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What parts of your car work as they should and what needs some attention?

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I was suprised to find the boot release worked on mine when i bought it infact everything seems to apart from......

Head light washers
Intermittent window wipe and automatical wiper settle
Light on one dial, think its the clock
The drivers side electric mirror adjust is a bit intermittent

Not a bad little list i thought for a 23 year old car. [:)]

What are your cars like?

 
Most things work on my car except:
Boot release opens intermittently, sunroof wont release to remove(one for the summer) and the headlamp washers which doesnt really bother me.
Considering my car s 20 years old Iam very pleased![:D]
 
Everything did work on my car, but after being laid up for 17 months a number of things have now failed. They are some of the common things that we tell people to look for in a low mileage, little used car:

Dash clock lcd has 'bled'
Tailgate struts are weak
Bonnet struts are weak
Headlamp washers have failed
The dash has cracked [:(]
The CD/Radio has packed in

It will give me something to do over the Christmas holidays [:D]
 
Some ground issues on the S2 - the clock won't work unless the door is closed and the interior lamp is switched off.
A boost leak on the turbo - the exhaust gasket between the cross over pipe and J pipe is cooked.
 
Everything seems to work but some things don't work as well as they should:-

1. The cenral locking seems to go haywire when I use the button in front of the gearstick
2. The windscreen wipers seem to be a bit tired- they'll push up the windscreen half a inch at speeds above 80mph and they generally struggle against the airflow at those speeds.
3. The electric windows seem to labour
4. The power steering fluid bottle seems to be continually coated with power steering fluid, despite how much I clean it off, even though there is no leak and the level has remained constant since i've bought the car. What's going on here??? Does the stuff leach through the plastic or something??
5. The in-dash and binnalce lights seem a bit dull.
6. Bottom edge of the wings could do with a bit of attension

Not too shabby considering.

 
Most annoying at this time of year is the windscreen washers not working; the pipes must be wrongly connected as when the reservoir is filled up the water leaks straight out of the headlamp washers.
Must get around to sorting it out.
Oh and intermittent boot release too.
 
My boot release is as intermittent as others here. The light in the clock has gone (is a replacement clock the last one bled) . Touch wood thats about it at present....
 
Mine all seems to work, but the heating temperature is not very accurate (dial on the dash). I am suspecting that the pipe from the small vent on the dash to the sensor on the bulkhead (which I have never seen, but been told about) is blocked.

And the drivers' side windscreen wiper seems to come unclipped fairly often. Which makes it judder and rattle. Doesn't come off unless you lift the arm, but is annoying.

Oh, and the passenger side screenwash nozzles are prone to blocking.

Oh, and the rear hatch is not as tight as it should be - needs to be adjusted so it is pulled down harder on the seal when it closes.

Oh, and the interior lights interface with the alarm is a bit odd. It all works, but I don't understand it (and I created it!)

Also showing very faint beginnings of a bubble of rust on the rear wheelarch. Need to clean and sort as soon as the weather is a bit better ...

(Annoying to have to produce lists like this. I thought I had a fully-operational 944 until I started writing this post!)


Oli.
 
I'm pretty lucky with mine so far - everything is working on it although the electric windows are a little bit slow to close, the boot always opens, but the struts won't make it open fully and the stereo sounds lousy - poor reception / poor speakers. That's it really. Everything else is fine.

On the downside, getting it to this point has cost me a bl[:(][:(]dy fortune!
 
Everything works I think....

Well, apart from the AC, the rear hatch light....and, thats it I think.

I need a service, left rear bearing and driveshaft.
 
Think my rear demister as packed in,and i need new rear tyres (big bits of tread ripped off[:D])My front lights are working better than ever as the lamp units(old ones went a bit dull) have been changed with some diffent bulbs.
 
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