Recent content by Phil1968

Jeeves is on his annual leave ;)

My father managed to do something very similar in the early 70s swapping out a Ford Transit battery. The spanner he was using to undo the positive terminal touched the bodywork & a ring on his finger was in contact with the spanner, he ended up with a permanent scar in the shape of the ring on...

Quite an eclectic mix in our household, the other half drives a 1.0 3 cylinder, I drive a 4 cylinder diesel for work & I have a V8 for the weekend. Fours just leave me cold, I remember passing my motorcycle test & clamouring for an inline four. Very quickly I got bored of it & have had V-twins...

It must've fallen off then, although I don't remember the cage hanging down, or there even being one. Was about 20 years ago though.

They still put the spare wheel inside on the SWB ones, it is in my 2020 one 😂 Just to add, the very first one I had was the mid sized wheelbase, so the spare wheel was under the floor on that one. I happened to notice one day that the spare wheel was missing from underneath, whether it had...

I've had four SWB Vitos as work vans (I'm a refrigeration service engineer) from new since 2004; a 2004, 2007, 2012 & currently a 2020. The first two were 111s, the third a 113 & the current a 114 auto. Regarding the 2013 113 you're looking at, well you should have no issues with rust (unlike...

I'm not the only one decidedly under impressed by snow foam then. I've gone back to good old fashioned Simoniz wash on car wax, which gives a surprisingly good shine for comparatively little effort 😂

Reminds me of the Vauxhall Cavalier SRI 130 from the 1980s 🤔

Fake exhausts 😬 Each to their own :)

The primary purpose of pulling a vacuum is to lower the boiling point of any moisture in the system, so it will be drawn out as a vapour, also to make sure there is no air in the system so that there is nothing but refrigerant taking up that space. Secondary, when connected up to the automatic...

I bet that's a hoot with the manual 'box 👍

About the same as I get in my 17 year old V8 in mixed driving. In fact my 2020 Vito 114 with the 2.2 4-pot turbodiesel & auto transmission only gets the mid 30s average.

Good. I don't mind a bit of popping on the overrun with a fruity exhaust but I always think they sound broken when they purposely pop & bang because of a map.

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Seems a bit too good to be true? No interior shots either 🤔