barefoot Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: Okie dokie. Twat. RoverFolkUs, wuvvum and BorniteIdentity 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 4 minutes ago, barefoot said: See above*. never named the mondeo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan29 Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 9 hours ago, grogee said: Reminds me of Steve Thomas from school who claimed he'd abseiled down Smeaton's Tower (lighthouse in Plymouth) with no ropes. I don't think that's abseiling? I think that's just falling? catsinthewelder, wuvvum, grogee and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 49 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: Okie dokie. Focus #1 is now called Baxter the Blue Focus Focus #2 is now called Rory the Red Focus Thanks for the idea 👍 My blue Focus has been named the okie dokie chief mobile by my workmates as apparently I say that a lot They've even turned it into a game where you get points for spotting similar ones and being the first to say it. Tickman, wuvvum, Crackers and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 2 hours ago, trigger said: I've been to view that Mk1 Astra today and unfortunately I'm disappointed to say that my wife won't be happy with me as I agreed to buy it 😁 It was absolutely amazing, OK it has a few dints and marks and the engine bay is covered in black zeebart but as a whole its excellent, we couldn't quite agree on a price, he wanted £2000, I wanted £1500, I left a offer of £1700, went home and thought about it and predictably rang him back up and offered the £2000 🙄 I collect it tomorrow I can't wait! Fantastic work! I also think £2K is pretty reasonable for a tidy Mk1 Astra in the current climate. Looking forward to seeing it at Shotley at some point... trigger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Latest in the series of “cars Brownnova nearly bought this week” Growing up my folks had an allegro, so I’ve always fancied one. But in recent years the values have risen. This one popped up locally and at a reasonable price. When that price was dropped to potential bargain levels I thought I’d best check it out… Looks lovely doesn’t it! And from ten foot it is, sadly a poor quality re spray only hides the mass of filler and grot… Underneath is swathed in underseal and a good poke around reveals that it would unlikely to be up to test pass standards even though of course it is exempt and has been used on the road recently. The engine is sweet as a bit though, as long as you don’t look at the tailpipe… Doesnt look too bad here but James Bond would have been proud of the smoke screen at cold idle and under load. Valve seals gone. One or other I could have forgiven, and even despite I was still very tempted, but the issues meant it was too much of a project for me at this time of life. (If I’d had no kids I’d have been all over it!) A chap has apparently offered to put a deposit down and come and collect off the strength of the (poor) photos… good luck to him! barefoot, wuvvum, trigger and 4 others 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Apparently, this: will be negotiating this junction later today, approaching from the left and the turning to 'follow' the red and yellow cars. Anyone care to guess how long that will take? grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 16 hours ago, Dan29 said: I don't think that's abseiling? I think that's just falling? Or base jumping? Dan29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Had an SOS message this morning from a mate, car's dead, got any idea? Plenty, but none that would work over text message so put tools and the kids in the car and headed over. Hyundai i40 estate, dead as a dodo. Swapped the battery with mine and it was alive again! £85 for a new battery later and its even more alive, spins over better than it did with my battery 😂 Then we went to the park with his kids and had dinner and it was all very nice! He'd phoned the garage he bought the car from last year and they wanted him to trailer it over to them so they could diagnose it. Which I could sort of understand as all he had told them was 'it wouldn't start' and that's never easy to pinpoint over the phone, he's not very car savvy... grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 I think those keep left bollards are fairly easily removed so it might not be too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Finished fitting new rear springs and shocks to the saab today. Bit of a bear of a job to be honest. Getting bolts off was pretty hard and even lining them up to go in again was an arse. All done now though and a test drive revealed no clunks and a nice smooth ride. Checked the oil, cleaned the windows and fiddled with the ABS fuses which surprisingly turned off the warning light so a little win there. All set for a parts delivery run tomorrow and maybe drop in to FOAD's meet in Fife. grogee, dome, Split_Pin and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Got the 2cv running for the first time this year ( started ok when I’d pumped fuel through using the starting handle ). Then washed the modern car which was covered in half the Sahara. Now noisy free range Sunday lunches are making themselves heard. grogee and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Filling out the Scottish Census, this is a question... I don't want the Scottish Gov to judge me, a single person household, for the amount of cars I have! 