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[HillmanImp]

26 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Yeah. This is why I didn't do a proper thread as I knew I'd forget to update it. 

Anyhow, I was picked up from the station in this:

And taken round the corner to where these are:

To buy this:

Wuvvum took me out for a spin in it to show me what its ailment was. It drove okay when it was working but by the time we got back it was coughing and spluttering a bit and billowing smoke out of the back. 

I'd only bought a one way ticket though, so money was exchanged and off I went, took a wrong turn, tried doing a 3 point turn and it conked out in a cloud of smoke next to some old men sat outside a club of some sort who found it most interesting. Probably the highlight of their day so far. 

"Please start.... Please start...." 

And it did. 

Next 180 miles were uneventful. It was fine when on the open road and on the move. 

When coming through Bradford and stop starting, it did begin to play up again though and went into restricted mode. Drove fine, no smoke or owt but was just down on power a bit. 

Carried on in restricted as didn't want to stop it and not to be able to restart it again and got it home. 

Imp Jr thinks its pretty cool. 

Then has to go back to Leeds to pick up the Elgrand. 

So, as long as I drive it where there's no other traffic, or lights or any reason to stop, its bob on. 

Wuvvum showed me the odd looking injector he thinks might be the culprit when I was at his. I've spoken to my local Jag specialist and they've said if it is that, they have a load of good ones they've taken off engines themselves that they can lob on for £225 and will warranty the part. 

Anyhow, will get it booked in shortly and see what they say. 

Hopefully an easy fix, hopefully..... 

However at the price, I've got some wiggle room if it turns out to be something a bit more involved. 

Its odd, this car as it is today is only 2 years younger than my 1st Jag was in 2014 when I bought it. 

The XF seems much MUCH newer in my head and the XJ felt like it was an old car when I bought it (not to drive it was just an old car if you get my drift). 

Strange, innit. 

 

[brownnova]

Went to the Retro Works show in Chester today, took the 2CV And met the 2CVers… 

But there were some excellent finds at this show! 

Not least this Renault 18 Turbo! 

Other highlights: 

And last but by no means least 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

What a selection. That R18 turbo takes me straight back to 1993. I was 18 and worked as a weekend skivvy at the local garage. The owner often let me borrow forecourt cars to go on parts runs and one day he lent me his R18 turbo. It felt very average right up until the turbo kicked in, which just so happened to be as I was alongside a car I was overtaking. Almost crapped myself - that thing was rapid!!

[stuboy]

8 hours ago, Ghosty said:

I'm halfway there and the cunt phones me and says he's sold it and he wanted to make sure I wasn't on the way. 

If you've got someone else viewing the car you should fucking well say so. 

did u tell him your annoyance?

[Fumbler]

While I wait for another power steering pump I decided to fix the horn issue on the car. I pinched the horn from the alarm (as it's never going to work again and has the same connector), made a bracket and splaffed some Hammerite on it. Hjonk hjonk.

 

[hairnet]

54 minutes ago, brownnova said:

 

 

 

 

you did the frog thing on purpose? @brownnova

[Ghosty]

27 minutes ago, stuboy said:

did u tell him your annoyance?

yes, in stern but polite words. 

[trigger]

I went up with a mate on Friday morning to collect the garage find Capri 

It wasn't too bad to get out in the end, we managed to inflate most the tyres with a little inflator and pulled it out with the truck without too much fuss

my mate then span the truck around and towed me out backwards along the road before spinning around again and pulling it across the road to a school entrance to load it onto the truck

On the way back we took a wrong turn and ended up outside the original dealers garage to got a few photos. 

One passing young salesman asked if it was a Capri 🙄 I said yes we've bought it in for a service and he just walked off, strange lot.

After getting the car home I've managed to get it turning on a bar, unfortunately the cambelt was so gummed up in corroded remains of water pump that it actually stripped the teeth of the belt but thankfully the 2.0s are non interference. 

So I cleaned the interior as it was a bit mouldy

Which got the Mrs Trigger thumbs up of approval. 

So there you have it, plenty of work to be getting on with but no as bad as it could have been, I can't wait to wash it though! 

 

[Fumbler]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

And last but by no means least 

Fuck it. My next car (if I'm in the country long enough) will be a Lada. I need to experience the misery.

