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[320touring]

Took the Oxford out to dinner tonight. 42 miles round trip up the m80 to Stirling.

Half the run done at night. It's happy at 55 on the flat, 50 on the hills.

Was an absolute champ, perfectly happy driving it about. Well pleased. Took 15 mins to get 20L of fuel in it cos had 3 folk come up to talk to me whilst filling it🤣

The "illumination" may need some work..

Things to note - I think the charging system is struggling with things when the lights are on. The ignition light stays lit. Found a fucked positive battery clamp (spare procured from Halfords).

[GMcD]

Been preparing the Blue MX-5 for sale. 

I suspected it had a small leak from the rain rail after I changed the roof last year. Hasn't been an issue as it's either been garaged/ hardtop on. 

Anyway - fixed. It's my own fault. The bolts holding the rail brackets weren't nipped up enough, so wasn't sealing correctly. 

 

 

[cort16]

You do wonder what goes on inside the heads of Manufacturers as JLR kill off one of the most iconic motoring brands.

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/land-rover-name-killed-off-after-75-years-as-part-of-jlrs-dramatic-plans/283002

[captain_70s]

2 hours ago, cort16 said:

You do wonder what goes on inside the heads of Manufacturers as JLR kill off one of the most iconic motoring brands.

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/land-rover-name-killed-off-after-75-years-as-part-of-jlrs-dramatic-plans/283002

I feel unless you're a car person or Landie botherer the LR name is kind of dead anyway.

JLR sell lifestyle vehicles, Land Rover is a name harking to utilitarian work vehicles. Even then I suspect "Land Rover" is associated more with "what we had to buy before the Japanese built pickup trucks"...

[sdkrc]

Land Rover is dead but they're keeping Ranger Rover, Defender and Discovery on as brands. I don't think the status quo is getting rocked. 

[cort16]

37 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

I feel unless you're a car person or Landie botherer the LR name is kind of dead anyway.

JLR sell lifestyle vehicles, Land Rover is a name harking to utilitarian work vehicles. Even then I suspect "Land Rover" is associated more with "what we had to buy before the Japanese built pickup trucks"...

I do think a lot of people say I have a Range Rover rather than a Land Rover Range Rover but it does seem this plan is a load of shite, which will ultimately confused the customer. 

I think they should rename the the Jaguar XE to be the Road Rover, the XF to be the Road Rover Sport and the F-pace to be the Road Rover off Roader

[Rust Collector]

2 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

Land Rover is dead

Let us have a moment of silence in remembrance of Land Rover, followed by the 21 tilt-and-slide salute:

[Yoss]

And yet the parent company is still JLR. So is that just a meaningless acronym now. A bit like BT I guess, I don't think they've used the words British Telecom for about 30 years. 

[Markeh]

Out for dinner with my best mate from uni and her fiance on Thursday night - it's her late mum that was the former owner of my Meriva - and she happened to mention her nan was potentially looking to get rid of her car as it was causing her trouble.

07 Corsa D. Bought new. 12000 miles on the clock. It looked mint when I saw it while picking up the Meriva. I don't think she'll actually get rid of it, but have thrown my hat into the ring.

This adds the number of vehicles I'm potentially enquiring about to three, if we include my friend's dad's Insignia (my friend being the former owner of the Sedici) and my sadly soon to be late uncle's old SLK.

Despite the fact that what I really need is a tiny shitbox or a van.

[GingerNuttz]

Leaving in a couple of days. 

Got rid of the wife easier than the Clio 😂

[horriblemercedes]

23 hours ago, cort16 said:

You do wonder what goes on inside the heads of Manufacturers as JLR kill off one of the most iconic motoring brands.

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/land-rover-name-killed-off-after-75-years-as-part-of-jlrs-dramatic-plans/283002

I don't get it. It only makes sense if it costs to write the name on the cars or if they think they'll sell more without it

 

I doubt either of those things are true in any meaningful way, so you'd just keep it, wouldn't you?

