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[wuvvum]

They did a 660cc Pajero in Japan.

[00833827]

Yes its 1100 - the junior

The 660 was the mini and both were for the japanese market. They then did the 1800cc pinin which was sold everywhere else subsequently 

[loserone]

Is it just me or does it look like a jimney with stick on arches?

 

Neat.

[Fumbler]

EU capitals are phasing in a complete ban on below Euro 3 engined cars. Not that it will be a problem here for now, but Bucharest has already placed this ban into effect. If anyone's looking to buy some Romanian chod for a good price now would be a good time before they are turned into white goods. In fact, owners of violating cars will be given a £150 compensation voucher to buy a new fridge or washing machine, so that's interesting!

[richardmorris]

Warning, not car related. But a bargain if you win the ballot. £99 for a £7500 bottle of whisky. 

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/20thanniversary/ballot?utm_source=mailjet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ardbeg-1976-managers-choice-ballot-twe-2019-09-05

[RayMK]

The Tipo's sticking clutch pedal put on a repeat performance with my son driving last weekend.  It stuck 4 times in 15 miles.  I decided to investigate further on Monday but could not get it to stick again so just squirted some oil at all pivots and the return spring in the hope that the problem will go away.  The clutch itself is working fine.  So far, no recurrence and I've enjoyed at least 100 miles of Tipoing this week so far.  

I still have not generated enough enthusiasm to fit an electric fuel pump to my Reliant.  It will be a fiddly under the car job, something I'm no longer suited to.  Nevertheless, today after a struggle to get in, I sat in it.  Must remember to park it in the garage better next time so that the door can be opened further.  It fired up without difficulty.  I'll rephrase that....It started without difficulty and I let it run until thoroughly warm, made sure everything was still working, then switched off.  Really must try to sort it out this year so that I can have a longer drive and regain confidence in its reliability.

Have not touched my Peugeot moped either since discovering that me ever riding it again is unlikely. I need to take the carb off, clean it and see if it will then start.  Probably 30 minutes work.  It's on my list of things to do ..........has been for 20 years.  The lack of tangible progress is the reason for my fleet not having its own thread.    

[brownnova]

Today was supposed to be collection day of purchase number 2... but the seller contacted to say the garage who were supposed to have MoTd it earlier this week still hadn’t.... grrr.... 

Collection postponed, but hopefully only until tomorrow. 

Fingers crossed it’ll be ready for the Cannock run! 

Purchase 1 needs a trailer/a-frame to collect which I don’t have. I’m working on finding a solution. 

[xtriple]

Aftermarket turbo wastegate I bought a couple of days ago turned up, looked good to me so I posted it on to Kyle (my son whose birthday it is for, end of the month) and then, I had a serious brain fart and bought him the garage shelving units and a heavy duty workbench that he wanted. Spent a lot more on the little (actually not so little at all!) sod than I intended but, it is for his garage he has just had built (30 foot long by 12 wide - good lad, priorities   ) and I love the fact he is really into cars. When he was a kid he hated anything old (by old I mean older than about 3 years!) and had zero interest in cars. When he was a teeneager he helped me a few times - from choice I might add - and when we got into autotests and such he used to enjoy stripping cars down with his mate next door. But that was it.

Over the last few years he has really changed attitudes and now loves old shit and while he could afford a new car (I think) he prefers his XJ8 and old MR2 Turbo to anything newer. Maybe it helps that he works for a car company as a pre production design engineer so sees what goes on with new stuff   

[taxi paul]

Foster childs new tutor turned up yesterday to meet her. She has a x reg escort. Her husband drives a Chevette.  She was all over my vectra . The social worker with her , driving a lease BMW in mass white. Just didn't understand.  The vectra ABS light comes on now and again, will investigate one day. I think there may be a blow from the exhaust. Parked the big bus up and pressed the vectra into daily service. It's been parked since its mot and service in may so it's a bit creaky and rattly over bumps . Sure it will settle down. 

[dollywobbler]

Just in case there wasn't enough Invacar stuff floating around at the moment. Convoy tomorrow!

 

[xtriple]

I just did a 'first' I ordered number plates online. Not terribly exciting to be honest but it gets me up in a morning... not that I've actually been to sleep or anything.

Fancyplates, and they will have a border and a nice Mercedes badge instead of an EU circle thing. Sad I know... Ordered them late last night (this morning, early) and just had an e-mail to say they are dispatched and have been collected by... DPD!

[xtriple]

Postie has just been (new guy called Simon, old guy disappeared suddenly half way through his round and hasn't been back so I am informed!) and the one piece of post was all the way from bloody China! I thought it was coming from London as that's what it said on the eBay advert... Anyway, the packet contained a new key cover for the Merc as the current key has cracked on the lock button (and the spare is brand new and I, being me, don't want to use that and make it, not new. Weird fucker...) as that's what I bought. Hold on, there;s something else... another new key cover! Yep, two for the price of one. Bound to be rubbish... no, looks good, fits perfectly and works spot on just missing the MB roundel thing on the back but I can get a new badge if I'm that bothered (you can bet I am or will be!) and I have a spare.

If I have a spare new key case for a Merc does that mean I have to buy another car? If I do, what's the betting the key will be perfect/different/missing entirely?

 

Edit: Just ordered a Mercedes badge for the rear of the new key case. How bloody sad....

