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Probably old news now but Sabine Schmitz died of cancer earlier this month. I believe she went down fighting, there's a heart-warming video of her last public message, in German but she seemed strong to the last. 

She is responsible for one of the best pieces of Top Gear footage and one of the best pieces of driving catptured on film in general, in my opinion:

 

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Very first person to knock on my new front door (fitted today) was a <gentleman with an Irish accent> trying to buy my Saab 900... “I’ll do you a favour and give you £100 for it today and take it off your hands”

Funnily enough I don’t find that much of a favour.... 

 

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Just now, brownnova said:

Very first person to knock on my new front door (fitted today) was a pikey trying to buy my Saab 900... “I’ll do you a favour and give you £100 for it today and take it off your hands”.... 

In a way, you're lucky the fella offered £100. Half the time, they just take without paying.

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1 hour ago, brownnova said:

Very first person to knock on my new front door (fitted today) was a pikey trying to buy my Saab 900... “I’ll do you a favour and give you £100 for it today and take it off your hands”

Funnily enough I don’t find that much of a favour.... 

 

£200 and half a packet of Hobnobs

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4 hours ago, Tim_E said:

I somehow managed to open a Wikipedia  article on Eliliana Torrini in Scots.

And it turns out she is Italian-Icelandic, just for more linguistic fun. 

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Stop making me even more homesick than I already am...

That basically sounds in my head like any of the regulars in any of the pubs I grew up frequenting (with my parents obviously - well aside from one, which admittedly we did live next door to and I was friends with the kids of the landlord, so different rules applied there!) just chatting about anything...

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hopefully the focus is alright for another year , put it into the garage for a check over today , slight knock on the offside front which I thought was the track rod end ,

and its come back ok , on the car cam its had a good ragging around and  a trip on the ramps and they think its ok ..

so hopefully its a pass in April for it , fingers crossed .......

 

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tre bollocks , just check my dates and I am a month out , its June its mot is due ......

 

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Brooklands museum on tv tomorrow. Info from the local 2cv club.....

High everybody
 
Just a quick note  to let you know starting tomorrow night (Tuesday 30th March) at 20 00hrson the Yesterday channel (Freeveiw channell 26)  ' Secrets of the Transport Museum',  a series of one hour documenteries filmed at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge. I am not sure how many episodes there are but it does feature all areas of the museum. The trailer looks very good.
 thats all for now, enjoy
Bill
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Boring car stuff.

Bit by bit I am returning or repairing stuff on the boring modern Peugeot 407.

Rear bumper has always looked like this:

20200718_150900.thumb.jpg.db84a2204367509111ce144d961892cd.jpg

So I bought a trim piece in the right colour. The cheapest one in the right colour had a bit of paint damage which I didn't really mind given the cheaper price. It arrived but had a clip holder missing and a holder tag. Ah well, whatever:

20210329_182622.thumb.jpg.482afbf75b83f2b1ecdf3ffe31d3b952.jpg

Now, the bumper has previously been damaged in the area which explains the missing trim piece, no biggie, but fitting the piece was easy, too easy that it'd easily fall off given a big jolt.

20210329_182634.thumb.jpg.ee4066607dfa7c9cc79db5f2eac7c264.jpg

I need to find a way of keeping it on permanently and discouraging a fall off. There is really nothing behind the clip to keep the piece on apart from some flimsy plastic clips of which one has already departed.

Also, I found a matching alloy and was offered the alloy via eBay for lower than the asking. I didn't take the offer as I hadn't been yet paid. By the time I had, the offer had ended and I sent an offer explaining I'd just missed it but seller didn't reply and the listing ended, so back to the search. 

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2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Brooklands museum on tv tomorrow. Info from the local 2cv club.....

High everybody
 
Just a quick note  to let you know starting tomorrow night (Tuesday 30th March) at 20 00hrson the Yesterday channel (Freeveiw channell 26)  ' Secrets of the Transport Museum',  a series of one hour documenteries filmed at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge. I am not sure how many episodes there are but it does feature all areas of the museum. The trailer looks very good.
 thats all for now, enjoy
Bill

Yup,didn't series link for me on sky tho

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I made a bit more progress with clearing out the garage over the weekend.  Most of the stuff has been slung in the back of the Iveco for now, but at least I've made a start on sorting stuff into "keep" and "sling" piles.  The Innocenti is also now much closer to being able to be extricated.  I refitted the nearside front wheel, now resplendent with a shiny new ditchfinder that I bought from Camskill and which I got the local garage to fit while they were putting a pair of part worns on the Mondeo.  I'd also taken the battery off to charge up, and once refitted the car fired up with a bit of cranking (always takes a while from cold as the auto choke is broken).  Dry storage obviously suits the car - all the electrics worked when tested, normally when I've left it standing a while I have to piss about wiggling connections to get things to work.  I did notice when putting the front wheel back on though that the brake pads are very low, so I've ordered a set of those.  Hopefully over the bank holiday I'll be able to get it out of the garage and give it a bit more of a going over.

