Can you achieve faultless reliability?

I know that hill its a bit of a upward drag. Hope you can get back on the road soon.

 

After the age of 30 you are your own physician. Same with old buses, you’re your own mechanic. Unless you got deep pockets, ( dropping money on it often doesn’t end well.)

 

It`s been along old haul but in 25 years its broken down maybe half a dozen times .
I carry a few basic tools / spares and every time i`ve managed to get it going so never had to resort to a low loader .
I`m no mechanical genius but these are very basic vans and usually let you know when something is amiss , just got to listen to what they`re telling you

(an` if it ain`t broke don`t fix it has worked thus far )

S`cuse me for a while , just nipping out to hug a tree ...

 

Well said.

 

Sometimes I think its down to your own confidence in the van. I've had vans that have been cosmetically shabby but I've driven as daily's without even thinking about reliability issues, whereas the van I've got now is a 2003 Brazzer, cosmetically sound, but the fault finding and eventual replacement of a faulty fuel pump had me replacing or removing and checking every component part if the ignition and fuel injection system before I found it. I'm now starting to use it regularly, but still don't have confidence in it to do a long run out.

 

I know someone who has just sold his 04 Brazzer and his words to me were I wasn't sad to see that (expletive) fuel pump and sensor setup drive out of my life

 

Six months ago those would have been my words.

That's the same model as mine - last of the air-cooled before they put water cooled 1.4 Polo engines in them.

Got an ECU, Bosch fuel injection and electronic ignition, Lambda, hall effect, absolute pressure, idle speed, air temperature, throttle body and canister valve sensors and a hybrid exhaust made up of Golf/Polo sections with a catalytic converter in it.
The fuel pump is enclosed in a unit with the fuel level sender, based on a Passat and fully submersed inside the fuel tank.

And it all relies on finely adjusted manual tappets, otherwise it creates fault codes in the ECU and it all goes wonky !



But I do have a heated front windscreen..........................

 

I though Ford held the world patent on that and other than the Sharan/Alhambra (ford) nobody could have one?

 

Front windscreens with an integral heated element was a winter pack option offered by Danbury when they converted the basic kombi vans they imported via Avonmouth docks.
Mine is also fitted with a Webasto petrol cab heater and a conventional heated filament rear windscreen.

You can hear the alternator crying when all three are operating.

 

I expect they will be laminated as well
And won’t go into fifty million tiny pieces if they break

 

They fit well enough, just got a couple of cables in each corner under the seal and one earthing on the dash. The filament is invisible, sandwiched between the laminated screen layers.

 

Do they do toast?

 

Quiet - don't give Dyson any ideas for more things to make.

In Singapore.

The traitor.

 

They reported he was "moving his headquarters to Singapore" .... in other words two "white collar" employees who already live there will be working for him ... If you saw the amount of investment that's been made in Hullavington and Malmsbury, in personel, design and production of electric vehicles, you'd be less antagonised .... by the Brexiteering bar steward

 

Yep - a friend of mine had a brand new T2 campervan in 1972 - the gear stick came of in his hand during the first year (yeah I know it's only two bolts) - and then he blew the engine at 5 years old driving up the M6 to the Lakes (said he was only doing 65)

 

He's only keeping R&D here.

According to the FT, the move to Singapore:

"Dyson said it was simply for commercial reasons because most of its customers and all its manufacturing operations are in Asia, and to give management supervision over the construction of a car factory in Singapore that will be its largest investment to date."

 

And I will always hold a grudge that he owns Dodington House, in the grounds of Dodington Park - my favourite family day out in the 70's, when they had the adventure playground, with a miniature railway and an early version of a Go Ape treetop walkways.

 

several thousand employed in Malmsbury Isn't the FT owned by Nikkei?... Don't know the numbers at Hullavington but it's a big set up ... hardly the "Marie Celeste" some press would have us believe.
I'm not expecting the cars to be much cop for the money if the vacs are anything to go by!