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[beko1987]

Spray lacquer over it and pretend it's the effect you've been going for and cost a fortune for the special paint?

[stuboy]

Today I painted my hallway. Big hallway. Anyway I used matt emulsion and painted over the silk emulsion allready on walls. Paint has now all cracked like an alligator skin. Quick Google and you shouldn't paint over silk with Matt paint. Don't know wether to try kitchen and bathroom paint ,a bit thicker or start wallpapering. Pain in the arse.

i was asked to paint my mates mum bathroom with matt paint over silk i told her it go crappy but she insisted on it.. looked crap.. as predicted.

[taxi paul]

My hallway has been pineappled!!!!!.

[cobblers]

Tesco have semi synthetic oil for £5/2l and fully synthetic for £6/2l at the moment.

[Bobthebeard]

Spent an afternoon working on the Oldsmobile today. The (last) brake caliper to have new pads fitted had a siezed slider and handbrake arm. No amount of penetrating oil, heat and hammering would free anything off. Then the slider broke. Bugger. Expecting the worst I checked Rock Auto. £39 including shipping from the USA for a complete rebuilt caliper! Sounded good to me so one is now on the way.

A pile of rusty flakes on the floor turned out to be a disintegrating heat shield above the rear silencer. So removed silencer and shield. Silencer full of water and rust, shield was crispy so binned both. Remarkably little rust on the underside once the large heat shield was gone. Wire brushed it all and gave it a good dose of Dynax UB.

Just 'out of interest' I fired her up without the rear box, as you do....

Sounded wonderful! Wasn't actually that loud (has a silencer after the cat) but for a short while 'I was* blipping the throttle on a Dodge Charger before leaving Rosco P Coltrane slithering in a ditch.'

[drum]

Thanks to Facebook I have a full 14 inches now.

 

Turns out there is a fellow allegro owner local to me with a pump for the hydrolastic suspension.

[MarvinsMom]

i think we are going to see this at the weekend, assuming that its still for sale

 

http://www.platinummotorcompany.co.uk/used-cars/jaguar-xj-3-0-xj6-4dr-batley-201705315977085

 

 

now i like the Rover. i mean really, really like the Rover.

 

so i don't need another car, especially another XJ6, which will be a money pit!

 

but,

 

BUT its a jaguar,

 

and i like Jaguar's....

 

its a 3 litre V6, so eaier to live with than a V8, has 70k on the clock. good service history, and its advertised at £3700.

 

WCPGW, apart from me really taking a shine to it and buying the bloody thing!!

 

anything i should look for, besides paint bubbles, warning lights either not coming on and going out, and electric things not working?

[holbeck]

This evening i went to view this BMW 525e which was advertised on ebay.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132248822683

 

It was very local and really caught my eye so it was worth a look, it turned out that it belongs to a local garage owner who i know who buys cars to sell, he didn't really want to sell this but said i could have it for £2800, it drove really bloody lovely for a old car with nearly 200k, it honestly felt like it had done less than half that mileage and the 2.7 6 cylinder sounded amazing.

 

 

 

The interior was remarkable too, the leather had no damage, everything works other than a rear window and apparently its a rare spec with heated leather seats and switchable auto?.

 

 

Sadly thats were things started to go down hill, the rust was worse than i hoped, a rear door had a hole and the front door was rotten inside the shut and inside base.

 

 

The rear valance was quite soft and snotty with a small hole in the inside rear arch base and one arch was bubbling.

 

 

And other sills with scabby and looked a bit soft, especially the wing bases.

 

 

That said none of it looked awful and all seemed relatively straight forwards to tidy up. He said he would service it for £2800 too, I'm really quite tempted as i was taken too it but it just seems a bit expensive considering the rusty bits?

 

A bit late to this, I know Trig decided (probably rightly) not to make an offer.

 

I love it because it's brown inside and out, and it's an auto.

 

Sadly, as I have found to my cost in the past. Those things also make it undesireable to all but a select few.

 

 

 

Having said that, still kicking myself that I didn't make Breadvan an offer on his Brown e34, seeing as it got broken in the end.

[trigger]

I decided against that Daimler in the end, I had a long hard think about it and even spoke to the owner on the phone and whilst it all sounds good on paper i had this feeling that i was probably jumping into it a bit after a rebound from the BMW, the seller said he had replaced absolutely loads on it but it would probably break me and it really is a long way away from here, i worked it out that it would cost me at least £200 just to get it home and that was if it was as nice as it sounded.

 

Oh well the hunt continuies...

[cort16]

Did you see the 6 series I posted on the tat thread?

[trigger]

I like 6 Series's but i want something more practical, we have a 18 month old and another one the way so it needs to be able to take two car seats (preferably rear facing to keep the wife happy) and room in the boot for a pram. A Mk2 Granada is still looking the most likely at the moment.

[DodgeRover]

I like 6 Series's but i want something more practical, we have a 18 month old and another one the way so it needs to be able to take two car seats (preferably rear facing to keep the wife happy) and room in the boot for a pram. A Mk2 Granada is still looking the most likely at the moment.

Import yourself a XD, XE, XF Falcon station wagon from Aus available with 351 V8 for maximum climate improvement. Like a granny but bigger and better.

[DeeJay]

i think we are going to see this at the weekend, assuming that its still for sale

 

http://www.platinummotorcompany.co.uk/used-cars/jaguar-xj-3-0-xj6-4dr-batley-201705315977085

 

 

 

 

anything i should look for, 

 

Chequebook and nearest petrol station.

[Brodders]

Oh well the hunt continuies...

What about the Orion that was mentioned a few weeks ago? Is that a no go?

