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    danthecapriman reacted to cros in The new news 24 thread   
    Done.
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from Grundig in Volvo 740, interior headlining finished! Pg 23.   
    The last few days I've had on this have been cleaning, the interior was absolutely minging.
    At some point the car has leaked resulting in the carpets getting damp. This wasn't helped by the car being sat unused as it just stayed damp inside. The original Volvo plastic floor trays don't help either as they stop any sunlight or warmth getting to the damp carpet to dry it out.
     
    So, I've removed the floor trays, hoovered out all the ingrained dirt from the carpets and left them to air dry. Every dry day I get the windows down and let the car air out. This does seem to be working as it's drying out very nicely now.
    The cause of the leak was both the sunroof drain being blocked (fixed) and the footwell air vents. The gaskets for these aren't the best so any rain water that drains down the scuttle drains goes down the A posts past these vents. I've stripped out the front kick panel trims and found a tell tale water mark around the bottoms of both air vents so I'd say these were the cause.
    To fix it I've simply cleaned the areas around them and run a thick bead of seam sealer around them, covering the original gaskets. Seems to have done the job so far.
     
    The damp problem has also caused some mould around all the lower plastic trims on the seat bottoms and door entry trims. It was thick black horrible stuff.
    In addition to this all the door trims, dash and other plastic/vinyl trims around the car were filthy with years worth of grime. It was really stubborn and ingrained so any normal car cleaners just wouldn't touch it. I think it looked worse because of the tan colour of most of the trim, being light coloured the dirt showed up more.
    I used a small sponge with a scouring pad on one side and an old tooth brush with lots of warm soapy water and normal household Cif cream cleaner to scrub everything up. Even using this it was hard work and so far has taken me two full days to clean everything back to an acceptable standard!
    Once the grime was gone I went around again with a clean cloth and clean water to wipe away any remaining dirt and cream cleaner residue.
    It's come up really well now, there's still a bit more to go over again but it's a massive improvement.
     
    I've cleaned literally everything inside the car now except the seats and carpets. The seats will need a good scrub with leather cleaner and then some conditioner which I've got ready to use.
    The carpets, I'm going to wet vac but need to get the seats out first and I also need the weather to warm up and dry a bit first.
     
    IMG_0406 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0407 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0408 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0409 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0410 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0411 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    It's not the nicest job ever, cleaning all that crud out and I was dreading doing it tbh but it's made a huge difference. I don't mind sitting in it now or touching it! It's even smelling much nicer in there too.
    There's a few bits of broken trim that I'll need to replace but that can come later assuming I can find any in the right colour.
     
    Next job will be replacing the anti roll bar links as the new correct type ones are now here and welding a couple of small holes in the floor I've found.
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from RobT in Volvo 740, interior headlining finished! Pg 23.   
    The last few days I've had on this have been cleaning, the interior was absolutely minging.
    At some point the car has leaked resulting in the carpets getting damp. This wasn't helped by the car being sat unused as it just stayed damp inside. The original Volvo plastic floor trays don't help either as they stop any sunlight or warmth getting to the damp carpet to dry it out.
     
    So, I've removed the floor trays, hoovered out all the ingrained dirt from the carpets and left them to air dry. Every dry day I get the windows down and let the car air out. This does seem to be working as it's drying out very nicely now.
    The cause of the leak was both the sunroof drain being blocked (fixed) and the footwell air vents. The gaskets for these aren't the best so any rain water that drains down the scuttle drains goes down the A posts past these vents. I've stripped out the front kick panel trims and found a tell tale water mark around the bottoms of both air vents so I'd say these were the cause.
    To fix it I've simply cleaned the areas around them and run a thick bead of seam sealer around them, covering the original gaskets. Seems to have done the job so far.
     
    The damp problem has also caused some mould around all the lower plastic trims on the seat bottoms and door entry trims. It was thick black horrible stuff.
    In addition to this all the door trims, dash and other plastic/vinyl trims around the car were filthy with years worth of grime. It was really stubborn and ingrained so any normal car cleaners just wouldn't touch it. I think it looked worse because of the tan colour of most of the trim, being light coloured the dirt showed up more.
    I used a small sponge with a scouring pad on one side and an old tooth brush with lots of warm soapy water and normal household Cif cream cleaner to scrub everything up. Even using this it was hard work and so far has taken me two full days to clean everything back to an acceptable standard!
    Once the grime was gone I went around again with a clean cloth and clean water to wipe away any remaining dirt and cream cleaner residue.
    It's come up really well now, there's still a bit more to go over again but it's a massive improvement.
     
