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    mouseflakes reacted to vulgalour in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-PEUGEOT-205-1-1-Zest-Ltd-Edn-/252649095177
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    mouseflakes reacted to RobT in eBay tat volume 3.   
    For a shiter with many sprogs
     

     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-505Gti-8-seat-estate-/172418279986?hash=item2824ee2a32:g:RTAAAOSw5cNYNLlB
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    mouseflakes reacted to castros_bro in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Terrorfish
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Winnebago-Renault-Le-Sharo-Camper-van-/122234209659?hash=item1c75ba057b:g:7agAAOSwXeJYMXBZ
     
    Lardarse Rennybago
     

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    mouseflakes reacted to Cavcraft in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1940s-classic-pick-up-ratrod-hotrod-winter-project-can-deliver-/172421660714?hash=item282521c02a:g:JNAAAOSwo4pYM4wD
     
    'the perfect father and son/daughter bonding venture'
     
    ​I don't know want to know what went on in the cab thanks
     
    'And we have currant V5c'
     
    Don't go raisin the price M8
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    mouseflakes reacted to cort16 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    fulfil your destiny
     

     
    http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201611149748786
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    mouseflakes reacted to wuvvum in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Although he seems to be hogging 95% of the world's remaining stock of grille stars.  Greedy bastard.
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    mouseflakes reacted to neil1971 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    "Runs but a bit rusty"
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Barn-find-Fiat-127-Runs-but-a-bit-rusty-Needs-a-bit-of-work-Interior-is-great/302143694164
     

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    mouseflakes reacted to wuvvum in eBay tat volume 3.   
    We have, but not in this thread.
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    mouseflakes reacted to neil1971 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    "needs total restoration"
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RELIANT-SCIMITAR-BLUE-/262732585739
     

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    mouseflakes reacted to dollywobbler in MG3 - Not shite it seems - now with excellent* video!   
    Spurred on by the absolute slating MG Motors seems to endlessly receive, especially on here, I thought there was only one way I could really have a valid opinion. Get my hands on one. So I did.

     
    That there is £10,200 of MG3 3Form Sport, with the two-tone paint chipping it over the £10k barrier. I thought that was quite a lot of money, so I was very surprised to learn that you need another four grand to get a base model Fiesta! WTF?!
     
    Inside, it feels far more like a quality vehicle than you might expect, though some plastics are indeed a bit cheap.

     
    To be honest, it doesn't really feel much worse than a Hyundai i10 I drove recently. Only the particularly nasty door handles let it down. It's got air con (not climate control) with tiny buttons, a stereo thing with Bluetooth, Aux input etc and I like the rubber mat under the central sliding cubby lid thing. Very Austin-Rover.
     
    Time for a drive. I started by driving it all the way to Wigan in a horrendous storm. With hints of snow.

     
    And you know what? It's a bonny wee car. The 1.5-litre engine is a bit of an oddity in this class/price, but it pulls pretty well. The gearing is very tall, so 60mph is reached in second gear (in a touch over 10 seconds). 70mph = 3000rpm, and most of the time, the engine is pretty much inaudible. 
     
    It is quite a large small car, far larger than this 1999 Toyota Starlet.

     
    Now here's some history for you. This is the second MG3. The first was simply a Rover Streetwise with MG badges. By coincidence, I managed to find a Streetwise to park next to.

     
    The new MG3 is an entirely fresh design though. The only hint of its illustrious past is that rubber mat on the dash, and the rear wiper, which performs three sweeps before going intermittent. My dad's Montego estate did that, as did my Disco 1. HERITAGE.
     
    It steers really nicely, rides far better than many competitors and is pretty comfortable for a 650-miles-in-three-days sort of a trip. Perhaps not quite as comfortable as a W124 Mercedes-Benz, but almost as peaceful. I'll concede there's a little bit too much tyre noise really.
     
    The door pockets are a good size. There's a bottle of water beneath this orange juice carton.

