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[Stanky]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

Been round to misses deceased uncles house to remove boarded up back door and rebuild the door as dodgy area and possibly get broken into whilst empty, thought I'd look in garage spot the lada parts and ford zephyr 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bodyshell and chassis, respectively. Hur hur hur 😁😁😁

 

[dollywobbler]

50 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

NGK? They seem to unscrew the cap in my experience. The old equem never did.

Yes, NGK. Caps were still in place but the plugs did look like they'd had enough of this life.

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, dollywobbler said:

Yes, NGK. Caps were still in place but the plugs did look like they'd had enough of this life.

When I first had my 2cv back in 1993, my dad put the plugs in the oven to bake out the moisture before we gapped Them. I was doing 100 miles a day in it then!

[brownnova]

Family day out to Llandudno today, took the 9000 rather than Mrs_b’s modern. This proved not to be the wisest move as the suspension was making the most awful noise by the time we arrived.... think it’s the bottom joint on the suspension arm. Should’ve taken the 2CV! 

[Talbot]

7 hours ago, SmokinWaffle said:

Spotted this on the way back from somewhere today - can't be many of these left?

One for @Talbot? 

That MOT history is spotless!

I'd want a Tagora or nothing.

Already owned an alpine, a solara, many horizons and a samba.  Never a sunbeam though.

[brownnova]

6 hours ago, Talbot said:

I'd want a Tagora or nothing.

Isn’t it a requirement of entry to Autoshite that you want a Tagora? 

[Minimad5]

12 hours ago, stuboy said:

Been round to misses deceased uncles house to remove boarded up back door and rebuild the door as dodgy area and possibly get broken into whilst empty, thought I'd look in garage spot the lada parts and ford zephyr 

 

If you're flogging any Lada bits, do let me know (if you don't mind waiting till I get paid that is)

[stuboy]

11 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

If you're flogging any Lada bits, do let me know (if you don't mind waiting till I get paid that is)

trying to find a will... then be easier to sort it out or it gets complicated.. i wouldnt mind the zephyr

[artdjones]

UN says Carlos "Houdini" Ghosn shouldn't have been arrested in the first place.

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://apnews.com/article/international-news-carlos-ghosn-geneva-united-nations-280835f6d4bcbb29b041f97fe4e63454&ved=0ahUKEwi72eTqsJjtAhViu3EKHTbCAfYQxfQBCC4wAA&usg=AOvVaw0sh1t6eoXeJaJaOW8pt9mT

[lesapandre]

AA on the money-go-round.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/23/aa-private-equity-takeover-offer-towerbrook-capital-partners-warburg-pincus

Myself - I always try and check to which robber baron my cash is going when I pay for stuff. The AA looks like something I would not want to give my money to however.

Apparently Top Shop are not doing as well as they were - the Philip Green effect. 

Perhaps all these entrepreneurs think people don't notice all this shenanigans. Perhaps they don't.

[Mike D]

 

I've had this old crate since 2006, back then it was a nice tidy £1500 daily driver '94 mini 1275 sprite. I ran it til 2008 then it sat round the back of my mates as i'd bought something else. I then decided it needed to be red. A LOT of metalwork later it was, but then life got in the way and it has spent the last 10 years festering in first my parents, then my garage. I cleared a load of shite out and got it dragged to the front of the garage yesterday so I can actually crack on with it. Plugs out, bit of Penol down the bores and a gently swing on the alternator with a spanner and she turns over still which is good  I've ordered a shitload of gear to arrive this week, all new brake and clutch lines etc, new wheels, and i'll fit my vented 4 pots to the front to accomodate some 10" wheels.

 

Hopefully the next few weeks should see it back up and running.

 

 

 

 

 

[Cord Fourteener]

Comedy news.

I changed the fuse for the cigarette lighter 12v socket on the Mondeo. It's been broken since we bought it.

Easy enough, I though thought I'd just check it by pressing the lighter element.

Sure enough it worked, and burnt years of crap down there.

