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[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Granddad was the owner of the service station I have posted on here previously. I’ve asked my parents and aunt to scan in more photos of the Place so I can do a thread on here about it

I think that's a great idea. They obviously turned adversity into triumph at the timeshare site which must have been very traumatic to go through. Sounds like they were special people, DD.

[320touring]

Watchin' in slow motion as you turn around and say

It made me laugh anyway...

 

was an advert on mugjotter for scrap removal

[richardmorris]

No pics as I was busy but the people across the way at work dropped a db5 on their hydraulic lift today. Twice! Looked out of the window to see what the bang was to see them trying to load the silver birch car into one of their huge transporters. Watched as they tried again, but hydraulics not up to it after a foot and dropped to earth again.   Huge bang. Unloaded, turned the car around ( pushed in the rain) and got it back on the lift engine first this time. Lifted ok and pushed it onto the top deck. I can only think the extended weight engine out on the edge of the lift put too much strain on it. A bit keystone cops- must have been the weather, they’re usually better than that at it.

There was also a rather nice Bentley Continental on the truck too.

 

[wuvvum]

Speaking of nice old British cars, I was going round a roundabout in the centre of Norwich this morning and waiting to pull out, looking massive even amongst the bloated modernz, was a rather lovely Silver Cloud III.

The purpose of my visit to Norwich was to test drive this:

My disenchantment with spending much of my free time chasing faults on a fleet of old heaps has reached the point where I'm seriously considering jacking it all in and getting a shiny new car with a warranty.  The one I drove was a posh one but the monthly PCP payments on the more basic model I was looking at are roughly the same as what I'm bunging out every month on VED at the moment, which negates the "oh, it's just money down the drain" argument against having a brand new car.  I'd probably keep just the Renault 6 and the Toyota (the Innocenti had been on the "keep" list too, but that's pissing me off at the moment), and I might then actually have the time and money to give them the attention they deserve.

The Dacia drove quite well, and certainly feels a lot more of a grown-up concept than the previous model.  It's spacious, it's comfortable enough, the gear shift is nice and crisp and the switches don't flop about.  The plastics are hard and the engine is a bit growly on the dual carriageway, but nothing I couldn't live with.  I haven't made a decision yet but I'm giving it some serious thought.

[chadders]

I guess that you could always fix things at your relative leisure on the other cars as you'd have this as a reliable daily.

It seems a sensible plan to me, especially as the pressure to get something fixed so that you could go to work would be gone.

[stuboy]

If u like the smell of old engineering workshops then got to asda and buy a can of this, reminded me of skool daze metalwork room and college engineering room with the lathes

[brownnova]

47 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Speaking of nice old British cars, I was going round a roundabout in the centre of Norwich this morning and waiting to pull out, looking massive even amongst the bloated modernz, was a rather lovely Silver Cloud III.

The purpose of my visit to Norwich was to test drive this:

My disenchantment with spending much of my free time chasing faults on a fleet of old heaps has reached the point where I'm seriously considering jacking it all in and getting a shiny new car with a warranty.  The one I drove was a posh one but the monthly PCP payments on the more basic model I was looking at are roughly the same as what I'm bunging out every month on VED at the moment, which negates the "oh, it's just money down the drain" argument against having a brand new car.  I'd probably keep just the Renault 6 and the Toyota (the Innocenti had been on the "keep" list too, but that's pissing me off at the moment), and I might then actually have the time and money to give them the attention they deserve.

The Dacia drove quite well, and certainly feels a lot more of a grown-up concept than the previous model.  It's spacious, it's comfortable enough, the gear shift is nice and crisp and the switches don't flop about.  The plastics are hard and the engine is a bit growly on the dual carriageway, but nothing I couldn't live with.  I haven't made a decision yet but I'm giving it some serious thought.

I’ve been feeling this a bit lately… A Duster or an MG ZS are on my radar as a family wagon. But then I’m struggling to cull the fleet! 

[Jerzy Woking]

11 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

 

Tat is very thin on the ground out here now. The era of the Barreiros diesel powered Chrysler 180 and various Seat badged Fiats are well and truly gone. I’ve only seen 3 other bits of rammel and was unable to snap because driving. Very few cars registered with provincial plates here.

Scattering ashes was very nice gesture and very meaningful.

I'm down near Alicante and its rare to see anything more than about 15 to 20 years old, except for Berlingo's (and similar). The scrap yards I pass all seem to have what I deem as new cars in them. Mechanical failures rather than rust related I think.

Only place I see old stuff is on the N332 between Benidorm and Alicante. There is a garage yard full of half scrapped Citroen's (mostly aircooled), and next door an Alfa specialist who has some fantastic 60's rally cars in. He showed us around a couple of year ago-his office was full of trophies he had won racing.

[Fumbler]

I'm struggling to understand some paint vendors' descriptions on eBay. This is my last attempt at finding anything before I turn to local paint shops (who will probably have what I'm looking for).

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193930821417?var=494129833170&hash=item2d272d7f29:g:3LwAAOSwATZgPrwy

The above link is Rouge Furio, available in a solvent basecoat or aerosol. The paint finish for aerosol is... aerosol. Not very helpful.

