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5 minutes ago, 320touring said:

As if my day couldn't get it any better..

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This thing shat a rear wheelbearing.

Luckily about 1.2 miles from home. I walked back and got the GSA + tools.

You can tell it's fucked as they usually come off by hand.

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This is suboptimal

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All the bearings have escaped and the casing is in two bits.

 

I had a spare disc so swapped that on. Couldn't get the pad carrier to line up properly, and couldn't be arsed fiddling with it whilst lying on the main road, so it got limped home at 20mph.

 

It's sitting outside awaiting the work. Now I need to order parts.

 

It managed 2.5k after a full suspension and brake rebuild before fucking up. A whole 3.5 months.

 

Just lucky it never let go on way to/back from Swansea.

That bearing is proper fucked! Did it not announce its departure beforehand? You would think it would be squealing like a pig.

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Just now, Tamworthbay said:

That bearing is proper fucked! Did it not announce its departure beforehand? You would think it would be squealing like a pig.

The bird said to me yesterday "The Clio is making a noise"

Then this happened 4 miles later, just after I had diagnosed the "wub wub wub" as a dying wheelbearing.

It went from wubbing to wheel locked in about 30ft, and I limped it into that inshot to change the bearing.

 

A lucky escape

 

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Just now, 320touring said:

The bird said to me yesterday "The Clio is making a noise"

Then this happened 4 miles later, just after I had diagnosed the "wub wub wub" as a dying wheelbearing.

It went from wubbing to wheel locked in about 30ft, and I limped it into that inshot to change the bearing.

 

A lucky escape

 

At least it wasn’t when your missus was flying along, lucky escape indeed. They heat up seriously quick when they finally go. The one on my old MGB GT managed to burn some of the paint off the wheel and was sat smoking when I got out of the car. That was squealing for a couple of miles but I thought I could limp it back, I was wrong.

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The bird said to me yesterday "The Clio is making a noise"
Then this happened 4 miles later, just after I had diagnosed the "wub wub wub" as a dying wheelbearing.
It went from wubbing to wheel locked in about 30ft, and I limped it into that inshot to change the bearing.
 
A lucky escape
 
Bloody hell...

Loads of times I've put off a dying wheel bearing for another week.

I've not had one announce its departure since I moved from rural Ireland, just goes to show that bad roads reduce their life massively.

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Today was a two car meet kind of day!!

Local Classic car place’s charity coffee morning and a local small annual show were both visited by Daisy today. 

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This 820 particularly caught my eye... look at the wheel trims!!! C950F571-6B8B-4BE5-B081-26FE45381CA2.jpeg2FBA9EEF-4748-4515-B8C3-5F97210CA8B4.jpeg8A3FF448-34B8-45F5-A516-A5028E5ED9F0.jpeg

About 6 years ago I used to own this Midget! 659AA9CC-88F1-4AE9-9291-BE90D35A7CC6.jpeg

And then the Retro Works show at Brymbo Plas Power Colliary site.

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This Wolseley was a special kind of Shonky... so shonky it was pouring power out of the front. 975B2EC9-B066-467A-9756-4639A7F9C185.jpeg6A0EDB8C-C1DA-4896-AE4C-FE1ED2F6D2FE.jpeg

Wasnt convinced how much it should’ve been on the road frankly looking at the rot... but MoT exempt so... 

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I got to park next to a 2CV race car!!! 03730D35-FB22-497A-8A9E-2439BACAD8C9.jpeg1523702F-4C5A-410D-8F01-BD066E750370.jpeg

All road legal, I was lucky enough that the owner (who is a mate of mine) let me have a little go! So so much fun!! 959DAEBD-B0DA-4B24-925D-930B9C3311DA.jpeg

Best of all is that the 2CV ran perfectly throughout!! 

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35 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Today was a two car meet kind of day!!

Local Classic car place’s charity coffee morning and a local small annual show were both visited by Daisy today. 

Coffee morning...0C1F569B-5EFC-4D9A-83C0-6395A4854133.jpeg1E9AF03A-01DC-41C5-9810-822FF9F0B000.jpeg73113CB3-AFE0-40D5-8362-AF3C45297B7B.jpeg

This 820 particularly caught my eye... look at the wheel trims!!! C950F571-6B8B-4BE5-B081-26FE45381CA2.jpeg2FBA9EEF-4748-4515-B8C3-5F97210CA8B4.jpeg8A3FF448-34B8-45F5-A516-A5028E5ED9F0.jpeg

About 6 years ago I used to own this Midget! 659AA9CC-88F1-4AE9-9291-BE90D35A7CC6.jpeg

And then the Retro Works show at Brymbo Plas Power Colliary site.

