Drive it like you stole it.
Posted: 24 Feb 2017 06:34
That's going to be my new motto.
Ever since it's bare metal paint job, I've been treating the 7 like a princess. No shopping centre car parks, no gravel roads, nothing that might damage that gleaming finish. Well no more.
It's been so hot here this summer I've been putting off washing the cars. Just too debilitating in the burning sun, but today was a bit cloudy, so I washed the 7. First the battery was very low, so gave that a charge, then decided to give the thing a bit of a run before washing.
Talk about lousy running, she was coughing & fluffing on anything but gentle or wide open throttle. A bit of mental arithmetic told me it was 9 weeks of very hot weather since I'd driven her, [Christmas eve], no wonder she was cranky. She had all the symptoms of intermittent flooding, & I'm assuming the float chamber needles were all gummy from evaporated fuel.
Out here in the sticks there's not much traffic, so I did 15 kilometres cycling at full throttle from 1500 RPM in second to 5000 RPM in 4Th. She must have liked that, & it must have cleaned out any dried fuel gum, as she is again running sweetly. Pity all tuning isn't so easy.
So I've decided this princess treatment is all wrong. She is going back to being the urchin run about she was before the paint job. I reckon she'll be a much happier, if not quite so pretty car for it.
Hasbeen
Ever since it's bare metal paint job, I've been treating the 7 like a princess. No shopping centre car parks, no gravel roads, nothing that might damage that gleaming finish. Well no more.
It's been so hot here this summer I've been putting off washing the cars. Just too debilitating in the burning sun, but today was a bit cloudy, so I washed the 7. First the battery was very low, so gave that a charge, then decided to give the thing a bit of a run before washing.
Talk about lousy running, she was coughing & fluffing on anything but gentle or wide open throttle. A bit of mental arithmetic told me it was 9 weeks of very hot weather since I'd driven her, [Christmas eve], no wonder she was cranky. She had all the symptoms of intermittent flooding, & I'm assuming the float chamber needles were all gummy from evaporated fuel.
Out here in the sticks there's not much traffic, so I did 15 kilometres cycling at full throttle from 1500 RPM in second to 5000 RPM in 4Th. She must have liked that, & it must have cleaned out any dried fuel gum, as she is again running sweetly. Pity all tuning isn't so easy.
So I've decided this princess treatment is all wrong. She is going back to being the urchin run about she was before the paint job. I reckon she'll be a much happier, if not quite so pretty car for it.
Hasbeen
