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[richardmorris]

From the i2cvf forum

[fred]

The world has got so Orwelian now, even dropping a fag butt on the pavement makes you an evil doer.

Buy a pirated film, you are sponsering Terroists. We have been brain washed into reporting any minor sin on social media. Film every silly stunt and post it online so the 'Authority' can view it.

 

By the gods when I was a kid we used run about with plastic guns playing Army. Have a bloody helicopter and armed response team out for that now. And be on the BBC news for the sin of being a kid.

 

Argghh.. Rant over ish....

[Inspector Morose]

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human faceâ€â€for ever.â€Â

― George Orwell, 1984

[Inspector Morose]

Done a bit more to complete the build of the new member of works fleet.

 

Like?

 

 

[stuboy]

had car meet on sunday to cheer up a friend and club member thought best i wash the car too

all who could make it..

[Volksy]

The Jag of much beige has come to live with me at the castle for a bit, First impressions are pretty good, I gave it a clean up and it looks pretty well. I do like a big waftomatic barge, and it certainly ticks those boxes. I likened it to driving round in a slightly excitable Labrador. 

I'm not looking forward to the fuel bill, but I hardly do any miles any more, well, most of what I do is in a company van. 

 

It's certainly a comfortable place to be, especially after the rather hard ride of the Celica.

 

 

 

 

 

[barefoot]

I made a big mistake yesterday, I accepted a lift in a newish Passat diesel automatic. It made all of my motor cars feel, for want of a better word, Shite.

My kid bro has a Diesel Passat, but his has all the wank attributes of a diesel, masses of torque in a band so narrow it's frightening & then bog all. The auto just wafted me in the manner I'd like to be wafted. It's turned my head and now you, you bastard, say, "I've got this Jag for a bit..."

[Skizzer]

Never mind that, it's the casual throwaway line about living in a castle that got me...  Who knew Volksy was a feudal baron?    

[barefoot]

A brief e-mail exchange re the press release from yesterday...

 

Hi Johnny,

 

Reading your latest press release & wondered if you could put me on to some of these cheap German cars please.

 

"These cars may well be a BMW or Mercedes, but they've been bought for as little as £130 from a salvage company or auction"

 

Or point me in the direction of some of these salvage companies selling cat D's for £130.

Just one example of each make would be adequate.

 

Thanks in anticipation,

 

 

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Hello Dave

 

You can find them on autotrader, just about and scrap and salvage yard or auction house 

Mark Hall

Flexed.co.uk

Short Term Car Lease Experts

 

 

 

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Could you send me a link to one?

 

 

 

 

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There's are 1000s just google cat d cars for sale

Mark Hall
Flexed.co.uk
Short Term Car Lease Experts

 

 

 

 

 

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1000’s of BMW & Mercedes Cat D for £130?

Please send me a link to one of each so that I can prove it to all my friends who think you are making it up.

 

 

 

 

 

---------------------- After an hour or so, I emailed again_________________

 

 

 

 

 

You couldn’t find one either?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[darkfour]

Drove the Dart convertible to work this morning. It was 7C when I left the house, top down and no heat.  Got to work and I couldn't feel my fingers they were so cold. The drive home should be better as it's supposed to reach 20C today.

[cms206]

Saw this today... can't find the thread with Boobydoo's (?) W-reg Alpine.

[Ghosty]

It's all change at chez Ghosty!

 

After yesterday's Bini buying expedition, today the Old Man and I took a trip to Keighley in his three door, Y-reg but old shape automatic Civic.

PX'd it for a five door, Y-reg but old shape manual Civic Sport, 51000 miles and full dealer service history from just down the road in Rochdale. Needs a good clean, a few typical jobs doing and an MOT, but he's super pleased with it, as am I. Who needs a VTi when for half as much you can get the same spec car but with a decent 1.4?

Also has all-round disc brakes - something not mentioned in Glass's Car Checkbook 2004 (I have that lying around for shite investigation purposes).

 

He even let me have a drive of it

[Angrydicky]

CMS, that's one hell of a spot! Hats off!

 

I thought the reg was familiar, it's the same car as featured in this video, although it's a shame it now seems to be out of action. 

 

[cort16]

I managed to get the new maf fitted to the CL. No screws or bolt necessary it all just clipped in and out. Even more so my so far shite ODBII reader after small battle managed to connect to then clear the faults so the EML went out.

This means I'm on for operation Dumbo Swap on Sunday when I attempt to exchange this for an SL280.

[The Moog]

Drove the missus civic for first time in couple of weeks.

 

1) its fucking loud - that would be because the exhaust has snapped at back box

2)abs light it on all the time

3) blower has stopped and hrw isn't working

 

Why wasn't I told this, apparently it didn't seem important.

[wuvvum]

I've been commuting in the Benz the last few days.  Yesterday I noticed the gearbox had started to make a faint mooing noise under acceleration from cold.  Today when I got in I had a look in the handbook to see what the ritual was for checking the ATF level.  The manual helpfully says "Have the fluid level checked in a Mercedes-Benz service station".  Erm, no.

