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Good for nothing, this weather.
Jobs like that which involve lying under and dismantling large parts of the dashboard are heading towards grounds for scrappage for me. Or at least paying someone else.
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Got two cars with Marina door handles - RRC and Disco - and they're a good design. Robust, simple and easy to adjust for wear.
Maybe they could be retro-fitted? 🤔
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I have too many cars and projects already, but this had me sorely tempted - love the mini-Detroit styling and the immense patina! 😍
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1 hour ago, sharley17194 said:
So with the first metro turning out to be less than perfect, I decided another financial mistake would fix the first financial mistake, que this little cute number up in Aberdeen for ref I'm from Nottingham, seller seem genuine and I like the purple. I paid the full asking price and £350 to get it home, this one I'm a little bitter about, basically the seller scammed me, we agreed a price with the parts, parts never arrived, car no where near as described. Scroll down for pics of its true condition....
Its fair to say i got had over a barrel with this one, agreed for the parts to be included, he never included them, then proceeded to sell them on facebook. After a police visit he agreed to give me £100 worth of a refund but only sent me £90 saying that's all i deserve. TBF I'm still tempted to sue him for the tenne.
Still with financial mistake number two looking even worse than number 1 and at this point I*m nearly 2.2k deep in metros....guess what I did next?
What a turd.
That would be a scrap shell for me.
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Completely with you on a pragmatic approach - you can always tidy things up later if you feel the need.
Are they the ubiquitous Marina door handles, or just very similar? 🤣
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46 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:
I wonder how much the engine might benefit from a general tune up, I mean given its clearly previously fallen on hard times for quite some time, I have to wonder when was the last time someone actually gave the engine/carbs some proper TLC a proper tune?
take it to @richykitchy for a bit of rolling-road fun
Agreed.
My RRC shifts OK with a 2t weight and 189bhp (yeah, right) V8, so you should be able to get her to pick up her skirts.
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Doing a proper job then!
To be fair, that amount of rust around a Disco / RRC is pretty much standard - it's a sketchily rustproofed 30yr old car and at some point it's going to need chopping out and sorting if someone hasn't kept it patched or regularly waxoyled. At least all the panels are fairly simple and not too dear off the shelf.
I 'repaired' mine with a mix of welded-in steel and riveted ally panels. It's not structural (for the most part) and just needs some basic integrity.
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3 hours ago, hairnet said:
db? @trigger tell him
also joe 1 stu 0
You're thinking of https://www.dmb.uk.com/ but they've stopped doing them. Others have stepped into the breach though - google throws up quite a few.
A nice original base Galaxy - not seen one of those for years 🙂
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11 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:
Am I right in thinking a V8 powered P38 is probably the least shit of all the Land Rover range? I really fancy one.
Kind of.
The tooling for the V8, or the alloy used (pick your old wives tale) was getting very worn by the time these engines were made, so there are plenty which suffer massive HGF or slipped cylinder liners. Find one which has had a Turner top hat conversion already paid for by someone else and you're laughing. Apart from the 15mpg obvs 🤢
Here's my old one on its way to meet its maker following explosive HGF:
I really liked mine too. Not fast, even with the V8, so I'd probably go for diesel auto next time. The BMW derv has its own issues but on balance is possibly more reliable than the V8 and responds well to chipping, apparently.
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1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:
Rust, bad wiring, battery held in with rope and expanding foam in the floors.
To cushion the impact when you
eventuallyinevitably hit that tree -
Lichen that
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23 minutes ago, grizz said:
Compared to most European countries, we're very loosely regulated. Eg. the German MoT is much, much stricter than the UK one. Trailers & caravans there have to be separately registered, taxed and inspected.
I think we have the balance about right in that respect.
Stuff like trailer offences that can't be easily detected by cameras will get through though, especially with de-funded police and very few traffic cops with much bigger fish to fry. Luckily most people are pretty sensible.
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7 hours ago, stevek said:
Hi,
I’ve been aware of the brown forum for many years, but generally hung around on another well known blue hued forum, sort of on and off anyway. Most of my ‘fleet’ (if you can call a collection of long term broken cars that) is probably more at home on here but my most recent car tinkering finally pushed me over the line to sign up on here.
Ya see I’ve been spending a bit of time recently poking and tinkering with the longest standing, many years abandoned, heaps in my collection and I suspect this is the only place I might scrape some interest in what is basically a hopeless cause. Said heaps have been abandoned rotting on my drive for 17 and 19yrs respectively, but the house where they languish is going on the market soon so their existence hangs precariously in the ballence. Friends and family have been telling me to scrap them for about a decade now so their calls are almost deafeningly loud now. It would certainly be the sensible thing to do.
