Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Tres wet.

Seulement humide, je crois

[MorrisItalSLX]

Looks like rodent damage on the coil lead to me.

[richardmorris]

11 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Looks like rodent damage on the coil lead to me.

He’s not feeding the faithful old retainer @Slowsilverenough obviously.

[hairnet]

disapoint

although the rain woulda stopped me

 

[Six-cylinder]

Dry and mainly sunny today, lots more DS's today  at the nation rally. The count seems to be 70+.

[richardmorris]

16 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Dry and mainly sunny today, lots more DS's today  at the nation rally. The count seems to be 70+.

Was it pretty much just D? Good turnout .

[hairnet]

22 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

No water running down the inside of the windscreen anymore since Citroen Classics rebuilt the cant rail and refitted the roof.

Same company as I bought the HT leads from today. I asked the price and when given the price simply said is that fitted! Shocked by my cheek they fitted them then and there just as the rain started so no pictures.

 

 

[Six-cylinder]

19 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Was it pretty much just D?

Yes, but not exclusively.

SM, GSA, GS, Ami, early 2CV, H van, Traction, XM, CX, Berlingo, BX, 2CV van, Mehari and lots of C5's all come to mind.  

[richardmorris]

24 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yes, but not exclusively.

SM, GSA, GS, Ami, early 2CV, H van, Traction, XM, CX, Berlingo, BX, 2CV van, Mehari and lots of C5's all come to mind.  

Hope the car is running well now. It did look like mice nibbles rather than age. Time for some deterrent in the holding shed? Is there power? I had some plug-in ultrasonic things in my last place.

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

Hope the car is running well now. It did look like mice nibbles rather than age. Time for some deterrent in the holding shed? Is there power? I had some plug-in ultrasonic things in my last place.

There is electric, but my landlords bans me from leaving anything plugged in when I am not present.

We do have a lots of bait boxes.

[Six-cylinder]

The DS got another outing tonight to a small local meeting. A full variety of cars on a warm dry summer evening. The only shame is we we not allowed on the village green so the cars were scattered around the village.

[High Jetter]

53 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

The DS got another outing tonight to a small local meeting. A full variety of cars on a warm dry summer evening. The only shame is we we not allowed on the village green so the cars were scattered around the village.

Looks fit!

[Six-cylinder]

A change of size today!

My delightful Fiat Seicento 1.1 Active has been out of MOT for a year now. I was in no hurry to put it back on the road because I was driving around in my wonderful Morris 1300. It then hung around until the brakes started binding. I had the brakes eased and it sat around again until waiting for it to be needed. When it was needed it did not have an MOT, then my mechanic was busy and the weather horrid. In April I finally managed to get my mobile mechanic to free the brakes again and take it for MOT. It failed

Repair immediately (major defects):

• Front Windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid (3.5 (a))
• Nearside Rear Seat belt buckle not functioning as intended (7.1.2 (d))
• Offside Rear Service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f))
• Service brake efficiency below requirements (1.2.2 (a) (i))
• Parking brake efficiency below requirements (1.4.2 (a) (i))
• Rear Brakes imbalanced across an axle Axle 2 (1.2.1 (b) (i))

All this work was done and taken for MOT again but it failed, this time

Repair immediately (major defects):

• Offside Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength chassis leg (5.3.6 (a) (i))

Having had the brakes sorted I then had the welding done.

Today it went for its third MOT and Passed.

[High Jetter]

How did they miss that suspension mounting the first time? It can't have corroded that quickly.

[Six-cylinder]

Just now, High Jetter said:

How did they miss that suspension mounting the first time? It can't have corroded that quickly.

The rust was hidden by the rear subframe and it seems a ministry inspector went to town poking holes in it.

Yes there was some talk if he had exceeded his own rules. However if it had not came to light this year it would have come to light next year or the year after.

[Six-cylinder]

My Rolls Royce has been invited to join the Triumph club tonight so a certain amount of sprucing up is required. 

[Six-cylinder]

I have been meaning to put new wipers on the Rolls Royce for ages. In February I bought some and finally today with a totally dry weather forecast I enlisted @Slowsilver to help me put them on. 

Usual Chinese parts, the arms were listed as fit 1/4 inch spindles but they were for 6mm so the clamping block needed drilling out. Also pimple on the arm and the hole in the blade did not line up on one of them that required more drilling.

[MAF260]

9 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

My Rolls Royce has been invited to join the Triumph club tonight so a certain amount of sprucing up is required. 

They do a reasonable outside wash for £10 - don't bother having them do the interior; not a great job for the extra £. Lovely guys, though!

[Six-cylinder]

11 hours ago, MAF260 said:

They do a reasonable outside wash for £10 - don't bother having them do the interior; not a great job for the extra £. Lovely guys, though!

They certainly worked hard for their £10 with the car having so many nooks and crannies'.

