St.Jude

21 hours ago, SEATMad said:

£100 is a lot of money to then just fuck someone around. Sorry you're going through this shit. Hopefully you can get it shifted soon.

I thought that too. But then maybe he thinks because he has that deposit he can pick and choose when to collect it to suit him. Which is fair enough if I was explicit that the thing needs to go.

My problem here is I think everyone is like me and when I say I’ll buy it I hand the cash over and don’t take the piss. What I should’ve done was tell all the interested parties the address and whoever showed up first with the cash and trailer could take it. 

I won’t entertain this deposit bullshit ever again.

20 hours ago, Missy Charm said:

Final thought: could this be anything to do with the brakes?  My parents' automatic car won't start without the brake pedal being depressed.  Would something like the Rover have a similar system?  

Fairly sure I’ve tried that, several times.

20 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Shame there isn't much love on here for these old things. I'd lob a couple of quid in the pot for a group buy, but I'd imagine OP just wants the ungrateful old swine gone. 

Listen whoever turns up with £500 and a trailer can have the fucking thing.

I still have the car. It’s still on the driveway. I’ve given this wanker two deadlines (the last one is today). I’ve given him Ceri’s number to facilitate moving it, and I’ve had nothing concrete from him. Other than a £100 deposit.

He messaged me on Thursday 2pm asking if he could pick it up “now” basically. Ignoring how I’ve told him to give me an idea as to when I would expect him with plenty of notice as the car is miles away from me. I said no, but Friday afternoon I’d be there. He said no as his work is unpredictable.

Fed up of this shit, I told him in no uncertain terms the car needed to go by the 18th Feb. Which is today. It’s 12:35pm and other than an “Ok” on Thursday to my message - I’ve nothing from the cunt.

I will message the two others who showed interest in it and see if they still want it and it needs going.

I hate people. Genuinely.

55 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

For those of a certain age, Steed's Jaguar is cool !

 

I don’t know what age you should be but that is absolutely pornographic.

i love it.

2 minutes ago, grogee said:

The upward arrow indicates the social mobility direction of MG6 drivers. 

I thought that was to help the driver know which direction to go in?

57 minutes ago, egg said:

Deserves more than 150 views, sporty Samara, Solara et al.

My Dad had that Renault 25. Same hubcaps, colour, style. I broke the aerial on it by swinging off it through the roof when I was 5.

That's a car I need to get hold of before I stop bothering with cars.

6 hours ago, mat777 said:

2 batteries on a J100 Land Cruiser, because why the fuck not for extra oomph!

The starter is 24v. So when you start the batteries are joined for this one job, then revert back to normal 12v status.

What people do is convert the starter to 12v and have one battery for car stuff and then the other battery becomes a leisure battery.

I don't appreciate people infringing on my USP @mat777!!!!

Seriously though - I think you have found out what I have in that the idea of a Land Cruiser being super reliable etc translates to "don't have to look after it M9".

Owning a Land Cruiser is very much like being married to a woman.

So, I suppose I should do an update.

Whatever happened on AutoTrader I didn't get anything. Not even a tyre kicker. I think the email got fucked up on it (as like an idiot I used Apple's "hide your email" and I don't think it worked). So I decided to keep it for the winter then hopefully/maybe punt it on in the spring/summer.

I would like to tell you all that something else has broken, or something else has died. However, for now at least, it's behaving itself. The parking sensors are bollocksed which resulted in me trading paint with a blue Skoda Octavia a few days before Christmas. No big deal, it literally is a scuff on both cars. The car just happened to belong to the parents of my wife's posh friend. Of all the f**king people!

Anyway, yesterday I changed the oil on it (no drama) and took it to another tyre place to look at the tracking. Whatever the last place did the car now drives in a straight line and it's now actually a little bit more enjoyable. Probably because it's going in a straight line and the oil change has had a placebo effect on my head to make me think everything is fine with it.

What have done though is put together the video of me doing the injectors finally. Which can be found here:

Jobs that are on the horizon (whether I keep it or not) is that the middle box has a hole in it so I might see about getting that welded (or do it myself), rear brake discs and pads, and maybe new tyres all round.

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Always liked this one. Is it staying on here? 

I don’t think it is no. But I will recommend the fella to come on here, as he has a Morris Minor Cop car.

Well, someone has given me £100 deposit for it.

