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To the tune of Amy Winehouse's Rehab:
 
They showed me a Rover auto
And I said
"No no no".
I'm barely in the black
And if this comes back
You'll know, know, know
I ain't got a dime
But I thought bidding was fine
And now I've won a Rover auto
But I can't go go go......

Glove box inspection reveals winner's attire.

Was the cashier from Newcastle?

Anyone after any bits from the Toledo?
 
It's going its last journey this weekend which is a bit sad. Rip my faithful friend, £700, 240k miles (60k in our ownership), never failed to start or get us home. Not enough space and too many projects.
 
Its been replaced with a 2007 Honda CRV mums taxi special..

Haha five virtual pounds to the first person to harass Anthea Turner over a 3 minute segment on BP 20 years ago. TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW ANTHEA.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Acclaim was welded and through an mot by next weekend, Captain 70's has been making some excellent progress with the welding today.

I wonder how annoying he's finding all of these unsolicited opinions on what he should do with his cars?  Sounds to me like he knows what he wants to do and hasn't  asked for advice and, having been on the receiving end of a barrage of wisdom like this, I can tell you it's pretty annoying and makes you dread reading your own thread.
 
If we can all just sit back, get a brew, and wait for Captain to pop back in when he's had half a minute to catch his breath, that'd be grand.

Don't take this the wrong way right. I admire your serious dedication to the worId of $hite and often wish I had a bit more of your tenacity. But i've got to tell you, I find it borderline unbearable reading this thread. You seem to just lurch from one tragedy to another. Are these cars actually genuinely bringing you any pleasure? You've got practically no money, no workshop, no off-road parking, few tools, and you seem to live under pretty much constant car-related stress and pressure from parents, work, landlords, and whatever else. Despite these pressures you are juggling 3 very ropey triumphs and a tired Civic on which you depend to get to work. Your life looks to me, an outsider, like a constant 24-7 psychological battle against your fleet. I can tell you that the thread is a stressful read, so actually living it must be a nightmare as far as I can see. You bought that Acclaim not long back as a way to drive something interesting but reliable while you made some progress on the Dollys - now you're in for a grand and its as much a project as your Dollys, plus now you have the additional responsibility of needing to store it, sort the welding and still somehow keep mobile.
 
That civic might be a miserable dull old POS but it seems to have kept going for a few years (during which you have pretty much permanently been unhappy with its brakes). I suggest expending some deliberate time and effort maintaining it as it seems to be your best option for staying mobile which is the no.1 aim right? Its a known quantity at least. Even if it did need a new clutch, £60 for a kit plus a day on FOAD's lift sorting it will be cheaper and more useful to keeping you mobile than starting to dig the rot out of that acclaim. I don't know what's up with the brakes but whatever it is you've got a 90% chance of sorting it for under £100 even if you had to buy a caliper or two.
 
I think you need to give yourself a break - sack off one or two of these heaps and just concentrate on being mobile and living your life. When you find yourself feeling bored of an evening that's when you know you are ready to get back on the $hite train.

you must be the only person in the world who can make a civic unreliable!

(Any news re your job situation Captn? Did you get contract renewal?).
That last pic above is total class, pure Autoshite.

It doesn't take that long to grease up the slider pins / fit new calipers.
 
Otherwise, there's a lovely* Acclaim in the ebay tat thread. It's not really conveniently located for you though.

I was the high bidder but didn't meet the reserve. After a bit of negotiating I bought it a week later.

Semi-off-topic but I've been selling records and CDs on discogs.com for a year or two. I can enable a 'make offer' button on anything I'm selling but the catch is buyers are allowed to make exactly one offer only, as a seller I either accept it or the buyer is blocked from making any offer again on the same item. The result is I only get sensible offers usually 10-20% below asking, and I almost always accept them.
 
Can't help thinking eBay etc could learn from this...

RJC_0589 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
There doesn't appear to be a way of adjusting them but I found that the wheel cylinder wasn't working properly and only pushing one shoe, it's also leaking.
 
RJC_0596 by srblythe, on Flickr
 
More rewiring the light clusters saw the registration light sorted.
 
