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[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, grogee said:

Factory spec. Bonus points if the clips were generic washing machine ones. 

Factory Weber ones no less! Citroen has used these everywhere on the car so I feel less bad about adding to that number.

[grogee]

3 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Factory Weber ones no less! Citroen has used these everywhere on the car so I feel less bad about adding to that number.

Posh bastard. 

[Split_Pin]

10 minutes ago, grogee said:

Today I went to look at this, a 1998 Fiat Brava. It had potential* especially for an Autoshite project but seller wouldn't go lower than £600 which is too rich (for me) for an old Fiat with no MoT. Even if it is only 28,000 miles.

To be honest I hadn't run it past Mrs Grogee (the Steering Committee) so probably a lucky escape from a tongue lashing (not the good kind).

That's lovely. Not £600 lovely though.  The seller probably cant see past the low mileage. I'm going to guess it's going to sit there until either the seller realises they're not going to get rid and lowers the price, or they might be a miserable tight git and let it sit until its too far gone.

[grogee]

16 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

That's lovely. Not £600 lovely though.  The seller probably cant see past the low mileage. I'm going to guess it's going to sit there until either the seller realises they're not going to get rid and lowers the price, or they might be a miserable tight git and let it sit until its too far gone.

Exactly what I thought. He said, "I'd rather keep it than let it go for less than £600."

Looks like you're keeping it then mate. I don't need or even want a Fiat Brava, but I thought it might be a fun project and an interesting trip back in time to when cars were A Bit More Shit than they are now. 

I think when he produced the replacement master cylinder still in its packaging I was thinking, "this is more trouble than I want to get into". I mean, not a terrible job I'm sure, but that's on top of the service, cam belt and windscreen it needs

[Split_Pin]

Ooft, fuck that.

Its not as if people will be beating his door down for it. Only a few blokes in a beige corner of the internet would be interested and only only if its cheap.

He'll be weighing it in for a few hundred this time next year. Plonker.

There's a 51 plate Bravo near me, that I have major want for, it's very tidy.

[brownnova]

Two cars bought in a week… to serve the same purpose….

Standard. 

[dollywobbler]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

I think when he produced the replacement master cylinder still in its packaging I was thinking, "this is more trouble than I want to get into". I mean, not a terrible job I'm sure, but that's on top of the service, cam belt and windscreen it needs

Brake or clutch? If it's clutch master, it's presumably a sod of a job, as it is on the Multipla.

[reb]

I'm sitting outside work with the wind attempting to lift up the car.

The Tay Bridge should be fun*

[Mrcento]

9 minutes ago, reb said:

The Tay Bridge should be fun*

I'd say odds are that's not happening, it's already down to cars only, 30mph and folk are coming off with brown trousers and begging them to close it.

Forecast to get worse in a few hours.

[dollywobbler]

Stay safe folks. It's bad enough over here (a mere Amber warning).

[bezzabsa]

9 hours ago, tom13 said:

First commute in the new car today. Quick stop in town on the way. 

is that in that there Stourbridge??

[Spurious]

New Hey Road in the Jimny was fun* in the Jimny.  The M62 was basically bumper to bumper eastbound from Manchester over the hills. So I put my brave pants on and went over the tops. 

The morning is also going to be fun, but a Saturday should reduce the chance of people crashing on the motorway. Equally as windy but you can't get blown off the side of a mountain unlike New Hey Road as there's barriers to stop you 🙃

[reb]

1 hour ago, Mrcento said:

I'd say odds are that's not happening, it's already down to cars only, 30mph and folk are coming off with brown trousers and begging them to close it.

Forecast to get worse in a few hours.

Got across ok, first time I've seen the 30 limit actually being obeyed by everyone! It's definitely getting worse.

[tom13]

2 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

is that in that there Stourbridge??

Sure is. Early gym sesh, can park there while the town is quiet. 

[brownnova]

Was on an evening out, Mrs B came to get me. We had to dodge fallen branches and twigs until we came to a completely fallen tree! Turn around and through the villages… days like today I do hate having a property with so many trees! 

 

[Metal Guru]

11 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Really?

I put £30 of E10 in the Audi last week and it doesn't smell at all.

