Pleasure Wagon

[Cavcraft]

There once was a man from the dales

who collected several asthmatic snails

The worse one of all was no use at all

and prone to several head gasket fails.

[KruJoe]

This Pleasure Wagon Toyota -

I bought it, now I'm over my quota.

With it I am lumbered;

"Its days are numbered"

Said Billy when he saw the phota!

[Cavcraft]

K-seal, K-seal, give me your answer, do

You can fix Rovers, but can you do Toyotas, too? 

It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage.
But you'll look GR8,
Sat on the seat,
Of a PPL carrier made for eight

 

Krujoe, Krujoe, here is your answer true.
I'm not crazy all for the love of you.
There won't be any marriage,
In that Jeremy Kyle style carriage.
'Cause you'll only be shagged

If that gets fragged

and you buy Billy's Corsa. do.

[Richard]

[hairnet]

the drugs are strong in the north cheshire

[Uncle Jimmy]

Just need wheelchair ramps and a Toyota Kei car to go inside the egg.

[KruJoe]

the drugs are strong in the north cheshire

 

That's where you go for yours, right?

[hairnet]

nah round t'corner t'pub

[hairnet]

i dont need drugs im just odd

[KruJoe]

Does that roof flip up?

No, but it does have two big sunroofs. That's the "Joyful Canopy". The back one is HUGE. With the sun-shade open, it's the highest point.

 

 

could you measure the "load height"...from the floor to the roof ...I need 136cm or above. Ta.

When I sit in the central seat, it's about foot above my head. (I'm not a short-arse; about 175cm). From floor to that glass, it's about dead on your limit - 136cm. Open the leccy roof and it's infinite!

 

 

why are all these sort of things on L, N, P era plates?

I s'pose that's when they were at the height of their popularity. After the N-plated ones there was a horrible facelift, making the Estima look like a four-eyed puffer fish in a gimp mask.

 

 

Krujoe - In this car, I challenge you to find the jack/toolkit. It is hidden! GO!

Ain't found it yet...

 

 

Just need wheelchair ramps and a Toyota Kei car to go inside the egg.

It's surprisingly not that wide, but a Kei might fit, I'll measure up. Mrs_KJ does fancy a Suzuki Cappuccino, so maybe we could get away with another motor if we hid one inside the other - like russian dolls. We WILL NOT be filling the space with sprogs, so what better to use it for?

[jakebullet]

The drugs don't work they just make you worse, n I know you'll buy some chod again.

[Cavcraft]

I bet it's seen a few 'joyful canopies' on the back seats over the years.

[purplebargeken]

Our elderly friends/neighbours had an auto dizzler one. Bloody brilliant thing, proper Jap 'grey import' jobbie. Column shift was great, comfy as anything and drove beautifully. They were going to give it to me when they bought a replacement. It cooked itself a week later. They were mortified, I cried. 

[KruJoe]

Last night the Pleasure Wagon looked like this after a quick hosing off:

 

 

It's mucky again now because it's been ON THE ROAD all day!

 

Yes, now legal, insured fully comp for £130.ish by Footman James with £50 excess (I don't know how they do it).

 

More progress has been photographed for your delectation, and shall be displayed once I get my shit together.

[RobT]

 

It's mucky again now because it's been ON THE ROAD all day!

 

Delivering takeaways Joe? Order a curry around here and all the Indian lads use these, bar the odd Nissan Almera thrown in for good measure.

[purplebargeken]

Brilliant things, versatile and comfy. Just those bloody head gasket woes that put me off. Hah, says he who owned several MGFs. 

 

I truly was gutted when the neighbours Estima went bye bye as I mentioned before. 

[KruJoe]

Crikey Rob, folks must have big appetites in your neck of the woods.

[RobT]

It must be the family vehicle doubling up as delivery mule, I can't see any other logic for it. You'd think running a moped would be a better bet though!

[KruJoe]

Do you smell samosas when it drives past?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I used to do Chinese deliveries back in the day to make a bit of extra cash. Can't see why anyone would use one of these as half your nights takings will end up in the tank.....

 

I used my 1.1 rover metro and even it dropped into the mid to high 20s for OMGMPG due to the stop start nature of this work.

 

The metro was the perfect delivery car - hydrolastic suspension for all the speed bumps, revvy lively k series for bombing around and go kart handling / tiny turning circle.

 

Sorry for the hijack but I miss mine

[Alan_Green]

Indian takeaway by me uses a Saab 9-3!

[Skizzer]

I'm going to be brave and stand up in defence of these as a driving experience.

 

I rented one once (well, a UK Previa), in about 1993, because Eurodollar had run out of Astras.  It was to drive from London to a wedding in the Cotswolds or somewhere and then cross country to Wales.  My BX or MGB or whatever must have been broken at the time, which was fairly normal.

