anonymous user Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 I have shed envy CGSB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yank Tank Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said: 1. Camry estate booked in for MoT tomorrow morning. 2. Sunny cleaned-up ready for new owner to come and collect today. Turns out I've had it for over five years and done more than 10k in it (it's still less than 50,000 now). After a bit of a wobble last week when the first set of buyers pulled-out, the house is now sold pending all the usual legal and survey stuff, so....... 3. Got to make a start on sorting and moving/selling/chucking all the shed contents: Going to be a busy summer....... Now that's a shed. Anything else is a poor imitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 That time of year again although I'm getting it mot'd a few weeks early,as new emission tests and stickers are being brought in so I just wanted to be sure there are no issues 1st time it's actually had the probe up it in 4 years ! Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Got a refund in the post today from DVLA for the unused tax on the C2. £6.66! It'll cost me nearly that much in fuel to drive into Norwich and pay the cheque into the bank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Someone's going to be in some bother. Letting off a little more than steam... Crackers and brownnova 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 9 minutes ago, wuvvum said: Got a refund in the post today from DVLA for the unused tax on the C2. £6.66! It'll cost me nearly that much in fuel to drive into Norwich and pay the cheque into the bank... If you have a banking app you can scan and deposit the cheque via your phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 9 minutes ago, wuvvum said: Got a refund in the post today from DVLA for the unused tax on the C2. £6.66! It'll cost me nearly that much in fuel to drive into Norwich and pay the cheque into the bank... A devil of a situation somewhatfoolish and Mally 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Refurbished rear callipers for my sons lupo from biggred. Well happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 17 minutes ago, Spurious said: Someone's going to be in some bother. Letting off a little more than steam... presumably on their way to the Steam Fair this weekend https://cls-steam.co.uk I might go for a look if the weather is ok (forecast is rain all weekend ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidel_Kakao Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 I am repping British Leyland today 😀 Long live the flying plughole! Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Standoff. richardmorris and Split_Pin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 I tried to weld the Audis exhaust today but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get a reasonable bead. I got either side of the crack cleaned up OK but I couldn't get the bastard car high enough to get right under with my welding helmet on, plus I don't have a decent lamp. After getting something resembling weld on it, I slathered it with gun gum. Left it for a few hours and.... its STILL roaring away. Fucked it back in the garage, I'll think about it again another day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 4 hours ago, wuvvum said: Got a refund in the post today from DVLA for the unused tax on the C2. £6.66! It'll cost me nearly that much in fuel to drive into Norwich and pay the cheque into the bank... You can pay cheques in by taking a pic of it with some banks ! I didn't know this until young un showed me recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 And to make matters worse, the Mini has just shat its coolant all over McDonald's car park. Currently waiting on the AA coming out, ETA 20.30. richardmorris, dome, HMC and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRi05 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 13 minutes ago, Split_Pin said: Burn it with fire. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 HGF. Getting towed home. brownnova, Floatylight, Coprolalia and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrcento Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 On 7/6/2021 at 11:51 AM, Mrcento said: Sick to death of their near unrivalled ability to throw up total unobtanium issues. Doesn't seem to matter how common they are, or what they need, there's always at least 1 bit you can't get, need to spend hours cross referencing part numbers, only to find it's mega specific, dealer only and north of £300 for something that should cost about £20. Case in point. This part, for a Range Rover? £40. For a Bentley? £140 For a Lamborghini Urus? £150 For a Honda Civic? That's without VAT, btw. It's turning into a right fucking charade. Not a Daihatsu either. Word of advice to anyone buying a spaceship Civic.... get one without factory fit Xenons. The sensor or the bracketery has any issues, you're fucked. Been around 11 Scrapyards over the past few days, found 5 Civics with Xenons, the rear sensors are all fucked in the same sorts of ways. Siezed arms snapped brackets. Even buying 2 or 3 of the better broken ones, i'd not have been able to cobble together 1 good one. Suggests that it's a mega common issue so chances of failure are near certain. Best avoided. This is how it came off the car. Like it was plucked off the Titanic. Top bracket is fine. Sensor seems ok. seems to just be all the lower bracketery and linkages rusting, seizing, disintegrating and snapping. Have freed the top arm up and it now moves nicely, cut off the upper ball joint. The solution from the other parts are to make a new link arm via threaded bar and screw on ball joints (which is what someone else did years ago because Honda will not sell that part, it's whole assembly or nothing) and lower bracket replaced with and adjustable L bracket adapted and fitted at an angle onto the axel. Might need to make use of other holes on it to secure at that angle because the original, snapped one has a little tooth on the edge that locks it at a set angle to stop it rotating. I might get away with bolting it down TIGHTASFUCK but can probably do something better so there's no issue with the MOT man saying it's insecure. Not that i think he will, he