dollywobbler Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Spent over four hours putting even more miles on the Matiz today. Gosh it needs a turbo... All the driving was so I could drive TWO Marinas. So, it's been a pretty good day in other words. Not that it's helped the Fox project at all... HarmonicCheeseburger, LightBulbFun, trigger and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 On 6/11/2019 at 5:54 AM, NorfolkNWeigh said: That 2.3 Ghia is lovely, I don't think I've ever seen a Ghia in that colour , most of them were metallics or white. +1, looks like Olympic blue, had a Mk2 Capri that colour. Today it was time to investigate why the Galaxy is still getting water in the footwells. The roof lining has been dripping recently, quite badly as it happens. Internet search suggested the obvious (sun roof channels) so took the door seal and driver's sun visor off, peeled back the head lining and removed the inner wing splash guard. Pulled the channel off the sunroof, got absolutely soaked as all that built up water was suddenly free. Shoved some hard, plastic pipe down it, wouldn't go all the way, so did same from bottom (via inner wing) which was horribly clogged up. Drove up to the nearest garage, borrowed their air line and blew it clear. Put it all back together, it'll probably piss down tonight and the foot well will probably be full of water again, knowing my luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 A few weeks ago I joined the 21st century and bought this Volvo S60. It's a 2.0 pez T S auto with 180bhp, and looks faster than it is. Although it has plenty enough go for me. The 5 cylinder engine also has a nice hum to it when either mooching or hoofing up a motorway slip road. The beige interior sold it to me, even if it is leather. I've always wanted to try one again after having a hire car back when they were current, and this one seems to have aged well. Quite literally a FSH, albeit the intervals seem a bit long, and four flippin' Michelin CrossClimates (which need swapping around as the fronts are 2mm down on the rears). The lad who owned it seemed quite particular about his cars, and had the tracking done every year on top of other jobs. I can see why as it does seem to follow the camber of the road, plus the steering wheel is slightly on the piss, so it might need doing again.. He said it was a lot worse on the previous Pirellis. Being on 225/45s the ride is too twitchy for my liking, so given the choice I'd have something with an actual sidewall. But you can't be too choosy in sub-£500 land! It's a working vehicle which is the main thing. Obviously it's got some issues, the main one being a noisy near side strut top. The noise is intermittent and not too hideous so I'm hoping it's early stages. I'm also wondering if the twitchy ride is partly down to knackered struts, but I can see a cheap car becoming expensive so I'm planning to do the strut top myself. Just wondering if it's ill-advised though considering I've got to use spring compressors...never used them before. Despite possible strut top doom I took it to Norfolk last weekend, fully laden with four people plus luggage, and it was comfortable and returned 34mpg overall. After initial thoughts of 'meh it's a modern' I must admit it's growing on me. DVee8, Bucketeer, HMC and 24 others 26 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 My memory card went corrupt, so the only non-Stellar-shoot photo that survives is this one. SIC in his lovely MGB. I'd pulled the Stellar shots off the card, but not the 'other' shots. Thankfully, I'd pulled all the video files off too. stonedagain, RayMK, RobT and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 3 hours ago, dollywobbler said: Spent over four hours putting even more miles on the Matiz today. Gosh it needs a turbo... All the driving was so I could drive TWO Marinas. So, it's been a pretty good day in other words. Not that it's helped the Fox project at all... can you bodge on a small super charger instead so you can pretend to be a teeny tiny muscle car? The Moog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbenn Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 1 hour ago, RobT said: I've had serious wants for an S60 for ages now. Looks great! RobT and shoddybanger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 ^ Great pic! VOLVO DRIVER cover shot material. RobT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Rightly or wrongly at launch the sleek\ low roofline and glasshouse on the familiar corporate Volvo styling of the time put me in mind of the 262C RobT and mitsisigma01 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 3 hours ago, dollywobbler said: My memory card went corrupt, so the only non-Stellar-shoot photo that survives is this one. SIC in his lovely MGB. I'd pulled the Stellar shots off the card, but not the 'other' shots. Thankfully, I'd pulled all the video files off too. It only looks lovely as you're far enough away for the camera not to pickup the areas where the paint is falling off! One trick our wedding photographer (who also did a lot of commercial work too) did is have small memory cards but lots of them. That way, the photographer is forced to change them over more often thus reducing chances of loosing a large proportion of a days work. Neat idea I thought. Also pretty sure the car is cursed and the only reason it did the trip uneventfully was because