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[vulgalour]

It's been two months since I dropped the Princess head off with machine shop #2 to insert a coolant pipe in place of the waxstat housing.  Not a difficult job, as these things go.  Tomorrow I'll be going in to see if any progress has been made, as I have several times before.  I'm expect excuses and no actual progress, as with every other week I've been.  I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.

[Liggle]

Drove this around the Worcestershire countryside yesterday for an hour in the glorious sunshine. It was amazing fun, much more so than I expected for an old BL car! Oldest car I've driven!

 

[320touring]

If I had as much money as I have chest hair, I'd have one of them in a heartbeat

[richardmorris]

9 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Chester Cars & Coffee this morning, took the Jag.

 

My dad used to go in the x1/9 when it was in the castle in Chester. But it seemed to get taken over by boy racers who then got them banned from there.

[KitKat]

Replaced the clutch on the 205 this weekend. Actually removed the box last weekend, but have been stripping and cleaning it throughout the week too. Besides the clutch and gearbox oil, I also treated her to a new fuel filter, air filter, thermostat, and a thorough engine bay clean. I got so carried away I even took the gearbox casing and all the underbonnet plastic air ducts and filter housings into work and put them through our chemical cleaner.

And fitted new fog lights....

Then took her for a test drive, ending in a celebratory baguette purchase.......

 

 

[dozeydustman]

Had a busy weekend and not long been home. Watching the Cracker DVD box set we got from CEX for £8. I'm enjoying watching the old rammel and mid 1990's network southeast liveried train as opposed to the storyline. Then again, that's me.

[dozeydustman]

38 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Had a busy weekend and not long been home. Watching the Cracker DVD box set we got from CEX for £8. I'm enjoying watching the old rammel and mid 1990's network southeast liveried train as opposed to the storyline. Then again, that's me.

Just noticed their first mistake - a series 1 Peugeot 309 on a J plate......

[wuvvum]

On 9/20/2019 at 9:26 PM, Spurious said:

Tis lovely up there. I recommend a drive through Tullough road. Its a pass over to Glenmallen over the hills.

I did this today - thanks for the recommendation, it really is quite spectacular, despite the weather. 

Almost went disastrously wrong when some pillock in a 2003 Fiesta came hooning over a blind crest in the other direction at about 50 - I stopped, he didn't, but fortunately he had the presence of mind to swerve onto the grass at the last second.  I thought for a minute he'd come a cropper, but looked in my mirror and he was back on the road and still on his wheels, so I left him to it.

[wuvvum]

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, the sheep pulled into the passing place to let me through, which was nice of them. 

[320touring]

10 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I did this today - thanks for the recommendation, it really is quite spectacular, despite the weather. 

Almost went disastrously wrong when some pillock in a 2003 Fiesta came hooning over a blind crest in the other direction at about 50 - I stopped, he didn't, but fortunately he had the presence of mind to swerve onto the grass at the last second.  I thought for a minute he'd come a cropper, but looked in my mirror and he was back on the road and still on his wheels, so I left him to it.

People seem to fail to comprehend that you need to be able to stop in half the distance you can see on those roads - the other half of the distance being for the poor sod coming towards you..

[Cavcraft]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

My dad used to go in the x1/9 when it was in the castle in Chester. But it seemed to get taken over by boy racers who then got them banned from there.

They had signs up (here) and people were told. On the way out I noticed some kids in a Golf, an Audi and a Clio (I think) giving it big guns.  Maybe there were pissed off as nobody was really looking at their cars? Stupid though, could wreck it for everybody else.

[skattrd]

If you've got time @wuvvum head over to Applecross, West Coast above Skye. There's some spectacular roads round there.

I took my old Beta VX round there a few years ago, its one of my fav car journeys. It might be time for me to do it again soon. 

[wuvvum]

I'll have to come back up here in the summer when the weather is drier and the days are longer I think.  Today really wasn't the right conditions for hooning.

[skattrd]

Just now, wuvvum said:

I'll have to come back up here in the summer when the weather is drier and the days are longer I think.  Today really wasn't the right conditions for hooning.

No, don't do that. 

In summer there is less chance for hooning due to tourists and caravans. I kept having to stop to build a gap to whatever was in front of me, and set off before the next caravan or motor home came along. 

[stuboy]

On 9/20/2019 at 10:53 PM, egg said:

There's a whole bunch of us around 40 isn't there? 42 here. 

christ you is old........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

im 44

 

[Spurious]

I did this today - thanks for the recommendation, it really is quite spectacular, despite the weather. 

Almost went disastrously wrong when some pillock in a 2003 Fiesta came hooning over a blind crest in the other direction at about 50 - I stopped, he didn't, but fortunately he had the presence of mind to swerve onto the grass at the last second.  I thought for a minute he'd come a cropper, but looked in my mirror and he was back on the road and still on his wheels, so I left him to it.

I really liked it up there. Reminded me of a lot of rural west Ireland; single lane with occasional grass growing up the middle. Sometimes you get good sightlines and can hoon a bit but like you discovered some aren't as clever when you need to wind it back in. Lovely Rover BTW. I always liked the estate 75.