The other job on the list was to swap the wheels front to rear on the Mondeo - I had the replacement tyres fitted on the back, as they were pretty much on the limit whereas the fronts were only worn on the inside edge, but I prefer to have the better tyres on the wheels that do most of the work.  That turned out to be a fairly easy job - I lifted one side of the car at a time, the front on the car's own scissor jack and the rear on the trolley jack - and the garage had done the wheelnuts up to the correct torque rather than going mad with the ugga dugga gun.

The petrol C2 is booked in for a test on Thursday so I went round it quickly checking all the lights etc. are still working as it hasn't been anywhere for a while.  The nearside front tyre had gone down, which was slightly worrying - it inflated again fine but I'll have to keep an eye on that.  Otherwise I haven't found any obvious fails other than the grot in the driver's side sill, but that doesn't mean MOT man won't find other bits wrong...

The diesel C2 disgraced itself this weekend as well - heading in to Norwich on Sunday the rear silencer fell off.  The tail pipe had rusted clean through, and the silencer was left dangling by one hanger, bouncing along the road.  Fortunately the hanger itself was rotten enough that I was able to wrench the silencer off and stash it in the boot.  So that's another bit of expenditure the car needs - if it carries on like this I will have spent more money fixing it than I've been saving on fuel.  It did manage 110 miles on the last tenner of diesel I stuck in though, which isn't bad going, and it isn't stupidly noisy with the back box missing - it's a bit more droney but it's only properly noticeable when I put my foot down.

Whilst I was in Norwich I swung by where I used to live (haven't been round there for over a year) and bumped into the only former neighbour I've kept in touch with - he was just arriving home from fettling his (formerly my) MGB which has been stashed in his mum's garage over the winter (his own garage being allocated to his 1969 Mini Cooper S, which for obvious reasons he wants to keep a close eye on).  So I joined him in his garden and had a good old chinwag, which was nice.

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9 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Boring car stuff.

Bit by bit I am returning or repairing stuff on the boring modern Peugeot 407.

Rear bumper has always looked like this:

20200718_150900.thumb.jpg.db84a2204367509111ce144d961892cd.jpg

So I bought a trim piece in the right colour. The cheapest one in the right colour had a bit of paint damage which I didn't really mind given the cheaper price. It arrived but had a clip holder missing and a holder tag. Ah well, whatever:

20210329_182622.thumb.jpg.482afbf75b83f2b1ecdf3ffe31d3b952.jpg

Now, the bumper has previously been damaged in the area which explains the missing trim piece, no biggie, but fitting the piece was easy, too easy that it'd easily fall off given a big jolt.

20210329_182634.thumb.jpg.ee4066607dfa7c9cc79db5f2eac7c264.jpg

I need to find a way of keeping it on permanently and discouraging a fall off. There is really nothing behind the clip to keep the piece on apart from some flimsy plastic clips of which one has already departed.

Also, I found a matching alloy and was offered the alloy via eBay for lower than the asking. I didn't take the offer as I hadn't been yet paid. By the time I had, the offer had ended and I sent an offer explaining I'd just missed it but seller didn't reply and the listing ended, so back to the search. 

A nice strong bit of silver gaffa tape will hold it nicely in place... 

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Just seen the 4.0 jag for sale across the road again, it's in the body shop there being polished. 

MOT history looks ok considering it was 19years old last week,

RE02XFAJAGUAR XJ

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ColourBlue

Fuel typePetrol

Date registered22 March 2002

MOT valid until8 January 2022

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If you think the MOT expiry date or any of the vehicle details are wrong, contact DVSA.
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MOT history

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Date tested22 December 2020

PASS

View test certificate

Mileage74,817 miles

MOT test number4756 5104 9379

Test location

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Expiry date8 January 2022

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):

  • Both Front Tyres are cracking on the outer sidewalls.
What are advisories?

Date tested19 December 2019

PASS

View test certificate

Mileage74,230 miles

MOT test number7173 3166 3104

Test location

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Expiry date8 January 2021

Date tested18 December 2018

PASS

View test certificate

Mileage73,644 miles

MOT test number5707 3504 4850

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2020

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):

  • Registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread both (0.1 (b))
What are advisories?

