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[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Now our house purchase is finally moving forward I’m wanting to think about clearing some things we will not need once we’ve moved. Mainly garden type things that I can sort and sell before winter hits.

Other than the obvious FB/Gumtree/EBay, is there a place people would recommend selling a ride on lawnmower? I would roffle but it’d be a bit of a collection mission…

Will also have a couple of other bits like petrol strimmer/hedge cutter multi tool thing. 

 

Any machinery dealers nearby?

[juular]

On 9/28/2022 at 6:08 PM, BL Bloke said:

While I was there I had a few people asking me about it and the usual 'I haven't seen one of those for ages' comments

My 205 attracts the most interest of any car I've owned. Its one of those cars that everyone either drove or knew someone that did.

It was novel the first couple of times, but now I get people trying to talk to me when I'm rushing into Tesco for a shite. It can get old fast.

[Coprolalia]

11 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Now our house purchase is finally moving forward I’m wanting to think about clearing some things we will not need once we’ve moved. Mainly garden type things that I can sort and sell before winter hits.

Other than the obvious FB/Gumtree/EBay, is there a place people would recommend selling a ride on lawnmower? I would roffle but it’d be a bit of a collection mission…

Will also have a couple of other bits like petrol strimmer/hedge cutter multi tool thing. 

 

Where are you and what's the ride on mower?

[JJ0063]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Any machinery dealers nearby?

I don’t honestly know! Will have to investigate 

7 minutes ago, Coprolalia said:

Where are you and what's the ride on mower?

It’s a Hayter, il find out the model but it looks like this - from Google it looks like it’s a 10/30.

Located in Norfolk

[JJ0063]

On 9/28/2022 at 8:50 PM, JJ0063 said:

https://fb.watch/fQnDft4Z07/
 

Outside Mildenhall air base the other day. Apparently the 18 year old driver was arrested as he was on drugs.

No injuries apparently! From what I’ve heard, the car was a US one so LHD… if it had been RHD I think there could well have been a death! 

Bloody lucky to not be dead!

[reb]

Back again.

[barefoot]

This morning I have chucked a load of fuel preserver into the 944 & the T2, took both for a blast around the new inner, outer relief ring road, brought them home & declared the Porsche SORN. There's little point doing that with the camper as it's tax free. Then I booked a Sainsbury's for next week, cancelled my 3tb dropbox & submitted a gas/electric meter reading. Apparently I'm £432 in credit. £84 used, £149 paid. That's Christmas paid for then when I ask for my annual refund at the end of November!

[reb]

That'll do.

[Cavcraft]

This has just been acquired. The wheel bearing drones more than Nigel Mansell after a disco biscuit and the (slipping) clutch is so high it'll probably have to go to rehab before being replaced.

The heater is stuck on hot (internet search says kinked pipe behind stereo) and the MOT runs out in a few weeks' time. 

[richardmorris]

If anyone is at a loose end, with access to an Italian car,  in the morning, and is near Alton in Hampshire. I’m going along in the new car as the x1/9 is in wales.

 

from the FIAT Forum .com

 

Our last bi-monthly meet of 2022 will be held on Saturday 1st October.

As with our previous meets, it will be held at The Departure Lounge Cafe, just outside Alton in northern Hampshire.

The café is a great venue for a breakfast meet, as it has a large solid field on which the owner lets us park so as to be able to display our cars all together and out of the main public car park.

The meet starts at 10am, which is when the café opens, and is not a formal event so no booking is necessary, and entry is free, so just come along if you fancy it. Some people do arrive from 9am, which is OK, and the cafe does sometimes open earlier.

It is open to any Italian car of any age, and we have had classics and supercars through to modern Alfas and Fiats and everything in between. Attendees have come from across the southern counties and as far afield as London, Kent, and Dorset, with many clubs supporting the event.

The format is simple, we park up, chat to other owners and look at the cars on show, and have some breakfast if you want to. People usually drift away after lunch. We have had close to 200 cars at some previous events, so there is plenty to see, and always lots of Fiats.

We would love to see you all again, or meet you for the first time if you haven’t been before. Please do also spread the word to other Italian marque forums or social media that you are part of.

[stuboy]

Parked the mighty mondeo up outside misses gaff and a yoof was waiting for his mate, and compliment the mighty mondeo.... 

 

sorry not a very exciting post.

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

If anyone is at a loose end, with access to an Italian car,  in the morning, and is near Alton in Hampshire. I’m going along in the new car as the x1/9 is in wales.

 

from the FIAT Forum .com

 

Our last bi-monthly meet of 2022 will be held on Saturday 1st October.

As with our previous meets, it will be held at The Departure Lounge Cafe, just outside Alton in northern Hampshire.

The café is a great venue for a breakfast meet, as it has a large solid field on which the owner lets us park so as to be able to display our cars all together and out of the main public car park.

The meet starts at 10am, which is when the café opens, and is not a formal event so no booking is necessary, and entry is free, so just come along if you fancy it. Some people do arrive from 9am, which is OK, and the cafe does sometimes open earlier.