The wet had me looking at new tyres on my Suzuki. The fronts are old Bridgestone Duallers and the nearside right is probably as old as the car itself, I noticed it was all perished/cracked with the thread today. Twice today it made me doubt the grip, understeered coming off a roundabout and secondly an amber light and some heavy braking made the ABS kick in. I think I'll look at replacing them when pay day comes this week. Winter's coming and I don't want to end up in a hedge.

[dean36014]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

christ you is old........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

im 44

 

I'm 50 in six weeks. I'm not sure how it crept up on me, I'm sure I was 42 the last time I checked. Saga cruises here I come!

[iainrcz]

The GT86 is going in for it's valve spring recall tomorrow. Comedy small courtesy car for the week no doubt.
I'm just hoping  that it all goes well. Having read of people's engines going pop after the recall I am slightly worried.
Too much instant gasket goop that blocks oil galleries/strainers apparently.

Compared to my 86 it's very quiet.

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[Yoss]

2 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Compared to my 86 it's very quiet.

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Is it wrong to like a car simply because of the colour? The VW Up has a very similar blue but almost nothing else has so they do stand out. Is it any good? Not like a GT 86 obvs but good for what it is? 

[iainrcz]

Is it wrong to like a car simply because of the colour? The VW Up has a very similar blue but almost nothing else has so they do stand out. Is it any good? Not like a GT 86 obvs but good for what it is? 

Seems like a decent little fella really.
Just the total polar opposite to what I'm used to.
They do the GT 86 in that colour too, Electric blue.

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[dozeydustman]

I changed another front indicator bulb today. O/S one was easy, just remove air filter. N/S?

Whoever decided that the best way to access things that can fail from time to time means taking the face off of a car is obviously a knob. Not a grump as I half expected to have to do this, and gave me a chance to replace a few missing self tappers, machine screws and nuts from the wheel arch liners and bumper mounts.

[vulgalour]

Has engine shop #2 finished installing the pipe into the Princess head today, 2 months after I dropped it off with them?  Have they buggery.  Wednesday, apparently, he's started it today, apparently.  Also, the member of staff that broke 2 limbs in a traffic accident was there and not looking like he was having any particular difficulties as one might expect after that serious an accident.

Methinks I've been bullshitted the last two months.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

....he's started it today, apparently. ....

Only because you called. Once the call was finished, it won't be starting for a while. Until your next call, obvs.

[Aston Martin]

The m62 was fucked this morning, both ways with either breakdowns or accidents.

 

I witnessed the aftermath of a crash. One of the junctions maybe 26, the slip road was stationary and people aren't looking. A car went into the back of an Avensis and that went into a Fiesta.

 

The Avensis c to b pillar was folded up, not too bad. They're didn't appear to be anyone in the back. B-pillar forward was fine. I've never seen anything like it. However, the driver was just sat in his seat.

 

 

P.s. This pic I found to show what it was like. It wasn't this bad, but the same idea.

[MarvinsMom]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Has engine shop #2 finished installing the pipe into the Princess head today, 2 months after I dropped it off with them?  Have they buggery.  Wednesday, apparently, he's started it today, apparently.  Also, the member of staff that broke 2 limbs in a traffic accident was there and not looking like he was having any particular difficulties as one might expect after that serious an accident.

Methinks I've been bullshitted the last two months.

we had the same problem getting the valve seats done in Rodney Mini's cylinder head earlier in the year.

what should have been a simple job taking what, a few day, week tops took Park Engineering a month, much to mine, and George the mechanic doing the work annoyance as he had a mini in bits in his workshop all that time.

but speaking with other folks in trade locally, it seems that the engineering shop have been busy and are short handed. 

so waiting times have been long for everyone, so much so some firms had been shipping parts to a spot in York, only for the parts to come back frankly worse than when they took them in!

touch wood, we've had no issues with it since the work was done, though George has said any issues just bring the car straight back. 

i think there are fewer and fewer folks around who can drive an old style milling machine or lathe, these are the sorts of "dirty" jobs that kids have no interest in

 

[Fumbler]

Note to self: If a window won't open, the glass won't either. Then again, the glass was over 100 years old.

[vulgalour]

I wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't been in pretty much once a week since dropping it off and every time it was going to take a bit longer.  If I had somewhere else to take it to get done, I would have, but I don't (that I know of).  So if it's not done Wednesday I'll be taking it back and Chompy services will be employed to get it done in Derbyshire because for all that county's faults, at least people can do stuff in a reasonable time scale.

 

Fumbler: well... that looks like it stung a bit.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

38 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

..... think there are fewer and fewer folks around who can drive an old style milling machine or lathe, these are the sorts of "dirty" jobs that kids have no interest in

They'll just 3D-print everything.....

[MorrisItalSLX]

I’ve just been offered a Daewoo Matiz for $100.

No registration, no service history and an undetermined intermittent starting issue.

But most importantly of all, no profit margin, but when has that ever stopped us?

[Kiltox]

15 minutes ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

I’ve just been offered a Daewoo Matiz for $100.

No registration, no service history and an undetermined intermittent starting issue.

But most importantly of all, no profit margin, but when has that ever stopped us?

Wow, less than the cheapest one I’ve ever bought at £75. Pure unadulterated shit(e) right there.