basically said he'd be fine with it as long as it was vaguely connected. All in going well, it'll be a £10 repair rather than a near £400 one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 1 hour ago, omegod said: You can pay cheques in by taking a pic of it with some banks ! I didn't know this until young un showed me recently Not natwest unfortunately barefoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 6 hours ago, Spurious said: Someone's going to be in some bother. Letting off a little more than steam... It's the Chester-le-Street Steam & Vintage Fair, this weekend at https://www.facebook.com/lambtonparkuk gm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Seems mini-stuboy has now declared the standard 8 his car, not sure how his grandad feels about it as was planned to be sold eventually chaseracer, RayMK, Coprolalia and 8 others 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 So that's the end of the Mini adventure. The Patrolman asked me to keep it at 2 k revs with the cap off and great big blobby bubbles were coming out and the coolant was rising and spewing out. Weirdly no mixing with the oil or exhaust smoke but the coolant did look petrolly. I could see right away it was HGF and he also said this was likely. It didn't overheat as there was still some coolant left when I opened the bonnet and the 'it's fucked' light didn't come on. 5 minutes later with the engine off the level had risen again. It's never used any water since we had it so it must have been the wait in the queue at the drive through that finished it off. We were straight barred home and we nearly died on the way home. On the Wilderness Brae a wee young hoor in a huge black Range Rover, who had also been at McDonalds, tried to pass us at huge speed as we moved into the outside lane to turn right. She braked so hard her hazards came on and almost hit me on the offside. Fucking shat myself as I couldn't steer away. As my wife gave her opinion on her driving out the window she just laughed. When we got home the Patrolman said as it was a Range Rover he'd be out to her soon enough. Glad it happened where it did and that I was there. I'm gutted though as I was about to put it up for sale but I'm hugely more glad that I didn't sell it yesterday to some poor person. Wack, dome and CGSB 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 26 minutes ago, stuboy said: Seems mini-stuboy has now declared the standard 8 his car, not sure how his grandad feels about it as was planned to be sold eventually Grandad wanted to sell mini Stuboy? Mebbe fair, if you can keep the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 35 minutes ago, stuboy said: Seems mini-stuboy has now declared the standard 8 his car, not sure how his grandad feels about it as was planned to be sold eventually Those Standard 8s were real misery spec. It does look quite solid there though and I'm sure a session with some tcut and polish would have it looking quite smart. HMC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 24 minutes ago, anonymous user said: Those Standard 8s were real misery spec. It does look quite solid there though and I'm sure a session with some tcut and polish would have it looking quite smart. IIRC the earliest ones didn’t even have a boot lid as such. MINGEBAG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 News just in, Camry estate failed MoT but nothing too significant: Repair immediately (major defects): Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault (1.6 (b)) Nearside Headlamp not working on dipped beam (4.1.1 (a) (ii)) Offside Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (3.4 (b) (ii)) Offside Front Service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f)) Repair as soon as possible (minor defects): Windscreen damaged but not adversely affecting driver's view (3.2 (a) (i)) Nearside Registration plate lamp inoperative in the case of multiple lamps or light sources (4.7.1 (b) (i)) Nearside Windscreen wiper blade defective (3.4 (b) (i)) Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories): Offside Rear wheel arch corroded Nearside Rear Lower Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement front bush (5.3.4 (a) (i)) Offside Rear Lower Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement front bush (5.3.4 (a) (i)) Nearside Rear Inner Anti-roll bar pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement (5.3.4 (a) (i)) Offside Rear Inner Anti-roll bar pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement (5.3.4 (a) (i)) Rear Lower panel corroded Nearside Rear Inner Suspension component mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive sill (5.3.6 (a) (i)) Offside Rear Inner Suspension component mounting prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive sill (5.3.6 (a) (i)) I knew it was going to fail because of the ABS light. Nothing there otherwise that's too concerning, and to sort it will still be cheaper than hiring a van for all the moving stuff I need to in the next 2-3 months so it looks like it lives for another year brownnova, Angrydicky, adw1977 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 @wuvvum You inbox is full? Quote wuvvum cannot receive messages. I wanted to make contact about something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Probably newsworthy; not many around! 👍 👍 👍 😎 😎 😎 JeeExEll, Stanky, Austat and 9 others 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 In the ring with Les, the legendary Chumley commentator… DVee8, Coprolalia, Sunny Jim and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny Jim Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Relieved that the gasket and head appear to be ok but still no idea where I'm losing coolant to. Losing approx. 1/4 to 1/2 litre per hour when running so I guess the next stage is a pressure test - I don't have the gear for that so I'll have to farm it out. In the picture you'll notice the fluid is rising towards the left-hand chamber indicating positive pressure however although I held the revs steady at times the fluid rose towards the right-hand chamber - is that significant or does it just indicate air being drawn into the system from the same place fluid is leaking out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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