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[Tadhg Tiogar]

Egg !

 

Margate 1948 ( ish)

 

Das me mum in the middle

 

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Margate 2007

 

Das me wife & daughter 2007 in the same spot !

 

 

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I feel a Chas 'n Dave song coming on....

[adw1977]

ECP discount code any use to anyone?

 

[Floatylight]

On my way to a job interview in Manchester #nervous

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Good luck chodster

[Floatylight]

On my way to a job interview in Manchester #nervous

 

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[Six-cylinder]

Work on hold while I choose my new company car, they said a GL but I wonder if they will get me a 2.0i GLS as I have exceeded my targets for the last 6 months!

 

Thank you Mrbenn for my 1986 Ford brochure.

[egg]

I can feel the aspiration from here. SUV's my arse!

[stuboy]

Led headlamp bulbs delivered and fitted, off course had to arse about bending the securing spring clip, and blade crimps were too small...

[vulgalour]

That reminds me, what's the most offensively bright non-LED bulb I can fit to an R8 Rover?  I've come to conclusion that new cars have their headlights set to be as annoying as possible rather than for efficacy after last night's drive.  Seriously tempted to fit a brodozer style light bar in the back window for the fuckers that have headlights aligned to perfectly illuminate my mirrors.

[Bren]

Purchased the BBC series Edge of Darkness.

 

I was 13 when it first aired in 1985.

 

You know you are knocking on a bit when you have driven most of the cars in it.

[richardmorris]

I’ve been on holiday in the Lake District. Drove my Mercedes up to north wales on Thursday then took my parents in their DS4 up to Thirlmere for a few days. The modern is very nice ( hard ride excepting) and I’d happily buy it from them but I prefer my 24 year old merc. I hate the electronic parking brake with a vengeance though - hill starts are a pain in the bum! Plus I don’t like the way it tells you to change gear - I’ve already talked to it out loud - “well if you’re so clever you change gear.”

 

The DS ( 2litre hdi) averaged 58mpg. I managed to get to north wales and back to surrey on one tank of unleaded although the fuel light came on 20miles from home. That came to 29mpg! Not too bad considering I had enjoyed the odd moment of 80mph in third and 6000rpm larks.

 

I came back down south down the M5 due to the m 6 failing as a Motorway at brum and then across to Swindon where I had a near miss on the a419 as an Astra spun at the top of the three lane stretch uphill ( I don’t know how either) narrowly missing me and three trucks. Other than that only one idiot white van driver tailgating at most 1ft from my bumper as he was desperate to make the exit three lanes over.

[egg]

That reminds me, what's the most offensively bright non-LED bulb I can fit to an R8 Rover?  I've come to conclusion that new cars have their headlights set to be as annoying as possible rather than for efficacy after last night's drive.  Seriously tempted to fit a brodozer style light bar in the back window for the fuckers that have headlights aligned to perfectly illuminate my mirrors.

 

Osram night breakers?

[loserone]

There are brighter, but ONBs tend to last at least nearly a year.

[richardmorris]

There are brighter, but ONBs tend to last at least nearly a year.

Following a previous recommendation here I fitted the nightbreakers to my Mercedes six years ago. They made a big improvement and are still going strong.

[gm]

Random Shite tools purchased while nipping out for a bit of dinner

 

Torx set £4.99 at aldis, bolt cutters reduced from £9.99 to £3.99 at b&m. No immediate use for either but I'm sure they will come in handy sometime.

 

 

In fact, I'm off to the garage to find some bolts to cut right now

[beko1987]

Snapped the bolt cutters yet?

[Stanky]

Rolson or no, they'd still cut a snitches fingers off I reckon.

[gm]

managed to cut my finger cutting the cable ties off with a kitchen knife ! fidiot

[DodgeRover]

I have a lovely pair of bolt croppers that stand a full 4 feet tall, they appeared in my back garden one night where I assume they had been thrown to avoid police attention.

[Kiltox]

Those Aldi torx keys are handy.

 

Handles a bit flimsy though.

[worldofceri]

Today was day 2 of Mrs_WOC taking the Audi to work that I impulse-bought last week from DavidB.

 

So far the key has fallen to bits and it's emptied it's coolant expansion tank. I did give the seats a clean though. So, one step forward, two steps back... But Mrs_WOC must still be feeling chipper about it as she sent me this today:

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Someone paid money to make their new Audi look like a T reg one!

