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[Spurious]

Drop shipping is quite common on eBay, the dead giveaway is item location is usually somewhere generic like "London, UK". Fair enough there's someone maybe in London but all they do is order what you want off Alibaba or some Asian supplier and use your address as the shipping address. They usually have a bit of a mark up and don't do any product or package handling. Sneaky, but if there's a way to make money people will do it.

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[SiC]

Just had a call from our estate agents. 

For the second time (and three buyers) our chain has broken. 

FOR FUCKING FUCK SAKE

I held off submitting the mortgage application just incase something like this happened. Yesterday it all seemed like it was going well and so I submitted it...

ARGHhhhhhhh

[egg]

We had 3 buyers pull out on on sale 5 years ago - the fourth came good...total pain in the posterior.

[hpi_matrix]

On 9/4/2019 at 8:10 PM, 00833827 said:

So since my corolla kinda died and i had the over heating carina e sent to africa and the townace van moved on also, I got this today. 1 months test and over 6 months tax on it. Located a 5 min walk from my house so no collection thread business. 

Its a Mitsubishi Pajero junior JDM and all that jazz. No rust as is generally the way here on old things. 1.1 pez, 4x4 works well. Stereo doesnt and it smells like a pack of dogs smoked a pack of cigs in it but there ya go. Tail gate wont open either and glove box catch is broken. I think literaly every thing else is working which is some going for 23 years and nearly 300000 km. Body work is very clean. 

There are are a couple near me bring broken right now so i hope to pick up what ever i need easily enough.

Are these permanent 4 wheel drive or no centre diff?

[LightBulbFun]

5 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

Just in case there wasn't enough Invacar stuff floating around at the moment. Convoy tomorrow!

 

 

ohh very nice to see the 2 together  

is MHJs "Invacar" badge screwed or riveted on?

(I noticed the badge on REV is screwed on, not something I have seen before i dont think, but I do realise I dont have many close up of Invacar Model 70 "Invacar" badges for me to compare with!)

[00833827]

1 hour ago, hpi_matrix said:

Are these permanent 4 wheel drive or no centre diff?

not permanent 4x4 - rear wheel drive then low 4x4 and high 4x4. properly little off roader she is.

[Vince70]

I went to tax the Z3 only to find the mot was out plus I wasn’t happy with the mismatch  Chinese tyres it’s had on the rear since I bought it about 5 years ago lol.

So a new set of Avon’s have now been fitted on the rears which has transformed the handling and it went through the ticket with advisories on brakes and have ordered a new set of discs and pads for the four corners.

The good thing is having a 23 year old BMW is that the parts are dirt cheap as lots of parts are languishing on dusty shelves, so a pair of front disks were £20 and the rear disks £10 courtesy of Amazon (pads £5 per axle via eBay)and that includes delivery.

 

[HMC]

^ Best colour, and a very early one - thought the earliest were R platers?

[Split_Pin]

Dealt with the rust in the Audi's front arches over the past couple of days.

All the corrosion was just surface rust and thankfully there were not holes or rot.

Sanded it back to bare metal with my trusty bandfile.

Treated the whole area with Vactan:

Hammerite:

And then some top coat:

The job's a five footer but so is the rest of the car so I'm happy and it's better than rust.

[SRi05]

Looks good to me !

[dome]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Dealt with the rust in the Audi's front arches over the past couple of days.

All the corrosion was just surface rust and thankfully there were not holes or rot.

Sanded it back to bare metal with my trusty bandfile.

Treated the whole area with Vactan:

Hammerite:

And then some top coat:

The job's a five footer but so is the rest of the car so I'm happy and it's better than rust.

That looks ace. Kudos for getting stuck into it, bodywork gives me THE FEAR

[Jazoli]

Ooh that is nice, I might be tempted when you sell it in a week or two.

[hairnet]

perv

you too split pin

[shedenvy]

Just sold the Golf to a dealer who contacted via Gumtree. It went for £275 in the end with no haggling. I should think so too - the guy turned up in an Aston Martin DB7 of all things!

Frankly I don't give a damn, I was sick of the sight of the bloody thing.

[taxi paul]

Very nice. Goes away to price rail tickets to birmingham and polish part ex vectra. 

[shedenvy]

On 9/4/2019 at 7:59 PM, holbeck said:

Schoolboy error alert. 

