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  1. I had one in metallic beige some years ago - 5-speed manual but otherwise a similar spec to yours. I was actually quite tempted by your one but I had a 1.5 auto of the next generation after that and it was dreadful on fuel so I decided to give it a miss - glad it's joined the fold anyway. Can't currently find a picture of it, but here's my Mk1. And here's the Mk3 which was shit on fuel. Edit: Found it.
  2. Round a mate's last night, talking to his daughter (late 20s, hairdresser). She was telling me that she'd spent several hours that day replacing a front lower arm on her Audi (2003 A4 Avant) in advance of its upcoming MOT, and she was complaining about what an utter bastard the front suspension is to work on on those cars. She also replaced a rear arm which was a piece of piss by comparison, although she did say the bush on the old one fell to bits as she took it off. There's still hope for the next generation I reckon.
  3. The Zafira failed its MOT today. I was expecting it to fail, and most of the stuff it failed on was either stuff I was already aware of or relatively minor and easily fixable. It did however fail the emissions test quite spectacularly - CO was off the chart and it also had an advisory for blue smoke, which I hadn't noticed before. Lambda was also way off so the garage reckoned it might be effectively running in cold start mode all the time, which might explain the smoke. So I'm going to fit a new Lambda sensor and take it back in so they can stick it on the emissions before I buy any of the other bits - if the engine is actually shagged then it'll be going for scrap. Then driving to a hospital appointment this afternoon a bit fell off the Rover 75 on the bypass. Turned out it was only the headlight inspection hatch, which I evidently hadn't refitted properly after my MOT-related fiddling a few weeks back, but it made quite a bang as it hit the front wheel and then got chucked under the car. No realistic way to retrieve it as there's nowhere to stop along that section of the bypass but a replacement is only about 15 quid off eBay so not the end of the world.
  4. I rather liked the 33 I had. Sounded a bit like a 2CV but more raspy. Surprisingly nippy around town as well for only 33bhp.
  5. Those things do have an appalling turning circle for such a tiny car.
  6. The only Montego that could possibly be worth close to seven bags is a nice MG Turbo. A base spec diesel saloon, especially an early one with the silly diff ratio, isn't worth anything close to that however nice it is.
  7. I bought some upgraded LED stop / tail light bulbs off eBay for the Getz. I think they might be a bit too upgraded...
  8. Electric Daihatsu Hijet van - batteries not included.
  9. The first car I remember my Grandad owning is an S-reg Granada L in beige. I think that was a 2.0 though rather than a 2.3. If memory serves he bought it for £10 in a bankruptcy sale - it would only have been about 4 years old at the time.
  10. Isn't that the ex- @RetroShite raffle prize 4?
  11. I hope Pat actually does use a Zuk beavertail for his recovery business.
  12. Or me. And who wouldn't want to be as cool as me?
  13. I found the HBOL to be useless when it came to removing the struts on mine. I just did it by eye in the end.
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