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[artdjones]

Looks a bit better now. I have to do a bit more work from behind, glue the inner and outer arch back together, knock down the high spots, and start trowelling on the wob.

[dome]

10 hours ago, SiC said:

I did message him yesterday asking if he wanted any bits but guess he must be busy and not had a chance to respond.

I've sent him a telegram. It is the 1970s where he is, he should get it within a week or so 

[Split_Pin]

Dropped the Cavalier off for its MOT, I didn't know the exhaust was that bad. Otherwise not bad at all.

 

Thankfully I don't need to mess about with the handbrake this year though.

I'll get an exhaust ordered up, hopefully it'll arrive within the retest period.

[dome]

9 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Dropped the Cavalier off for its MOT, I didn't know the exhaust was that bad. Otherwise not bad at all.

 

Thankfully I don't need to mess about with the handbrake this year though.

I'll get an exhaust ordered up, hopefully it'll arrive within the retest period.

Like for getting the parts ordered, not for the fail!

[Split_Pin]

I have spoken to the garage and the manifold is cracked, which is obviously drawing in air and impacting the Lambda reading. They are going to try and seal it up to get it through the emissions. Either way I might be as well to just find a manifold as they'll be cheap 2nd hand and less hassle than me trying to weld it (and making a mess no doubt)

[tooSavvy]

I don't know if there is any demand, these days with mobby calc apps 🤔

However, needing a BIG CLEAR display? Can't beat this today!!

Luvverly 😋

 

*NOT displayed as 'clearance £1'.....

[captain_70s]

14 hours ago, SiC said:

I did message him yesterday asking if he wanted any bits but guess he must be busy and not had a chance to respond.

Moving house. Not even once*....

*(This is my 11th house move)

Will try to get back to you tonight!

[Tubbo]

So, after putting a call out on here for someone to look at a car for me @pilninggas offered to help. 
He not only went to look at the car, he negotiated a deal and bought it for me and then got it back to his house.

I went to collect it today, and as the train service was to pot the train that was running when I left home was no longer running when I got to Bristol. So after a £60 taxi ride I finally got to his house.

He had told me he was going to be at work so left the key in a safe place for me.

After finding the key and starting the car I tried taxing it but the server was down on the .gov website but no drama I will do it later.

So I went to leave and then realised I had to open both gates to get out. I got out of the car and opened the gates and then went to get back in and the car door wouldn’t open.

Bollocks!

So the engine was running with both keys and my phone in the car ‘double bollocks’.

With this in mind and @pilninggas not at home I was left with somewhat of a dilemma.

Luckily @pilninggas must of known that this was going to happen (as he had told me the central locking was temperamental) so he kindly left me a brick.

So I have managed to do more damage to the car in less than 5 minutes of ownership than the previous owners in 18 years 🫣😂

 

[barefoot]

I've made a note of your name and if I ever need a bit of help moving a car, I'll know who not to ask!

[Tubbo]

Also as I was unable to tax the car after leaving @pilninggas place after about 400 yards I passed a vehicle tax check van parked in a lay-by 😳

I taxed it when I got to a service station about an hour later so I don’t know if this will be picked up?

Anyway a big thank you 🙏 once again to @pilninggas for helping me get the car!

[Andyrew]

Why on earth would you put through a bonded rear window instead of the easily replaceable ,  bolt in front window?

[tooSavvy]

33 minutes ago, Tubbo said:

Also as I was unable to tax the car after leaving @pilninggas place after about 400 yards I passed a vehicle tax check van parked in a lay-by 😳

I taxed it when I got to a service station about an hour later so I don’t know if this will be picked up?

Anyway a big thank you 🙏 once again to @pilninggas for helping me get the car!

Ahh..... 'Untaxed Vehicle' ,eh 😮

Yesterday, leaving the house to get shopping/lunch, there was a burly guy chaining a car in our street + BIG sticker on drivers window....

Returned home an hour or so later... No change.

A little later I went out to the car to get something and, yay... Burly  guy unchaining car and being watched by a rather fidgety continental gent. Car on UK plates.

#also a parking ticket on it, for overstaying the local resident control, likely triggered Tax Check 🙄

Having just spunked £180 by DirDebt, I must say it makes you think 😱😮

🚙💨

[Tubbo]

1 minute ago, Andyrew said:

Why on earth would you put through a bonded rear window instead of the easily replaceable ,  bolt in front window?

 

3 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

Why on earth would you put through a bonded rear window instead of the easily replaceable ,  bolt in front window?

Didn’t fancy a long drive home covered in glass with the wind in my hair

[Split_Pin]

Got a pass on the Cav, the garage fixed the exhaust

[pilninggas]

1 hour ago, Tubbo said:

So, after putting a call out on here for someone to look at a car for me @pilninggas offered to help. 
He not only went to look at the car, he negotiated a deal and bought it for me and then got it back to his house.

