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  On 23/11/2020 at 16:02, Mr_Bo11ox said:

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. 

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It's not stupidity. It's wanting things to change and having no agency except for a vote.

There are stupid remainers too, their minds melted by that vote. 

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  On 23/11/2020 at 16:58, Tim_E said:

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

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My garage has a wide-ranging collection of useful shite... but to some people it is just shite😒

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  On 23/11/2020 at 18:47, mitsisigma01 said:

My garage has a wide-ranging collection of useful shite... but to some people it is just shite😒

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True.

I did start trust thread, it's currently in the open forum... Just saying!

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  On 23/11/2020 at 16:02, Mr_Bo11ox said:

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. 

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You'll be paying for them from now on so I wouldn't smile too hard...

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  On 23/11/2020 at 16:02, Mr_Bo11ox said:

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. 

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Didn't the Nissan management actually tell the workforce that they would close if the vote went to leave?

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Aaaand back to cars. 
 

This is why I drive old cars... to be lay on my back on the drive in the dark in November chasing a suspension creak... 

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Honestly I wouldn’t have it any other way though.

Creak appears to have been coming from the bottom suspension arm, I think a bush has worn and it needed lubricating. So it’s greased up and we’ll see how long it stays quiet, which will judge how urgent the problem is. Didn’t appear to be any play in it, so that’s good. Hopefully just a good lubing needed! 

Plus my 2CV exhaust arrived today, that’ll be tomorrow nights job, that’ll be luxury though. I can do that in the garage! 

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  On 23/11/2020 at 19:54, brownnova said:

Aaaand back to cars. 
 

This is why I drive old cars... to be lay on my back on the drive in the dark in November chasing a suspension creak... 

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Honestly I wouldn’t have it any other way though.

Creak appears to have been coming from the bottom suspension arm, I think a bush has worn and it needed lubricating. So it’s greased up and we’ll see how long it stays quiet, which will judge how urgent the problem is. Didn’t appear to be any play in it, so that’s good. Hopefully just a good lubing needed! 

Plus my 2CV exhaust arrived today, that’ll be tomorrow nights job, that’ll be luxury though. I can do that in the garage! 

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Plenty of moral support here. I remember last winter spending an hour in the pouring rain in a car park Aralditing in the headlamp on my AX Citroen so it would be dry when I went to the MoT the following day.

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  On 23/11/2020 at 14:22, 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.

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Do you have a link to this? As I work for Nissan in Sunderland

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Nissan have made lots of noises regarding leaving etc. It would be pretty devastating for the area so I hope it's all a bluff. 

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  On 23/11/2020 at 20:41, DVee8 said:

Do you have a link to this? As I work for Nissan in Sunderland

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It's featured in a German car magazine.

'Automobilwoche' apparently.

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  On 23/11/2020 at 18:25, Lacquer Peel said:

It's not stupidity. It's wanting things to change and having no agency except for a vote.

There are stupid remainers too, their minds melted by that vote. 

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It's mind-boggling stupidity, with a light misting of racism and arrogance. I studied in Sunderland, and I know the city is built around the friggin Nissan factory. The factory is entirely predicated on single market membership, and about 70% of the cars leaving it have the steering wheel on the left cos they are headed over the channel. It's the golden goose of industry in the North East. But greedy, selfish people chose to buy Farage's racist slogans and worthless bullshit rather than bother their arse to make their own rational appraisal of the situation. The tragedy is the fact that it will go down in the history books as self-inflicted, a colossal own goal. Fucking idiots.

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  On 23/11/2020 at 21:24, Mr_Bo11ox said:

It's mind-boggling stupidity, with a light misting of racism and arrogance. I studied in Sunderland, and I know the city is built around the friggin Nissan factory. The factory is entirely predicated on single market membership, and about 70% of the cars leaving it have the steering wheel on the left cos they are headed over the channel. It's the golden goose of industry in the North East. But greedy, selfish people chose to buy Farage's racist slogans and worthless bullshit rather than bother their arse to make their own rational appraisal of the situation. The tragedy is the fact that it will go down in the history books as self-inflicted, a colossal own goal. Fucking idiots.