What do you people think, will this just be an aerosol basecoat requiring a lacquer, or will it be a high-gloss finish aerosol I've been wasting too much time trying to find?

 

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Scattering ashes was very nice gesture and very meaningful.

I'm down near Alicante and its rare to see anything more than about 15 to 20 years old, except for Berlingo's (and similar). The scrap yards I pass all seem to have what I deem as new cars in them. Mechanical failures rather than rust related I think.

Only place I see old stuff is on the N332 between Benidorm and Alicante. There is a garage yard full of half scrapped Citroen's (mostly aircooled), and next door an Alfa specialist who has some fantastic 60's rally cars in. He showed us around a couple of year ago-his office was full of trophies he had won racing.

Aside from the R8, I’ve seen two quatras latas and a very pogweaseled Visa

[Jerzy Woking]

I saw a Granada 2.8 Ghia X last weekend in a village not far from me. Giffer trinketed to death with grill bages and chrome strips. On my bike so no photo, but will be going to the village again this week so will have a scout around for it.

Very dissapointing levels of shite....

[doug]

Spotted these 2 beauties today. Looks like they have not moved in years

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[captain_70s]

Some sporting event I don't care about is occurring. That means quiet roads...

[chaseracer]

@Talbot visited Chaseracer Towers today, and kindly replaced the EGR valve on the Blingo.  I cleaned stuff and made tea...

[andy18s]

Oof

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, richardmorris said:

No pics as I was busy but the people across the way at work dropped a db5 on their hydraulic lift today. Twice! Looked out of the window to see what the bang was to see them trying to load the silver birch car into one of their huge transporters. Watched as they tried again, but hydraulics not up to it after a foot and dropped to earth again.   Huge bang. ....

How did they feel after that? Shaken, not stirred?

[Cord Fourteener]

12 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Here's a strange coincidence. My partner has been telling me for years about a MK1 Fiesta her mum used to own. Finally found a picture of it:

And here's mine, that I owned at the same time, over 20 years ago

Even stranger, they were registered in Cumbria, yet both were within a few miles of each other here in Chelmsford when we owned them.

Sorry for scan of a crap pic/video still, best I've got at the moment.

After my dad sold our blue Cortina HKY 147W we saw blue Cortina HKY 146W for sale in our town.

I think ours was a face-lift and 146W was not, but my memory is hazy. 

 

[Cord Fourteener]

2 hours ago, captain_70s said:

Some sporting event I don't care about is occurring. That means quiet roads...

Cricket, is it?

May I acclaim that your Triumph looks great?

Or should i say 'Ono gai ichi mas? Triumph kicka nakka'.

[Zelandeth]

5 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Speaking of nice old British cars, I was going round a roundabout in the centre of Norwich this morning and waiting to pull out, looking massive even amongst the bloated modernz, was a rather lovely Silver Cloud III.

The purpose of my visit to Norwich was to test drive this:

My disenchantment with spending much of my free time chasing faults on a fleet of old heaps has reached the point where I'm seriously considering jacking it all in and getting a shiny new car with a warranty.  The one I drove was a posh one but the monthly PCP payments on the more basic model I was looking at are roughly the same as what I'm bunging out every month on VED at the moment, which negates the "oh, it's just money down the drain" argument against having a brand new car.  I'd probably keep just the Renault 6 and the Toyota (the Innocenti had been on the "keep" list too, but that's pissing me off at the moment), and I might then actually have the time and money to give them the attention they deserve.

The Dacia drove quite well, and certainly feels a lot more of a grown-up concept than the previous model.  It's spacious, it's comfortable enough, the gear shift is nice and crisp and the switches don't flop about.  The plastics are hard and the engine is a bit growly on the dual carriageway, but nothing I couldn't live with.  I haven't made a decision yet but I'm giving it some serious thought.

This is kind of where I was when I picked up my 107 back in 2009.  Yes it was a lot of money down the drain (about £200pcm, but with no deposit and the finance was on 0% interest) but it meant I knew exactly what I was spending on it each month so it made my budgeting so much easier - even though it was more than I'd probably have been spending on cars in a normal month, just knowing it was a fixed number simplified things.

Plus it was so much of a weight off my mind to just have a car I knew was just going to work as an car.  Especially as my tinkering spot at the time was at my parent's place 40 miles away.  After the three years we paid the £3k or so that was left (rather than part exchanging it for another car which is what they *wanted* me to do), and we had it for another seven years.

Was an absolutely cracking little car and I don't regret buying new for a minute. 

During that time (was a couple of months short of ten years) she needed a clutch, radiator, air con condenser and a driveshaft.  Other than that was just normal consumables...if I'd got the space I'd still have the car to be honest.

[Cord Fourteener]

7 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

This is kind of where I was when I picked up my 107 back in 2009.  Yes it was a lot of money down the drain (about £200pcm, but with no deposit and the finance was on 0% interest) but it meant I knew exactly what I was spending on it each month so it made my budgeting so much easier - even though it was more than I'd probably have been spending on cars in a normal month, just knowing it was a fixed number simplified things.