[stuboy]

i think we are going to see this at the weekend, assuming that its still for sale

 

http://www.platinummotorcompany.co.uk/used-cars/jaguar-xj-3-0-xj6-4dr-batley-201705315977085

 

 

now i like the Rover. i mean really, really like the Rover.

 

so i don't need another car, especially another XJ6, which will be a money pit!

 

but,

 

BUT its a jaguar,

 

and i like Jaguar's....

 

 

go for it !!

[trigger]

What about the Orion that was mentioned a few weeks ago? Is that a no go?

I'm still waiting on that, I'm waiting on the tractor blocking it in to be fixed but that will probably replace the Dolomite. Even if i get it tomorrow it will still take a while to recommisson anyway, I'm looking for a bigger usable classic for up to £4000 to use and the Orion will be the Dolly replacement.

 

I guess sensibly i should kept the Dolly and wait until the Orion is ready and concentrate on that but when have i ever been sensible when cars are involved and i have money in the bank?!

[captain_70s]

the Orion will be the Dolly replacement.

Replace a 1500SE with an ORION? We are no longer friends...

 

In other news I got lost again tonight, ended up in Shawlands, although that is closer to my intended destination and didn't feature the charges I met at the airport. I have now devised a new route avoiding the M74 and instead heading North on to the M8 and then on to Great Western Road, it might even be a bit faster than my usual route given the lack of traffic at midnight... Probably should have done this last night... 

[Eddie Honda]

PM me where you're starting from and going too and I'll give you my Mk1 eyeball /HondaNav route.

[somewhatfoolish]

I thought I'd find somewhere to stop at the airport to work out a route home, navigating into the airport I picked a destination which happened to be Car Park 2 as I thought Car Park 1 would be closer to the terminal, because numbers. It's not 'till you get to the barriers they point out the charges and there was no way back other than reversing back through the one-way system.

My prior experience of driving around an airport was Aberdeen which is a wee bit smaller...

 

Beyond the Clyde Tunnel junction I have no idea what goes where further down the road, the only place I drive to that isn't in the West End is work! I can't stand city/motorway driving so I'm tragically unfamiliar with the area...

The goat-fondling arseweasels who run GLA have taken the shite system that made no fucking sense that was assembled out of stray lumps of concrete in a hurry after those twats rammed the terminal with a Jeep and replaced it with an even shittier system that fucks you for money even if you don't want to stop as the signage is so shite it doesn't tell you which are the chargeable bits and which aren't. Robbing cunts, the lot of them. From now on if I'm picking anyone up or setting down they're getting out at the car hire place, I'm buggered if these thieving bastards are getting any more money other than via the plane ticket.

 

When I was a idle student with loans to waste on cars I was quite adept at whizzing around Glasgow via numerous ratruns, but the advent of cunts' tricks like 24hr bus lanes, closing off roads to create cul-de-sacs, stupid one way systems, bastard gatsos and the passing of 20 years means I stay out of the place if at all possible.

[dollywobbler]

I know, let's start pouring money into another ropey old heap!

 

I was going to start work, but it's really hot, and the tennis is on...

[Spottedlaurel]

A neighbour of mine is restoring this little thing, which has been off the road since the early-mid ‘80s.

 

1967 Hillman Imp Californian by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

1967 Hillman Imp Californian by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Some of the previous repairs were quite creative.

 

1967 Hillman Imp Californian by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[DodgeRover]

Browsing on mobile is that wicker work and a stuffed otter?

[Bobthebeard]

Browsing on mobile is that wicker work and a stuffed otter?

Possibly. But the top part looks more like a dried warthog head (with wicker work creatively woven around, and through it) to me. Impressive.

[MarvinsMom]

Marvin the metro has, at last been returned from the car whisperer, and it is, it seems MUCH improved.

 

as i've not yet had a chance to drive it, i am having to rely on what Kerry says.

 

its had a new exhaust manifold gasket, new gasket for the carb and a new jet (i think) plus a damn good tune up.

 

it has already been to the shops this afternoon and Kerry is going to take it to work tomorrow, so i will have to wait until the weekend before i can have a drive in it,

[greengartside]

A small update...

 

...the Astra that I bought for £0 has been fixed with a new turbo. I popped by at lunchtime to see how they were doing. Turns out it was in the middle of it's M.o.T which I am pleased to say it sailed through without a single advisory! Not bad for a car that had been left for three years.

 

I then taxed it and put £20 of dizzle in it to dilute the old crappy stuff that was left in the tank. Then I hooned it and I had a stupid grin on my face the whole time.

 

So yeah, ALL VORXORLS R'NT SHIT - FACT.

 

 

Victory bath time!

[Guest Hooli]

If that's a photo of your victory bath, I'm glad photobucket has hidden it!

[greengartside]

If that's a photo of your victory bath, I'm glad photobucket has hidden it!

 

It's not come up with that stupid bandwith thing has it? FFS PHOTOFUCKERS.

 

Here we are..

https://flic.kr/p/WcyvkJ

[stuboy]

Whilst looking for gifs online this turned up, anyones?

[Crusty Sills]

After my Seat Ibiza (Slug as he is known) disgraced himself last week by breaking down in the rain. He won it all back by getting to the garage resting a few days and starting straight up and running perfectly when the mechanic tried. They offered to put the code reader on but said it would be 40 quid and would make no difference. So I got in and drove away not owing them anything. They seemed happy as they were struggling to get through their list of cars to repair.

[Roverageous]

Anyone have any remote idea about the horrible sticky gooey mess I keep finding on my car?

 

Clear, sticky goo that appears in about 1cm ‘blobs’ on my paintwork, can scrape it off with your nail, but trying to get the fucking stuff off your hands is horrendous. It smells menthol / euclyptussy. Seems to appear in hot weather so I’m guessing it’s sap or something from a tree I have yet to identify.