It is open to any Italian car of any age, and we have had classics and supercars through to modern Alfas and Fiats and everything in between. Attendees have come from across the southern counties and as far afield as London, Kent, and Dorset, with many clubs supporting the event.

The format is simple, we park up, chat to other owners and look at the cars on show, and have some breakfast if you want to. People usually drift away after lunch. We have had close to 200 cars at some previous events, so there is plenty to see, and always lots of Fiats.

We would love to see you all again, or meet you for the first time if you haven’t been before. Please do also spread the word to other Italian marque forums or social media that you are part of.

Sounds good, but 86 miles just a bit far for a breakfast meet. I declared SORN for the Trevi and BiTurbo today, but still have the Seicento and have been thinking about a longer trip for it.  Then there is always the Alfa 156.

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Sounds good, but 86 miles just a bit far for a breakfast meet. I declared SORN for the Trevi and BiTurbo today, but still have the Seicento and have been thinking about a longer trip for it.  Then there is always the Alfa 156.

I’ve been ill all week following a booster vaccination last weekend. Just feeling relatively normal again today so thought id get out tomorrow - only 25 miles for me. 

[stuboy]

9 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I’ve been ill all week following a booster vaccination

got mine tommorow

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, stuboy said:

got mine tommorow

Hope you’re not as bad - previous ones have been a day or two at most, but I’ve had night sweats and a wheezy chest etc all week. 

[Matty]

7 hours ago, reb said:

That'll do.

Bloody hell Reb. Three and half hundred thousand miles? Which car?

[reb]

8 minutes ago, Matty said:

Bloody hell Reb. Three and half hundred thousand miles? Which car?

An 850 TDI with a threatening aura.

[Matty]

Just now, reb said:

An 850 TDI with a threatening aura.

Proves what I've said in the past about peak car period 👍

[artdjones]

39 minutes ago, Matty said:

Proves what I've said in the past about peak car period 👍

Best car I've had was a HDi Xantia. I've liked my subsequent cars, but never as much as that one.

[Matty]

Daft as it sounds, in the 90s and very early 2000s it's like no one made a bad car. And the choice was ridiculous. Compare that to now. Pfft 😄

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I’ve been ill all week following a booster vaccination last weekend. Just feeling relatively normal again today so thought id get out tomorrow - only 25 miles for me. 

25 miles for brekkie? Nah, I'll brave the kitchen.

[stuboy]

9 hours ago, Matty said:

Daft as it sounds, in the 90s and very early 2000s it's like no one made a bad car. And the choice was ridiculous. Compare that to now. Pfft 😄

yup all starting to look suv...

[richardmorris]

The departure lounge cafe all Italian meeting this morning.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Golf failed its overdue MOT due to rear brakes.  Binding on both sides (one worse than the other, one a fail and the other an advisory) and rear pads (worn).  A couple of other minor bits (bulbs - whoops) but to be honest, I'm not bothered.  I'll get the garage to sort it, I'll give the car a service, a clean and fix a couple of bits that need fixing and we live to fight another day.  Even factoring in the £456 to get it recovered a couple of weeks ago, the £25 for the new intercooler pipe that went on easily and whatever this brake work costs I wouldn't be able to buy a car I like more and that I know the history of for less...

[junkyarddog]

Found this in my late uncle's garage when I was cleaning it out.

Don't know if they still exist, I know he had a Corsa at some point in the 90s.

[richardmorris]

40 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Found this in my late uncle's garage when I was cleaning it out.

Don't know if they still exist, I know he had a Corsa at some point in the 90s.

Screenwash and air-freshener combined. For use in convertibles only!

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Did the passenger rear wheelbearing in the Volvo today.

An  it was a fun one. 3 of the 4 bearing carrier bolts came out but one just wouldn't  yield. Not because it was particularly stuck, merely shit access  without taking the entire hub assembly off. I tried swearing then crying and then drilling  -the wheell bolt holes lined up so I could drill it from the threaded end  and after a while and many drill bits  it popped out.  Naturally  the bearing took a good hour of swearing and cursing before hammering freed it.

 

The result... silence thank fuck, mind the bearing was totally indexed . A double bonus was I had to take the handbrake mechanism off, to get the bearing out (or acces to welly onit with the hammer)  and it seems it had had new pads but the mechanism hadn't een connected to the cable itself  so the handbrake works fully now instead of so-so before.

 

 

[stuboy]

get a hesitation when rolling low speed with v6, changed plugs, coil pack,  checked for air leaks, fuel leaks and nothing.

 

any one experience simile with v6 duratecs?

 

tommorow im swapping the pipercross filter with a standard paper filter.

 

 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Found this in my late uncle's garage when I was cleaning it out.

Don't know if they still exist, I know he had a Corsa at some point in the 90s.

Interesting, the cap looks a more recent design, like the Nikwax bottles but the font and design look older, 70's?

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Found this in my late uncle's garage when I was cleaning it out.

Don't know if they still exist, I know he had a Corsa at some point in the 90s.

@JJ0063 is just down the road from Dereham so he's probably best placed to advise.