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[BorniteIdentity]

30 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

That was the sellers wife. She was driving a hard bargain until I pulled my oily hand back from under the engine and pulled the trim hiding the bodge back... She took an offer then (was up for £1100).

My friends actual wife drove it to her mums in Slough just now and has arrived so hopefully that's it good. Reading up on it it's a chain engine which is exciting. Sounds utterly silent so hopefully an oil change ASAP will keep it that way (0 paperwork of course, but it does have 2 locking wheel keys. Both different, but the seller told us which wheel was different which was nice

It’s only the Eastern Europeans I’m interested in. You can have the rest… 

[stuboy]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Any better pictures of the lady in question? You’re teasing me here fella… 😏😬

i wanted to say this... but didnt want to be seen as a........................... perveyer of the female form

[artdjones]

East Europeans are usually good to buy cars from, as they understand the concept of regular servicing.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

East Europeans are usually good to buy cars from, as they understand the concept of regular servicing.

Maybe but I’ve never seen an East European registered car that looked like it had ever been cleaned since the day it left the factory. 

[artdjones]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Maybe but I’ve never seen an East European registered car that looked like it had ever been cleaned since the day it left the factory. 

Maybe, but the kind of East Europeans who never re-register their cars is not typical of the vast majority. 

[The Vicar]

Getting some paint down at last:

It was never going to be perfect, but I think for a job done at home in a dusty old garage by my dad it has come out great. I’m very happy 

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

Jane from Potton's dose of crabs has got so bad,

they have made it all the way to Biggleswade!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyj7ldzy3o

[Remspoor]

Some of you may want to help the BBC fight it's corner.

https://news.sky.com/story/evri-suing-bbc-for-1-2m-over-panorama-programme-13560313

[Metal Guru]

34 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Some of you may want to help the BBC fight it's corner.

https://news.sky.com/story/evri-suing-bbc-for-1-2m-over-panorama-programme-13560313

It’s not libel if it’s true Shirley?

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

58 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Some of you may want to help the BBC fight it's corner.

https://news.sky.com/story/evri-suing-bbc-for-1-2m-over-panorama-programme-13560313

BBC to bring case against Evri for Vexatious Litigation ?

[alcyonecorporation]

Fucking hilarious that Evri think its working conditions are decent. 

[stuboy]

So Driving the mondeo.. for 2 weeks locally... fat me and subwooofers and far too many tools, I put £30.03 of super unleaded,  done 39 miles.. the petrol light is on with 49 miles of range left...

 

So value for money i decided to use the mondeo on a 50 mile trip to visit my mum in a care home. 

[UltraWomble]

A year to the day since my ex @purplebargeken Honda FES was nicked, dragged onto the back playing fieldsand torched all because the little cunts couldn't get the locks off it. 

Its mark still remains

[JakeT]

A very satisfying mile(kilometre)stone recently.

 

 

248k and change In old money. I change it over every so often for the big ones. 250k soon!

[Remspoor]

News from 50 years ago today. I went here

Here are just 3 of the many low-quality photos I took. Oh, and the Anglia is being dropped onto a Morris Marina. This was back in the days before anyone considered using the more readily available pianos.

[lesapandre]

Just got this today - 1969 Earl's Court Motor Show press lapel badge. 

And if you wanted to see what was on...

[lesapandre]

7 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

BBC to bring case against Evri for Vexatious Litigation ?

What they call 'lawfare' - Evri clearly taking a page out of the stifle criticism playbook.

Trouble is they may misunderstand the High Court procedure - it now means all their business process are open to legal 'discovery' - if the BBC pursues a defence.  So unless they are sure of their position - the medicine may prove to be far worse than the ailment.

[wuvvum]

Currently in an Airbnb in the arse end of Herefordshire for my uncle's 70th birthday bash.  It's rather pleasant. 

[Metal Guru]

16 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Just got this today - 1969 Earl's Court Motor Show press lapel badge. 

And if you wanted to see what was on...

I remember going to the 1968 Earls Court Motor Show. The XJ6 was the star attraction being brand new that year. As a kid I was fanatical about Jags especially E-types. 

[Split_Pin]

Mrs_Pin parks in front of the living room window and its opposite my favourite arm chair.

So I can see the silver Bini and it had one gloss Cooper mirror cover and one unpainted One one (lol), which made my teeth itch. 

You can paint anything with Rover PBT Pearl Black Metallic.

Now we have symmetry and inner peace once again.