1 hour before going to work I decided to change the alternator belt on the C15.

I once tried changing a diesel fuel filter in my lunch break on a 1.8 lynx focus...

No lift pump or priming bulb on them. Took literally days to get it started.

[wuvvum]

The more I drove the MG Express over the last week or so, the more I became convinced that the loss of power was due to a dodgy MAF rather than a boost issue - the power delivery was slightly irregular and it just felt a bit odd, rather than just gutless.  So yesterday I ordered a cheapo pattern MAF off of eBay.  To my surprise it turned up today, so I fitted it when I got home from work, then took it for a spin armed with my 0-60 app.

That's a bit more like it...

[Vince70]

16 hours ago, HMC said:

^ Best colour, and a very early one - thought the earliest were R platers?

I think it was on the first boat over from America and is very early  right hand drive.

The only difference with mine and the slightly newer R plate ones is you can’t fit roll over hoops on mine as it won’t have the brackets welded in for retrofitting hoops but luckily I’m quite short lol.

[paulplom]

Just bought this. Too new for a collection thread?

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[SiC]

1.9 ctdi. Is it the 120bhp or 150bhp?

[paulplom]

1.9 ctdi. Is it the 120bhp or 150bhp?

I haven't drive it. My partner and daughter say it flies. I presume 150.
A bit late but is there anything to look out for?

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[richardmorris]

Summer car swap going to plan. 200miles non-stop in the fiat in 3hrs 20mins. I overtook a Ferrari on the m40 too!

 

[egg]

Does the 2cv go all winter Richard?

[taxi paul]

Spurred on by triggers painting I thought I would make a start. So nice bright day with no wind. Bottoms of both doors ,n side wing , bonnet and rear bumper. They came out looking ok except for the bonnet. Four coats of laquer and it looks crap. I am sure you can probably sand it and keep going with laquer. Anyway £38.00 on paint and stuff so not bad. Looks ok from 10 foot. Will get some winter tyres this week and carry on. 

[richardmorris]

30 minutes ago, egg said:

Does the 2cv go all winter Richard?

Yes, high days and sunny days. Trying to keep the metal moth at bay!

[xtriple]

Just hoovered the car (I know it's a generic term but I can't be arsed to say 'I just Black and Decker car vacumned the car') with a Black and decker car battery powered vaccumn cleaner (see, gotcha!    ) that my son bought me for Christmas last year. Well, I say 'he bought me' but actually, somebody bought him, he used it once, declared it to be utter crap and gave it to me, the twat, but he is indeed correct: it really is utter crap! I would have been better off sucking through a straw, and I have COPD! Regardless, I persevered to the point that the car was saying its battery was going flat and declared it done. I'm done, the cars battery is done, the carpet is anything but!

Also, I transferred the private plate to the car last night. I tried to do it online but everytime I've tried it's failed for one reason or another but I thought I'd give it a go then chuck all the paperwork in the post today. Effin' typically, it went straight through! Argh... I then rang the AA who also transferred the insurance to the new plate with no charge, no hassle and a jolly pleasant Scottish lady to speak to, to boot.

So the car is registered and insured on one number and is currently runnng around with a totally different set of plates on that no longer show as affixed to anything on DVLA!  New plates were due today... not arrived in delivery on a Saturday fail shocker. But what is/was really shocking was: DVLA getting their act together and just going thru.

[egg]

I'm up to 8.5 weeks waiting on my Invacar V5 now.. ;-)

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, egg said:

I'm up to 8.5 weeks waiting on my Invacar V5 now..

I was wondering if your wait for a V5 is an autoshite record?  (any plans to give them another call and see whats up?)

I have been keeping an eye on the DVLA checker for XWC468F sadly nothing yet...

[Cavcraft]

Just looking for an old car dealer on line, and looks who's back:

 

https://www.carcraft.co.uk/

 

Seem to be some sort of middle men now.

[Split_Pin]

18 hours ago, taxi paul said:

Spurred on by triggers painting I thought I would make a start. So nice bright day with no wind. Bottoms of both doors ,n side wing , bonnet and rear bumper. They came out looking ok except for the bonnet. Four coats of laquer and it looks crap. I am sure you can probably sand it and keep going with laquer. Anyway £38.00 on paint and stuff so not bad. Looks ok from 10 foot. Will get some winter tyres this week and carry on. 

Good job man! Tis the day for it!