Apologies to Fominas for the thread derail.

6 hours ago, TMB said:

Apologies to Fominas for the thread derail.

No worries, it quite interesting, and you are trying to help me and i'm very glad, On friday im getting back to the car i will probably change the oil and filters and i will update you on the car. Cheers

4 hours ago, Fominas said:

i will probably change the oil and filters and i will update you on the car.

If you can, get the engine oil as warm/hot as possible and leave it to drain for as long as possible to get as much old oil and contaminants out as possible so that you can get as much fresh clean oil in as possible, which will also mean the new fresh oil will be less diluted by the smaller quantity of residue old oil and contaminants.

 

The thoroughness of oil changes help, as does regular timely changes and using good quality oils.

 

Personally at the very end of the drain I like to pour a small quantity of warmed fresh new oil through to drain out to act as a mini-flush to transit any settled dregs, around the sump exit area at least.

 

No doubt some will say this last bit of oil comes out of the placebo store, I will have to check its effectiveness by oil annalists of end of the drain of old oil and again with mini-flush oil, both conducted on pieces of white paper towel.

 

Edited 9 February, 20224 yr by nta16

I lost a post a post so out of order (and topic again).

 

 

11 hours ago, TMB said:

And yes, the aerial was in the sunroof!

One of mine had the aerial in the sunroof, another I think had a black metal aerial but  I'm not sure now and one, the Rapid 130 coupe I guess, had the the aerial in the rear window which was OK until you turned the rear window heater element on.

 

As I remember it the Rapid 130 coupe had a complex almost infinite range of settings for the interment wiper, I thought there was like three rotary knobs involved but when I looked at the cars on the stand at the NEC Classic Motor Show last November none had anything like that.

 

And I was wrong about the rad grille, all three of mine had the same grille but on one I had added the fog lights that were part of the grille pieces, on another spot lights hanging below the front bumper.

 

Photo below is from the end of November 1985, Raglan Castle (I think), Wales, I'm sure of the date as it was our honeymoon, though neither of us can remember if it was a three or four day honeymoon but it was abroad and in a new car, the vulgar extravagancy of it all.

 

 

5 hours ago, nta16 said:

As I remember it the Rapid 130 coupe had a complex almost infinite range of settings for the interment wiper, I thought there was like three rotary knobs involved but when I looked at the cars on the stand at the NEC Classic Motor Show last November none had anything like that.

 

Yeah, mine had that. The knob was like the one on the left in the following pic. The 'C' stands for čas which is Czech for 'time' .....

 

 

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And I was wrong about the rad grille, all three of mine had the same grille but on one I had added the fog lights that were part of the grille pieces, on another spot lights hanging below the front bumper.

 

 

 

 

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That's a nice pic of your Estelle  I always loved the rear-engined Skodas. They had character, unlike modern 'white-goods' cars.

Edited 9 February, 20224 yr by TMB

3 hours ago, TMB said:

The 'C' stands for čas which is Czech for 'time' .....

Ah, right, thanks.

 

3 hours ago, TMB said:

They had character, unlike modern 'white-goods' cars.

Yes, fun to drive and very practical too.

 

On my 1987 130 LS (5-speed) saloon I fitted Goodyear Eagle (F1?) (NCT?) and they made the handling really good.  On a nice B-road I was motoring along within the speed limit when I encountered a BMW who decided to loose me rather than be overtook, he couldn't loose the Skoda but rushed off when we hit town and I dropped to the 30mph limited.  I really enjoyed the Eagles but they soon wore and I needed more miles out of tyres given the car's use and when I changed them the fitter warned me not to expect the new tyres to be as good as the worn Eagles and he was right.

 

In the previous photo, my wife didn't want me to go over the Welsh mountains in the snow despite me explaining where the car was made and what would easily be expected of it.  That red 1985 120LS was the best of the three but it was a four-speed and the revs and vibration didn't suit 70mph, fine at up to 60+ or 80+ but as I got a speeding ticket within 3 weeks of its ownership and driving was part of my job I didn't want more than the three pints I got.  So funny as the Copper apologised for stopping me and having to book me, yet I was glad he stopped me where he did as I'd just shifted out of 2nd and was accelerating,  I was young and (even more) foolish.  A mate said he didn't take my reg number but my chassis number as I passed, given I'd heard all the 1980s Sun jokes many times I thought his was good.

 

C-reg 1986 Rapid 130 (5-speed).

 

 

I had this exact noise and after a good oil and filter change and also an additive to reduce and coat tappets and a decent run down the motorway it was gone within 30 miles.

2 minutes ago, Stewartasb said:

an additive

 

You'll have @sepulchrave having a fit.

15 minutes ago, Stewartasb said:

after a good oil and filter change and also an additive

Even I wouldn't have used an additive in this case !! 🙂

 

A good thorough oil change (hot and long) and filter change using a good (or better still better) oil should do the job - with perhaps a flush included if things look bad enough for its use.

 

But it's a free country (depending on your news sources) and each to their own.

 

Perhaps it was just put to help exercise sepulchrave's heart, an act of kindness.

 

23 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

You'll have @sepulchrave having a fit.