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This Wolseley was a special kind of Shonky... so shonky it was pouring power out of the front. 975B2EC9-B066-467A-9756-4639A7F9C185.jpeg6A0EDB8C-C1DA-4896-AE4C-FE1ED2F6D2FE.jpeg

Wasnt convinced how much it should’ve been on the road frankly looking at the rot... but MoT exempt so... 

732CD68D-32B9-4465-AC5C-EABFE672B948.jpeg

I got to park next to a 2CV race car!!! 03730D35-FB22-497A-8A9E-2439BACAD8C9.jpeg1523702F-4C5A-410D-8F01-BD066E750370.jpeg

All road legal, I was lucky enough that the owner (who is a mate of mine) let me have a little go! So so much fun!! 959DAEBD-B0DA-4B24-925D-930B9C3311DA.jpeg

Best of all is that the 2CV ran perfectly throughout!! 

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I didn't know that there was a show at Brymbo. My dad would have taken the fiat if he’d known. My step grandfather used to work at the steelworks.

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1 hour ago, 320touring said:

The bird said to me yesterday "The Clio is making a noise"

Then this happened 4 miles later, just after I had diagnosed the "wub wub wub" as a dying wheelbearing.

It went from wubbing to wheel locked in about 30ft, and I limped it into that inshot to change the bearing.

 

A lucky escape

 

My first car, a white Peugeot 306 XUD, shat a rear wheel bearing rather spectacularly.

I limped it to my friend's garage. I knew it was driving funny so I kept it to 20mph max. When we jacked it up we found scrape marks on the inner arch from the tyre... The wheel (and drum) moved around so much I thought the wheel bolts were loose even though they were still torqued up!

The rear drum took no effort to remove either, the bearing had completely exploded so the drum just fell off after undoing the centre nut.

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On 9/13/2019 at 6:24 PM, chancer said:

Ooft! I was just thinking last night how id love to rock a senator for a bit. Calling dibs

Funnily enough, something else has come up for sale that I tried to buy a few weeks ago and couldn't get hold of the seller until today. The Senator owes me £900, you can have it for that if you like?

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6 hours ago, reb said:

One of my managers got clocked at 80 in a 30 last night. Then when he saw blue lights behind him decided the thing to do was put his foot down on his brand new 1.4 Corsa. It took an impressive amount of distance for them to catch him so I can only assume they weren't really trying very hard. He's been driving for exactly two years and a day, I suspect possibly not for much longer. By the time I'd been driving that long I'd settled comfortably into Volvo ownership, none of this evading police nonsense.

I wanted to put this in the grin thread, but it felt a bit cruel even though 80 in a 30 is the sort of thing that absolutely deserves removal of driving rights.

Driving into a car park full of people so fast that your tyres screech and some or more people have to tell you to slow down isn't great either though man ;)

Just saying.

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3 hours ago, DVee8 said:

MOT,major service,new tyres and front brakes this morning.

Clean pass no advisories,pleased with this.

Last year it went to the Nissan main dealer as i was planning in keeping the main dealer service history ,but due to the piss poor service I received.

I put it into my mates place.A major service,new pads and the MOT came in at £200 less than last years mainstealers.

Here is a photo of the air filter that the main dealer,"changed last year" yeah !! that i was charged for..

 

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The air filter and pollen filter I had supposedly changed in my company focus last year looked even worse than that. Despite main stealer saying it had been replaced and charged for them. Ended up causing car to repeatedly going into limp home mode. The lease company got involved and went fucking apeshite. My employee and lease company ended up getting compensation and full refunds from the dealer.

Take your car to Trust Ford in Bristol at your own risk!

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33 minutes ago, DodgyBastard said:

Funnily enough, something else has come up for sale that I tried to buy a few weeks ago and couldn't get hold of the seller until today. The Senator owes me £900, you can have it for that if you like?

Cheers mate, but i didnt think you would be offloading it so soon. Got a couple here i need to get rid of first. Appreciate the offer tho. Bad timing as always ?

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On 9/11/2019 at 10:42 PM, loserone said:

Put the bloody roof down man, it's not cold and I bet the heater is like a furnace anyway.

 

Should be a pleasant drive down in that, I hope you're bringing it back too! 

Time for a quick update on the Saab’s progress towards Barcelona.

The roof came down when the rain stopped- Mrs T says rain makes the hair go frizzy. Heater is indeed very toasty. Made good use of it today leaving Barcelona in the mist and again climbing up into Andorra. Didn’t need it between times at the temperature was close to 30C. So - two days topless motoring behind us.

We missed the rain today - that was lucky as it takes a while to put the roof up. Hopefully will reach Barcelona tomorrow pm.

Turns out the Saab is extremely under decorated- we appear to have forgotten to add a gun turret / rocket boosters that other cars have. In fact we only have the 2 stickers we were sent. Must try harder. 

