Mally Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 10 minutes ago, Jikovron said: Dodge cab Spotted this at random and thought of the bollox camper wagon mainly as its listed in Alfreton! @warren t claim Maybe worth passing that on if you would please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 7 hours ago, wuvvum said: A while back I noticed two holes that had been burrowed into the pile of grass clippings in the back garden. I assumed some small rodent had made its home in there - the holes are about the right size. Today I met its resident. What was it, I hear you ask? Maybe a cute little field mouse, or perhaps a vole? Nope. It's a fugging spider. Huge bastard great black hairy thing, probably the biggest spider I've seen in this country outside of a zoo. You can just about see its front legs poking out of the hole on the right in this picture: Now I'm normally no arachnophobe, but that's taking the piss a bit. I'm happy for it to continue minding its own business in my compost heap, but if I catch it coming in the house it's going to find itself on the wrong end of a carefully aimed lump hammer. Jesus wept , we get some odd creepy crawlies down by the docks, colleague had something the size of Tarantulas in her shed. Can you get a full size pic of that beast ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coprolalia Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Cardiff. Been sat there 10 years. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/car-been-parked-same-spot-12298165 anonymous user, artdjones, Split_Pin and 7 others 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 43 minutes ago, Coprolalia said: Cardiff. Been sat there 10 years. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/car-been-parked-same-spot-12298165 That takes me back to Grangetown or Splott c.1974. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Coprolalia said: Cardiff. Been sat there 10 years. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/car-been-parked-same-spot-12298165 "Gonna restore it one day". That's going well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jude Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Coprolalia said: Cardiff. Been sat there 10 years. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/car-been-parked-same-spot-12298165 I'm impressed that the tyres have held air for 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 5 hours ago, omegod said: Jesus wept , we get some odd creepy crawlies down by the docks, colleague had something the size of Tarantulas in her shed. Can you get a full size pic of that beast ? I did try - I saw it fully outside of its burrow but by the time I went and got my phone it'd gone back inside again, and despite hanging around for 20 minutes or so that's as far as it came out when I had the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 6 hours ago, Jikovron said: Dodge cab Spotted this at random and thought of the bollox camper wagon mainly as its listed in Alfreton! Looks like wor Bollox is online at the moment. @Mr_Bo11ox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Yeah I've had a couple of PM's about that so cheers chaps, much appreciated. Its been on FB for a little while and I quite like the idea of buying it and trying to use my spot weld drill to carefully partially dismantle the cab for repair sections 'Arthur Tussik'-style, plus the screen and doors would probably resell quite easily. I think the cab as a whole is toast as the roof is all bashed in on one side. I havent got a space for dismantling it at my place.... but maybe the seller would let me do it on site. I'll have a think about it and maybe drop him a note . Will let you know if owt happens! Coprolalia, loserone, Mally and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 I drove the vectra today - my wife's car so I don't use it every day. I noticed the brake pedal was spongy - normally it is very firm. Wife, as usual noticed no difference, cos wife. Pedal goes hard when engine not running. Plenty of fluid in the resevoir but it is dirty. I wonder if the high temps have affected the fluid? It absorbs a fair bit of moisture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 The external paintwork to the property is being done. This has appeared- it makes a huge racket! Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Two of these and a mclaren F1 this morning. DeeJay and Six-cylinder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 A full lock set for the CX has arrived from Stan Platts, with keys! Tickman, Vantman, richardmorris and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 1 hour ago, richardmorris said: Two of these and a mclaren F1 this morning. It is a McLaren Speedtail, about £1.75 million each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: It is a McLaren Speedtail, about £1.75 million each. It looks like the least user friendly thing I’ve spotted. No luggage space, huge overhangs and low ground clearance and huge turning circle. Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 4 hours ago, Bren said: I drove the vectra today - my wife's car so I don't use it every day. I noticed the brake pedal was spongy - normally it is very firm. Wife, as usual noticed no difference, cos wife. Pedal goes hard when engine not running. Plenty of fluid in the resevoir but it is dirty. I wonder if the high temps have affected the fluid? It absorbs a fair bit of moisture. I think you'd have to nail it around a track for about 10 laps before the heat boiled the fluid so I doubt the highish ambient temperatures would impact it. It sounds as though air is getting in somewhere, have you had work done on the brakes recently? A bleed would help but to root cause would still be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 15 minutes ago, Split_Pin said: I think you'd have to nail it around a track for about 10 laps before the heat boiled the fluid so I doubt the highish ambient temperatures would impact it. It sounds as though air is getting in somewhere, have you had work done on the brakes recently? A bleed would help but to root cause would still be there. They havn't been touched. It crossed my mind one may be sticking - this would correlate with the poor economy we have been getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 3 hours ago, richardmorris said: It looks like the least user friendly thing I’ve spotted. No luggage space, huge overhangs and low ground clearance and huge turning circle. That thing isn't meant to be user-friendly. It's meant to show incredibly filthy rich the owner is. Nice work if you can get it. chadders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRi05 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Cleaned and polished the Astra this morning, managed to buff out a good few scuffs so pretty happy with how it's turned out. It's always going to be a 6 footer but it's looking clean and tidy. I tried to get the get the front grille off but three of the screws are absolutely siezed on with rust, fighting with them is for another day. Replaced the done in number plates