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Carparts4less (same company as ECP) have delivered twice without issue, although wife is a key worker, there was no need to mention this at all. Slightly longer wait than normal (with cheapest delivery option) but no issues.

Generally I find CP4L to be a PITA, so 'no issues' is actually better than normal!

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3 minutes ago, ChampionRabbit said:

Carparts4less (same company as ECP) have delivered twice without issue, although wife is a key worker, there was no need to mention this at all. Slightly longer wait than normal (with cheapest delivery option) but no issues.

Generally I find CP4L to be a PITA, so 'no issues' is actually better than normal!

As far as I know, it is only ECP’s in store collection service that is “key worker only” - GSF are also doing this 

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Popped up to my mother's this morning, she lives on the other side of the village, doesn't go out & I take a newspaper & anything else she's asked me to get during the week. We sit 2.2 metres apart in the garden etc. Anyway, I've been thinking this week just how easy it is to just run one car & do 200 miles per month. Today on the way home, all the fucking electricity fell out of the Scirocco. I managed to nurse it home, fitted the new king lead that I've had for ages, the old one was very, very crusty.

And all is good with the world, I iz auto-electrician innit?

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1 hour ago, Skizzer said:

The next challenge is working out what safely going back into the office looks like, and when.

That's going to be an interesting one for all businesses to figure out.  Where I work there are rumblings about keeping a significant proportion of the staff WFH most of the time for the foreseeable, and only going into the office one or two days a week, with everyone sat a long way from anyone else.

Thankfully I'm junior enough that I can let other people worry about that kind of thing for me.  :)

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Moved the Focus yesterday, and the front brake pad promptly decided that the main braking part was more friends with the disc than the backing plate. 

However ECP delivered new pads within 3hrs - Even the correct parts!

Fitted this morning.

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3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

That's going to be an interesting one for all businesses to figure out.  Where I work there are rumblings about keeping a significant proportion of the staff WFH most of the time for the foreseeable, and only going into the office one or two days a week, with everyone sat a long way from anyone else.

 

Same with my place, I said I'm down for whatever as I quite like WFH. I can be as flexible as I like. My work life balance has been restored as I'm not spending additional time travelling to and from the place ( which was quite considerable)

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7 hours ago, barefoot said:

Popped up to my mother's this morning, she lives on the other side of the village, doesn't go out & I take a newspaper & anything else she's asked me to get during the week. We sit 2.2 metres apart in the garden etc. Anyway, I've been thinking this week just how easy it is to just run one car & do 200 miles per month. Today on the way home, all the fucking electricity fell out of the Scirocco. I managed to nurse it home, fitted the new king lead that I've had for ages, the old one was very, very crusty.

And all is good with the world, I iz auto-electrician innit?

Bollocks. that worked for about ten minutes. I went to fire it up later this afternoon to confirm that all would be well in the morning and it fired up instantly, but simply wouldn't idle. The rev counter has also gone mentally over-enthusiastic and flys about wildly! I'm guessing that something very simple is broken, disconnected etc. I swapped the coil for a spare I have, cleaned under the distributor cap, and polished the end of the rotor arm. As expected, nothing made a sod of difference. Does anyone any idea what to look at next? It's a carb fed 1600 and it's not the end of the world, I'll just have to re-tax the 75 until I can get my man with the spanners out for a look some time in the next couple of months!

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7 minutes ago, trigger said:

Today I bought a car whilst wearing a mask. 

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Probably not one of my better ideas to buy a car whilst in lockdown but it came up on my East Coast Retros group for a good price and Mrs Trigger declared her love for it so I nipped up the road to view it and came away £2200 lighter. 

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This is the 1508cc with 3 on the tree, the current elderly owners wife recently died and she loved the car and he couldn't bear driving it anymore, I've known the car for years as its been on the local show scene and our ECR car meets since he bought it in 2011, it was restored in 2007 and has a few scabs and a dented wing but for the price I'm not complaining. 

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This one's for Mrs T so I'm going to have to try and fit some seat belts front and rear but I'm looking forwards to getting to grip with column change! 

A friend thinks it might have been a Practical Classics donor car years ago when it was still a A reg? 

That's stunning man, well bought 

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I had one of those many many years ago.

It had holes in the floor and the steering box moved 1" when you turned the wheel, actually it was the chassis that moved.

I had to convert to single front seats and a four speed box, because with a stock car trailer it went up every hill in first gear.

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51 minutes ago, trigger said:

Today I bought a car whilst wearing a mask. 

IMG_20200502_150602.thumb.jpg.8358b3d96811e146259cf071cfafed2f.jpg

Probably not one of my better ideas to buy a car whilst in lockdown but it came up on my East Coast Retros group for a good price and Mrs Trigger declared her love for it so I nipped up the road to view it and came away £2200 lighter. 

