Datsuncog's Heaps: Sept 2023 - Another Year's T-Met Exemption Certificate...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

If it's 2457cc, I'm guessing you're after another Subaru...

Yet another rotting Forester? Or an Impreza?

[Soundwave]

My money's on another Subaru. Another Forester perhaps, one that isn't held together with chassis paint and wishful thinking.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

My money's on another Subaru. Another Forester perhaps, one that isn't held together with chassis paint and wishful thinking.

'Tis only duct tape and hope keeping 'em together these days.

[bunglebus]

Must be a bargain if you can get out enough cash to buy it from an ATM

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Must be a bargain if you can get out enough cash to buy it from an ATM

What you've not seen is the JCB yer man's using to extract* the ATM.

[Datsuncog]

56 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

If it's 2457cc, I'm guessing you're after another Subaru...

Yet another rotting Forester? Or an Impreza?

 

54 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

My money's on another Subaru. Another Forester perhaps, one that isn't held together with chassis paint and wishful thinking.

Close... very close!

42 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Must be a bargain if you can get out enough cash to buy it from an ATM

With a bit of jiggery-pokery across more than one account, then yes... cash machine cars FTW.

😄

[hairnet]

it woulda been quicker to get the ferry to cairnryan

volvo export hopefully?

fucked jetta diesel you woulda stayed on your own cuntry hai!

 

[hairnet]

legacy estate ahm thunkun

farmer spec ftw

 

[Datsuncog]

After Hitch the Second (airport bus no longer stopping at the necessary rail link, and managing to get myself rather lost in the rain trying to walk there), I think this is now Stage 6 of the journey... I'm beginning to lose count, if I'm honest. It's been an action-packed morning.

But I think this should be the penultimate link in the chain...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, hairnet said:

legacy estate ahm thunkun

farmer spec ftw

 

That was going to be the alternative guess. What other cars run* on 2457cc?

[Datsuncog]

Electrickery train is astonishingly quiet compared to Norn Iron diesel thumpers.

Local delicacies procured for the trip. Hopefully my rain-soaked duncher will be dry-ish by the time I arrive.

[hairnet]

def not worth setting aff at 6am fer

roll and squair pic or i call dundonald

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Must be a bargain if you can get out enough cash to buy it from an ATM

The alternative method* was this:

 

[Dave_Q]

Once upon a time I did something like the reverse of this to collect an Impreza from Belfast back to Huddersfield. Only 1 bus and 1 train to get to the airport then the chap met me at the airport.

The drive from the ferry in scotchland back was way longer than it looked on any map.

Chodspeed.

[Datsuncog]

23 hours ago, hairnet said:

def not worth setting aff at 6am fer

roll and squair pic or i call dundonald

SCENERY YO

You don't get vistas like that in Dundonald.

Ok, you might, but only if you go up into the hills a wee bit.

I actually went looking for some local meat-based delicacies to make Breakfast #4, but there was bollock-all and after walking past at least two dozen branches of Starbucks and Costa and Pret, I just gave up and went back to the station.

I bought some of this too, but since you can also buy it in Dundonald I agree it proves nothing.

Getting close now!

Rainbow of hopefulness puts in an appearance.

Do like a bit of Elkie, it has to be said.

[Dabooka]

Outback?

Have we had that yet?

[Datsuncog]

2 minutes ago, Dabooka said:

Outback?

Ding ding ding!!!

[Dabooka]

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

Ding ding ding!!!

Huzzah! I know I wanted one before I got my Forester just none local / good enough / in budget at the time.  Without even seeing it I know there will be much want by me.

I should also look at the underside of mine I guess before anything sets in. Still remarkably solid and it'll only help to move it on next year.

[GeordieInExile]

Cream soda is the soft drink of winners.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

13 minutes ago, Dabooka said:

Outback?

Yer man seems to going into it to get it

[beko1987]

Buying a car from scotland to replace a car that rusted away alarmingly quickly with a car from the same marque that's lived in Scotland, famed for its dry sunny climes... Brave! 

[RoadworkUK]

Damn. From the additional clue* above I thought you were buying a Mk 1 Rover Stirling (sic).

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 minute ago, beko1987 said:

Buying a car from scotland to replace a car that rusted away alarmingly quickly with a car from the same marque that's lived in Scotland, famed for its dry sunny climes... Brave! 

One might almost say it was the Turd Dreich

[bunglebus]

I'm just waiting to see how you get it on the plane for the journey home

[andy18s]

19 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I'm just waiting to see how you get it on the plane for the journey home

If it's as good as the Forester then a dustpan,brush and bin bag should be enough..

[hairnet]

how close is the scrapper to sydenham

 

[Datsuncog]

44 minutes ago, andy18s said:

If it's as good as the Forester then a dustpan,brush and bin bag should be enough..

Heh, thankfully it's a good bit better than the Forester... but the lesson learned is to move 'em on, not keep them until they're borked...

[Datsuncog]

I was going to go for a pez shot, but it's got plenty of fuel in it - so have an atmospheric autumnal snap instead.

Yup, it's the Subaru Outback of quite a few shiters (so far) - I believe I'm the fifth custodian of this fine vehicle from these hallowed beige pages?

Just gotta get this one back over the sea, is all...

First impressions: it certainly pulls. Nice noise from the 2.5 litre boxer lump through those twin exhausts, and surprisingly little wind noise through the pillarless glazing compared to the Forester (which made every journey sound like it was happening in a wind tunnel).

ABS sensor and drop links will need seen to, as discussed. But it's very clean and quiet inside. I are impress.

Moment of mild terror while exiting Chez JimH's laneway when suddenly it started beeping insistently at me, and which I feared was some sort of 'Fucking Fucked M8' alarm - but turned out to be only the passenger seatbelt warning, which sounds above 15mph and had been triggered by my hefty backpack dumped onto the shotgun seat. The Forester featured this same alert for the driver, but not for the passenger's side. Bag into the footwell, and calmness reigned once again. At least I worked it out by myself, and didn't have to make a complete tit of myself by phoning Jim to bleat that the car was making funny noises.

May not be many more updates until I (hopefully) hit Cairnryan - so fingers crossed!

[bunglebus]

If the shit hits the fan, you have a spares car...

[Datsuncog]

Stopped along the A876 for a mildly squished spicy bean wrap and a glug of iced tea, procured earlier this morning from a Tesco in Glasgow.

Landscape is rather lovely.

As it happens, Clackmannanshire is kinda my ancestral homelands, according to a load of research done by The Cogmother a while ago, going back to the 1650s. So that's kinda nice.

Sensibly*, I took the decision to leave my sunglasses at home this morning because the forecast was for constant, heavy rain all day. But alas no longer.

Ah great. Wet reflective roads and bright low sunshine. Great combo.

The now-quaint and faintly retro CD player was anticipated...

...so we have CD choons, people. No Spotify here.

First up, the album I hadn't finished listening to when the Forester carked it.

The open road beckons...