The new news 24 thread

[richardmorris]

On 9/13/2022 at 11:59 AM, Metal Guru said:

Kit Cobras seem to vary massively in price from £20k for something with clapped out Rover V8 to close to £100k for a brand new very good copy with a 7 litre Ford.

There’s a specialist just up the road that uses our neighbours hanger for storage. Redline engineering, ottershaw. Huge prices.

[Ghosty]

Someone has pressed 'make offer' on the ad for the car I wanted to view at the weekend, and it's been auto-accepted by eBay which has ended the listing with no reason given. 
The seller is on holiday, I asked him about the listing ending, and he said he'll have to wait and see if the 'buyer' pays for the car or not. 

 

FFS, back to the drawing board. 

[SiC]

8 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Someone has pressed 'make offer' on the ad for the car I wanted to view at the weekend, and it's been auto-accepted by eBay which has ended the listing with no reason given. 
The seller is on holiday, I asked him about the listing ending, and he said he'll have to wait and see if the 'buyer' pays for the car or not. 

 

FFS, back to the drawing board. 

Why didn't you do the same when you saw it online? The offer facility on eBay for cars is a request but not compelled to buy iirc. 

[Ghosty]

3 minutes ago, SiC said:

Why didn't you do the same when you saw it online? The offer facility on eBay for cars is a request but not compelled to buy iirc. 

I phoned the seller and arranged to view it, as it was a classified ad. I'm not willing to buy blind. 

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Ghosty said:

I phoned the seller and arranged to view it, as it was a classified ad. I'm not willing to buy blind. 

"For items listed in Property and eBay Motors classified listings, bids are considered non-binding. When you bid on an item in these categories, you're expressing a strong interest in buying the seller's item, but no formal purchase contract is created if you're the winning bidder."

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/rules-policies-buyers/nonbinding-bid-policy?id=4228

 

[stuboy]

7 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'll make a proper post on my own thread at some point, but thought it was worthwhile sharing this little success.

u brought a trailer??

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, stuboy said:

u brought a trailer??

My Grampa gave me his old one. Dug it out his garage today and I took it home.

[stuboy]

Come home last night and christ the house stank of petrol, my son had the French doors open, so I go look at the mighty moped and the new vacum fuel tap had decided to part open.. ffs.. so tried to ram a bolt in the fuel line end, but got up and its dripping out so quick rummage in the shed I found a manual fuel tap.

 

Bloody bike never wants to get back in the road...

[LabRat]

The 500x is back at Fiat for a new key coding in. In the meantime, all 6'2 20 stone of fat lad here is riding around in this mean machine as a courtesy car

 

It's a 1.0 3 cylinder firefly mild hybrid... 3 cylinders, 70bhp and a 0.1kwh battery/motor in the gearbox apparently. Sweet enough to drive round town, but a blast back to Oldham from Rochdale down the a627m has it struggling.

Still. Could be worse, the dealers also cover MG, so it could've been an mg3...

[richardmorris]

7 hours ago, LabRat said:

The 500x is back at Fiat for a new key coding in. In the meantime, all 6'2 20 stone of fat lad here is riding around in this mean machine as a courtesy car

 

It's a 1.0 3 cylinder firefly mild hybrid... 3 cylinders, 70bhp and a 0.1kwh battery/motor in the gearbox apparently. Sweet enough to drive round town, but a blast back to Oldham from Rochdale down the a627m has it struggling.

Still. Could be worse, the dealers also cover MG, so it could've been an mg3...

Interesting- my TIPO has the same basic engine I think, but 100hp non-hybrid. It actually does fly along very sweetly. Even with three up on the motorway to the Lake District it was still doing 50+mpg and 70+mph happily. The generator in the gearbox must sap a lot of power. The current hybrid tipo  now has a 1.4 litre engine I think but the same power to cope.

[LabRat]

10 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Interesting- my TIPO has the same basic engine I think, but 100hp non-hybrid. It actually does fly along very sweetly. Even with three up on the motorway to the Lake District it was still doing 50+mpg and 70+mph happily. The generator in the gearbox must sap a lot of power. The current hybrid tipo  now has a 1.4 litre engine I think but the same power to cope.

It thrums along merrily upto about 55mph, then the hybrid battery loses charge and the torque drops of sharply. It does seem quite reliant on the generator to give it that bit of extra shove, considering the battery is the size of a couple of AA's!

To be brutally honest, I found it a lot less refined than the old 1.2 fire, but I did get 65mpg out of according to the trip computer and it's only done 3000 miles (all of them as a courtesy car, which probably doesn't help!)

Finally got the key sorted on the 500x, which is nice. The multiair mapping update is even nicer- smoothed out the turbo response in sport mode so it's less laggy at low revs. 