 

So I hit Google and it turns out that the gearboxes on these things have a dipstick tube but no dipstick.  Dipsticks are available though, for about 7 quid off eBay.  WTF?  Was this some kind of desperate Project Drive-esque cost-cutting measure by Mercedes (along with making the front wings out of recycled Fiat 131s)?  Or was it just a cunning ruse to get more work for the main dealers?  It just strikes me as really odd.

 

Needless to say I've ordered a dipstick - I'll be using the Mondeo for the next few days until it gets here, just in case the ATF has all fallen out.

[Cavcraft]

 

Has two part worns and one budget new tyre fitted to Vectra. Bargain prices, raved about the company, all good.

Except for coming out of work and one of the part worns was flat! No biggie, drove back there and have it them back (for what it cost me) and got another new one instead.

 

Anyhow, the car had been a bit too good at SICK DRIFTING SKILLZ, YO beforehand, and scrabbled for grip if you booted it in 2nd. Now, despite the tyres being Winky Wanky Woo Chen Shing Chicken Skins, the car handles absolutely shit loads better and didn't let go on one of my favourite roundabouts.

I even jet washed it, though once dried you could still see monkey prints on it from my son's foray to Knowsley Safari Park the other week.

 

This afternoon/tomorrow I'm off to see two cars I neither need, have room for and, in the case of one if them, even want.

[xtriple]

Actually drove my car!

 

Three weeks and four days since the last time I went near it. It started, drove fine, total non event even though I was worried about it.

 

Yeah I know, boring.... but the best I got!   

[nacho man]

I had to go to a horrendously boring meeting at work today and normally as where a small little part of a massive company there is maybe the gaffers a3 tdi pool car to use, it's ok to be honest but I am not a massive fan and normally go in my st170 and claim I did 1500 miles when it was ten mins away but I had to go nottingham to Lincoln today, gaffers said he has got a car on trial, so asked what it was and was a 125d I didn't know they did one but it was a 8 speed auto which is a bit much but it flipping flies 215bhp I think, so I had a very enjoyable drive there and back.

[dollywobbler]

I had about 8 grown ups in the 245 in a previous life, the village was cut off with snow drifts, mini bus had no chance of getting through so out piled all these poor buggers going home from work into the blizzard, i stopped and crammed em all in the old Volvo, 4 in the boot, we just went for it ploughed straight through all the drifts and got them and me home safely.

 

That seems like a story from another time/dimension, and it probably is, i wonder what would happen if the same circumstances happened now.

 

I remember the Health and Safety nightmare of a primary school sports day when I was a nipper. First of all, a thunderstorm blew in, so the teachers herded us under some trees...

 

Then a few parents offered us a lift back to school. I think there were about twelve of us in the back of a Ford Cortina estate. Rear seat folded down to allow more of us to cram in. Sorted!

 

Or when my dad would take us shopping in the company he worked for's Bedford Rascal. I'd be sat in the back on a wheelarch, holding on to my sister's pushchair. Which she was in.

[fordperv]

Actually drove my car!

 

Three weeks and four days since the last time I went near it. It started, drove fine, total non event even though I was worried about it.

 

Yeah I know, boring.... but the best I got!

The smallest things sometimes make us smile and appreciate the most

[cort16]

I had the merc at work today as per usual it's running better than ever has just as I get rid. It's seems that hesitation I used to get must have been the old wobbly maf as now it goes like absolute fuck and is smooth as a greasy egg.

[Cavcraft]

I went to see one of two/three car I'd vaguely promised to look at today. It was a 2001 (or somewhere near there) 75 turbo diesel that had a bollocksed alternator.

It was a bit shit to be honest, tried jumping it but it's seriously flat and the lights came on when you turned it over, so that didn't help. Anyhow, besides alternator there's no MOT/tax (yeah, I know about the latter) two tyres at least are bald, there's one possibly slightly crunchy bit underneath and it's a cloth seated, steel wheeled mingebag express.

I've put a low offer in (doubt I'll get it) as to me it's essentially scrap.

[hairnet]

eddy

 

 

go look at that

[Bren]

Spent some money in Tesco.

 

Normally I would be the last person to do this as I was convinced that they were after world domination, however people are now losing their jobs, so I put my money where my mouth is.

[holbeck]

Peugeot 205 dizzler purchased via Gumtree.

 

One lady owner, 72K and a New MOT.

 

No phots as it all happened quickly. Just imagine the old garethj / Breadvan pug, but minus the alloys

[Jim Bell]

Q: can you buy an MOT'd car for £40 these days?

 

A: Yes I did. Well, Mrs. Shitpeas has anyway. Under my expert guidance.

 

Any guesses as to the make and model?

Free decal for the first correct answer.

[holbeck]

 Rover Syphilis?

[Jim Bell]

Rover Syphilis?

Our survey sez............. EEE EEEEER!!

XXX

[Volksy]

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