hairnet Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 19 hours ago, brownnova said: The plan is to do the coffee table something like this and put the tax discs under Perspex to protect them. Apparently the old ones (60s & 70s) are too old for the table and need to go in a frame. - Her words not mine. DO AS YER TOLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 I’ve just given the mercedes’ Engine bay a quick wipe and shine ( autoglym engine degreaser stuff and vinyl and rubber cleaner), after the work done. dome, Fumbler, egg and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 ROAD TRIP... Aberdeen to Somerset to look and watch tanks this weekend, so first stop of the night. Inspector Morose, dome, chaseracer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Road trip in an Astra G? Grim Brodders, 17-Coffees and BorniteIdentity 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 There was some sort of tank* thing outside work today. USA with star front tyres and rear tracks, canvas top and flat rear deck with what looked like rocket launchers under a canvas cover. Makes a change from mclarens, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince70 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 It’s the last time I buy anything from GSF as I ordered a set of pads for the rear of the Z3 and when they arrived in the post I received front pads.So when I emailed and phoned them they lied and said I ordered fronts but I had the receipt that categorically said Rear Pads.When that didn’t work I was told that the fronts are the same as the back which they are not so I took photos of the different sizes/specs and part numbers off their own website to then be told to send them back for a refund at my expense with no offer of sending me out the correct parts. richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRi05 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Just had my cheapest insurance quote ever, £278 for the Civic. Almost half my usual price, I'm normally always around the 500 mark. Broadsword, jumpingjehovahs, LightBulbFun and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 3 hours ago, richardmorris said: doing my best Ronin tribute. video vhs or else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 1 minute ago, hairnet said: video vhs or else I can’t video and drive at the same time. I’m not hubnut’s DW! The xm is growing on me, but it’s missing a litre and a manual gearbox from the ronin cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 More Micra saga... Bored today so took it out for a 3 hour drive, all local roads, no fast carriageways. Battery light still on. Upon arrovong back, I noticed the airbag light flashing. Parked up and switched off engine. Tried to switch it back on and it turned over very slowly indicating battery borked again, so it looks like alternator is toast. Back to the garage tomorrow. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 22 hours ago, brownnova said: The plan is to do the coffee table something like this and put the tax discs under Perspex to protect them. Apparently the old ones (60s & 70s) are too old for the table and need to go in a frame. - Her words not mine. I’ve every one for the 2cv - from 1985, and every one for the x1/9 from 1988. All in a nice folder ( for each car). LightBulbFun and brownnova 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 1 hour ago, SiC said: Road trip in an Astra G? Grim You've seen the thread for the car, yes? Grim is an understatement. Latest updates from him is that they're still somewhere north of Preston (the overnight stop) and it keeps putting the EML on and cutting the boost. I bet that's fun*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 16 minutes ago, Supernaut said: You've seen the thread for the car, yes? Grim is an understatement. Latest updates from him is that they're still somewhere north of Preston (the overnight stop) and it keeps putting the EML on and cutting the boost. I bet that's fun*. I haven't. Now I've read the thread it makes you wonder if he's passing the coast at anytime. That way it can be left to get into the sea. Maybe Uphill beach just outside Weston Super Mare? Supernaut and 17-Coffees 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 1 hour ago, richardmorris said: I can’t video and drive at the same time. I’m not hubnut’s DW! The xm is growing on me, but it’s missing a litre and a manual gearbox from the ronin cars. I dunno, from what I remember of my auto xm, if you fucking booted it it went, had many a win at traffic light racing! Had to start off gently then once it was 'off the clitch' Bury your foot! I saw 4mpg once... Still haven't beaten my Marlow to stokenchurch time (after a phonecall from a heavily pregnant Amy with pains). It just held the road and kept itself straight (long sweeping corners). Darednt try and repeat it in the zx, I'll be in a field in no time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 On 9/11/2019 at 7:32 AM, egg said: Yes, my Mazda does a bit of that - ideal* for listening to Test Match Special. The AM radio in my Golf does this but it's so shit that it won't even go down to 198LW. I found an obscure repeating transmitter in London but I live too far out now to get it. So I had to put an aux jack in and use my phone instead. That cost me £35 for the adapter box. But it did mean I got to listen to Stoke's antics in the third test... