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[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Patent said:

I see Argos are doing away with the physical catalogues. Start hoarding now for future disputes and problem buyers

 

[bramz7]

14 hours ago, robinmasters said:

Hardly worthy of its own thread (boring journey to collect unremarkable car), but as I see it's now too old for the moderns section allow me to present an car:

Actually I'm really starting to like it. 

Be interesting to see how you find this. I was utterly captivated by the C4 when it launched, for some reason. I'd prefer the coupe, but they are usually useless day to day. 

 

[louiepj]

4 hours ago, Patent said:

I see Argos are doing away with the physical catalogues. Start hoarding now for future disputes and problem buyers

They never printed them + some stores cannot re open now as they are critically low on all stock.

[richardmorris]

Home from work today as some gas pipeline renewal thing on the estate. Said it would be two hours- nearer four in the end. I don’t know what they have done as all they did our end was turn everyone’s gas off at 8.30 and back on at midday. 

Sitting outside now, and my garden is overrun with peasants. Sorry, pheasants.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

19 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

..... Sitting outside now, and my garden is overrun with peasants. Sorry, pheasants.

 

What, no pastis?

[N19]

Insurance time, such great fun. Managed to get the Capri down to £153.05 which is quite a drop from last year - shows what moving from inner London to the poshness of Barné does to your risk... I've taken it out as SDP only as my normal parking is on a side-street in Wembley, which is not where I'd choose to leave it!

[richardmorris]

51 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

What, no pastis?

No, midweek and all...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

42 minutes ago, N19 said:

Insurance time, such great fun. Managed to get the Capri down to £153.05 which is quite a drop from last year - shows what moving from inner London to the poshness of Barné does to your risk... I've taken it out as SDP only as my normal parking is on a side-street in Wembley, which is not where I'd choose to leave it!

Depends where in Barnet. The CX premium reduced by about £250 in the second year, probably because I hardly drove it....

[N19]

21 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Depends where in Barnet. The CX premium reduced by about £250 in the second year, probably because I hardly drove it....

Chipping. Definitely Waitrose territory...

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

No, midweek and all...

Shame.  Pastis goes quite well with pheasant.

[jonathan_dyane]

First welding I have done on my GS in 16 years, well not on the car itself but on a GSA undertray which will replace my rotten original.

Plan is to trailer the car down here from the parents garage and actually get the thing on the road, it’s waited long enough.

[brownnova]

How cheeky is it to run the MX5 to the tyre place tomorrow so it’s ready for the 1st August to tax and use... ??

Its only 10 mins up the road... 

[barefoot]

14 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Sitting outside now, and my garden is overrun with peasants. Sorry, pheasants.

 

They're not peasants, they're Phartridges.

[paulplom]

Can anyone think who it was who wanted these metro wheel nuts.

They're brand new, have spinning collars and for alloy wheels iirc.

I promised to post them to someone on here but forgot all about it. I've just found them in the back of a drawer.

 

[Christine]

Someone with a catapult , and wanting a phartridge pasty ?

[danthecapriman]

Got the Transit out from undercover today. It’s been off the road since September last year as I didn’t see much point MOTing it just to sit unused for winter. Then Chinavirus happened and it stayed sitting! I drove it up the (private!) street in February though just to keep the brakes free.

Anyway, I thought I’d fire it up and Move it up and down the drive today.

To my surprise, it fired straight up! After sitting so long and the battery isn’t in the best health either! Moved it up and down the drive and it seems ok. Handbrake was a bit reluctant to release at first but seems well now.

Thought I’d leave it sat with the windows down today as it’s baking hot here. Wound the drivers one down, and the interior rubber seal got jammed against the glass and somehow managed to pull the glass out of the winder mechanism! Something to fix today then!

Door card removed and the glass has stayed up in the door, held by the rubber, so I’ve yanked it down back into the channel and put a squirt of contact adhesive in the channel to stop it falling out. Once dry, a bit of lubricating of the rubbers seems to have put an end to that annoying issue.

Naturally, once the door card was off it revealed more past problems to put right (because I can’t leave things alone!). First was the door card vinyl trim was coming loose around the edges, and the bottom corners of the hardboard backing had got damp and split. Then the reason for the dampness was because the polythene damp membrane was missing!

So a new piece of polythene was cut to size (left overs from the Capri) and glued on with polyurethane adhesive.

Then the door card vinyl trim was glued back to its backing board with a thin coat of contact adhesive. The cracks on the back were also coated with contact adhesive, then pulled back to shape closing the splits and gluing them back together. The biggest one needed reinforcing though, so a strip of plastic sheet was cut to size and glued over the split.

Then reassembled!

just need to find a replacement door bin now as it’s missing from this door.

Need to get it MOT’d too, then probably sell it on.

