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Right, back off holiday on Kintyre.

Twas lovely apart from the clegs and midges, but you have to accept those wee critters.

Sea mamals, dive-bombing birds, crystal clear water, green mountains, no light or sound pollution, no signal, nae bother.

And a whole lot of shite on the roads, my Passat looked positively de-rigour.

 

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7 hour journey home, it actually took us about 12 hours with stops. 

Right, bedways is bestways.

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3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Sorry, completely forgot that they are separate keys! Again. Try Stan plats - pm me if you don’t have his number.

I have sent Stan an e-mail. 

First time I have ever had a key snap like that. A bit of a comedy moment when I was left holding the key stub.

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1 hour ago, Cord Forteener aka Tim_E said:

Right, back off holiday on Kintyre.

Twas lovely apart from the clegs and midges, but you have to accept those wee critters.

Sea mamals, dive-bombing birds, crystal clear water, green mountains, no light or sound pollution, no signal, nae bother.

And a whole lot of shite on the roads, my Passat looked positively de-rigour.

 

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7 hour journey home, it actually took us about 12 hours with stops. 

Right, bedways is bestways.

Looks really nice, any sign of Paul McCartney?

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8 hours ago, Crackers said:

The clutch judder which I thought had been eliminated on the P6 has returned, although perhaps not as bad as it was before. I'm convinced it's something to do with heat soak as it only seems to happen when the car has got warm on a run, then been switched off and left for a while, then driven again. Either that, or motorways - a long, relaxed cruise on A roads seems fine - I did well over an hour on Wednesday without any problems, but the judder seems to come back in after a 70mph blast. 20 mins each way to the Amberly meet today and when I got home it started to judder again. 

Very odd. 

Anyway here's a photo from this afternoon alongside Fumbler's BX.

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Try bleeding the clutch?

  

4 hours ago, Cord Forteener aka Tim_E said:

Right, back off holiday on Kintyre.

Twas lovely apart from the clegs and midges, but you have to accept those wee critters.

Sea mamals, dive-bombing birds, crystal clear water, green mountains, no light or sound pollution, no signal, nae bother.

And a whole lot of shite on the roads, my Passat looked positively de-rigour.

 

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7 hour journey home, it actually took us about 12 hours with stops. 

Right, bedways is bestways.

Oooh, I know where that is; very nice.

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9 hours ago, cort16 said:

I always thought cans of Juice exploding in hot cars was a bit of a myth. It seems not !

im sure the electrics under the cup holders appreciated being drowned in hot 7up

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Mate of mine had that happen with an aerosol can.  Of contact adhesive.  In the driver's door pocket of their Skoda Estelle.  It exited the car via the sunroof.

The interior looked like a scene from an alien horror movie...sadly the incident wrote the car off.  Especially as we only discovered it had happened several days after the event as the car wasn't in regular use so everything had set rock hard by the time we found it.

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Reminds me of when I was working on a country cottage renovation.  Joiner tidied out his van and threw cardboard packaging and wood scraps on a little bonfire next to his van.  Shortly afterwards there was a loud bang and stuff spraying and splattering everywhere and all over the van.  It was a full plastic canister tube of expanding foam which had fallen in amongst the cardboard and the stuff was sizzling boiling hot.  Guy had it all over his clothes and had to have a haircut to cut out the sticky bits, could have been blinded.  Absolutely no chance of the mess cleaning off the van which was still quite new.

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13 hours ago, Crackers said:

The clutch judder which I thought had been eliminated on the P6 has returned, although perhaps not as bad as it was before. I'm convinced it's something to do with heat soak as it only seems to happen when the car has got warm on a run, then been switched off and left for a while, then driven again. Either that, or motorways - a long, relaxed cruise on A roads seems fine - I did well over an hour on Wednesday without any problems, but the judder seems to come back in after a 70mph blast. 20 mins each way to the Amberly meet today and when I got home it started to judder again. 

Very odd. 

Anyway here's a photo from this afternoon alongside Fumbler's BX.

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Boiling off the (brake) clutch fluid in the heat?

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Many thanks to @320touring today for his guidance and help with the Audi exhaust.

We found it was blowing in 4 different places. 2 from the bottom of the downpipe and 2 further back at either end of a small silencer.

Much mig welding and grinding later...

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I think its still blowing...

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Yep it is, arse.

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It's better than it was but ultimately the exhaust is at the end of it's life. I am currently considering my options but a fabricated replacement is looking the most sensible way to a permanent solution.

Cheers also to @jaypee for the len of his big jack.  Getting the car high enough was an issue before but now that it was almost level with the upstairs rooms in my house, there was much more space and light.

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1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Many thanks to @320touring today for his guidance and help with the Audi exhaust.

We found it was blowing in 4 different places. 2 from the bottom of the downpipe and 2 further back at either end of a small silencer.

