Supernaut Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Did anyone go to the howmanyleft show at the transport museum at the weekend? Yup. Might go to Fraserburgh this Sunday too. Look out for the shabby green E36 coupe. oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcars Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Yup. Might go to Fraserburgh this Sunday too. Look out for the shabby green E36 coupe.Was it a good show? Always mean to try and get to it. Any photos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 A Minor update... Pun intended. DeeJay, Tickman, alf892 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 I’ve just driven the 2cv 200 miles to north wales and am now enjoying a beer in the garden. Being on holiday is a pain;-) RobT, Fat_Pirate, Skizzer and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 The joys of modern car ownership! The wife's boring modern Punto has killed it's alternator, so a very nice RAC fellow recovered her back to the house. Now muggins here has got to try to get enough charge in it to limp it round to my tame mechanic. (Bloody thing has air con, so it's a subframe drop to access the alternator) In the mean time, Romania's finest is doubling up as an oversized jump pack! RobT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 A Minor update...89E1E5BA-52AF-4BE3-9A61-0B511E52C15B.jpeg Pun intended. Tyresomely bad punnage. chodweaver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Just after visiting Brodie Engineering to be given the news that a replacement CX automatic box (which they don't have in stock) will cost £900 in labour charges alone..... MarvinsMom, worldofceri, RobT and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Just after visiting Brodie Engineering to be given the news that a replacement CX automatic box (which they don't have in stock) will cost £900 in labour charges alone.....Have you tried Stan Platts or chevronics? Or Wolsey house motors come to that - they had my old cx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Have you tried Stan Platts or chevronics? Or Wolsey house motors come to that - they had my old cx.Not tried Chevronics (bound to be expensive). Have heard of Stan Platts, but not a member of the CCC, so don't know where he is. Not heard of Wolsey House before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Winning. GSA has a years MOT:) cort16, Eddie Honda, RobT and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Was it a good show? Always mean to try and get to it. Any photos? http://autoshite.com/topic/24488-superspotting-with-supernaut/page-5?do=findComment&comment=1514952 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Nice to see a Hyundai Stellar out in the wild next to a much more common SM. Wait... *peers at screen*... maybe it's a Talbot Tagora. WHO KNOWS? yes, I know it's Maser. Lacquer Peel, RobT, GrumpiusMaximus and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 the council tip .... whats a load of jobsworths ! , every time they move the JCB , out comes the stop sign , no one can get in or out , and its like 20 mins of waiting .....and the JCB is in the middle of the compound away from the public and when you get in ... big logs of tree wood is not wood for the wood skip , its garden rubbish for the garden rubbish skip ???... and the traffic issue , there is going to be a big accident one day ! and then when I came out to the main road ... I nearly lost my front end to a fuck wit who was overtaking the traffic to come in ,,,, and he beeped me ! two.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Gave The Aero's engine bay a clean up this afternoon, which was the first time I'd used my portable pressure washer since I bought it last summer. I'm pleased to say that it did a fine job and richly deserves to go on my list of my list of fine and funky lifestyle accessories: A couple of cans of pound shop tyre shine later and things look much better: I also replaced The Volvo's fuel filter (a sod of a job which I really hate doing) and a small section of fuel pipe between the filter and the fuel pump which was badly kinked, the latest attempt to fix an intermittent but persistent minor misfire, which has already seen me comb the engine bay for air leaks and replace every ignition component apart from the coil, 'radio suppression relay' and ignition module. It's a lot better now, probably due to replacing the fuel pipe, but it's still not perfect. Next thing to check will be the screen on the fuel pick-up pipe in the tank, which can wait a bit, as the prospect of trying to remove the sender unit terrifies me. RobT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Got my hands on a system I built years ago a nice socket 775 Q6600 with 4GB ram and 7770 GPU, which this means little to some, it's a nice spec, a good friend who taught me computers years ago is using a old Dell Optiplex, he is in for a shock when i tidy this up, add some new fans and drop it off for him with a new Win 10 license and install tweaked to avoid updates and shit Pretty much my first proper pc! Still very capable today I imagine! HarmonicCheeseburger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 After just nine years of driving I've finally got a licence to buy any old shite with minimal effort having taken out a trade policy.Now I'm actively looking for anything cheap with an mot... Sent from my G3311 using Tapatalk GrumpiusMaximus, Lacquer Peel, The Moog and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 I'd love a trade policy, but as I'm not 'trade', I don't think I'll ever qualify for one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 think we have* finished (for now) fixing the black mini have spent all day getting the speedo working, sh to get at the bottom of the cable the radiator had to come back out, but now its all together, it works! still doen't run too great around left hand corners, but in a straight line or going right its fine....... don't really trust it on any sort of run, but it made it into the lock-up in Pickering from Golden Square (about 4 miles or so) without issue. and i've replaced the blown brake light on the Rover. it has many other faults, such as non-functional reversing sensor things, or working blower fans and the tailgate dosen't always open form the outside, plus