Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - Carlton Estate back in use!

[AnnoyingPentium]

What you need to ask yourself is whether you'd rather the Clio which I imagine is a rather nice car... or one of these lumps or Red Leicester*...? I imagine the Seicento is a nice car,  but I'd personally opt for the Clio.

*They called them the cheese wedge in the department of Arnold Clark Fiat that my Mum worked in. 😆

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

What you need to ask yourself is whether you'd rather the Clio which I imagine is a rather nice car... or one of these lumps or Red Leicester*...? I imagine the Seicento is a nice car,  but I'd personally opt for the Clio.

*They called them the cheese wedge in the department of Arnold Clark Fiat that my Mum worked in. 😆

Mine is blue so a Stilton wedge!

[hairnet]

at your age auto is good

sounds like you like the clio without even using the fiat

move fiat on i think

 

[beko1987]

Tax does seem quite high for what you get to drive for it... 

[mat_the_cat]

10 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

The problem is I have 26 cars in proper storage

I'd love to have a problem like that. I think...

[hairnet]

id very much love to be your kind of insane christopher

beko its smol and french you should have a go no?

[smellypoo]

Try the seicento, if you like it, decide whether you like it more than the Clio and sell the one you like less, if you really want to.

If I were on that situation, I'd keep the Clio - you seem to like it, it seems to be in good shape and has proven to be dependable, it's a more solid car (which shouldn't matter, but you'd be grateful for it in anything more than a minor bump) not much* bigger in size but enough to be more practical.

Sometimes you just need a car to be just that, a dependable little donkey, so when you drive the other stuff, you can appreciate those cars more for all their interesting quirks and characteristics.

 

[Six-cylinder]

This year is the 40th Birthday of the Citroen BX and I have decided to get mine out early season so I can attend as many events as possible with it. It ran out of MOT Oct 2020 and stayed in storage last year so the first job will be an MOT as soon as my favourite garage can take it. 

Today in preparation for going for MOT Slowsilver kindly came over to help me move some cars about in storage so it is at the front of the barn ready to leave. It turns out only two were blocking in the BX, the Citroen GS and Lancia Trevi. Our first task was to make sure the BX started or moving the other cars would be a waste of time. The BX had a completely flat battery but the jump pack got it going just, as the jump pack was low only showing just one charge light.

With the success of getting the BX running it was time to tackle the Trevi, luckily I had disconnected the Trevi battery but it still needed a jump and fired up after a bit of churning and idled. As usual the GS took a fair bit of churning but idled well and the suspension rose quickly. The BX stalled while we got the others started. The jump pack did not have enough power left in it to restart the BX.

While we didn't achieve our goal of parking the BX at the front of storage, but we did ascertain that everything starts so when we are ready to take the BX for MOT it should be straight forward with a recharged battery and jump pack to get it out.

Thanks to @Slowsilver for his help today and my ride in a chauffeur driven Mondeo.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

This year is the 40th Birthday  - i almost misread that

Today in preparation for going for MOT Slowsilver kindly came over to 

dribble over the other stuf

 

gs tho ❤️

 

[Six-cylinder]

17 minutes ago, hairnet said:

gs tho ❤️

 

 

[richardmorris]

Which is the incontinent vehicle? ( I am assuming it wasn’t @Slowsilver)

[Crackers]

I'm glad to see the Trevi is under cover for a while. The poor thing was a little bit swimming pooley in the driver's footwell last time I saw it. 

[Six-cylinder]

12 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Which is the incontinent vehicle? ( I am assuming it wasn’t @Slowsilver)

GS was parked in front of the BX.

[hairnet]

58 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

SPLOOT

oh.

[Noel Tidybeard]

rooky mistake not having booster AND jump leads!🙃

[Six-cylinder]

A few minutes ago hail and now sunshine.

[hairnet]

frog frog kraut kraut

impostor

 

[Six-cylinder]

40 minutes ago, hairnet said:

frog frog kraut kraut

impostor

 

There were two out of shot!

