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Honda Jazz Forums => Honda Jazz Mk1 2002-2008 => Topic started by: Jocko on April 22, 2021, 02:12:03 PM
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At the moment I am doing 600 miles a week, in my tired old Jazz. If this continues much longer I will have to up my mileage with my insurer. I have a hole developing in my backbox, but because of circumstance, I cannot arrange to get it repaired. Hope I can replace it before it decides to drop off on the motorway!
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I didn't do much more than that for the whole of 2019 !
My CTEK got more use than my fuel flap.
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My Wheelie Bins been out more than I have in the Jazz :)
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At the moment I am doing 600 miles a week, in my tired old Jazz. If this continues much longer I will have to up my mileage with my insurer. I have a hole developing in my backbox, but because of circumstance, I cannot arrange to get it repaired. Hope I can replace it before it decides to drop off on the motorway!
Buy a backbox from Ebay and fit it yourself, £20 to £35 per unit delivered, 2 bolts to undo, 30 minutes work, save the money for the fuel for the 600 miles per week
ps the Honda OEM part is £237
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My son-in-law said he will do it for me but I cannot arrange anything at the moment for the same reason I am doing 600 miles per week. I am too infirm to fit it myself.
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If its only a hole, the silencer should still hang on. Just be a bit noisy, which is not ideal. Fun at the traffic lights with the boy racers though!!
Your Jazz will stand by you though. They are tough little cars and there are non better for reliability.
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If its only a hole, the silencer should still hang on. Just be a bit noisy, which is not ideal. Fun at the traffic lights with the boy racers though!!
It is not too noisy. I am aware of a burble when I leave and enter the garage, but it seems to be getting worse. It is the front face of the silencer. That is where it went last time and there was not a lot of time between the exhaust starting to burble and the silencer bouncing along the tarmac. If the pipe went an inch into the silencer the silencer wouldn't drop, but I think the pipe finished flush with the front face.
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If its only a hole, the silencer should still hang on. Just be a bit noisy, which is not ideal. Fun at the traffic lights with the boy racers though!!
It is not too noisy. I am aware of a burble when I leave and enter the garage, but it seems to be getting worse. It is the front face of the silencer. That is where it went last time and there was not a lot of time between the exhaust starting to burble and the silencer bouncing along the tarmac. If the pipe went an inch into the silencer the silencer wouldn't drop, but I think the pipe finished flush with the front face.
Until the car is inspected, we will not know for sure, but it may be the Firering seal, the Firering can wear and leak, the rear box couples to the centre pipe by a ball and socket style of joint, tensioned by two springs , the Fire Ring sits between the ball and the socket of the spring loaded joint, again you can have the Firering from Ebay, usually part of a kit with new springs and the collared bolts. the springs/collared bolts/firering parts are the same ones for the Exhaust Manifold to Catalytic convertor joint
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Until the car is inspected, we will not know for sure, but it may be the Firering seal, the Firering can wear and leak
The car has been inspected, by my son-in-law. who is a time served mechanic with 45 years working as a mechanic. The rear wall of the silencer is rusted and holed. It needs a new backbox.
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........ or a new Jazz :D
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It's a great testament to your Jazz though that it's still capable of being used as a high mileage daily driver. Hope circumstances improve soon Jocko so you can dial back your inter galactic weekly mileage.
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I thought I might have had a day off today, but my wife has said she wants to go and visit her Mum so I am off in an hour.
Narrowed down my replacement to an MG5 Excite or a new Jazz SR. I fancied the Honda e, but my wife thinks it looks ugly. Doesn't like the front end.
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At the moment I am doing 600 miles a week, in my tired old Jazz. If this continues much longer I will have to up my mileage with my insurer. I have a hole developing in my backbox, but because of circumstance, I cannot arrange to get it repaired. Hope I can replace it before it decides to drop off on the motorway!
Mine did drop off.. I think I posted about it at the time. I replaced the middle and back sections with a Klarious exhaust with 5 year guarantee. Something like £50 for both parts. The hardest part was getting the middle section off the catalyst. All rusted up and bonded together. The back section was fairly easy I think.
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I think you'd struggle to do 600 miles a week in a Honda-E
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The new car will replace the Jazz one we move to the south of Edinburgh. Then I will be doing 600 miles a year! Once a week to Asda at the Jewel. That and the odd hospital appointment (4 mile round trip).
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At the moment I am doing 600 miles a week, in my tired old Jazz. If this continues much longer I will have to up my mileage with my insurer. I have a hole developing in my backbox, but because of circumstance, I cannot arrange to get it repaired. Hope I can replace it before it decides to drop off on the motorway!
