Long time since last update
Not much has happend these past few month. I have been really really really busy writing my thesis, so the she devil has been left to her own devises, not much love and attention. All in all she has performed well as a daily commuter. I have done a fair amount af city commuting and longer round trips to the rehabilitationcenter that is the epicenter of our research. In the final write up process, she was left unused for a couple of weeks.
So finaly! yesterday I had a few spare hours and devoted the time to the car. A polish of the rear clusters was needed, and helped a bit, they still need to be sanded down and spayed, which I cannot do outside in the car park. A quick intermistic wash were performed using a garden spray bottle, it really helped on the looks
The weather has generally been bad over the summer, with lots of rain. this weekend we had more or less rain from friday morning till sunday afternoon, it was really raining, I think we got 55mm just on saturday which is equivilant to three weeks of rain in august. The car proved NOT to be waterthight
surprice surpirce, the boot were like a aquarium. The littel room in the boot where the tools go, were brimful with water, I don't think I have ever seen that much water in the boot before. Anyway it was drained and dried.
This morning I were commuting again, and I don't think all the rain has done anything good to the car's electronics. The speedometer were only periodically working, the engine has started running real rough again, like almost cutting out, and the engine cuts out at every red light, a littelbit annoying when commuting in the city. At the same time I have noticed that the fuel comsumption has skyrocket or at least it feels that way. I was monotoring it on the way home today, at idle speed the consumption is 13,3l/100 km, at a steady 30 miles pr hour in 4th gear, it is 10L/100 km, isn't that too much? (something is rotten in the state of Denmark) I'm wondering what the problem might be, faulty egnition or HT leads? idlecontrol valve?
Although I have often bitched about the car (my mechanic calls it the ghost, and it is not meant in a nice way) I have kind of grown attached to it, and it makes me wonder about the future. The car has about 7 month of MOT left, but the rusty rear archess, the need for rear clusters, paint, and a new windscreen to get it throuhg MOT makes it a economically unrealistic project. So I'm wondering what to do, the decision also depends on my future work situation, salary, communing distance etc. But driving the car makes me wonder how a Turbo drives?, or a 2.0 drives?
It is nearly impossible to get a better car, at a fair price in Denmark so I will have to import one, which makes it NOT cheap, but still cheaper. They do have some nice 480 in the Netherlands
Well more about that another time (I have also concidered a 924) lots to think about
Cheers
Chris