    I've cleaned literally everything inside the car now except the seats and carpets. The seats will need a good scrub with leather cleaner and then some conditioner which I've got ready to use.
    The carpets, I'm going to wet vac but need to get the seats out first and I also need the weather to warm up and dry a bit first.
     
    IMG_0406 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0407 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0408 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0409 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0410 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0411 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    It's not the nicest job ever, cleaning all that crud out and I was dreading doing it tbh but it's made a huge difference. I don't mind sitting in it now or touching it! It's even smelling much nicer in there too.
    There's a few bits of broken trim that I'll need to replace but that can come later assuming I can find any in the right colour.
     
    Next job will be replacing the anti roll bar links as the new correct type ones are now here and welding a couple of small holes in the floor I've found.
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from Skizzer in Volvo 740, interior headlining finished! Pg 23.   
    The last few days I've had on this have been cleaning, the interior was absolutely minging.
    At some point the car has leaked resulting in the carpets getting damp. This wasn't helped by the car being sat unused as it just stayed damp inside. The original Volvo plastic floor trays don't help either as they stop any sunlight or warmth getting to the damp carpet to dry it out.
     
    So, I've removed the floor trays, hoovered out all the ingrained dirt from the carpets and left them to air dry. Every dry day I get the windows down and let the car air out. This does seem to be working as it's drying out very nicely now.
    The cause of the leak was both the sunroof drain being blocked (fixed) and the footwell air vents. The gaskets for these aren't the best so any rain water that drains down the scuttle drains goes down the A posts past these vents. I've stripped out the front kick panel trims and found a tell tale water mark around the bottoms of both air vents so I'd say these were the cause.
    To fix it I've simply cleaned the areas around them and run a thick bead of seam sealer around them, covering the original gaskets. Seems to have done the job so far.
     
    The damp problem has also caused some mould around all the lower plastic trims on the seat bottoms and door entry trims. It was thick black horrible stuff.
    In addition to this all the door trims, dash and other plastic/vinyl trims around the car were filthy with years worth of grime. It was really stubborn and ingrained so any normal car cleaners just wouldn't touch it. I think it looked worse because of the tan colour of most of the trim, being light coloured the dirt showed up more.
    I used a small sponge with a scouring pad on one side and an old tooth brush with lots of warm soapy water and normal household Cif cream cleaner to scrub everything up. Even using this it was hard work and so far has taken me two full days to clean everything back to an acceptable standard!
    Once the grime was gone I went around again with a clean cloth and clean water to wipe away any remaining dirt and cream cleaner residue.
    It's come up really well now, there's still a bit more to go over again but it's a massive improvement.
     
    I've cleaned literally everything inside the car now except the seats and carpets. The seats will need a good scrub with leather cleaner and then some conditioner which I've got ready to use.
    The carpets, I'm going to wet vac but need to get the seats out first and I also need the weather to warm up and dry a bit first.
     
    IMG_0406 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0407 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0408 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0409 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0410 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0411 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    It's not the nicest job ever, cleaning all that crud out and I was dreading doing it tbh but it's made a huge difference. I don't mind sitting in it now or touching it! It's even smelling much nicer in there too.
    There's a few bits of broken trim that I'll need to replace but that can come later assuming I can find any in the right colour.
     
    Next job will be replacing the anti roll bar links as the new correct type ones are now here and welding a couple of small holes in the floor I've found.
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    danthecapriman reacted to scruff in The new news 24 thread   
    Called into Donington Park today to pluck a Fergie out of H&H auctions for a customer (don't worry the rest of the trailer will be full)
     

     
    But while there I fell big time for this Jag, fuckin' class!! 1960 and for added shite a 2.4
     

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    danthecapriman got a reaction from Dirk Diggler in Volvo 740, interior headlining finished! Pg 23.   
    The last few days I've had on this have been cleaning, the interior was absolutely minging.
    At some point the car has leaked resulting in the carpets getting damp. This wasn't helped by the car being sat unused as it just stayed damp inside. The original Volvo plastic floor trays don't help either as they stop any sunlight or warmth getting to the damp carpet to dry it out.
     