 

Then again, early Range Rovers weren't branded Land Rover or Rover but kind of considered to be Rovers or a hybrid of the two

 

 

It mainly makes me think of when Austin Rover decided not to call the cars Austins any more so you got a range of unbranded Metro, Maestro and Montego

[Rust Collector]

I finally did the tip run I’ve been putting off today. I didn’t want to shuffle all the cars round, so I went and grabbed the nearest thing with a tow bar…

Amazingly, I made it with the trailer still attached.

It’s almost like a tipper trailer with the height of the Lada tow bar 😅

[Low ontime]

On 4/19/2023 at 10:00 AM, davehedgehog31 said:

My rediscovered enthusiasm for car stuff has continued now that spring has sprung. 

Bought a cheapo dual action polisher from Argos and set to work on the Lexus. I used this Auto Finesse "One Step" Compound as it seemed reasonably straightforward. I used the Bilt Hamber Double Speed wax on it, it's a great product and a tin will probably last you years. 

This is the only crap photo I have, but I'm happy with the results. It looks very smart indeed. 

My parents have put their tourer caravan on a seasonal pitch on the Solway Coast this year so we took a run down over the Easter Weekend for a few nights. Fabia was the steed of choice. 

Some scrap in Silloth. We also had a look round the Silloth Motorcycle Museum. It's just basically the bottom of someone's house but there was some really interesting stuff. Free entry but well worth a small donation.

Spied a proud Corsa B owner in Maryport.

On  the way up the road we nipped in to the Leadhills Railway and then on Easter Monday the Fabia took us to the Doon Valley Railway running day for a steam train ride and then onwards to Girvan for Ice Cream. 

A big weekend for the Fabia. I filled it up on Saturday there and it had done 574.2 miles and used 38 litres of fuel for a frankly obscene 68.69mpg.

What a car.

Corsa photo= dog unit on an undercover stakeout? 

[GMcD]

Yesterdays news (6/4/79) I found in a loft today.  

Linwood shut down as someone did a pee pee where they weren't supposed too 🤣

[Schaefft]

5 minutes ago, GMcD said:

Yesterdays news (6/4/79) I found in a loft today.  

Linwood shut down as someone did a pee pee where they weren't supposed too 🤣

British auto industry of the 70s in a nutshell.

[Vince70]

I took my lovely £250 Cabriolet Golf for its MOT today and it passed with flying colours.

The MOT tester even called me over  to have a look  under the motor  as it’s literally like brand new underneath and he couldn’t believe the condition.

Even the bottoms of the wings are rot free and it drives so nice and runs like a Swiss Watch.

Shes most definitely a keeper, as I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I like the old 8v GTi 2 litre .

I’m just amazed that such a beautiful car which has got another 24 years use in it with general servicing was going to be scrapped, as we really live in a disposable society.

 

[RoverFolkUs]

On 4/21/2023 at 11:38 AM, cort16 said:

You do wonder what goes on inside the heads of Manufacturers as JLR kill off one of the most iconic motoring brands.

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/land-rover-name-killed-off-after-75-years-as-part-of-jlrs-dramatic-plans/283002

They've managed to completely ruin the name and reputation of Land Rover, Range Rover, Defender and Jaguar so they might as well just fuck them all off and rebadge a load of Mondeos or something...

Oh wait... 🤣

[Rust Collector]

On 4/21/2023 at 2:39 PM, Rust Collector said:

Let us have a moment of silence in remembrance of Land Rover, followed by the 21 tilt-and-slide salute:

Well, Karma is fast these days. I went to collect my new Disco 3 today, and turns out it’s an inch too wide to go on the pikey trailer. It sits like this and smokes like a bastard so I didn’t fancy driving it home either.

Best summon the recovery truck then…

[Six-cylinder]

I had a visit today from @Prince_of_darkness91with his new daily! I have now had a run up the road and I think his has landed a great car.

 

[vulgalour]

FTP!