 

[stuboy]

Future SIL now has a predented ( save her doing it lol )ford focus cmax ghia tdci automatic...  inside cream leather, great mechanically, mot till march 2027, only 50k on the clock.. underneath needs a wire brush and stonechip applied.. says she feels safer in it as feels better made than the micra previously owned...was £1600 got for £1300 shes happy..

[beko1987]

Looks nice underneath. Get under there with the pressure washer then rust converter then hammerite waxoyl and it'll stay decent for as long as the rest of the car will live. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Can report much success today. Sprogmobile was hors de combat due to stuck injector and me losing my rag with it. Then it threw a diesel leak and I threw in a towel and many fucks. Sprog was to drive the Bini for the week. I'm off on hols tomorrow. Happy days for me, not for Sprog.

Anyways - after Asking a Shiter 👍 - solved the injector problem -
Over night marinade in a puddle of leftover COVID hand sanitiser that's 95% ethanol. Italian tune up as per @horriblemercedes. Then an adaption on @ruffgeezer's mention of using the HP pipe - found a Sprinter guy on YouTube who pointed out that on these injectors you can get a deep 13mm socket onto the HP union mounting and a 1/2" extension for leverage.

Heavy duty trim removal tool as a lever under the edge of the injector and a lot of wiggling later - out it came. Cleaning it and the hole was fun*, original copper washer was very distended i.e pretty much FUBAR.
Reassembly was the opposite of removal, only much quicker and easier.

The diesel leak is awaiting delivery of a genuine MB pipe but I found some 7mm fuel pipe in the shed and bodged in a temporary repair. The old pipe had started to delaminate the outer rubberised bit - this did leave the internal pipe intact but the clip onto the HPFP was trying to grip on crumbs of dead rubber so, leaking.

Sprog is now happy as this car has air con, the Bini doesn't. It's also automatic, the Bini isn't. It's also got CarPlay, the Bini hasn't - get the drift?

p.s. best bit was when tidying up - knocked over a new, large 'Trade Size' can of WD40 that flew off the shelf, pinged on a chain saw blade and split. I ended up wearing about 300ml of the stuff - and the other 300ml is all over the tools/shelves/everywhere. It does make your hair feel nice a shiny even after a deep scrub in the shower  and it'll keep my tools from rusting for at least three days.
Need to reseat the HP union (or get a new pipe) on injector #1 as it's weeping, Injector #2 is displaying crud around the clamp - they can both wait - mañana

 

[stuboy]

43 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Looks nice underneath. Get under there with the pressure washer then rust converter then hammerite waxoyl and it'll stay decent for as long as the rest of the car will live. 

ive showed her these what i used on the hondura............. 

[richardmorris]

And rad no 3 is off again. This traction is setting a world record for the number of radiators in one week. It’s leaking from the bottom hose mounting to the base plate.

[wuvvum]

Drove home from Herefordshire today.  It was a good weekend, if slightly bittersweet - my aunt's rapidly advancing dementia and the fact that my (other) uncle lives in the US and only gets over here once every 8 years or so means that this was probably the last time all my mum's siblings will be together.

The Toyota managed the 500-odd miles absolutely fine - the only mishap was the offside rear window getting stuck part way down as the mechanism has shat itself (they are a weak point on those cars and I've already replaced three others), but that wasn't a massive issue in this weather.  I can't think of many 30-year-old cars that one could just jump in without a second thought and hammer across the country at motorway speeds for five hours, and still get out the other end feeling relaxed (if a little warm - I did miss having aircon).

No major traffic issues either - there were two hold-ups, one in each direction, but both were caused by fucking rubberneckers stopping to look at incidents on the other side (a lorry went into the central reservation on the M5 and a Land Rover Discovery caught fire on the A14).  There was an accident literally just behind me on the M6 though, I'd just finished overtaking a lorry when I heard an almighty clang, thought something had fallen off the lorry but looked in my mirror and a car had been pinballed into the Armco and the lorry was hard on the brakes, so not entirely sure what had happened - I did check the news when I got home but no mention of it so assume it can't have been too serious.

I did actually see another Carina E on the trip, a maroon giffer-owned example in Herefordshire.  I did flash my lights as I passed but they didn't notice me.  Also saw a rather unusual spot at the Hopwood Park services on the M42:

Probably the oldest car I've ever seen on the motorway network that wasn't on a trailer.  I'm not actually sure what it is - Vauxhall obviously, but it's too new to be a Prince Henry.  I'm sure someone here will be able to identify it...