Daihatsu Sirion(s)

tqo and a half years later the car is still going.. up to 83,00 miles but with one odd new defect. The fuel guage is starting to read optomistically. Son #1 drove the car in the winter and when parked on a kerb, it failed to start. Fuel guage showing two bars out of six on the guage. I diagnosed lack of fuel, got a jerry can from a petrol station and hey presto the car ran.

On Friday son #2 was driving on a main road and it spluttered and died. Two bars on the guage. Same diagnosis same cure. Hmmm. Something's up..

...unlikely to be water in the tank. The take-off would be at the bottom, and any added fuel would simply sit above the water.

More likely a sender problem, or possibly an instrument panel fault.

Maybe a common fail - few on ebay at (what I consider) highish prices.

Sirion #2 in Israel...

Dad got a puncture. In his panic (given his possible pancreatic cancer diagnosis) he could not find the jack to fit the space saver spare.

So he decided, after sorting the puncture out, to buy a jack and a full size spare wheel/tyre. I arrived after he had bought the jack but before he got the spare. This afternoon (after he got the not malignant result - Hooray!) he got a call to collect his new wheel/tyre. Wew emptied out the boot and of course found the jack stuffed under the reveal of the boot up. We then discovered that the well for the spare will not take a full size wheel...

OK, so the space saver went back in, but what do you do if you have to use the space saver? Where do you put the punctured wheel and tyre??

WDB tonight is happy to hear there was some important good news in among the petty annoyances. 🤠

Thanks. Still has to have some treatment but at least the big worry has gone.

Just at the hospital now to meet the surgeon. It's an hour's drive. Sirion has done 170,000km. It's up a big hill from the coast to Jerusalem. Even with four people the car coped beautifully..

Second trip to Jerusalem this week and a third planned for Sunday. Dad needs to have more scans and tests so I have stayed here for a few more days.

The Sirion is racking up the kilometres and drives well, keeping up with faster traffic. The hill up to Jerusalem is steep with crawler lanes and heavy trucks doing no more than 10mph; the Sirion needs to drop out of overdrive to keep its speed over ~55mph. Going down the hill, economy is great..