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9 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

There are some nice lots going through Mathewsons auction next weekend.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/details/-march-classic-vehicles--memorabilia-auction/?au=4&pn=2&g=1

Lot 124 - 2007 PROTON SATRIA NEO

2007 PROTON SATRIA NEO estimate £600 - £900.

 

Lot 182 - 2004 FORD FOCUS ST170

 

LOT 182 2004 FORD FOCUS ST170 estimate £1,500 - £2,500 . Didn't someone on here want one of these?


 
 

 

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23 hours ago, SRi05 said:

Some of you may remember this Honda from the roffle thread a few weeks ago:

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Scrubs up not too bad eh  ? I made the mammoth collection of around 3 miles from my house and it had sat on the drive for a week as I was busy at work. Finally took it out for a wash & a little get to know you drive & a short time later a brake hose decided to shit about 5 billion litres of fluid out on the way home which was a laugh*  So it was immobilised for another week or so till yesterday when it was finally replaced.

I'm trying to sweet talk a mechanic I know into swapping the gearbox over, it has a known issue dropping down from 3rd to 2nd gear were it makes an extremely unpleasant crunch, I can drive around it for now though. Plan is to get it through it's MOT in May and take it from there. I'll probably use it more than an I initially thought due to petrol prices being OMFG, makes sense when the rest of the fleet are thirsty bastards.

Overall VELLY PLEASED

Looking good! I kinda regret letting this go now, but it was sat doing nothing. I have the replacement box in the back of the van, will get it dropped over to you

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28 minutes ago, chancer said:

Looking good! I kinda regret letting this go now, but it was sat doing nothing. I have the replacement box in the back of the van, will get it dropped over to you

Nice one, cheers. If you happen to know anyone who'd like some CASH MONEY to fit it then also give me a shout 😂 

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Fuel prices are rising before my eyes, literally. I rocked up for some LPG in the Range Rover. First observation it went up from 82p last week to 96p when I got to the station today. Bugger! I connect the gas filler thingy, press the button and the price rose to 99p as I started to fill up. I've heard of dynamic pricing, but this is more dynamic than I expected! Diesel is defo going to hit £2 per litre isn't it?

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On 3/10/2022 at 10:02 PM, Liggle said:

Looks like an aftermarket stainless manifold fitted?

Yeah, one of those Japspeed D-series manifolds and not much else past the cat as it was knackered. New exhaust is on back order (ECP send you the wrong parts for coupes) an should be here in the next couple of weeks. 

 

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just been to manor park classic auction. have to say I was quite impressed.  No catalogue fee or fee to register to bid.  Even have a 4 post lift you can view the cars on in week leading up to auction. Fuzz Townshend and the guy from Salvage hunters classic cars have some interest in the business and both were there.  Nice mix of cars . Fancied a cheeky one on the Estelle or the Ital but didn't in the end. Ital went for a song at 3k

that Nova saloon had 5700 on clock , although didn't see what it went for

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1 hour ago, Broadsword said:

Fuel prices are rising before my eyes, literally. I rocked up for some LPG in the Range Rover. First observation it went up from 82p last week to 96p when I got to the station today. Bugger! I connect the gas filler thingy, press the button and the price rose to 99p as I started to fill up. I've heard of dynamic pricing, but this is more dynamic than I expected! Diesel is defo going to hit £2 per litre isn't it?

Just filled the Rangey at 72.9p per litre. Same as 2 weeks ago. Not sure how long that'll last.

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8 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

just been to manor park classic auction. have to say I was quite impressed.  No catalogue fee or fee to register to bid.  Even have a 4 post lift you can view the cars on in week leading up to auction. Fuzz Townshend and the guy from Salvage hunters classic cars have some interest in the business and both were there.  Nice mix of cars . Fancied a cheeky one on the Estelle or the Ital but didn't in the end. Ital went for a song at 3k

that Nova saloon had 5700 on clock , although didn't see what it went for

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13 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

BP and Shell are dirty price gouging bastards. 

My nearest shell is 161.9 petrol and 176.4 diesel,

My second nearest (about 2 miles further) is 178.0 petrol and 194.9 diesel 🤔

So give or take 20p difference /L 

Complete madness, and neither are anywhere near a motorway nor any sort of service station!

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6 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

My nearest shell is 161.9 petrol and 176.4 diesel,

My second nearest (about 2 miles further) is 178.0 petrol and 194.9 diesel 🤔

So give or take 20p difference /L 

Complete madness, and neither are anywhere near a motorway nor any sort of service station!

Yep, we've got that here.  There are a Shell and BP literally on the opposite sides of the road from each other and they had a difference of about 15p per litre on petrol and 20 on diesel during the week.  Haven't been past in the last couple of days.

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8 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

My nearest shell is 161.9 petrol and 176.4 diesel,

My second nearest (about 2 miles further) is 178.0 petrol and 194.9 diesel 🤔

So give or take 20p difference /L 

Complete madness, and neither are anywhere near a motorway nor any sort of service station!

On Tuesday I passed a BP selling diesel at 179.9. Supermarkets pretty much everywhere  were selling it for 151.9. 

