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[DeanH]

11 minutes ago, HMC said:

I believe they were based in these buildings in Huddersfield.

 

Article with family link for further anecdotal interest

 

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/ask-examiner-huddersfield-once-more-11738937?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

[bunglebus]

Proper British motor. Didn't get much better -  I mean look at the state of this thing

[eddyramrod]

Well I know which one I'd rather drive.  One white RR, I would pay my own money to have outside the house.  The other, even Jimmy Carr hasn't got enough to pay me to be seen in the same town!

[grogee]

Who the fuck was buying Rolls Royces in Huddersfield (apart from Sir Jimmy Savile of course)? 

You are now Tavistock's enemy no. 1 @HMC. They won't know what to do with themselves when they see that. Probably curtsy and wet themselves simultaneously 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

HMC and his chauffeur outside Tavistock School , today.

[junkyarddog]

I know it's wedding wagon white,but that old thing has real presence and character,something so lacking in today's "premium" cars.

[artdjones]

On 04/01/2024 at 16:55, NorfolkNWeigh said:

It wasn’t all paedos and racists.

No, there were some sex crazed alcoholics too.

[Matty]

@HMCs attitude of lifes too short, its only money is stirring stuff. Fair bloody play to you!

[HMC]

When i got my s class, it would be on its bumpstops after about a couple of hours and do a lowrider impression, along with the airmatic red warning message of doom on the dash. Usually people run a mile but as said s class was cheap enough, I thought- why not, its only air finding a way out somwhere?

It looked cool but basically valves should maintain the ride height when the car is not being used so something was amiss. Despite my limited skills I decided that fixing borked merc air suspension was something i should have a go at. The compressor also made a very loud noise as well so i decided to jack/axle stand  it and have a look…

 

So the noise was certainly from the sprung rubber bushings being replaced with cable ties, which were basically clamping the compressor to the bodywork, acting like a sounding board;hence the noise. As it was VERY noisy i couldnt rule out the compressor itself (which had been replaced at some stage already) being on its last legs. Very much so as it was working overtime to counter the deflating suspension.

I also thought there might be an issue with the valve block (sat above the compressor) as the whole car sank, rather than one end or corner which might otherwise suggest a local rather than control system pressure loss.

I was working on a few assumptions but decided a second hand valve block and compressor would target a few issues at once.

£80 quid later i had the sub assembly ready to go. 

This lives under the OSF wheel arch….

 

Being methodical i marked up all air lines…

And swapped it all over piece by piece.

And before long the spaghetti was all back where it should be..

 

And with crossed fingers I started it up, the properly isolated compressor was silently doing its job. Or was it? Being so used to the racket i was worried it was inoperative! but once the totally depressurised system was pumped back up , no longer do i have a low rider on its bump stops after a few hours parked, and its working perfectly, Result! 

[Schaefft]

Excellent work, air suspension systems usually aren't that complicated and with W220 being in the price range now where every second example is ending up in the breaker's yard parts will be cheap as well. The ABC system on the other hand...Great to see this one being an easy fix, let's hope it'll stay nice and level now.

[bunglebus]

At least with the ABC system you get to make the car dance after doing any suspension work on them

[grogee]

On 06/01/2024 at 13:41, HMC said:

When i got my s class

I can't keep up with your S-Classes let alone the whole fleet. When did you get this one, what donk does it have, and when are you selling it? 

(Excellent work by the way. You've now progressed to four-spanner Haynes standard) 

[HMC]

I swapped this for the passat i had (the one with the miss matched door)

this one is an E320 cdi, 2004

[bezzabsa]

I dunno S Class AND a Roller, you'll have the Local chavs knocking ya door for their weekly/daily supply

[wuvvum]

22 hours ago, HMC said:

I swapped this for the passat i had (the one with the miss matched door)

I suspect you may have come out on top on that particular deal...

[HMC]

I also found some treasure under a seat in the shad, which contains some health advice from the government…..

[EyesWeldedShut]

You can setup a black market now - when I was a kid there was one lot of folks collected those, the other lot Green Shield Stamps. Trades took place - exchange rate varied depending on who wanted what out of which catalogue.

You could even get a whole Ford Escort if you had enough

[wuvvum]

When I was a kid the available car was a Vauxhall Nova 1.2 Merit 2-door saloon.  I wonder if anyone actually managed to "buy" a car using Green Shield stamps.

[HMC]

Interesting, i had no idea what it was!