Mine did drop off.. I think I posted about it at the time. I replaced the middle and back sections with a Klarious exhaust with 5 year guarantee. Something like £50 for both parts. The hardest part was getting the middle section off the catalyst. All rusted up and bonded together. The back section was fairly easy I think.
The centre section made by Klarius, did it fit easily? Or did it require work? Many of the centre section pattern parts are poor in dimensions, they are warped and have to be adjusted by bending to match the Honda original part.
Pattern parts can have an oversized siilencer section, diameter too large, fouling the sills intermittently causing a knock. If the Klarius is a good fit, especially the diameter of the silencer, I will order a Klarius to replace my centre section which hangs low on the car
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It was a great fit. Everything aligned up where it should. Undoing the old bolts was the hardest part. I think I also bought a fitting kit that included a seal that fitted between the mid section and cat, also some of the spring bolts to attach the mid section to the rear section (to allow movement) and some new hangars.
The new exhaust is a little louder than the old one also. Only slightly but I did notice. Possibly there's less baffling in the silencer box parts?
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Klarius-Exhaust-Centre-Pipe-Silencer-Box-HA319E-BRAND-NEW-5-YEAR-WARRANTY-/153083788947?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286
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Happened to meet my son-in-law this afternoon, so he is going to get a new backbox for me on Monday, if they have one in stock, and if my circumstances permit he will fit it Monday evening.
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The new car will replace the Jazz one we move to the south of Edinburgh. Then I will be doing 600 miles a year! Once a week to Asda at the Jewel. That and the odd hospital appointment (4 mile round trip).
Just keep your faithful friend the 1.2DSi, at 600 miles per year (10 gallons of petrol) it will serve you well and last for many many years.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Klarius-Exhaust-Centre-Pipe-Silencer-Box-HA319E-BRAND-NEW-5-YEAR-WARRANTY-/153083788947?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286
Thank you for the advice, I have ordered the Klarius part, £36 with a voucher offered by the seller and free postage too!
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Just keep your faithful friend the 1.2DSi, at 600 miles per year (10 gallons of petrol) it will serve you well and last for many many years.
It does make a lot of sense but I just fancy owning one new car before I die and I really need an automatic.
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It does make a lot of sense but I just fancy owning one new car before I die and I really need an automatic.
Want rather than need. I think a lot of people post lockdown are similar minded. 'YOLO' and all of that. Can't take it with you.
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Jocko if you do get a get a new auto, consider the MK3,would like to see how your MPG works out,plus would miss your input in the forum, stay with Honda! there is a new HRV coming, good luck whatever you choose.
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My reason for not getting a MK3 was the 1.3 CVT.
From reading reviews I got the impression it was a typical CVT very high rev whilst you wait for the speed to catch the engine.
The MK4 sounds totally different.
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would miss your input in the forum, stay with Honda
I'd probably just SORN the Jazz rather than sell it, as there is plenty of space in the drive for two or three cars. I'd love to just tinker with it without having to worry about having it ready to go anywhere.
Today my wife and I were discussing E27006's suggestion to hold on to the old car and my wife agrees that keeping it, and just running it into the ground makes a lot of sense. I have to agree but I do need an auto as my knees are getting worse and the manual is becoming a pain, literally. I desperately want an EV and am looking very closely at the MG5 Excite, the bottom of the range MG5.
Her indoors prefers the white to the red I fancied and if it's what it takes them white it will be!
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Tired and old!
What's your mileage on.
I'm on 138,900 miles and was admiring how well my jazz is coping.
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I'm on 138,900 miles and was admiring how well my jazz is coping.
139k is nowt! Barely run in, plenty more left in her yet ;D
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Tired and old!
What's your mileage on.
Filled up today at 137,279. Mechanically the car is great but the bodywork is getting a bit tired.
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One of the benefits of the high mileage I am doing is the fuel economy. With the warm, sunny weather we are experiencing at present, and the dry roads, I managed a "calculated" mpg this top-up of 61.1 mpg, this morning. The FOB or "Fibometer" said 61.6 and my first thought was, "that's rubbish", but not so much so.
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One of the benefits of the high mileage I am doing is the fuel economy. With the warm, sunny weather we are experiencing at present, and the dry roads, I managed a "calculated" mpg this top-up of 61.1 mpg, this morning. The FOB or "Fibometer" said 61.6 and my first thought was, "that's rubbish", but not so much so.
That’s a great mpg figure... when I got my mk2 last month the fibometer read 38 or thereabouts, every time I drive it it seems to tick up 0.1mpg, think it’s 42.1 currently, aiming for the 60’s now!