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[ruffgeezer]

There are a couple of these not far from me that might glean useful spares. Not a million miles from Cadwell Park.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 27/11/2024 at 13:02, grogee said:

I'm starting a 12m contract as a "Vehicle Evaluation & Customer Experience Engineer" whatever that is. 

AFAICT it's someone who looks at competitor vehicles and qualitatively/quantitavely assesses ease of use for certain features. 

When I was interviewed there were two positions open: one was assessing ADAS things and one was for HMI usability. I don't yet know which one I'll be doing, there's a possibility it'll be split between the two. 

On the downside it's an hour's commute each way three days a week. But it sounds interesting enough to be worth it. 

Congrats, fella. What sort of prerequisites do you need to get into something like that? 

[egg]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

are the patches on the floor cos you were all excited

Only time I washed it! It was off to Norn Iron  (had just sold it)

[grogee]

1 minute ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Congrats, fella. What sort of prerequisites do you need to get into something like that? 

Thanks. 30 years in the motor industry and in motor journalism, plus a smattering of tech authoring I think. 

And an automotive engineering degree, although I learned more working in a garage than I did at Coventry 'University'. 

Basically, a varied CV and an ability to talk well in interviews. 

It might be a total disaster, I haven't started yet. Keep getting anxiety dreams about getting lost/missing a bus. 

I'm also a bit worried I've 'forgotten' how to work. The last few months have been really quiet and I've been at home a lot so I hope my brain can cope with corporation manoeuvrings. 

[Hawkeyethenoo]

Went to start a Dacia Logan MCV which has been left for dead for months, out in all weathers and generally totally ignored. Wee shame.

N/S door lock cylinder was seized as when was the last time that was used, cause remote central locking. Spurt of DBX & the stuck lock was unstuck, door unlocked  Bob's yer uncles fancyman, bonnet open and up on the strut, quality car this I'm thinking and connect up yon Topdon JS2000 start you bastard and usually they do. Drivers door unlocked from the inside 'andle and we're in Jim! Couple or three glowplug preheat cycles, cause Scotland; and the little Renner 1500cc diesel clattered into life, first touch of the key.  Respect.

Reinflated the tyres which were all at 26psi, so still driveable almost and whacked on the 6amp charger for a couple of hours and then a quick razz round the backroads and only obvious fault, O/S dipped beam out, this later turned into both dipped beams when it went dark and I was left with the choice of,  sidelights which are less bright than the DRLs, but no rear lights. Went with sidelights as was only going from work, supermarket and home all in the toon, ken.

Hope it's just a couple of H4s and nothing more serious required. More on that story, later. Honest to goodness car is a Dacia Logan MCV, I'd go as far to say a - modern-day, Car of the People. The thinking man's Skoda Superb Estate!

[Jazoli]

37 minutes ago, Hawkeyethenoo said:

Went to start a Dacia Logan MCV which has been left for dead for months, out in all weathers and generally totally ignored. Wee shame.

N/S door lock cylinder was seized as when was the last time that was used, cause remote central locking. Spurt of DBX & the stuck locck was unstuck, door unlocked  Bob's yer uncles fancyman, bonnet open and up on the strut, quality car this I'm thinking and connect up yon Topdon JS2000 start you bastard and usually they do. Drivers door unlocked from the inside 'andle and we're in Jim! Couple or three glowplug preheat cycles, cause Scotland; and the little Renner 1500cc diesel clattered into life, first touch of the key.  Respect.

Reinflated the tyres which were all at 26psi, so still driveable almost and whacked on the 6amp charger for a couple of hours and then a quick razz round the backroads and only obvious fault, O/S dipped beam out, this later turned into both dipped beams when it went dark and I was left with the choice of,  sidelights which are less bright than the DRLs, but no rear lights. Went with sidelights as was only going from work, supermarket and home all in the toon, ken.

Hope it's just a couple of H4s and nothing more serious required. More on that story, later. Honest to goodness car is a Dacia Logan MCV, I'd go as far to say a - modern-day, Car of the People. The thinking man's Skoda Superb Estate!

My mother has one in Spain and it’s been a fantastic car €10k brand new 5 years ago, a yearly service and no issues apart from a couple of bodywork repairs (typical Spanish bumps) and it’s actually quite pleasant to drive, you really can’t go wrong.