    So, I've removed the floor trays, hoovered out all the ingrained dirt from the carpets and left them to air dry. Every dry day I get the windows down and let the car air out. This does seem to be working as it's drying out very nicely now.
    The cause of the leak was both the sunroof drain being blocked (fixed) and the footwell air vents. The gaskets for these aren't the best so any rain water that drains down the scuttle drains goes down the A posts past these vents. I've stripped out the front kick panel trims and found a tell tale water mark around the bottoms of both air vents so I'd say these were the cause.
    To fix it I've simply cleaned the areas around them and run a thick bead of seam sealer around them, covering the original gaskets. Seems to have done the job so far.
     
    The damp problem has also caused some mould around all the lower plastic trims on the seat bottoms and door entry trims. It was thick black horrible stuff.
    In addition to this all the door trims, dash and other plastic/vinyl trims around the car were filthy with years worth of grime. It was really stubborn and ingrained so any normal car cleaners just wouldn't touch it. I think it looked worse because of the tan colour of most of the trim, being light coloured the dirt showed up more.
    I used a small sponge with a scouring pad on one side and an old tooth brush with lots of warm soapy water and normal household Cif cream cleaner to scrub everything up. Even using this it was hard work and so far has taken me two full days to clean everything back to an acceptable standard!
    Once the grime was gone I went around again with a clean cloth and clean water to wipe away any remaining dirt and cream cleaner residue.
    It's come up really well now, there's still a bit more to go over again but it's a massive improvement.
     
    I've cleaned literally everything inside the car now except the seats and carpets. The seats will need a good scrub with leather cleaner and then some conditioner which I've got ready to use.
    The carpets, I'm going to wet vac but need to get the seats out first and I also need the weather to warm up and dry a bit first.
     
    IMG_0406 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0407 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0408 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0409 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0410 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0411 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    It's not the nicest job ever, cleaning all that crud out and I was dreading doing it tbh but it's made a huge difference. I don't mind sitting in it now or touching it! It's even smelling much nicer in there too.
    There's a few bits of broken trim that I'll need to replace but that can come later assuming I can find any in the right colour.
     
    Next job will be replacing the anti roll bar links as the new correct type ones are now here and welding a couple of small holes in the floor I've found.
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from Ghosty in Volvo 740, interior headlining finished! Pg 23.   
    The last few days I've had on this have been cleaning, the interior was absolutely minging.
    At some point the car has leaked resulting in the carpets getting damp. This wasn't helped by the car being sat unused as it just stayed damp inside. The original Volvo plastic floor trays don't help either as they stop any sunlight or warmth getting to the damp carpet to dry it out.
     
    So, I've removed the floor trays, hoovered out all the ingrained dirt from the carpets and left them to air dry. Every dry day I get the windows down and let the car air out. This does seem to be working as it's drying out very nicely now.
    The cause of the leak was both the sunroof drain being blocked (fixed) and the footwell air vents. The gaskets for these aren't the best so any rain water that drains down the scuttle drains goes down the A posts past these vents. I've stripped out the front kick panel trims and found a tell tale water mark around the bottoms of both air vents so I'd say these were the cause.
    To fix it I've simply cleaned the areas around them and run a thick bead of seam sealer around them, covering the original gaskets. Seems to have done the job so far.
     
    The damp problem has also caused some mould around all the lower plastic trims on the seat bottoms and door entry trims. It was thick black horrible stuff.
    In addition to this all the door trims, dash and other plastic/vinyl trims around the car were filthy with years worth of grime. It was really stubborn and ingrained so any normal car cleaners just wouldn't touch it. I think it looked worse because of the tan colour of most of the trim, being light coloured the dirt showed up more.
    I used a small sponge with a scouring pad on one side and an old tooth brush with lots of warm soapy water and normal household Cif cream cleaner to scrub everything up. Even using this it was hard work and so far has taken me two full days to clean everything back to an acceptable standard!
    Once the grime was gone I went around again with a clean cloth and clean water to wipe away any remaining dirt and cream cleaner residue.
    It's come up really well now, there's still a bit more to go over again but it's a massive improvement.
     