Hope the expansion tank is just cracked and it's not an underlying head gasket or head issue.

[richardmorris]

I was passed today on the m6 up near Lancaster by an audi estate with the reg 8200. I was doing 70 and it shot past.

Any ideas where it’s from? Thought they’d been cheeky with b200 but that seems to have been a Wolsey tourer. I think it was RHD. Yellow rear and white front plates. No country identifier ID.

[Angrydicky]

82 OO.

[Mally]

Guernsey?

[worldofceri]

 

[Six-cylinder]

82 OO is a UK 2006 Audi RS4

[Tayne]

Today was day 2 of Mrs_WOC taking the Audi to work that I impulse-bought last week from DavidB.

 

So far the key has fallen to bits and it's emptied it's coolant expansion tank. I did give the seats a clean though. So, one step forward, two steps back... But Mrs_WOC must still be feeling chipper about it as she sent me this today:

 

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Speaking as the owner of Audi which pulls the same trick...

 

I reckon yours is probably fucked.

[wuvvum]

Been having a play with the Y10 today.  First I took some pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoll car is smoll.

 

 

 

Alcantara on the driver's seat is showing slight* signs of wear.

 

 

 

Hidden stereo, just like a Bentley (or a Laguna 2).

 

 

 

Anyone for some warning lights?

 

 

 

Green means go!

 

 

 

Then I had a fiddle with some electrical stuff.  The heater fan proved to be a relatively easy fix - the motor was indeed seized, but when I took it out and turned it over by hand it came unstuck and is now working again.  Interior light was simply missing a bulb, so that was easily sorted, although the driver's door pin switch is dodgy.  The non-functioning horn turned out to be the horn itself which was knackered, so I nicked the one off the LDV (which will be getting an air horn shortly).  Some rewiring was required as the terminals on the LDV horn are tiny, and I also had to find a way of mounting the LDV bracket as the holes in the Lancia's bracket were too small, but all sorted eventually and it now goes beep.  I also treated the car to a new wiper blade as the one on there had had it.

 

Of course it wouldn't be a Lancia if the electrics were all straightforward.  Since fitting the replacement horn the speedo has developed an interesting* trait - as soon as the car starts moving the needle shoots round to 140 and stays there until the ignition is switched off, with the stepper motor whirring away in the dash and the milometer and trip meter spinning over just as quickly.  I'm wondering whether I've somehow managed to disturb the wiring to the speed sensor in the gearbox whilst fitting the horn - the speedo was working fine beforehand, even after I removed the original horn.  I'll have another look tomorrow in daylight, weather permitting - hopefully it's just a loose wire, although if the sensor has shat itself then replacements are available off eBay.  If it's the clocks themselves which have gone wrong then that's more of an issue, although I can't see why they would have - it seems too much of a coincidence that I was buggering about in the vicinity of the gearbox just before it started to play up.

 

I've had a look through the paperwork and this car continues in the long* tradition of my ACA purchases by being smoll, white, unusual and having had far more money spent on it by the previous owner than what I paid for it at auction.  In this case a bill from a Lancia specialist for £2,057.48 in September 2016 for rectifying various faults - water and oil leaks, dodgy brakes, clutch cable, fabrication of a new gear linkage bush and diagnosing a running fault.  Most of the bill was labour - 35.5 hours at £45 + the dreaded per hour.   I also found a bill for an oil change - as suspected, fully synth and probably much too thin for the engine, so I've bought a gallon of nice thick mineral oil and I'm going to do a swap as soon as I get around to it.

 

I had a look underneath while it was up on the ramps and it looks sound enough under there - it's been quite heavily Waxoyled.  There are a couple of bits on the sills which I'll have to keep an eye on (although nothing sounded crunchy when prodded with a finger), and a couple of rubber bushes look like they've seen better days, but overall it's remarkably sound for a 28-year-old Lancia.

 

I'm still quite chuffed with it.  The speedo thing is mildly annoying and I'll have to do something about it (if nothing else, it's making the recorded mileage go up very quickly...) but the remaining issues I can easily live with, and now it's got a properly functioning heater it's a lot more usable - and an enormously fun thing to hoon around the back roads in.

[somewhatfoolish]

I have a lovely pair of bolt croppers that stand a full 4 feet tall, they appeared in my back garden one night where I assume they had been thrown to avoid police attention.

 

Might be an idea to contact the local dibble and ask if they want to fingerprint it.