     
    Disappointingly, it only seems to achieve 42-43mpg in mixed driving. Mind you, the insurance group is apparently pretty low, and the base model is just £8300. I have no idea what an i10 would achieve in similar driving, but Fuelly puts it only a few mpg ahead of the MG3, which is disappointing given Hyundai claim 65mpg, to MG's 51.
     
    It emphatically is not a cheap, shitty car though. This is nowt like the City Rover situation. The End.
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    mouseflakes reacted to GrumpyCat in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Tercel-clasic-GL-SR-/162291742120?hash=item25c95775a8:g:bqUAAOSwImRYNLCc
     
     

     

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    mouseflakes reacted to Junkman in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Want level exceeded.
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1939-FORD-Standard-2-Door-Sedan-Flathead-V8-Hot-Rod-Nostalgic-Racer-/201726466119

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    mouseflakes reacted to Coprolalia in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252645861925?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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    mouseflakes reacted to AMC Rebel in eBay tat volume 3.   
    I quite like this but fear it will have a payload of about 20 kilos.  Seller doesn't know what it weighs unladen.
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bedford-cf-recovery-truck-3-0-32v-opel-straight-6-lpg-automatc-no-reserve/172418078438?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D38661%26meid%3Deefbd9b649384a2ea710a4f4f6388b61%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D172415064952
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    mouseflakes reacted to cort16 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    looks quite cheerful way to beat the snow chaos for that one day that it snows.
     

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/daihatsu-sportrak-elx-l-1-6-4x4-moted-/252649364275?hash=item3ad3135b33:g:MNEAAOSwB09YM2Gq
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    mouseflakes reacted to cort16 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    good luck
     

    https://www.gumtree.com/p/ford/ford-granda-2.3-petrol-1972year./1201372225
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    mouseflakes got a reaction from riber3 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Morris-J2-Pick-Up-Van-Genuine-Barn-Find-Stored-Since-1972-Needs-Work-/291948406179
     
    No! No! No! I don't want to go on the big lorry!
     

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    mouseflakes reacted to mercrocker in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Is it too early for Holiday '17? 
     
    Episode 1 - Dub Avoidance 
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-nissan-wheelhome-daneste-2-0-diesel-campervan-1-year-MOT-FSH-Pop-Top-/162291810458?hash=item25c958809a:g:GsYAAOSwpLNX8rhK 
     
     
    Main selling point - Midnight Snacking 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    mouseflakes reacted to mercrocker in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Holiday '17    
     
    Episode 2 -  Industrial Estate Laybys of the East Midlands 
     
     
    Blend in anywhere with this -
     
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/iveco-daily-camper-van-motorhome-festival-bus-spares-or-repairs-Glastonbury-/112213233757?hash=item1a206e105d:g:T3YAAOSwA3dYG7Gh
     
     
    Main selling point - Everything to hand....
     

     
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    mouseflakes reacted to mercrocker in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Holiday 17 - Episode 3 
     
    Going solo 
     
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Doblo-2008-1-9-Multijet-Dynamic-5Dr-Camper-Van-Conversion-48-350-miles-/182362436657?hash=item2a75a5f431:g:G2oAAOSwj85YNDY5 
     
     
    Why solo?  
     
    Well, would you want to lie there while somebody else was using this? 
     
     

     
     
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    mouseflakes got a reaction from anonymous user in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Morris-J2-Pick-Up-Van-Genuine-Barn-Find-Stored-Since-1972-Needs-Work-/291948406179
     
    No! No! No! I don't want to go on the big lorry!
     

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    mouseflakes got a reaction from vulgalour in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1972-Austin-morris-Van-/222318107737
     

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    mouseflakes got a reaction from vulgalour in eBay tat volume 3.   
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-car-abandoned-project-/222318335591
     

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    mouseflakes reacted to cort1977 in The grumpy thread   
    UK property prices have gone crazy in the last few years and I can't see how anyone in the southeast can afford a reasonable house without help from parents etc.   House prices have increased far faster than wages making even the bottom of the market unattainable for most.
     
