Recent content by slodgenut99

Do you still have the grill? Is it modified at all? Cheers Shealesy

Thermostats testable? Warm water on a stove or something like that? If it is gone, excuse my ignorance. But this thing doesn't break. Ever. I bought it, swore to drive it til it dies. And now I'm getting it sale-able full functional. Aside from tyres and 1 oil change, nothings broken, died...

No as i said its not a mechanical thing, i'm certain of that. Its just these frickin cold temperatures up here as all 3 cars on the driveway are the same, the astra, one honda, one dodge.

Morning all (or is it... oh no not again!) Im considering botching together a make shift radiator jacket for my 1.4 as this cold weather barely gets it above the blue mark (its averaging 1 or 2c in blaring sunshine, never mind adding the wind chill factor) and wondered if any people in other...

Or even better have a passenger there pulling the handbrake (with button firmly held in) to give you that element of surprise. its not all that realistic if you know when your gonna slide and have already worked out the correction. me and my little bro had great fun doing this one year and im...

couldnt get to it tonight, behind the fog light is still packed with snow from my meeting with the snow drift maybe in the summer when its all defrosted haha

wow theres a thanks button!! ace thanks all. mine used to be a couple of degrees out comparing to other more modern cars and to yahoo weather on my phone, but close enough, its dropped to -9 here and its reading 65.5c...

and cheers for the answers, im off to lay in the snow and try and get it out for a dry off and a clean up

its a trusty bit of dash for me, beside the bulb behind it being gone (thinking blue next) its great, i quite often, like tomorrow night, do a 600 mile drive back to my home town near colchester to see family and get absolutely wrecked in the ol' local, and i know that when it starts getting...

Hi all, first post (first problem in over 2 years) so minor but its bugging me Moved to scotland this year from essex and my mighty astra is seeing its first real cold winter of its 15 year life. A few days ago the outside temperature display read nothing (--.-c) and today its come back on but...