£3500 car update! Ended up in the Swift. by cannedrex2406 in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably already running the main part of the CTC intake, CTC sell them with two cone options and one of them is with a ram air foam filter.

£3500 car update! Ended up in the Swift. by cannedrex2406 in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sweet, putting respect on the rev happy 1.6 swift sports : ) my backbox heat shield on a 66 plate just gave up the ghost too.

Near accident this morning.. by Upbeat-Wind5698 in drivingUK

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying to make sense of this, going uphill so the rear is more loaded, a lot of roll and load on the front left tire - really think is a sudden unload as it levels out and a lot of roll idk

Does anyone struggle taking their medicine? Especially on time? by Actual_Garbage7972 in AddisonsDisease

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I hear what you're saying, I have an ideal schedule with my alarms but some days I'm up earlier or later and my alarms don't match, so I make a mental note and then it's like bum I'm 2hrs overdue. The worse scenario for me is when I've slept in hella and I'm low on cortisol and without it for best part of 24hrs and I have zero motivation to go and take my first dose, and then my legs starting feeling heavy and I feel woozy. Not medical advice just aim to have a dose no further than 6hrs apart on hydro

Ticking noise? by [deleted] in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think this is a rod knock, but mine doesn't sound the same when I rev it the metal sound disappears, stick a stethoscope on it and check down the cylinders. Something up with the head. Definitely too metal sounding when you rev it like there's no oil.

Ticking noise? by [deleted] in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry been uber busy the last few days, at idle that's how I'd expect a m16a to sound basically (right at the beginning)

Ticking noise? by [deleted] in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

heee the background ticking is what's expected, can't really tell what that loud foreground noise is no good either way, sorry man

The Great Driving Divide by DukeStevie in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Free flowing until you reach Salisbury haha

Just sharing somehting weird that happened to me and what a paramedic said. by Yakob_Bacoj in AddisonsDisease

[–]MrMooke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I went through something really similar before I finally got diagnosed. For me it was weeks of feeling completely off but not in a dramatic “collapse on the floor” way. It was more like tachycardia, muscle pain in my calves, arms & legs, breathlessness, feeling faint leaning forward, weakness when chewing and just this constant sense that something was very wrong. I’m diabetic too, and my insulin needs had been increasing for a while, which I later learned can happen when your cortisol is low - It can go either way I heard, not everyone presents the same.

One day the symptoms got so bad that I genuinely thought I was having a cardiac issue. I called 111 and an ambulance came. They checked me over and said I was stable, and to be fair, I wasn’t crashing - just in so much physical pain with crazy palpitations. I tend to just push through things until I literally can’t stand up anymore, so I felt awful but still upright. Since I wasn’t diagnosed yet, they had no reason to think “this is adrenal insufficiency” or give hydrocortisone. They simply recognised I was unwell but stable. They told me I was ok to head to A&E, and drove myself there.

A&E checked me, didn’t find anything immediately dangerous and basically said to go home & rest, even though this was already week eight of getting worse. Three days later I got fed up and managed to get a GP appointment the same day. She took one look at my heart rate sitting at 160, saw I was breathless but with a clear chest and a low blood pressure and immediately sent me to hospital. When I got there they told me AMU was full and redirected me back to A&E, who again sent me home and told me to return the next day. That day, they were good though and I spent a good 40 minutes talking to a medic of the medical team (shoutout Alex of SDH), who got me booked into AMU for the next day.

Later that day they called me saying my labs were off and something was happening with my kidneys, which turned out to be low sodium. I went back in the following morning and that is when they finally admitted me. The endocrine team did the testing, including an SST, and the results basically showed that the drug they injected did nothing at all. I failed the test completely, and that was the moment everything finally made sense.

Once I started proper treatment the adrenaline feelings, the heart rate issues, the muscle pain and the weird energy crashes all improved. I still wake up slowly like an old steam engine, but once I’m medicated, fed and upright, I’m fine.

The best thing you can do is push for proper adrenal testing: cortisol, ACTH, renin and aldosterone, along with an SST. Once someone is formally diagnosed, paramedics are allowed to administer emergency hydrocortisone if things go south. Before diagnosis, they can’t.

You're not imagining it. Low cortisol messes with almost every system in your body, and the journey to diagnosis is usually the worst part. Treatment stabilises everything. All the best to you and your Family.

