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[SiC]

I thought that ADO16 was more harvest gold 

[wuvvum]

I did wonder.  The problem is that limeflower through one digital camera can look extremely similar to harvest gold through another camera.

[High Jetter]

Limeflower is quite a bit greener:

Harvest Gold:

Very similar to Sandglow:

Who was it had loads of colour brochures?

[BeEP]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

It does look like it, a bit late tho?

It's definitely limeflower, which continued until the end of 1973.  My August '73 1100 is limeflower (pictured below), and it was available on the earliest (1973) Allegros.  I do agree that depending on the lighting and camera used, limeflower can look like harvest gold in photos, and to a lesser extent vice versa.

[stuboy]

Missus/her brother and kids going away on there yearly pilgrimage to butlins, and asked to use the galaxy .. I said yeah just clear me a space for.... trolley jack....jump leads... straps.. box of crap, old towels,  an axle stand, and other random crap... and the 7th seat she needed  out for luggage...  bet she glad she not want the mondeo emptied out... 

[SiC]

Doesn't help there are different shades of Harvest Gold depending on the years. My BGT is lighter than original earlier. 

[TagoraSX]

Can any shitters in the Midlands recommend a decent and reliable classic car restoration garage?

No body work, some reassembly and recommissioning.

[MiniMinorMk3]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Who was it had loads of colour brochures?

That'll be me.

That ADO16 is Limeflower.

[mitsisigma01]

Mcgard locking wheel nuts 😡😡😡😡😡😡 has anyone had the pleasure of trying to remove the ones with the fat spinning collar... Obviously done up full whack by a Kwikfit monkey, signs of at least two of them having broken bits of key in them and on another a mate has wanged a socket on and got it stuck as well 🙄🙄🙄 .All help gratefully appreciated 🙏🙏

[SiC]

6 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

That'll be me.

That ADO16 is Limeflower.

 

I agree that it's Limeflower. That said the two are very close together. 

Maybe limeflower is when the painters don't clean their guns when changing from Green Mallard to harvest gold. 🤣

[Back_For_More]

6 sodding hours as the rear d-side bearing was fubar'd.  The caliper carrier bolts were a complete nightmare aamd took most of the afternoon Air chisel eventually got the bearing out. 

Now I can hear the other side 🤬That'll be next Saturday taken care of then..... 

Forester Turbo is proving a commendable hack and sounding like Mcrae down the local single track lanes is always a laugh..... 

[wuvvum]

So this happened.

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Mcgard locking wheel nuts 😡😡😡😡😡😡 has anyone had the pleasure of trying to remove the ones with the fat spinning collar... Obviously done up full whack by a Kwikfit monkey, signs of at least two of them having broken bits of key in them and on another a mate has wanged a socket on and got it stuck as well 🙄🙄🙄 .All help gratefully appreciated 🙏🙏

How thick is the spinning collar? All the ones I've come up against so far I've been able to split the collar with a sharp chisel and then once that's out the way it's business as usual with 12 point socket and a lump hammer.

[mitsisigma01]

18 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

How thick is the spinning collar

about 4mm ish

[mitsisigma01]

How about getting off the Halfords advanced socket my mate wanged on with a lump hammer 🙄☹️

[mitsisigma01]

It wouldn't surprise me if all the others without the locking wheel nuts have been gunned up to 3,000,000 lb as well .☹️

I've got an uggadugga that goes to 450 , anyone nearby got a bigger one 🤔

Failing that I've got a 4ft pole to go over my socket wrench,let's see how good Halfords advanced stuff is 🤞

Just going to take some Valium and then have a go... 🤯

 

[PicantoJon]

So changing the bleed nipples on the Picanto went well, only two of four were utter bastards... Pleasingly enough none of them broke so I'm calling it a win. 😁

[Asimo]

7 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Mcgard locking wheel nuts 😡😡😡😡😡😡 has anyone had the pleasure of trying to remove the ones with the fat spinning collar... Obviously done up full whack by a Kwikfit monkey, signs of at least two of them having broken bits of key in them and on another a mate has wanged a socket on and got it stuck as well 🙄🙄🙄 .All help gratefully appreciated 🙏🙏

May not be exactly the same type.   I removed all four from a colleague’s SaaB 93, they had a spinning collar.
I hammered a 12point socket over the collar, which crushed it enough to grip the bolt.

Important to use a T bar on the sockets so that you just apply torque and no side-load to the socket.

Because side-load

a) increases the thread’s friction 

b) tries to pull the socket off the stupid, pointless, annoying  locking thing.

[RoverFolkUs]

Anyone fancy playing "guess the car"? 

Clue: it took me back in time, used to be everywhere, hardly see many about any more....

[Asimo]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Anyone fancy playing "guess the car"? 

Clue: it took me back in time, used to be everywhere, hardly see many about any more....

Ford,  Ka?

[richardmorris]

Just watched Johnny sideburns resurrect a 1983 bmw 6 series from a garage. It started and sounded fine, but looks rotten as a pear. Failed last pre-mot in 2002 for extensive rust. I do like these, since watching spencer for hire as a teenager.

 

[catsinthewelder]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Anyone fancy playing "guess the car"? 

Clue: it took me back in time, used to be everywhere, hardly see many about any more....

 

Vectra, because snapped spring.

[brownnova]

Van mode engaged. 

[vulgalour]

 

1 hour ago, catsinthewelder said:

 

Vectra, because snapped spring.

 

Laguna/75/Picasso because same.

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

Van mode engaged. 

Only two?  Got three in the Dyane... 😉

[chaseracer]

You know that thing when you drive a car and it's just RIGHT?  I am now looking for one of these, in Exclusive 2.0HDi160 manual spec...

[horriblemercedes]

1 minute ago, chaseracer said:

You know that thing when you drive a car and it's just RIGHT?  I am now looking for one of these, in Exclusive 2.0HDi160 manual spec...

I've always fancied one in that spec. Never driven one or even been in one though 

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, horriblemercedes said:

I've always fancied one in that spec. Never driven one or even been in one though 

I drove one at a launch event back in 2008 I think it was. Very nice.

[Six-cylinder]

21 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Only two?  Got three in the Dyane... 😉

Yes but he has got two 2CVs so he wins with a total of 4!

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, Asimo said:

Ford,  Ka?

 

2 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

 

Vectra, because snapped spring.

Both along the right lines, MK3 Mondeo! rear. 

Probably the original spring, so it's not done bad for 20 years. 

Got to do the front lower arms as well among other things - Time to blow the cobwebs off those subframe alignment pins that I probably haven't touched for 5 years now 🤣

51 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

 

 

Laguna/75/Picasso because same.

It's rear, so the latter would be a bit difficult 😉 (torsion bar)