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[Split_Pin]

Aye his era of interest is exactly the same as mine although he says he's never had a Corsa B. That's good as I've seen enough of them!

That roaster of a woman might have done him over but he sure turned a negative into a positive with saving the car and getting a few thousand subs along the way!

[brownnova]

15 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Really struggling to find a car for sale that I actually want to buy (!). Just looking for a winter shitter... 

 

15 hours ago, grogee said:

I have the exact opposite problem. 

Also in the market for a winter beater and can’t seem to decide what I want… there are loads of quite interesting things out there.

Although I really ought to sell some thing before I buy! 

[Jamie]

4 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Aye his era of interest is exactly the same as mine although he says he's never had a Corsa B. That's good as I've seen enough of them!

That roaster of a woman might have done him over but he sure turned a negative into a positive with saving the car and getting a few thousand subs along the way!

Same! Before I became a serial bmw licker I had plenty of vectra B's, corsa B/Cs and an Astra G. My mate had a corsa sport as a, first car in red, I used to envy him 😂

 

[Jamie]

Fixing stereo surround no glue. 

 

This'll have to do then. 

Note : it not mine 

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Theory test revision I did for 30 mins last night is working. 
 

 

swot bastard

 

[LabRat]

Mrs_LabRat had a little* bump in the Tivoli last night. Was at a notoriously bad unlit crossroads in the dark, didn't see the bloke opposite her indicate to turn right across the front of her and walloped it.

Of course, she couldn't pick a bloody focus to hit, oh no. She went and twatted an Isuzu Trooper, which needs quite a bit of repair now- new bumper, headlight, bumper support, front grille and wing... Which because it's a late model trooper (04 plate) means that you can't source the parts.

The Tivoli is looking a bit worse for wear too:

I'm reckoning new wing, headlight and bumper skin, but we shall see what the insurance says.

She is fine thank Christ, other than it tripping off her anxiety by having to deal with the insurance. 

[Minimad5]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

swot bastard

 

How did you get on, at the actual test ?

[hairnet]

7 lessons - pass

 

[JJ0063]

2 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

How did you get on, at the actual test ?

Theory done.. 47/50

 

Can’t remember the hazard perception but enough to pass 👍

[barefoot]

6 hours ago, barefoot said:

And I've been meaning to say for a while that since switching to super unleaded, Barry covers noticably more miles to the galleon.

Naming cars is for utter twats.

I really am an utter twat. I can't believe that I wrote Barry, when of course I meant Billy!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The inevitable queue at the local jet wash.....

[High Jetter]

13 minutes ago, barefoot said:

I really am an utter twat. I can't believe that I wrote Barry, when of course I meant Billy!

Ah, was confused for a moment, thought you meant Bobby! 😃

[auntiemaryscanary]

10 hours ago, barefoot said:

Barry covers noticably more miles to the galleon.

Naming cars is for utter twats.

Dear Mr barefoot, I have in past given some my cars ironic* monikers, "The Doblo of Delight" and "The Perodua of Power", (oh how I larfed at the Nippas 42bhp) to name but 2.

Question: in your most valued opinion does the above edge me closer to or actually put me in utter twat territory.

If you do not want to tell me the truth in a public forum I have enclosed a stamped address envelope.

Yours expectantly but nervously,

Mr auntiemaryscanary

[barefoot]

There's nothing wrong with any of that old bollocks, it's the total absence of any proper marque identifier that sticks in my clack. 

[grogee]

6 hours ago, LabRat said:

Mrs_LabRat had a little* bump in the Tivoli last night. Was at a notoriously bad unlit crossroads in the dark, didn't see the bloke opposite her indicate to turn right across the front of her and walloped it.

Of course, she couldn't pick a bloody focus to hit, oh no. She went and twatted an Isuzu Trooper, which needs quite a bit of repair now- new bumper, headlight, bumper support, front grille and wing... Which because it's a late model trooper (04 plate) means that you can't source the parts.

The Tivoli is looking a bit worse for wear too:

I'm reckoning new wing, headlight and bumper skin, but we shall see what the insurance says.

She is fine thank Christ, other than it tripping off her anxiety by having to deal with the insurance. 

Sorry to hear that. It's such an unpleasant thing to happen, and then you have Brazil-style bureaucracy to deal with afterwards. It's enough to ruin a weekend (she'll be miserable, which will make you miserable too). 