I went to collect it today, and as the train service was to pot the train that was running when I left home was no longer running when I got to Bristol. So after a £60 taxi ride I finally got to his house.

He had told me he was going to be at work so left the key in a safe place for me.

After finding the key and starting the car I tried taxing it but the server was down on the .gov website but no drama I will do it later.

So I went to leave and then realised I had to open both gates to get out. I got out of the car and opened the gates and then went to get back in and the car door wouldn’t open.

Bollocks!

So the engine was running with both keys and my phone in the car ‘double bollocks’.

With this in mind and @pilninggas not at home I was left with somewhat of a dilemma.

Luckily @pilninggas must of known that this was going to happen (as he had told me the central locking was temperamental) so he kindly left me a brick.

So I have managed to do more damage to the car in less than 5 minutes of ownership than the previous owners in 18 years 🫣😂

 

I hope you didn't hurt my pet brick, I've had froggy-the-brick since I was a lad.

[SiC]

40 minutes ago, Tubbo said:

 

Didn’t fancy a long drive home covered in glass with the wind in my hair

Cling film!

[RayMK]

Yesterday morning my modern Mitsubishi Mirage Juro was attacked by my son's Honda NC750X.  The bike was blown away from its side stand and my car's bonnet and offside front wing cushioned its fall.  The Honda only suffered a broken front brake lever but my car has a probably unrepairably dented bonnet and lesser dents on the wing.  My son has taken my car into work today for advice and opinions from the bodyshop. Meanwhile, being a creature of habit, I did not let the missing Mitsubishi deter me from going to one of my lunchtime haunts to sit and have a packed lunch and read a few pages of Practical Classics mag while admiring the scenery.  My Tipo was therefore called into service.  Photos below. 

[SRi05]

21 minutes ago, pilninggas said:

I hope you didn't hurt my pet brick, I've had froggy-the-brick since I was a lad.

[Tubbo]

Window out and broken glass gone

 

[reb]

@Tubbo ever since I was a lad I've known not to leave keys in a car with central locking, let alone known faulty central locking, without at least one window down so you can reach them. You just never know.

[GMcD]

6 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Dropped the Cavalier off for its MOT, I didn't know the exhaust was that bad. Otherwise not bad at all.

 

Thankfully I don't need to mess about with the handbrake this year though.

I'll get an exhaust ordered up, hopefully it'll arrive within the retest period.

I was going to say I can tell you all the exhaust part numbers I've used to order my replacement bits...so you can avoid them. 😂

[Tubbo]

10 minutes ago, reb said:

@Tubbo ever since I was a lad I've known not to leave keys in a car with central locking, let alone known faulty central locking, without at least one window down so you can reach them. You just never know.

Yes this is true, which is why I posted it, so you can all have a laugh at my expense!

[Matty]

Just now, SiC said:

Cling film!

He wouldn't be able to breath 😁

[camryv6]

41 minutes ago, SiC said:

Cling film!

Nah he would of suffocated, oh you don't mean his head you mean the door

@Mattygreat minds think alike

[tooSavvy]

Many years ago..... Crossing Byker Bridge.... I passed, in opposite direction, a MK3 scrote >> driven by a 'scrote' in a full face helmet 😮

*Yes, there wasn't a pane of glass in the car!

[Stanky]

48 minutes ago, reb said:

@Tubbo ever since I was a lad I've known not to leave keys in a car with central locking, let alone known faulty central locking, without at least one window down so you can reach them. You just never know.

Ah yes, but how many cars have you had the pleasure of actually putting a window through with a brick? There is something immensely satisfying about stoving a car window in like a mentalist.

Soz to hear about the damage @Tubbo, tape a binbag over the hole for the full "I drive a Corsa and IDGAF" look?

[BorniteIdentity]

19 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Kwik Fit will be compensating me for this. 

Compensating you for what, precisely?  Leaving your already unroadworthy car in an unroadworthy state?

[N19]

1 hour ago, reb said:

@Tubbo ever since I was a lad I've known not to leave keys in a car with central locking, let alone known faulty central locking, without at least one window down so you can reach them. You just never know.

I always do this if I'm leaving the Mondeo running when I'm down at my lockup or if loading/unloading - despite it never playing up that way. I had thought I'm a bit paranoid, but maybe there's logic!

[Split_Pin]

Or you could just pay to have a second key  cut

[SiC]

3 hours ago, captain_70s said:

Moving house. Not even once*....

*(This is my 11th house move)

Will try to get back to you tonight!

No worries. As you can imagine, for both neighbourly and wifey relations, I can't have a slowly disintegrating heap on the drive for too long 😆

I plan to start tearing into it the weekend after this coming weekend. Just an idea of what bits you might be interested in, so I can remove them more carefully. 👍