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[dean36014]

I cleared out a local village garage of autodata books from the 70's,80's and 90's. I've no idea what I'm going to do with them but there's useful information in there. Included in there was a few institute of road transport engineers from the late 60's. Is there a market for that sort of thing?

[richardmorris]

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, dean36014 said:

I cleared out a local village garage of autodata books from the 70's,80's and 90's. I've no idea what I'm going to do with them but there's useful information in there. Included in there was a few institute of road transport engineers from the late 60's. Is there a market for that sort of thing?

Yes I would be interested in the Autodata books that cover the cars I have.

Sorry not the other stuff.

[Zelandeth]

34 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Ooh...yes please.  Most cars in that sort of bracket I'm a bit "meh" on...but have a soft spot for the Diablo.  Better in the eye searing orange and purple if it's an SV though.

A purple alcantara with neon orange stitching interior just seems the right sort of bonkers for a Lambo.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Ooh...yes please.  Most cars in that sort of bracket I'm a bit "meh" on...but have a soft spot for the Diablo.  Better in the eye searing orange and purple if it's an SV though.

A purple alcantara with neon orange stitching interior just seems the right sort of bonkers for a Lambo.

Subtle it was not!

[anonymous user]

The other day I noticed one of my VP's had gone missing from a hub cap on the Austintatious. I managed to find one on Ebay so decided to fix it today. Then I noticed another one hanging inside the hub cap on the other side of the car. It appears the little metal tabs that secure them have snapped off. I have therefore used gorilla glue and more gaffer tape to fix them. (About the limit of my skills these days). The good news is that when I took the other hubcap off, the VP centre cap was wedged inside, so I now have a spare.

Full of pride from a job well* done, I used it to go shopping and managed to over fill it with petrol (the gauge is useless) spilling it onto my foot.

I could look into why the gauge doesn't work, but will need to use some of the petrol up first if the tank sender has to come out. I shall probably get the garage to sort it, I don't fancy crawling underneath.

[BeEP]

9 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

I could look into why the gauge doesn't work, but will need to use some of the petrol up first if the tank sender has to come out. I shall probably get the garage to sort it, I don't fancy crawling underneath.

At least the sender is on the side of an Allegro (um, sorry, I mean VP) fuel tank so nothing else needs to be moved to replace it.  Initial test would be to pull the wire off the sender and earth it; if the gauge goes to full the sender is dead (which is probably the case).  Depending on corrosion levels it's then 'just' a case of knocking the locating ring round with a hammer and screwdriver to release the sender.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, dean36014 said:

I cleared out a local village garage of autodata books from the 70's,80's and 90's. I've no idea what I'm going to do with them but there's useful information in there. ..

Did Autodata ever cover the CXs?

[bramz7]

I got to drive a mid 90s small car today. You know the ones, a VAG group product (but not a German brand) with an underpowered engine, and tons of blank buttons (but AC). 

I loved it. Real analogue feeling car after all my recent cars. The sort of car that loves to be ragged in all gears yet still feels oddly comfortable on fast A roads. And it was a joy to wrestle around sweeping bends. 

Genuinely put a smile on my face and was exactly what I needed. 

Also picking up cars for other people is a lot cheaper than buying them yourself. 

[HMC]

9 minutes ago, bramz7 said:

I got to drive a mid 90s small car today. You know the ones, a VAG group product (but not a German brand) with an underpowered engine, and tons of blank buttons (but AC). 

I loved it. Real analogue feeling car after all my recent cars. The sort of car that loves to be ragged in all gears yet still feels oddly comfortable on fast A roads. And it was a joy to wrestle around sweeping bends. 

Genuinely put a smile on my face and was exactly what I needed. 

Also picking up cars for other people is a lot cheaper than buying them yourself. 

That sort of sums up why I like the fiesta, I’d sort of kept away from small simple cars and With it the fun of being able to push quite hard whilst at legal speeds. The a30 is a good companion to it as it’s brakes and handling make the fiesta feel like a rocket ship.

[anonymous user]

24 minutes ago, BeEP said:

Depending on corrosion levels it's then 'just' a case of knocking the locating ring round with a hammer and screwdriver to release the sender.

This is why the garage will do it, these days I'm ham-fisted enough to bash a screwdriver through the tank. I worked on these when they were new, but that's over forty years ago now. 

[Ghosty]

Been talking to dad and his mate about the car I'm tasked with selling. 

 

'he wants £800 for it, that's all it owes him. Anything else you can keep'. 

MOTHER FUCKIN' WINDFALL!

[loserone]

What is it again?

[stuboy]

4 minutes ago, loserone said:

What is it again?

£805 and its urs..lol

[Split_Pin]

Busy back shift today once I finished work at 4.

Washed the 75

Cut the grass

Got the Mini on ramps, wired brushed the subframe, Vactan and 2 coats of stone chip.

