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[Dyslexic Viking]

8 minutes ago, tapir said:

Made by conti*, so assume they are made in the Barum factory as that's a conti brand too?

https://www.discounttyresuk.co.uk/point-s-tyres/made-by-continental/

Thanks then we know. And they are probably most likely made by Barum. And since this is a brand related to Coninental, I would assume they are good.

[andy18s]

Point S have a small chain of tyre shops/fitters here in Bulgaria.

They sell most brands as well,along with used alloys,batteries and....er tyres

[Split_Pin]

That's the black Saab 93 been on fleet for just over 2 weeks now. I thought my wife loved her Bini but she clearly likes the Saab a lot more as she's using any excuse to drive it! We've been out in it a lot as a family too. The extra power is great and the exhaust note very much reminds me of an older XE engined Vauxhall, very addictive. I was initially a bit worried about the fuel costs as my wife does go out and about quite a bit during the week but it's come back quite palatable. I'm sure it was doing over 30 last time I checked. The front suspension is very creaky over all the speedbumps in our street and I've identified that it's the ARB bushes as over staggered bumps it's silent. I'm going to lash them with silicone for the time being as I'm reluctant to go the the faff of changing them as they aren't knocking and worn out. A great car so far, we all really like it.

I have held off changing the seat loom in the red Saab as I'm trying to preserve my knackered arm so I can still get on the scooter next week and the seat is very heavy to lift out. Once I'm back I'll get on it.

 

[Supernaut]

9 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

That's the black Saab 93 been on fleet for just over 2 weeks now. I thought my wife loved her Bini but she clearly likes the Saab a lot more as she's using any excuse to drive it! We've been out in it a lot as a family too. The extra power is great and the exhaust note very much reminds me of an older XE engined Vauxhall, very addictive. I was initially a bit worried about the fuel costs as my wife does go out and about quite a bit during the week but it's come back quite palatable. I'm sure it was doing over 30 last time I checked. The front suspension is very creaky over all the speedbumps in our street and I've identified that it's the ARB bushes as over staggered bumps it's silent. I'm going to lash them with silicone for the time being as I'm reluctant to go the the faff of changing them as they aren't knocking and worn out. A great car so far, we all really like it.

I have held off changing the seat loom in the red Saab as I'm trying to preserve my knackered arm so I can still get on the scooter next week and the seat is very heavy to lift out. Once I'm back I'll get on it.

 

If you need a hand lifting a seat, there are many of us in the area who are just a WhatsApp message away!

I still need to take you up on your offer to give the BMW a polishing session, actually...

[Split_Pin]

Cheers, I'll be grand, I just want to avoid heavy lifting until after my trip as I need both arms in good order!

[trigger]

Took my Golf in for its first mot in my ownership on Friday. 

Pleasingly I got a clean pass! I celebrated by taking it to our first East Coast Retros Car Meet of the season on Saturday 

[Yoss]

For the second time in two weeks Felicia has disgraced herself, seemingly for the same reason. Happened yesterday evening when Mrs Yoss went to the gym. Funnily enough she was driving last time but she is adamant she hasn't been sabotaging it. Was working perfectly when she drove in and was totally dead when she came out. 

Same problem, no spark. But this time I at least got a code from my cheap code reader, last time both my and the recovery mans code readers came up blank. Yesterday we got this. 

So does this mean crankshaft position sensor? A bit of googling says yes. Anyway it was getting it a bit late and you never know how long recovery will take and I didn't want a late night so I went home (it's only a mile and a half away) and dug the Triumph out of the garage again. 

Went back this afternoon and it hadn't miraculously fixed itself so I called the recovery people. After being fleeced and let down by both the AA and RAC in the past we tried a smaller company, Start Rescue who outsource to a network of independent recovery firms. So far it's worked well, both times I've had Ravenscroft Motors turn up who are well regarded and I know somebody who works for them (he collects FWD Triumphs too). 

The guy today turned up in about 20 minutes. Did a really thorough job of testing but everything points to the coil again. Wether the crankshaft sensor is stopping the coil from working as I think somebody suggested on here last time or it was a cheap Chinese shit coil or there is another element like an overcharging alternator that is frying coils we don't know. Obviously can't test the alternator until the engine is running. But he had his multimeter out and was testing the three pin plug in to the coil and there was power going in but not coming out. 

So the end result was this again. 

It's getting a bit embarrassing especially as we have to block the Close to unload it for all the neighbours to see. 

[stuboy]

had couple hours free so fiddled with the mighty moped, changed the fuel tap/filter,  got it started but wouldnt idle, dismmantled the carb cleaned out the bowl as gungy with old fuel residue, put back together , it now idles but carb is peeing out petrol, guessing floats now stuck.

[richardmorris]

On 4/10/2022 at 8:44 PM, wuvvum said:

I think the proper name for them is "brothel".

Not bakewell then?

[stuboy]

13 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Not bakewell then?

 

[Lacquer Peel]

12 hours ago, trigger said:

Took my Golf in for its first mot in my ownership on Friday. 

