cort16 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 13 hours ago, SiC said: It's been four weeks this week that I've been waiting for my Moggie. That is taking the piss a bit. How long are you going to give them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 13 hours ago, SiC said: It's been four weeks this week that I've been waiting for my Moggie. Try rattling the Dreamies. Slappy, Tickman, Datsuncog and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Spotted on local 'nextdoor' website: 'Anyone recommend someone who cleans upvc muttering and fascists, please?' Autocorrect/predictive text perfection. Stanky, chaseracer, eddyramrod and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 30 minutes ago, cort16 said: That is taking the piss a bit. How long are you going to give them? Not sure but my patience is running thin now. Will give them a call tonight or tomorrow as it'll be 4 weeks and 3 or 4 working days. Problem is that they're waiting on the DVLA and they are still on strike with the backlog getting worse. So I can't moan at the seller for taking so long. Thing is, he's said that he didn't pay tax as he thought it was exempt. However it's not as that's a separate form + process as we know. So it'll definitely come back without the plates off. But I want to know if they'll then resubmit it. That'll be another 4 weeks at least to sort on top. If I don't go for this, I'll have to find another. I liked this one as it had the 1275 engine retrofitted and had solid floors. Anything else in this price bracket is much more of a project. So basically I'd be getting more work for my money. Or I spend a whole lot more (like £4k) to get one that's road ready. In other news, the Clio 172 is in for an MOT tomorrow. Providing it passes reasonably easy, I think I'm going to sell it. If it would get into the Bristol Clean Air Zone without charge, it would have stayed. However given a choice between the very useful A4 and preferred to drive Boxster, the Clio is the least favourite. Especially as Mrs SiC finds the steering heavy to use and doesn't particularly enjoy driving it. Currently looking at the Mini Cooper S R53... Will have to be a facelift (54 plate on) by the looks of it to get into the CAZ exempt. I want to get something sorted before a mad rush in/around October when people suddenly realise and then panic buy a replacement - pushing up prices. dome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 8 hours ago, eddyramrod said: I can't believe I'm the first to point out that the Cortina 3 didn't have leaf springs... Argh, turns out I'm not such a cortina expert after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 There isn't an emoji for "virtual man-hug" but consider this as one of those! Everyone can trip up, don't worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Oh and in other news: on the way back from Farmfoods this morning I recognised Sian's Audi in a pub car park. Naturally I've done my bit and phoned 101. Very interesting! It's like living in one of those gloomy cop shows that seem to be so fashionable! outlaw118 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny Jim Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Battery for the 480 finally turned up. Great, I thought, I'll put it in the car now and try fitting it at lunchtime. I reached into my pocket to where I thought the one key I have would be and it wasn't there. Shit! Must have fallen out of my pocket last night - onto a large car park surfaced with slate chippings that several cars had driven over this morning. Bugger! Got some help from the pros who happened to be on site, gridded the area and found it after 20 minutes. Getting a spare cut this afternoon, until then it's on a BFO key ring. Coprolalia, wuvvum, Slappy and 24 others 25 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 So that answers that question then. The fluid reservoir is at a jaunty angle, and the wires for the fluid level sensor will need changing from bullet to spade, but it fits. Which is good. Skizzer, RobT, Split_Pin and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 1302 hours car cost me £450 two years ago 1306 Parts Emporium from Dewsbury ring - explained alternator seized, battery dead, but does have original cat. 'We'll have someone with you in two hours' 1500 Dignified, if slightly smoky exit. Guy hooked booster pack up, smoke billowing all over place as alt pulley seized. Drove up under own power onto trailer. Goneski. TLDR Motorwise bloody good. RobT, GrumpiusMaximus, dome and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRi05 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, clayts450 said: 1302 hours car cost me £450 two years ago 1306 Parts Emporium from Dewsbury ring - explained alternator seized, battery dead, but does have original cat. 'We'll have someone with you in two hours' 1500 Dignified, if slightly smoky exit. Guy hooked booster pack up, smoke billowing all over place as alt pulley seized. Drove up under own power onto trailer. Goneski. TLDR Motorwise bloody good. 200 2nite m8 clayts450 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, SRi05 said: 200 2nite m8 Precisely the reason I 'just fucking scrapped it, m9' 😄 Just wanted a hassle-free offski, as insurance due for renewal and tax up as MoT long expired. Creates an extra parking space..... (stop it) SRi05, RobT and Fat_Pirate 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Part of me wants to ask you if you removed the Accords cat first but part of me is too scared to ask ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 14 minutes ago, omegod said: Part of me wants to ask you if you removed the Accords cat first but part of me is too scared to ask ........ Reasonable question, but no. I did say to the guy I reckon it was worth about £800 and he said that's about right. TBH it's not about the money - £350 for a pile of shite is good for me, and it takes out all the hassle of parting bits out here, there and everywhere. Ordinarily I'd have sold it to Dodgy Paul, the next door neighbour (he gave me Motorwise price for a Rover 45 with original cat), but he hasn't lived there for two years... Split_Pin and RobT 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Can't say I blame you. Selling cheap cars is just utter hassle. As for the DVLA, getting very annoyed as it's taking absolutely forever to achieve very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cade Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Left Fiat X1/9s behind many years ago for a variety of reasons, but they're ganging up on me and dragging me back.. firstly a garage locally got in touch through a friend because of a 9-5 aero.. message went... I hear you know a bit about X1/9s?.. Went down for a nosey and they have a '77 1300 serie special which is being restored. Its going to be a very,very nice car when it's done, and I'm trying to help source a few parts for it. Then I got a call for work to pick up a 79 RS2000. Got to the chap and recognised the car straight away- used to look after it when I had my garage, for guy who had one of the best X1/9 1300s in the country. RS2000 is a South African built car and its been made absolutely mint, then Got a call from a guy who I worked with about 15 years ago... Do you still mess around with X1/9s..........? He's just moved jobs and his boss has one, along with loads of other rare and interesting stuff.. he asked me to go in and give it a going over, do the belts ,points,carb etc... I got all that done today and its running very nicely, but the fusebox is gubbed, and the pop ups don't work.. Kicking myself as I've had loads of X1/9s, and being around them again is reminding me why I love them, and I want one again but the prices are going crazy and I don't have a garage.. I used to have a garage, which was rammed full of X1/9 parts and spares, as well as a couple of complete spares cars and I had all the parts I need for the both of them squirrelled away, but I got rid of the lot. Why didn't I just shut the door and walk away instead of having a tantrum and basically giving everything away Lesson learned. Bugger. Coprolalia, Burnside, dome and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BL Bloke Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 The fat Golf that was left outside my house on Monday was taken away this afternoon so all my cars are available for use again. 🙂 All I need now is somewhere to go. brownnova, Cord Fourteener and RobT 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Took missus out and we had an asda meal deal on Sandgate seafront, who says romance is dead and then I bit bullet and payed for my private plate... Split_Pin, Stevebrookman, Tickman and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Just unearthed this lot Dick Longbridge, DVee8, LightBulbFun and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cort16 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 I changed the gearbox mount on the Granada I think it’s fair to say it was banjaxed new v old Split_Pin, RobT, dome and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Well the Skoda made it to Shotley. sdkrc, Yoss, Spurious and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Never realised you were so tall. wuvvum and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Boom Motorwise - wd recommend 11,500,000/10 Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 2 hours ago, wuvvum said: Well the Skoda made it to Shotley. HG fixing hero. Good to see you earlier Wuv, and @trigger too. This was gr9. I think it'd been sat an hour or so, yet still stank of dizzle. Marvellous. I took the ex-HMC S124. Here it is down by the marina. Skizzer, Split_Pin, wuvvum and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 7 hours ago, clayts450 said: 1302 hours car cost me £450 two years ago 1306 Parts Emporium from Dewsbury ring - explained alternator seized, battery dead, but does have original cat. 'We'll have someone with you in two hours' 1500 Dignified, if slightly smoky exit. Guy hooked booster pack up, smoke billowing all over place as alt pulley seized. Drove up under own power onto trailer. Goneski. TLDR Motorwise bloody good. Think my 900 might go the same way as I’m not sure I can be arsed with Facebook marketplace/eBay for a cheap car sale… and I just want the space now! Would be a shame but… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 8 minutes ago, brownnova said: Think my 900 might go the same way as I’m not sure I can be arsed with Facebook marketplace/eBay for a cheap car sale… and I just want the space now! Would be a shame but… I think because it happened so quickly, I didn't have 'scrapper's remorse' nor time to think about the bad thing I done. TBH, it's a blessed relief seeing the back of it. And £50 saved each month on tax/insurance, which is also a win. Split_Pin and brownnova 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 With the value of scrap, both steel and catalysts, as high as it is at the moment, anything less than a £500 car is scrap. Seems a shame, but that's been true before, and it'll be true again. I miss the days when scrap 90s catalysts weren't worth it, and light iron was about £15 a tonne. There were some absolute belting bargains around. clayts450 and Burnside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 150 miles covered in the Felicia, and it still has coolant in it and the oil is still clean. At the risk of tempting fate I'm going to declare it fixorated. Good to catch up with RobT, Trigger, and Brodders and his rather lovely beige Orion. As usual, a wonderfully eclectic collection of vehicles at the ECR meet. Burnside, Split_Pin, Brodders and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 8 hours ago, Talbot said: With the value of scrap, both steel and catalysts, as high as it is at the moment, anything less than a £500 car is scrap. Seems a shame, but that's been true before, and it'll be true again. I miss the days when scrap 90s catalysts weren't worth it, and light iron was about £15 a tonne. There were some absolute belting bargains around. I'd still rather keep a car that's got useful life in it on the road, even if you have to enjoy* a bit of banter with muppets on soshul meadya. Mostly I end up selling to shitters anyway. Angrydicky and Burnside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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