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Hammer/Nail interface right there.

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Let's see. This may be incorrect or it may be an 'off the record briefing' as part of a negotiation strategy. Time alas will tell - but a massive reorganisation of the motor industry is underway. Without a battery factory the UK is in some jeopardy.  Reuters reported in September that Tesla’s battery packs cost $156 per kWh in 2019, according to electric vehicle consulting firm Cairn Energy Research Advisors, which would put the cost of a 90-kWh pack at around $14,000. That's a lot of import/export cost as a %  of the value of a vehicle unless you assemble the battery in the UK. 

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Regards Sunderland. 

The factory isn't the whole of Sunderland and Sunderland isn't the whole of the U.K.

Even if the whole of Sunderland had turned up to vote and voted remain it wouldn't have made a difference.

I've no idea how the campaign went in Sunderland but it definitely looks surprising. I certainly wouldn't gloat or assume they are racist etc.

Anyway some screen shots for information purposes.

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Posted
  On 23/11/2020 at 22:04, egg said:

Umm, Alfa 90 carabinieri spec. 

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Beretta sub machine guns, cocaine and suitcases full of cash in the boot then.

That's before they catch any crims...

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I bet those Alfa wheeltrims are specifically designed to fly off on corners when chasing the bad guys, to make it all look a bit more exciting

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Fleet update time.  The Rover 820 finally has brakes again, after a month on and off replacing calipers, and cocking up various aspects of the job.  The final hurdle was replacing a brake hose.  I got a bit carried away with the heat torch on the banjo bolt, causing the hose to melt, smoke and fizzle.  Fire extinguisher was there just in case.

But the pipe union wouldn't loosen and I ended up rounding it off, so I cut the pipe and had to flare the short section remaining.  The point of no return...

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Surprisingly I've never had to flare a pipe before, but after a test run the in situ SAE flare tool in the pic is easy to use.  I just hope it passes the MoT next month after all this effort.  Wheels move freely enough, and no one wheel is hotter than the other after a run, so hopefully I won't get a 'brakes imbalanced across an axle' fail.

In the meantime, the Xantia developed an LHM leak so the Morris became my main car for the past two weeks.  Wasn't sure how that would pan out but it's been marvellous, being used almost every day for various medical appointments and errands.  My other half has a long term illness and is unable to work (Long Covid, began end of March and it's a total bastard) and having at least one vehicle that isn't fucked has proved essential. 

Good old Morris.  Still jobs to do, but it moves and stops (eventually).  Cadence braking is the norm until I work out what the issue is.

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I'll keep using it for local trips throughout the winter.  This year has taught me life's too short and to just get on with stuff, albeit I still agonise about the cars...Xantia is the next on the list.  Compression joints and length of hydraulic pipe are on order.  WCPGW.

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  On 23/11/2020 at 19:54, brownnova said:

Aaaand back to cars. 
 

This is why I drive old cars... to be lay on my back on the drive in the dark in November chasing a suspension creak... 

B4BAE70C-AABD-4698-9AB5-7B3362A68116.jpeg

Honestly I wouldn’t have it any other way though.

Creak appears to have been coming from the bottom suspension arm, I think a bush has worn and it needed lubricating. So it’s greased up and we’ll see how long it stays quiet, which will judge how urgent the problem is. Didn’t appear to be any play in it, so that’s good. Hopefully just a good lubing needed! 

Plus my 2CV exhaust arrived today, that’ll be tomorrow nights job, that’ll be luxury though. I can do that in the garage! 