Plus it was so much of a weight off my mind to just have a car I knew was just going to work as an car.  Especially as my tinkering spot at the time was at my parent's place 40 miles away.  After the three years we paid the £3k or so that was left (rather than part exchanging it for another car which is what they *wanted* me to do), and we had it for another seven years.

Was an absolutely cracking little car and I don't regret buying new for a minute. 

During that time (was a couple of months short of ten years) she needed a clutch, radiator, air con condenser and a driveshaft.  Other than that was just normal consumables...if I'd got the space I'd still have the car to be honest.

If you're going to buy new i suppose this is the way to do it. 

One set of neighbours has each bought a new car and seem intent on eeking every possible year out of the cars. Seems sensible.

For me I've worked out that for our dailies, between me and Wifey equate to about £80 or £100 a car. That includes repairs that are non-service items.

If it were more I'd consider a nearly new commuter for wifey (though she's happy with older at the moment) but for a large estate for me it would cost more, so therfore I buy cheap for both and we're happy.

 

[chaseracer]

Seriously considering holding on to Domestic Management's DS 3 when the PCP ends.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

After many weekends cleaning up electrical contacts with absolutely no response whatsoever, today the courtesy light in the CX has decided to work.

The conclusion that I have drawn from this exercise is that I don't understand women. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe "look but don't touch" is better.

 

[Split_Pin]

I welded* the Cavalier sill today. I did not enjoy it.

The slightly rusty bit above the hole also developed after I'd welded the bottom bit and was happily grinding it back. Fuck. Off.

This was my first time welding a car. The metal used in the sill was expectedly incredibly thin so getting any kind of nice weld run was impossible without blowing holes. Both settings on my MIG were turned right down. Then the wire feed started playing silly buggers and slipping even when the adjuster was screwed right down.

Eventually I managed to get it all done in a 'point and shoot' fashion.

It looks like utter dog shit in the above picture. I ground it down more and made more holes where the weld was shite. Eventually I got everything metal that should be metal and it the 2 plates didn't fall off.

Then another small  hole in the very bottom corner of the inner wheel arch decided to show up late to the party.

There is a lot of factory sealant here and digging it all out would have been a right old a war. In the pictures below you'll see I ground the hole back to decent-ish metal. There are already 2 bungs here and lots of factory sealant so another round hole with more 'factory- style'  Tiger Seal was opted for. 

I then painted it with some 'special stuff'. Some frost blue is in the post.

It's better than it was.

I also ground back and painted other small stone chips on the sill at the same time, together with some rust on the door bottom.

Any tips on sorting out a slipping wire feed or indeed welding thin metal are welcome.

[wuvvum]

Just realised I've passed 20,000 posts.  I need to get out more...

[junkyarddog]

Out and about in an ageing Volkswagen. 

[Fumbler]

Priced up a MIG welder which shall be bought on Payday next week. I've also just bought some wheel paint and chainsaw chain oil. Weird list but it'll become clear what I want the oil for later on.

[tooSavvy]

@Fumbler... "..it'll become clear what I want the oil for later on.."

Ahh... 3-in-1 never goes in a SturmeyArcher 3speed bicycle hub.

I boughted 'bestest longmarch sewmeole' sewing machine oil... GR9!

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, tooSavvy said:

@Fumbler... ".it'll become clear what I want the oil for later on."

Ahh... 3-in-1 never goes in a SturmeyArcher 3speed bicycle hub.

I boughted 'bestest longmarch sewmeole' sewing machine oil... GR9!

😂 It's definitely not going to be on moving parts, that's for sure.

[captain_70s]

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Any tips on sorting out a slipping wire feed or indeed welding thin metal are welcome.

Try to have a similar thickness of new metal going in, the Acclaim is made of tinfoil so most of it's repairs were done in 0.8mm steel, aside from chassis legs which were in 1.2mm I think. Also rather than trying to run a weld just tack in alternating corners and slowly fill in the gaps. Gives the metal more time to cool and less chance of blowing holes.

If the metal isn't welding because it's rusted thin from the inside the best course of action is to just hack it out. It's easier to weld big square patches on to good steel than to try and weld tiny patches on to compromised steel, just a bit daunting to chop big chunks out of your car... Just think of it as doing next year's welding as well as this years...

[Split_Pin]

20 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Try to have a similar thickness of new metal going in, the Acclaim is made of tinfoil so most of it's repairs were done in 0.8mm steel, aside from chassis legs which were in 1.2mm I think. Also rather than trying to run a weld just tack in alternating corners and slowly fill in the gaps. Gives the metal more time to cool and less chance of blowing holes.

If the metal isn't welding because it's rusted thin from the inside the best course of action is to just hack it out. It's easier to weld big square patches on to good steel than to try and weld tiny patches on to compromised steel, just a bit daunting to chop big chunks out of your car... Just think of it as doing next year's welding as well as this years...

Cheers chap, good to see that the multiple tacking method is unanimously agreed upon. That's what I did latterly and it worked slightly better.