For reasons beyond common sense I want to move them to my current house which means making them mobile again. I mean ‘mobile’ as in I can load them onto a trailer and preferably drive them up my short but annoyingly steep driveway, not as in make them ready for the road.
Anyway, so what do you make of these two beauties?
Artefact 1 - The gold one - 1989 1.3 XL special equipment
This was my first car, bought by a much younger self circa 1999. I saved up the £600 by working weekends in Burger King while doing my A levels. It was well used and abused until 2005, but it’s been parked up ever since. It was retired as a fully functional car on 109k miles, I just replaced it (with a 34k miles 1.3 mk6 Escort I bought as Cat D salvage and returned to the roads). It donated its windscreen to the blue one around 2009 after vandalism so it’s been open to the elements for a while too, it’s become home to some ferns growing in the carpet.
Artefact 2 - The blue one - 1987 1.3 GR Profile
This was my mates car for a year but he donated it to me when the MOT ran out, in 2007 according to the MOT history. The original idea was to fix the this one up using the gold one for spares. After a couple of years ignoring it I did drag it to an MOT test in 2010 which it failed due to much more rampant rust than I had given it credit for, it’s sat ever since.
So what ya thinking of doing with them I hear you say! Well, the gold one has probably (though not certainly) had it’s day as a regular 309, but I’m sentimental about it and have a very harebrained idea for it in the back of my mind. It might never happen but I want to hold on to the possibility, so the goal is to just move it and sling a car cover over it. The blue one however is calling out to live once more, I want to get it back on the road. I’m better skilled to weld it back up now than I was back then, and once the old house is gone I should be blessed with more time and lower outgoings which should help progress along. I kinda just fancy fixing it up a bit, I want to feel the mighty power of the Simca rattle box engine and savour the rolly polly handling on skinny tyres once more. But firstly I just need to move it so I can achieve priority no1 which is to get the old house up for sale.
There you go lots of waffle, I’ll post about where I’m up to and what I’ve got stuck on soon, if anyone cares.
-Steve-
Fond memories of ragging a borrowed one of these around the passes of the Alps, Simca rattle and roly poly handling in full effect.
309. The plain but smarter and more interesting sister of the 205.
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3 hours ago, grogee said:
Methodical, take time, take pictures, label or write down fixings.
The way a mobile phone allows you to take pics as you go has saved my bacon on many occasions. These days I take as many pics as poss - it's amazing how useful they are when you realise that thing you removed could go back the other way round.
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Nice work. Much better to sell it sorted, up and running, if that's what you decide to do.
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Somewhere, an ergonomics textbook is missing that photo 😉
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That doesn't look too awful - the pics help fill in the gaps around my crap French. O rings look readily available for pennies too, which is nice.
Take it slowly, plenty of tea breaks, and put a cloth underneath the pump to catch anything that escapes.
Well done for having a go 🏆
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The current tax situation is a hot mess, and what you end up with when you have no joined-up policy on anything at all. There's no way I'd consider one of the high tax bracket cars. I don't do enough miles to make it seem anywhere near good value, and there's more chance monkeys will fly out of my arse than car tax being reduced on them.
I would ditch the PT Cruiser and cut the losses. Ebay with a 99p start and low reserve, and make the £710pa someone else's problem asap.
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Lightweight, minimalist and clean-lined in a way today's small cars just aren't - lovely.
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I like the brown cloth in P38's - in fact all the cloth interiors are really comfy and in some ways nicer than leather. You can always keep an eye out for one. There's a good FB group which is worth joining if you haven't already. @Cooper1 on here must be a world expert by now too 😉
Only leather interior I really like is the 70s World of Leather caramac brown one. Gorgeous.
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On 14/02/2024 at 17:01, martc said:
A lot of DDR kit was designed to be easily converted to military use should the need arise - look carefully and you can see the roof hatch on the cabs of those IFA lorries which stayed in the civilian version.
I remember them well when I lived in Berlin many years ago. Very basic, probably amazingly slow and with no power steering and rubbish brakes I imagine. No surprise that DDR cars, buses and lorries were already scarce just very few years after the Wall fell.
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I'm guessing this is why people often remove the ACE system?
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The only trims a 190 should have. V nice 👍