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[New POD]

10 hours ago, cort16 said:

I think the correct balance is 1 daily and 1 toy. This is something I've never actually managed to maintain but it does get an expensive habit.

 

I'm told by my motorcycling friend that there's a equation 

X = N+1

Where

X = The ideal number of bikes to own

And 

N= The number you currently own.

 

[MikeR]

or

[New POD]

Wife has just phoned me in a bad frame of mind.  She's bored. She can't (apparently) get the car out due to road worx.  

I struggle with knowing what to say. 

 

[MikeR]

tell her to park the car outside our house , the tarmac stripper has been going to day , but when they start laying tarmac it will be worse !

[New POD]

7 minutes ago, MikeR said:

tell her to park the car outside our house , the tarmac stripper has been going to day , but when they start laying tarmac it will be worse !

I can't 

[loserone]

1 hour ago, puddlethumper said:

I've been watching a 305 van on ebay. It's up to £560 with an hour or so 

to go. Thing is I looked at the mot story and it seems it's never had one.

Howz that work ?

It hasn't had one since the records were digitised.

 

It also doesn't have a floor.

[puddlethumper]

^^ I saw it had no floor and didn't bid. When did digi records start ?

[loserone]

Mine goes back to 2006.

[loserone]

Also not bidding ?

[RobT]

As it's a new month I taxed the Metro and used it to run some errands this evening.  Must use it more before summer disappears. 

As usual it started up fine after 2 months laid up,  and whilst out pottering I spotted someone else keeping the British end up.

Parked amongst all the premium bling it was a welcome sight!  Reg date of 1/1/71 so it's an early one too.  I wonder if Trig knows the owner.

[hairnet]

31 minutes ago, RobT said:

 

 

Parked amongst all the premium bling it was a welcome sight!  Reg date of 1/1/71 so it's an early one too.  I wonder if Trig is the owner.

 

[stuboy]

6 hours ago, stuboy said:

Mondeo back for mot retest and fiddle with rear brakes as i not had the time..

Unseize handbrake bits on calipers, supply and fit rear pad, handbrake cables and retest, due to work and health i had to pay protyre to do it £339  inc vat.

 

Bugger .

[Eddie Honda]

4 hours ago, SiC said:

So just under £103 pcm to insure 5 cars fully comp. Or £87pcm to insure 3 moderns.

£103 pcm to insure 5 cars comp? Bugger that.

 

£326 pa multi-car for 7 cars comp.

1969 Regal, 1982 343, 1986 Rialto, 1987 340, 1992 BX, 1996 Jaaag, 1998 306 Cab. 10k miles on pool. 3pts SP30.

[mitsisigma01]

Morning Eddie, who with and are most if not all insured as classics? 

[Lacquer Peel]

Being poor is expensive.

If you choose to run around in a reliable cheap older car insurance is more expensive than insurance for its rubbish post-2004 equivalent.

 

 

[egg]

I drove a Renault 16 last night. It was good. Very good.

Thanks Mr Barrett.

[trigger]

11 hours ago, hairnet said:

Parked amongst all the premium bling it was a welcome sight!  Reg date of 1/1/71 so it's an early one too.  I wonder if Trig is the owner

I wish, it's a purple violet TC! ?.

 

After much soul searching I've decided to try and sell the Ital van, I've known the van 25 years and spent many hours getting it back on the road again but i hardly ever use it as i just don't have the time what with the Marina as well and when i do have time i can't take the family as it obviously doesn't have rear seats and the Marina doesn't have rear belts (Or any way to fit them) so it's getting less and less used, I'm not even sure what it's really worth either as it's not mint but it's very clean and drives well.

 

The plan is to sell it and get something old but with rear seat belts to replace it, trouble is the selection of cars that interest me under £4000 is getting slimmer and slimmer as the years go on now, the other option is to sell the Marina as well and buy something nice with the money from both, maybe a Triumph 2000/2500 but i don't feel ready to sell the Marina... First world problems as all that!

[High Jetter]

Just seen a 6-wheeled CX estate heading into Eastbourne - anyone from on here?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Been looking for a car for daughter no.3  for about 2 months , thing is she's impossible to please and doesn't know what she wants. Sold her Volvo C30 ( for a profit! Why doesn't that happen to me?) after loads of DPF problems , and either wanted a £200 or £5000 replacement.

Found a 57 plate Golf 1.4 on Guntree in Rugby ( about 35 miles away) and it was a piece of shit, repaired to pub and just put nearest cars under a grand  into Aoutotrader...

This was the result 2.0 pez, leather, working a/c 90k miles , stereotype hIrdesser owner for last 5 years- gave £900 for it. That's either a shitload of money for a 16 year old VW or a bargain for what seems like a nice example of a desirable** car.

it only had 2 months test, so ran it in yesterday and it needed a bottle of Cataclean for the emissions, apart from that a clean sheet. So £960 for a reasonable mileage, high spec Beetle convertible- good/bad? I do t know, but she likes it 

[Aston Martin]

I got to my sisters and discovered her Caddy battered.

