The new news 24 thread

[RoverFolkUs]

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!

[Zelandeth]

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.

[Kiltox]

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. 

[RoverFolkUs]

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...

[RoverFolkUs]

1 minute ago, Kiltox said:

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

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

[andyberg]

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 🤷

[RoverFolkUs]

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!

[High Jetter]

'You can be sure of Shell' 🎶

[trigger]

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? .

 

[LightBulbFun]

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? .

 

Ooof thats nice!

how do you keep finding these proper Autoshite minters!

GIB!  

[chancer]

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? .

 

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. 

[New POD]

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? .

 

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) 

[andy18s]

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

[New POD]

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. 

[brownnova]

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? 

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?

Another years motoring assured for the Trans Sport! 

[Timewaster]

@trigger that Astra is some GM base model brilliance.

I haven't seen a mk1 Astra in years and a round headlight saloon in decades. 

Brilliant cars. 

[ruffgeezer]

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? .

 

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.

[HillmanImp]

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? .

 

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

[Dick Longbridge]

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? .

 

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? 

[trigger]

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 

[Dick Longbridge]

I'd imagine it would feel very modern in contrast to the Dolly. Possibly less charismatic as a result? Cracking example of a mk1 Astra though. 

[wuvvum]

Get it bought Trig.  There's one of those sat just round the corner from mine, although it's the boring hatchback version. 

 

[Floatylight]

14 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? .

That is awesome, my auntie had a booted W reg one and a neighbour also had a booked one badged as an Opel Kadett, I think by Y reg they had done away with the booted version..

Would love one.

[Joey spud]

My Granvia had a fail to proceed the other day,I suspected it was a blocked filter although the filter was a genuine one and looked fairly new.

So I bunged a new Bosch one on and normal service was resumed.

But just confirm it was deffo the filter I cut the old one open and had a look inside 

Yep that's knackered.

I don't think Toyota have changed their fuel filter design for about thirty years. 

[Joey spud]

I was a YTS trainee at a Vauxhall Dealer when these booted Astra's were nearly new and to be honest the 1200cc pushrod engine compared to the OHC engine was a wheezy underpowered turd that wore out very quickly.

Still nice to see though.

[SiC]

Went to a car meet today with a mate. Mostly modern stuff but a few older stuff that caught my interest.

First one was for @vulgalour. Ignore the Lamborghini Ur Anus in the background spoiling this picture.




















Not sure this was a visitor or just a knackered Fiesta abandoned in the car park.







What was the best car there? This one!


Not sure if the person who bought it on here ever outed himself. However it is great to see it out, about and being used.

[RoverFolkUs]

That Astra needs to be bought, immediately. Its too clean to get chucked on a Transit beavertail and barried 

[DVee8]

6 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

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? 

My old man had a Opel Kadett version on a V reg TGR 185 V.

[reb]

Anyone have any tips for getting a rusted in track rod end off? Preferably without fucking the inner track rod because I don't have the appropriate tool to change that.

[RoverFolkUs]

2 minutes ago, reb said:

Anyone have any tips for getting a rusted in track rod end off? Preferably without fucking the inner track rod because I don't have the appropriate tool to change that.

(Sorry, I do realize that is utterly unhelpful 😂)