Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - what is planned for 2025

[Six-cylinder]

hnnng fap hhhnnnng fap and i dont mean the maser

 

 

please sir can i please

When it is fixed.

[purplebargeken]

I still haz 156 headlight for you Sir!

[Six-cylinder]

I still haz 156 headlight for you Sir!

Thanks, yes I still need it.

[richardmorris]

hnnng fap hhhnnnng fap and i dont mean the maser

 

 

please sir can i please

 

Pervert!

[richardmorris]

They are both broken!The Oltcit won't charge and the Bi-Turbo has gremlins in the windows/central locking!

Both keeping your local friendly/grumpy auto electrician in full time employment!

[hairnet]

Pervert!

yes - can you help

[Six-cylinder]

A job that went to plan yesterday, I know remarkable!

 

Internet wisdom said the reason my MG ZR only had interior fan speeds 3 & 4 and not 1 & 2 was the resistor pack was duff. I bought a replacement and more internet wisdom said if I carefully squeezed the glovebox stop lugs I could drop it down without any unscrewing. I like it when a plan comes together, I now have all speeds.

[Six-cylinder]

Another go on the LNA Yesterday

 

Fuel tank refitted and clean fuel now passing though filter.

 

New second had cooling fan fitted and works!

 

New second-hand tailgate strut fitted, but tailgate end has a crack in its monkey metal bracket. Also the end of the pivot bolt on the car has broken off so it only has a single turn on the thread and is welded in so not easy to replace.

 

The front bumper is bent and won’t fit on, so I bought it home to straighten but it needs a bit of heat now my Oxyturbo pack has run out of oxygen, another two day delay while I wait for a replacement.

 

I also need a couple of trim clips for behind the side window.

[Six-cylinder]

Progress on the Series 1 Sovereign is slow but is moving forward with lots of complaints about poor replacement panel quality and this how it is now.

[hairnet]

Next update better include Alfa

[Six-cylinder]

Next update better include Alfa

You haven't even got it out yet to the front of the queue yet!

[quicksilver]

Hooray, the Oltcit is out of hiding! Would love to have a good nose around that as I've never seen one in the flesh before. It messes with my head - it's obviously a Citroen yet doesn't look like any familiar model.

[richardmorris]

I saw one at a 2cv meeting in France years ago, but can't recall it being very different inside to the normal visa. If any visa is normal indeed.

[Six-cylinder]

Hooray, the Oltcit is out of hiding! Would love to have a good nose around that as I've never seen one in the flesh before. It messes with my head - it's obviously a Citroen yet doesn't look like any familiar model.

It won't charge and the Auto electrician thinks it is the alternator so has taken it away to see what can be done with it. It is a Romanian alternator, looks similar to a Ducelier but who knows.

[Six-cylinder]

Sovereign S2 had it dash put together today with the new hazard switch so the indicator warning lights on the dash work again.

[Six-cylinder]

I saw one at a 2cv meeting in France years ago, but can't recall it being very different inside to the normal visa. If any visa is normal indeed.

Oltcit may follow the early Visa dash theme but the detail was completely different. Also the Visa got "normal" dashs in 1985!

[dollywobbler]

What I love is that the Oltcit is what the Visa should have been. According to Citroen anyway. Hoorah to whoever, when told to make a more sensible car, shipped the designs off to Romania.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

'Twas ever thus WobblyOne. Would the Fiat 124/125 have crucified (or at least seriously challenged) the Escort in the seventies in stripped down/cheapened Lada-Polski form?

[Six-cylinder]

Today Quicksilver and dad helped me get our 1 ton Bonser horticulture truck working.

 

Previously they had fixed the clutch cable amongst other things, today was refit the repaired magneto and then we found the fuel system was gummed up.

 

Quicksilver also tried out our new garden tractor.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

who's handy with potato shop ?

[HMC]

^Brilliant. I must say the quicksilver maxi does look fantastic in the pics, and the brochure vibe is reinforced by the -DU oft used for press office cars reg.

 

All thats missing is someone hitching up a glider in the background wearing a safari suit and its a Leyland cars 1978 brochure in the making!

[Six-cylinder]

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[Six-cylinder]

Inspired by the pride of Longbridge Thread I decided to retrieve my Rover 75 from the neighbours drive where it had been invited to park.

 

I think it was early January I put it there and it still had enough power in the battery to operate the central locking but not start it. With a jumpack connected it started immediately and I moved it home. It is now on charge and once the rush hour traffic subsided tonight I will take it for a run.

[quicksilver]

That was a most enjoyable day and it was great to finally be able to drive the tiddly truck, even if everything is a bit worn out and vague to say the least. That shot of tiddly truck and the Maxi has to be calendar worthy and I love the photoshopped advert. 'It goes with a way of life' indeed.

 

As a reward we got to end the day fondling the Oltcit. Strange little car with a fascinating story and I never thought I'd be able to get up close and personal with something so rare. Fingers crossed it'll be back on the road soon.

[Six-cylinder]

That was a most enjoyable day and it was great to finally be able to drive the tiddly truck, even if everything is a bit worn out and vague to say the least. That shot of tiddly truck and the Maxi has to be calendar worthy and I love the photoshopped advert. 'It goes with a way of life' indeed.

 

As a reward we got to end the day fondling the Oltcit. Strange little car with a fascinating story and I never thought I'd be able to get up close and personal with something so rare. Fingers crossed it'll be back on the road soon.

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The Oltcit is an unusual car, it seems familiar yet isn't. I have not heard anything from the Auto electrician about how he has got on with the alternator.

[Six-cylinder]

I have just had lovely run out with the 75.

[richardmorris]

I've only just realised it's on an H reg. I had no idea they were still being made in 1990!

[quicksilver]

I've only just realised it's on an H reg. I had no idea they were still being made in 1990!

They carried on making them until 1996 apparently. Not bad for an early seventies design!

[Six-cylinder]

I've only just realised it's on an H reg. I had no idea they were still being made in 1990!

It went on to 1995. After 1994, it was sold under the Rodae brand.

[Six-cylinder]

Starting a new game!

 

This 1992 BX GTi has always been in the family and now my mother has given up driving I have taken it on and it needs to be moved. A friend helped me today and we made a start by checking it was not seized and we got it to run on easy start but it would not pick up on petrol. I guess I should have know better the petrol is 9 1/2 years old! Trouble is there is over half a tank so we will have to go back with cans pipes and a pump etc.