of several cars reliability for the journey home (and your memory cards) being the bloodletting sacrifice. dollywobbler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 1 hour ago, HMC said: Rightly or wrongly at launch the sleek\ low roofline and glasshouse on the familiar corporate Volvo styling of the time put me in mind of the 262C I've always preferred it over the S80, which IMO looks staid in comparison. Rear passenger space isn't great in the S60, but I'm sure some of that is due to the boot being massive instead. The indicator switch was being a bit weird when I bought it, so was expecting some massive faff to remove the stalk. But it was dead easy, and some contact cleaner fixed the issue. Also changing a dipped bulb was a 2 minute job, which is good as blown bulbs are a regular thing on these apparently. Bucketeer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnK Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Had a message last week from a mate of mine who had decided he didnt need 3 practically identical cars. We had already determined one was a breaker to keep the other 2 on the road, but he still wanted to move one on Almost 2 years to the day I bought my beloved Nissan Maxima from him and he has been keen to have it back. I reluctantly agreed and was given a choice of which car I wanted from him and a deal was struck. Changeover occured tonight, the replacement is a very early model for these, 1982 X plate with a genuine 35k on the clock. I have one previous experience with these cars and that is with the one that is well known on this forum and unfortunately is the aforementioned breaker. I am undeniably happy with my new transport! Not without issue though! The Maxima developed a binding caliper on the outbound journey so I returned to the unit to resolve that and then the Stanza wouldnt start when I got there. Quickly diagnosed as a faulty dizzy cap, brand new cap was in my mates stock so I soon had her fired up. Got absolutely drenched though in the process with this awful weather. blakey79, Vince70, Sigmund Fraud and 20 others 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 There's a Stanza grimly hanging on near Cricklewood / Neasden; nowhere near as clean as yours! JohnK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex66 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 11 hours ago, dollywobbler said: My memory card went corrupt, so the only non-Stellar-shoot photo that survives is this one. SIC in his lovely MGB. I'd pulled the Stellar shots off the card, but not the 'other' shots. Thankfully, I'd pulled all the video files off too. Have you looked at recovery software? there are a good few free ones that supposedly do the job well. I don't reuse memory cards anymore a 16gig decent one is less than a fiver off Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 7 hours ago, JohnK said: Had a message last week from a mate of mine who had decided he didnt need 3 practically identical cars. We had already determined one was a breaker to keep the other 2 on the road, but he still wanted to move one on Almost 2 years to the day I bought my beloved Nissan Maxima from him and he has been keen to have it back. I reluctantly agreed and was given a choice of which car I wanted from him and a deal was struck. Changeover occured tonight, the replacement is a very early model for these, 1982 X plate with a genuine 35k on the clock. I have one previous experience with these cars and that is with the one that is well known on this forum and unfortunately is the aforementioned breaker. I am undeniably happy with my new transport! Not without issue though! The Maxima developed a binding caliper on the outbound journey so I returned to the unit to resolve that and then the Stanza wouldnt start when I got there. Quickly diagnosed as a faulty dizzy cap, brand new cap was in my mates stock so I soon had her fired up. Got absolutely drenched though in the process with this awful weather. Blimey haven’t seen a Stanza in ages!! JohnK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SierraMikeHotel Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Have you looked at recovery software? there are a good few free ones that supposedly do the job well. I don't reuse memory cards anymore a 16gig decent one is less than a fiver off Amazon. I did that years ago (can't remember what the software was called now). It came up with a load of wedding photos with people I didn't know, so the "new" cheap memory card I'd bought clearly wasn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Alex66 said: Have you looked at recovery software? there are a good few free ones that supposedly do the job well. I don't reuse memory cards anymore a 16gig decent one is less than a fiver off Amazon. I shoot video. I need big cards and I will reuse them. Amazingly, in the whole time I've been running the channel, using nothing more than the internal memory of my phones, I've not yet lost any files... (clutching at timber at this point!). This was a cheapy 64GB card that came with the camera. Have ordered two decent replacements, so I'll demote the cheap card to emergency emergency duty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5speedracer Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Apparently there is a book coming out to celebrate the 50th of The Italian Job. Writer found the receipts for the Minis with original Reg