 

[binhoker668]

12 months MOT.  No advisories.  Such are the updates when one owns AN CAR.  Jesus though, I don't think I have ever had that result - in nearly 30 years of motoring.  Felt the urge to tell someone.  Consider yerself TELT. 

Currently drinking in me keks and listening to loud crusty punk rock to celebrate this thin victory.

Carry on.

 

 

[binhoker668]

Whilst I'm at it actually, on the subject of signatures:  Mine looks pretty stupid I guess, but my thinking on it was that if anyone else bought one of those cars, then I might* have something useful to share, however negligent.  Always wanna help folks if I can. I also like having a record.  Whaddaya reckon.  Ditch it?  

 

[SiC]

On 7/27/2020 at 8:19 PM, cort16 said:

I went up a hill in a yellow car

turbo whistling 

tyre spinning 

clutch slipping

warning lights flashing

FTFY

[cort16]

No warning lights on this fine steed 

[Stanky]

1 hour ago, binhoker668 said:

Whilst I'm at it actually, on the subject of signatures:  Mine looks pretty stupid I guess, but my thinking on it was that if anyone else bought one of those cars, then I might* have something useful to share, however negligent.  Always wanna help folks if I can. I also like having a record.  Whaddaya reckon.  Ditch it?  

 

My 2 penneth, keep them, but instead of a line and a half break for each one, put them into a single line separated by semicolons. The forum will wrap it onto two lines or so but it will be a lot shorter.

e.g. 1986 Austin Montego (Exec); 1988 Fiat Uno; 1986 Volvo 340 DL; 1991 Ford Escort 1.6;

And so-on. Possibly prefix 'former shite' and 'current shite'.

Up to you though matey

[New POD]

2 minutes ago, Stanky said:

My 2 penneth, keep them, but instead of a line and a half break for each one, put them into a single line separated by semicolons. The forum will wrap it onto two lines or so but it will be a lot shorter.

e.g. 1986 Austin Montego (Exec); 1988 Fiat Uno; 1986 Volvo 340 DL; 1991 Ford Escort 1.6;

And so-on. Possibly prefix 'former shite' and 'current shite'.

Up to you though matey

Or realise that if I'm viewing via my mobile, I don't see the signature anyway. 

[dome]

2 hours ago, cort16 said:

No warning lights on this fine steed 

They're broken too aren't they?

[dome]

Took the Kangoo of much rortiness to work the other day. On the way home I reset the trip and then promptly got stuck in traffic. Better mpg than the Jazz, allegedly...

[beko1987]

3 hours ago, binhoker668 said:

12 months MOT.  No advisories.  Such are the updates when one owns AN CAR.  Jesus though, I don't think I have ever had that result - in nearly 30 years of motoring.  Felt the urge to tell someone.  Consider yerself TELT. 

Currently drinking in me keks and listening to loud crusty punk rock to celebrate this thin victory.

Carry on.

 

 

Going by your previous form that's fucking good! You gonna eat some wood or something whilst your lucks in? 

[stuboy]

gave the knackered mondeo away, scrap money wernt anything, some even want me to pay them... I took the st220 recaro seats and focus st wheels off, gave the rear bench seats to my mate.. 

[omegod]

Possible shite incoming tomorrow, spotted a facebook ad and for once got in early, chat from dizzy young female owner seems promising as she's bought  new car and wants her driveway back so accepted offer of 66% of what she was asking 

[N19]

Bluebird now has new brake lines from the garage, plus a new set of discs and pads. It's only done 33 miles in the last month, hopefully the starter motor is still behaving so I can get some use from it next week.

In other news, MoonlightingJob told me on Tuesday that they were unlikely to need me for a couple of months because they were now overstaffed; not the end of the world, but a significant cutback on money to spend on farting around with cars. Following said conversation on Tuesday, they have rung up each afternoon to ask if I'd do overtime that day... left hand, right hand...

[LightBulbFun]

11 hours ago, paulplom said:

Can anyone think who it was who wanted these metro wheel nuts.

They're brand new, have spinning collars and for alloy wheels iirc.

I promised to post them to someone on here but forgot all about it. I've just found them in the back of a drawer.

 

not @Six-cylinder was it? I know he has an MG Metro on pepper pot alloys and i recall a discussion about the wheel nuts at some point in regards to it

[N19]

15 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Although I intend to try and fix my K11 as it's been brilliantly cheap to run since 2017, been chucking up a few quotes on random cars within reasonable budget for worst case, surprising what is actually insurable now!

 

I couldn't for the life of me get any sort of quote returned when I tried to insure the Bluebird on a classic policy. Turns out that if you value it at £1,501, they suddenly drop all objections!

Now, I wonder if there's any way of getting a 20-year old Mondeo on a classic policy...