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[RobT]

I did another buy today.  Only pic I've got and yet to collect it.  Thought I'd be sensible and view this one.

It's a 535 V8.  Been wanting to try one of these 5-series for a while, but the big engine is a bonus.  Not much worse on fuel than the sixes apparently.  Looks nicely understated I reckon, and importantly (for me) the interior is beige.

So I need to sell stuff.  This will replace the S60, so if anyone wants a 2.0 turbo pez auto as a WBoD let me know!  New battery and alternator a couple of weeks ago, and MoT until 6th March.  Wears a full set of Michelin CrossClimates too (albeit they're down to about 4-5mm now I think).  £500?  Owes me double that over the 6 months I've owned it, as is often the way.

[skattrd]

If I hadn't bought the w202 last week I'd have been mightily tempted by your S60 Rob, but at the barg price I can't see it hanging around long.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

18 minutes ago, RobT said:

I did another buy today.  Only pic I've got and yet to collect it.  Thought I'd be sensible and view this one.

It's a 535 V8.  Been wanting to try one of these 5-series for a while, but the big engine is a bonus......

As long as the Nikasil problem that affected the V8s has been sorted out.

[RobT]

I assumed so seeing as it's lasted this long.  I just looked over it briefly, judged the seller to be a decent sort and handed over a deposit.  It had sat unused for two weeks as he's bought a new car and it fired straight up.  Which is useful as, like the S60, it will often sit for a period and then suddenly have to do a long trip.

[SiC]

Nikasil hasn't been a problem in the UK for years now as we've been running ever lower sulphur fuel. At least it won't be a problem for how long RobT will own it...

[cort16]

The v8 in these is quite muted I recon you'll be underneath punching speed holes in the exhaust by the end of the 2nd week.

[RobT]

I did wonder if the sound will be a disappointment after the V6 gooner.  Although saying that the purpose of the BMW will be relaxed wafting, with the odd hoon thrown in.

[wuvvum]

Nice!  I do like an E39.  232 bhp according to wikipedia so should be enough to have some fun.

[stuboy]

Great sticking rear caliper on the shalaxy.. guess what next Saturdays job will be.

[Ghosty]

Ghosty in sensible daily driver shocker:

[xtriple]

Stayed up all night watching MotoGP and it was almost worth it. There was a point during the night when I looked at Chester, laying on his bed between the sofa and the coffee table, his head on three pillows and a duvet pulled up to his chin. The little bastard looked soooooooo comfortable and indeed, was. I  invited him to go out for a wee about 6:00 and he just looked at me like I was deranged... perhaps he's right?

Anyway, being up and awake the sun made a welcome appearance and I took the dog out, then fitted my new rear spoiler and then Gummi Pflege'd all the seals, roof as well though I did  have a panic when I discovered the roof doesn't stay put and even though I'd stopped pressing buttons and taken the keys out and the bloody roof opened without any help from me or hydraulics though the bootlid stayed in 'air brake' mode.

Later, I washed the car.

God, my life is so very exciting! I do like the spoiler though and so easy to fit but a definite 'one shot' only job, sneeze at the wrong time and you could end up with the spoiler across the rear window and it would NEVER come off!

[Floatylight]

Ghosty in sensible daily driver shocker:

Cracking motors, loved ours..

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[clayts450]

Accord coupe has passed the '250 mile round trip to see the folks test', only the 214 to have a go at it now (unlikely).

Accord also bagged the record  time for the trip down there, clocking in at 1 hr 55 mins, beating Google maps pessimistic 2 hr 10 mins by some considerable margin, and smashing* the 2 hr 00 min time set by the 620.

[loserone]

Top work @Ghostyty

 

I was about to ask for dibs, then realised that it will have a pedal missing

[Ghosty]

Top work [mention=17391]Ghosty[/mention]ty
 
I was about to ask for dibs, then realised that it will have a pedal missing

Yes, and it's petrol lol

[loserone]

Petrol is good ?