 

[richardmorris]

Which one of you is this guy?

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Big bang on the main road outside my house half an hour ago. 

The poor guy had hit a moose but luckily he was unharmed, it wasn't his VW Caddy where the front is totally destroyed.

This is the second animal collision in front of the house this year.

[Schaefft]

36 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Which one of you is this guy?

 

The YouTube algorithm let me to this channel as well. Great example of how you can create years of content without anyone noticing and then one video suddenly blows up. Seems like he's doing some great work though, I enjoyed watching this one.

[richardmorris]

10 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

The YouTube algorithm let me to this channel as well. Great example of how you can create years of content without anyone noticing and then one video suddenly blows up. Seems like he's doing some great work though, I enjoyed watching this one.

Exactly - not flashy, not shouty, but an interesting ( I think) vid on a cheap classic. 

[MJK 24]

Slipped disc 

 

 

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, Hawkeyethenoo said:

Went to start a Dacia Logan MCV which has been left for dead for months, out in all weathers and generally totally ignored. Wee shame.

N/S door lock cylinder was seized as when was the last time that was used, cause remote central locking. Spurt of DBX & the stuck locck was unstuck, door unlocked  Bob's yer uncles fancyman, bonnet open and up on the strut, quality car this I'm thinking and connect up yon Topdon JS2000 start you bastard and usually they do. Drivers door unlocked from the inside 'andle and we're in Jim! Couple or three glowplug preheat cycles, cause Scotland; and the little Renner 1500cc diesel clattered into life, first touch of the key.  Respect.

Reinflated the tyres which were all at 26psi, so still driveable almost and whacked on the 6amp charger for a couple of hours and then a quick razz round the backroads and only obvious fault, O/S dipped beam out, this later turned into both dipped beams when it went dark and I was left with the choice of,  sidelights which are less bright than the DRLs, but no rear lights. Went with sidelights as was only going from work, supermarket and home all in the toon, ken.

Hope it's just a couple of H4s and nothing more serious required. More on that story, later. Honest to goodness car is a Dacia Logan MCV, I'd go as far to say a - modern-day, Car of the People. The thinking man's Skoda Superb Estate!

I agree, these are amazing value but I’ll stick with my Superb estate and not think about it to be honest😉

[Hawkeyethenoo]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Which one of you is this guy?

 

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[stuboy]

On 27/11/2024 at 20:26, stuboy said:

bit the bullet and ordered this, be usefull for mrs stuboys seat and my ford galaxy in drag ( vw sharan really ) i did try using free vcds but i just got too confused.

It's arrived, managed to update it i think, agm battery purchased.. plan to swap battery over weekend.

[lesapandre]

I see the battery got a negative reaction from your cat. 

[High Jetter]

12 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

I see the battery got a negative reaction from your cat. 

That's paw! 😃

[Lord Sterling]

Right, so last week when the OMG SNO KAOS made itself known, there wasn't much in the way of SNO other than a small dusting followed by frozen rain/ice.

As alluded to in the Grumpy section, last week it took me 45 mins to swap the places of the Vectra and Jag because of ice. 

However, when I started the Jag, the wiper tried to move and somehow it's become detached from the linkage. Today when starting the Jag (I haven't used since last week and I wanted to run it to temperature) when I switched on the wipers, the wiper arm didn't really move, the motor was going and switch off and on, so clearly it's become detached from the mechanism. So thats something I'll have to look into.

[sdkrc]

9 hours ago, stuboy said:

 

@stuboy, have you and your cat got matching beards?

[richardmorris]

Who thought a pinky grey tank with orange leather was a good idea?

[The Vicar]

My 3rd purchase in 3 weeks…

[Cookiesouwest]

On 26/11/2024 at 22:42, SiC said:

On 26/11/2024 at 22:36, Split_Pin said:

Good shout, the 75 diesel warms up a little quicker but my e46 petrol temp guage reaches the middle after about 4 or 5 minutes.

It's one of the reasons why I like petrols as they tend to warm up quickly. Bigger engines petrol do (like my E320 v6 that I had) because they're pretty squirting petrol in like a fire hose when cold to warm up quickly (for emissions reasons). The big consequence of that is piss poor fuel economy on short runs!

