jmsguzzi

I'll drive it for you! 😍

On 23/03/2024 at 13:36, SEATMad said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256455831154?itmmeta=01HSNQMER4W7TVFH4NVQWFXZJ9&hash=item3bb5f56e72:g:rqUAAOSwxjNl~rMK

Going to view this tomorrow, was brought home from the hospital when I was born in an 11 and have always fancied one.

This is right on my doorstep so would be rude not to, has anyone on here owned one?

The Celsior will be mighty tempting if I ever manage to shift this W124.

What's your plans for the 728i, would be interested in that also!

13 hours ago, morrisoxide said:

Ren 25

going off the 'interior' pics it appears he can't get into it

Would be rude not to include one of this well travelled Autoshite bike, pic from the day I got it in October.

@willswitchengage from the snow chaos thread

Final one from me, my two dailies back in Feb

Dicky’s Lancia (can’t remember his Autoshite name) and my old 205

Two scrap tanks met on the Otterburn Ranges back in April 

Merc on B&W film in August 

Autoshite purchased Z3 on the Isle of Man in September

One of the Merc from June

Cup holders in the E39 BMW 5 Series, not only are they extremely flimsy and useless but they're also place directly in front of the inside air temp sensor for the climate control, meaning cold drinks in the summer make the vents blow hot and hot drinks in the winter make the vents blow cold.

Aircon in the SAAB 9-5 always reverting to auto and high fan speed when you turn the car on regardless of the settings you had it on when the car was turned off.

W124 blowing fresh air only from the middle vents, ok in the summer, not great in winter even if you close them, the aforementioned arm rest on the passenger seat is just Merc being cheap, it's on the drivers seat in LHD cars which makes sense, they just couldn't be arsed to tool it for RHD.

No sound deadening in the roof of the B7 Passat, cheap bastards, sounded like you were in a corrugated shed when it rained.

Out: 

BMW 523i 

Mercedes 230TE

In/out/in:

Subaru Forester All-Weather (current daily)

in/out:

Peugeot 205 GTX

SAAB 9-5 2.3t 

BMW Z3

Citroen Xantia 

In: 

Mercedes 300E (it’s for sale though)

On 06/12/2023 at 23:14, Rust Collector said:

Thank god for my camera roll or I’d have no idea what happened and when.

In:

  

The first new arrival was the BX Leader. Having visited a house two streets away from my house to inspect the car for the BX club, I ended up buying it. I fettled this up to the point it could pass an MOT, used it for a bit and realised that I probably wouldn’t be the person to bring it to full potential. More on that later.

Second in was this beast, bought for scrap money with a fucked radiator and water pump. I had no space on the driveway (naturally) so I fixed it on the trailer at the side of the road I use as overflow. See my build thread for the full miserable experience. It has mostly been my partner’s car, and it is now at the point where I need to do stuff* to it and spend some money to make it nicer.

I picked this up from @calebaaront with a view to getting it back on the road. It had an overheating issue which I’ve fixed, a blowing down pipe which I’ve replaced, and I now need to cut loads out of the offside sill and weld in less rusty metal. I keep saying it’ll be done soon, but I’m only lying to myself. But it will be done soon.

The Disco of Doom (tm). As I repeatedly drone on about, this belonged to my mate who died just over a year ago now. His son was left with this, but (sensibly) didn’t want to run it. It sat for months and developed some exciting faults, and so a deal was struck. It didn’t fit on the trailer so it got driven home whilst the electronics went mental. Cleaning the TCCM and connectors fixed that, and since then it’s just been a Land Rover. I use this mostly as my daily now.

@Stinkwheel is an enabler and offered this XM up for free just before I went on my holidays. This obviously had to come for a ride on the trailer, and is what I’m mostly focussing on getting back on the road currently.

I bought this LS430 in a deal with @rob88h. I then drove it across Europe a couple of days later, as this made sense at the time. It did the job admirably besides from me having to replace the rear discs and pads in Bratislava. It’s not a holiday without working on the car though, so this was fine. Since then it’s had a replacement air strut, and the starter has gotten lazy so I need to swap that out. I absolutely love it though, but sadly my partner loves it more and this became her daily after she briefly borrowed it.

I got the Pontiac Trans Sport in a swap with @Weird Car in what will possibly my last vehicular transaction of the year. This car has probably made the biggest impression on me out of everything I’ve taken in to date, I’m besotted with it. Sadly my love is unrequited and it has shit out its water pump - that’ll be a job for next year now.

Fostered:

I was graced by the presence of the Xantia of Not Many Shiters during the summer, after I collected it from Brighton for @purplebargeken. A combination of French engineering and my local MOT station tried to break my morale, but luckily that died ages ago and so I got the car up to a testable standard. It went through MOT eventually and I waved it off. It’s now lived with a number of shiters, in what could be a threat to its title.

Out:

The Leader, now MOT’d and in use, went to live with @rob88h. He’s made great progress with it, and I’m glad to see it has found a great home with the bonus of it being on the forum still.

The Clio, which is possibly the one car I should have kept and used, wasn’t doing much for me anymore and wasn’t used by my mrs. It went in a swap with @Weird Car for the Pontiac, and is hopefully being a useful an car.

Crashed:

The Insight had a bad year. I shunted a Hyundai in it, and it’s now sitting in the field behind the stables waiting for some love.

Non movers (some quite literally):

Do we have to?

Go on then…

Most of these are sat appreciating* behind the stables.

The Bottom Line:

I make that 22. I desperately want to get that number down, but everything keeps breaking and I only really want to send stuff out in a useable condition. I’m also a fucking idiot and I keep getting more cars.

How many work? Enough that we can normally find a car to use. Up until December it was about 6, which seems to be the natural balance of things. In true winter form however, everything has now broken at once and I’m spending my evenings in the dark and the cold wondering if I should’ve chosen jigsaw puzzles or making ships in a bottle as a hobby.

 

I'm looking for one of those 3.0 Outback's for when/if I ever manage to sell this W124, what's up with yours just out of interest?

AA on the way, will get it home and reassess. Cheers everyone for the advise, hopefully it’s just the clip.

Yes unfortunately I’m stuck in the middle of a prestige car dealers car park, maybe it’s self conscious? 
 

Any advice, don’t really want to call in the scrappers if it can be helped

Ok so the clutch has gone to the floor whilst on my way to Newcastle, is it cable on these, any quick fixes I can do here?

On 05/11/2023 at 11:08, purplebargeken said:

How goes life with the Xantia thus far buddy?

It’s going strong, I managed to sell the BMW I had advertised on here so I’ve gave the Xantia to my Dad to use whilst he’s looking for a new car.

Due to this I’ve been using my Merc daily and have only driven the Citroen occasionally, it’s helping us out but will probably be up for sale next week as my Subaru should be back on the road by then. 
 

It drives very well indeed despite it’s appearance, tho I think the rear suspension spheres are a bit tired, it’s a bouncy ride for sure. Did you mark it as sold with the DVLA Ken as don’t think the V5 has arrived yet?

Bonus slammed in McDonalds Car Park pic:

14 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

I haven't been there in a decade, sounds like a good opportunity to meet up there then!

Good stuff, think we are aiming to get there around 10:30/11

16 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

Sounds good! I have to use the few moments of no rain to get stuff done on Saturday but maybe this Sunday would work?

Me and a pal are heading over to the end of season car show at Ryhope Pumping Station on Sunday if you fancy it, just as spectators like.