[richardmorris]

As posted in the l2b veteran run thread I drove down to West Sussex at first light today with no issues. Talking to 3 speed Chris though obviously cursed it. Driving back it started making the most odd noises. Seemingly near side front, a rubbery noise a that sounded like a tyre rubbing. But not all the time, mostly at low speed, but occasionally at 60ish. Loud ( pedestrians looking ) and Sounds like a rotation noise rather than ball joint ( £££) and seems to stop if brakes used. Brake pads, bearing, aux belt?

Disks and pads are only a couple of years old and tyres inflated properly.

Tyres look ok, wheels not particularly hot.  I’ve messaged my mechanic friend who is coming over this week to check. I Hope it’s not the n/s balljoint. 

 

[Ghosty]

It's a Meridian SE so full toys spec, with working climate control, auto wipers and steering wheel radio controls.
It's only on 62k and aside some London spec dents and loose stitching on the bolsters, it's pretty damn tidy.

[loserone]

Thread please, I'd like to know all the ins and outs.

I will make it seven pugs in a year!

[loserone]

Somehow I ended up using these two for a trip out today.  Five litres..

 

[loserone]

I've made an offer on another Peugeot

[brownnova]

6 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Ghosty in sensible daily driver shocker:

Said it’d be French... 

[brownnova]

Today was a 2CV day.

Lovely run to Lake Vyrnwy with 11 other 2CVs.

Pics pinched from others, but the scenery and autumnal colours were superb!

Here’s us arriving slightly late for the rendezvous.

Lovely day out! 

[richardmorris]

I think you need to re spring the wife’s seat! Unless she really is 3ft 6?

[HMC]

Some tourists staying in a cottage nearby turned up in something worthy of a picture today.....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

47 minutes ago, HMC said:

Some tourists staying in a cottage nearby turned up in something worthy of a picture today.....

Swiss. That thing will be mechanically perfect underneath. 

[Mrcento]

6 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Ghosty in sensible daily driver shocker:

 

37 minutes ago, loserone said:

I've made an offer on another Peugeot

Me too.

I guess this is the Autoshite version of Alcoholics anonymous.

[wuvvum]

Bit of a frustrating day today on the fettling front.  Got the new MAP sensor fitted to the A2 with no hassle at all, but it hasn't sorted the running issue - Internet wisdom suggests that MAP errors can also be caused by a split / holed vacuum pipe somewhere, which frankly I CBA to look for.

Got the driver's side front of the Scudo van jacked up, wheel bolts came undone nice and easy, caliper bolts didn't - I was jumping up and down on a 2' breaker bar to crack them off.  Caliper came away easily enough once unbolted, whereupon I discovered that the pads I have bought are the wrong bastarding ones.  I've now ordered the right bastarding ones, so hopefully now the bolts have all been cracked off and retorqued to a sensible level, it should be a 20-minute-a-side job to swap the pads over - assuming the pistons wind in OK.  The discs are not exactly in the first flush of youth, but they've got a little bit of life left in them yet so I'll leave them for now.

The low coolant light came on on the way home from work at the end of last week - I popped the bonnet and checked the expansion bottle and it was indeed empty.  Took just over a litre to get it back to the Max mark.  There were tell-tale copper particles inside the bottle as well - I think what's happened is that the coolant system flush I put in to try and clear the heater matrix has flushed the K-seal from whatever it had been used to fix and that has now started leaking again.  I think it's the heater matrix as there was definitely water dripping down from behind the dash in the vicinity of the heater box - nowhere near a litre of it, but then I suppose when the engine is at operating temperature it probably evaporates rather than dripping.  A replacement heater matrix is £18.50 delivered, so I've ordered one of those - not too awkward a job to replace once you remove the fuse box, which I've mostly done (just need to unplug all the multiplugs now, then forget where everything goes so the van will never run again).  I've also ordered a new expansion cap as the stains on and around the bottle suggest that that might not be doing its job quite properly either.

So lots of bits done, but I haven't actually fixed anything.  Oh well.

[egg]

58 minutes ago, HMC said:

Some tourists staying in a cottage nearby turned up in something worthy of a picture today.....

Mixing Roman Bronze with beige, works quite well...

[Floatylight]

Some tourists staying in a cottage nearby turned up in something worthy of a picture today.....

Looks like they've come straight from 1985!

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