I am now the owner of said E320.

SiC is not kidding about the fuel economy. I've not hit 20 mpg yet, this week.

Still love it though.

[Schaefft]

23 minutes ago, The Vicar said:

My 3rd purchase in 3 weeks…

Nice, still somewhat tempted by these. Be-1 would still be my top pick from the 4 Pike cars.

[The Vicar]

17 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

Nice, still somewhat tempted by these. Be-1 would still be my top pick from the 4 Pike cars.

My pick of the 4 would be a Pao. The Figaro has never really had much of an impression on me, and I definitely didn’t go looking for one this time - I just can’t say no to a good bargain!

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, The Vicar said:

My 3rd purchase in 3 weeks…

Nice. These are the only car Girlfriend_70s has any real interest in owning.

[SiC]

3 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

I am now the owner of said E320.

SiC is not kidding about the fuel economy. I've not hit 20 mpg yet, this week.

Still love it though.

My lighter/smaller 330i with it's more modern/less slushy box isn't doing much better tbh. 

 

[Split_Pin]

Best I get is 32mpg from my E46 330CI on a run.

[beko1987]

3 hours ago, captain_70s said:

Nice. These are the only car Girlfriend_70s has any real interest in owning.

Good job your a good welder then 👌🤣 Made her dreams* come true yet with one? 

I saw/got next to one up at handy cross/m40 j4 a few years ago and it looked cool but I could see bubbling creeping out of the paintwork up close around the edges 😬

[captain_70s]

24 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Good job your a good welder then 👌🤣 Made her dreams* come true yet with one? 

I saw/got next to one up at handy cross/m40 j4 a few years ago and it looked cool but I could see bubbling creeping out of the paintwork up close around the edges 😬

I've said she's welcome to buy one and I'll maintain it, given she can't drive I don't think one will be landing any time soon! I suspect when the time comes she'll chicken out and go for as new a car as she can afford...

They do go frilly but panel supply is very good, if not cheap.

I do worry of the logistics of a soft top living outside full time in sunny* Scotland.

Decent ones seem to be £4-6k. Around the £2k mark they usually have rotten arches and bumpers.

[EyesWeldedShut]

An afternoon of ups, ups and then downs finally tinkering with the FreeLoader that landed last weekend.
Handbrake sticks on both rear wheels, was expecting to have to drill out the holding screws and wallop the drum off over a massive lip;
Nope wheel nuts and screws all well copper greased, drums eased off with a little tap - it's all just filthy inside and needs a good clean,  then free up the internal handbrake lever and adjusting up the shoes ✅
Old exhaust back box fell off with some gentle* angle grinding and BFH ✅
Tank strap securing bolts freed off with just a socket and short handle ✅

Rear steel brake pipes on both sides are rather buggered and one looks to have rusted so badly around the flexi join that the top of the flexi pipe is distorting. Feeding a new copper pipe around the subframe looks to be really* easy. Not even looked at the fronts yet ❌

At least with no back box access to the pipe runs and tank straps is much simpler✅

9,000 miles, eight months and one new owner later:

[Stinkwheel]

24 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

An afternoon of ups, ups and then downs finally tinkering with the FreeLoader that landed last weekend.
Handbrake sticks on both rear wheels, was expecting to have to drill out the holding screws and wallop the drum off over a massive lip;
Nope wheel nuts and screws all well copper greased, drums eased off with a little tap - it's all just filthy inside and needs a good clean,  then free up the internal handbrake lever and adjusting up the shoes ✅
Old exhaust back box fell off with some gentle* angle grinding and BFH ✅
Tank strap securing bolts freed off with just a socket and short handle ✅

Rear steel brake pipes on both sides are rather buggered and one looks to have rusted so badly around the flexi join that the top of the flexi pipe is distorting. Feeding a new copper pipe around the subframe looks to be really* easy. Not even looked at the fronts yet ❌

At least with no back box access to the pipe runs and tank straps is much simpler✅

9,000 miles, eight months and one new owner later:

Ugh, annoying and weird that its kind of been looked after but not 'actually' looked after. All apologies for posting the thing in the e-bay thread.