Dave_Q

Hi shite fans, Just spotted some Subaru parts I'd like for a bargain 99p. Collection only. They are in Oxted, Surrey, which i understand to be near that London and popular local motorway the M25. Before i pull the trigger at 99p, is there anyone local who can collect and store/post/shitely to Yorkshire please? Much thanks.

My top tip for light sealage is Carafax non-setting bedding mastic. Its about 5-6 quid for a large tube that will seal many lights. I got the tip from a Subaru forum and its worked well on my scoob. Sikaflex etc sets solid where as this carafax stuff allows some flex and still seals like the oem stuff.

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Ah HPI, to be honest I've never spent enough on a car to bother doing one! The issue I think is that the market for this type of thing is not cash buyers - 99.99% of new ones are on creditleasehire £99 a month type business. Do you have a local car sales concern operating from a bombsite or similar with large signs promising guaranteed bad credit finance from just £50 a day etc? Looks like ideal stock for them.

The Subaru has now made it's way back into the garage as I'm rebuilding the front calipers. They were sticky when I first got it, I gave them a non-dismantling clean and grease but the offside one stuck on near solid when I was doing the clutch. So here they are off the car. And here's the pistons out. Mucky but not pitted or anything so well saveable. The inside of the caliper bodies seems to be full of shite so I'm guessing the dust boots haven't been doing. General shite musings: I really thought I had a "shite strategy" sorted - 1 x modern(ish) practical car, 1 x "classic" sporty car and a motorbike for extra fun times. I just seem to have a constant want-on for something else, it's a good job I have limited space or I'd be bringing a stray car home nearly every week. Since getting the Alfa for my wife, a 156 2.4JTD sportwagon is currently residing in Wantage town centre. It doesn't help that they are well within my price bracket, have seen some slightly broken ones in the sub £300 area. But that would have to be my " modern", and wouldn't really have enough space for going on holiday etc, unless I got a trailer or something.... I would probably then want to get something more van like for my classic, a T4 or a Delica or something. To be honest the Subaru just doesn't seem that fast to me, probably because I'm comparing it to my fireblade which has about 500bhp/tonne even with my fat arse on it. Maybe it wouldn't be a T4, maybe an E32 7er, or an Audi 100, or an E30 cabrio, etc, etc, etc.... What I should probably do is not buy anything and fix the cars I have. Mrs_Dink thinks I prefer buying them to actually driving or fixing them, she might be right.

Cat D has no marker yes? I'm sure many of these are getting sold without it declared, which of course an honest seller like yourself would never do.

Yes I'm good thanks, have got a thread on the go somewhere detailing my efforts at keeping my current shower of crocks going. Was quite fond of the Audi, am now mainly driving a Berlingo which fits lots more stuff in but is not an inspiring drive. Good to know you got a couple of years out of it (I think? Memory is poor but I think you had it off me in 2014?) I doubt it's properly dead, even if it has had a battery put across it the wrong way it should have just blown a fuse somewhere. GLWTS etc, what are you replacing it with?

Gah! I never twigged it was you, have you changed your user name slightly or is my memory just that bad? I'm pleased to note that she made it past 200k miles, 211 at the last MOT. What happened to it in the end?

Looks nice, clutch isn't a bad job on these. I did mine on axle stands in the road outside. Dual mass flywheel is a bummer though, mine was single.

Ebay in shill bidding non shocker?

4 inch pcd seems to have the right centre bore, how accurate is your measuring stick? If you dont already have any get a cheap set of vernier calipers and you should be able to measure to 0.1mm. Will 10 inch rims go on? They seem to be more common and cheaper.

Deffo still need an MOT, but not insurance to tax online, done it recently x2. Last time I went to a post office I offered the bloke the MOT but he wasn't interested.

Cheers for the reminder Dave, I have changed my email, although the old one is still functional and all ends up in the same place I have updated it anyway.

I believe they have some hilarious design flaw where you have to remove the injectors to get the rocker cover off, the injectors are nigh on impossible to remove and I think this may mean you can't do the cambelt, therefore belt roulette leading to eventual failure. There are an outfit on ebay that specialise in removing these injectors and repairing the borked engines, they offer to buy fucked ones so it may be worth 2-300 to them.

Love ^that^ picture, living the executive life right there.

Looks a bit bright compared to any of the stock 99 Audi greens I can google within 10 seconds but it could have been "individual" or something?

Here it is at -20C, looks like the sauce in a Maccys caramel sundae.

Have been having a quick google about this and it does seem that the viscosity of 20w50 does increase (decrease? whichever is thicker) sharply below about 0 degrees C, the axis isn't labelled on this graph but I'm guessing it's temperature in degrees F. If the axis is as I think then the 20w50 should be twice as hard to pour at 0C as a 10w40. Not sure about tar like though. Squire, fancy leaving a bottle of oil outside overnight and doing a pour video for us?

Probably more likely to be underspecified bendy steel than wear out as such. Could you convert the trailer to 4 inch to access cheaper wheels? Could work out less overall than posting wheels from the US. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-COOPER-PAIR-REAR-HUB-BEARING-CARRIERS-SHORT-STUD-4-INCH-PCD-TRAILER-/272141054496?hash=item3f5cdef220:g:gyEAAOSwQiRUovZT http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-INCH-Unbraked-Trailer-Hub-Bearings-TB-HUB-/221596003039?hash=item339826aadf:g:hqoAAOSwdpxUWh8Z Or use wobble bolts to get the 4 inch PCD wheels on it??

Are you sure its 100mm PCD and not 101.6 as that would be 4 inch. Here have both 4 inch and 100mm PCD in the UK, the 100mm only has 60mm centre bore whereas the 4 inch is 65mm, both are zero offset. I doubt any car wheels will fit as they are 99% positive offset, if the Nippa wheels move the wheel inboard then you would need zero or negative offset.

Is the body of the trailer or anything else particularly close to the wheel? If not then just get s close as you can with the offset, should be fine as long as theyre all the same. Yes technically if you move the wheels outboard you will put slightly more stress on the bearings but shouldn't be an issue for a few mm. 4 x 100 65mm ish sounds like BMW to me, they're normally about 15mm offset, any 13inch BM steels that might fit?

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Alfa is now in use as of Monday this week, Mrs_Dink is very pleased with it. The greasing of the bushes has quietened down most of the creaks so that will do for now. Did the rest of the service as well as some critical jobs like new badges. Old: New: Old air filter was minging, not surprising considering you have to remove the undertray and lie on the floor to fit one. Oil filter is flipping tiny so will make sure I keep on top of changes. Bonus shit spottage. Have previously seen this advertised on Gumtree as a Subaru replica. I know it's hard to tell but it's actually based on a Rover.

It does seem like it's been looked after and perhaps the clutch is just the final straw. I bet it's a £500+ job if you're paying someone to do it. Red one looks lovely but surely you need a dizzler for the mileage you'll be doing.