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[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 hours ago, EssDeeWon said:

Coorrr who's is the SD?  ...

'tis just one of a 30-car collection owned by one man. The engine bay is so clean you could eat breakfast, lunch and dinner off it.

[bramz7]

3 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Gutted to have missed this. I had an identical Mk1 Clio back in 2005.

Hopefully it’s BramBram who’s bought it and it’ll be up for sale for £87 by the end of the bonk holiday weekend.

 

 

EDIT: It’s an auto. 

Absolutely never. Ever. Not even if it was driven by Nicole herself, sans underwear. 

Nah I'm quickly buying up German RWD stuff off of here at the moment. 

 

Nice Clio though. Especially with the early seats. 

[BL Bloke]

56 minutes ago, egg said:

top bombing! £200 was it?

Yes, not bad for a car with 7 months Mot.

[BL Bloke]

29 minutes ago, Steve79 said:

Saxo Forte

It is a Saxo, but an East Coast.

[MorrisItalSLX]

How fucked does the Autoshite consensus think this is?

But keep in mind that it has a graphic equaliser and Japanese plastic wood.

[Tickman]

11 hours ago, angle said:

I was about to say, the last electrical thing I did was to change a two gang light switch on the hallway. The wires were red, red, red, red, red, red and red. 

(admittedly they still are) 

Glad they are still all red as they are all live (at some point) when switched so should be red.

 

*Hope there is an earth in there somewhere

[SiC]

Red is the colour you go if you touch it when it's on. Brown is the colour your trousers go if you touch it when it's on. 

Can't forget which is which now you have that in your mind!

[Datsuncog]

12 hours ago, angle said:

I was about to say, the last electrical thing I did was to change a two gang light switch on the hallway. The wires were red, red, red, red, red, red and red. 

(admittedly they still are) 

I tried replacing a broken ceiling pendant in the hallway in my old flat in Hove, and had a similar experience when every damn wire (and there were quite a few of them) was red...

Of course, the terminals on the new light fitting were in a different layout to the old one, so it wasn't a simple matter of just swapping them over.

I thought I'd managed to do an ok job, but when I finished up, switched the power back on and flipped the hall light switch... every damn light in the house came on, really dim, and slightly pulsating... took a bit of trial and error before I finally got them to do what they were meant to do.

These days, I tend to leave certain jobs to electricians...

[Timewaster]

11 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

I've bought a car with a yellow gear knob!

DSCF0641 by timothy jones, on Flickr

Multicoloured seat belts too?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

For EssDeeWon:

 

[dozeydustman]

15 hours ago, Tamworthbay said:

Could be worse, when I was 16 I helped a mate with a very second hand DT50, a previous owner had rewired it. Sadly he only had brown wire. That was sooooooo much fun to sort.

I helped a fitter at my old firm when my lorry's wiring loom had a short. The wiring in a Geesink Vulture refuse body are all red feeds and all black returns with alphanumeric codes printed on them in the smallest writing possible.

[wuvvum]

12 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

I've bought a car with a yellow gear knob!

DSCF0641 by timothy jones, on Flickr

Glad this got saved, looked like a proper barg. 

[Tamworthbay]

6 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

I helped a fitter at my old firm when my lorry's wiring loom had a short. The wiring in a Geesink Vulture refuse body are all red feeds and all black returns with alphanumeric codes printed on them in the smallest writing possible.

I bet the joy never ends....... Why do they think that’s a good idea? Probably bought a job lot of wire cheap twenty years ago and are working through it.

[Cavcraft]

Right,  more of the story.

Sir David Three X advertises his XJS. You know when you're just sat there looking at something thinking 'I can afford this' and then  'Don't be a dickhead' and then 'Need to be quick, everyone seems to say this a great buy' and then what seems like 3 weeks of being sensible and ignoring it, but is actually 1.5 seconds, and you send a message? Yeah, that.

The trivialities of getting a fucking thirsty car back here a few hundred miles are ignored, there's always Shipley isn't there? Yeah, there is. Except Shipley quotes ranged from the fair to the out right crazy, but yeah, they have a job to do and nobody wants to work for nothing, I get that. So, I state a time frame, say it's a very heavy car that I want transporting and a Transit is no good. Up pops some bloke from Leicester or something 'I can do that for £180'. So I'm thinking how the hell is he making that pay, and what sort of cowboy job is this going to be? A back load to cover his fuel, fair enough, so let's dig deeper:

Me: What truck have you got?

Driver: What car is it?

Me: It's an old and have Jag, you aren't going to (legally) get this on a 3.5 tonner, trust me.

Driver: It'll be fine, it can take it:

Me: What truck is it?

Driver: Sends picture of 1994 Volkswagen of which I see a picture. The bed looks about 300 feet long and steel, a Kettler go-kart on the back would have VOSA packing him off to Strangeways for a few year 

Me: You've no chance.

Him: It weighs 1.5 tones empty.

That's the end of that, sod him getting pulled up and the car and truck impounded.

 

Switch to another Shipley type website: Very long story short, price agreed, paid in full (like and idiot) and a time frame agreed several times over. Asks me to ask David if he can collect Thursday so he can deliver Friday, did so, no response from driver. Driver rings David once to say 'It'll probably be Tuesday now, I have another job that way' but doesn't tell me this, it's coming on Friday as agreed. Friday turns to Saturday, told him I want it here by 2.00pm. He then decides he's collecting it at 2.00pm Saturday and his second (of only two calls) to David confirms this. Saturday comes and with no real surprise he hasn't shown up. 3.30pm 'I've had an accident AND there's a fault with my trailer, can't do until Wednesday at least' I'll let you draw your own conclusions there. Got shipping web site involved, he wouldn't answer any message prior to this, now he's in Scotland for a week so can't refund me until he's back. Draw your own conclusions there. Next thing he says he'll take off the fuel money if I don't stop stating things on the arbitration thing with shipping website. Draw your own conclusions from that. So I'm £270 down and David's been royally pissed about from something he's (obviously) completely blameless for.