 

It was quite a hoot on the back roads.  They're big old buses, but pretty lively once you've got the hang of keeping the revs up in spite of the column-shift auto, and because the driving position is so high you can see what's coming round the next three corners and so you can take the racing line everywhere.  Made me grin, anyway.

 

So ignore the cynics, sir, and relish your purchase of a Toyota Lucida Estima Charme Pleasure Wagon - so good they named it twice four times.

[purplebargeken]

That has excellent written all over it. Well, I think it's excellent......... nah, it is excellent. 

[KruJoe]

Bit of an update...

I scored these four winter tyres off ebay for £30, very local and poorly listed. WINNAR!

 

 

I don't have any 17's to put them on, so BIN'd five Lexus wheels (with knackered tyres) for £80. Tried 'em on just for LOLs.

 

 

They look a bit daft, but the chunky tyres will be better, and I'll only put them on for the wintry months.

 

Another ebay win - a brand spanking tow bar kit for £80.56 delivered. Fitting:

 

 

While the bumper was loose, I tackled these blebs at each side.

 

 

Behind the wheel, there's a plastic panel doing nowt but gathering damp mud.

 

 

A quick prod-

 

 

Squeezing the blisters, water squirted out! How it's not rotten, I don't know.

 

 

The camera has gobbled the pics of my process, so we'll do without. I flappered it all back to bare metal, slapped on my phosphoic acid, left it to dry, then did two thick coats of warm Tetrosyl over the whole area.

I left the daft bits of plastic off.

 

 

Cocking Photobucket. I rotated that one twice.

That's an exhaust heat shield which protects the spare tyre. It was getting a bit thin, so it received the acid/underseal treatment too.

 

All back together.

 

 

Pleasure Wagon pisses on the arses of modern MPV's.

[Bucketeer]

Coming along very nicely Joe.

I agree that those wheels won't look too bad with higher profile winter tyres on.

With the rear mounted mirror you can conveniently admire your towbar handiwork/check it hasn't fallen off from the comfort of the cockpit.

[KruJoe]

That dangly mirror sucks donkey cock to be honest. I can't see bugger all with it. Yesterday, first time I hooked up, I inched backwards to the hitch, watching carefully, and there was a crunch, and I didn't see a thing. The trailer had worsened the crack in the number plate. Cock. I don't know how I missed it.

I may well bin off the mirror. However, I think the silly dark tinting film isn't helping.

 

Speaking of which...

 

 

See that window with the sign in it? That has no tint - it's a replacement after the previous one was smashed. NB sticky residue from the gap being taped up.

Anyway, the tint on the middle glass only looked a bit odd, so that had to go.

 

 

Warmed with my workshop hairdrier, it came off ok once I got under a corner. It has left a right PITA thin layer of dry glue, which will come off when I have half an hour more to give it.

The tape residue outside has all gone. It was slow with WD40, then "Sticky Stuff Remover" was no better, then tried Will's brake cleaner. Piece of piss with that, though you have to wait for a mo for it to melt the glue, but get it wiped off before it evaporates.

 

Oh, Dave_Station asked if I'd found the tool kit yet...

 

 

It's hidden under this little hatch in the floor, beside the middle row.

 

 

Nifty

 

 

[purplebargeken]

Yay!

[KruJoe]

Here's what you see when we roll back the two front seats and lift the hatches.

 

 

The engine's laid down under there, head at the driver's side.

 

 

I fitted an extra in-line filter (red) before the main fuel filter, to catch any diesel crud loosened by the veg.

 

The veg THE VEG! TIME TO VEG HER UP!

 

 

 

 

Will took great pleasure in decanting 50l of his finest filtered golden-brown.

 

The wagon was a little unsure of the WVO at the beginning (fuel starvation issues) so we tried bypassing my little gause filter. No better. We figured the extra viscosity of the veg wasn't getting through the old main filter quick enough under power, so we boshed on the new one I had ready. Old one beside new oil filter:

 

 

That's the old oil filter still in place under the centre of the car, and the new fuel filter fitted under the far side:

 

 

Once warmed up after that it's been fine

 

The first time we brimmed it, I'd only got about a litre of petrol in before it was spilling out, so I ran it for a day, then tipped in the rest of my gallon of pez. This thins the veg slightly and has made starting a bit sharper. I'll play with the blend a bit as we go on, but so far so good.

Now on 90% WVO and loving it!

[Lacquer Peel]

Engine access looks pretty shit on these!

 

The Pleasure Wagon running on veg fills me with pleasure.

[RobT]

Nice work Joe. I like the veg filling setup. Looks like Will was adding some bogies to the mixture in the second pic...