    I've cleaned literally everything inside the car now except the seats and carpets. The seats will need a good scrub with leather cleaner and then some conditioner which I've got ready to use.
    The carpets, I'm going to wet vac but need to get the seats out first and I also need the weather to warm up and dry a bit first.
     
    IMG_0406 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0407 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0408 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0409 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0410 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0411 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    It's not the nicest job ever, cleaning all that crud out and I was dreading doing it tbh but it's made a huge difference. I don't mind sitting in it now or touching it! It's even smelling much nicer in there too.
    There's a few bits of broken trim that I'll need to replace but that can come later assuming I can find any in the right colour.
     
    Next job will be replacing the anti roll bar links as the new correct type ones are now here and welding a couple of small holes in the floor I've found.
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    danthecapriman reacted to Ghosty in After three years... 216SLi - 25/2 - behaving itself   
    All is well with the R8 of H8.
     
    Nothing's wrong, and it soldiers on, it's just passed 56000 miles. 
    It seems to need the standard modification of camping mat rear light seals doing as there's a bit of water under the boot carpet, but otherwise everything is peachy. When I have a bit more spare cash I'll be getting a set of four tyres (Avon or Hankook most likely), to replace the perishing rears, and odd tread fronts.
     
    I've sourced a clock for it, too -  I didn't think it'd bother me but I keep looking at it trying to see what time it is while I'm driving...
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from Jim Bergerac in Volvo 740, interior headlining finished! Pg 23.   
    The last few days I've had on this have been cleaning, the interior was absolutely minging.
    At some point the car has leaked resulting in the carpets getting damp. This wasn't helped by the car being sat unused as it just stayed damp inside. The original Volvo plastic floor trays don't help either as they stop any sunlight or warmth getting to the damp carpet to dry it out.
     
    So, I've removed the floor trays, hoovered out all the ingrained dirt from the carpets and left them to air dry. Every dry day I get the windows down and let the car air out. This does seem to be working as it's drying out very nicely now.
    The cause of the leak was both the sunroof drain being blocked (fixed) and the footwell air vents. The gaskets for these aren't the best so any rain water that drains down the scuttle drains goes down the A posts past these vents. I've stripped out the front kick panel trims and found a tell tale water mark around the bottoms of both air vents so I'd say these were the cause.
    To fix it I've simply cleaned the areas around them and run a thick bead of seam sealer around them, covering the original gaskets. Seems to have done the job so far.
     
    The damp problem has also caused some mould around all the lower plastic trims on the seat bottoms and door entry trims. It was thick black horrible stuff.
    In addition to this all the door trims, dash and other plastic/vinyl trims around the car were filthy with years worth of grime. It was really stubborn and ingrained so any normal car cleaners just wouldn't touch it. I think it looked worse because of the tan colour of most of the trim, being light coloured the dirt showed up more.
    I used a small sponge with a scouring pad on one side and an old tooth brush with lots of warm soapy water and normal household Cif cream cleaner to scrub everything up. Even using this it was hard work and so far has taken me two full days to clean everything back to an acceptable standard!
    Once the grime was gone I went around again with a clean cloth and clean water to wipe away any remaining dirt and cream cleaner residue.
    It's come up really well now, there's still a bit more to go over again but it's a massive improvement.
     
    I've cleaned literally everything inside the car now except the seats and carpets. The seats will need a good scrub with leather cleaner and then some conditioner which I've got ready to use.
    The carpets, I'm going to wet vac but need to get the seats out first and I also need the weather to warm up and dry a bit first.
     
    IMG_0406 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0407 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0408 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0409 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0410 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0411 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    It's not the nicest job ever, cleaning all that crud out and I was dreading doing it tbh but it's made a huge difference. I don't mind sitting in it now or touching it! It's even smelling much nicer in there too.
    There's a few bits of broken trim that I'll need to replace but that can come later assuming I can find any in the right colour.
     
