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[Ghosty]

8 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

If it's any consolation, I'm the CX's 7th owner in 32 years, so I'd say that's average. 

I distinctly agree with you and don't see the issue. 

 

[Burnside]

More work on the Stilo SW. As the nearside door was getting harder to close yesterday. Which is courtesy of some previous bodger. So I decided today to try and fix it, before it fell off. 

Ignore the bolt on the left as I'd already undone it at this stage. The other bolt above on the lower hinge was already loose, because it's way too long! Which in turn was causing the door to drop when opened. 

So after failing to unscrew it, as I couldn't get a spanner or socket on the other end to stop it spinning. I decided to bite the bullet and take the door off. Not what I wanted to do today, but needs must. 

Door off and the bolt was then easily removed. So with a new bolt and alot of faffing. The door was bolted back together.

Only problem was the door was even worse! 

Annoyingly this ment I had to take the door off again. As after some head scratching. It turned out that the upper hinge, was also loose and missing a bolt from inside the A pillar.

At this point I was expecting a Curry for dinner, so didn't take any more pics in the rush to get it back together. 

 Thankfully got it back together ok this time and got to enjoy my curry. 

I'll have to take it off again. As the current door has a ruddy big dent in it. Annoying I have a replacement door but it's miles away. 

On the plus side, least the hinges should be ok for next time. 

[mitsisigma01]

Here's a pride to be proud of ???

[loserone]

I hope that's a B6 turbo

[ProgRocker]

Week off work, Almera N16 aircon stopped working just during our hot weather recently so I'm at a Wilco Fast Fit getting it checked out. Aircon has never been recharged since my ownership of 9.5 years.

Apparently there's a leak so there's an extra charge to investigate. Given its been so long I'm happy to pay the extra.

[Philmanns]

On 5/12/2020 at 10:41 PM, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Ah now, if only I could haul one up to Bradford to bring that Ro80 home....

Have you bought one then Ivan?

[richardmorris]

being photographed for auction I expect. Certainly there are a lot of people about outside not distancing themselves.

 

[richardmorris]

Lamborghini for the field of dreams.

[richardmorris]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Philmanns said:

Have you bought one then Ivan?

Even if I have, I have no means of bringing it back, so that's academic 

[richardmorris]

traffic jam forming.

 

[richardmorris]

found the Porsche on line.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1205046

 

and the lambo.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1226724

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

[Zelandeth]

Never realised those tractors were air cooled.  Every day's a school day.

[barefoot]

Delayed news from Friday, I was a little grumpy.

Drains blocked, plumbers with rods called. I had to move the 75, the 944 & the T2 to let them access the manhole covers. 75 & T2 not a bother, drove them around the block, parked them up and went back for the Porsche. Fired up, drove it around the block, backed it onto its new parking space on a driveway a few doors up the street. What the fuck is it leaking? Fuel! Great big stripes of the stuff. 

Plumbers cleared many tonnes of shit & advised that my drains had collapsed & would need replacing. 

Porsche is leaking from the pipes as they duck under the back axle - specialist told me that TADTS

That's booked in for June the 2nd - Autoaid will apparently deal with breakdowns at home - and take it to local garage.

Still waiting for a couple of quotes for digging up drive/fitting new drains/re-laying drive...

Happy fucking xmas!

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Never realised those tractors were air cooled.  Every day's a school day.

I didn’t even notice. I did notice that none of them could get it into reverse.

[willswitchengage]

Happy birthday @richardmorris!

[DSdriver]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

[Philmanns]

7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Even if I have, I have no means of bringing it back, so that's academic 

There’s always ways of getting them back. Anyvan.com or Shipley.com . There’s one coming to me this eve from Bolton, cost £164 which is good value if you ask me. 

[HMC]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

There was a 500k half buried behind a butchers in Walsall, that was RHD iirc

Edit- that now appears to be in the Netherlands 

https://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/car/mercedes-benz-500k-spezial-roadster/

[richardmorris]

I didn’t even twig that it was RHD. It was certainly the one I’d take home from today.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, DSdriver said:

There can't be too many of those in RHD. I wonder if it is this one that I papped back in the 1970s

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet by Jean-Pierre Declemy, on Flickr

Sadly the truck was right up against my wall so couldn’t get a decent photo.

[DSdriver]

9 minutes ago, HMC said:

There was a 500k half buried behind a butchers in Walsall, that was RHD iirc

Edit- that now appears to be in the Netherlands 

https://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/car/mercedes-benz-500k-spezial-roadster/

 

Just now, richardmorris said:

Sadly the truck was right up against my wall so couldn’t get a decent photo.

That was going to be my next question. Did you get any other pics at all?

[Mally]

 

3 hours ago, barefoot said:

Delayed news from Friday, I was a little grumpy.

Drains blocked, plumbers with rods called. I had to move the 75, the 944 & the T2 to let them access the manhole covers. 75 & T2 not a bother, drove them around the block, parked them up and went back for the Porsche. Fired up, drove it around the block, backed it onto its new parking space on a driveway a few doors up the street. What the fuck is it leaking? Fuel! Great big stripes of the stuff. 

Plumbers cleared many tonnes of shit & advised that my drains had collapsed & would need replacing. 

Porsche is leaking from the pipes as they duck under the back axle - specialist told me that TADTS

That's booked in for June the 2nd - Autoaid will apparently deal with breakdowns at home - and take it to local garage.

Still waiting for a couple of quotes for digging up drive/fitting new drains/re-laying drive...

Happy fucking xmas!

You may be covered for the drains on house insurance, or not!

[richardmorris]

Just now, DSdriver said:

 

That was going to be my next question. Did you get any other pics at all?

Sorry no. The truck backed up to the wall ( annoying me as it as over the pedestrian walkway) then there was a deep rumble so I had a look out the window and took the photos. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Philmanns said:

There’s always ways of getting them back. Anyvan.com or Shipley.com . There’s one coming to me this eve from Bolton, cost £164 which is good value if you ask me. 

Shiply gives cause for concern, because there is at least one driver out there who collects the car and then doesn't deliver. 

[puddlethumper]

On my useless jaunt to Aylesbury, see Crusta, and back on the m/way I was not the oldest heap classic on the road.

I passed a C reg Mazda 929 coupe. Slowed down as I passed gave a thumbs up and got one back. Also a Honda Acty,

or similar, van on an N ,lowered, wheels and a nice paint job doing about 50 so had to slow right down, easy as very

little traffic, gave him a toot which was returned. A bit later I passed a Ferrari. I bet he's going to brag to his mates

how he got overtaken by a 32 year old van. Ha ha.

[wuvvum]

Took the V70 to Tesco this evening and nothing broke, so that's good.  Annoyingly it turns out the nearside CV joint is a little bit clicky on full lock as well - I couldn't previously hear it over the row from the offside.  I'm not sure I have the mental energy to tackle that job again - I don't think I'll bother with it, it's nowhere near as bad and the boot is intact so it won't be full of dust and grit like the other one was.

It's also decided that its tailgate is open all the time, so that's another thing to look at.  Bloody moderns.

[Split_Pin]

The nearside CV joint on my Audi has clicked a little when pulling left out of  T junctions. It's never got any worse in the 15 months I've owned it and I can only hear it if the radio is off, so I have ignored it.  I presume the boot is fine as there was no mention of it on the recent a MOT.