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[catsinthewelder]

Dry here so far,  hoping it stays that way as my daughters are camping on the common behind the house.

[stuboy]

Popped up to see my mate(EGG MAY REMEMBER HIM) whom fell down the stairs and fratured some vertabrae,he wanted his underbody guard putting back on his ghia x mondeo, so i voluntered, the sun had made his wheel centres off too, luckly for him i had trim tape in the galaxy..

[Jerzy Woking]

Electric roller shutter door being fitted to the garage next week so had to move stuff around to give the fitters the space they require.

 

Firstly the Mingebag Merc went to be recycled - although the engine ran perfectly, it was niggly problem after niggly problem, and was taking up way too much time fixing, time I would rather be spending elsewhere. This has also freed up my driveway for the first time in 13 months.

 

It has also made me decide to sell off some of my bikes that I use rarely - the CBR600 I sold to my brother yesterday (with the proviso I get first refusal on it if he sells it), the Vity scooter is going to a mate at the end of the month, and the Suzuki Hokuto will be up for sale once the new battery gets here (the THIRD bike battery that has died on me over winter).

 

Will have a clear out of all the stuff in the roof space too - loads of W202 and W124 parts, assorted motorbike parts and tools. I will also clear all the shelves of the empty polish bottles and empty aerosols. Am I the only one that puts them back on the shelf rather than the bin when they run out?

[taxi paul]

Just watching flipping bangers. Now I want a Toyota MR2.

[Supernaut]

Picked up this slice of nice as a new daily today. They're pretty good on bends.

 

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Also, nice to meet Marina Josh of this forum too. Enviable collection, and a very brave and friendly car nut.

Oooh, a Blaze Yellow Dturbo! Get you. Well jell.

[fordperv]

Picked up this slice of nice as a new daily today. They're pretty good on bends.

 

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Also, nice to meet Marina Josh of this forum too. Enviable collection, and a very brave and friendly car nut.

Oooofff the right colour, amount of doors and engine I'd love one exactly like that

[LightBulbFun]

Went to the Black Country Museum today and had a thoroughly good time.

 

At the top is the car shed. Very much old car smell. Mrs SiC remarked that it smelt like me at night after I'd been fiddling with the car all day. Said in a way that it's not a good thing...

 

 

Went in this lovely old bus. The No Spitting Sign made me chuckle. Shows people back then were just as rude as nowadays.

 

 

I thought that bus looked familiar, turns out its an ex London Transport GS (Guy Special) GS 40 specifically  http://www.countrybus.org/GS/GS.html

[Jon]

Sit-rep on the Cavalier front: I decided to bite the bullet and attempt to ingratiate it into the mindset of Mrs_Jon. How better than to use it to whisk her away for the weekend? 

 

 

 

We drove round the Coromandel, which is quite hilly in places, so a good test out for the brakes. Verdict: OK, not dangerous but I think could be better. I'll be the first to admit though that the ride is atrociously choppy and harsh, as if someone's filled everything under the wheel arches with concrete. I don't think it can be all because it's an SRi, as our 205 is nowhere near as bad as this. I'll adjust the tyre pressures but I think that's wishful thinking. 

 

Had a nice trip though and Mrs_Jon found the jittery ride mostly amusing rather than annoying, until the point that it gave her a headache towards the end of the journey home. Still, she's not mentioend it since and overall she did have a great time, so it can't have been that bad. Think I'll have to cut her a key for the passenger door though, as this chivalry business of owning a car with no central locking gets tiring quite fast.

 

#luckylady

[dave21478]

Picked up this slice of nice as a new daily today. They're pretty good on bends.

 

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Also, nice to meet Marina Josh of this forum too. Enviable collection, and a very brave and friendly car nut.

 

 

Oooh, a Blaze Yellow Dturbo! Get you. Well jell.

 

 

Aye, as a young lad in the early 2000`s you would have been THE DADDY with one of these and since I am at least a quarter of a century out of date I still want one.