    Next job will be replacing the anti roll bar links as the new correct type ones are now here and welding a couple of small holes in the floor I've found.
  10. Like
    danthecapriman got a reaction from Angrydicky in Volvo 740, interior headlining finished! Pg 23.   
    The last few days I've had on this have been cleaning, the interior was absolutely minging.
    At some point the car has leaked resulting in the carpets getting damp. This wasn't helped by the car being sat unused as it just stayed damp inside. The original Volvo plastic floor trays don't help either as they stop any sunlight or warmth getting to the damp carpet to dry it out.
     
    So, I've removed the floor trays, hoovered out all the ingrained dirt from the carpets and left them to air dry. Every dry day I get the windows down and let the car air out. This does seem to be working as it's drying out very nicely now.
    The cause of the leak was both the sunroof drain being blocked (fixed) and the footwell air vents. The gaskets for these aren't the best so any rain water that drains down the scuttle drains goes down the A posts past these vents. I've stripped out the front kick panel trims and found a tell tale water mark around the bottoms of both air vents so I'd say these were the cause.
    To fix it I've simply cleaned the areas around them and run a thick bead of seam sealer around them, covering the original gaskets. Seems to have done the job so far.
     
    The damp problem has also caused some mould around all the lower plastic trims on the seat bottoms and door entry trims. It was thick black horrible stuff.
    In addition to this all the door trims, dash and other plastic/vinyl trims around the car were filthy with years worth of grime. It was really stubborn and ingrained so any normal car cleaners just wouldn't touch it. I think it looked worse because of the tan colour of most of the trim, being light coloured the dirt showed up more.
    I used a small sponge with a scouring pad on one side and an old tooth brush with lots of warm soapy water and normal household Cif cream cleaner to scrub everything up. Even using this it was hard work and so far has taken me two full days to clean everything back to an acceptable standard!
    Once the grime was gone I went around again with a clean cloth and clean water to wipe away any remaining dirt and cream cleaner residue.
    It's come up really well now, there's still a bit more to go over again but it's a massive improvement.
     
    I've cleaned literally everything inside the car now except the seats and carpets. The seats will need a good scrub with leather cleaner and then some conditioner which I've got ready to use.
    The carpets, I'm going to wet vac but need to get the seats out first and I also need the weather to warm up and dry a bit first.
     
    IMG_0406 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0407 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0408 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0409 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0410 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    IMG_0411 by Dan Clark, on Flickr
     
    It's not the nicest job ever, cleaning all that crud out and I was dreading doing it tbh but it's made a huge difference. I don't mind sitting in it now or touching it! It's even smelling much nicer in there too.
    There's a few bits of broken trim that I'll need to replace but that can come later assuming I can find any in the right colour.
     
    Next job will be replacing the anti roll bar links as the new correct type ones are now here and welding a couple of small holes in the floor I've found.
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    danthecapriman reacted to Skizzer in Skizzer's spotting thread   
    How about some Skizzer spottage to liven up a damp Saturday afternoon?  It's been a while.
     
     
    This Beaufighter was in the short stay bit at Heathrow Terminal 5.  I must say these have grown on me somewhat over the years, and white suits it.
     

    1981 Bristol 412 by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    I went to a work offsite thing at a rather posh hotel and was rewarded with this rather gorgeous Standard Ten.  Usual apologies for crap photo appy, I had to stop on a fairly major road even to get this.
     

    1955 Standard Ten by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    Happily lived-in looking Deuche in Richmond.  This was in the Old Deer Park car park, where you park your old dear.
     

    Citroen 2CV6 by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    This Bond Bug was parked by the slipway in Mumbles, lending a pleasing splash of orange to an otherwise uniformly grey day.  It had some wanky sticker in the back window, can't remember what it said now but it put me right off.
     

    Bond Bug by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    Loved this.  I went the wrong way out of Victoria Station one evening and was very glad I did.  It was properly shonky and looked to be in daily use as a van.  Win.
     

    Nissan Prairie by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    Four middle aged blokes in an XJ6 = old school East End gangsters, right?  I like to think they just got out after a 25-year stretch in the Scrubs for armed robbery, dusted down the Jag and picked up where they left off.
     

    Jaguar Sovereign 4.2 (XJ6 Series 3) by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    I like E28s.  I did a gouache painting of an E28 for my art O-level, for some reason.
     

