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[Jazoli]

26 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I have just discovered that if you hold down the open button on the Saabs key fob, it opens the roof.

Life changed.

On the black one? 

[Split_Pin]

The red one, apparently its part of a comfort pack. I'm not sure if the black one has it but I've asked my wife to check before she lineages work today!

[Bear]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

To think it was going to be demolished at one point.  It'll forever be a Little Chef to me, even if Starbucks has painted it in dreary Money Laundering Nightclub Grey.

It is forever Happy Eater to me, even if the plastic tree slide and swing have gone away

[gadgetgricey]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I have just discovered that if you hold down the open button on the Saabs key fob, it opens the roof.

Life changed.

Lucky git. Was quite an expensive option I believe and not been on any of mine

 

[Bear]

Zoom, enhance:

If anyone near Mansfield fancies my BMW I left it parked there (securely) to collect at the weekend and am just taking the registration off it now.

This is my punishment for needing to swap to auto.

[Jazoli]

30 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

The red one, apparently its part of a comfort pack. I'm not sure if the black one has it but I've asked my wife to check before she lineages work today!

I'm glad you said that, the black one doesn't have comfort locking, I'd have kicked myself if it did work! 

[Split_Pin]

I've just set my wife up for a disappointment now! 🤣

[N19]

PSA: do not throw a can of white paint into the boot as it is coming down.

This is post much frantic clean up. I also have white streaks in my hair.

[gadgetgricey]

2 hours ago, RichardK said:

This is my punishment for needing to swap to auto.

@RichardK Am  reading that right. Is yours the PT?

Aware they are a bit Marmite, but my folks had one a few years ago and I always quite liked it. Only real issue was the turning circle was diabolical. Always quite liked the look of the drop top.

[puddlethumper]

I'm putting this here because it's not a grump anymore. Well, not much. Been continuing with the OMGHGF. Took the head to a specialist who said it was pile of scrap and to get another head. Bugger. Rang a Pug/Cit breaker, with not a lot of hope of getting one, who said he had one on the shelf. Wasn't expecting that. Whizzed round to check it out and the only difference was the glow plugs were longer and differently placed which doesn't matter. £100 lighter it was round to the garage and clean it up. Pictures show the old one and the new one after I cleaned it up. You can see on the old the water was eating away the head at the galleries. The galleries on the new look sharp. Checked to see if flat  and it was. Excellent, no need for a skim. I've got a gasket set, head bolts, timing belt , tensioner, water pump, something else in a box, but I can't remember what, and new glow plugs. £200 and a bit plus 100 on head. Looking at max 400 when done. Not horrendous.

Slight problem with coolant hose stuff. These things have a bottom rad hose that goes to a metal pipe, squashed a bit flat to get past the bottom pulley and then back to hose to the water pump. Well, it is French. There's another the same at the back of the engine. Needless to say at one end of both of them they have mostly rotted away. As it's a known thing with these they are unobtainable. Great. Possible solution which will be tried tomorrow. Then it's off on with it's head.

[320touring]

@puddlethumper I think the 205 XUDs had similar pipes to the GTI as linked below:

https://www.kamracing.co.uk/manufacturers/baker-bm/baker-bm-stainless-inner-wing-pipe-peugeot-205-gti.html

 

I know @davidfowler2000 and @Supernaut have fitted them to XUDs

 

 

[trigger]

We have one of our ECR car meets tomorrow at the Suffolk aviation museum if anyone local fancies a ride out. 

[beko1987]

Stood by the back doors of the ovo arena at Wembley listening to the dream theater sound check as I usually do, and this crowd by the hotel just went nuts

Apparently some boxer bloke just walked out 🤷

[stuboy]

Mrs stuboy very happy she now has proper spare wheel, trolley jack and wheelbrace.. as she wasn't happy with compressor and bottle of spidermans hand jizz

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Mrs stuboy very happy she now has proper spare wheel, trolley jack and wheelbrace.. as she wasn't happy with compressor and bottle of spidermans hand jizz

What on earth is she doing for dinner with that lot?

[junkyarddog]

Nice day for it.

[richardmorris]

drive it day tomorrow.  I am joining other 2cvs in a Thames riverside trip from Henley to chertsey.

if you’ve an old car and want to tag along we’re meeting at toad hall garden centre in Henley from 10 am.

[wuvvum]

I've just put down a deposit on what will be the most expensive car I've ever bought (inflation aside).  It's also modern, diesel and slightly broken.  WCPGW?

[GMcD]

Cleaned, rotary polished and waxed the 1100 this afternoon.

Didn't go mental with the polish as the paint isn't the best. Pictures flatter, but I think it turned out well.

This evening I put £40 of super unleaded into it at 1.67p litre. 

My brain still can't comprehend that super is 10p less than run of the mill diesel I put in the Navara. 

[Split_Pin]

That is looking splendid.

[wuvvum]

It must be spring...

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Nice day for it.

Just a prelude of things to come...

[vulgalour]

Lanchester reflector colour test now I've got the light units working.  I'd say the chrome paint is the brighter option here.

[Split_Pin]

My wife has just discovered this morning that the black Saab DOES have comfort hood open! @Jazoli will be delighted*

[Jazoli]

25 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

My wife has just discovered this morning that the black Saab DOES have comfort hood open! @Jazoli will be delighted*

Vid please, and yes I'm fucking overjoyed 🤔

[Split_Pin]

Will do one when we get back home. It was a bit flaky at first , you have to hold the button down really firmly.

[Ohdearme]

In answer to the question nobody except Mrs ODM is asking…will a £10 eBay win of a 2m by 3m shed fit in an Espace…

 

Yes…but nobody said it had to go back together🤞🤞🤞

[Split_Pin]

2x free Astra G petrol radiators on my scrap pile if anyone wants them, one for post 01 and one for pre 01 models. Brand new, just out the box this morning.

Bought in error about 15 years ago, nobody wants them so the scrap man is coming tomorrow afternoon together with a pile of other dross. 

Bonnybridge, Central Scotland if anyone wants them before then.

 

[Cord Fourteener]

Turns out that when your fuel gauge doesn't work you can run out of petrol easier. 

Fortunately I got my old Volvo home but now it won't start. I did wonder why the mot station put fuel in... but only a tenners. Doesn't go far on a tenners worth  apparently. 

[Zelandeth]

35 minutes ago, Cord Fourteener said:

Turns out that when your fuel gauge doesn't work you can run out of petrol easier. 

Fortunately I got my old Volvo home but now it won't start. I did wonder why the mot station put fuel in... but only a tenners. Doesn't go far on a tenners worth  apparently. 

Given two 5 litre cans cost me £24 a couple of weeks ago, it wouldn't!