numbers which were then sold on. Some might still be out there.Sent from my Redmi 4 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I've never had a card corrupt on me. Have formatted one by accident once though, and had to re shoot 3 videos which was a pain in the arse. I tend to dump them after each video though, or every session if there's a few. I'm using my phone more and more now though, embracing 4k so don't need my camera or sd card as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 205 being prepares for it return to the North, away from the high temperatures and endless sunshine of the south! Anybody want an unused pot of suntan cream cluttering up my cupboard! mrdelmonti, shoddybanger, Bucketeer and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 12 hours ago, JohnK said: Had a message last week from a mate of mine who had decided he didnt need 3 practically identical cars. We had already determined one was a breaker to keep the other 2 on the road, but he still wanted to move one on Almost 2 years to the day I bought my beloved Nissan Maxima from him and he has been keen to have it back. I reluctantly agreed and was given a choice of which car I wanted from him and a deal was struck. Changeover occured tonight, the replacement is a very early model for these, 1982 X plate with a genuine 35k on the clock. I have one previous experience with these cars and that is with the one that is well known on this forum and unfortunately is the aforementioned breaker. I am undeniably happy with my new transport! Not without issue though! The Maxima developed a binding caliper on the outbound journey so I returned to the unit to resolve that and then the Stanza wouldnt start when I got there. Quickly diagnosed as a faulty dizzy cap, brand new cap was in my mates stock so I soon had her fired up. Got absolutely drenched though in the process with this awful weather. Does nipper approve of dad's funny new old car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnK Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 7 minutes ago, dozeydustman said: Does nipper approve of dad's funny new old car? Nipper in the front was more than happy with it, as was the eldest who was sat in the back, rather confused that the car doesn't have seatbelts in there! The eldest was also unhappy as he has to sit in the back, he usually sits in the front passenger seats but legally he is allowed to travel on the back seats of a car built without seatbelts as he is over 3, the youngest is only 2 so has to be in the front with a child seat secured by the belt. Don't have this problem with the E23 as it has rear belts fitted as standard and both Talbots & Cortina are currently in storage ! loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoddybanger Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 What a beautiful Stanza! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucketeer Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said: 205 being prepares for it return to the North, away from the high temperatures and endless sunshine of the south! Anybody want an unused pot of suntan cream cluttering up my cupboard! I was doing some archeological adventuring through the many layers and decades worth of grime on the dashboard. It's looking better now but I reckon it needs a vat of Jif and a belt sander to get it properly clean. Six-cylinder, The Moog, RobT and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I hope that grime isn't structural, brittle French plastics and all... paulplom, BorniteIdentity, Six-cylinder and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I was under the weather at the weekend and ended up winning bidder on this. BorniteIdentity, RobT, scdan4 and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 This find in UPullit really made me smile. The Moog and clayts450 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 41 minutes ago, holbeck said: I was under the weather at the weekend and ended up winning bidder on this. Same as my Roffle win car enjoy! Floatylight, dome, Bucketeer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skattrd Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 43 minutes ago, holbeck said: I was under the weather at the weekend and ended up winning bidder on this. I'm also currently at home a little unwell and am trying not to bid on anything, as we all know that buying cars makes you feel better. The Moog, Six-cylinder and holbeck 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Been nibbling on the steering wheel? Bucketeer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Much envy for Rob’s trip to SunnyHunny in a luxury Volvo and Trigger’s new place in Ipswich. The old A12 is quieter than a lot of ‘abandoned’ roads and I’m actually fond of it. I love this places that just get left behind when progress* happens. As for me? New job going exceptionally well. Really enjoying and relishing a new challenge. Sadly I am too busy for buggering around with cars atm. Mercedes having to go to a garage just for stuff I could probably tackle if I had time - but the Mini is still being an absolute trooper; taking me on weekend japes to cricket, footie and summer gigs and parties. Hope everyone’s ok? (I’ll find out when I read the grumpy thread next!!) Brodders, wuvvum, paulplom and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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