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[egg]

That's pretty sexy, and I don't normally do VW's. 

[clayts450]

Realised the Autoglass man may be staying longer than he thought tomorrow morning..... as I'm a nice bloke I'll make a start on doing the prep work for him...up at sparrowfart for this little lot, then...

 

 

[Spurious]

"After inspecting the front tyre, the officer advised the motorist to head to a nearby garage to have a new tyre fitted."

 

Should have called the cops to lift it off the road. Wtf

 

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-10-02/car-with-bizarre-bubbles-on-front-tyre-stopped-on-school-run-in-derby/?fbclid=IwAR21dxgzasxV0zeHQ_V9LDL6S1k9dW3gmklGjFl7C9QGFrZlvgMh7G_Lez0

 

 

[vulgalour]

Of course it's a Zafira.

[clayts450]

Autoglass in da house replacing the Coupe's shattered quarterlight.

Blokey said he's been doing the job 20 years and never seen an Accord coupe before. He said when he got the job he suspected it would be a total ball ache, but was very pleased to see I'd sorted out all the seat/rear bulkhead/side trim removal for him and even more so when I said I'd put it all back together.  He showed me the virtually unobtainium replacement panel (over two months for them to source it) and reckoned he'd be done in 40 minutes.

Happy chappy

Me, however, is totally fucked, after an hour's labour sweating me balls off ripping the car apart....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 hours ago, cobblers said:

....: this is giving me MEGA HORN

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Golf-Mk2-1990-Low-Mileage-85468/133187667205?hash=item1f029a8505:g:4oMAAOSwWtZdkmdK

Weber carb should compensate a bit for the automatic transmission.

Drove an auto Mk.2 Golf (also a 1.6) a few times many years ago; pickup was slow and it was a bit reluctant at the top end. 

[cobblers]

My mum had a 1.8 Mk3 auto and it was right enough, I should imagine this is similar?

I'm daily driving a 70bhp talbot express motorhome, so pretty much anything else will be like a rocket in comparison.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, cobblers said:

My mum had a 1.8 Mk3 auto and it was right enough, I should imagine this is similar?...

World of difference between 1.6 and 1.8.

Think Mk.3s had fuel injection (my sister's 1993 Golf GL certainly had that).

[clayts450]

Ta-da.... he nailed it in 30 minutes flat.

Before:

After:

[Christine]

 If you wanna stalk it    my  Pajero is  in for mot. 1 pm ish.  It's been sat for ten months...... It's a bit smokey....I'm going for a thrash first but it looks a bit dire !    K 247 OYJ

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Christine said:

 If you wanna stalk it    my  Pajero is  in for mot. 1 pm ish.  It's been sat for ten months...... It's a bit smokey....I'm going for a thrash first but it looks a bit dire !    K 247 OYJ

Pass with 1 advisory

[Spurious]

Pass with 1 advisory

Nice one@Christine

[dome]

18 hours ago, Ghosty said:

If all goes to plan I might need a car with no MoT moving from London to Manchester next week. 

 

Can anyone assist?

If you're still looking there's a Facebook group called "UK Backloads" or similar. Recovery drivers out of position use this to get paying jobs to where they need to be.

It's thanks* to this (And Cavcraft who i saw mention it on a thread on here somewhere) that I managed to get a dead Octavia moved from South Shields to Fife for £160

If you want I'll find the group for you.

[Christine]

Well that was a surprise !:-)  All it does is tow me daughters horse....

[Lacquer Peel]

Good luck Volvo.

[Lacquer Peel]

It came off the ramps for a brake test, and now it's back on the ramps and three guys are looking at the underside. Take it to a council MOT testing station they said, there's no incentive for them to fail anything they said. It's possibly the longest MOT test I've ever seen.

 

 

[iainrcz]

After spending over a week at Uncle Toyota's, the GT86 is back.

I haven't smiled as much in ages.

[Lacquer Peel]

Ferals. Not too bad.

[Spurious]

Shitting sump plug is seized solid on the Jimny

Time to deploy heat.

[mitsisigma01]

23 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Shitting sump plug is seized solid on the Jimny

Time to deploy heat.

Suck it! 

[Split_Pin]

29 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Ferals. Not too bad.

Those damn feral brake hoses, coming over here and failing our tests. Spoiling things for us proper Ferrules. Brexit NOW.

[egg]

@dome - Is the group 'UK Recovery Linkups & Backloads' - just applied to join. Ta.

[Lacquer Peel]

Those damn feral brake hoses, coming over here and failing our tests. Spoiling things for us proper Ferrules. Brexit NOW.

30-50 brake feral hogs

[EssDeeWon]

 

[dome]

3 hours ago, egg said:

@dome - Is the group 'UK Recovery Linkups & Backloads' - just applied to join. Ta.

Yup, that's the one! Some of the quotes were pretty close to shiply prices but it's well worth a try. I got lucky

[dozeydustman]

Spotted this in Aldi this evening....

Sorry for potato cam. ODB reader £16.99, Bottle Jack £12.99, battery/plug in the fag lighter tyre inflators £9.99

 

[Spurious]

Spotted this in Aldi this evening....

Sorry for potato cam. ODB reader £16.99, Bottle Jack £12.99, battery/plug in the fag lighter tyre inflators £9.99
 

Those bottle jacks are actually alright. I've got one and it's fairly decent. I've not got the storage room for a trolly jack so a bottle jack is a good compromise.

[High Jetter]

Is the odb reader worth a punt? Am on hol atm - is it better than Amazshit or ecrap offers?

[Spurious]

Is the odb reader worth a punt? Am on hol atm - is it better than Amazshit or ecrap offers?

Bought a Bluetooth off Amazon for 11 quid.

I can live read sensors as well as the codes. Presumably reset them but Ive not had a go yet

I'd go with the Bluetooth ones to be honest. There's more functionality...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

After the recent overcharging phenomenon, I think one of those plug-in 12v voltmeter things might be a useful addition to the CX displays.