I think a pair of wheel cylinders and shoes should sort it.
The other thing to fix is to remove the cable tie holding the cv joint gaiter and replace it with the proper clip. I'm hoping for a retest and pass by Friday.

If the bolt is still sticking out through the other side of the captive nut, then I would have said the easiest thing to do would be to dremmel a screwdriver slot in the remains of the bolt, and then run it back through the nut and out the other side (assuming there's enough clearance to get the bit out).
 
Trying to unwind it further means you're trying to pull corroded and dirty threads through an already-stiff nut, which is what caused the bolt to snap off in the first place. By "pushing it back out the other way" you are only using threads of the bolt that are already in the nut.
 
I'd still go with trying to drill it out. If you have a dremmel or similar, you may be able to drill it out most of the way and then use a tiny grinder head to get to the last bit before peeling the threads out.

Check out my diesel 430 Cedric disc brake rear axle

It's summer LOL

Fuck it. Ordered the GSF stuff.
 
I'll swing past the local scrap yard on my way to the shops and see if they have any E36s with screen wash nozzles, as the passenger side one on the 320i seemed a bit blocked. Not surprised it was a failure point.
 
Otherwise, a pair of brand new ones can be bought from ebay for £10, or £5 from Hong Kong but they would take an age to get here.
 
I suppose I could buy the Hong Kong ones, and whip one off the 316 just to get the 320 through its MOT in the interim...

I reckon in 2.2i form, it'd be a reasonable alternative to a Talbot Express. I wonder if the driving position is as bad?
 
Anyone for a TATA WINGER?
 
 
 

St Anthony's Road, Walker. Looking at the junction roundabout on Welbeck Road.

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My old man had one seen in the background here.. he loved it but the box went French. He wouldnt part with it but didnt want to tax it so he parked it in this raised flower bed between the road and footpath. Argued somewhat successfully that it wasnt on the road or blocking the footpath when challanged about its lack of tax or insurance.

I've got rid of a few motors lately and am feeling a bit like my shite habit is under some sort of control. Unsurprisingly I've thus been having 'the urges' again - inexplicably for one of these rusty old heaps. It started off with this one:
 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/039-96-Renault-Trafic-T1100D-SWB-band-van-minibus-66500-miles-/162916901167
 
Miles away from home of course, non-running but never failed an MOT on rust and looked a straight old tank. I really wanted it but it made £440, which with the cost of shifting it seemed too salty for me.
 
Why do these appeal? I know theyre shite of course. But they have got a bit of that old French 'market trader' van vibe left over from the H-van days I reckon. Weedy petrol engine offerings (1397cc pez!!!!), mega low load floor, and some good utilitarian touches - I think the windscreen is flat for one.
 
The early ones with the smaller petorl engines look great, I guess you need to look over the channel to find a good one:
 

https://www.leboncoin.fr/utilitaires/1398439441.htm?ca=12_s
 
Aint that a beauty? 1200€ hardly seems a mega rip off.
 
 

https://www.leboncoin.fr/utilitaires/1396001847.htm?ca=12_s
 
FUCK!!! That looks the business and only 600€
 


https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1393057667.htm?ca=12_s
 
OMG 1397cc petrol!!!!! 1500€, again doesnt seem like a rip.
 
Theres a minibus one of these festering in a yard near my house, its a W-reg (W942XBV - never been through an MOT seemingly??) so a vey late one and is covered in green mould. Of course its got the later face on it which looks rubbish but I might go round and see what the crack is with it.
 
Something that would offset the disappointment of a later one would be to find a Vauxhall Arena-badged one. None have appeared on the bay for a long time though. Were those built in Luton?
 
Anyone got any experiences of these old crates?

They are exactly the same as 106, Saxo, and 205 calipers with solid discs. The calipers I bought were a fraction of the price of the ones I found listed for the 305. They were listed as 205 calipers.

Don't know if I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs but those calipers look a lot like base model 106/saxo fronts.

Back in aldershot next week, so hopefully collection then.
 
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Probably some twat boat parked in the middle of the port blocking everyone as he'll 'only be five minutes'
 
Or is that just Adsa carparks?