V6 into a RHD Chrysler Neon mk1

[arceye]

DWP lost my pip
pack and that there is a 9+ month waiting list I might have to pay for road tax

Feel for you mate, my teenage daughter took some sort of breakdown nearly two years ago, psychosis, depression, paranoia, self harm, and various suicide attempts. Several stays in Cahms centres down in Dundee then Glasgow, and then an adult centre in Inverness. It has all but bankrupted us both financially and emotionally caring for her (the good lady wife already needing care herself due to illness but missing out by one level on her actual award) and I'm pretty much out of business due to it all, so when she reached school leaving age we applied for ESA and PIP for her as it may be years until she's right, if ever I suppose.

Anyway, the ESA wasn't really a problem, but 18 months to get the PIP sorted, lost medicals and forms etc etc, she finally got it a couple of months ago so keep the pressure up on them as the whole thing is a farce.

I never thought I'd come into contact with the system in this way, always worked one way or another but I can see the day coming where I'm going to be looked at like some scrounger, the irony being that as I've worked and already paid for the house etc we can only ever get the basics, and I'm not liking the looks on peoples faces when I take the missus shopping and pull the big Merc into the disabled bays, even though it is usually the cheapest car in the bays and smells like a mobile chippy.

Thank god for car therapy
Hope you have it done this year

[Mitsuru]

Car smelling like a mobile chippy! Oh god there goes the wast line just thinking of the smell

I have yet to hear back from the medical section of the DVLA about the renewal of my
driving license. I tried the direct line a couple of times and the same automated answer
saying that they aren't taking calls. This is a running battle just to get this far and although
I have a letter stating I can drive during the review the paperwork was handed in before the
last month of the license valid until march 2014! It took them Six+ months to organise the
eye test!

Sorry the bureaucracy is driving me nuts, by the time they get to issue this one it will
probably be up for renewal again

[JPB]

The DVLA never fail to surprise with their ability to perpetrate random acts of stupidity but last time I renewed my licence, the replacement came back without the usual 3 year restriction on it and is in fact valid up to the day I turn 70!
On the other hand, they did manage to send it without my bike entitlement on there and have since claimed that there's nothing on the PR for my driver details to suggest that I passed my test, which I did before I passed in a car some 32 years ago.
In this situation, the dilemma that presented itself to me was whither to complain about losing the bike entitlement at the risk of their then spotting their other error, or to point out to them that they'd added 17 bonus years to the correct period of the licence's validity in the hope that they'd then notice their cockup over the bike category. The fact that the examiner who passed me is still alive and prepared to stand up before the court to confirm that my successful motorcycle test actually happened may be reason enough to keep it buttoned. Or not, but I'm giving that a go for now.
I hope that [the DVLA] manage to sort your licence out, Aron and that maybe they'll give you some extra categories for free or otherwise screw up in your favour. Meanwhile, keep pushing on with the car because if the worst comes to the worst it'll be easier to sell if it runs and stops. Stay positive and don't let the chinless wonders get you down.

[arceye]

Dear God, if they took my bike licence off mine I may be done for murder at the DVLA that is a bloody sin John

We are lucky in that we don't have any licence issues though doctors advised the wife against driving for about 12 months before giving the all clear. She's lucky that her conditions are not notifiable, though to be honest she's normally that doped up on prescription painkillers we just exercise good sense and she doesn't drive unless it is utterly unavoidable. When I had to go to Inverness for an angiogram I would have had to be admitted without a driver to get home, so I got the wife to drive me out of the "city" then took over, arm in sling, thank god for automatics though indicating was a bugger as it was on the wrong side of the steering column

Nice not to have the worry though, mind, having seen many of the older drivers up here they should perhaps be a little stricter, but with many living in remote and rural locations doctors generally seem to be lax when it comes to licence renewing. The sad part of that is brought home however when something happens, a recent one being a 96 year old lady who killed a cyclist and seriously injured another, the excuse now is that she blacked out as she was suffering some form of automatism. Another older chap we know wasn't advised to not drive even when he lost most of his sight due to diabetes, in fact I don't think he was ever advised to even tell the DVLA about his condition which was listed on his medical records but he denied having.... though he has had the good sense to give up driving now he is registered blind

Good luck with it all Mitsu, and as John says, keep pressing on regardless

[Luxobarge]

indicating was a bugger

You should have borrowed a BMW or an Audi for the journey, apparently they're exempt from the use of indicators....