    BMW e28 520i by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    Finally for now, I went to a meeting on Wigmore Street and spotted this absolute honey of a Bedford Rascal.  Looked minty apart from the mild dent in the door.  Central London is ace for spots.
     

    Bedford Rascal, London W1 by Skizzer, on Flickr
     
    That's all for now.  Soz for picture quality and to anyone who has already seen all these on Flickr.  
     
     
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from doobietoo in The grumpy thread   
    I prefer to use high strength structural items for towing. Like the door mirrors or wiper arms!
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from xtriple in The grumpy thread   
    All that is taken out before we are given the vans! There's no tool kits in them or anything!
    We can be trusted to work on high voltage electricity but apparently changing our own vans flat tyres etc is too much.
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    danthecapriman reacted to xtriple in The new news 24 thread   
    Just sent the big green dollop (my Brooklands 'R' - 66221)back up to Specialist cars to have the front ride height adjusted. It had all the suspension renewed last year (and I mean ALL the suspension - struts, springs, bushes, everything) but I didn't want the front to sit high like they do when they are correct.

    However, the roads round here are atrocious, pot holes, subsidence, terrible over banded repairs the works, and I must admit, though I tried hard to ignore the truth, it did hit the bump stops a fair few times. Also, while I really liked the lowered look, it did make the car look tired... The final straw was getting it out of the garage the other day and turning the opposite direction to the way I normally go and I thought I was going to rip the front bumper clean off!

    So, back it went on Wednesday morning (collected) and it was returned this afternoon (my choice, couldn't accept delivery before) and while it now looks a bit too high at the front for my tastes, it does, I must admit, drive MUCH better!

    Apparently, to get the low ride height I wanted last year, no shims at all were used and now she has just the one thin one but it is so much higher. But, the steering is lighter by far, and the camber has gone which can't have been good for the new tyres, also, I took it down the poshest area in Torquay, which, just by chance happens to have the worst roads in the entire 'bay and the car was transformed! No crashing or banging as the suspension bottomed out and over all these potholes and depressions in the road, she glided in a most serene way.

    I will get used to the looks... in time... and if I don't look!

    And the price for this work?

    Nothing! Paul (the boss there) did say when I had it done that he would have it corrected for me free of charge but after a year, I was impressed. The chap who delivered her back was the chief mechanic (on his way to look at/pick up another of our cars in the area) and I felt so guilty that I had nothing more than £2 to give him as a tip. I am ashamed.
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from myglaren in The grumpy thread   
    I prefer to use high strength structural items for towing. Like the door mirrors or wiper arms!
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from myglaren in The grumpy thread   
    It's fucking unbelievable, honestly!
     
    In the old van I got stuck on some wet grass with a trailer on the back. I called our linesmen who were just around the corner with their Land Rover for a quick tow just to get off the grass.
    When they arrived we needed to find the screw in towing eye for their tow rope... yep, the stupid sods had taken that out too!
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from chaseracer in The grumpy thread   
    I prefer to use high strength structural items for towing. Like the door mirrors or wiper arms!
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    danthecapriman reacted to sierraman in Shite in Miniature II   
    A few of my favourite 80's era Majorettes







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    danthecapriman reacted to junkyarddog in Shite in Miniature II   
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from Cavcraft in The grumpy thread   
    I prefer to use high strength structural items for towing. Like the door mirrors or wiper arms!
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    danthecapriman got a reaction from puddlethumper in The grumpy thread   
    I prefer to use high strength structural items for towing. Like the door mirrors or wiper arms!
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    danthecapriman reacted to DodgeRover in The grumpy thread   
    Open both doors chuck a strop through at hinge level and yank it like that! Serves the buggers right if you bend something.
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    danthecapriman reacted to garbaldy in The grumpy thread   
    My mates trucks fill the add blue once a week so the van should be monthly I would say, I'm sure it's called prilled urea but everyone recons it's pigs piss.
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    danthecapriman reacted to Lacquer Peel in The grumpy thread   
    Synthetic urea I'm sure.
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    danthecapriman reacted to Sigmund Fraud in Dolomite roffle/ for sale   
    Map... check !
    Suspicious brown envelope... check !
    Light* reading... check !
    Breakdown arrangements*... check !
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