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@320touring was offering that at Shitefest 2015 in the white bmw and didn't need no fancy bits of paper 😂

Funk soul brother

I remember picking this up from Facebook for a tenner Went into the xm estate whole and upside down fitted fine, infact I nearly took a window out halfway home cornering enthusiastically and it shifted 😂 On its 2nd year after a good wire brush and hammerite and doing well, will give it another in a couple of years The white mark is brake cleaner where u clean oily metal vintage Hoover parts on it as its the perfect drain surface for parts washing 👌 The patio loves* it

Chod speed! Such a shame about the xantia. I mean I 100% get why it's scrap fodder but it's a car I'd love to own 😂 Problem is it's either a nice weekends work and new parts and it's all fixed and a beautiful car with the right engine or... Its that same weekend but raining and it's still fucked after, and I can't afford those odds 😂

Dc15s are nice. Heavy and big, but I do like them! Check the baseplate though before you buy one, and the brushrolls. They get beaten up to fuck and spares aren't everywhere for those either. I remember a couple of years ago having to fix up a slightly melted brushroll on one as I could find any for sale new or used. Was noisy but ran

Yea worst case is £18 for a motor, £5 for a clutch white wheel and belt set 👌 Although some body parts are being hard to find. I had a dc04 I needed to replace the cleaner head on as one of the tabs that holds the upper brushroll housing in place snapped (tadts). Wasnt many on ebay at all and most were shite, paid £19 posted for a scrappy dc14 one (they all fit) and cursed myself for throwing so many good ones away over the years! (but I've no place to store them so I'm glad I didn't still... Customer paid the money 👌)

Certainly is. The Dyson v11 is a cunt for needing new motors, and there used to be a decent supply of working ones for £40/50 on ebay. That's dried up now, I've got 2 here that are in the process of being written off or the customer spends over £100 on an entire main unit 😢 All the parts fit each other too, so you could get all the scrap ones you want and make a custom colour! Manchestervacs did that once and it looked quite good https://manchestervacs.co.uk/DysonForum/index.php?topic=1515.0

Fuck me mine was £30ish iirc! And I remember having to talk my friend out of changing my mind and getting a pattern one because it was the golden rule on the puma forum, so I spent £10/15 more for the ford one!

It's 6 months older than I am 😂 And they weren't massively common when I grew up enough to know what cars were either. A friends dad had a same colour blue estate that I never went in and that's all I remember! Was all 405s and modeos and xantias and escorts/orions (dad briefly dated someone who had a black non bubble shape orion) when I was growing up

Yea I already told him off for that on the xm fb group 😂 Malaysian built vacuum indeed 😡 Hoover made cylinders in Dijon during the 90s, you need one of those @maxxo

I remember the bathtub and many gallons of veg on that trailer too! That's the year I punctured one of those 10l plastic bottles in the back of the zx coming home and had to write off a wet vac I had to clean it out! (was far beyond towels, I noticed when my feet slipped off the pedals as it had crept that far forward) Car then perma smelt of veg even if it was running derv 😂

Wow, was loads around brand new from Ford when I changed mine! In 2010ish... It lasted too, got fitted to the ex's nephew's fiesta as his handily went as I was breaking the puma for spares on mum's driveway, and he took it to a garage that quoted all sorts of bollocks at him. We had it changed before his mum made us a cup of tea 😂 then outlasted that fiesta but died with it (assuming it's dead, no idea tbh)

I used a fat decent zip tie on my inner and it's still fine (last time I checked a month ago) . I've got a handy tiny lip on the end of my steering box though which I'd be more worried if it didn't have.

That's the same tool I have. Key is to use enough extensions to have it all level and flat against the joint flats. I smashed my thumbnail off trying it without at first, then once I'd extended out from the wing of the car it came off half a turn on the bar at the end of the extensions. Mine fits over the track rod end too

Thanks. Thought we had years left 😥 He'd have gone into the bathroom to wait for Eva to go in as she got home. If only he didn't...

Eva found phoenix laying on the bathroom floor a little while ago, blood everywhere, he'd fallen and died in her arms as she screamed carrying him down the stairs 😭😭 Rip little buddy, oh boy here comes depression again 😭😭😭

When I had my 1.4 citroen zx's they were more than adequate. I was never the slowest car on the road even with 70odd hp! It got a bit busy at high speed but carried said speed fine, my 2.0 turbo derv doesn't get used as adequately as I'd like as its usually plodding at 50 with the traffic, or on the m40 which is either slow or fast. Im too nervous about being flashed nowadays to speed too much in unfamiliar places. Had a nervous moment on the a1 Monday but think I should be OK, but was then glued to the limits by fear and 110bhp was no use then, even the turbo wasn't needed

I found that overfilling the oil a bit quietened the chain rattle down no end on those 1.2's! When I met the ex she had a very neglected corsa c Sri which I slowly bought round to being a very well serviced car in fine fettle. But at 96k the chain was rattly as fuck. Luckily I didn't need to change it as we part-ex'd it for a Meriva when child 1 came along (which I did the cambelt on). Thanks to the leaking brake booster seal the drivers carpet was spotless too after a good wet vac the day before trading it in 😂👌 (we got a grand knocked off the meriva in 2011ish from it, wasn't too bad for a shiny turd)

This one with a mere 680,000kms on it looks immaculate inside Wonder if it ever carried any passengers? The boot looks quite worn though, I guess that's had quite alot of little parcels put inside it during its life...

If the access to the inner tie rod joint is good around the subframe, do the lot! The main reason my Xsara mot fail turned into the job it did was I thought I'd be able to get the track rod end off the tie rod with no proper clampy tools... Was seized together as one. Changing the inner rod was really easy, doubly so as I've got the fancy tool from doing it on last cars, although waterpump pliers work too. But my access is very good, if it wasn't it might be less fun, but once you've removed the gaitor removing a nice clean machine thread over a rusted to fuck outer one is more fun. If I'd just done that to begin with it'd have been a quick job. The alignment cost dwarfed the parts cost though

Claire has a different name, can't you just flip between names and make sure your both covered each year? Register one at the FoD, have 3 then 😂

You want some protection on it though so it doesn't rust or mess the paint up. I'd argue you should go to town and coat it once then with regular washing with some wax safe shampoo (dodo juice born to be mild is lovely) it'd just need a nice hand-job once a year as normal with maybe a top-up.

Now the carlton has a friend 😥

Ah yes that does blend in well! I'd argue having a sat nav plus phone charging ability fairly critical even if wanting to go oem only, especially going up and down the road* like you do so often 😂

Best way, rip it out and do it all properly! Gonna hide a usb socket or 2 up somewhere? Plus once you've done it right you probably halve the wires hiding under there without really trying