HillmanImp Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 7 hours ago, Cavcraft said: How I love* to spend my Sundays... A Ferrari! Cord Fourteener and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 1 hour ago, stuboy said: fiesta? Indeed a Fiesta, a "Black edition" whatever that means. The seats have been fitted later. It's only a 1.4, it'll do the job of being a winter runabout alright though. Tickman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 The 'editions' on these are Zetecs with special paint colours, sometimes alloy wheels, a spoiler and a chrome grille. My family spent a while looking for one in about 2006 to replace my aunt's mk2 Fiesta L that had rotted to death. (She's a PA in central London and doesn't have time herself...) she ended up with a tidy standard Zetec on an 03. She didn't use it much except for driving out to riding stables occasionally and for going hiking, it's only on about 40k now. She bought a 65 plate Yaris about a year ago and the PX on the Fiesta was derisory - she ended up giving it to a friend of my mum's up here who proceeded to clean it up better than factory. His only other transport is a mk1 Granada Ghia and a bicycle, and he was looking for a car anyway. We're still doing the maintenance on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christian6984 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 1 hour ago, reb said: Indeed a Fiesta, a "Black edition" whatever that means. The seats have been fitted later. It's only a 1.4, it'll do the job of being a winter runabout alright though. You got Leather Seats, Heated Front Windscreen and some different alloy wheels over the Zetec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N19 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Whilst fitting the vice I picked up, I needed to move the Capri - it would be wrong to not give it a run out, complete with tinsel. Craig the Princess, egg, Cord Fourteener and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Amazon do it again.. 8 valve caps in a mahoosive packet Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 42 minutes ago, N19 said: Whilst fitting the vice I picked up, I needed to move the Capri - it would be wrong to not give it a run out, complete with tinsel. Not sure you quite get the idea of 'blinging', but nice try Cord Fourteener, N19, Coprolalia and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N19 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Not sure you quite get the idea of 'blinging', but nice try I like to think I am tasteful (people who know me would laugh at this statement). Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 On 06/12/2020 at 22:09, reb said: Indeed a Fiesta, a "Black edition" whatever that means. The seats have been fitted later. It's only a 1.4, it'll do the job of being a winter runabout alright though. Ooh fancy! I had a Puma 'Black', was a nice interior! Hope you don't have the alloys with the plastic caps all over them... They corrode... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1duck Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 On 12/5/2020 at 5:10 PM, Yoss said: ... to allow me to park on double yellow lines, pedestrian crossings or wherever the hell I like really! I am only half joking, if you have trouble parking anywhere just get an old Royal Mail van, you can put it where you want. BRB making a copy of that in word and printing it off, cheaper than buying an ex RM van. I mean my 107 is red so semi believable. Yoss, LightBulbFun and dome 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Conversation with wife this morning after using her car this morning. Paraphrased. Me: you need to clean the inside of your window. Wife: why do my cars always get dirty windows? Me: because time and all dirt that. Wife: I thought you never had to clean them. Me: what made you think that? Wife: I thought they kept themselves clean and you could never touch the inside? Me:???!!!???? (Recovers) ok you're not meant to clean condensation with a cloth unless you're desperate or put fingerprints on the glass inside, but you do have to clean the inside. Wife:???!!!???? (I think she's just about recovered) Doctor-owned cars for you. She thinks getting the annual MOT = keeping it serviced. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike D Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Few more bits done on the mini - cleaned up the front brakes: Then as usual, everything started to spiral out of control 🙄 it seemed to be sitting a bit higher than i remember at the rear, a bit of a bounce on it revealed the drivers side radius arm had seized up - and back when it was being used, I had to weld the outer radius arm bracket on while out and about as 2 of the bolts had sheared. It was all looking a bit crusty under there too, and I discovered a bit that must have been missed and might need a poke... I gave the heel board trunnion bolts a bit of a working, and thankfully they all came out! The rears weren't so cooperative And on the floor. On to the crispy bit: Oh dear! That should sort that The rest of it looks cock on thankfully. Radius arms removed, i'm pleased as I can give them a clean up and rebuild now, theyre a bit rough: I've got all new shafts and bearings to rebuild them with, and with the subframe off, at least replacing all the brake lines etc will be more pleasant. Speaking of which I've also taken the long shlanger of British heritage down to the hinge end and ordered a new genuine subframe Cheers! barefoot, Rusty_Rocket, gm and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Breaking news! In Surbiton, London, a portal to the early 90s has opened. HMC, SmokinWaffle, 1duck and 20 others 21 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Just before I came to Belgium, I took the bloody Peugeot to a Peugeot dealer in Worcester. Just because...erm...yeah...... Then I found out my Peugeot was originally bought from Regal Peugeot in Wolverhampton so could, and will take it there. Burnside, juular and davehedgehog31 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 On 12/5/2020 at 8:59 PM, stuboy said: is it beige? Funnily enough I actually saw a new beige Transporter today. Meanwhile for the last two days I've been given this. Don't need to be quite so paranoid about this one as it already has 35k miles on it and a bit of a dent in the side door. It also only has four buttons on the steering wheel that I'm never going to use instead of the 18 on the Transporter which is frankly ridiculous. I