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Just now, Zelandeth said:

Yep, we've got that here.  There are a Shell and BP literally on the opposite sides of the road from each other and they had a difference of about 15p per litre on petrol and 20 on diesel during the week.  Haven't been past in the last couple of days.

As it all comes from the same refinery/suppliers it much just be blatant profiteering, no matter what they say, when the stations are so close together. 

It's been going on for months since the nonsense last autumn which pushed prices up, they never came back down

Someone's pockets have been lined with gold among all this...

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23 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

That's complete madness, surely they can't be selling any if there are cheaper alternatives a stone's throw away

Brand loyalty. Some people will only use shell or Esso or any of the other biggies because they deem it to be the best* petrol and they have always used that brand 🤷

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12 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Brand loyalty. Some people will only use shell or Esso or any of the other biggies because they deem it to be the best* petrol and they have always used that brand 🤷

I must admit, completely illogically, I tend to 'prefer' Shell. I don't know why, and fully realize its all the same bar a few additives!

However in the case I mentioned both stations with a 20p difference were shell!

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19 minutes ago, trigger said:

I've been offered a car today, apparently a 1 owner from new, he won it on holiday in 1982 in Scarborough in a hotel, he's owned it ever since but is now 81 and is too scared to drive it  but I must say the body work is mint. I'm not sure what it's worth or if I really have room for it? .

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Ooof thats nice!

how do you keep finding these proper Autoshite minters!

GIB! :) 

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32 minutes ago, trigger said:

I've been offered a car today, apparently a 1 owner from new, he won it on holiday in 1982 in Scarborough whist staying at a hotel, he's owned it ever since but is now 81 and is too scared to drive it  but I must say the body work is mint. I'm not sure what it's worth or if I really have room for it? .

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Get that bought now! The back story alone will add to its value. Wont be many left like this. That bootlid version rather than full hatch is a new one to me. Happy to chip a few quid towards a crowdfund if need be. 

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7 hours ago, trigger said:

I've been offered a car today, apparently a 1 owner from new, he won it on holiday in 1982 in Scarborough whist staying at a hotel, he's owned it ever since but is now 81 and is too scared to drive it  but I must say the body work is mint. I'm not sure what it's worth or if I really have room for it? .

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I'd estimate the value at £6k for insurance purposes. And £4k if you actually wanted to sell it. There's likely to be international interest.

Likely the person that buys it will modify it slightly. Add cross 14 inch alloys and better brakes. (Mk3 GSi brakes will fit under a 14 inch wheel) 

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12 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I must admit, completely illogically, I tend to 'prefer' Shell. I don't know why, and fully realize its all the same bar a few additives!

However in the case I mentioned both stations with a 20p difference were shell!

It'll be down to whatever price the garage had to pay when they bought the fuel

Once the older/cheaper garage has restocked they'll soon adjust they're prices

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28 minutes ago, andy18s said:

It'll be down to whatever price the garage had to pay when they bought the fuel

Once the older/cheaper garage has restocked they'll soon adjust they're prices

Or maybe they look at the market rate and think. Fuckit, let's put the price up now whilst we are selling stuff we bought at a cheaper price. 

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Two bits of car good news yesterday… 

Firstly, after stumbling across a thread on a Saab forum describing the exact issue with my 9000 (having looked previously and not found anything) I worked out that the aircon clutch is what had seized. So simply disconnecting the aircon would mean the car will run fine… now this is rather simple so I’m not quite sure why I hadn’t worked that out before!

So (once I had charged the battery) would it work? 
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Of course it would. First time and everything!

Gave it a little test run, and decided when I popped to the garage later I would book it an MoT…

Why was I at the garage?

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Another years motoring assured for the Trans Sport! 

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11 hours ago, trigger said:

I've been offered a car today, apparently a 1 owner from new, he won it on holiday in 1982 in Scarborough whist staying at a hotel, he's owned it ever since but is now 81 and is too scared to drive it  but I must say the body work is mint. I'm not sure what it's worth or if I really have room for it? .

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Holy shit! I had one of those once in metallic pooh brown. I lost my storage and so dumped it in a pub car park.

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12 hours ago, trigger said:

I've been offered a car today, apparently a 1 owner from new, he won it on holiday in 1982 in Scarborough whist staying at a hotel, he's owned it ever since but is now 81 and is too scared to drive it  but I must say the body work is mint. I'm not sure what it's worth or if I really have room for it? .

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This seems oddly familiar. Have you posted about it before?

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12 hours ago, trigger said:

I've been offered a car today, apparently a 1 owner from new, he won it on holiday in 1982 in Scarborough whist staying at a hotel, he's owned it ever since but is now 81 and is too scared to drive it  but I must say the body work is mint. I'm not sure what it's worth or if I really have room for it? .

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If you don't want it, it would be worth helping hook the chap up with a specialist auction house. One owner from new, fantastic condition and fascinating backstory with photographic evidence. It would do well, I'm sure.

There must be another story with the car being mega early spec yet registered on a Y plate. These were all on a very W plate weren't they? 

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I thought it was quite late for a early spec, that's probably why it was given away in a competition, it may have sat around for a while and perhaps couldn't sell it? 

I haven't posted about it before, it's never been on the market, I have a friends who interested but I'm still debating it myself but it would have to replace the Dolomite 

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