richardmorris Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 23 hours ago, brownnova said: Decided to daily the 2CV this week, I think it’s the first time I’ve done the full 5 (well 6 as I used it last Friday too) in it. Almost faultless to the very end. Truly is totally capable of the daily grind at 36 years old, and far more economical than the Volvo!! A 2cv is really the only car anyone needs. 50mpg, 4 doors and a decent boot. Took mine to waitrose this morning with the roof down at 7.30am and 21 degrees and it rained on the way back with no clouds in the sky! LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Stopped at a services somewhere in NE Leics. Do they really think anyone will buy oil at these prices? mitsisigma01 and AnnoyingPentium 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 On 6/16/2022 at 10:18 PM, MJK 24 said: Super steady…. I'd be reporting that. Not ok to endanger others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, grogee said: Stopped at a services somewhere in NE Leics. Do they really think anyone will buy oil at these prices? I'd buy a litre for £20 if the light was on but probably refuse to spend money there ever again. Bet they don't sell many 5L bottles at £73. Dyslexic Viking, Ted Eggs, AnnoyingPentium and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Just now, catsinthewelder said: I'd buy a litre for £20 if the light was on but probably refuse to spend money there ever again. Bet they don't sell many 5L bottles at £73. I know! I'm wondering if it's a typo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 31 minutes ago, grogee said: I know! I'm wondering if it's a typo. Don't think so, think they're about £85 at my local! Concur with catsinthewelder, people might buy the 1L bottles in a pinch but don't think anyone's going to shell to buy a bottle for an oil change! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Fuckkkkk I bought 5L for £19 not too long ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 A few minutes before the chequered flag drops, to start today's Aslackby Charity Car Rally. Had a minor mishap with my Puma's NSF mudflap but we're good to go now. Onward! Cookiesouwest, mercedade, Dyslexic Viking and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 16 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said: Fuckkkkk I bought 5L for £19 not too long ago! Was in Tesco earlier and their own brand oil is £17 for four litres, so it hasn't gone up that much - it's just the services charging stupid prices. AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Just now, wuvvum said: Was in Tesco earlier and their own brand oil is £17 for four litres, so it hasn't gone up that much - it's just the services charging stupid prices. Didn't notice that the photo was taken at a services, pays to be observant in my case. I can get 5L of the stuff I use online for £22 or so. So that'll do me fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 The air ambulance has just landed behind our house not good news if landing in a residential area. There were more people out to watch this than the jubilee. Eyersey1234 and grogee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 A beautiful classic in pristine condition, and some old British beater. gadgetgricey, louiepj, Sunny Jim and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 I haz agreed to do a buy! In typical autoshite fashion, £600, moon miles, retail silver with rust bless, no MoT, not seen it running and won't run unless it's started on easy start and I've not really got anywhere to store it. 😂 Cookiesouwest, brownnova, Rust Collector and 16 others 15 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny Jim Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Looks like Jackson Pollack has been turning round outside my house. Discovered where the leak is coming from - just got to work out where the other end of the pipe goes! Fairly certain it goes to the the OSF strut return but there's a bundle of pipes behind a clip which I'll need to remove first to be sure. Fastener for the clip currently soaking in penetrative oil before I attempt to remove it. HillmanImp and Yoss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Floatylight said: I haz agreed to do a buy! In typical autoshite fashion, £600, moon miles, retail silver with rust bless, no MoT, not seen it running and won't run unless it's started on easy start and I've not really got anywhere to store it. 😂 If it lets vital fluids out and rainwater in, that's Autoshite full house RoverFolkUs and Floatylight 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Think I finished all the welding needed for the MOT on the Visa today. It needs a fair bit more work to get it right but definitely feels good to have what the tester will hopefully consider sills and floor. SiC, Split_Pin, Rust Collector and 13 others 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 On 6/16/2022 at 11:31 PM, wuvvum said: Just had a look at the emissions readout for the Innocenti from its test today. CO was 0.03% and hydrocarbons were 24ppm - pretty amazing for a 30-year-old carburettor engine that's been sat around for most of the last five years. In fact it's cleaner than the 107... 107 may have been tested on cold/luke warm idle. I think garages do it early on a test if it's more convenient for them to do, as if it passes when not up to temperature, it's still a pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 I had hoped that for Father’s Day I would get more time in the garage than I did, but I’ll take the quick half an hour deciding which of the front wings I have for the 2CV are least rotten and most saveable. Turns out it’s the two red ones… so that’s me painting them green then. Some brief repair work done to them ready… but didn’t even get time to get back and sand the filler I’d applied down. Where do the weekends go!?! Dyslexic Viking, HillmanImp and Six-cylinder 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 subframe polybush for my racing diesel 305 m8, 3 more and it can have its back wheels on the ground again. 