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[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Timewaster said:

The reg.  look up game is addictive....

E450 GJN was a white Citroen BX, which seems not to have survived long enough to make it onto the MoT database.

E452 GJN is a Citroen AX that hasn't had MoT since May 2007 (the previous test was passed at 99120 miles with only n/s CV joint gaiter needing attention)

[320touring]

I think I must be losing my touch.

Been to see 3 cars in the last week, bought none of them.

And I've polished 2 cars as well?!

[dozeydustman]

3 hours ago, Fat_Pirate said:

I've just realised Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes are back on BBC iPlayer.

I'm hoping that the 2nd series of Life on Mars has the BBC globe opening - sadly missing from the DVD release.

[Amishtat]

G77OGP only lasted until 1993 apparently, G79OGP doesn't show up at all. G80OGP lasted until 2011. Certainly this is an addictive pastime.. 

[xtriple]

Ordered air and pollen filters on Thursday, arrived this morning while other stuff I ordered ten days ago is still MIA. But, discovered that while being sensible and buying two air filters (;cos it's got two!) and the advert saying '1 of' each of the two boxes contains... two air filters! I can't complain though as for some unknown reason when I went through 'checkout' the price I actually paid dropped by about 25% so four air filters cost me about £13 (I think, might have been £16) and one pollen filter cost me a

Was going to go out and do them but raining, tired, can't be arsed.

[Shep Shepherd]

10 hours ago, Timewaster said:

The reg.  look up game is addictive.

It is. As I'm at a loose end at the moment, I checked on the status of nine other Volvos which were registered by Lex Brooklands Colindale on the same day as The Volvo, 1st September 1990 (I forgot that it's The Volvo's 'birthday' tomorrow!). It's not good news:

H360 FLH - No details held. I'm hoping that it was a 760 Turbo Intercooler Estate, but it was probably a 440.

H361 FLH - Grey 440. Died 1996

H362 FLH - Blue 440. Died 2001

H363 FLH - Blue 440. Died 2001

H364 FLH - Blue 440. Died 2004

H365 FLH - Blue 440. Died 2004

H366 FLH - The Volvo. Subject to a cherished number plate transfer in 2004 and now happily in semi-retirement by the seaside 

H367 FLH - White 740. Died 2014

H368 FLH - Red 440. Died 2008

H369 FLH - Red 440. Died 2003

H370 FLH - Blue 760 PRV V6. Died 2006

Only one of the 440s lasted beyond 15 years old. Apart from possibly H361 FLH, I presume that neglect and rampant rear wheelarch and sill rust sent the rest over the bridge before their time.

 

 

[clayts450]

620

P393DOH not on database
P395DOH Green Rover 620 missing presumed dead, MoT exp 10/10

214

K539WRP not on database
K541WRP Peugeot 106 missing presumed dead, MoT exp 02/07

420

L533EOV Red Rover 420 missing presumed dead, MoT exp 10/08
L535EOV not on database

Streetwise

FE04JMW not on database
FE04JMY not on database
closest is FE04JMV Blue Rover 45 1.6 missing presumed dead, MoT exp 9/10

Accord Coupe

V488FLE not on database
V490FLE not on database
closest is V487FLE Blue Honda Civic 1.6 - it lives !

[Amishtat]

NGV323 made it to 1983, no response for NGV325, YDU788 or YDU790, no response for BRK860D or BRK862D. And apparently I'm a sad bastard (I knew) 

[puddlethumper]

I am in shite company reg wise. Lambretta and Piaggio one and two up.

Bedford TM, Fantasia truck, and XJS one and two down. An eclectic group

I think you would agree. I'm putting myself forward as the shiter with the

most varied shite within two numbers up and down. The challenge is there.

[Amishtat]

Been putting this off for ages but this is the last one that'll be coming out off its own bat.. Ran when parked (2 years ago) WCPGW? 

[Amishtat]

This one's going to need a push.. Going to have the smell of mouse piss in my nostrils all night

[richardmorris]

Went to work this morning to do the end of the month paperwork. Came home and washed two cars. Then it rained. 

Fiat is full of v power super unleaded at an astronomical sum, is super clean and set to drive up to Wales next weekend to be put back in winter storage and swapped for the 2cv. Mercedes is still immobile awaiting the refitting of the air con compressor. I hope he knows how to refit everything as I needed to get something out of the boot today and most of the engine seems to be in it.

I need to book a summer holiday sometime too, but

a.need a working Mercedes, and

b. Needs to be before bloody boris Johnson fucks up the country further.

[scdan4]

Volvo.

S910klm. V40 Died 16. Clean mot history and 75k.

S911klm . No such number. 

S912klm. S40. 80k and still going with cleanish mot.

S913klm v70. Died 13. 170k

s914klm. Invalid number 

s915klm. The Throbber. Ho hum. Taxed and tested tho, showing 230k

s916klm . No such number 

s917klm v40. Died 09.

s918klm s40, died 10

s919klm v40 died 17 .

 

mercedes 

s510nrh Chrysler neon vanished 05 with 100k

s511nrh v70. Vanished last year, 115k

S512 and 513 invalid numbers

s514nrh diesel Mercedes last seen in 12 with 250k on it

s515nrh. E300td. Alive and kicking 

s516nrh Not a number

s517nrh Isuzu trooper missing since 14

s518 not a number 

s519nrh also not a number.

