What have you done to your Maserati today?
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anna.fletcher
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Love the 205 … with a dimma kit?? Is that what they were called?
CatmanV2
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God I can see the bloody logo, but damned if I can remember what they were called!
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anna.fletcher
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Yes I think dimma … I’ve consulted the oracle of google!
DLax69
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Huh. After my first visualization was rejected, I thought it might be more like this:Solenoid seals replaced. Princely sum of £42 of your earth pounds. Bargain.
And the pit for the weirdos
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CatmanV2
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Not my car but went round to plug my Autel thingymajobby into my neighbour’s daughter’s Ghibli. Oh my god, what an unloved motor car. It was as rough as Katie Price.
I’ve been paranoid about doing things to mine to get it looking right before I advertise it and this made me feel so good about mine! I have never, ever seen (all 4) wheels that had been kerbed that much. Stevie Wonder didn’t kerb his as much as this. Mad that someone could buy a nice car and treat it like a £250 banger.
I’ve been paranoid about doing things to mine to get it looking right before I advertise it and this made me feel so good about mine! I have never, ever seen (all 4) wheels that had been kerbed that much. Stevie Wonder didn’t kerb his as much as this. Mad that someone could buy a nice car and treat it like a £250 banger.
James3200GTA
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I'm to adolescent in my mind to correctly read what this says. So I'd better move on to the next thread before I start posting inappropriate comments.
We took part in the 12in12 rally around Cuneo (Piémont, Italy) with the merak.
The car wasn't ready for such a distance, at all (it was the first time I drove it more than 40 miles with it since I've got it, and I did a lot of work on it -carbs, valve clearance, rusted floors to replace, perished fuel lines etc etc...).
In 4 days, we did 2400km, a good part of it in the mountains, and of course the car broke down, a lot :
- the faucet came off the radiator, resulting in loosing almost all the coolant just before the Frejus tunnel
- numerous hot start problems
- fuel leaking badly in the hotel's garage with fuel fumes everywhere till the lobby (we had to remove the tank in the garage and fix a leaking pinhole)
- car struggling in the mountain because of rust particles from the tank blocking the fuel filter (we did remove a 8mm thick cake from the Malpassi filter king, several times), car dying on the highway when the fuel pump stopped working (a few tap on it and everything went back to normal) and so on.
It could have been terrible, but we really had a blast, the colle della Maddalena (and the roads around) was one of the best driving experience we ever had.
We had a wonderful time chatting with blokes from all horizons and driving completely different cars.
Still have some issues to fix (I need to remove the tanks and put some resin in it, clean again the carburetors and so on), but when working well, this car in a real joy to drive.
The car wasn't ready for such a distance, at all (it was the first time I drove it more than 40 miles with it since I've got it, and I did a lot of work on it -carbs, valve clearance, rusted floors to replace, perished fuel lines etc etc...).
In 4 days, we did 2400km, a good part of it in the mountains, and of course the car broke down, a lot :
- the faucet came off the radiator, resulting in loosing almost all the coolant just before the Frejus tunnel
- numerous hot start problems
- fuel leaking badly in the hotel's garage with fuel fumes everywhere till the lobby (we had to remove the tank in the garage and fix a leaking pinhole)
- car struggling in the mountain because of rust particles from the tank blocking the fuel filter (we did remove a 8mm thick cake from the Malpassi filter king, several times), car dying on the highway when the fuel pump stopped working (a few tap on it and everything went back to normal) and so on.
It could have been terrible, but we really had a blast, the colle della Maddalena (and the roads around) was one of the best driving experience we ever had.
We had a wonderful time chatting with blokes from all horizons and driving completely different cars.
Still have some issues to fix (I need to remove the tanks and put some resin in it, clean again the carburetors and so on), but when working well, this car in a real joy to drive.
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Just back from Italy so went to see how the 4200 was doing as it was getting new thrustbearings
Hopeful this will stop the whine i have had since i bought the car.
However was presented with a dilemma. The clutch is 50% worn I was asked if i wanted to keep the old clutch as the gearbox is being sorted or pay £1600 extra for a new clutch
Can I ask what the general consensus would be? Keep or replace?
Hopeful this will stop the whine i have had since i bought the car.
However was presented with a dilemma. The clutch is 50% worn I was asked if i wanted to keep the old clutch as the gearbox is being sorted or pay £1600 extra for a new clutch
Can I ask what the general consensus would be? Keep or replace?
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Ewan
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Epic behaviour! And congrats on all the running repairs to keep it going.
Reminds me of my similar recent experience in my Urraco. Though I had the fuel tanks out and rebuilt before my trip.
DLax69
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My vote is to do the work now...but it's your money I'm spending...
Ewan
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If it’s only 50% worn, you may well get 20-30k more miles out of it. I’d leave it.
DLax69
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Always the contrarian!