In between all this were an (alleged) tissue of lies, the fact that one party in this whole sodding affair stupidly didn't listen when he was told from the off that vendor was an acquaintance of mine, so the erm 'alleged' untruths were very easily spotted, and they then complained to the shipping company that I was a' typical demanding customer who wanted everything done yesterday', or something like that.  

 

Anyhow, the bloke I should have used in the first place gets the job (I'm flapping here having pissed David about for ages and ages, and it is my fault entirely as the buyer) collected it yesterday morning at 10.00am, kept me informed the whole way through and finally delivered it at 7.30pm last night. Proper job, fully insured and had a tacho etc. The moral of the story is, buy cheap, buy twice and don't pay until it's arrived. I accept full responsibility for all of this (even for  that cowboy who didn't turn up) as it was down to me when I bought the car. Sorry, David, you're probably pissing most of the money up in a gin palace right now and I wish I could join you.

 

TL:DR. Got another car I don't need. YOLO, etc. 

[LightBulbFun]

4 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

How fucked does the Autoshite consensus think this is?

But keep in mind that it has a graphic equaliser and Japanese plastic wood.

no idea how fucked it is, but thats only £275, aint that stupid cheap for a tested and working* car down under?

[Dirk Diggler]

put 4 tyres and rebuilt my suspension compressor this week after a full service last week

it's just rewarded me with a broken camshaft, no warning. Parked up last night fine, started this morning to a horrible sound.

I will fix it but need transport now (I live up a mountain)

Walking now to catch a bus to buy a €350 Volvo v70 d5. WCPGW?

[MorrisItalSLX]

1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said:

no idea how fucked it is, but thats only £275, aint that stupid cheap for a tested and working* car down under?

It is stupid cheap, really stupidly cheap, but that engine noise is a big red flag. I think the odometer is on 300,000km

Plus, the 6 months pink slip is just the roadworthy inspection, the Rego expires in a week and will need paying for that 6 months which will be about $250.

[LightBulbFun]

1 minute ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

It is stupid cheap, really stupidly cheap, but that engine noise is a big red flag. I think the odometer is on 300,000km

Plus, the 6 months pink slip is just the roadworthy inspection, the Rego expires in a week and will need paying for that 6 months which will be about $250.

ahh then the question you should be asking yourself is

"how much work is it to stuff a V8 in there..."

and be the aussie equivalent of @mat_the_cat 

[MorrisItalSLX]

1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said:

ahh then the question you should be asking yourself is

"how much work is it to stuff a V8 in there..."

and be the aussie equivalent of @mat_the_cat 

I have the Jag for that!

...and the answer is not much work at all.

[bramz7]

After months of it not doing anything, we attempted to get the AX running. 

Changed the plugs and battery and it has power now, but no spark. Fuel pump is fine, possibly stale fuel or something. 

I haven't done anything mechanical for ages but access was reasonably good in the engine. 

[RobT]

Blimey, retirement is treating Cavcraft well.  Must have a gilt edged pension or something! Top work, although the delivery saga sounds a right ballache.

[BL Bloke]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Glad this got saved, looked like a proper barg. 

I'm glad you spotted it, otherwise I wouldn't have had the chance to save it. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just back from a round trip in the CX to Market Harborough, to reclaim my glasses from yesterday's photographer who walked off with them by mistake.

It is fucking hot out there and the traffic on the M1 is in a terrible state.

[egg]

2 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

It is fucking hot out there and the traffic on the M1 is in a terrible state.

Coastbound M2 also pretty bad, accident in outside lane between Sittingbourne and Faversham where a Focus went up the rear of a small Japanese hatch. Family looked distressed

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, egg said:

Coastbound M2 also pretty bad, accident in outside lane between Sittingbourne and Faversham where a Focus went up the rear of a small Japanese hatch. Family looked distressed

That's their no-claims bonus decimated.

[egg]

On 8/22/2019 at 11:12 PM, clayts450 said:

Tesco have it for 8 quid at present if you have an Extra nearby ?

No 5w30, but 10w40 is available in large quantities. at £8 That'll do. Cheers. 

[shedenvy]

Had the Multipla for 1 year today.

In that time I've:

Cleaned 6 seats - washing all the covers.

Washed the front carpet and replaced the rear.

Cleaned off all the interior sticky plastics.

Thermostat and Renault5 t-stat in top hose.

New clutch and gearbag oil.

Fiat Coupe wheels

20mm rear spacers

30mm lowering springs

Top mounts

Drop links

ARB poly bushes

Front shocks

Aux belt

Timing belt, idler, tensioner and water pump.

Front bumper

Drivers wing.

And tried to do a little cut/polish/wax/touch up here and there.

Phew!

[BL Bloke]

7 hours ago, Timewaster said:

Multicoloured seat belts too?

Oh yes. ?

DSCF0664 by timothy jones, on Flickr

[egg]

^^ Calendar shot of win right there!

[Pat Earrings]

Currently sweating and swearing my way through this. Hardest thing I've ever done. Fuck sake. Swirl flaps STILL INTACT given its 182k miles is astonishing. Can't wait to delete the fuckers