I guess insurance is the only way to go but in terms of pure repairs it might get away with just the bumper and lights. The wing and bonnet could be touched up, possibly. 

That doesn't help the 04 Trooper of course and you're right, that is a bad combination of old, shite and rare for the parts people to deal with. Wonder if they'll end up writing it off? Farmers would be frothing at the gash for those.

[LabRat]

9 minutes ago, grogee said:

Sorry to hear that. It's such an unpleasant thing to happen, and then you have Brazil-style bureaucracy to deal with afterwards. It's enough to ruin a weekend (she'll be miserable, which will make you miserable too). 

I guess insurance is the only way to go but in terms of pure repairs it might get away with just the bumper and lights. The wing and bonnet could be touched up, possibly. 

That doesn't help the 04 Trooper of course and you're right, that is a bad combination of old, shite and rare for the parts people to deal with. Wonder if they'll end up writing it off? Farmers would be frothing at the gash for those.

Unsurprisingly, it's a farmer who owns the trooper, he uses it for his dogs and farm work and it's not exactly a sparkling example. Destined to be a fridge soon I reckon- currently the only font wing he could find in the UK was £600 and the number support beam was £350 second hand!

As for the Tivoli, I reckon the wing, headlight and bumper will need replacing, the bonnet can be straightened up where it's bent over and repainted. Comes to something when part for and obscure Korean car are easier to find.

[Bren]

Pricing the tools to pull and reseat the vectras' leaking injectors. Not even entertaining taking it to a workshop as either to hard to do or £££££££.

[grogee]

2 minutes ago, Bren said:

Pricing the tools to pull and reseat the vectras' leaking injectors. Not even entertaining taking it to a workshop as either to hard to do or £££££££.

Dizzle I take it. I was asked to do an injector on a Qash thing with the 1.5dci, but didn't have the kit and was a bit scared at the risk of breakage in head. Maybe they're not too bad. Anyway my policy is usually 'take the job on, you'll still make a few quid and have the tool to do more afterwards'. Consequently I have loads of tools now. But never quite enough. 

[SiC]

51 minutes ago, Bren said:

Pricing the tools to pull and reseat the vectras' leaking injectors. Not even entertaining taking it to a workshop as either to hard to do or £££££££.

Tried looking for a mobile injector puller person? Quite a few around nowadays as it's become a specialist tool job and skills. 

[Bren]

15 minutes ago, SiC said:

Tried looking for a mobile injector puller person? Quite a few around nowadays as it's become a specialist tool job and skills. 

They were out 12 months ago - I am hoping they won't be stuck....

[trigger]

I bought a new project today. 

The world's greenest Fiesta van... Its in fact a 2011 1.6TDCi Econetic Van, apparently. My neighbour bought it about 5 years ago for talking his dog out in but never ended up using it much and when the screen broke and mot lapest it just ended up as a tool for moving logs around his garden before being laid up for the last year or more on the drive. 

I was chatting to him this afternoon and asked what his plans were for it, probably scrap it but I haven't a clue, he said, would I be interested in it? Hell yeah! 😂 £600 was handed over, got it jumped started of my car and drive it back round mine. 

It is absolutely mingling! 

If you think that's bad the boot was growing its own ecosystem! 

As the misses was out I took the opportunity to get straight to work in the boot, a full black bin of wood and bark came out including even a sleeping Carpenter bee!

Whicha after about 3 hours looked like this again. 

So as you can see LOADS of cleaning to do but I'm quite excited to do that, I reckon under the muck is a really tidy van, even the back looks like it's had a easy life considering its 134000 miles. 

Mechanically it needs a battery, bonnet pull, a couple of tyres and possibly a ball joint and definitely a good service and windscreen but not much really. 

[Zelandeth]

4 minutes ago, trigger said:

I bought a new project today. 

The world's greenest Fiesta van... Its in fact a 2011 1.6TDCi Econetic Van, apparently. My neighbour bought it about 5 years ago for talking his dog out in but never ended up using it much and when the screen broke and mot lapest it just ended up as a tool for moving logs around his garden before being laid up for the last year or more on the drive. 

I was chatting to him this afternoon and asked what his plans were for it, probably scrap it but I haven't a clue, he said, would I be interested in it? Hell yeah! 😂 £600 was handed over, got it jumped started of my car and drive it back round mine. 

It is absolutely mingling! 

If you think that's bad the boot was growing its own ecosystem! 