 

Theyre dead Dave.

[Amishtat]

Nope. 164 won't even cough. The cunt. 

[dome]

Today was a long day fitting the new turbo to the Octavia but here's the result

 

Insured it and did a gentle 6 miles, all good so far.

[The Moog]

Well done Dome!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

... washed two cars. Then it rained...

The definition of futility.

I'd second thoughts about taking the CX to the jet wash again. Just as well I held off....

[M'coli]

I currently have a works van (a 14 plate Transit Connect nicknamed Van Heflin, because it differentiated it from the motorhome we own which is just called, 'The Van') but it's being taken off me because I'm back on my original contract and thus office based - boo! However, it's also the Puglet's MOT time, and it failed on a few bits, one of which was handbrake efficiency which is down to the left cable being seized to fuck.

With a deadline approaching to hand the van back, and my own time and health not being up to replacing it I do the "normal" thing that "grown-ups are supposed to do" and stick my car into a garage yesterday to have them complete the remedial work for the MOT, because I didn't have the time to do so before the 14 days remedial period ran out,  i.e. today.
The car is still in the garage and won't be ready until Monday because "we weren't sent the correct handbrake cable*..."

Luckily my line manager has been wonderful and given me more time with the works' van, so I can get to work on Monday.

*I must admit that GSF and EPC listed 2 different cables for the reg. no. but their photos were shonky. The annoying thng is that the rear brakes are what you'd expect to find for this car: every other bit of suspension/brakes/driveshafts was free from a "scrapyard" Saxo...

[17-Coffees]

Just got sent this from a family friend a hour ago with the message  “Be free tomorrow, I’m fuelling myself up for the last leg...North bound and down loading up and trucking”

So turns out I now have a collection thread for in the morning then...on a car this is the only photo I’ve seen so far of it. 

Bugger 

[loserone]

Winner!

[Crusty Sills]

11 hours ago, scdan4 said:

Volvo.

S910klm. V40 Died 16. Clean mot history and 75k.

S911klm . No such number. 

S912klm. S40. 80k and still going with cleanish mot.

S913klm v70. Died 13. 170k

s914klm. Invalid number 

s915klm. The Throbber. Ho hum. Taxed and tested tho, showing 230k

s916klm . No such number 

s917klm v40. Died 09.

s918klm s40, died 10

s919klm v40 died 17 .

 

mercedes 

s510nrh Chrysler neon vanished 05 with 100k

s511nrh v70. Vanished last year, 115k

S512 and 513 invalid numbers

s514nrh diesel Mercedes last seen in 12 with 250k on it

s515nrh. E300td. Alive and kicking 

s516nrh Not a number

s517nrh Isuzu trooper missing since 14

s518 not a number 

s519nrh also not a number.

 

Theyre dead Dave.

Which website do you use to check these? I'm sad and want to play along!!! 

[scdan4]

Online mot checker for me.

[mitsisigma01]

. Gov

[DVee8]

I used the on line DVLA site.It takes a little while.

[LightBulbFun]

if your going to look up a shit load registration numbers

I recommend you use https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/

and not the MOT checker site, as the MOT checker will get grumpy with you and block you after a while

where as the vehicle enquiry site will let you smash in as many regs as you want

(although rare, I have seen a couple regs that dont show up on the vehicle enquiry service site, but do show up on the MOT checker I wonder why that is exactly, JNJ135L is like that for example)

I know that when a vehicle has MOT data the MOT checker gets vehicle data from the DVSA, and when there's no MOT history/data the MOT checker gets the data from the DVLA

[Split_Pin]

14 hours ago, dome said:

Today was a long day fitting the new turbo to the Octavia but here's the result

 

Insured it and did a gentle 6 miles, all good so far.

 

Yusss! Quick work too. Good to see the art of potholing (ie squeezing into tight spaces) put to a much more fruitful use!

[dozeydustman]

On the odd occasion the Saab would appear to lose power.

that appears to have sorted the problem courtesy of papa dustman’s lockwiring skillz. Non of this cable tie nonsense for me

[JeeExEll]

10 hours ago, 17-Coffees said:

Just got sent this from a family friend a hour ago with the message  “Be free tomorrow, I’m fuelling myself up for the last leg...North bound and down loading up and trucking”

So turns out I now have a collection thread for in the morning then...on a car this is the only photo I’ve seen so far of it. 

Bugger 

Are you sure that's a car? Could be a light aircraft. Or maybe a hovercraft. (Which could be a bit of a laugh).

[Yoss]

Sunday Times magazine today. Review/comparison between a Kia and a Dacia. He starts off talking of the Matra Rancho and how it was decades ahead of its time in that it looked like an off roader but wasn't. Mentions the Streetwise briefly too. 

Then reviews the cars in question, nothing special, prefers the Kia then in the last sentence says of the Dacia 'I think I'd rather have a Rancho'. What a bloody stupid thing to say, even by motoring journalists standards.

OF COURSE you'd rather have the Rancho. Talk about stating the bloody obvious. Is there any new car out there you'd have over a Matra Rancho? I think not. 

[Shep Shepherd]

It's The Volvo's 29th 'birthday' today! It was made some time in May 1990, but it was first registered on September 1st 1990, so that's the day I observe. I would have loved to have seen it when it was factory fresh

To celebrate the occasion, I oiled its door hinges and latches. All being well, it will get a respray for its 30th ^^