Now I've not smoked in 12 years or more, but I don't remember the hot element ejecting itself clear of the socket and flinging itself across the car...

It landed hot bit down on plastic trim while I was driving and the plastic burst into a small yet significant flame. Yikes!

Fortunately it was a piece of plastic trim in the now-removed ashtray space, and it went out quickly.

Yikes again 😂

Still, job done. Phone power in car, tick.

[Coprolalia]

On 10/26/2020 at 2:05 PM, phil_lihp said:

Raising this post from the deep past, how did you get on with your cheapo pump?  

And once again raising this back.

I had a stab at fitting the cheapo pattern pump this weekend. As per usual with VAG, the part is actually quite simple to undo, but access is shit.

I think it's going to need the PAS pump removing to get the bloody thing out, and possibly the air con pump as well. 

The pump on the car is mullered. The rivets have snapped and the top of the pump is wobbling around.

It's going in for an MOT this week, so I'm going to get them to do the work at the same time and save faffing about with the PAS system.

[phil_lihp]

10 minutes ago, Coprolalia said:

And once again raising this back.

I had a stab at fitting the cheapo pattern pump this weekend. As per usual with VAG, the part is actually quite simple to undo, but access is shit.

I think it's going to need the PAS pump removing to get the bloody thing out, and possibly the air con pump as well. 

The pump on the car is mullered. The rivets have snapped and the top of the pump is wobbling around.

It's going in for an MOT this week, so I'm going to get them to do the work at the same time and save faffing about with the PAS system.

Thanks for the update - mine is loose on its mounts as well and like you say, easy enough to access by hand but does look like it'd be a pain to get out.  I think it'd have to come out from below. 

I've just been running with it unplugged and the EML on but will have to do something about it come February when the MOT is due.  I'm inclined to go down the route of programming it out, the car doesn't seem to work any differently with it disconnected other than no longer sounding like a 747 preparing for takeoff when starting from cold. 

[Coprolalia]

1 hour ago, phil_lihp said:

Thanks for the update - mine is loose on its mounts as well and like you say, easy enough to access by hand but does look like it'd be a pain to get out.  I think it'd have to come out from below. 

I've just been running with it unplugged and the EML on but will have to do something about it come February when the MOT is due.  I'm inclined to go down the route of programming it out, the car doesn't seem to work any differently with it disconnected other than no longer sounding like a 747 preparing for takeoff when starting from cold. 

I tried to get it out from below. It's actually mounted on a sort of O-shaped ring mount, suspended from further up the engine bay. I'm trying to work out where the O hangs down from.

I feel your 747 pain. Mine has been doing it for years, and it has made bugger all difference other than irritating the neighbours.

[phil_lihp]

Apparently it just warms up the cat - something to do with emissions - or something like that, anyway, but it's not really used during normal driving.

[mitsisigma01]

1 hour ago, Mike D said:

 

 

Proper Minis are so small they make that single garage look massive 🤭

[Cord Fourteener]

2 hours ago, Mike D said:

 

 

 

 

If I start a 'Show us your garage' thread, would you repost this pic there? It's amazing!

[Mike D]

51 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Proper Minis are so small they make that single garage look massive 🤭

To be fair it's a reasonable size (11 x 26 ft) single when it's not full of all the other shite 😆

30 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

If I start a 'Show us your garage' thread, would you repost this pic there? It's amazing!

it's a right mess! I can do though 😁

[lesapandre]

Just picking up a report in the German car press that Nissan intending to close it's Sunderland plant. Not maybe but yes definitely. Announcement in a few days. We'll see how accurate that is.

[Zelandeth]

Ah, jobs at least one generation probably aren't even aware of.  Cleaning points.

Apparently needed doing for a while as the engine runs a lot smoother now.  Quite a spark there too so think I'll change the condenser this week.  Not faffing around with the minefield of new ones made of finest Chinesium, I'll just fit a good quality 1000V rated 0.22uF polyester film one and be done with it.

