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[steve_earwig]

and this attempt at plate modding

 

DIRNUV?

[rml2345]

DIBNUY maybe?

[michael1703]

Digby

[michael1703]

Dianna ?

[derskine]

 

Cracked it.

[dugong]

[oman5]

Bloody volvo 940 is getting incontinent in its old age. so far this week, I've had to replace two leak off diesel pipes, both looked like volvo originals and were cracked and perished to buggery.

 

It's now developed a huge oil leak from one of the oil cooler pipes. huge as in dare-not-use-it in case it pisses the lot out and shits its bottom end out. nobody lists the pipe, it's looking like I will have to get one made up by pirtek or something. 

[Lord Sterling]

FATHA_STERLING informed me yesterday that he is interested in an '05 Toyota Avensis Estate. Due to the work he does, he needs a rathher large estate car (my suggestions of a 960 Estate fell on deaf ears, his days of Autoshiting are now over ) and despite me making noises that I was interested in buying his Volvo V40 it's now going to be traded in.

 

I'll stick to my rather ill and shit looking Rover 800s then

 

Oh yeah, and whilst in Turkey, I told Lady_Sterling-in-waiting that I owned 6 Rover 800s, that didn't put her off. Score

 

She did say that she wanted to drive my car though hmmm.....

[cms206]

That private plate reminds me of an ex-colleague who had J44 WNR on his Skoda Superb; I chinned him about the plate one day and he said "kin ye no' tell? Say it oot loud - J44 WNR is like JAAWN R  - ma name's John Ryan!"

[vulgalour]

That might be the name on  his birth certificate but I'm pretty sure it's not what people call him when they find out that's what his plate is supposed to say.

[sporty-shite]

Merde! Do you have the tyres and nuts? Mega keen.

They have tyres, but they've been in the garage for 15 years, so I wouldn't risk them. No nuts, but they should be easy to get. Just normal taper seat jobs.

[Skoze]

STOP PRESS.

 

Neglected Land Rover starts first time after 12 months dormant, surprises no-one. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204284438335264&set=vb.1357710141&type=2&theater

[vulgalour]

Them:  Yep, that's all sorted, just get the Guarantor form** back to us and we can sort you out with a moving date.

Us:  Really?

Them: Really.

 

I think, maybe, just perhaps, we might be getting a moving date sorted out.  Possibly.  Perhaps.  I hope.

 

 

** just a few details to fill in and that's done, should be with them later today.

[Cavcraft]

'Its faster than you think. The rear tyres will want replacing. It's faster than you think. The brakes are good'

 

 

 

Jesus bleeding wept, he wasn't wrong. The rear tyres also lost a fair bit of their remaining tread as I nailed it round a corner to find stationary traffic ahead.

[DVee8]

^^ That looks fucking nice. ex Scooters?

[Cavcraft]

Indeed. In a rare moment of Swedishness, it's travelled the wrong way and ended up in England.

[DVee8]

Chestervolvo er massive = CVeM

[cms206]

Chester is an annex. APPROVED.

 

(The raffle find may be looking for home )

[Anglevan]

My mitsubishi l300 van has passed it's mot today. 1st time no advisory. Not been run for 2 years so well happy. My mitsubishi lancer is next tomorrow, wish me luck.

[wuvvum]

Volvo T5s are a bit of a beast.  The way they pile the speed on is quite deceptive.

[richardmorris]

Anyone tried one of these glass scratch repair kits?http://www.frost.co.uk/automotive-windscreen-tools/full-windscreen-scratch-repair-kit.html

[stuboy]

cleared out a friends mums friends loft....

into here

emptied at the tip//

[dugong]

305 proved its worth today by firing a certain dead Saab 9000 back into life. My opposite number was most pleased.

[trigger]

 

I shouldn't keep going on about this little car but gosh it's performed well over the last few days, I must have done around 350 miles in it this weekend (the mileometer is broke) but it's been great fun, even when we nearly drown in it during a flash flood on Sunday, a few problems have appeared, the blocked carb on Monday...

 

 

...the oil leaking out of the RC gasket everywhere and today the front nearside brake pad decided to run out and go metal to metal, whoops.

 

Never the less it's been a cracking car and really made our little break away, so much so that I've decided not to sell it for the time being. I just need to find some discs and pads for it now which is no mean feat by the looks of it.

[Lord Sterling]

 

Broken down? Why not save on garage charges and ask your local friendly-looking neighbour to fix your car

 

I voted for the Honda Civic Party

[cms206]

Off to Dublin this weekend to deliver a 60-plate Jeep Wrangler diesel...

[dollywobbler]

ANGRY MONTEGO ATTACKS FASHIONISTAS

http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/11342915.PICTURED__Car_smashes_through_Tooting_beauty_parlour/

[dugong]

 

Broken down? Why not save on garage charges and ask your local friendly-looking neighbour to fix your car

 

I voted for the Honda Civic Party

EAST COAST RETROS RECOVERY

 

WE FIX UR CAR

 

BY FARTING

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

ANGRY MONTEGO ATTACKS FASHIONISTAS

 

http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/11342915.PICTURED__Car_smashes_through_Tooting_beauty_parlour/

 

The shop owner said: "I want the car taken away, I need to sort out my insurance. It’s a nightmare."

 

Let's hope she wasn't a customer of this insurance office, as seen in the same paper a week earlier:

 

 

Come on, Wandsworth drivers, get it together.

[beko1987]

cleared out a friends mums friends loft....

 

 

Poor Goblin Rio (early 80's before they changed the design IIRC, Phillip Schofield sucked Gordon the Gopher up with one once