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[SierraMikeHotel]

You'd recommend it then?

 

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I do, although judging by the photos I'm going to bring the average age down a fair bit (although that seems normal in any club). I'm going to a meet at the Hendon RAF museum in a few weeks, will report back from there.

 

I get 10-15% off parts and 25% off labour at the Mercedes main dealer in Brighton which is well worth having. Various other discounts too.

[beko1987]

605 now has fitted dealer mats front and back.

 

 

 

Had an awful January and February isn't looking much better. Be nice.

I can hear Mr Sterling rubbing his thighs from here!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I do, although judging by the photos I'm going to bring the average age down a fair bit (although that seems normal in any club). I'm going to a meet at the Hendon RAF museum in a few weeks, will report back from there.

 

I get 10-15% off parts and 25% off labour at the Mercedes main dealer in Brighton which is well worth having. Various other discounts too.

There appear to be three clubs in the UK, which one did you go for?

 

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[SierraMikeHotel]

There appear to be three clubs in the UK, which one did you go for?

 

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The Mercedes Benz Club.

 

https://mercedes-benz-club.co.uk/

[alcyonecorporation]

I can hear Mr Sterling rubbing his thighs from here!

 

I got some better JDM mats for my Impreza for a tenner, too. Alas, it's acting something of the bell end at the moment. 

[anonymous user]

 

I got some better JDM mats for my Impreza for a tenner, too. Alas, it's acting something of the bell end at the moment.

I do hope they are the phsycedelic ones

[Jazoli]

Well today's news.

I was a few hours from winning 4 x mint OEM alloys and Primacy tyres from a GT86 to use as summer wheels.

£42.

 

Checked now to see if I was still top bidder and they're gone. Auction pulled.

 

What a bell end. Does he get what a no reserve auction is?

 

 

I'm sure he does but ebay is just somewhere to advertise stuff to a big audience sometimes, he was never going to sell you them for £42.

[mrbenn]

605 now has fitted dealer mats front and back. 

 

 

 

Had an awful January and February isn't looking much better. Be nice. 

 

That's ace!

 

Hope February turns out better than you fear.

[iainrcz]

I'm sure he does but ebay is just somewhere to advertise stuff to a big audience sometimes, he was never going to sell you them for £42.

Why list them, and state he'd turned the car in to a racing car and they were in the way.

Pointless waste of time!

 

 

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[alcyonecorporation]

I do hope they are the phsycedelic ones

Psychedelic mats only available in Alcyone/SVX flavour. These are just a plush grid. They're still way nicer than any of the junk IM pushed on Turbo 2000/WRX buyers.

 

Why list them, and state he'd turned the car in to a racing car and they were in the way.

Pointless waste of time!

 

 

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Because people are fickle pricks who use no reserve auctions as a hailing tool. They'll have had an amount they wanted in their head all along (they always do) and £42 won't have covered it.

 

Please note: I am not saying they are right.

[richardmorris]

I was cycling home this afternoon at 4ish when I was passsd by a guy on a bicycle with a two stroke petrol engine. Oil smell and noise when he passed. Not a velo solex or anything legit. Seemed to be a small motor attached to the basic bike frame. I do have it on camera, but it’s still attached to the bike, and im not. He wasn’t going a lot faster - say 30 to my 20 and then he took to the pavement on the other side of the road. Any ideas?

[alcyonecorporation]

I was cycling home this afternoon at 4ish when I was passsd by a guy on a bicycle with a two stroke petrol engine. Oil smell and noise when he passed. Not a velo solex or anything legit. Seemed to be a small motor attached to the basic bike frame. I do have it on camera, but it’s still attached to the bike, and im not. He wasn’t going a lot faster - say 30 to my 20 and then he took to the pavement on the other side of the road. Any ideas?

The bloke you encountered was an industrious bell end.

[Fumbler]

I was cycling home this afternoon at 4ish when I was passsd by a guy on a bicycle with a two stroke petrol engine. Oil smell and noise when he passed. Not a velo solex or anything legit. Seemed to be a small motor attached to the basic bike frame. I do have it on camera, but it’s still attached to the bike, and im not. He wasn’t going a lot faster - say 30 to my 20 and then he took to the pavement on the other side of the road. Any ideas?

Perhaps he got inspiration from Project Farm.

[drum]

It wasn't cavcraft on a chainsaw bike?

[alcyonecorporation]

It wasn't cavcraft on a chainsaw bike?

No, he was on the carvan superleggera. Supergeturlegover fanny batter gardening services.

[DodgeRover]

I was cycling home this afternoon at 4ish when I was passsd by a guy on a bicycle with a two stroke petrol engine. Oil smell and noise when he passed. Not a velo solex or anything legit. Seemed to be a small motor attached to the basic bike frame. I do have it on camera, but it’s still attached to the bike, and im not. He wasn’t going a lot faster - say 30 to my 20 and then he took to the pavement on the other side of the road. Any ideas?

