🚨L1's♦️ shenanigans 🍷🚨 All Renault fleet, one in..

[loserone]

Did something inexplicable

Sadly not the 205.

 

[loserone]

Japanese car in very competent shocker

[loserone]

2 hours ago, loserone said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

This farm is for sale too

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/114319850

 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/114319871

[loserone]

Fucksake

 

FRV front airbag cannot be disabled, and the manual can only advise a mother on her own with a small rear facing baby to sit in the back and get some other fucker to drive.  This makes this family people carrier utterly fucking useless for us.  

 

Anyone in need of a people carrier? 

[Lacquer Peel]

Has the V-TEC kicked in?

[Noel Tidybeard]

can rfcs not fit on front centre seat?

[loserone]

Nope.  The handbook basically says if you have children under 12 they must be in the back or they will die a painful death.  Also adults who want to put children in the front are killers 

 

 

So instead they'll all go in the 205

[Minimad5]

On 10/2/2021 at 7:04 PM, loserone said:

 

Tell me more about the 205 🤩

[loserone]

14 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

Tell me more about the 205 🤩

That one? It's a neighbour of the bloke we bought the FR-V from.

[twosmoke300]

I’m sure you could unplug the front airbag and obtain a bypass resistor 

[loserone]

Indeed, but then we'd have an FR-V.  

 

Mrs L1 said tonight "just to be absolutely clear, I am not happy with either the CR-V or the FR-V as a family car.  I want a disco 2"

 

That's me told then

[Dick Cheeseburger]

5 minutes ago, loserone said:

Indeed, but then we'd have an FR-V.  

 

Mrs L1 said tonight "just to be absolutely clear, I am not happy with either the CR-V or the FR-V as a family car.  I want a disco 2"

 

That's me told then

I was going to ask what you reckon of the CeeAreVee mk2 - there's  a clean looking 06 in black with the 2.2 derv lump for sale vaguely local to me and it keeps catching my eye.

Then I saw the photos of the undercrackers of your CR-V and came to the conclusion that it seems to be a case of TADTS. Having said that, the MOT history of the one I like the look of hasn't mentioned grot at any point, which seems to be unusual for these. 

Best find myself for a cheap three pot shitter for the salty months I fear.

[twosmoke300]

Disco 2 - fuck that for a game of soldiers 😂 I’d get another missis 

[Timewaster]

*watches with vague interest*

 

Frv price and location?

[AxWomble]

22 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I was going to ask what you reckon of the CeeAreVee mk2 - there's  a clean looking 06 in black with the 2.2 derv lump for sale vaguely local to me and it keeps catching my eye.

Then I saw the photos of the undercrackers of your CR-V and came to the conclusion that it seems to be a case of TADTS. Having said that, the MOT history of the one I like the look of hasn't mentioned grot at any point, which seems to be unusual for these. 

Best find myself for a cheap three pot shitter for the salty months I fear.

A 3 pot hack you say? 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

2 minutes ago, AxWomble said:

A 3 pot hack you say? 

I appreciate the thought, but no. I know there are fans of them on here, but to me, syphilis is slightly more appealing. 

[AxWomble]

2 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I appreciate the thought, but no. I know there are fans of them on here, but to me, syphilis is slightly more appealing. 

Perfectly fair. Parts availability can be a bit spiky as well by the sound of it, aside from the other quirks of such an unrefined car (and I’m saying that as the driver of a diesel 106!) 

[loserone]

22 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Frv price and location?

It's in the sticks which must be ideal for you.  Will PM

[Asimo]

22 hours ago, loserone said:

Mrs L1 said tonight "just to be absolutely clear, I am not happy with either the CR-V or the FR-V as a family car.  I want a disco 2"          That's me told then.

Make sure it is a petrol V8 or she will be even more disapointed.

[Lacquer Peel]

Disco 2s are great, agree with H. 

[loserone]

My CR-V has been useful this weekend, though I haven't driven it.  I'll use this as a prod for @Jimbob McGregor to start a thread.

 

The FR-V needs a tickle on the exhaust so it'll get that and a test in the next month.   It'll then be for sale because it's too competent and boring.

[loserone]

I'm saying nowt.

 

Couple of issues to try to get sorted (an engine mount and a minor* case of ABS system not communicating) and I get get rid of those terrible wheels and get this back into circulation

 

[loserone]

 

Made it roll

Obviously it's raining sideways so I got soaked to the skin

Stop for a fotie

Home, shuffling pugs

New home

 

 

Thanks to @martybabes and @Jimbob McGregor, without whom I'd have never got it home.

[gm]

belongs in the calendar thread  

(so I have put it there)

[LightBulbFun]

I didn't even know you could A frame a Tractor like that LOL

probably the first and only time its ever been above 12Mph im guessing LOL

[Jimbob McGregor]

I’ll take the credit for stopping and nudging @loserone  to take a photo by the Town Hall. 
The tractor sat quite nicely at 20-25 mph on the road back up the Dale, as said above it might be the fastest it’s ever rolled!

[warch]

23 hours ago, loserone said:

I love the paint scheme, clearly a tribute to MV Agusta.

[loserone]

/me searches ebay for MV Agusta decals.

 

Now it's actually home and I can believe it's staying, I'm picking up where I left off with the fuel tank.  It's canny rusty inside so I've had it with a bit of petrol and a ton of screws in it for a few months, shaking it up every time I remember.

 

Today I've got all of that out (except a couple of pesky screws) and I've put some phosphoric acid in it.  We'll see after 24 hours how much rust is left, but I foresee dropping just shy of £200 for a new tank.

[anonymous user]

5 hours ago, warch said:

I love the paint scheme, clearly a tribute to MV Agusta.

I suspect it's more, I didn't have any Fergie grey paint, but had some red which will do.

[loserone]

Yeah, I think there was a lot of that about when this was last "restored"