Are we bringing it back ? Probably. Won’t tempt fate though. And if we do it will be a long drive on Monday. Car has behaved so well though it deserves not to be crushed.

 

 

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4 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

that Wolseley is so special it's an Austin!

I could’ve sworn I saw a Wolseley badge on the bonnet.... my bad! 

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I didn't know that there was a show at Brymbo. My dad would have taken the fiat if he’d known. My step grandfather used to work at the steelworks.

Yeah, I think it’s the second year they’ve held it. It’s mainly been advertised via Facebook. It had grown from last year apparently. 

2 hours ago, adw1977 said:

Just badged 820, which I believe makes it the O series engined base model.

O series - spot on. The owner was surprised that I knew that! Produced for around 18 months for the fleet market. Not many survivors. The owner also told me that the white one that @dollywobbler had is going strong as it’s owned by a friend of his. 

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If you want to stop it, you need to put the seeds in an old biscuit tin or similar.  Most rodents won't bother gnawing through a tin but will go through wooden or plastic containers.  The plastic bag and being up high is no obstacle at all, your lovely rack of tools is a perfect rodent ladder.  I'd vote mice too, they don't always leave droppings where they collect and eat the food.  For the sake of your car's wiring and interior, I'd be moving the seeds elsewhere completely.
Mate had a Boxster written off by a mouse grtting in to it during winter hibernation, car not mouse. Could've needed a complete loom but they couldn't tell without takinh the loom out. Catch 22ish.

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Time for a quick update on the Saab’s progress towards Barcelona.
The roof came down when the rain stopped- Mrs T says rain makes the hair go frizzy. Heater is indeed very toasty. Made good use of it today leaving Barcelona in the mist and again climbing up into Andorra. Didn’t need it between times at the temperature was close to 30C. So - two days topless motoring behind us.
We missed the rain today - that was lucky as it takes a while to put the roof up. Hopefully will reach Barcelona tomorrow pm.
Turns out the Saab is extremely under decorated- we appear to have forgotten to add a gun turret / rocket boosters that other cars have. In fact we only have the 2 stickers we were sent. Must try harder. 
Are we bringing it back ? Probably. Won’t tempt fate though. And if we do it will be a long drive on Monday. Car has behaved so well though it deserves not to be crushed.
 
 
Were you heading out of Aylesbury on Thursday morning, saw loads of well decorated cars coming towards me, I'll have a look for you in the dash can footage...

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Not us. We left Horsham on Wednesday. Other teams would have left early on Thursday - some had a really long drive to get to Roeun for Thursday evening registration. And then was another long drive to Barcelona on Friday. Yesterday was more fun. Fantastic scenery and Pau was a lovely place to have lunch. Strain is showing on or two cars. 

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12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

About 6 years ago I used to own this Midget! 

Do you mention this if the owner is about?

I'm more likely to keep quiet unless they get all "So are YOU the prick who welded a lump of old washing machine over the sill?" and "Who the F*** rewired the indicators all in red wire?!"

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Thankfully I don’t think I did any outrageous bodges on this one.... 

Although I had a Dolomite once which I bought with a Frankenstein cooling system. The next owner contacted me to explain it one day. I had no clue either it was the guy before me’s fault! 

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Drove over to bradford yesterday. Went to look at a toyota verso. Up for five grand. Got out of car looked at it and got instinct said walk away. But dealer was there so being polite had a look. Four mismatched part worms, gear leaver worn out, pedal rubbers worn, plastic by rear seats worn, nice and grubby inside. Dealer couldn't tell me where it came from, didn't know if it had any history. Tells me it doesn't need a service , how without history he knew maybe physic.  So is m polite and ask him how much he may give me for my jap bus. I went there because he is an importer of jap stuff and has about 50 cars on his lot. Well he goes on to tell me its worth around two grand . Of course it is mate and I'm a fucking penguin. So jap bus will stay till mot service in March. Then will have a go at selling privately. 

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In other news. Having got back from bradford . I had a go at my vectra bonnet. I had sprayed it myself and it looked like stevie wonder had done it. So good run down with 3 grades of wet and dry. Buff with a drill attachment pad and some compound . Then a good wax and buff and it came up ok. Not showroom but passable.so a few more bits to do like the rear hatch where I removed the wiper. Won a rear spoiler on ebay, cos I am a boy racer at heart. So will paint that when it comes and have a laugh fitting it. It's a bit rattly over bumps so I may put it into a garage for a idea of what and how much. Kids don't like it cos " it's small,  no cuo holders, no electric doors, no internet,the sun shines through the windows,  no electric windows and a few other things. So that suits me . I shall use it on my own. Also then it wint get full of kids crap. 

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