    As an example, my father was a primary school head for my entire childhood, we weren't rich but never had any money issues, lived in a 3 bed semi in London (Chingford).   That house is now worth 500000 and I can't see how whoever is running my Dad's old school could afford to live there never mind those with less well paid jobs.  
     
    People are being divided in to those 'on the ladder' and those left behind and there is justified anger about this.   I know a lot of people won't agree with me but I think selling off the council housing stock was a big mistake fuelling the rise in prices.
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    mouseflakes reacted to vulgalour in Renault 6TL "Crapaud"   
    Right so, we have the Renault back at home now rather than at the unit.  This is really useful as I now have all the bits of the car in an easy to get to location next to internet access so I can tinker or do larger jobs at my leisure much easier.  No more the 8 mile round trip just to do a quick five minute job!  Today, Mike and I pushed the Renault out onto the drive so we could have a bit of a sort of the garage and I could get the hosepipe into the rear arches to clean them out properly, the water pressure at the unit is very low so I couldn't do a great job there.  Front arches proved to be quite clean as I'd had excellent access when the wings were off to really scrub everything properly.
     
    I wasn't really expecting quite as much mud as I found.

     
    What was nice was discovering just how solid everything really is.  The trailing arms and some of the inner wings could do with a lick of paint and some protection to keep things this way but it's all remarkably good.  Check out my green rear shocks that were previously just mud coloured.

     

     

     

     
    I pulled out the strips of aluminium that had been used as mud guards.  I haven't binned these as they'd actually done a remarkably good job of keep the mud out of the upper reaches of the rear arches, there was barely anything above them.

     
    Repeat the hosing and scrubbing on the other side, remove yet more mud.

     
    Same story this side.  You can see the metallic blue of the bodyshell (which I'm now fairly certain is a replacement) and just a hint of the car's original metallic green on the trailing arm mount.

     
    Again, the inner arch is in very good shape.  What's confusing is that there appears to be no repairs or rust holes in the inner arch but there are substantially sized patches rivetted to the inside of the bodyshell.  I had thought this was a single-skinned piece, perhaps it isn't?

     

     
    Filler neck looked quite new compared to everything else, I wonder if it was replaced or if they just last really well.

     
    After all the gunge and sludge had been flushed out as best I could we pushed the car down the drive to clean up and I put the other screw into the driver's door arm rest so it stays in place when you use it now.

     
    I also found out that the missing switch is for the rear screen demister.  So I'll need one of those since mine appears to be wired up, there's just no switch present.

     
    I wondered if there's supposed to be a cap or a plug for the trailing arm mount.  I flushed all the mud and rust flakes I could out of the hole.  Everything appears quite solid just devoid of paint.  I'll get this area cleaned up and given a coat of something to keep it solid, I've been told this is one of the main weak points on these cars and I'd like to keep mine as solid as I can.  They look a bit flakey in the photograph but they're really not, I gave them a good poke and it's just the remnants of underseal, mud and detritus stained with some surface corrosion.

     

     

     

     
    No expense spent on the one not-Michelin tyre.  How cheap must this have been in the mid-90s?  Marshal 777

     
    The tracking on the front is off, I think this is because there's no engine or gearbox in there.  Lots and lots of toe in and positive camber which can make the car difficult to push to begin with.  All the hubs spin quite freely though the brand new brakes on the front definitely need to bed in a bit.

     
    Replaced the bolts fixing the ball joints to the wishbones that had got bent and installed them the correct way around.  These are high tensile steel so should be fine.  I was surprised the brake dust shields were still servicable as they're made from wafer thin steel.

     

     
    The floor is remarkably sound, well undersealed for the most part and relatively free of mud.  This is a good thing.

     
    I have enough space in the garage to walk all the way around the car and work on the engine.  I'd forgotten about my little blue trolley, it's ideal for moving the engine about.  Didn't get as far as doing any measuring today, it was all about getting the Renault settled into its new house.

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