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It looked like a good idea ... so I purchased 1... supposedly good if u can't get the earth clamp on. It u know in 2021 when I might use it

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I found out today my house mates have a Nissan Primera P11 wagon...and one with over 330,000 kilometers on it!

I had a quick drive - my first in a P11 - it's a surprisingly rorty car. Still on the original engine and clutch too. I can see why people like P11's. Not bad to drive at all.

It seems really solid - asides from a worn through carpet in the drivers footwell and a squishy steering wheel, it feels like has at least 150,000 kilometers less. Even the drivers seat bolster (seats trimmed in luscious velour) isn't worn through.

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  On 19/12/2020 at 21:22, wuvvum said:

 

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Can you drive these things on a normal car license, as that looks to have a twin axle ?

Do need a van, as it's a pain trying to fit full size plasterboard / sheets of ply etc into an estate or on the roof (of which it then starts raining)

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  On 19/12/2020 at 22:52, barmatt said:

I'd love to stealth camper something like this, although I'd like a tad more than the 75hp this had from the factory.

What are / were the external power sockets for? 

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They did them with outputs up to 122bhp - those actually go pretty well.  The sockets are now disconnected but I believe they were something to do with the mobile catering business the previous owner ran.

  On 20/12/2020 at 05:55, Minimad5 said:

Can you drive these things on a normal car license, as that looks to have a twin axle ?

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Yep, it's 3.5 tonne.  Twin wheels on 3.5-tonners used to be more common back in the day.

 

Just realised I'm posting this on page 2445 and the Iveco's engine is 2445cc.  Heh.

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Another day, another collection mission. 

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The journey down is going to be rather more convoluted than Friday's trip, because Sunday, but hopefully the drive home will be more relaxing - today's purchase actually has exactly the same bhp as the Iveco but a small fraction of the weight. 

I and the vehicle both reside in Tier 2, but I have to venture through Tier 4 to get there.  As I understand it, as long as I get through as fast as I can, don't talk to anyone and don't make eye contact, it's legal.  Or something. 

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  On 20/12/2020 at 08:10, wuvvum said:

Another day, another collection mission. 

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The journey down is going to be rather more convoluted than Friday's trip, because Sunday, but hopefully the drive home will be more relaxing - today's purchase actually has exactly the same bhp as the Iveco but a small fraction of the weight. 

I and the vehicle both reside in Tier 2, but I have to venture through Tier 4 to get there.  As I understand it, as long as I get through as fast as I can, don't talk to anyone and don't make eye contact, it's legal.  Or something. 

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You also need to hold your breath for the entire transit through T4, good luck and I doubt any kittens will die as a result !

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  On 20/12/2020 at 08:10, wuvvum said:

Another day, another collection mission. 

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The journey down is going to be rather more convoluted than Friday's trip, because Sunday, but hopefully the drive home will be more relaxing - today's purchase actually has exactly the same bhp as the Iveco but a small fraction of the weight. 

I and the vehicle both reside in Tier 2, but I have to venture through Tier 4 to get there.  As I understand it, as long as I get through as fast as I can, don't talk to anyone and don't make eye contact, it's legal.  Or something. 

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Bloody hell, man! You're a collecting machine!

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Train cancelled due to a derailment, diverting to Waterloo.  50 minute wait for a connection so thought I'd take a stroll down to the south bank (daily exercise innit occifer).   It's pretty much deserted here too, considering it's a nice sunny Sunday.  Although a middle aged woman has just jogged past in an elf costume.  Because London. 

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  On 20/12/2020 at 12:55, beko1987 said:

Pretty! What's wrong with it... 

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No MOT as of tomororw 

Drivers, door handle ripped off 

Front bumper held on with cable ties

Slave cyl on clutch is weak 

But drives pretty well an goes well for a vectra engine! 

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  On 20/12/2020 at 10:17, stuboy said:

My mondeo don't have any dealer stickers, anyway of finding who supplied it?

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Didn't you say it was a press car you're decimating at some point? 

Probably didn't go through one. 

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  On 20/12/2020 at 13:18, Jamie said:

No MOT as of tomororw 

Drivers, door handle ripped off 

Front bumper held on with cable ties

Slave cyl on clutch is weak 

But drives pretty well an goes well for a vectra engine! 

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Doesn't sound too bad, front bumper sounds like it's fixed already! And it's got a passenger door... 

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Rapid sober up this morning , answered the doorbell to 2 ladies dressed in police uniform , thought a early Xmas present had arrived , but no , big kick off in the street in the night and I slept throu it , they wanted the footage from the CCTV ...  ... 

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Giving serious consideration to roffling the mercedes at a loss, since finding the handy work of the last garage that saw it, I've kind of lost any enthusiasm for it. 

Bodgy stuff pisses me off, and I haven't the time or inclination to go parts chasing just now. 

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the new battery on the Avensis has made not one jot of a difference, 

it still won't go.

we did manage to jump start it off the Rover, but that is all we have achieved with it.

and i am through with it.  we bought it in a piss and a panic cos we needed another car, and having run about in it for the last 6 weeks i can now positively say that i don't just dislike it. i really, do not care for it at all, in fact i hate it, hate it almost as much as the shitty job i'm doing that it was bought for.

it is the dullest, dreary, deathly dullest thing i have ever owns.

i've driven worse, mitubishi "carisma" comes to mind as been worse, but that was a company hack that i didn't give a flying shit about.

and i feel exactly the same about that turd sat oitside!

so frankly the ball is now in kerrys court, i'll help get it going tomorrow, but that isall, if she wants to take it home, then all well and good, i would sooner put it over the weigh bridge at marske metals, or take it down to Morgans and let them have it.

piece of shit, i won't be having another one of them!

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Just posted on the wrexham museum Facebook page,  guess the year and car please.

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  On 20/12/2020 at 16:44, wuvvum said:

Aaand it's broken.  Run out of electricity on the M25.  Currently at Clacket Lane services waiting for the AA. 

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😕

Stay safe, don't let the big yellow taxi driver cough on you. 

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