🤣 Austat, AnnoyingPentium, Six-cylinder and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 1 minute ago, 17-Coffees said: Filling out the Scottish Census, this is a question... I don't want the Scottish Gov to judge me, a single person household, for the amount of cars I have! 🤣 I saw that one too and thought of AS. 😆 chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, 17-Coffees said: Filling out the Scottish Census, this is a question... I don't want the Scottish Gov to judge me, a single person household, for the amount of cars I have! 🤣 By running older cars you are keeping an entire business sector going - servicing, parts, restoration, etc. In the England one the other year I put 4 cars, and commute by bicycle. Thought about putting down Jedi as religion but stuck to cofe. 17-Coffees 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Got the replacement front strut fitted to the Laguna today. It actually turned out to be a piece of piss, relatively speaking - the only real issue I encountered was that one of the hub carrier bolts didn't want to come out, the rubber mallet wasn't making any impression so in the end I had to screw the nut part way back on and belt it with the lump hammer. The only other awkward bit was holding the replacement strut up inside the strut tower with one hand whilst trying to wangle the bolts in from the top with the other (the Laguna has threaded holes in the strut top mounting, rather than studs which would have made life easier). I didn't have to undo the bottom ball joint in the end - with the hub carrier bolts removed the assembly could pivot far enough forward on the ball joint that I could just drop the leg out. Even the rusty stub of cut-off drop link still attached to the replacement strut came out without resorting to the grinder. Took it for a test drive and things are a lot quieter up front, so that's good. Things are not quite so rosy on the Rover 75 front. I took it to the jet wash in the next village to wash the Sahara desert off it, and when I'd finished and got back in to drive home it wouldn't start. It was churning over but not firing, and the radiator fan was kicking in. After a short while it flattened the battery (which was fairly low anyway). I called the AA but they were very busy and gave me a 2 hour ETA, so I walked home and got the Maxus and the jump leads. With the leads attached and after a lot more cranking it eventually fired up, but all was obviously not well - after a few seconds of running it spluttered a few times and then the idle went up to 1,500rpm and the engine light came on. Touching the brake took the idle speed back to normal. Tried stopping and starting it a few times but no difference. It was running though so I sacked off the AA and started to trundle home at 1,500rpm - which unfortunately is not quite enough to get it to change gear, so I was going quite slowly. After a bit I discovered that if I floored the accelerator it would pick up, so I was able to get it up to 30 and nurse it home, then get on the pushbike and go back to retrieve the Maxus. Once I was home I popped the bonnet to investigate and found the scuttle full of water. Mea maxima culpa I hadn't checked the plenum drains in a while (they've never blocked before in my ownership) - they appear to have been coping OK with "normal" rain but the rather more intense stream of water from the jet wash had proven too much. I got my longest screwdriver and rodded the nearside drain out and the water dribbled away. The ECU wasn't under water but some of the wiring had got rather damp. I'm hoping that once it's been left to dry out for a day or two it'll sort itself out - I could do without having to get the ECU repaired on top of everything else... Split_Pin, RoverFolkUs and HillmanImp 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Just got back from a round trip up to St Helens to see my mate @purplebargeken. Six and half hour journey covering almost 360 miles. Went in the A4 and while it has poverty spec seats with no adjustable lumbar, I feel alright still and not slaughtered. Audi diesels are shit. I was busy trying to get his red Toledo running again. While Ken was busy de-doggy-fying the A4. Bit of an uneven work load as the Audi was filthy and the Toledo ended up being an easy(ish) fix. We had spark on all four plugs and spraying carb cleaner into the intake caused it to run from that. So we knew it was mostly there. Fuel in the float bowl and the float needle was operating correctly. Going back to the dizzy I noticed the powerspark module was sitting on a rusty plate. I cleaned that up with some sandpaper. Also checked the dash pot level and that was low. Tried to start it again but this time with the air cleaner off and it ran. Wouldn't accelerate without bogging down though. We decided that we would replace the powerspark module with standard points. Straightforward job that I took the time to clean up the wiring. I made new flyleads as the original car ones were splitting at the base of the crimp. Originally the car would have had a ballast resistor but at some point it was taken out. So I spliced these two together and made a single fly-lead. The coil to dizzy wire was not OEM and very badly crimped too, so replaced that. Dizzy vac capsule held vacuum perfectly. Been a while since I've seen an original Lucas one that hadn't split internally! Plugs were a mixed bag. Also Bosch rather than NGK or similar. Ken is going to get some new plug wires and replace the plugs then. Didn't have a set of feeler gauges to hand, so used a bit of