[dean36014]

This morning I've been playing with the Xm again. been underneath and cleaned up every bit of loose sealant I could find and rust treated where required. Quick coat of galvanised spray paint followed up by a good coat of underbody sealant. Cleaned the sills up and repainted them in stonechip paint. As it was so warm this morning everything was virtually dry within minutes which made life easier. Rooted round in the shed i found a can of black waxoil, a quick memory check and i reckon its about 12 years old. Cracked the seal and its perfect inside, so might as well lob some of that on as well. So now I have the xm ready for a retest, smelling of waxoil ever so slightly. Fingers crossed it passes on emissions this time, but it only just failed last time and now it has a nice new cat on it. I thing the old one was well knackered as there were large pieces of the honeycomb stuff inside all the silencers i took off. Now its just a case of trying to get all the mess off me! 

[Shep Shepherd]

Spraying a car's semi clean engine bay with a couple of cans of pound shop tyre shine makes a huge difference:

 

 

 

 

Concours, here I come!

 

Pawnote: the black stuff in various parts of the engine bay is congealed Waxoyl, which I have no intention of removing, ever.

[New POD]

Yesterday I attempted a service on a Juke.  I managed to replace the air filter.  I realised I had the wrong spec of oil in stock - I thought I had fully synthetic 5W40 on the shelf but terns out to be 10W30 semi. so I thought I'd leave the oil until I can get a good deal on it. Then I started trying to get the inlet manifold off, so I could get to the spark plugs- I could get to all apart from one bolt, which I will need a new tool. so I left that. Then I took out the glove box to do the cabin filter - The pictures in HBOL do not match reality. I put glove box back.

 

Today the Omega rewarded me by bellowing smoke out of the engine bay and smelling of bad burning. I thought "Power Sounder" but someone has removed that, so I had a look underneath, and there was a bit of exhaust heat shield rusted off the downpipe and touching a pipe (possibly power steering or fuel or brake, or oil cooler.  This pipe was coated in old oil (as is a lot of the underneath following the big leak from a few weeks back) and the heat shield was making it smokey. I removed heat shield. I showed rusty bit of tin to wife.

Wife says I should perhaps replace heat shield - which is part of down pipe. 

 

We came up with a cheaper solution:

 

 I looked at 3.2 V6 exhaust parts on ebay and ordered 2 of these :

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10M-5CM-Black-Exhaust-Manifold-valve-Heat-Pipe-Wrap-Tape-10x-30CM-Cable-Ties-DT/142564544869?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

 

and agreed not to drive it until I've wrapped it - I want my wife to believe I am slightly sensible.

 

So I said I'd go to work in Wolverhampton in the MX5 - which had a flat battery and a flat tyre (10 psi) . 

 

So I pushed Mx5 out of garage, the slight slope of the drive and managed attached jump leads to the Juke.  I have now pumped up all the tyres and put battery on charge.

 

Shall I go to Wolverhampton a ) Down the M57, M62 and M6 at 5:30 am, or b ) Down the M57, Across the NEW Runcorn bridge along the M56, and down the A41, or c ) Under the Misery Tunnel, down the M53, and along the A41  

 

If I go on the A41, I can put the top down.  If I go under the tunnel, and can "make silly noises from daft exhaust"

 

Wife has offered me the Juke. I said no thanks.

[ruffgeezer]

I did a buyage today, it's a 23 year old 5 cylinder diesel van, it needs some cleaning and tidying and I'm looking forward to getting stuck in.

[dave21478]

Spraying a car's semi clean engine bay with a couple of cans of pound shop tyre shine makes a huge difference:

 

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Concours, here I come!

 

Pawnote: the black stuff in various parts of the engine bay is congealed Waxoyl, which I have no intention of removing, ever.

 

Nice.

Alternative valeting tip for engine bays is to give it a blast with the jetwash and when still wet spray a layer of Autoglym Vinyl and Rubber Care over everything while its still wet. This will dry to a similar finish that lasts well.

[richardmorris]

Traction owners at Denbies for drive it Day, with a couple of 2cv interlopers.

Slight issue with the front indicator earth I fixed in the pub carpark by rewiring it!

[danthecapriman]

Spraying a car's semi clean engine bay with a couple of cans of pound shop tyre shine makes a huge difference:

 

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Concours, here I come!

 

Pawnote: the black stuff in various parts of the engine bay is congealed Waxoyl, which I have no intention of removing, ever.

Hubba hubba, come to daddy!! That looks absolutely gorgeous!

 

I might have to try that on mine...

[Arthur Foxhake]

Transit swappage has occurred.

Much better van this time around, should last a whole MOT at least. Goes very well as well, bags of power, must have the 100bhp engine.