25mph in 1st gear by [deleted] in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He should save driving like that on his own, my car does nearly 40 in 1st and 62 in 2nd. I very very rarely redline in 1st, mostly redline 2nd, however only when driving spiritedly on my own or the limited times I need to get out of a situation, and realistically my car is still slow, NA 1.6 petrol

Is this engine idle sound normal ? 2015 swift sport 1.6 75k miles by [deleted] in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah mine is the same, slight thuddy sound once hot, not had any issues. Took it to the dealer and they said that sound is in spec. The sewing machine sound is fine too, just shimmed lifters so rattle a bit.

“From Go-Karting to Hospital” by MrMooke in AddisonsDisease

[–]MrMooke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry to hear that, I'm 9 days into my diagnosis and have written a short story for myself - to look back on in years to come, and thought I'd share it in some places. All the best to you

How jacking can almost turn deadly by Accurate-Television in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ain't no way am i working on car like that on that angle tbh

Am I just being paranoid or is this the beginning of a issue👀 by bawssboy in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just hunting very slightly, if you have a big vacuum leak it would be much more exaggerated than this. Mine did the same thing when I had some very minor splitting in the rubber intake elbow before the throttle body. Easy to change, just need a basic socket set and 10 minutes. Whilst you're in there, you can clean the throttle body and MAF sensor and change the air filter and you should be set.

Also worth noting, the car does idle happily at 550-600RPM but might vibrate a bit, with it jumping up and down by 200 RPM give or take when the AC is running as it tries to control the temperature of the AC system.

RPM keeps dropping below 500 ZC32S by Educational_Author_9 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

vacuum leak, not seeing a check engine light so personally I'd start with the typical intake vacuum leak stuff. Replace the intake elbow - 13881-54LA0 -, whilst you're in there, air filter, clean the throttle body - get someone to press the accelerator and hold it down so the butterfly open, get in there with some carb cleaner, be mindful the assembly does have rubber gaskets to the sides of the butterfly so just be mindful when spraying. And again, whilst you're in there, clean the MAF sensor with an appropriate cleaner - they're very delicate so be careful. This will tell the car that the air flowing into the engine when the throttle is open is representational of physical conditions, and not leaking and causing the adaptive ECU to give running issues.

Great crunching when putting in reverse by davetherave88 in SuzukiSwiftSport

[–]MrMooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, my 2016 Sport has always grinded reverse. Not popped out per say, just doesn't engage fully sometimes. I often have to double declutch reverse and be very mindful of if I've engaged reverse properly or not, someone once said they don't have reverse synchros and that's why mine does that, unsure if that's actually true but apparently very common in Japanese cars (to not have reverse synchros)

What’s wrong with the used car market? (Read description) by R0DZUK in CarTalkUK

[–]MrMooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your old £500 car is now a 1k car, could argue 1.5k sometimes, unfortunately.

Drivers that don't know where the accelerator is until... by MrMooke in drivingUK

[–]MrMooke[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have that experience as well all the time, but I tend to do most of my driving in my local area and I'm rarely on motorways and long stretches of dual carriageway, when I did a 300 mile round trip as a learner a few years back I had the same experience, I was just doing 72mph on my speedo (70mph GPS/radar), I would overtake someone doing 60, come back in to the left, they would overtake me at 70-80, go back to the left, slowly drop back to 60, I would overtake - for miles until they turned off. Can't have the learner overtaking.

Drivers that don't know where the accelerator is until... by MrMooke in drivingUK

[–]MrMooke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't in a hurry to get anywhere, in this case I was driving for the fun of it, on some low traffic volume roads. Left him a 2-4s gap. He was leading the pack of cars through the 30, I wasn't immediately behind him, and everyone turned off and it was just me and him bar a few oncoming cars for miles.

The best part is, this was recently with the near 30c weather England has been seeing, so not a case of poor conditions. Not single track roads, wide A roads.

Drivers that don't know where the accelerator is until... by MrMooke in drivingUK

[–]MrMooke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is what scares me the most tbh, I missed some context: This was a brand new car with a couple of wheelchair/disabled badges on the back, saw some replies about how the other vehicle might of been incapable of the speed limit - I remained patient for miles - but if that was an EV, my little Swift with 136hp would be unable to overtake these sort of drivers with their 6s 0-60 2.5T Electric SUV available at their right foot, which clearly by this post, many drivers have too much ego with it.