The MOT test changed on 20 May 2018

Defects are now categorised according to their severity – dangerous, major, and minor. Find out more

Date tested19 December 2017

PASS

Mileage72,791 miles

MOT test number3256 7027 0512

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2019

Advisory notice item(s)

  • registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread both (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested14 December 2016

PASS

Mileage72,218 miles

MOT test number1822 0302 4473

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2018

Date tested10 December 2015

PASS

Mileage70,949 miles

MOT test number7063 8616 2829

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2017

Advisory notice item(s)

  • registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread both (6.3.1d)
  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
What are advisories?

Date tested9 January 2015

PASS

Mileage69,911 miles

MOT test number8758 7980 5012

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2016

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
  • registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested24 October 2013

PASS

Mileage67,757 miles

MOT test number2870 1719 3206

Test location

View test location

Expiry date4 November 2014

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Front registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested5 November 2012

PASS

Mileage65,758 miles

MOT test number9380 6051 2354

Test location

View test location

Expiry date4 November 2013

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
  • Rear registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested28 May 2011

PASS

Mileage63,815 miles

MOT test number6559 8864 1112

Test location

View test location

Expiry date21 June 2012

Advisory notice item(s)

  • front and rear tyres perishing on sidewalls
What are advisories?

Date tested22 June 2010

PASS

Mileage61,435 miles

MOT test number4839 0357 0191

Test location

View test location

Expiry date21 June 2011

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
What are advisories?

Date tested19 June 2009

PASS

Mileage57,141 miles

MOT test number1422 7067 9150

Test location

View test location

Expiry date18 June 2010

Advisory notice item(s)

  • nearside front tyre perishing on outer wall
  • engine management light on
What are advisories?

Date tested19 June 2009

FAIL

Mileage57,141 miles

MOT test number9801 4017 9197

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Reason(s) for failure

  • Offside Headlamp aim too low (1.8)

Advisory notice item(s)

  • nearside front tyre perishing on outer wall
  • engine management light on
What are failures and advisories?

Date tested23 May 2008

PASS

Mileage53,456 miles

MOT test number3526 7484 8140

Test location

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Expiry date3 June 2009

Date tested4 June 2007

PASS

Mileage49,235 miles

MOT test number8426 9565 7134

Test location

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Expiry date3 June 2008

Date tested2 June 2006

PASS

Mileage44,248 miles

MOT test number4317 2385 6139

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Expiry date1 June 2007

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14 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

mini fiddling continues - 

have put another coil on, still no spark.

so, tried another rotor arm. nope, still nothing.....

so, tired another king lead onto the dizzy. yes you guessed it, still nothing.

bastard thing!

any one know how easy it is to set fire to a car and make it look like "an electric thing" and not arson?

Condenser?  They're pretty universally awful these days and like to fail at the drop of a hat, usually giving a no or poor spark condition.

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1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Just seen the 4.0 jag for sale across the road again, it's in the body shop there being polished. 

MOT history looks ok considering it was 19years old last week,

RE02XFAJAGUAR XJ

Check another vehicle

ColourBlue

Fuel typePetrol

Date registered22 March 2002

MOT valid until8 January 2022

Get an MOT reminderwhen the vehicle's MOT is near its time for renewal.(Opens in a new Window) by email or text.

If you think the MOT expiry date or any of the vehicle details are wrong, contact DVSA.
Open All

MOT history

Check mileage recorded at test, MOT expiry date, defects and advisories, and view test certificate

 

Date tested22 December 2020

PASS

View test certificate

Mileage74,817 miles

MOT test number4756 5104 9379

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2022

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):

  • Both Front Tyres are cracking on the outer sidewalls.
What are advisories?

Date tested19 December 2019

PASS

View test certificate

Mileage74,230 miles

MOT test number7173 3166 3104

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2021

Date tested18 December 2018

PASS

View test certificate

Mileage73,644 miles

MOT test number5707 3504 4850

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2020

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):

  • Registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread both (0.1 (b))
What are advisories?

The MOT test changed on 20 May 2018

Defects are now categorised according to their severity – dangerous, major, and minor. Find out more

Date tested19 December 2017

PASS

Mileage72,791 miles

MOT test number3256 7027 0512

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2019

Advisory notice item(s)

  • registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread both (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested14 December 2016

PASS

Mileage72,218 miles

MOT test number1822 0302 4473

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2018

Date tested10 December 2015

PASS

Mileage70,949 miles

MOT test number7063 8616 2829

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2017

Advisory notice item(s)

  • registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread both (6.3.1d)
  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
What are advisories?