Much mig welding and grinding later...

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I think its still blowing...

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Yep it is, arse.

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It's better than it was but ultimately the exhaust is at the end of it's life. I am currently considering my options but a fabricated replacement is looking the most sensible way to a permanent solution.

Cheers also to @jaypee for the len of his big jack.  Getting the car high enough was an issue before but now that it was almost level with the upstairs rooms in my house, there was much more space and light.

Nae bother dude, good work on the Audi. 

The big jack is pure handy!! 

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A bloody hot jaunt in the 2CV over to Capesthorne Hall today. 
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15 minute queue in and a 20 minute queue out notwithstanding (complete with several overheating MGBs) it was an excellent show, far better attended than I have ever seen any previous event at Capesthorne!

Have some prime AS fodder… 

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Complete with Hubnut sticker, the Corolla owner could be heard yelling power less is more at me as we pulled alongside one another at traffic lights on the way home. 
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Nice early Vectra! 
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pink it’s like red but not quite… 

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Not got a huge amount done this weekend as the weather was too hot to be crawling around under cars, but I did have another crack at the Toyota's brakes - I think I've got the rears adjusted properly now, they're not binding anymore and the handbrake feels about right.  The pedal still isn't quite there but it's better than it was.  I've done as much as I can (I even bled them all again) so will just have to see what the MOT man says on Wednesday.

Today I dug the Mobylette out of the garage to take some photos to send to the cyclemotor club so they can do me a dating certificate.  I gave it a quick rinse off first as it was rather dusty from its lengthy slumber.  I tried kicking it over just to see what would happen and, once I'd remembered which way was "on" for the fuel tap, it actually fired up fairly easily.  I definitely didn't* then put my helmet on and ride it back round the corner to the garage.  It's odd that a 40-year-old French 2-stroke can fire more or less straight up after being untouched for a year, and yet the supposedly bombproof 4-stroke Honda doesn't want to know...

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From a personal point of view, on Saturday, I decided it would be hot enough to change my shocks and drop links, so I did 🤣

I was a proper melting mess by the time I came in. Was going to do more work on the car yesterday, but decided against it so built a BBQ instead.

 

In proper autoshite tradition though, one of the members of my car group has got a particularly shit Dahaitsu Cuore AUTO. He bought it for £200 to teach his girlfriend to drive in.

Over the weekend, he took it off-roading and apparently, it did fantastically. FWIW, I have no idea why it has yellow lights.

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He really does need to join this forum. As well as having an MR2 Roadster, his daily is a 22 year old Micra.

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1 hour ago, Cord Forteener aka Tim_E said:

When you go away for a week and your Volvo starts growing poppies. 

 

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A week or so back I got into the Ypsilon, having not used it for a few days, stuck it in reverse and it immediately started shrieking at me.  My first thought was "oh cock, the parking sensors have shat themselves", but it turned out that a large weed had sprouted behind the car since it was last used and one of the leaves was about an inch from a sensor...

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4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

A week or so back I got into the Ypsilon, having not used it for a few days, stuck it in reverse and it immediately started shrieking at me.  My first thought was "oh cock, the parking sensors have shat themselves", but it turned out that a large weed had sprouted behind the car since it was last used and one of the leaves was about an inch from a sensor...

I backed up my new truck when I first got it into the driveway.

It had a panic attack about the bush and stamped the brakes on for me.

GWWWAARRRRRRrrrrrrrrrk goes the brake pedal. Didn't need that to happen right at that point...

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16 hours ago, brownnova said:

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I spotted this on the road in Stalybridge last week! 

 

 

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This belongs to a young lad about 20 who's trying to get a pre-2000 meet going in Preston with mixed results. The 280Z next to it is his dad's. 
The lad has an H reg Sunny with fender mirrors and Japanese spec lights and grilles as a daily driver.

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5 hours ago, andy18s said:

After a few weeks of mid 30's it's nice to see it cooling down a bit......

Ffs

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What's odd is that's warmer than it is here, we're averaging between 32 and 35 right now with a low of 25-28 overnight.

However, August through about November we'll be hotter. Joy!

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5 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

This belongs to a young lad about 20 who's trying to get a pre-2000 meet going in Preston with mixed results. The 280Z next to it is his dad's. 
The lad has an H reg Sunny with fender mirrors and Japanese spec lights and grilles as a daily driver.

That's superb. I'm very much liking that (I have a BMW in that colour)

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15 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Think back to that horrible winter of 2010. I swore I'd never complain of it being too hot again and I never have.

It's glorious out. Just been for for run to Halfords to pick up an oil filter tool for the Civic. I went in the Audi with the roof down, tremendous! 

Long drives with the roof down can be dangerous right enough, my face and back of my neck are burnt to fuck 😂 you don't feel the sun at all.

But long may it continue ☀️

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