[richardmorris]

I’ve changed to running mine on super unleaded. It’s a lot smoother at lower revs and the mpg is about 10% better. But it’s not doing 6,000miles a year so not a huge mileage. Plus I run the X1/9 and 2cv on vpower or esso supreme so it’s easy to use the same pumps. All the car fleet is now averaging 48mpg each which is weird.

[PhilA]

It must have an effect, I have a similar output electric motor in my truck (partial hybrid, belt driven) and it really helps- an extra 100lb/ft of torque up to 3000 rpm. Apparently it kicks in to help along the road, if you press on the brake just a touch, not enough to get the hydraulics doing anything you can really feel the deceleration. It'll pump all that back into the battery (which takes up all the storage space behind the rear seat).

It's gotta do something, the truck will average UK 23 mpg with ease. Sounds poor but it's huge and that's not bad from a 5.7 liter engine.

Fixed the front seat on the golf cart. The base was made from chipboard, and being outside hadn't done it any favors. Replaced with a piece of 3/4" marine ply. I hate upholstery.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

All the car fleet is now averaging 48mpg each which is weird.

48mpg from an X1/9 is impressive.

[richardmorris]

Just now, wuvvum said:

48mpg from an X1/9 is impressive.

I know. It’s better than spec. 

[stuboy]

Woop woop auto doc parcel arrived... and I ordered a floppy headed ratchet..

[PhilA]

I prefer my SUPERRATCHET.

[Ohdearme]

Vaguely car related as had to chuck the seats out of the espace to go do a thing.

Mrs ODM  - "Stop coming up with these shitty projects like car, computers and crap you never finish"

Also Mrs ODM -  "Can you pop by this address to get something for me"

Probably worth a few quid and got it for free - currently filling my office, tomorrows Zoom meeting will be fun - beats the exercise bike!

[High Jetter]

She'll accuse you of horsing about, mark my words!

[PhilA]

Just saw this parked up on the side of the road, had to turn around and go bang on the door of the house.

That's my wife's old truck, 99 Dodge Ram with the 24 valve Cummins turbo diesel.

We sold it 11 years ago, so strange to see it again. It's got 1,400,000 miles on now, still runs good but the body's falling to bits. The guy bought it as a farm hack.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

so its def her fault youre into old toot

brilliant

you guys love mopar or what??

 

[Ghosty]

I was reminded of the existence of a model of car today. 

I'd completely forgotten they exist, as they're so good at their job that nobody even speaks of them. I thought that one would make a good daily, then I looked at the difference in price between the top and bottom models, and thought hey, I'll get the fancy one, I'd regret it if I didn't. 

So ebay leads me to an example less than an hour away, that's only ever had advisories on tyres and brake pads on the MOTs - and infrequently at that, and has had an older owner that passed away, rather than the typical demographic. The pics are wonderfully honest - showing no wear in all the typical places, and the car is priced well - any other at this price has 50k more miles on it and is dog rough. 

Made a cheeky offer (well it's not binding is it?) and it's accepted. 

All being well I've got one hell of a daily on the way - picking it up after work tomorrow. 

[PhilA]

9 minutes ago, hairnet said:

so its def her fault youre into old toot

brilliant

you guys love mopar or what??

 

No particular attraction to any particular brand, but so far the pentastar has featured a fair bit, yes

[hairnet]

whens the new yorker happening :D

 

 

[Metal Guru]

On 13/09/2022 at 22:42, High Jetter said:

There'll be a Saga in about 3 years!

And Sun Life! No free pen anymore .

[PhilA]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

whens the new yorker happening :D

Thinking more along the line of something like Oldsmobile 442

[mitsisigma01]

10 hours ago, PhilA said:

It's got 1,400,000 miles on now

What sort of mpg did you get out of that beast 🤔

[Floatylight]

Sad times with the planned transit camper conversion project.

MOT spectacularly failed on rust on inner / outer sills, steps, rear suspension mounts, bushes, bosted front spring.. how can something are in 2011 be so rusty!

Garage have quoted £800 for two days labour to patch it up + other parts so not viable, considering either moving it on or doing all the prep myself and seeing if I can get someone to weld it back together with replacement panels, any volunteers for beer tokens?? Thought not...

Other option is selling spares / repairs... shame as I've just done rear discs/pads, bought a second set of wheels /tyres amd done a few other bits & bobs, got to be worth £1k...

Decisions decisions, any wisdom appreciated, cut my losses or press on....

DU11XML for anyone bothered to have a look..

 

[hairnet]

run away

[PhilA]

2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

What sort of mpg did you get out of that beast 🤔

Towing it averaged about 19 mpg.