Was it an elderly gent who looked like he had recently written off a Range Rover?

[holbeck]

Today was supposed to be car swap day.

 

The plan is to swap the 19 for something shite rated.

 

1.00 PM was the appointed hour for a rendezvous and I and the 19 were in position.

 

 

Sadly, it's all gone wrong. The mystery vehicle has had an FTP and is currently abandoned on the side of a dual carriageway.

Probably bad form quoting my own post, but hey, what the hell.

 

The mystery vehicle is the former AS bike C15 that I owned a couple years ago and sold to a friend down here in Devon who is not on here but is one of us in spirit.

 

We'd agreed a swop for the Renault 19 but on the way to the meet the C15 decided that it didn't want to leave Torbay and expired with complete loss of power. It's possibly shat it's coolant to boot.

 

I'm hoping it's not terminal but it doesn't sound good.

 

Arse.

[Eddie Honda]

 

Any ideas?

Aye, I posted one such contraption in the pushbike shite thread some time ago taken in the works bike shed. No longer around as I assume the Guards have confiscated it.

 

Bellend doesn't understand that it is now a mechanically propelled vehicle and thus needs tax/mot/insurance.

 

ETA previously uploaded photos.

 

[SiC]

I wonder how much this colour scheme cost to spec.

 

Quite a few JLR test mules buzzing around the Birmingham area tonight.

[dollywobbler]

I was cycling home this afternoon at 4ish when I was passsd by a guy on a bicycle with a two stroke petrol engine. Oil smell and noise when he passed. Not a velo solex or anything legit. Seemed to be a small motor attached to the basic bike frame. I do have it on camera, but it’s still attached to the bike, and im not. He wasn’t going a lot faster - say 30 to my 20 and then he took to the pavement on the other side of the road. Any ideas?

 

You can buy the kits on ebay. A mate has one and can be seen bombing around local lanes and fields. They're quite nippy.

[Split_Pin]

605 now has fitted dealer mats front and back.

 

 

 

Had an awful January and February isn't looking much better. Be nice.

I too am rubbing my thighs at that marvellous interior, so much so that I've sold some of the electricity generated back to the Grid.

[320touring]

Met another shiter tonight - JimH - top chap!

[stuboy]

Great start to the day, drive ashford to canterbury to collect repaired ambulance, waited 20 mins then got took through to take back to base and as u can see it got far before warning light said insufficient oil pressure for engine, reading the worksheet seem dealer done nothing apparantly, so i turned it around and took it back, maybe just be dodgy pressure switch, id changed that if was me..

[RobT]

Probably bad form quoting my own post, but hey, what the hell.

The mystery vehicle is the former AS bike C15 that I owned a couple years ago and sold to a friend down here in Devon who is not on here but is one of us in spirit.

We'd agreed a swop for the Renault 19 but on the way to the meet the C15 decided that it didn't want to leave Torbay and expired with complete loss of power. It's possibly shat it's coolant to boot.

I'm hoping it's not terminal but it doesn't sound good.

Arse.

That's a bummer, although maybe a sign to keep the 19? It's got yellow fogs after all...

[holbeck]

That's a bummer, although maybe a sign to keep the 19? It's got yellow fogs after all...

 

We'll see.

 

Since my post, I've heard that a Mechanic has had a look and HGF has been mentioned, but a proper inspection will happen tomorrow.

 

I do hope it can be saved, FFS  It's got a new MOT!

[dean36014]

Been driving the Xm to work all week to make sure I've cured the lhm leak before sale. I'm totally reminded why I love the thing, really don't want to sell it now but health problems means I need to reduce the fleet to a size I can still maintain. I console myself that the Xm estate will be on the road hopefully in spring.

[Ghosty]

Volvo is bloody bankrupting me. Sort of tempted to swap it for something more sensible* but really don't think I should sell it, and don't know what I'd get either as not a lot else fits my needs that isn't soul crushingly boring like a Civic Aerodeck.

 

Old Man went off to get some vac hose from the scrappy today (anything non-holed is better) as I'll be fucked if I have time to do anything between work and uni any more, and somehow managed to come back with a Blue Point hammer. I shan't question it...

 

Bought a new fan motor for it too but it was fucking LHD and a complete mirror image. Transplanted the new motor into the old housing, it works but it's pathetically weak for some reason.

[dean36014]

Chances are the new motor is spinning in the wrong direction, so instead of blowing into the car it's blowing out. I found this out while researching getting a motor for the Xm, there was loads of cheap LHD ones on eBay and when I asked the question why on the forum it's because they are useless for rhd cars even though they look the same.

[stuboy]

reverse the wires on the fan?

[tooSavvy]

Is electrikitty moteur magikk unable to reverse the motor :/