[arceye]

indicating was a bugger

You should have borrowed a BMW or an Audi for the journey, apparently they're exempt from the use of indicators....

I had noticed that

[JPB]

that is a bloody sin John

The internet is awash with similar accounts of categories vanishing during licences being at the DVLA for whatever reason so it's not just me, which at least alleviates the feeling of being got at to a fair extent. In fact it's purely a matter of principle these days as I'd struggle to keep anything with two wheels vertical and couldn't pick a dropped bike up if I were to ride one and fall over so it's not a practical issue but such incompetence by those who supposedly work for - rather than against - the rest of the population does wind me up. Count me in if you ever decide to travel to the wrong side of Offa's dyke with the intention of going to the DVLA on a muppet shoot.

Aron, I know you've previously turned down offers of being invaded by a crew of other oily blokes to give you some extra support with this job but sometimes the extra bodies on the job more than make up for the extra muddy footprints on the toilet floor.

[Mitsuru]

John if it was my own house I would have had you lot over ages ago, but it's not!
At the moment my mother is here constantly as she nolonger works due to her hands(arthritis)
& my father who REALLY doesn't like people he doesn't know even setting foot on the property!

Especially after what happened with someone I thought was a friend who used me and abused
my trust!

Okay back on to today's findings

I called into Sewell's (auto spares) and maplins for the female spade connector taking with me
one I pulled from the neons fuse box. Derek at Sewells give it the once over and didn't have
anything similar. And the girl at maplins must have not only had her hair bleached but her brain as
I knew more than she did

I will have to call RS components in gateshead tomorrow to see if they can clarify some details
that their website doesn't have on a similar connector. Failing that trying to find a suitable car
at a scrapyard.

Just a mile up the road form maplins is Flavells the machine shop I have used previously. And I
ad taken one of the 2003 Voyager alloy hub. Good news, it can be machined down so it can be
used with the mk1 neon strut assembly. And it shouldn't weaken the hub structure.
Cost approximately £20 a side

The bearing assembly, which bolts into the hub will need to be taken out when they machine the
hub to the desired sepcs. Only then once teh bearing assembly has been pulled apart and
compared with a mk1 neon bearing and spindle can it be seen how best to proceed with that part
wither a new holder will need to be made or the old steel voyager one can be machined to
requirements!

But the voyager hubs front and rear will be only done later after the car has been running and I
get all the ducks in a row so to speak!

Mother running ma round tomorrow as gridlock on the a66 and then a19 my legs couldn't take a
second more so I think pushing myself to get to the Hull Motor Show driving a manual would be
stupid!

[Mitsuru]

After 2 days of hell from a bug that is going around I managed to get uo to RS components in Gateshead.
My Computer tower is bust so all data on it is out of reach (Motherboard or memory!) so no part details to
help when I got up there! No go with what they had on paper or what they typed into their terminal.

Oh and looking in scrapyards yielded no mopar what so ever!!! So I couldn't even look for something from
the same family but from different years to try in that field. So I even tried GM/Vauxhall and ford and nothing
similar.

After getting home and a few hours trying different ideas I think I have found a delphi part number 54001312

https://delphi.com/connectors/product/v ... ts&start=0

All the details look right but no way of ordering the yet from over here that I can find so far!

[Mitsuru]

Update on the driving license

Good news 2 letters from the dvla, one to say they have made a decision on my license and that my new
one will be sent out soon! the second was the driving license with the new expiry 20th August 2017.

So how long do you think it will take next time if it was 7+ months to sort the bloody thing out?