Thefeliciahacker

To all you beautiful people, thank you for your time spent with me here. In this subforum, I learned sooo much and tried to help in any way I knew and could. But... But we can't control life and how it brings things. Try as we might, sometimes we simply can't. In this forum, I made a couple of friends, friends in fact I talk to this day outside the confines of briskoda. Thats very important and I can not be grateful enough. A wholehearted thank you to everyone involved. I sadly have to say goodbye for now. Andreas

huh i wonder why? How long are you planning of keeping the felly, whatever the case I think you would at least get 2 winters out of it

Here is the play test petal_20240405_105141.mp4

exactly i bet only the last few mm of the shaft are stripped above that its fine

Use a spacer

You see again you are contradicting yourself, of course you won't drive fast if you don't have money you will drive slow af with lpg fitted. Let me give you a personal example from our family. We bought the felicia in 2015 the vehicle was in excellent condition my father kept driving it without caring about anything causing compoundimg damage. He had a poorly fitted pos lpg system and he didn't care to maintain anything, he was taking the car to very harsh roads and borderline didn't change the oil. In fact I was doing that under his nose in order to keep the cara engine in good working order. All that time until 2020 I was keeping a list of the things that were either broken or majorly deteriorated and a cost to fix them all. By that point the list had gotten to 3000ish euros. At this point I went up to him and said NO MORE. You have superceded the value of the vehicle in damages and you won't have the finances to fix them when they all come crashing down. With that I convinced him to sell the felicia to me. So I kept it as a leisure time vehicle restoring it as I go. So let me do the parallel to your car. You keep driving a vehicle that has ever increasing maintenance costs. You've seen some of that very very recently. You say it's not worth paying 192 euros for the wiper motor but what you should rather say is, it's not worth keeping the car at this point. Exaclty what I told to my father then I tell to you know. Because I know that vehicle holds sentimental value to you as the black felly holds to me I didn't advise him to sell it on the free market I just bought it for a very fair price from my father and in it's place came the grande punto which costed us 4000 smth euros. If we had kept the felly till now in everyday service it's total accumulated costs would have more than 50% surpassed the gpunto's purchase price. These vehicles including my brera are unfit for every day use in moderate to Avg income families. What you don't understand but yourself admitted is that it costs much more to run these cars (properly) for 2 years than to buy a used economy vehicle and be done with it. I can get away with running 2 extremely expensive to maintain vehicles (for a low income guy such as my self) because I use them in turns making sure to keep distance and wear to a minimum on both. Keep in mind I do an Avg of 3000-3500kms a year

I will check nontheless I have adjusted it once if I recall correctly

Again that's an invalid parallelism, I don't talk like anyone, I talk just like I would in irl. You claim if you had the finances of buying a new car you wouldn't be here in the felicia sector. Excuse me but that doesn't make sense, if you can't afford ~4000 euros to buy a used car from the 2008-2010 era then the last thing you should be doing is spending big sums of money on upgrading the felicia. You shouldn't have installed the Konis nor rebuild them neither fitted beefy strut braces, neither different wheels neither upgraded brakes neither chip tune the car nor upgraded air filter. All these mods easily add up to the cost of a new used modern car with much less running costs and not 190 euros wiper motors. So should have just stopped caring about the felicia and all this money you would have saved plus sale of the car would have easily made you a fund of 5k more than enough to buy something newer and better. Soooo I cannot accept you are driving the felly from necessity, you are driving the felly by choice so you should accept all the costs of a hard to find parts for 25 year old car Just my humble opinion...

Huh fair enough do you have rust BTW?

So it stripped? Maybe it stripped just the bottom threads above that they could be fine

Nope you are not allowed to say that, if you dont want to pay the burden of keeping the felicia running properly just sell it, its as simple as that, when a vehicle gets too expensive to maintain (objectively or ), we dont sit down and cry we just sell it. yes your best bet is to use rubber square taper washers to space the nut further away and also provide some adequate sealing and vibration damping, also using some nylon spacers would be fine as well, lastly using an xring or an oring thick enough to space the nut out while using a washer. So nut - washer - car body and so on

I have a brera. And don't whine every time it has a problem I just pay up and fix it up.

@Thefeliciahacker keeps tools in his workshop - storage not in his car... thats not good nor safe tbh I would drive till I get to a safer spot yep that would be the one and only @Thefeliciahacker who has already spent 2500 euros in fixing his car sooo thats just another expense what are we gonna do? cry? If I was thinking like that I wouldnt be driving a brera nor a felicia. I would be driving a corolla. You know how expensive the Brera is? Huh? brera original rear wiper motor... SOOOO please, lets just be real for a min...

I would buy the original tbh, it doesnt look high quality

Where is the wiper