IMG_20200502_150543.thumb.jpg.fe765cb2a6b298d81607f23200288157.jpg

This is the 1508cc with 3 on the tree, the current elderly owners wife recently died and she loved the car and he couldn't bear driving it anymore, I've known the car for years as its been on the local show scene and our ECR car meets since he bought it in 2011, it was restored in 2007 and has a few scabs and a dented wing but for the price I'm not complaining. 

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IMG_20200502_150553.thumb.jpg.b77bbb57279a490d31abbef596d99b10.jpg

This one's for Mrs T so I'm going to have to try and fit some seat belts front and rear but I'm looking forwards to getting to grip with column change! 

A friend thinks it might have been a Practical Classics donor car years ago when it was still a A reg? 

A mask? Dick Turpin- that’s a steal.

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53 minutes ago, trigger said:

Today I bought a car whilst wearing a mask. 

IMG_20200502_150602.thumb.jpg.8358b3d96811e146259cf071cfafed2f.jpg

Probably not one of my better ideas to buy a car whilst in lockdown but it came up on my East Coast Retros group for a good price and Mrs Trigger declared her love for it so I nipped up the road to view it and came away £2200 lighter. 

IMG_20200502_150543.thumb.jpg.fe765cb2a6b298d81607f23200288157.jpg

This is the 1508cc with 3 on the tree, the current elderly owners wife recently died and she loved the car and he couldn't bear driving it anymore, I've known the car for years as its been on the local show scene and our ECR car meets since he bought it in 2011, it was restored in 2007 and has a few scabs and a dented wing but for the price I'm not complaining. 

IMG_20200502_150550.thumb.jpg.0ccf7bfe7d78ab750b77f124277599be.jpg

IMG_20200502_150553.thumb.jpg.b77bbb57279a490d31abbef596d99b10.jpg

This one's for Mrs T so I'm going to have to try and fit some seat belts front and rear but I'm looking forwards to getting to grip with column change! 

A friend thinks it might have been a Practical Classics donor car years ago when it was still a A reg? 

WOW,more photo's please..

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36 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Poked massive holes in the Doloshite's front subframe mounts. It's fuckerated, probably actually quite good the engine exploderated before the front end made a bid for freedom at speed...

How bad? If I remember correctly that area isn’t that complicated to work on. Well it isn’t once the engine is out but that’s not a big job.

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1 hour ago, Claire84 said:

How is all that car £twentytwohundred?

Are values on the floor now because of Lockdown or they just universally unwanted? 

God knows, it was up for £2500 but he said he wasn't worried about money and that I could have it for £2200, he paid a lot more 10 years ago for it. 

It was delivered a hour ago!

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There's a few jobs to do on the bodywork but a good polish will make a big improvement

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This must be the original reg and the guy who restored it. 

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My mate who delivered it took the Marina to my dad's afterwards for me to store for a bit. 

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2 hours ago, trigger said:

Today I bought a car whilst wearing a mask. 

IMG_20200502_150602.thumb.jpg.8358b3d96811e146259cf071cfafed2f.jpg

Probably not one of my better ideas to buy a car whilst in lockdown but it came up on my East Coast Retros group for a good price and Mrs Trigger declared her love for it so I nipped up the road to view it and came away £2200 lighter. 

IMG_20200502_150543.thumb.jpg.fe765cb2a6b298d81607f23200288157.jpg

This is the 1508cc with 3 on the tree, the current elderly owners wife recently died and she loved the car and he couldn't bear driving it anymore, I've known the car for years as its been on the local show scene and our ECR car meets since he bought it in 2011, it was restored in 2007 and has a few scabs and a dented wing but for the price I'm not complaining. 

IMG_20200502_150550.thumb.jpg.0ccf7bfe7d78ab750b77f124277599be.jpg

IMG_20200502_150553.thumb.jpg.b77bbb57279a490d31abbef596d99b10.jpg

This one's for Mrs T so I'm going to have to try and fit some seat belts front and rear but I'm looking forwards to getting to grip with column change! 

A friend thinks it might have been a Practical Classics donor car years ago when it was still a A reg? 

That truly is first class Mr Trig, an automotive arab strap.

 The PC connection is correct, it appears in the March 2002 issue as a “spares” car for Danny Hopkins’ own FB that proved too good to break and thusly Kevin Leaper took it on.
 

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10 hours ago, Kiltox said:

As far as I know, it is only ECP’s in store collection service that is “key worker only” - GSF are also doing this 

we been collecting consumbles inc doors mirrors only by going in ambulances and in 'greens'

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