While the Vactan was drying I changed the oil and filter on the Audi.

After work tomorrow I'm having a beer and doing SFA.

[brownnova]

Hello old friend! 

New month and the imminent lifting of Wales’ stay local advice means time to tax the 9000!!!

 Flat battery but eventually a jump of the 900 got it going.

 was filthy from being parked under a tree so washed it, pumped up the tyres and taxed it. Let’s see if it gets me to work without issue tomorrow after 3 and a bit months laid up. (I wouldn’t risk it for anywhere I actually wanted to go just in case...)

 

[Supernaut]

Ooooh, Saab 9000 envy!

Mine is just a lowly CS. You have colour coded bumpers, and alloy wheels! Fancy!

[N19]

On 7/1/2020 at 8:57 PM, stuboy said:

dam more tape than plastic

Some of it became sentient on the A41 this morning and decided to float off... re-patched.

It's a good car, pulls well, fitted with loads of toys... the first fuel injected car I've owned and all. I've treated it to new wiper blades and will do oil and filters next week I think. Cambelt is slightly overdue so think I'll get that done and possibly new tyres before I take the Bluebird off the road.

[Carlosfandango]

Lame attempt at fitting some window tint to the rear door of the T5 in advance of going away camping with few pals tomorrow. Erm.. 

CFD 

 

[Ghosty]

3 hours ago, loserone said:

What is it again?

I haven't said. Collection mission on Tuesday. 

[Ghosty]

Also, I've been put as a named driver on the owner's policy, double winner as that means I can knock about in it a bit, and get a feel for it and if I want to keep it (on paper it makes a lot of sense unless it's mercilessly uncomfortable). I might even send it for an MOT to aid the sale it as it's due on the eighth of August. 

The one interesting thing I've come across is that the car is on a private plate that's going to be put on retention, and I don't know if the process has started or not. I think that'll boil down to 'V5 in post'. 

[richardmorris]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I see a Maybach. 57 or 62?

[phil_lihp]

Some may remember the yellow MG ZR, formerly owned by @Six-cylinder which I bought a few years back, didn't get on with it and almost immediately sold it to a friend who's had it ever since.

Well I found out a few days ago that it finally succumbed to a plethora of issues and has ended its days at an MG breakers.  It'd been parked up since about September last year with suspected head gasket failure as it was consuming coolant at an increasing rate having already had the inlet manifold gaskets changed a while back.  The bodywork was looking very tatty even before that and had been getting worse, then it blew a hole in its exhaust manifold.  They'd replaced it with a very early MINI at that point and it hadn't really moved in the last 8 months, so when he looked it over recently and found that one of the sills had rotted through in several places that was the end of it.  It's gone off to help other ZRs live on though so there is that at least.

 

[wuvvum]

Sill rot is what finally did for the Rover of Doom.  It is a bit of a weakness on R3s.

[brownnova]

The 9000 performed nearly faultlessly for the journey to work... it was like setting an old friend again. I’d forgotten how much I like it!! 

[mitsisigma01]

27 minutes ago, phil_lihp said:

has ended its days at an MG breakers. 

That's the tidiest scrapyard I've ever seen ???

[Supernaut]

9 minutes ago, brownnova said:

The 9000 performed nearly faultlessly for the journey to work... it was like setting an old friend again. I’d forgotten how much I like it!! 

I've only seen my one three times so far!

I hope the garage get it sorted today. I want to waft about in it at the weekend!

[Six-cylinder]

43 minutes ago, phil_lihp said:

Well I found out a few days ago that it finally succumbed to a plethora of issues and has ended its days at an MG breakers.  It'd been parked up since about September last year with suspected head gasket failure as it was consuming coolant at an increasing rate having already had the inlet manifold gaskets changed a while back.  The bodywork was looking very tatty even before that and had been getting worse, then it blew a hole in its exhaust manifold.  They'd replaced it with a very early MINI at that point and it hadn't really moved in the last 8 months, so when he looked it over recently and found that one of the sills had rotted through in several places that was the end of it.  It's gone off to help other ZRs live on though so there is that at least.

When I had three MGs, I still have the other two.

[phil_lihp]

I enjoyed driving the one on the left a lot more than the middle one to be honest!   Just one of those cars I never gelled with, but my friends loved it even when it broke down on their driveway while I was selling it to them and it left their house on a flatbed!  Turned out just to be the fuel pump relay which I swapped with the rear window one.  It went through a few issues with the wiring to the starter motor but after that was fixed it didn't give too many further issues.  When they started to notice HGF symptoms I took it back home for a few days to fiddle with and ironically that was probably the last trip of any significant length it went on before it was parked up.  It did OK really, it cost them peanuts to buy and run and went through two MOTs with minimal hassle.