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Well that was a waste of time as it turned out, passed the bounce test at the time and this morning, and drove silently for the first few miles of my commute, but the loud creaky squeaky noise returned for the final couple of miles. 🙄

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  On 24/11/2020 at 01:46, RobT said:

Fleet update time.  The Rover 820 finally has brakes again, after a month on and off replacing calipers, and cocking up various aspects of the job.  The final hurdle was replacing a brake hose.  I got a bit carried away with the heat torch on the banjo bolt, causing the hose to melt, smoke and fizzle.  Fire extinguisher was there just in case.

But the pipe union wouldn't loosen and I ended up rounding it off, so I cut the pipe and had to flare the short section remaining.  The point of no return...

IMG-20201121-WA0004.thumb.jpg.5cb0d93323bf1868d01902b0b5eec961.jpg

Surprisingly I've never had to flare a pipe before, but after a test run the in situ SAE flare tool in the pic is easy to use.  I just hope it passes the MoT next month after all this effort.  Wheels move freely enough, and no one wheel is hotter than the other after a run, so hopefully I won't get a 'brakes imbalanced across an axle' fail.

In the meantime, the Xantia developed an LHM leak so the Morris became my main car for the past two weeks.  Wasn't sure how that would pan out but it's been marvellous, being used almost every day for various medical appointments and errands.  My other half has a long term illness and is unable to work (Long Covid, began end of March and it's a total bastard) and having at least one vehicle that isn't fucked has proved essential. 

Good old Morris.  Still jobs to do, but it moves and stops (eventually).  Cadence braking is the norm until I work out what the issue is.

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I'll keep using it for local trips throughout the winter.  This year has taught me life's too short and to just get on with stuff, albeit I still agonise about the cars...Xantia is the next on the list.  Compression joints and length of hydraulic pipe are on order.  WCPGW.

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Gosh the Italian styling of these is crisp - what a nice looking thing. Growing up with them as everyday cars I don't remember that many two doors - but then I wasn't really looking at the time. 

Elsewhere reporting on the site classics stolen.  Have you got security for it? - I use Stoplock steeing bars and chains through the wheel spokes as a deterrent.

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It certainly won't be the first time that a 'source' has made claims that an organisation is moving/selling up/in trouble. 

I didn't believe it until I saw it for myself a short time ago that The Media are indeed a total shower of lying bastards and will literally cook up any old tale in the name of a story. 

I was surprised at how shocked I was.

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  On 24/11/2020 at 06:03, DVee8 said:
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Sadly the denial means nothing. The German article also means nothing too.

I think there is a lot to be decided yet, a lot will depend on the deal etc.

Let's all give it 12 months from now and we'll see how it works out.

It's obviously an expensive and big decision either way I'm sure they will have looked at options for various scenarios.

 

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Well stuboy junior corsa looks like it be going to scrap one he decides what to do with it

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  On 24/11/2020 at 09:22, lesapandre said:

Gosh the Italian styling of these is crisp - what a nice looking thing. Growing up with them as everyday cars I don't remember that many two doors - but then I wasn't really looking at the time. 

Elsewhere reporting on the site classics stolen.  Have you got security for it? - I use Stoplock steeing bars and chains through the wheel spokes as a deterrent.

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It's garaged overnight, and I've got a stoplock gear lever thing which I must remember to use.  I don't tend to leave it parked up for long, but you never know.

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  On 24/11/2020 at 14:10, stuboy said:

Well stuboy junior corsa looks like it be going to scrap one he decides what to do with it

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Has he passed his test in last two years?

Two defective tyres could of got him banned. Consider himself lucky the MOT man saw it and not PC Plod. 

A lot of that is basic checking of a vehicle. Really poor effort tbh.

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  On 24/11/2020 at 14:20, RobT said:

It's garaged overnight, and I've got a stoplock gear lever thing which I must remember to use.  I don't tend to leave it parked up for long, but you never know.

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I'd give it a bit of a security review. My Stoplocks mostly come via boot sales and charity shops. A short length of chain to a gauge to fit through a wheel 'spoke' is also good if you can thread through.  And there is also the rotor arm thing - but I think thieves lift stuff myself where they are pro.  

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