[HMC]

This shad appears to have originally been a dark gold colour , and as it fell from grace it inevitably ended up white. It has no history, so im going to make a project of trying to trace it.

Alas i presume a v888 isnt a viable option @LightBulbFun - not unless i claim its part of operation yewtree! 

[Asimo]

Just now, HMC said:

It has no history, so im going to make a project of trying to RACE  it

F.T.F.Y.

[Asimo]

23 hours ago, HMC said:

 

Lovely picture. How much better would the car look without the paranoia glass…

[grogee]

27 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

You can setup a black market now - when I was a kid there was one lot of folks collected those, the other lot Green Shield Stamps. Trades took place - exchange rate varied depending on who wanted what out of which catalogue.

You could even get a whole Ford Escort if you had enough

Somehow, when I was a teenager, I acquired a set of those chrome fog lamps. I don't know how or from whom, but I definitely had them. Like a twat I lost one, then the other, and I still pine for a set now. They were really sturdy and heavy and I liked the asymmetrical yellow/white arrangement. 

They'd have been the bollocks on my Mini 1275GT but I'd lost them by then. Arses. 

[LightBulbFun]

20 minutes ago, HMC said:

This shad appears to have originally been a dark gold colour , and as it fell from grace it inevitably ended up white. It has no history, so im going to make a project of trying to trace it.

Alas i presume a v888 isnt a viable option @LightBulbFun - not unless i claim its part of operation yewtree! 

looks like it had its colour change to white, on the 20th of the 11th 1988, previously to that it was Silver! what it was before then I sadly dont know

its had its fair number of keepers! amazingly no previous private plates however which I am not sure I believe really, surely being a rolls i'd of expected it to have had a number of private plates!

tho that being said DBU278K is a completely period Oldham registration mark, so its not an age related plate or anything like that. and Oldham will be where it was first registered, if that helps give you a starting point

 

V888's can be still be done but last I saw one done, a few years ago, thanks to GDPR they where quite nerfed, and only gave you a partial address of every previous keeper, mainly just the general town they resided in etc (plus any extra info you request like colour or plate changes)

which is still better than nothing mind!

 

tis nice old thing the Shadow is pretty much the last Rolls Royce I consider a "proper" rolls if that makes sense, so its always nice to see one   and glad to hear its been saved from meeting its demise

im sure the later ones from before BMW took over are probably still decent in that regard also, but I have never gelled with their styling

 

 

[Schaefft]

16 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

looks like it had its colour change to white, on the 20th of the 11th 1988, previously to that it was Silver! what it was before then I sadly dont know

its had its fair number of keepers! amazingly no previous private plates however which I am not sure I believe really, surely being a rolls i'd of expected it to have had a number of private plates!

tho that being said DBU278K is a completely period Oldham registration mark, so its not an age related plate or anything like that. and Oldham will be where it was first registered, if that helps give you a starting point

 

V888's can be still be done but last I saw one done, a few years ago, thanks to GDPR they where quite nerfed, and only gave you a partial address of every previous keeper, mainly just the general town they resided in etc (plus any extra info you request like colour or plate changes)

which is still better than nothing mind!

 

tis nice old thing the Shadow is pretty much the last Rolls Royce I consider a "proper" rolls if that makes sense, so its always nice to see one   and glad to hear its been saved from meeting its demise

im sure the later ones from before BMW took over are probably still decent in that regard also, but I have never gelled with their styling

 

 

Sorry for going offtopic but which website provides an owner overview like this?

[LightBulbFun]

2 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

Sorry for going offtopic but which website provides an owner overview like this?

a commercial tool which I pay for that I have access to for Invacar research purposes primarily  

but im otherwise quite tetchy on sharing its exact details, since well its something you have to pay for so its no good for most people looking for free lookups, but primarily because I dont want anyone to do anything nefarious using it

(not that I think you yourself would personally but in general etc)

 

 

[Schaefft]

2 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

a commercial tool which I pay for that I have access to for Invacar research purposes primarily  

but im otherwise quite tetchy on sharing its exact details, since well its something you have to pay for so its no good for most people looking for free lookups, but primarily because I dont want anyone to do anything nefarious using it

(not that I think you yourself would personally but in general etc)

 

 

Ah, that makes sense. Just something very handy to have with high previous owner numbers. Which in case of this Rolls is just nuts.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

12 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

Sorry for going offtopic but which website provides an owner overview like this?

I'm pretty sure the answer is this...