Even at that mine was sticky more than jammed. If you leave it for ages it will bake open and burn out the valve seat but otherwise it just takes a good clean with carb cleaner to free them up. I'll probably chuck mine in the ultrasonic bath at work once the worst is out.
Changed the oil today, the air filter was very clean, put some posh petrol in and some of that cleaning additive, took for a long drive Italian tune-up holding in higher gears to blow the cobwebs out. Will give it a long hard drive to make sure it's thoroughly warmed up before it goes back for the re-test tomorrow, fingers crossed.
I wince when I take my 32 year old turbocharged car to an mot place
32 years old? WTF are you driving, a Mk4 RS Turbo?
A 1986 944 turbo. Speaking of which, I took it for an MOT today and it chose that moment for the starter to jam. I have a spare but understandably the garage won’t fit customer supplied parts, the recovery company will only take it to the nearest mot station, which is where it already is.
Looking like a big bill as a new starter is around £300 or pay for a low loader home as the MOT has expired.
Good luck with your MOT op.
Aren't you allowed to drive a car with no mot to and from a test?
You are, but it won’t start.
Yes.
But he has to start the engine first!
(Clue. Starter jammed).
@jamesoz. Can't you get somebody to tow you home?
Must admit I hadn’t thought of that, too busy being annoyed.
Push start it
OP,
I normally add a quarter of 2T motorbike engine oil to my 2005 Toyota Corolla automatic whenever I top up my petrol (£20 each time), and I have been adding 2T oil for 7 years now since my friend recommended me.
If you dare you might want to try it after all it is a Toyota.
Me mate in far east add 2T to all his cars/4x4 (most of his cars/4x4 are Toyota) regardless of whether they diesel or petrol.
🙂
p/s: adding 2t motorbike engine oil to the fuel ...
Give the solenoid on the starter motor a whack to free it off
We tried, there’s not a lot of space with customers cars coming in and out. I also jacked it up and tried the old hit the starter while the key was turned trick.
I’ll try and find a volunteer that’s available during the open hours tomorrow.
Chewkw - we don't have the shit watered down fuel you get in Philippines/Indonesia, 2 stroke oil is probably not doing much to help out other than making the mixture lean and shafting the catalytic converter.
Chewkw – we don’t have the shit watered down fuel you get in Philippines/Indonesia, 2 stroke oil is probably not doing much to help out other than making the mixture lean and shafting the catalytic converter.
I am using it here in the UK by mixing it with the petrol ... 🙂
Has it passed..........?
Need to know.
We need to know!
In other news I opted pay the garage to fit a shiny new starter and chalk it up to experience.
The garage have been very helpful and informed me the car should pass depending on brakes and emissions.
The price is good and it hopefully saves me a lot of arse ache, not to mention crawling about under a car eating rust and grease in the pissing rain.
Sorry for delay, it passed, all okay now. Oil change, posh petrol, a bit of additive and some long drives to warm it up properly did the job so good for another year at minmal cost. Thanks for your help all!
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Result!
Excellent !
This place is still helpful ...
Excellent! Obviously you must flog yourself with organic sustainably sourced birch nightly to atone for the terrible damage that you are doing by not discarding this tonne and a half of highly manufactured, completely fit for purpose devil machine to replace it with a slightly less polluting tonne and a half highly manufactured wündermachine...
Nice, everybody loves a happy ending.
My 4 wheeled planet killer managed a co of 1.4% and hc of 104. Fine for a non cat 3L eighties car.
I’d forgotten how quickly it can turn an eighty litre tank of Shells finest into fire, noise and worrying smells.