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 5 hours ago, egg said: Been meaning to pap this for a while, a little serviced pez station (but they only had diesel today) in place called Egerton on a hill near Ashford A couple of doors up is the associated garage It has quite a good view for a Petrol station The whole set-up I used to live a couple of miles away from that one and always enjoyed driving past. Never needed to fill up there, sadly. Good find. Egerton's nice. egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 5 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said: Egerton's nice. It is, they even leave the church unlocked, which is fairly rare in rural Kent these days. I like the WW1 bench too. Vince70, Amishtat, richardmorris and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 1 hour ago, SiC said: I haven't. Now I've read the thread it makes you wonder if he's passing the coast at anytime. That way it can be left to get into the sea. Maybe Uphill beach just outside Weston Super Mare? Blackpool is only 15 miles west from where I am now, but that would mean I’d have to go to Blackpool... It’s grim, but it’s a good grim with character. The car that is, not Blackpool... paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Pretty fair description of Blackpool itself TBH. 17-Coffees and stonedagain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 13 hours ago, 17-Coffees said: Blackpool is only 15 miles west from where I am now, but that would mean I’d have to go to Blackpool... It’s grim, but it’s a good grim with character. The car that is, not Blackpool... 16 minutes ago, Mally said: Pretty fair description of Blackpool itself TBH. One of my colleagues took herself and her family up to Blackpool a few weeks ago for a week's break. This was the first time they had ever visited the place (usually they jet off to exotic places), so I gave them a potted history of the town and its purpose as the place for a good old-fashioned working-class holiday, i.e. don't expect too much. They apparently had a whale of a time, and she is making plans to go back there!!! stonedagain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 On 9/11/2019 at 11:20 PM, brownnova said: Nope, I haven’t ever bought any. All mine are ones I collected when I was a youngster. My 70s ones are all Tractor ones from a friend of my parents farm. Ah ha! I knew I had posted it somewhere on the forum before https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/tax-disc-1971-disabled-exempt-invacar-1545220063 found it again while reading through Eggs Mk12 thread again https://autoshite.com/topic/34488-invacar-mk12-no-v5-yet-happier-with-the-dvla/?do=findComment&comment=1788254 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shedenvy Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Does this count as entrance to the 6-Cylinder club? Just picked up this Ami-6 engine. It turns over but is quite possibly scrap otherwise. The idea is to teach my kids a little about engines while we strip it down & possibly rebuild. if it's any good it can be a spare for my Mum & Dad's 2CV. Can't wait to get 5 mins and some space in the shit tip garage to get cracking. egg and strangeangel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 They look like such wonderfully simple engines to work on. Part of why I'm hoping to get a Dyane or a clean 2cv next year. shedenvy and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MondeoBlues Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 The Mondeo's gone to the great scrap yard in the sky. R.I.P N593 HFC 24th April 1996 - 13th September 2019 adw1977, beko1987, dome and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 What is this? This is by far the most fancy motorway services I’ve been to! (Farmhouse, near Gloucester), Not the overpriced WHS and dodgy food court I’m used to... Yoss and GrumpiusMaximus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 6 minutes ago, 17-Coffees said: What is this? This is by far the most fancy motorway services I’ve been to! (Farmhouse, near Gloucester), Not the overpriced WHS and dodgy food court I’m used to... Maybe not overpriced, but the cake slice prices do rival those of Patisserie Valerie and are not that far off the Japanese patisserie "Wa" here in Ealing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Does the butcher's counter have SVM shaped sausage? If not, hard pass. chaseracer and skattrd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: One of my colleagues took herself and her family up to Blackpool a few weeks ago for a week's break. This was the first time they had ever visited the place (usually they jet off to exotic places), so I gave them a potted history of the town and its purpose as the place for a good old-fashioned working-class holiday, i.e. don't expect too much. They apparently had a whale of a time, and she is making plans to go back there!!! The only I know who stay in Blackpool do so they fancy a change from Prestatyn Tadhg Tiogar and stonedagain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: One of my colleagues took herself and her family up to Blackpool a few weeks ago for a week's break. This was the first time they had ever visited the place (usually they jet off to exotic places), so I gave them a potted history of the town and its purpose as the place for a good old-fashioned working-class holiday, i.e. don't expect too much. They apparently had a whale of a time, and she is making plans to go back there!!! I spend the odd weekend there, have done for 65 years or more. Mainly working class as you say. Very run down in places. Prom is nice now on a sunny day. They often have to move a new Jag or Range Rover to let me off the car park though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 13 minutes ago, andy18s said: The only I know who stay in Blackpool do so they fancy a change from Prestatyn .....which itself is a slight improvement* on Rhyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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