#1: F**king Birds! Author: evilmunkey87, Location: TorquayPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:32 am ---- Car ran perfect on the way to work this morning, about a 10 mile drive, not a problem whatsoever! She was parked outside work all day untouched, I left work, bird poop all over it!!
Anyway, they somehow managed to get some on the inside of my coolant tank, and I am currently fairly confident that the head gasket is gone!! Awaiting the AA as the car has no power at all, sounds like a rubbish tractor and I am very hungry and no where near a food establishment, or my mums kitchen!
I also noticed that a little plastic pipe coming from the fuel rail, into the air box has a slight breakage in it... well its actually snapped in half and seems to be letting fuel leak out of it
Can find a gasket for just over £60 but cannot find this little fuel thing anywhere, not sure what name it goes by and cannot get any pics currently as I am at work and the net is about as useful as my car right now... Any ideas on this part and if someone has one for sale, I want it please
Umm... now the point of this thread, anyone had the head gasket changed before? If so, how much was it?
Cheers
#2: Re: F**king Birds! Author: macca1411, Location: Westhoughton, LancashirePosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:39 am ---- Clever birds. They can open the door, pop open the bonnet, lift it up, unscrew a expansion tank cap, s**t in it and replace it. Bit clumsy though breaking a pipe off in the process.
Think you've been watching the Cravendale milk advert too much and are imagining cats with thumbs. Last edited by macca1411 on Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:49 am; edited 1 time in total
#3: Re: F**king Birds! Author: gaffa786, Location: 2 Places at oncePosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:49 am ---- i feel your pain
have to park my car under a tree every night and thats what i get in the morning
#4: Re: F**king Birds! Author: Andy_, Location: Isle of ManPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:54 am ---- Some w**ker feeds them near me and birds always s**t on mine, no one elses
#5: Re: F**king Birds! Author: -Dave-, Location: North ManchesterPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:19 pm ---- You have birdshit in the inside of your coolant tank? And you don't know how it got there.
#8: Re: F**king Birds! Author: DanT, Location: Torbay, EnglandPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:33 pm ---- Must be a torbay thing because just as i was leaving work heard a massive splat.... it was everywhere. Straight home to wash it off obviously!
#9: Re: F**king Birds! Author: tomd0801754, Location: MoscowPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:38 pm ---- Dan - did it manage to get inside your socks or anything?
#17: Re: F**king Birds! Author: Ash, Location: Running from Ant and Lee and Adam...........Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:47 pm ----
BAN HIM!
#18: Re: F**king Birds! Author: evilmunkey87, Location: TorquayPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:56 pm ---- Haha, reading this has made a stupendously terrible day sooo much better
Yes, I was joking about there being bird droppings in my coolant tank, its weird white crap that I had last time I had a head gasket go, apparently its a sign that it has gone, but according to the AA, it is not?!
Anyway, the AA man doing a diagnostic, it appeared that the coil pack was screwed royally and the car was running on 2 cylinders, hence no power and horrendous noise! After a bit of a mission trying to get one from somewhere, eventually did but had to be towed to Exeter to get it and fit it.
£142.44 for the coil pack, £22 for the plugs and £30 call out for the uniparts bloke to let us in for the parts! But..... Luckily for me, the AA man didn't really know how to use his machine, so I ended up just paying for the coil pack, getting free plugs and someone missed there dinner for nothing!
So surely after my colleague being rushed into hospital (suspected heart attack) being on my own at work all day and extremely busy, the car costing me money, this week can only get better?!
#19: Re: F**king Birds! Author: Harry, Location: StaffordPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:11 pm ---- If the coolant is any thicker than water and a creamy colour it means the head gasket is going - not necessarily gone could take a while but obviously replace it asap that way the head may not need skimming.
Sounds like an overpriced coil pack, last time I checked genuine were just over 100 (although maybe not gtis) and aftermarket around 40-70
Hope your colleague is ok
#20: Re: F**king Birds! Author: chambie1980, Location: stockportPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:19 pm ---- don't think I've laughed this much in ages lol
If the coolant is any thicker than water and a creamy colour it means the head gasket is going - not necessarily gone could take a while but obviously replace it asap that way the head may not need skimming.
Sounds like an overpriced coil pack, last time I checked genuine were just over 100 (although maybe not gtis) and aftermarket around 40-70
Hope your colleague is ok
I said that it seemed like a crazy price for one, they are going for £36 upwards second hand on eBay but thats a risk as it could go again next week, it would take a couple of days to get to me, and I am not a fan of buses, especially at 6am!
I will be changing the cam belt soon, will get head gasket done at same time, maybe even engine mounts too
have to park my car under a tree every night and thats what i get in the morning
and that was only the front bonnet. didnt bother taking a picture of the rear
Got it all up the side and over the roof then down the other side on mine lol. That looks nasty though, probably ran his mate over!
Dan, I would check mate, little f*ckers around here are clever, know every time I clean my car, if I switch parking space at work they still find the bloody thing, I was even driving along one day, and they got it right in the window.. unfortunately I did not have a passenger as I would have probably crashed by laughing so much...
#25: Re: F**king Birds! Author: Billykeish, Location: birminghamPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:20 pm ---- if it aint bird shit its tree sap>>>>
#26: Re: F**king Birds! Author: Andy_, Location: Isle of ManPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:11 am ---- Nothing worse than driving my work van, a bird shitting on the windscreen when I had ran out of water in my washers
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because just as i was leaving work heard a massive splat.... it was everywhere. Straight home to wash it off obviously!