 

Pleasingly I got a clean pass! I celebrated by taking it to our first East Coast Retros Car Meet of the season on Saturday 

 

Are they original or reproduction plates? I like the VAG dealer specific font of the 1980s a lot. What a lovely thing

[Split_Pin]

In the mid 1990s the haulage company I worked for had a Derby LGA 331Y as a hack and it had that font. I think it was from Ian Skelly. I hadn't realised until you pointed it out that the font is indeed VAG specific.  I can now recall a lot of other VWs and Audis with similar plates.

[Tigerfox]

Back in the day I worked in VW garage and you could order the plates direct from the factory if I remember correctly.

[Split_Pin]

I wouldn't mind a set for the Audi.

[juular]

I now have vibration white finger.

It looks solid but I have found some more STRUCTURAL TIN FOIL and various other crimes against motoring. 

[trigger]

13 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Are they original or reproduction plates? I like the VAG dealer specific font of the 1980s a lot. What a lovely thing

Thanks, they are reproduction plates from Retroplates, I had a photo of the orginial ones so knew what they should be like and when I bought the car a previous 'dubber' had fitted modern tin plates. 

Expensive but very good

[SiC]

1 hour ago, juular said:

various other crimes against motoring

I've seen my own today too. The MOT history is particularly colourful. 

[cobblers]

52 minutes ago, trigger said:

Thanks, they are reproduction plates from Retroplates, I had a photo of the orginial ones so knew what they should be like and when I bought the car a previous 'dubber' had fitted modern tin plates. 

Expensive but very good

He's done mine too, freestyled them from a window sticker for the logo. They're beautiful:

[wuvvum]

40 minutes ago, SiC said:

I've seen my own today too. The MOT history is particularly colourful. 

Stuboy, is that you?

[Spurious]

1 hour ago, trigger said:

Expensive but very good

How expensive is expensive? Wondering what I could get for my Audi. 

[robinmasters]

The current 'Harvey Dent' fleet*. 

[trigger]

55 minutes ago, Spurious said:

How expensive is expensive? Wondering what I could get for my Audi. 

I believe it was £60, if you aren't bothered by the logo and just want plain period font plates then fancyplates are very good too. 

[SRi05]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

I've seen my own today too. The MOT history is particularly colourful. 

Fairly sure the added on tat will be structural at this point 

[Broadsword]

1 hour ago, robinmasters said:

The current 'Harvey Dent' fleet*. 

Does my old Xantia live on?

[vulgalour]

Out of gas and flapwheels to be able to finish this off.  Got the trailing edge of the arch and the end of the sill to finish.  Amazed at how little distortion I ended up with in the panel since there's two really long butt welds to put a fillet in above the repair panel because I managed to cock up the initial fitting.  If this were restoration, this wouldn't be good enough because the profiles aren't correct at the sill-to-arch bit due to the repair panel being really wrong in that area and me not having the skills to make it right.  Fortunately, this is just repair, so it just needs to not be rusty.

Shouldn't need a lot of filler to finish off, though I'm not expecting a perfect finish on any of this.  I am amazed that the city X sticker didn't burn away, must have controlled my panel heat pretty well to pull that one off.

[Bren]

So Boris got a fine.

Well he has proved everybody wrong - he can organise a piss up.

[barefoot]

5 hours ago, trigger said:

I believe it was £60, if you aren't bothered by the logo and just want plain period font plates then fancyplates are very good too. 

Fancy plates put logos on for me, I just emailed him a photograph.

[Fumbler]

Gotta love defective parts. I hit a bump on the way to work and was greeted by bouncy speedo of bounciness and a loud scuffing noise. I phoned Chevronics and they said it was probably the cable falling out the socket in the binnacle. It wasn't. It turns out the bottom cable, which is new from the OEM, managed to fall out its crimped plug thingie

You can faintly see the imprints where the plug was really weakly crimped on. I wiggled it back into position and applied liberal amounts of superglue.

I pushed it home and put in the rubber stopper. I also routed the cable a bit better before putting the airbox back in place.

[beko1987]

I guess part of selling your boring and uninteresting soul to the great Lord Alphabet is some cool stats... 

Went to dad's this weekend. Home to my granny's, then granny's back home today. 72 miles dead on each trip. 45 minutes more today coming home thanks to leaving Alwalton at 10 to 4 and hitting every rush hour bottleneck the A1 Southbound has to offer, and some roadworks in wing that sprang up fucking yesterday as they weren't there Sunday, vs a Sunday at 08.30 nailed to the floor no other cars on the road as fast as I fucking can with the kids in the car so a touch of sensibility 1h38 door to the petrol station 3/4 of a mile from my grans house. 

Then from granny's to dad's is another 16 miles. There's 2 ways I go, both 16 miles each it seems, but the a16 is quicker. We got stuck behind a tractor and there's roadworks by bretton and we still did it 5 minutes quicker than a pretty decent drive via eye and Thorney, fast where I could and meh where I couldn't. 

🤓

Can see why people get into this trip logging lark

[RoverFolkUs]

8 hours ago, SRi05 said:

Fairly sure the added on tat will be structural at this point 

"exhaust wrapped in foil" - 

Mmmmmm, fantastic! 

Though I imagine that foil has better structural intregirty than the rest of the Kak

Also, 146,000 miles!? That's the highest I've seen a MK1 Ka reach!