stuboy Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 On 3/16/2023 at 8:00 PM, BorniteIdentity said: looking good tommytwo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted April 12, 2023 Author Share Posted April 12, 2023 Regulars to the thread will remember my hatred of my garage door. It’s never worked properly despite many repair attempts. Here it is, flaccid on one side. Having bumped my head once too often, I decided it was about time I fixed the problem once and for all. This is typical of me; put a problem off for ages and then finally fix it for good - wishing I’d done so years ago. Fixed! Matty, Dyslexic Viking, GrumpiusMaximus and 35 others 15 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Isn't that a little.. extreme? chadders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustybullethole Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 2 hours ago, PhilA said: Isn't that a little.. extreme? Things you repeatedly bang your head on can get jolly annoying. BorniteIdentity and bunglebus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommytwo Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 It seems a bit drastic to demolish the whole bloody garage just because you keep banging your head on the door! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 You were only supposed to blow take the bloody door off! Ohdearme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted April 13, 2023 Author Share Posted April 13, 2023 9 hours ago, PhilA said: Isn't that a little.. extreme? You clearly never twatted your head on it, or had it fall down on your bonce in the slightest breeze, or had to hold it up in the pissing rain whilst someone else drove a car in/out (!) Silliness aside, it was condemned by the surveyor when we bought the house 8 years ago. I negotiated £10k off the price we'd agreed as it wasn't really a garage, and then proceeded to use it ever since. However, it's of poor construction... has heaved... has a leaky (cement bonded) asbestos roof and was genuinely horrible. I won't miss it and honestly believe the cars will be better outside being used than stuck in damp squalor. The garden will be infinitely more enjoyable for the kids, the house gets much more sunlight and I've got a gold star for commitment. I will probably have to lose one car from the collection unless I can find a favourable storage place somewhere nearby. PhilA, puddlethumper and Coprolalia 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Build a car port where the Sierra is parked? Will keep the worst of the elements off. adw1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camryv6 Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 5 hours ago, SiC said: Build a car port where the Sierra is parked? Will keep the worst of the elements off. I think you meant to say build a bigger garage ? alf892 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted April 14, 2023 Author Share Posted April 14, 2023 Boom LightBulbFun, Rust Collector, Dyslexic Viking and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camryv6 Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 opens the space up nicely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 1 hour ago, camryv6 said: opens the space up nicely for even more chod EFA 808 Estate, Shite Ron and camryv6 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camryv6 Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 With a small ramp, could you get a car through those patio doors ? 😎 BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 2 hours ago, camryv6 said: With a small ramp, could you get a car through those patio doors ? 😎 A smoll one, if the Mrs is out! (Oh, been said before?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted June 3, 2023 Author Share Posted June 3, 2023 So. What’s it like running about in a 24 year old car with 156,000 on the clock? Proper. Really do love it. Not a single issue since collecting it, and I’ve now done over 3,000 miles in it. Plan was to service it this weekend but the weather’s too nice! As for the garage?! Well - it looks better as a lawn. AnnoyingPentium, SiC, Coprolalia and 9 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted July 8, 2023 Author Share Posted July 8, 2023 Finally got around to servicing the Rav. It really is a joyous thing to have, and underneath it’s fairly close to perfect. I’m continually amazed by it. Usual story when I service a car myself for the first time. Sump plug was genuinely finger tight, oil filter meanwhile ended up like a crushed coke can. Anyone know how to enter the mechanics olympics? Oil filter tightening is clearly a sport. Wonderful things to service these - front facing oil filter, sump near the front and - for the first time ever - I probably had the car too high! I could barely reach to take the oil filter out, and I’m 6’1. Next job is to spray up the underneath this summer and two front tyres are required too. Took it to Tesco and found a fellow V reg Toyota chum. 🥰 157,677 (Not Out) Brodders, High Jetter, Tickman and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 6 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said: Took it to Tesco and found a fellow V reg Toyota chum. 🥰 157,677 (Not Out) We'll have to get it together with a certain other V-reg Toyota one day. It's out the front of the house here as I type. You've just got 120k to go to catch up with it..... BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 crikey how solid is the bASe that it survived an entire garage falling on top of it 😲 Even the glass survived, that's bloody lucky man GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Happy 40th Birthday to the bASe! 