 

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Just picking up a report in the German car press that Nissan intending to close it's Sunderland plant. Not maybe but yes definitely. Announcement in a few days. We'll see how accurate that is.

Hmmm...BBC has a  current 'comments' section of a news story on the impacts of easing the lock-down - when I posted it may be hard for Sunderland because of the rumour of  Nissan close-down as cited in the German press...BBC removed my comment. So maybe it is true - but they don't want to see it on their site prematurely.*..and aliens did land at Roswell.

If it is true it is very sad. But given the volume of car sales at the moment I would not be surprised. 

* Or maybe the just don't want unsubstantiated rumours on their website 😁

[vulgalour]

Finished another door card on the Lanchester, this time the front one.  This is the one that had the carpet section hand sewn back onto the rest of the door card.  The map pocket has shrunk a lot and took some coaxing with the iron and a tea towel to get it back to something like the proper shape.  Really happy with the end result all the same.  The minor wrinkles you see should mostly settle out, the light is making them more prominent looking than they are.  I have learned that tiny tacks and brittle old fabric are not the most fun things to work with, fortunately it's been a rewarding process more than a frustrating one and these have turned out much better than anticipated.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I will have great difficulty to not crack a smirk at 62% leave-voting Sunderland losing its major employer as a direct consequence of the sheer stupidity of its own people. It literally voted to shit on its own doorstep. 

[Zelandeth]

Ah...that moment where you realise that when you Rain-Exed the side windows of all the cars a few weeks ago that you forgot to go back and buff one of them off.  This becomes very clear the first time you encounter headlights shining through the glass after dark.

Thankfully I did have a clean cloth in the car so sorting this slip up took all of two minutes.  Stupid mistake though.

[mitsisigma01]

2 hours ago, Tim_E said:

If I start a 'Show us your garage' thread

This apparently is the garage of a hoarder... Fk off, he can still see the floor!!! 

I fkin wish, I took 3 pick up truck loads out of my garage and I didn't touch the floor once !!!

[Cord Fourteener]

5 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

This apparently is the garage of a hoarder... Fk off, he can still see the floor!!! 

I fkin wish, I took 3 pick up truck loads out of my garage and I didn't touch the floor once !!!

There's a lot of stuff! All useful I take it?

[barefoot]

The Rover appears to be losing an unexplained drop of coolant every so often, so I booked it into the garage for investigation - tomorrow. The fair wife then decreed that she will be going into her office - also tomorrow. Obviously she will be taking the Scirocco which of course decided that rather than start easily this morning, it would simply flatten its aready aging battery. Rather than piss about trying to rejuvinate it, I simply took it as a sign, and bought a replacement.

In other news; You may remember that the magazine I worked for closed down recently & I got a part time job with the local volunteer bureau as transport supremo.  Since then I have managed to get a couple of travel writing jobs for other magazines, a contract to write a cookery book and today, a regular monthly column for another campervan magazine!

I am a happy bunny.

[egg]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Hmmm...BBC has a  current 'comments' section of a news story on the impacts of easing the lock-down - when I posted it may be hard for Sunderland because of the rumour of  Nissan close-down as cited in the German press...BBC removed my comment. So maybe it is true - but they don't want to see it on their site prematurely.*..and aliens did land at Roswell.

They did hint at the issue a few days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54986195

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Nissan said there must be agreement on a free-trade deal by next week if it is to be ratified in time for the end of the Brexit transition period.

"If it happens without any sustainable business case obviously it is not a question of Sunderland or not Sunderland, obviously our UK business will not be sustainable, that's it," Nissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told Reuters.

 

[lesapandre]

5 minutes ago, egg said:

They did hint at the issue a few days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54986195

 

I saw Nissan said it did not want to take any subsidies from the UK Government - ie tax breaks on any forthcoming additional costs.  Pretty ominous for the workforce. But we'll see if it was a negotiation position or if they are going to quit.  Only time will tell. The German story is industry gossip...

Vans will still be made a Luton I suppose.