the clutch sometines lips (i think) but at least all the lights now work! matt27 and HarmonicCheeseburger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucketeer Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 The picture window in my Volvo is working well tonight. Ghosty, The Moog, egg and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Watching flipping bangers and see some much nicer wheels behind them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Got my eBay fan for the lgd so tomorrow will be spent upside down in a footwell, should be fun! Hoping that the new brake switch cames as well then I can get all the 'crawling in footwell' jobs done. May as well do it now 'cos my back is KILLING me! Been out with a friend playing pool: first time in decades and I had forgotten how much bending there is. I won, 4-3! But, the last time I bought a drink in a pub was a while back, and two drinks was under three quid. Tonight, two shandies and two diet cokes came to £12. I also fixed the drivers seat bolster: one seam had split so I 'Gorilla' glued it back together. It's right what they say, powerful stuff! Also glued a watch strap that came apart first time I wore it (£5 eBAy special so I can't complain, though I am aren't I?) and then glued a picture back into its frame, repired Phoebes collar, wandered round the gaff looking for other things to 'fix'. Decided I like Gorilla glue! Mally, clayts450, RayMK and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Watching flipping bangers and see some much nicer wheels behind themThose are XJ-S wheels and still attached to the correct car fordperv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Thought id give a tint film tge headlights... got more wrinkles than my forehead clayts450 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 The man at Brodie Engineering reckons it's OK to overfill the CX auto box with Dexron. Er.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 A pair of German and British icons* danthecapriman, RobT, Jim Bergerac and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Just been and struggled in a footwell. Air con/heater fan u/s so new (s/h actually) one procurred from Jaguar spares of all places - £35. Bit of an awkward sod to get out but once you know, dead easy. When I took the cover off the heater box, half a gallon of water poured out, think that's bad.... So all the carpets and under dash trim is out and sat in the garden sunbathing! Got the new one in easily, new pollen filter and all back together and I appear to have 5 speeds on my fan! Yay! Obviously the water leak from the blocked drain in the scuttle has killed the fan, really wet in/under there. Obviously been a problem for a while as the carpet wasn't fitted properly so been out before to dry out. Quite proud of myself: since I've had this car I've done quite a few bits to it. Fan, headlights, roof fixed, wheels painted (badly) new badge, drains front and rear cleared, checked filters and changed a couple, and taken the under dash out on the drivers side in an attemt to fix the brake light switch, still got to do that when the CORRECT switch finally arrives. Good fun fiddlin' wiv the car, missed that with the dollop. dome, richardmorris, catsinthewelder and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Anyone handy with paint fancy spraying some door bottoms for me? Can provide paint, either Halfords rattle cans or some custom mix stuff for compressors etc, tea/coffee, and beer money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Just been and struggled in a footwell. Air con/heater fan u/s so new (s/h actually) one procurred from Jaguar spares of all places - £35. Bit of an awkward sod to get out but once you know, dead easy. When I took the cover off the heater box, half a gallon of water poured out, think that's bad.... So all the carpets and under dash trim is out and sat in the garden sunbathing! Got the new one in easily, new pollen filter and all back together and I appear to have 5 speeds on my fan! Yay! Obviously the water leak from the blocked drain in the scuttle has killed the fan, really wet in/under there. Obviously been a problem for a while as the carpet wasn't fitted properly so been out before to dry out. Quite proud of myself: since I've had this car I've done quite a few bits to it. Fan, headlights, roof fixed, wheels painted (badly) new badge, drains front and rear cleared, checked filters and changed a couple, and taken the under dash out on the drivers side in an attemt to fix the brake light switch, still got to do that when the CORRECT switch finally arrives. Good fun fiddlin' wiv the car, missed that with the dollop. Hurrah for LGD being good for your mental health egg, drum and xtriple 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramz7 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Tipo probably off to a new home tomorrow morning. Sadly it's now decided to drag up some of the window mechanism with the window on the front passenger side. Would it be too risky to take the door card off tonight and try to sort it out? Or do I just knock off some £££ to the new owner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 As an added bonus, the air con works! Freezing cold air puthering out of dash vents and only on the second speed plenty of flow. All the carpets are still out in the sun but it seems to be the rubbery padding on the back of the carpets (they are moulded round all the air distribution gubbins and wiring guff) that is holding the water. Jus tgiven them a squeeze and loads of water came out. I fear it's going to take some time... Non motoring news... I took the dogs down to Ilsham valley where we often go and ended up sitting on the grass watching the Red Arrows. Those boys are MIGHTY impressive when you actually see them up close.. at one point I reckon one of their number went over us at about 300 feet (perhaps less) and the noise and speed was spell-binding! There were loads of us 'dog walkers' down there, and not one of the dogs was bothered by the noise in the slightest. Chester did look up at one point to see what all the noise was about. Phoebe, played with her ball, as usual ! somewhatfoolish and dome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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