It really beggars belief Tony - but, and as with many things, there will be no consequences so it’ll not get better.
Anyway, hopefully I’ll have them in my hands soon enough and all will be rosy again.
I’ve had the car since 1983 and I’m looking forward to a whole new driveline experience - eventually!
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I’ll be on the 'phone (again) at 08:30 when the call centre opens up - it’ll be interesting to see what they have to say.
I don’t send many parcels at all, but I have to say that my experience with RM has been good so far. How much that is down to our local post lady and van driver I don’t know. I hope your next message has good news in it. I have the solid conversion, which has a different feel to it, especially on initial take up of drive, as it does not have any of the soft take up that you get with the old donuts.
Tony
Several years ago Royal Mail put a ‘we couldn’t deliver’ card through my door when I was indoors standing very close to it.
I immediately opened the door and asked for what they were going to deliver and they didn’t even have it…it was still at the local sorting office.
In Australia the postal service and other companies employ a lot of sub contractors for parcel delivery who get paid per delivery. They maximise their “deliveries” by just leaving cards in the letter box and returning all the parcels to the post office claiming no one there to receive. A lot of internet order companies now give a “permission to leave” option when you order so they will leave at front door or other nominated safe location on your property when you are OK with that
cheers
Rohan
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A happy ending eventually. 30 minutes on the 'phone to PF to be told it’ll be delivered today “sometime between now and 18:30”. Went into town to pick up some brake discs and it was on the doorstep when I got back.
Happy boy now.
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What can I say other than Hooray to the happy boy!
Tony
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Well, If the Elantrikbuts can be landed here in the UK for £1132 and it has now been proven that they can and not the £14-£1500 mooted on other forums that will definitely make me think again about going down that route!
Well done…good result!
Alan.
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Thanks - they come very well packaged! and are currently (until the missus gets home), proudly displayed on the kitchen table. It turned out to be quite an adventure and I’m really glad I undertook it.
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UJ shafts with sliding splines come with their own issues. Most common is binding of the splines while under torque loading. Logically, that is the most likely reason autommotive engineers have developed CV joints. My Elan has CV’s and I’m fitting Elantrikbits CV’s to my Plus 2 (under resto). There is an additional consideration in that Elan’s have a considerably shorter length drive. It would be interesting to explore if the wheel travel is the same between the models, as this would change the rate of required angle change at the pivot point/s - or not??
Constant velocity joints were created because universal joints caused vibration and speed variation (hence “constant velocity”) issues when transmitting power, particularly in FWD cars with independent suspension. Every CV joint I have ever seen has sliding splines, necessary to allow the length of the shaft to vary as the wheel moves about.
CV joint is a somewhat general term. There are different styles, with plunge depth typically being the tradeoff for angle. FWD vehicles mostly use a fixed plunge but high angle for the outer joint and a low angle high plunge for the inner. The shaft is a fixed length.
Our Elans have a difficult application in that both plunge and angle are required due to the short overall length. The joints used in all of the common Elan kits are the low angle style. One interesting characteristic with them is the plunge capacity reduces with increased angle.
I have had exactly the same issue with Parcelforce. Delivered the next day when no one was in!