Now we wait!

So here I am.

I have twatted the starter. No good.

I have a fresh battery. No good.

I have wiggled and jiggled the neutral selector thingy Bob after many clips snapped taking the centre console off, or at least trying to. No good.

It’s got to move on. My mom doesn’t want it here any longer and to be honest I’ve tried her patience with it. I’ve put it back on to the Rover 800 forum with a price and the truth that I can wait a few weeks but it’ll have to go one way or the other. If it comes to the latter then I’ll take the hard to find bits off of it, like the exhaust, but no. It’s time for this to go and move on.

Anyone here want to start 2024 with this streaky black piece of misery?

That’s not oily smoke.

You’re just sweating horsepower son.

5 hours ago, Pieman said:

As others have said, what an incredible and very sad story.  Never mind "The Lady in the Van" - there needs to be more told about this remarkable woman.

I did not know that was a real person in the film!

Wow, what a life.

Not car related, but planes.

The title isn’t click bait, Russian pilots really did drink the alcohol from their jets.

I’ve not got time to bother my arse with finding out the details, but I know two things about the MG6.

1) The 1.8T petrol is a K Series, but they call it the N series, as it has all the new MLS gasket and stronger through bolts etc that you should put in a K Series - with a turbo.

2) SAIC could not give two shits about supplying spare parts for these, so (I think) strut top mounts are (or at least were) unobtainable.

Still a good looking motor though 👍

2 hours ago, LoftyvRS said:

Looks like the car park of "The Crown"? 

Be honest - when I said pretentious pub you thought it was either The Crown or Lyttleton Arms and it's just because this has more trees that you guessed it right?

13 hours ago, loserone said:

👀😂

Well I mean I do need a new car and can’t get it until this one goes!

2 minutes ago, goosey said:

Looked like the pic was took at Habberley Valley car park nr Bewdley 

Ahh!

No, it’s the car park of a pretentious pub near me. Annoyingly I rushed there thinking it was going to rain as the black clouds were near, but nope. Nothing. And also forgot to add the hub caps on the rears!

1 minute ago, goosey said:

Habberley Valley? 

Is that next to Uncanny Alley?

Had it all cleaned. Look at it.

Paid(!) AutoTrader £46 for the advert to go up, so waiting on it to go live. Stuck it up for £9,750 - based on two cars of the same age and spec being £6,999 and £12,999.

Now, we wait.

On 10/7/2023 at 4:47 PM, SiC said:

I'm not up on my land cruisers. This is it on streetview. Was a 2008 plate and had 7 seats.

He had it for a good 5 years iirc. Bought it cheap off (notorious?) Sterling Cars in Reading (carsnoreserve on eBay). Has been very reliable even if the oil stains on the road suggests it was a bit of a leaky bastard. 

 

I’d imagine that’d would’ve been an LC4/LC4 or Invincible. Most likely LC4 if those are leather I see in the window on my iPhone. So none of the air suspension mine has, and if the Invincible it’d have more power as it was a dealer thing to stick a box for the ECU to give it a bit more.

On 10/7/2023 at 4:51 PM, lesapandre said:

That generation tend to rot out underneath and are not so durable I think - I'm not sure they are even on a chassis. Yea probably good export fodder - even if just for parts.

I must say I love my Landcruiser- just so useful - a sure thing in an uncertain world.

Yeah they’re on a ladder chassis. It’s the same as mine.

23 hours ago, SiC said:

His was only on springs, no air struts. I don't know what engine apart from it was diesel (so not clean air zone compliant here) and £700 p/a tax band. 

Now reading this, probs an LC4. It’d have been the same 3.0 D4-D diesel as mine.

22 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

so u want 4x4ish and roomy family car???

RX4 is what ya need then , especially the dizzel one

Fuck I would. I would hard. Only seen one for sale and it’s a petrol. Although there is a non 4x4 Scienic in blue for £900 and it looks immaculate. Tempted by it tbh!

3 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

What sort of price are you planning to ask? Regarding exporting to Africa, there used to be some guys near us doing it. They could get two 4x4s in a container. Before loading  them, they'd pack them full of stuff. Nappies and pasta seemed to be favourite, then pack loads more stuff round them, bikes etc.