 

Turns out she had done it. She rang insurance, it'll be "£100 now or wait till it goes back. When you've washed it you won't notice." 

 

Turns out the insurance guy, couldn't be bothered and I think she's leaving it.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, trigger said:

The plan is to sell it and get something old but with rear seat belts to replace it, trouble is the selection of cars that interest me under £4000 is getting slimmer and slimmer as the years go on now, the other option is to sell the Marina as well and buy something nice with the money from both, maybe a Triumph 2000/2500 but i don't feel ready to sell the Marina... First world problems as all that!

My Volvo 164 has rear seat belts - and £3K spent on it would get it looking pretty nice.  #justsaying

[chaseracer]

23 hours ago, egg said:

If autoshite was a car club where we could all rent chod from each other, I'm sure we'd all be a damn sight better off.

That's a terrifyingly plausible idea...

[Slowsilver]

 

3 hours ago, trigger said:

After much soul searching I've decided to try and sell the Ital van, I've known the van 25 years and spent many hours getting it back on the road again but i hardly ever use it as i just don't have the time what with the Marina as well and when i do have time i can't take the family as it obviously doesn't have rear seats and the Marina doesn't have rear belts (Or any way to fit them)

Your Marina should have rear seat belt mountings, so you can retrofit rear belts to it. Can't find the actual year that the rear mountings were made compulsory but it was definitely some time in the 1970s and our Maxi (built in 1977) has them.
If you look under the rear seat squab below the seat back you should find four tapped holes for the bottom mountngs. The top mountings are probably behind the trim on the upper C pillar.
They only provided three mounting points for each belt, meaning that only static ones could be fitted. However it should be possible to fabricate a fourth mounting point for an inertia reel type. We did this on the Maxi using some mounting plates with captive nuts which can be bought quite cheaply  from ebay (search for rally car mountings). You can also fit a centre lap belt between the two centre mountings under the back seat.

Hole drilled in luggage compartment side panel:

Fit mounting plate behind hole (accessed through rear light aperture):

Et voila!

Belts mounted at an angle to clear the folding rear seat back, which folds backwards as well as forwards on a Maxi to form a double bed. Yours could probably be mounted vertically.

The finished installation:

Two four-point inertia reel belts and a centre lap belt. Belts also sourced from ebay. Total cost around £60-70 if I remember correctly.
 

[reb]

One day I'll have an indoor workshop, or at least a covered outdoor workspace.

Today is not that day.

Today's job is to recover the front wiring harness from the 307, a job which is going remarkably well considering the levels of can't be arsed that overcame me this morning. Of course 5 minutes in the sun gave way to biblical rain, hence the above piss poor attempt at shelter. Mostly to keep my back getting soaked, I don't like that, I don't care what else gets wet.

Everything is disconnected and detached from the engine bay, so I came in to make a coffee and a box arrived!

I opened the box, bubble wrap for days!

A turbo charger! How exciting!

It is indeed some sort of mechanism for taking air and turning it into boost!

It cost £13 delivered and is predictably completely shagged. However, it will serve well as a reference for the modifications I need to make to get the bastard thing to clear the engine mount. This may not be as simple as I'd hoped given how the wastegate actuator is mounted. This whole engine mount saga has been an important lesson in checking these sorts of things before charging ahead of myself.

That outlet flange might also be useful, which is a nice bonus.

[egg]

On 8/5/2019 at 1:34 PM, egg said:

If autoshite was a car club where we could all rent chod from each other, I'm sure we'd all be a damn sight better off.

Anyway, proof I'm in glorious East Sussex

I've now found out that the vessel in the background is a 'jack up'  barge having a rest in port between jobs - it's normal role is to help with the foundations of offshore wind towers

https://saltkick.com/Excalibur-Jack-Up-Barge/

[ruffgeezer]

Collected this today as part of a deal from work, any one here bike lickery enough to be able to value/ id it? 

Non runner and no keys sadly.

[wuvvum]

Predecessor to the ZZR600.  If memory serves they handle rather oddly due to 16" wheels (tyres are getting awkward to find these days too).  Quickish in a straight line though.

[reb]

MY SPARE ECU IS FULL OF BABY FUCKING SPIDERS

I hate spiders.

[MikeR]

nearly got the ton !!!

 

[Fumbler]

Went to a breaker's yard in Hereford today. Brilliant visit. Pulled some mirrors off of a Micra so I now have some spares. Loads of Volvo S40s and some Fiat Cinquecentos amongst other things Should have taken photos but wasn't comfortable given the people running the place.