🎂🎂🎂 Registered on this day in 1983. EspenO, KWhite, egg and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted August 1, 2023 Author Share Posted August 1, 2023 On 7/14/2023 at 5:16 PM, greengartside said: Happy 40th Birthday to the bASe! 🎂🎂🎂 Registered on this day in 1983. Yes! Somehow I missed your post. Well done for remembering! The tweet (or X or whatever I'm supposed to call it now) proved popular too. As mumbled elsewhere, we took the old lady to Festival of the Unexceptional on Saturday. The car hadn't turned a wheel in two months (since the MOT I went for when the guy had double booked himself) but behaved immaculately until we parked on the field. It seemed to blow a bit of water out of the expansion tank overflow thing, so we had a cloud of steam for about 30 seconds. Nothing since then so I'm putting it down to the inordinately long wait to get into what has become an incredibly popular event. We got papped quite a lot, largely thanks to being parked next to a Delorean. I'm delighted to say that lovely Keith Adams included it in his roundup for Car Magazine (further reading here https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-events/festival-of-the-unexceptional/?fbclid=IwAR3WqjZcDbBqCds7q3FvriuthSmiIlGza2fEEFuHEI-8nisZWpYP2bbNmKs) It also featured in quite a popular Instagram post, although I did take umbrage at the author crowbarring ULEZ into the conversation. As I reminded him, it's now free of all London charging, so not a fair point well made at all. With any luck it'll be off to @Angrydickynext month for some repairs, maybe October if we get an Indian summer and I can get a bit more enjoyment out of it first. The offside doors really are toast and the snapped clutch adjuster is annoying (it rattles!) but, otherwise, it did us very very proud indeed. LightBulbFun, Tickman, mercedade and 28 others 31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Thanks for the update Bornite. Gotta agree, there’s a whole load of people out there who can’t help but turn a positive thing into a negative. Just an inevitable consequence of social media I guess. Good to hear that the base Sierra looks to have a secure future and look forward to seeing it further improved in due course. All the best. BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted August 9, 2023 Author Share Posted August 9, 2023 A little RAV update then. It's been with me for nearly six months now and I've clocked up just over 6,000 miles in that time. It is glorious. At some stage, when summer makes an appearance, I will go through the undercarriage with this Lanoguard that everyone's raving about and see how it compares with the Dynax I've been using for the past few years. I noticed the rear plate was starting to delaminate a bit. Needing a yellow plate for my trailer, I decided to indulge myself (and the car) so pulled the trigger on a beautiful set of dealer repro plates. I found the correct ESSEX PARK footer on Flickr (thanks to a fellow nerd who, amazingly, wasn't @Spottedlaurel) and sent it over to the dude at Retroplates. He showed me the proofs for approval, took my money and delivered them four days later. Thanks to the utterly shit photo compression on here, I decided I'd make them look even worse on purpose. (Fuck my life) Anyway, here's a close up that will - undoubtedly- be reduced to a grand total of 9 pixels. Pretty, eh? Matty, timolloyd, Shirley Knott and 20 others 21 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 I've failed! All I have are a couple of photos of the rear window sticker (and it looks like you have a decent one). mk2_craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 glad to see the bASe is out and about! I look forward to seeing its upcoming fettling sessions side note, Title reminds me of an Autoshite version of Blur Bugman LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan302 Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276306106534?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PZmyXFenTRq&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=0gRg2HOGS5y&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY rob88h, adw1977 and Eyersey1234 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 15 minutes ago, sierraman said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276306106534?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PZmyXFenTRq&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=0gRg2HOGS5y&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Is that a non UK spec one? Just wondered with it having the extra lights at the front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 You could get those hella grills at the time; I nearly bought one about five years ago when I had that pretty green Sierra. That is, I have to say, a lot of very useful stuff all packed up neatly* in a Sierra shaped shell. If i was a wealthy man, and these cars were still cheap, I would simply buy it and pull all the bits (particularly interior) out that I needed - sell the engine and box and bail the rest. I reckon it's just too far gone, and few people will be interested with 5 doors. Eyersey1234 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 No I think they’re a period accessory adw1977 and Eyersey1234 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timolloyd Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 That one looks like @Peter C worst nightmare. SiC, JakeT, BorniteIdentity and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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