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, hairnet said:

frog frog kraut kraut

impostor

 

Sneak attack by the itis 

[hairnet]

30 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Sneak attack by the itis 

did they surrender yet?

[richardmorris]

40 minutes ago, hairnet said:

did they surrender yet?

Looks to be surrounded.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Sneak attack by the itis 

Sounds inflammatory!

[Longbridge Apologist]

On 2/23/2022 at 7:29 PM, Six-cylinder said:

This year is the 40th Birthday of the Citroen BX and I have decided to get mine out early season so I can attend as many events as possible with it. It ran out of MOT Oct 2020 and stayed in storage last year so the first job will be an MOT as soon as my favourite garage can take it. 

Today in preparation for going for MOT Slowsilver kindly came over to help me move some cars about in storage so it is at the front of the barn ready to leave. It turns out only two were blocking in the BX, the Citroen GS and Lancia Trevi. Our first task was to make sure the BX started or moving the other cars would be a waste of time. The BX had a completely flat battery but the jump pack got it going just, as the jump pack was low only showing just one charge light.

With the success of getting the BX running it was time to tackle the Trevi, luckily I had disconnected the Trevi battery but it still needed a jump and fired up after a bit of churning and idled. As usual the GS took a fair bit of churning but idled well and the suspension rose quickly. The BX stalled while we got the others started. The jump pack did not have enough power left in it to restart the BX.

While we didn't achieve our goal of parking the BX at the front of storage, but we did ascertain that everything starts so when we are ready to take the BX for MOT it should be straight forward with a recharged battery and jump pack to get it out.

Thanks to @Slowsilver for his help today and my ride in a chauffeur driven Mondeo.

Oh my, @Slowsilver’s Mondeo 🥰

[Six-cylinder]

The weather is a lot better today so I have tackled replacing the indicator unit that fell out of the E320. I had to solder the side repeater wires back into the plug. I found I ran out of hands to hold the soldering iron, solder, plug pin and wire so I enlisted Mrs6C to give me two hands. I love it when a plan comes together!

To celebrate I had the car cleaned including having the nasty black spot on the passenger seat cleaned. 

Feeling good I stopped to take a couple of phots. On the way home the car then rewarded me with a warning light, fortunately it turned out to be the low washer fluid, but just that flash of orange panicked me.

[hairnet]

needs garlic gingercators

@Mrs6C - good job she knows what shes doing cough

 

[Crackers]

I still have an unusual level of want for that car. 

I'm aware this doesn't matter but I just like reminding everyone.

What a honey. 

[hairnet]

pervert

worse than them

 

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, Crackers said:

I still have an unusual level of want for that car. 

I'm aware this doesn't matter but I just like reminding everyone.

What a honey. 

I know it is fabulous.

It is not my first W124 coupe.  The first was 22 years ago, when I changed jobs for one without a company car I bought a 1974 Mercedes 280CE and enjoyed that for 3 years, but was ready for a change. After a brief spell in a Volvo 740GLE estate while I made my mind up I bought a 7 year old 300CE. Just a lovely car.

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

The weather is a lot better today so I have tackled replacing the indicator unit that fell out of the E320. I had to solder the side repeater wires back into the plug. I found I run out of hands to hold the soldering iron, solder, plug pin and wire so I enlisted Mrs6C to give me two hands. I love it when a plan comes together!

To celebrate I had the car cleaned including having the nasty black spot on the passenger seat cleaned. 

Feeling good I stopped to take a couple of phots. On the way home the car then rewarded me with a warning light, fortunately it turned out to be the low washer fluid, but just that flash of orange panicked me.

In case you are curious, the black Tom Tom disc mount is covering up four holes that were originally for a mobile phone and the passenger cargo net is not original but still Mercedes’s.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

In case you are curious, the black Tom Tom disc mount is covering up four holes that were originally for a mobile phone and the passenger cargo net is not original but still Mercedes’s.