 

Fools and their money...

3 minutes ago, nta16 said:

Perhaps it was just put to help exercise sepulchrave's heart, an act of kindness.

I was wrong looks like it might have caused hyperventilating.

 

7 minutes ago, nta16 said:

I was wrong looks like it might have caused hyperventilating.

 

 

A coughing fit maybe, modern oils already have complex additive packs, they didn't used to so additive manufacturers sprang up to fill the void, and their pockets.

 

In the bad old days oils were terrible, engines were strangled by bad design and the aftermarket had a real role, nowadays notsomuch.

 

In what world do you imagine that the R&D laboratories of multinational oil companies are somehow inferior to the snake oil merchants who actually spend all their money on MARKETING and not research!

Yeap and some oils have better base oil and better additive packages - all on very diminishing returns but not all oils are the same.

 

And some oil blenders sell things like cough, cough, engine flush. 😁

 

Tell us about the man with the red flag  .  .  .  

3 minutes ago, nta16 said:

Yeap and some oils have better base oil and better additive packages - all on very diminishing returns but not all oils are the same.

 

And some oil blenders sell things like cough, cough, engine flush. 😁

 

Tell us about the man with the red flag  .  .  .  

 

Some companies will sell ANYTHING they can make a buck on, hence my comment about fools and their money.

 

You forget I'm old school, so I remember the days when some additives were actually useful and K&N filters really did make your car faster.

 

Nowadays engines are actually built to such close tolerances that even the laborious blueprinting process of yore no longer yield measurable improvements.

12 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

some additives were actually useful and K&N filters really did make your car faster.

I'm still using a car where some additives are actually useful and K&N filters give more performance (if you measure to decimal places). 😁

 

My older mates tell me about things like the days of squirts of Redex.

 

Edited 11 February, 20224 yr by nta16

fair comment but it worked now you can say it was the oil and filter change but no real way to disprove it lol and i agree with modern engines but lets not forget my engine is 21 years old anyway i used this and the noise went away https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154081462663 but yes I do regular oil and filter changes with decent products so this has helped.

As I always say at worst these things are just a waste of money, they generally don't do any harm @Stewartasb so as long as you're happy then I'm happy.

You are only happy about that additive because it's from the same folk that make that deep black engine old that looks wrong from new, how can you tell if its dirty, er, contaminated, does it go a brown or green colour - or purple if they do a deluxe version. 😄

 

9 minutes ago, nta16 said:

You are only happy about that additive because it's from the same folk that make that deep black engine old that looks wrong from new, how can you tell if its dirty, er, contaminated, does it go a brown or green colour - or purple if they do a deluxe version. 😄

 

 

Bright purple with lime green spots is a no-no.

1 hour ago, Stewartasb said:

my engine is 21 years old anyway i used this and the noise went away https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154081462663 but yes I do regular oil and filter changes with decent products so this has helped.

I was going to put a similar post to sepulchrave but he got there before me.  If you're doing timely oil and filter changes and timely other servicing and maintenance then perhaps a different or better oil and other measures might act as preventatives.  Or perhaps more regular longer use of the car - or perhaps you've covered all this and it's too late and this might happen again.

 

Here's hoping it's a good long term solution.   

Edited 11 February, 20224 yr by nta16

6 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

 

Bright purple with lime green spots is a no-no.

 

Mind you, I do have some purple grease, it's Silkolene waterproof stuff and it smells a bit like Germolene used to.

In my younger days I remember putting something called Slick 50 in my engine. It coated the engine internals in Teflon and made your car coast for 50 miles in 4th gear - or so you told your mates

 

Edited 12 February, 20224 yr by TMB

I was thinking of a purple oil - but I did have some grease that was green from  . . .

 

 

wait for it . . .

 

 

SLICK-50. 😄

 

ETA: I didn't see TMB's post so the surprise and delight for sepulchrave has been somewhat dented. 

 

Edited 11 February, 20224 yr by nta16

30 minutes ago, TMB said:

In my younger days I remember putting something called Slick 50 in my engine. It coated the engine internals in teflon and made your car coast for 50 miles in 4th gear - or so you told your mates

 

 

It was terrible, it clogged the oil squirter jets found on many high performance engines and caused little end failure, I had a VW KR 16V engine that had failed due to Teflon jet clogging.

 

Horrible 1970's crap they kept flogging until it started killing too many engines whereupon it was hastily withdrawn from sale.

What makes you think it was withdrawn from sale.

 

Halfords - Slick 50 High Performance Synthetic Engine Treatment 750ml - https://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-and-fluids/fuel-and-oil-additives/slick-50-high-performance-synthetic-engine-treatment-750ml-114371.html

 

Halfords - Slick 50 Engine Treatment 750ml - https://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-and-fluids/fuel-and-oil-additives/slick-50-engine-treatment-750ml-289280.html

 

You can order online if you want to try it again.

 

You can buy a (IIRC PTFE) oil additive and just put a little in with your engine oil, a German product too IIRC, so if they paid VW I'm sure it'd possibly be approved for use in "VAG Group" vehicles if it helps to get their products through to the end of extended warranties. 😁