In other news, the xantia died yesterday after i fell down a pothole/collapsed drain. All hydrualic fluid left the building and i managed to limp home on the bumpstops with no steering assistance. Fun.

So the Ford Cougar I mentioned has been arranged to be MOTed and pressed into service post haste.

Looked at it today and it isnt too sad. 2.5 v6 as well.

[wuvvum]

A few interesting motors around today on the warmest Drive It Day I can remember.  My local Tesco had these two beauties in the car park.

 

 

 

Then pottering around the house this morning I heard a rather loud air horn outside, which was enough to get me to open the bathroom window for a nose - the horn belonged to this beauty.

 

 

I'm not sure if this was Drive It Day related or not - I've seen the truck several times before and the chap seems to use it all year round, but I've never seen it being used for hauling tat before.

[egg]

sitting on my bed just now and heard a noise, and one of our neighbours Audi's has just had his wing mirror kicked off. Gr8.

[madrat]

A few interesting motors around today on the warmest Drive It Day I can remember.  My local Tesco had these two beauties in the car park.

 

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Then pottering around the house this morning I heard a rather loud air horn outside, which was enough to get me to open the bathroom window for a nose - the horn belonged to this beauty.

 

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I'm not sure if this was Drive It Day related or not - I've seen the truck several times before and the chap seems to use it all year round, but I've never seen it being used for hauling tat before.

Always fancied a Scimitar

[Noel Tidybeard]

Fish anything with ketchup is just wrong. 

 

 

FIFY/EFA

[vulgalour]

In the ultimate irony, for the first year ever the Princess is working on Drive It Day and I'm too ill to actually drive it.

[captain_70s]

In the ultimate irony, for the first year ever the Princess is working on Drive It Day and I'm too ill to actually drive it.

 

I think in all my years of classic motoring I've had a working car on Drive It Day once. Given that I often use my classic cars as daily transport for months at a time this is even more ironic...

[dollywobbler]

I clocked up about 110 miles in the 2CV today, but I also did about 80 in it yesterday, and over 100 the day before that. Oh, and I'll be clocking up another 110 miles in it tomorrow. 

[gm]

So I said I'd go to work in Wolverhampton in the MX5 - If I go on the A41, I can put the top down.  If I go under the tunnel, and can "make silly noises from daft exhaust".

Video please

[trigger]

I spent some time with dad on Saturday doing some mechanical jobs on all my cars, started off on the SD1s front pads which were down, now it stops much better, then moved on to the van firstly changing the sender unit which didn't work with a new one I got of eBay, I can see why it didn't work!

 

 

Rusty! It was worth doing though!

 

 

We also fitted a 12v point for a sat nav and cut my mother in law's brown rug to fit in the back.

 

 

After that done the rear wheel hub on the Focus, then today I took both to a drive it day show at Kersey Mill (photos will have to follow later) this was the first time that the vans been displayed as well as the first time my wife's driven the Rover!

 

Thankfully she managed fine and both cars went down a storm!

 

 

[320touring]

I'm a bit befuddled as flew into Gatwick this morning, but have a return flight this afternoon..

 

I'm trying not to buy a car when down here anyways:)

[dean36014]

Just off to take the Xm for its retest. Wish me luck!

[somewhatfoolish]

We also fitted a 12v point for a sat nav and cut my mother in law's brown rug to fit in the back.

 

 

Immense swoopy ruggage; 13,825.4/10. That's winning at vanshite.

[worldofceri]

Alright gang!?

 

Been out of the loop here lately, hope all is well.  Nothing much shite-related has been happening here, except Mrs_WoC has acquired a twelve year old Scenic dizzler gratis from her parents.  Whilst it's pretty economical, it's clattery af and, aside from being pretty spacious inside, is dismal in just about every respect.

 

 

The Saab hasn't moved since we moved house a year ago and I have to accept I will never get around to sorting it. The Omega goes great albeit with a question mark over the condition of the cooling system and an annoying overnight battery drain.  The Golf will hopefully have another twelve months' ticket as of this afternoon and scrubs up alright for a cooking-spec mkiv.

 

We now need space on the drive as we have been offered a shite caravan for £100, and I've packed my job in to go self employed and will be getting a work vehicle.

 

Ergo offers are invited on all (except Scenic), but the Saab definitely has to go asap, so I'll be popping a for sale thread up soon.