Using Tesco jet wash would have been £8.

[Six-cylinder]

The Local Oxford area Triumph club meeting is well attended with 10-15 people, but we seem to be bad at bringing out our Triumphs with only 5 in attendance, distributed around the pub car park.

I did not help by yet again bringing the wrong car in spite of having a working Toledo and Vitesse convertible for a warm summer evening.

 

[LightBulbFun]

19 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

The Local Oxford area Triumph club meeting is well attended with 10-15 people, but we seem to be bad at bringing out our Triumphs with only 5 in attendance, distributed around the pub car park.

I did not help by yet again bringing the wrong car in spite of having a working Toledo and Vitesse convertible for a warm summer evening.

 

Kinda amusing how the Suffix-less car (that are so often robbed of their plates) is still on its original issue plate, while the J suffix car is on an age related replacement plate! bit of roll-reversal going on there  

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

Kinda amusing how the Suffix-less car (that are so often robbed of their plates) is still on its original issue plate, while the J suffix car is on an age related replacement plate! bit of roll-reversal going on there  

This is a surprise, I know David who has had that cars for many years. I will ask him next time I see him, probably next month.

[LightBulbFun]

29 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

This is a surprise, I know David who has had that cars for many years. I will ask him next time I see him, probably next month.

yeah when you have been in this game as long as I have  (yes I know your 40 years my senior!) even suffix age related plates stand out like a sore thumb, as, me being me, I have the general order of number plate issued in my head because almost every suffix number plate series started at Axx-A or Axx-B, and then reset to Gxx-N on the 1st of October 1974, you can pretty easily track forward from those 2 points and spot when there is a leading serial letter that is with a suffix letter it should not be, or as a general lose rule of thumb is that leading Serial letters and Suffix Letters only pretty rarely line up, IE you never get Jxx-J, unless its a non-period age related issue, similarly thats one of the things that made @HMC's Allegro stand out to me on its Pxx-P plate

looking at the Triumph's DVLA record, it looks like it was on a suffix-less private plate, until the 1984, and when that was removed, an age related plate, rather then its original plate was issued, as that was normal DVLA policy back then. but with a bit of DVLA wrangling, it generally is possible to get the original plate re-issued if that is something that owner/keeper is interested in (as it is now standard policy that when a private plate is removed, the original plate be re-issued to the car)

 

also the Invacar Mk12E, ex LVX250J was issued JBY503J when it was sadly robbed of its number plate

so the JBY-J extra stands out to me!

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

looking at the Triumph's DVLA record, it looks like it was on a suffix-less private plate, until the 1984, and when that was removed, an age related plate, rather then its original plate was issued, as that was normal DVLA policy back then. but with a bit of DVLA wrangling, it generally is possible to get the original plate re-issued if that is something that owner/keeper is interested in (as it is now standard policy that when a private plate is removed, the original plate be re-issued to the car)

That could explain it. I am having trouble remembering when I first met David, but I am thinking 30+ years.

[Six-cylinder]

@LightBulbFun When I first put my E-Type on the DVLA computer in 1984 I was offered a change of plate to a D reg so I was not identified as a Northern Ireland car in troubled times, being first registered in Belfast. Glad I kept 9477OZ now.

[LightBulbFun]

17 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

@LightBulbFun When I first put my E-Type on the DVLA computer in 1984 I was offered a change of plate to a D reg so I was not identified as a Northern Ireland car in troubled times, being first registered in Belfast. Glad I kept 9477OZ now.

indeed! I am still hoping the paperwork/correspondence from back then might show up at some point so I can have a good oggle at it!  

 

someone once shared an old pre-war IIRC Vauxhall car on the eBay tat thread a good few years ago, and it still had all its 1970's computerisation paperwork with it, which I really-really regret not saving the photos of, it was quite fascinating to see how exactly it was done

[richardmorris]

15 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have been meaning to put new wipers on the Rolls Royce for ages. In February I bought some and finally today with a totally dry weather forecast I enlisted @Slowsilver to help me put them on. 

Usual Chinese parts, the arms were listed as fit 1/4 inch spindles but they were for 6mm so the clamping block needed drilling out. Also pimple on the arm and the hole in the blade did not line up on one of them that required more drilling.

Ah "the little man from the village" hard at work. 

[richardmorris]

19 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Ah "the little man from the village" hard at work. 

Can't you have him stand on the running boards with a squeegee to wipe the screen on the move?

[Six-cylinder]

12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Can't you have him stand on the running boards with a squeegee to wipe the screen on the move?

I have been criticized for my cheap yellow plastic scraper/squeegee in the car!

[Six-cylinder]

Two car gatherings in one evening.

The Rotary Club held a meeting this evening at Milton Keynes Museum. That is how I got concrete cows  in my picture this evening.

then 

South Midlands Citroen group also held a local meeting. A delightful evening in the sunshine.