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[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

[richardmorris]

"Phillip Schofield sucked Gordon the Gopher up with one once"

 

God, not another celebrity scandal!

[The Moog]

Saab Convert failed MOT today.

 

Front to back brake lines corroded

Drivers seat loose

Front Engine Mount vanished

Handbrake Not working at all

 

Adv

Rear wheel dented

Major Oil leak

Low tyre on NSF

Rear wheel bearing grumbling

 

Going to cost around £600 to get fixed which in the on the limit of keep or sell but Missus loves it so have gone ahead.

Front engine mount is £105 plus Vat alone.

 

Peugeot decided that I wasnt paying it enough attention so let the wind grab its drivers door and slam it against the bonnet. Lovely crease it in now. I think I will need to fix the check strap.

 

I have sort of come to a decision with the Triumph.

 

Our landlord has got the house on the market so taking a car to bits is a bit risky at the moment. I am going to get under it and have a good poke, but judging as it stand I think that it is too much for me. I like the car but dont love it, therefore it is going to be an economic decision.

 

You can get the sills for it but they are going to be a couple of hundred for inners plus same again for outers plus strengtheners before even looking at anything.

 

I reckon the better course of action is to have a look, make a decision and in likelihood move it on. Then next year the pug runs out of MOT I am tempted to take it off the road and restore it. I enjoy it so much more as a car, its practical and fun. Less work as well.

[vulgalour]

I've tried, and I can't understand how the driver's door met the bonnet on the Pug.

[dugong]

I've tried, and I can't understand how the driver's door met the bonnet on the Pug.

Did he have a spare bonnet propped up beside the car?

[michael1703]

It's the £105 for the engine mount that I find more shocking

[spike60]

It's the £105 for the engine mount that I find more shocking

Cheap as chips, Alfa 5 pot ones were £223 about 3 years back

[320touring]

Stuff I have for sale is starting to shift anyone got any ideas for other fora I could advertise on?

 

I must say the couple of days off sorting out shite was well spent.

 

In other news the cash from parts sales has enabled purchase of many shiny new bits for my e30 so she'll be in rude health for wur wee hodilay trip:)

[The Moog]

I didn't mean bonnet it was in my head to check it was shut.

 

The dent is from indicator at side.

 

Agree about the mount but nowt can do about it.it had totally sheared.

[Cavcraft]

I've tried, and I can't understand how the driver's door met the bonnet on the Pug.

 

Because it's a Peugeot.

Because all Peugeots do it eventually.

Because Peugeot sourced their door hinges from the 'too soft' line at the Brie factory. 

[steve_earwig]

Oddly enough the only two doors I've ever had to weld back on have been on Citroens...