and a bit of trim on the passenger door. It's came up well. RayMK, mk2_craig, Tickman and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 After several months rusting resting, this came out to play today… After having been quoted three grand for the welding work by a 2CV specialist (they wanted to rebuild the back end essentially) I decided to try a more old school welder type instead. I knew I had the man for the job when I saw this Asia Rocsta outside… Much more pleasing price, but small waiting list. Early September and the welding can be done, then we can fit the wings etc we have here waiting. On bringing it home Mrs brownnova decided to show her friend just how rusty it is by pulling on the seatbelt… which came off in her hand, bringing part of the inner wing with it! Told you it was Rusty! Dyslexic Viking, Lacquer Peel, CGSB and 16 others 16 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 we had the mini out to play today, but the revels were sadly short lived. seems our old friend "Mr Missfire" has come back. its the same symptoms as before, stuttering under load. so i guess the culprit is going to be some crud floating around in the carb somewhere. so the days run over the wee back roads of north yorkshire got cut short, and we headed over to Kerrys as fast as 10 inch wheels and 3 cylinders could manage. only to find out that kerry had left her keys at home "cos i won't need them with me" fucks sake. i have decided that i am going to NAIL a fuckin' coat hook onto kerrys forehead so that there will be somewhere to put her fookin' keys! well, now't else for it but to head for home. we made it too, though there were moments when i thought we weren't! "get and old car, they said, it'll be fun, they said......" so after that, well i doubt we will be running out tomorrow in the run from Middlesbrough to Pickering. we also found that the head gasket on that car is weeping, well more than weeping, dribbling, leaking, pissing out? oil too. yep, i am REALLY loving the bloody thing at the moment! and the Rover went for its test the other day. it failed, of course. basically it needs the cataracts on the headlamps polishing back, a o/s track rod and the hand brake, which is shit on a 75 at the best of time encouraging back into something resembling working order on both wheels. so not too bad for a 20 year old, 208,000 mile Rover! now to get someone to just do the jobs above. and the Toyota too has had a test what it failed with a "major defect", the repeater thing in the wing mirror had given up, now this is not some wee bulb, like what it would have been in the olden dayz, but some sealed LED shit. the only one i could get was from the local toyota main stealer, for £90. £90 FUCKING QUID!!!! still, could be worse, a friend had the same thing with some piece-of-shit golf, and that was £800-odd plus VAT as they had to change the WHOLE DOOR MIRROR! the LED nonsense wasn't available on its own, so it was a complete mirror job. "german engineering" what a fuckin' joke!! SiC and Isopon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Yesterday back to retirement weekend, rip out the kitchen, scraped all fire encouraging ceiling tiles from lounge/kitchen/bathroom and bathroom walls. Found a nice duckhams jug probably worth 20p and a empty paint stripper that tin i thought was cool looking.. LightBulbFun, Fumbler, Carlosfandango and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Took the Cavalier down to the NE meet yesterday, it was a brilliant day. Unfortunately the drive back was somewhat tense though! The Cav is overheating quite a bit. It's fine on A roads and around town but on the motorway the needle rises almost to the red, especially on inclines. I thought I wasn't going to make it home at one point. On reading up on it when I got home, the 1.7TDs are known for this. I've bought a new thermostat (I've been told there are 2 though, no idea where the second one is!) and I will flush the cooling system out, hopefully that will cure the issue. The coolant in it looks spot on though so I'm not sure why it would be crudded up. My plan is obviously to fix this, get it MOTs again in September and then I will probably sell it. Jim Bell, tooSavvy, Dannyk and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 56 minutes ago, stuboy said: Yesterday back to retirement weekend, rip out the kitchen, scraped all fire encouraging ceiling tiles from lounge/kitchen/bathroom and bathroom walls. Found a nice duckhams jug probably worth 20p and a empty paint stripper that tin i thought was cool looking.. In the early 1980s when I ran a motor parts store we sometimes were sent boxes of them to give them away with a 5 LTR Duckhams 20/50 oil purchase. I used to have a couple but have not seen them for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Bridged both fans on the Cav this morning, both working. I will get a new sensor as well as a thermostat. The housing doesn't look great but the only 2nd hand replacement on ebay doesn't look any better. I also shut a screwdriver in the wing channel, jamming the bonnet shut. Thankfully Mrs_Pin was on hand to help me get it open again. My old car mojo has taken a bit of a dive this morning. Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 This arrived yesterday: I have to admit I much prefer it over the previous generation, I wasn't expecting that. The interior is pretty Spartan in a "wipe it down with a damp cloth" kind of way, it rides well, the 1.3 turbo lump seems to propel it well enough (I'm not insured on it so I didn't get a go) and it has an astonishing amount of rear legroom and boot space! I might buy one myself once they're a few years old and a bit cheaper! Cord Fourteener, Tickman, Dyslexic Viking and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Nyphur said: Wtf is it? Dacia Duster, the only acceptable modern car Cord Fourteener, Lacquer Peel, tooSavvy and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Split_Pin said: Bridged both fans on the Cav this morning, both working. I will get a new sensor as well as a thermostat. The housing doesn't look great but the only 2nd hand replacement on ebay doesn't look any better. I also shut a screwdriver in the wing channel, jamming the bonnet shut. Thankfully Mrs_Pin was on hand to help me get it open again. My old car mojo has taken a bit of a dive this morning. It's probably a sensor right? it's a bit basic for ECU trickery to be controlling the fan. Did you sort the issue with the oil filter? It's also a bit hot to be messing with the car, I make more silly mistakes in the heat I find. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Possibly but I think other issues are afoot.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 As noted elsewhere, I painted the passenger mirror on the Toledo today - taking it from green to the correct body colour. Looks decent, doesn't it? Obviously, being the base model, the drivers one is all black plastic. FFS! Cord Fourteener, loserone, Split_Pin and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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