cardboard that looked roughly 15thou. Timing was done with the engine running with a timing light. Got it running again and much better. Still popping through the exhaust, so hopefully new plugs and leads will solve that. The current leads are rock solid and look possibly original. I noticed cyl 1 was jumping around a bit on the timing light too. Carb looked in very clean condition inside. Likewise the needle float valve didn't look that out at all. I suspect the last owner had been through this fairly recently. Choke mechanism is very similar to my troublesome Moggie one. I've managed to get the Moggie choke linkage moving correctly but it's still not great on pulling the jet down. This is suffering similar issues. I know PhilA said this design was crap and replaced later on. The cars themselves are in pretty good condition. The green Dolomite is shiner but an older restoration. While the red Toledo is extremely original. Paint is faded and has been polished so much, it's come off in areas. However it looks like it's never been restored before and it's swage lines are still very sharp. Been an excellent day, just knackered now. The bissle cleaner has got out a tremendous amount of dirt from the Audi. Hoping it's enough to reduce the smell. Mostly there when sat overnight, so will find out in the morning. Tomorrow hopefully will be another day of car work but my own. Need to try getting the Dolomite sills on and a good push to finish the last bits on the Moggie. Isopon, LightBulbFun, mercedade and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 A fab day was had, much kudos to Si for Toledo fettling. I hope less doggie odor prevails!! aldo135, SiC and Popsicle 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Saab 9000 went for test today… failed. Needs welding on the inner arch But for a car which has been sat for 6 months I’ll take that! Had a pallava getting it too the test, my 21 month old loves the keys box and had pushed the Saab remote fob a few times opening the boot, turning the light on, and flattening the battery. Had to nick the Volvos one for the test! Dyslexic Viking, Tickman, mk2_craig and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 In a Premier Inn in Corby. There's a V10 diesel Phaeton in the car park, dumped across two spaces, no plates, collapsed suspension. It's been here so long it's on Street View. 🤣 AnnoyingPentium, Lacquer Peel, MJK 24 and 5 others 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 First meet of the year for me. Was a passenger in a Mini and a Rover P4 100... I wasn't fit to drive due to an evening of merry abandon. And Alison is covered in Saharan Sand... Six-cylinder, Dyslexic Viking, RayMK and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 More cars: Dyslexic Viking, Six-cylinder, uk_senator and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 And a couple more: cort1977, Dyslexic Viking, wesacosa and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Went to a classic car meet around the corner from me this morning. Plenty of interesting and different stuff. There was more Imps than MGBs! Sorry for the Hickety Pickety order of photos. Just a big old dump to stress your internet connection. If you like old cars, there is bound to have been something of interest. Dyslexic Viking, Leyland Worldmaster, HillmanImp and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 33 minutes ago, SiC said: Just going to Tag @AdgeCutler... AdgeCutler and Twiggy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Bloody Quadlock If manufacturers can't be arsed to I stall a decent stereo then they should standardise the bloody wiring. Pug 107 has Canbus Quadlock only there isn't a frigging standard. On line wiring diagrams suggest pin 13 is permanent live. But on my car it's not. Mutch fuckery with a test meter and I ended up having to install a new switched live and new ground point. God help the next person to dismantle this as I couldn't depin the adaptor black is live and red is ground. Thankfully I've fused everything including the switched feed from the fag lighter. Also footwell lights. AnnoyingPentium and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 23 hours ago, High Jetter said: Anyone care to guess how long that will take? The convoy suffered delays and a breakdown yesterday, so didn't make it until today. Had a bit of a pause before that roundabout so that Highways could go and fetch some sandbags to provide 'ramps' to the islands. Both loads just squeaked round, the second one needing 2 attempts. Took about an hour at that point. Six-cylinder, Dyslexic Viking and LightBulbFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 There are better photos and some videos here if anyone is interested: https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/live-a27-sussex-abnormal-lorry-6832868 mercedade and UltraWomble 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Looks like the day for a car meet! Today I went to Off the Rails at Crewe heritage railway centre. Nice mix of stuff… pic dump in 3…2…1… Prize for the most ridiculous steering wheel goes to… In… Lots of train action on site including model railways… Took the TransSport as the whole entourage came along for the ride! cort1977, uk_senator, High Jetter and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Lovely pictures. Can I ask where you find out about these little shows ? @brownnova @Leyland Worldmaster @SiC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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