3D printed molds are easier to sacrifice than trying to get the bushing out. Supernaut, Fumbler, Tickman and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobloseven Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 20 hours ago, grogee said: Stopped at a services somewhere in NE Leics. Do they really think anyone will buy oil at these prices? Daughter came round a couple of Sundays ago. Oil light had come on in her car. Checked dipstick which wasn't reaching the oil. Evening so all the usual suspects were shut. Car, 66reg Peugeot 208 needs 0w30 stuff. Got lots of oil in shed, but none of that. Phone oldest son, he hasn't got any either. He lives near the Leicester Forest East M1 Services. Phones me up, 23 quid a litre. Fortunately I'd just been to the petrol station at the bottom of the road and paid 15 quid. That got it back on the dipstick. Only holds about 3 litres anyway. Bought 5 litres and a filter from GSF later for around 40 quid, but haven't got round to changing it for her yet. She's going to Dubai in August so car will be sold off anyway. Been a good car for her really. Had it new on a Just add fuel PCP, bought it outright when the 3 years were up. Just got in on the £20 pound tax. WBAC come up with more than she paid for it,so all good. HillmanImp and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, Dobloseven said: Daughter came round a couple of Sundays ago. Oil light had come on in her car. Checked dipstick which wasn't reaching the oil. Evening so all the usual suspects were shut. Car, 66reg Peugeot 208 needs 0w30 stuff. Got lots of oil in shed, but none of that. Phone oldest son, he hasn't got any either. He lives near the Leicester Forest East M1 Services. Phones me up, 23 quid a litre. Fortunately I'd just been to the petrol station at the bottom of the road and paid 15 quid. That got it back on the dipstick. Only holds about 3 litres anyway. Bought 5 litres and a filter from GSF later for around 40 quid, but haven't got round to changing it for her yet. She's going to Dubai in August so car will be sold off anyway. Been a good car for her really. Had it new on a Just add fuel PCP, bought it outright when the 3 years were up. Just got in on the £20 pound tax. WBAC come up with more than she paid for it,so all good. 5W-30 would have been better than nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 7 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said: 5W-30 would have been better than nothing I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30? Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeT Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 minute ago, Metal Guru said: I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30? Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service. I wouldn’t think so. If a car is seriously low on oil I’d put anything in which is relatively close. Just checked the Shell app, and they generously allow 10% off of their own oils. That brings the price down to… far too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 3 hours ago, Metal Guru said: I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30? Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service. Yes. 5w is thicker from cold but both have the same viscosity at operating temperature. On my old Civic diesel, the tolerances were so tight that it because important that you used 0w30 and nothing else. In an emergency though, the car would obviously get what it was given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I think this completes the Saaab welding saga. Crumbly bit under the battery tray that would have been much easier to fix while I had other bits chopped out. View is looking down on the OSF inner wing Cut out Test fitting one half of the repair Weld that on... And make a small patch for the other bit Underneath bit of tidying and paint and it can be MoT'd Rust Collector, Dyslexic Viking, GrumpiusMaximus and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 More lada estate doors tailgate and more scrap.. bumpers and gearbox... And a dawes bicycle too.. This fella never threw anything away.. Anyone check out the numberplate? brownnova and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 5 hours ago, Metal Guru said: I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30? Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service. Not particularly, it's just thicker from cold. If you put something like 10w-40 you might get issues, but a small difference would be ok. Generally speaking, if it's less than 10years/100k miles I put 5w-30 or if over then 10w-40. Never had any issues. Exact oil grades are only really important when you've got hydraulic tensioners, or hydraulic VVT and suchlike. In your case I would have filled it with 5w-30 then just changed the oil back to 0w-30 when you were able to get it at a reasonable price, i.e not shell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbridge Apologist Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 This feels like the moment when Alan Partridge watched his book getting pulped… trim_D2FCB0AA-9147-4E9D-BC19-1F1C44AEAB9F.mov “IT LOOKS LIKE PORRIDGE!" chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 54 minutes ago, stuboy said: More lada estate doors tailgate and more scrap.. bumpers and gearbox... And a dawes bicycle too.. This fella never threw anything away.. Anyone check out the numberplate? Is there a steering box on the other end of that steering wheel? If there is, even if the rest gets binned, please save that. RHD specific steering parts are made of unobtainium, especially steering boxes. So one that's either serviceable or in a rebuildable condition is something that is well worth saving. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookiesouwest Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Mrs leaves for work. 2 mins later she calls. Car won't start. I go give her the keys to my CRV and I am reminded that she did tell me last week it was playing up. Quick trip to Halfrauds to purchase a new HB075. Surprisingly they were cheaper than ECP. It was a bastard to fit. No pictures as I was too busy swearing and threatening the car with being cubed. Passing pedestrians not to impressed with the language emanating from under the bonnet. Also forgot that @andyberg Jnr has a bloody trade card. Cock wombles. All done now. andyberg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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