[Garythesnail]

Is Mrs. @triggerSusie Dent off Countdown's much younger sister?

[trigger]

If she is then she never got the brains! 

[stuboy]

9 minutes ago, trigger said:

I went up with a mate on Friday morning to collect the garage find Capri 

It wasn't too bad to get out in the end, we managed to inflate most the tyres with a little inflator and pulled it out with the truck without too much fuss

my mate then span the truck around and towed me out backwards along the road before spinning around again and pulling it across the road to a school entrance to load it onto the truck

On the way back we took a wrong turn and ended up outside the original dealers garage to got a few photos. 

One passing young salesman asked if it was a Capri 🙄 I said yes we've bought it in for a service and he just walked off, strange lot.

After getting the car home I've managed to get it turning on a bar, unfortunately the cambelt was so gummed up in corroded remains of water pump that it actually stripped the teeth of the belt but thankfully the 2.0s are non interference. 

So I cleaned the interior as it was a bit mouldy

Which got the Mrs Trigger thumbs up of approval. 

So there you have it, plenty of work to be getting on with but no as bad as it could have been, I can't wait to wash it though! 

 

looks in good shape its age

[brownnova]

17 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Fuck it. My next car (if I'm in the country long enough) will be a Lada. I need to experience the misery.

I fancy one too… just to try one for a few months! 

[Fumbler]

Just now, brownnova said:

I fancy one too… just to try one for a few months! 

I'll have it after you! 😁

[Lankytim]

Visited my Dad in Brum today and finally got a pic of this. It's been parked up for a few weeks. Fridge fire or turf war?

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, trigger said:

If she is then she never got the brains! 

She looks smart enough to me!

[wuvvum]

Not got a huge amount done this weekend.  I reassembled the Spacy and tried to start it but it wasn't having any of it - it had a spark and petrol was getting to the carb but it wouldn't go.  It fired straight up on Easy Start so I think the carb has got gunged up again - I've taken it off and I'm going to have to pick up a can of carb cleaner and take it to bits for the umpteenth time.

The underseal I'd ordered to do the sills on the Maxus hasn't shown up, but that turned out not to be too much of an issue - the white Aldi metal paint I used to paint the welded patch took absolutely ages to dry and needed two coats so I wouldn't have been able to complete the undersealing anyway.  I've fitted a new rear number plate and a replacement nearside mirror glass and secured the battery in place, so it's getting closer to being ready to run in for a test.

I spent a happy* hour or so on Saturday clearing out the back of the Mazda, which had been used as a repository for junk for the last few months.  There's still a fair bit of crap in the boot but at least the back seats are now back up and the cabin is fairly clear, although in dire need of a valet.  I ran it in to Norwich today to do a couple of bits and pick HillmanImp up from the station and it behaved fine, although it was slightly fumey in traffic due to the blowing exhaust - I've re-Gun Gummed the front pipe which has quietened things down a bit, but the back box is still blowing.  Fortunately these are the same as a Kia Pride so fairly readily available.  I might stick the car up for sale soon though, I've really not been using it enough to justify keeping it.

I stuck the Caliber up on the ramps to have another look at the turbo and see how easy it would be to dismantle enough of it to be able to get some turbo cleaner / Mr Muscle or similar in there.  It looks like it'd be a bit of a twat to be honest - the exhaust is held on to the turbo with a sort of massive heavy duty Jubilee clip, and I can't even see the screw without poking around with the mirror-on-a-stick.  I've stuck a bottle of DPF cleaner in the tank for now - I'm not entirely convinced that such things actually work, but if they do it's got to pass through the turbo before reaching the DPF so logically it should clean some of the soot out of the turbo as well.  We shall see.  It's only really an issue on dual carriageways and motorways anyway - on the 60mph single-carriageway A and B roads which make up the vast majority of my driving it behaves fine.

[reb]

I was scheduled for 7am for two weeks.

I was sure this was the second of two weeks.

Woke up at 6:55, bugger.

Fed the cats, made coffee, pissed, logged in to the system. 7:14, not too bad.

Take a few calls. Feeling alright really.

7:40, check my schedule for when my break is.

Says "Not Scheduled" in the "Now" section, wtf?

View full schedule. Start time 8:45.

