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The wife's .........Daewoo Matiz!

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The wife's .........Daewoo Matiz!

Post by Kawa » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:42 pm

The wife bought a Daewoo Matiz for a cheap run about - saving £200 a year insurance and 40+ mpg!
Picked it up from Hull about 6 months ago.

It's started drinking water and fans never got hot. Investigating found the expansion bottle a nice brown colour, yum.

So today it's off with it's head!! Also replacing the cam belt and water pump while I'm there - All going well....so far :P
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Post by indigolemon » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:31 pm

The wee 3 cylinder jobby? :lol:
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Re: The wife's .........Daewoo Matiz!

Post by Kawa » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:24 am

Yup!

Dont forget to drain the coolant.....else you have 3 pots of water :lol:
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Post by indigolemon » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:31 am

Oops! Ah well, learning from experience is good :lol:

They're meant to be great as a cheap and cheerful runabout for city driving, although from being in one I wouldn't want to be doing any motorway driving :?
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Re: The wife's .........Daewoo Matiz!

Post by Kawa » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:51 am

Motorways are fine, I had a 'good speed' out of it.

The body roll around corners is scary!!! :D Country lanes, roundabouts and generally going around any corner can be quite fun. I had a look around, they have front ARB's and even an upper strut brace!! :lol: Not had a look around the rear yet.
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Post by indigolemon » Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:44 pm

Any cars that are non-performance and have strut braces as standard worry me :P What have they done to the chassis that it would require that :lol:

Saying that, sounds like you've had a good bit of fun in it 8-)
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Post by Crazy_C » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:24 am

Yea, the little 3 bangers are good. I had a 3 banger for a while, and my mum's had a 4 banger from new in '05 too and as a city car they're great.

This is my old 3 banger one. Notice anything about the rear quarter? :lol:

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Post by indigolemon » Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:49 am

It's on Vacation back in Canada? Without the rest of the car?
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Re: The wife's .........Daewoo Matiz!

Post by Kawa » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:02 pm

Tonight a flushed out the cooling system. There was lumps coming out :lol: The water jacket in the head was clogged up with an oily soil type substance - nice! The water was coming out brown for a very long time. The heater matrix was very bad. Not surprised the heater was barely working.

Piston tops have been polished and new water pump has gone on.

Can't do anymore as I'm busy doing other stuff until next week - including beer! :D
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Post by indigolemon » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:51 am

Kawa wrote:Can't do anymore as I'm busy doing other stuff until next week - including beer! :D
BEERS! :lol:
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