Date tested9 January 2015

PASS

Mileage69,911 miles

MOT test number8758 7980 5012

Test location

View test location

Expiry date8 January 2016

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
  • registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested24 October 2013

PASS

Mileage67,757 miles

MOT test number2870 1719 3206

Test location

View test location

Expiry date4 November 2014

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Front registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested5 November 2012

PASS

Mileage65,758 miles

MOT test number9380 6051 2354

Test location

View test location

Expiry date4 November 2013

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
  • Rear registration plate deteriorated but not likely to be misread (6.3.1d)
What are advisories?

Date tested28 May 2011

PASS

Mileage63,815 miles

MOT test number6559 8864 1112

Test location

View test location

Expiry date21 June 2012

Advisory notice item(s)

  • front and rear tyres perishing on sidewalls
What are advisories?

Date tested22 June 2010

PASS

Mileage61,435 miles

MOT test number4839 0357 0191

Test location

View test location

Expiry date21 June 2011

Advisory notice item(s)

  • Nearside Front suspension has slight play in a lower suspension ball joint (2.5.B.1a)
What are advisories?

Date tested19 June 2009

PASS

Mileage57,141 miles

MOT test number1422 7067 9150

Test location

View test location

Expiry date18 June 2010

Advisory notice item(s)

  • nearside front tyre perishing on outer wall
  • engine management light on
What are advisories?

Date tested19 June 2009

FAIL

Mileage57,141 miles

MOT test number9801 4017 9197

Test location

View test location

Reason(s) for failure

  • Offside Headlamp aim too low (1.8)

Advisory notice item(s)

  • nearside front tyre perishing on outer wall
  • engine management light on
What are failures and advisories?

Date tested23 May 2008

PASS

Mileage53,456 miles

MOT test number3526 7484 8140

Test location

View test location

Expiry date3 June 2009

Date tested4 June 2007

PASS

Mileage49,235 miles

MOT test number8426 9565 7134

Test location

View test location

Expiry date3 June 2008

Date tested2 June 2006

PASS

Mileage44,248 miles

MOT test number4317 2385 6139

Test location

View test location

Expiry date1 June 2007

Outstanding vehicle recalls

Check if JAGUAR XJ RE02XFA has outstanding recalls

Do I like them, yes.

From what you have show us it looks good. When was it last serviced and these have timing chain issues. Any rust? One of the X300s I had, had a bump over rough ground and having the bushes changed cost several hundred pounds.

Remember these are old. While paying a premium for a good looking car makes sense, it does not mean a few faults will not devalue it to a £1000 running wreck.

Would I buy it, probably not as I would hold out for a 4.0 Ltr.

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1 minute ago, Six-cylinder said:

Do I like them, yes.

From what you have show us it looks good. When was it last serviced and these have timing chain issues. Any rust? One of the X300s I had, had a bump over rough ground and having the bushes changed cost several hundred pounds.

Remember these are old. While paying a premium for a good looking car makes sense, it does not mean a few faults will not devalue it to a £1000 running wreck.

Would I buy it, probably not as I would hold out for a 4.0 Ltr.

It is the 4litre V8 according to the ad.

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22 hours ago, brownnova said:

Very first person to knock on my new front door (fitted today) was a pikey trying to buy my Saab 900... “I’ll do you a favour and give you £100 for it today and take it off your hands”

Funnily enough I don’t find that much of a favour.... 

 

I know you live in rural Wales but that is a rather offensive racist ethnic slur. I expect much better from a teacher, let alone a mod.

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2 hours ago, SiC said:

I know you live in rural Wales but that is a rather offensive racist ethnic slur. I expect much better from a teacher, let alone a mod.

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Pikey comes from the word pike, meaning toll road. Nothing else. Nothing derogatory. It is simply a short hand to describe a person who lives on the road. It’s just a bit quicker to say, quite wrongly, ‘pikey’, instead of ‘person from the traveller community who lives on the road’, which is why you tend to get a lot people saying it, particularly when they are telling jokes. It’s not an insult, it’s a form of short hand.

If we are not careful our world will soon be populated by members of the travelling and non-travelling communities, members of the over-eating community, the financially challenged community and those of a legally diverse heritage (criminals).

 

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Removed the electrics on the Cav towbar but rather than cut it off I disassembled it, pulled it through, rewired it and hid it inside the car. It means that a light board could be used in future for a cycle carrier or something.

I'll leave the welder to tackle the bolts holding the towbar on.

The DPD delivery driver was admiring it today too.

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4 hours ago, SiC said:

I know you live in rural Wales but that is a rather offensive racist ethnic slur. I expect much better from a teacher, let alone a mod.

Thank you for educating me... as your post appears to suggest, we haven’t got the latest standards of political correctness here in “rural Wales” (We’ve only just got double glazing and inside plumbing here) so it was unbeknownst to me that the word may cause you offence on behalf of the travelling community. 

What we lack in political correctness we do make up for in 6 nations titles though. 

 

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