As the misses was out I took the opportunity to get straight to work in the boot, a full black bin of wood and bark came out including even a sleeping Carpenter bee!

Whicha after about 3 hours looked like this again. 

So as you can see LOADS of cleaning to do but I'm quite excited to do that, I reckon under the muck is a really tidy van, even the back looks like it's had a easy life considering its 134000 miles. 

Mechanically it needs a battery, bonnet pull, a couple of tyres and possibly a ball joint and definitely a good service and windscreen but not much really. 

That's a bargain that is.  We just got one of these in at work before I left and it was hilariously quick for a van and great fun to drive.  I may have driven it with rather more enthusiasm than really should have in a company vehicle with fleet numbers and such plastered all over it!

Good valet, service and a year's test I don't reckon you'd struggle to double your money on that.

[cort16]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

Tried looking for a mobile injector puller person? Quite a few around nowadays as it's become a specialist tool job and skills. 

My friendly mechanic had has a Vauxhall Vivaro van in iwith 2 knackered injectors. He tried to get it one of them out, poured ointments and lotions down, tired pullers etc  but ended up bursting the top off it. It turned out this Vauxhall engine has a trick with it leaking water down the injectors holes,  rusting the injectors and getting stuck in the head.

He got one of these mobile guys out and the got the 2 stuck ones out and replaced them. Cost 1500 quid though.

[Patent]

There's an art exhibition currently on at the London Southbank Centre by a Finnish artist who has abandoned a bunch of cars outside and illuminated the interior at night.

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/anne-roininen-car-show?eventId=889953

I can only assume Anne Roininen is one of us

[wuvvum]

Today was an exciting day.  I drove the Volvo to Tesco.

The first time I've actually been "somewhere" in it (rather than just pottering up and down the road outside my house) in over ten years. 

It's not entirely happy - it's suffering quite badly from fuel starvation, not sure whether there's a partial blockage in the fuel line or whether the eBay special electric fuel pump I fitted a while back is on its last legs or simply not up to feeding the prodigious thirst of the B30, but either way it gets decidedly spluttery after a bit and doesn't want to do much more than 30.  It never cuts out though.  Leave it idling for a minute or two so the fuel pump can catch up and it's back to its usual sprightly self, albeit briefly.

On a more positive note, the run to Tesco was enough to kick the alternator back into life, and it's now putting about 13.4v into the battery at idle - so not brilliant but it's definitely charging.  Also the heater is surprisingly effective given the non-functioning blower - even at town speeds it was doing an adequate job of demisting the windscreen.

Not really done much else this weekend, other than empty out the back of the C4 in preparation for its impending departure to a new owner - this involved some creative use of space in the garage, the door only just shuts and I now have two pushbikes in my kitchen, but everything is under cover that should be.  I really do need another van mind.

 

[mitsisigma01]

15 hours ago, Patent said:

There's an art exhibition currently on at the London Southbank Centre by a Finnish artist who has abandoned a bunch of cars outside and illuminated the interior at night.

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/anne-roininen-car-show?eventId=889953

I can only assume Anne Roininen is one of us

Is that it.... or is there more cars lit up... Modern fkin art... 

 

More art in the 2cv

[TheOtherStu]

On 11/12/2021 at 8:26 PM, Gerrymcd said:

I didn't spot this otherwise I'd have come round and said hello. Thanks for taking the time and effort to display your car. I much prefer seeing a loved example that is used regularly, rather than seeing rows upon rows of display models you could eat your dinner off. Much more my cuppa tea! 

Cheers.

This was our stand. The Mk1 on the left is good and in original condition, however, Mark who owns it drives it very regularly and has put most of the miles on it.

The Mk2 is in the midst of being restored, but again, it's regularly driven. The one on the right is mine. It has terrible road rash on both the bumper and the bonnet. The offside has quite a few scratches. The left side doesn't, simply because it had so many dings and scratches, I actually had to get it resprayed. The rear is a mess too. Lights are milky and so on.

I also find it amazing how much the NEC lights make cars look much nicer than they are.

[gm]

i liked the tape collection in the mk1  

 

[richardmorris]

Off for the mot.

[SiC]

On 11/12/2021 at 11:02 AM, SiC said:

The restoration side of Charles Ware has apparently gone into administration. Parts section still going on as a separate concern. 

It's official. Quite a few people panicking as they have cars under restoration there.