[Spurious]

Drop shipping is quite common on eBay, the dead giveaway is item location is usually somewhere generic like "London, UK". Fair enough there's someone maybe in London but all they do is order what you want off Alibaba or some Asian supplier and use your address as the shipping address. They usually have a bit of a mark up and don't do any product or package handling. Sneaky, but if there's a way to make money people will do it.

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[SiC]

Just had a call from our estate agents. 

For the second time (and three buyers) our chain has broken. 

FOR FUCKING FUCK SAKE

I held off submitting the mortgage application just incase something like this happened. Yesterday it all seemed like it was going well and so I submitted it...

ARGHhhhhhhh

[egg]

We had 3 buyers pull out on on sale 5 years ago - the fourth came good...total pain in the posterior.

[hpi_matrix]

On 9/4/2019 at 8:10 PM, 00833827 said:

So since my corolla kinda died and i had the over heating carina e sent to africa and the townace van moved on also, I got this today. 1 months test and over 6 months tax on it. Located a 5 min walk from my house so no collection thread business. 

Its a Mitsubishi Pajero junior JDM and all that jazz. No rust as is generally the way here on old things. 1.1 pez, 4x4 works well. Stereo doesnt and it smells like a pack of dogs smoked a pack of cigs in it but there ya go. Tail gate wont open either and glove box catch is broken. I think literaly every thing else is working which is some going for 23 years and nearly 300000 km. Body work is very clean. 

There are are a couple near me bring broken right now so i hope to pick up what ever i need easily enough.

Are these permanent 4 wheel drive or no centre diff?

[LightBulbFun]

5 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

Just in case there wasn't enough Invacar stuff floating around at the moment. Convoy tomorrow!

 

 

ohh very nice to see the 2 together  

is MHJs "Invacar" badge screwed or riveted on?

(I noticed the badge on REV is screwed on, not something I have seen before i dont think, but I do realise I dont have many close up of Invacar Model 70 "Invacar" badges for me to compare with!)

[00833827]

1 hour ago, hpi_matrix said:

Are these permanent 4 wheel drive or no centre diff?

not permanent 4x4 - rear wheel drive then low 4x4 and high 4x4. properly little off roader she is.

[Vince70]

I went to tax the Z3 only to find the mot was out plus I wasn’t happy with the mismatch  Chinese tyres it’s had on the rear since I bought it about 5 years ago lol.

So a new set of Avon’s have now been fitted on the rears which has transformed the handling and it went through the ticket with advisories on brakes and have ordered a new set of discs and pads for the four corners.

The good thing is having a 23 year old BMW is that the parts are dirt cheap as lots of parts are languishing on dusty shelves, so a pair of front disks were £20 and the rear disks £10 courtesy of Amazon (pads £5 per axle via eBay)and that includes delivery.

 

[HMC]

^ Best colour, and a very early one - thought the earliest were R platers?

[Split_Pin]

Dealt with the rust in the Audi's front arches over the past couple of days.

All the corrosion was just surface rust and thankfully there were not holes or rot.

Sanded it back to bare metal with my trusty bandfile.

Treated the whole area with Vactan:

Hammerite:

And then some top coat:

The job's a five footer but so is the rest of the car so I'm happy and it's better than rust.

[SRi05]

Looks good to me !

[dome]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Dealt with the rust in the Audi's front arches over the past couple of days.

All the corrosion was just surface rust and thankfully there were not holes or rot.

Sanded it back to bare metal with my trusty bandfile.

Treated the whole area with Vactan:

Hammerite:

And then some top coat:

The job's a five footer but so is the rest of the car so I'm happy and it's better than rust.

That looks ace. Kudos for getting stuck into it, bodywork gives me THE FEAR

[Jazoli]

Ooh that is nice, I might be tempted when you sell it in a week or two.

[hairnet]

perv

you too split pin

[shedenvy]

Just sold the Golf to a dealer who contacted via Gumtree. It went for £275 in the end with no haggling. I should think so too - the guy turned up in an Aston Martin DB7 of all things!

Frankly I don't give a damn, I was sick of the sight of the bloody thing.

[taxi paul]

Very nice. Goes away to price rail tickets to birmingham and polish part ex vectra. 

[shedenvy]

On 9/4/2019 at 7:59 PM, holbeck said:

Schoolboy error alert. 

1 hour before going to work I decided to change the alternator belt on the C15.

I once tried changing a diesel fuel filter in my lunch break on a 1.8 lynx focus...

No lift pump or priming bulb on them. Took literally days to get it started.

[wuvvum]

The more I drove the MG Express over the last week or so, the more I became convinced that the loss of power was due to a dodgy MAF rather than a boost issue - the power delivery was slightly irregular and it just felt a bit odd, rather than just gutless.  So yesterday I ordered a cheapo pattern MAF off of eBay.  To my surprise it turned up today, so I fitted it when I got home from work, then took it for a spin armed with my 0-60 app.

That's a bit more like it...

[Vince70]

16 hours ago, HMC said:

^ Best colour, and a very early one - thought the earliest were R platers?

I think it was on the first boat over from America and is very early  right hand drive.

The only difference with mine and the slightly newer R plate ones is you can’t fit roll over hoops on mine as it won’t have the brackets welded in for retrofitting hoops but luckily I’m quite short lol.