Can’t imagine you could detect the difference between 5 and 10% ethanol unless you were a trained wine taster / blender.

[wuvvum]

I've just realised that yesterday was 15 years since I joined Autoshite.

 

As you were...

[mintwth]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Can’t imagine you could detect the difference between 5 and 10% ethanol unless you were a trained wine taster / blender.

The difference becomes obvious after a few pints

[DVee8]

4 fences down and 2 escaped wheelie bins, 1 i rescued at 01.30 that had somehow moved passed Ben's Fiat 500, my X-Trail and MrsV8's Mini . The other full of rubbish I retrived at 05.00 in between Ben's Fiat and my car.

When it's light we'll see what the damage is.

Edit, nextdoor has a wheelie bin on her bonnet and front bumper of her 18plate Fiat 500

[tooSavvy]

Tree over our Metro 'rapid transit' train tracks..... Just along from our house & trains stopping at Wallsend.

Hardly the 'Great Wind', of our forefathers.... But same P I T A to people trying to get haem! 😱

[Spurious]

Who takes a wagon up Standedge during drifting snow and a gale. The Jimny was fine, locked in 4wd and mountain goated through the snow but a wagon got stuck coming up the other way at a temporary one way. Myself and a xtrail driver going to work managed to get the wagon to begrudgingly move to the side to let us through. 

Also not sure where all this traffic is doing on a Saturday morning, usually only pass a car or two up there. 

The Audi bugged out and the Astra did too. 

[Cord Fourteener]

Strong winds here last night, almost no roads open to get home!

A neighbour finished restoring a classic and rover last week.

what do you think, that will buff out, right?

 

[grogee]

2 minutes ago, Cord Fourteener said:

Strong winds here last night, almost no roads open to get home!

A neighbour finished restoring a classic and rover last week.

what do you think, that will buff out, right?

 

I'm no LR fanboi but that is an absolute tragedy, genuinely sad for your neighbour. Poor bloke

[grogee]

After confidently predicting no OMGSNOKAOS we're now battling through drifts* as high as 1cm here in Warwickshire. 

Am expecting traffic to grind to a halt shortly. 

[grogee]

15 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

Brake or clutch? If it's clutch master, it's presumably a sod of a job, as it is on the Multipla.

Brake, but I'm sure the clutch wouldn't be far behind having sat for 20 years

[artdjones]

On 11/25/2021 at 11:11 PM, wuvvum said:

Aaand today the Scénic's wipers are working perfectly again.

I really don't understand this car.  It also puts me in a bit of a quandary - I was going to have a go at taking the wipers apart this weekend and cleaning the connections, but I'm now worried that if I do that they might stop working again permanently - that wasn't an issue when they weren't working anyway but would be a bit of a bugger now.  I really need to find a dry day to take it in for a retest so that I don't have to use the wipers, but looking at the forecast for next week that's not looking very likely.

Before I can take it in I need to replace the rear springs - this looks like it should be an easy 30-minute job (jack the rear of the car up nice and high, wheels off, bottom shock mounts undone, drop the axle, ping the old springs out, pop the new in, reassembly is the reverse of removal) but being modern, French and generally a bit temperamental you can guarantee it's not going to be that easy...

If it's an intermittent problem it probably is a bad connection, so worth at least a check of the plugs and motors. There's a procedure to resynchronize the motors with each other on the Renault forum is they do get out of synch.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Got the first snow yesterday and last night a month late after normal. So had to use the snow blower today for the first time this season.

[catsinthewelder]

Just a gentle dusting of snow so far on the hill but the wind is howling.  Fortunately the only cars of mine within tree range are the camper and maybe the Discovery both of which are a bit fucked.

Driving home last night from Wales was exciting in blizzards.

[Datsuncog]

Some hail yesterday afternoon turned everything white for a bit, but no snow over in these parts just yet... and fortunately the massive trampoline in the garden of the house behind didn't quite make it over our hedge to destroy the plants and saplings, instead getting stuck at an awkward angle.

Bloody trampolines.

[mintwth]

7 hours ago, DVee8 said:

nextdoor has a wheelie bin on her bonnet and front bumper of her 18plate Fiat 500

That's a bit of an extreme bonnet scoop. 

Did it improve the way it looks?