What a prick I am. Could have still been asleep.

Can't even have a quick nap because I've had a cup of rocket fuel coffee and my ritalin so any chance of sleeping in the next 12 hours is out the window.

I guess I could do something useful, but actually I'll just sit and drink more coffee.

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

12 hours ago, Lankytim said:

Visited my Dad in Brum today and finally got a pic of this. It's been parked up for a few weeks. Fridge fire or turf war?

The van looks as though it's come straight from a film set - it needs recommissioning with the externals left as is. For full effect, the driver needs to don a zombie outfit for the ultimate zombie apocalypse I-scream experience.

[dozeydustman]

I made the extensive* journey between Chichester and Emsworth to look at the flower-plastered Beetle.

Here it in in my cul de sac. £1000 down from £1200, it’s an honest little thing under the silly stickers, not been pranged, not been pissed around with underneath and drives really nicely. Needs a couple of tyres and the advisories at last MoT were track rods, minor bit of corrosion which sis-in-law’s neighbour can sort if it gets too bad - I had a look where the test said it was starting to corrode but it was solid and not crispy so hopefully a wire brush and some vactan and a bit of schutz will see it fine.

Now to sort out taxation class to disabled and sort out insurance

[Tony McVeigh]

On 8/8/2022 at 7:50 PM, wuvvum said:

That belongs to @Tony McVeigh of this parish.

Yep, that's mine, love it !!

The amount of people that pass and comment is, well, expected!!

My wife still hates it, but hey, relationships come and go, love of cars, never falters!!

 

[Cavcraft]

What a little beauty* this is...

Invisible body repairs are invisible

 

The n/s/r door doesn't open, there's a clonk from o/s/f and n/s/r suspension and the driver's seat belt doesn't return all the way, which is fucking really annoying.

Anyhow, it's now sporting some Vauxhall wheel trims, and the inside and outside have had a bath/good clean. To be fair, it doesn't half pull well (speed, not birds) and might even be ok on fuel.

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

there's a clonk from o/s/f and n/s/r suspension

ARB bushes tend to shit themselves on these. See also CV related things.

Edit - I may have some ARB bushes sitting about, I'll be in touch if I can find them.

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

driver's seat belt doesn't return all the way, which is fucking really annoying.

Wee drop of furniture polish as both my front ones were like this.

Good buy though.

[mitsisigma01]

On 9/3/2022 at 12:25 AM, mitsisigma01 said:

Are there any Bongo or Freda owners on here .....

I am trying to bump up interest in a set of 4 alloys with winter tyres fitted . I am going to see them tomorrow so will try and get some pictures and tyre details. 

Watch this space ....

I've bought them myself.... Just need the rest of the Bongo now 🙄

[mitsisigma01]

 

"Suits you Sir"

[stuboy]

2 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

 

"Suits you Sir"

 

[brownnova]

Phone call from the Saab people: 

“Your car’s ready, I gave it a good checkover like you asked… nothing else wrong with it, only thing I noticed was someone has bodged the exhaust mount…”

”Yeah, that was me. It works for now” 

“Yeah, looks solid so if it works keep it like that”

That’ll be my garden wire exhaust mount. I think that’s specialist approved bodgery now?

Can’t wait to get the 9000 back! 

[Lankytim]

Spent a pleasurable hour or so this afternoon fixing the Lagunas sticky OSF brake caliper. It looked pretty scaly so a wire cup brush on an angle grinder was used to remove all the flakes and tidy things up. The pads were copper greased where needed and the caliper reassembled. It seems to have done the trick, I’ll do the NS at some point too as presumably it’s nearly as corroded as the OS. 

[Bear]

How it started:

How it was going (thanks M5):

Made it to Nottingham turnoff and:

[Bear]

(I did check the inflation on the spare - that was the "out of hardshoulderless hell let's check things - was happily bimbling home at 40 and then the other front tyre went. Lilith is definitely one for drama as I changed the spare in an actual lightning storm. Also worried that looking for a place to check tyre I got snapped by a lane closure camera on the M42 so today really has gone to shit - as the whole plan was driving to my friend's house near Chelt to sort her car MoT - booked with Halfords ages ago, they told her at 10am they don't do tests on Monday at that garage - like, they had weeks to tell her this. Absolute fucking waste).