Hold on to your knickers - I’m going to stick it on for £8,500/8,750 but to give me room to take £8,000/8,250. So I know really I won’t be getting exporters knocking my door down for it, but it’s in the range of what’s on AutoTrader for the same age and spec, except mine has the new shocks, injectors, timing belt and air suspension. I could probably go higher.

One thing we do for my boy as he’s obsessed with cars (specifically tractors) is we buy a magazine called Classic Tractor (I think). Wife told me yesterday that they have a classified on it that sells everything including 4x4’s, so I’ll probably stick it in there too. Old school!

I did mention the potential for a Berlingo as we stopped off at Gloucester services and we were walking past one. Well, was a Peugeot (which I prefer tbh), but she didn’t appreciate it. It’s ugly and she’d prefer me with a Saab. Mentioned it to my sister today and she said the same thing (although said she couldn’t see me in a Saab and that she’d have thought I’d have gone with a Ford Mondeo).

This all taught me two valuable lessons: the main women in my life don’t know me, and a Berlingo is probably the best way for me to keep myself from being under the thumb!

15 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Air conditioning is indeed a stupidly rare option on the Berlingo/Partner.  Can't for the life of me remember where, but I'm sure I saw something stating that it was something ridiculous like 1 car in 200 that had it specified in the UK market.  I can't vouch for the validity of this, but I definitely read it somewhere.

One of the reasons I was doubly glad to have bagged our one when I did as it's very much a high priority bit of spec as far as I'm concerned.

The 1.6HDi in mine is the 16V variant and it goes astonishingly well if you put your foot down for this type of vehicle, the low to mid range torque available really does mean you seldom need to consider ever going above 3000rpm.  Though the 16V version of this engine does have some pitfalls in terms of long term reliability, especially if neglected, they're pretty well documented and having seen some of the common issues some of the competition seem to have don't sound all that scary.

Yeah it’s so strange. It’s not even enough to look at the trim level it has and expect it to have air con. You’d imagine that if it had the modutop stuff, with the glass panels in the roof, it’d have air con - but no. I could not imagine the hell those cars can be in the summer like what we had last year.

My 3008 had the 16v 1.6 HDi and I thought it was the best thing about the car. I wouldn’t mind getting another 1.6 but I think I’d be going for the 2.0.

14 hours ago, SiC said:

Traffic is terrible around here at the moment today. It hasn't broken down again has it? 🤔(😆)

(I thought it had going by the thread title)

I'll give a wave if I see you about.

Left it at home and used the wife’s car instead!

12 hours ago, SiC said:

Funnily enough my neighbour sold his Land Cruiser today (replaced with a Skoda Superb). Chap turned up, didn't even bother checking and test driving it before handing over the cash. It's next journey is off to the Congo! I can ask him for the chaps details if you're interested...

I may take you up on it. The plan is to stick it on AutoTrader for the proper money they all go for. With all the niggles and problems I’ve had it’s worth the money to someone who no doubt will have no problems with it. 

If it doesn’t go on AT then it’s eBay, then the man from the Congo.

1 hour ago, warch said:

I would say they're pretty good by 25 year old 4x4 standards. They're very popular with Welsh hill farmers, presumably because they're cheap and also because said farmers are  often quite elderly and short in stature, so climbing in and out of a 'proper' 4x4 is a bit of a struggle. I think the mk2 version is probably a better bet these days though, because most hippos are very old now and probably well past their best. Having said that I prefer the styling of the original model and also quite liked the L Series diesel engined version. 

1 hour ago, Jenson Velcro said:

For what they are, they were pretty good when new(ish) but they are all old and worn out now. The cost of keeping the whole drivetrain working correctly will far exceed the value of the vehicle. That’s  why many have the rear prop shaft removed “for economy’ mate. And that’s before you get into rust and all the other fragile bits and pieces. A Freelander 2 is a much better bet, but they’re getting older now as well.

It is just the shape thing. I think the F2's are quite forgettable in some respects. The shape of the older ones I think are nicer.

Like I said I'm not inclined to get another 4x4. I just thought that while I'm in the market for one, and I think a good one turns up, I would consider it.

But all that's happened really is that I'm on YouTube watching videos of Citroen Berlingos...

2 minutes ago, RichardK said:

This. While they are lovely, they're not exactly tough 4x4s or very reliable 😕

I know.

But think about it. Land Cruiser's are supposed to be the best 4x4 and I ended up with this hateful thing. It can't be any worse!!!