would probably upset a lot of people (not on here but all those dub scene people) if I said this is a better van than the Transporter. The seat is lower which does make it easier to get in and out of and once in the view ahead is better so the dashboard on the VW is too high for a van. The VW may be better as a long distance delivery vehicle but I only do seven miles in about six hours (usually four hours when it's not a Lockdown Christmas Armageddon Crossover) so I can't judge that. This is better as a start stop delivery van. Mind you they're both better than our normal Pug Partner. At least I have more room to spread my packets out. I like to sort them in to little piles for the different areas I do but at the moment I just have too many. One day last week I had to leave some packets behind as they physically wouldn't fit in the Pug. One thing with this Vivaro, it has this big green light... ... under the digital speedo which I have no idea what it is supposed to signify. It comes and goes but has no symbol in or around it. It's green so I assume that's a good thing and therefore ignore it. Burnside 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiepj Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Neighbours son just posted a brake job on a van for a customer after the brake pad fell out!I think they got maximum value out of these discs. Burnside, GrumpiusMaximus, Tickman and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 11 hours ago, Yoss said: green light means ur economic driving style, and goes amber then red if you cane it egg and tooSavvy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Oh really? It is only ever green or off, I've not seen it any other colour. Even whilst sat idling for 15 minutes on my break trying to get some heat in the cabin, which doesn't seem to work very well either but that's not surprising when you're only doing 7 miles in 6 hours, a diesel really needs to be worked to get any heat out of it. If they give it to me tomorrow I shall try and make it change colour. What do you think I have to do to make it turn red?😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 32 minutes ago, Yoss said: If they give it to me tomorrow I shall try and make it change colour. What do you think I have to do to make it turn red?😊 Drive it like you stole it. Burnside and tooSavvy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I miss owning an R8. Early GSI, hmmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetleysmooth Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/7/2020 at 10:47 PM, stuboy said: Amazon do it again.. 8 valve caps in a mahoosive packet It does seem rather daft, but I'd say there's less chance of that large packet getting lost in transit, rather than a fag packet sized parcel. Especially at this time of year. So, possibly makes sense. leanycan and Burnside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Just to confirm that the contents weren't broken or damaged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Ghosty said: I miss owning an R8. Early GSI, hmmmmm. What you need is a 220 SLi. You can have mine 😉 Ghosty and Cord Fourteener 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 7 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said: What you need is a 220 SLi. You can have mine 😉 The stuff of dreams! For my 17 year old self it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Father Christmas delivers early. Sorry for the blurry pics, I was excited! brownnova, mercedade, GrumpiusMaximus and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Sometime last week... w00dy, sdkrc, dome and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehedgehog31 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 17 hours ago, Tim_E said: Breaking news! In Surbiton, London, a portal to the early 90s has opened. @Split_Pin The biscuit is inbound. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 21 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said: @Split_Pin The biscuit is inbound. Enter right a speeding Suzuki Super Carry, watch yer motor The Biscuit! davehedgehog31 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 14 hours ago, Yoss said: Funnily enough I actually saw a new beige Transporter today. Meanwhile for the last two days I've been given this. Don't need to be quite so paranoid about this one as it already has 35k miles on it and a bit of a dent in the side door. It also only has four buttons on the steering wheel that I'm never going to use instead of the 18 on the Transporter which is frankly ridiculous. I would probably upset a lot of people (not on here but all those dub scene people) if I said this is a better van than the Transporter. The seat is lower which does make it easier to get in and out of and once in the view ahead is better so the dashboard on the VW is too high for a van. The VW may be better as a long distance delivery vehicle but I only do seven miles in about six hours (usually four hours when it's not a Lockdown Christmas Armageddon Crossover) so I can't judge that. This is better as a start stop delivery van. Mind you they're both better than our normal Pug Partner. At least I have more room to spread my packets out. I like to sort them in to little piles for the different areas I do but at the moment I just have too many. One day last week I had to leave some packets behind as they physically wouldn't fit in the Pug. One thing with this Vivaro, it has this big green light... ... under the digital speedo which I have no idea what it is supposed to signify. It comes and goes but has no symbol in or around it. It's green so I assume that's a good thing and therefore ignore it. I look after a fleet of 6 vans at work-we have 2 of these on fleet just now, both around 5 years old and sitting on over 100k. They've had a few issues but nothing major and are great to drive. We're replacing them with Transporters though (not my choice but the numbers do add up) so I'll report back. Initial thoughts are that the Trafics are a better drive though. It's so far taken VW almost a year to deliver 2 of the new vans. Well, they tried to deliver them in March but somehow had managed to build us completely the wrong spec of vans. It's not gone well so far! Yoss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Mazda sold and Mondeo SORN'd. So only transport remaining at home is a modern of many dents! Yuk! Burnside, Vantman and loserone 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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