much about car electrics as the bodywork was going to rust away long before that ever become a problem   

Mine went to scrappy with All electricals working too. Engine was a puller. It's just I ain't got the go go with this copd that I've got to repair the MOT faults.
Good Luck is all I can say.. 

I'm so sorry that it's ended up this way for you pal. And I agree with you on modern electronics, ok when they're new (mostly - but that's a whole other story) but garbage on a lot of stuff after only a few years. Never mind, the manufacturer made their big money and it met all the lovely environmental requirements hey.

Whilst I love the space and comfort of my GV I totally sympathise and understand your decision. I have owned my GV around 13 months now and for nine of those I suffered from the dreaded won't start 'cause I don't feel like it syndrome. My local garage finally traced it to a faulty fuel filter housing which has been replaced with an in line BMW 3 litre fuel filter. Now starts every time regardless (am I tempting fate.. hope not) 
But back to the theme. Has anyone contemplated replacing the engine (and drive train) with something more robust i.e. older ? Ford Transit 1st edition FWD or something else (Americano with auto box ?). I cannot imagine it would be easy and would require an awful lot of ancillary work (cutting out half a ton of wiring and CPU's.. Fuel consumption may turn our to be lousy but reliability would surely increase along with peace of mind and the ability to get it running again with a screwdriver and hammer.
I've also dug out my old vinyl and the sounds of Cat Stevens, Hawkwind and Pink Floyd now reverberate around the house (when my other half is out the house).
Bye the bye, I did own a 'classic', a Jensen GT, restored it from rust then found I didn't fit in it...... My old Merc, W124 estate is sittoing doing nothing in the drive due to steel worm in the wings, must do something to it when the weather improves (also need to inject another dose of enthusiasm!)
Good luck for the future. - Richard                               (still love the GV but know when the grmlins return no doubt the scrapyard will call.)

Hi, the saga of my voyager is over because all those car techies advertising their wonderful talents for fixing all things electrical cant reset my ecu so my voyager has been scraped. I shall never own a modern computerised piece of junk again. The lap top I am using now is constantly updating resulting in having to reset all sorts of things. I have been putting up with B.S. Britain since that idiot Blair became  chief idiot. I have two good classic cars that run well and are easy to fix, so happy days on the transport front. I just need to go retro in other ways. The stow-n-go is a very good design  and  a good practical car with good road manners. Its let down like all modern cars is computerised technology that's sort of ok in an office but totally useless in a metal box that's subject to all kinds of weather and temperature conditions, add to that wires that are only suitable for a model railway and there's the recipe for endless problems. You don't have to agree with me just check out the amount of fairly new cars for sale with electrical problems on line and on the forums. I just remembered  that I am just 6ft away from a 1959 radiogram identical to the one my wife and I sat and played records on when we where courting, still have big collection of vinyl. The Voyager packed just before she died. Omen maybe, Thanks to you all for your help and suggestions, stay safe and I wish you well for the future, take care regards Roy.
 
 

Was a 2.5CRD 2003 with about all the toys. Had her 7 years with only service items. Reconned she had been a Birmingham posh taxi, while having 170k miles on her she probably had more. Clutch was a stirring the soup to find low gears over those 7 years. 
She was to sit aside again for MOT repairs so decided to scrap her. Got a bit welding to sill done 2018.
Brake pipes needing replaced. Clutch was a problem. Steering gear leaking. Engine was perfect, didn't need topping up, maybe due to the Redex it got on every fill, (Tesco £2). Always passed the smoke test too. 
She was a good old girl, would buy another if one came up not far away. Half the price of Volvo XC70's I was looking at.
I'm not soo good at mo so might not see another.
Selling her was a problem, had her down for spares and repairs in local facebook, £300 was far to much for most, so scrapy got it for £100 uplifted. 

As to annealing the copper washer, this should have been done after punching it out. Saying that I havn't seen one yet that looked as if it had been annealed just out of its packaging. Easy to do yourself though.

Doing a check over this thread as I had just flew over it in past. Did I just read 1 1/2 miles, one and half miles driving with petrol in the diesel. Can't believe your contemplating doing an injector change. Think it was my son that did this years ago with his injection car and he drove it back home about 6 miles. Didn't hiccup or anything enroute he said. But its up to you of course, garage, AA and RAC would recommend you change them after half a mile.

This is the current one with 18" wheels, 245 45 tyres 

 

Yep stuck EGR = too much exhaust recirc through engine = lots of smoke = big black smoke if gunned on set off
 
Difficult to see when driving but easy when sat idle,
 
You've blanked it before what do you have to lose as an experiment!! Just because the egr valve has been changed doesn't mean it can't soot up and stick.
 
Generally injectors would mean various characteristics - difficulty starting, poor fuel economy, overfueling at various parameters giving engine management light, amongst many others as you infer, but you say it drives great.

Hiya @@gordy - yes you're quite right with the comment on the clearance, make sure it's the correct brand of fags or it'll go tits up          
 
Metric? Bah humbug, I'm still in BTU's for heat, old bugger.

This is the uni Lucas fitted to my 05 nev
 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Diesel-Primer-Pump-Lucas-Type-/192779554591
 

For your starting problem change the Fuel Pressure Relief Valve. Available on flee-bay so can get quick answer or added to tried that list. Mind you there is a sensor on the rail aswell and 4 injectors that might be passing fuel.

Hi Gordy, have just changed anti roll bar bushes when the inner and outer track ends were changed the mechanic said the lower arm were fine and it had just gone through a MOT? I have just been out and lifted at the front wheel arches and there’s a light clonk at the top end of the strut, so I have a feeling the top mounts and bearings I fitted last year may have failed. There was no noise at the bottom of the strut. I’ll take one strut off rain permitting and have a look.

The anti roll bar  bushes may feel ok, but for the small cost I'd change them, ours sounded awful but didn't seem too bad. 
 
Till the new ones went in that was!!

I've a 2003 model and there is two adjusters on the actual headlight unit.
Beam deflectors I'm afraid, but certainly wouldn't take long to swapover the other light units if you had a set.

I'm 05 changed mine nightmare access to garage hydraulic compressor's couldn't get them down with 4 and a very powerful electric gun.
 
Now to my point I did read on one one forum that a GV spring bottom plate had a notch bend in it, get the spring mounted NOT in the [holding] notch and all hell's gonna break loose.
 
Just a memory, hope this helps.

Just heard latest of my friend getting a peugeot that wouldn't start. He was about to strip it down, as normal, when he put his hand down back of engine and found the power supply cable to starter coil was a tad loose. He was a happy bunny.

Well certainly as Captain says check theres 12v at starter when applying. Have you done that.

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Hi just going to check for these spark plugs fitted between the banks that mike reports. I've a 2003 2.5 CRD so ok ok ok don't rush me, wrong year, you's talking 2007/8. Been one of those days, weeks. Amazing what you find on engines as you get old and decrepit..
Oops white coats coming must go..

Hi just going to check for these spark plugs fitted between the banks that mike reports. I've a 2003 2.5 CRD so ok ok ok don't rush me, wrong year, you's talking 2007/8. Been one of those days, weeks. Amazing what you find on engines as you get old and decrepit..
Oops white coats coming must go..