Maestro, picking up Pat from a social, heavy traffic, gears started disappearing on me, felt like a dead clutch which I can normally drive around.  Gradually got worse until in heavy traffic it just made a lot of revs, barely any forward progression and then stalled hard.  Turned out one of the gear linkages had done a Saxo and popped off.  Popped it back on and normal service resumed, normal service being so much slack you can wiggle the gear lever in every gear as though it's neutral, even while driving.

At least it wasn't the clutch or worse, the gearbox itself.

[Rust Collector]

It’s 1994 at my house today:

Shame about the neighbour’s modern spoiling the aesthetic… live and let live I guess 🤣

[320touring]

@blackboilersuit and I were out for a bimble today - 52 miles covered in the Oxford, a fair few more for the Toledo..

That's the Oxford past 200 miles since going back on the road.

 

It was not without incident, more about which you can read here

 

[richardmorris]

All I did was drive to waitrose and work in the 2cv this morning. Slight aggravation at the Esso when I decided to fill up when the fuel cap didn’t want to unlock. Lubricated it when back home and seems happy again.

[stuboy]

went for ultrasound on my hands at dover hospital, and decided to almost rip my front bumper off on a high kerb,  guess ill crack out the cable ties tomorrow. 

 

[Popsicle]

Picked up a Lidl oil transfer pump the other week, its called Ultimate Speed and was around £10.

Wasn't expecting much for the money but its a nice little bit of kit. Comes with decent length hoses, jubilee clips to secure them and crocodile clips for the battery. Put it to use for the first time today pumping the old power steering fluid out of the Caddy.

It was like gnats piss, all lubricity had deffo gone from it, Mannol's finest green coloured jizz went back in.

The steering had been getting a bit heavier at slow turning speeds, so flushed a few lots of this through till it was coming out green and it seems to have sorted out the slow speed stiffness - result. Pretty impressed with the oil pump too, might dangle it down the dipstick tube next time I service something to see how it does.

I also went all posh wiper wanker and fitted some hybrid Michelin Stealth wiper blades, think they where about £7 each in Costco. I've been using the Bosch Aero's for a few years, they always start off well for the first few weeks then slowly deteriorate and start smearing and juddering, so thought I'd give something else a whirl.

I know I do more miles than most but the Bosch's are shot after a month or two (15-20k), so see how these hold up.

[wuvvum]

I dug this old crate out of hibernation today, ready for Drive It Day tomorrow, and took it for a quick spin.

It had a flat tyre on the front and I'd wedged it in so well that I had to reverse it out of the garage on the starter motor as I couldn't get to the engine bay, but it fired up straight away with a jump from the 75, and as always it drove like it hadn't just been sat for 7 months - slightly bindy brake on the offside front but I was expecting that.  Drive It Day looks like it might be a bit of a washout, but after all the time I spent last year getting the wipers to work properly, rain holds no fear for me...

Irritatingly I seem to have managed to lose the Spacy key at some point during the afternoon, although I've found another key in my stash that works in the ignition lock so not the end of the world, but still annoying given how long I've had the bike.

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Vince70 said:

I took my lovely £250 Cabriolet Golf for its MOT today and it passed with flying colours.

The MOT tester even called me over  to have a look  under the motor  as it’s literally like brand new underneath and he couldn’t believe the condition.

Even the bottoms of the wings are rot free and it drives so nice and runs like a Swiss Watch.

Shes most definitely a keeper, as I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I like the old 8v GTi 2 litre .

I’m just amazed that such a beautiful car which has got another 24 years use in it with general servicing was going to be scrapped, as we really live in a disposable society.

 

Autoshite, defined. Well played.

[brownnova]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I had a visit today from @Prince_of_darkness91with his new daily! I have now had a run up the road and I think his has landed a great car.

 

I’m fairly sure that’s the one I saw on the Saab owners club Facebook… of so, not only is he landed a great car, he’s done so for a bargain price!!!

Very very very well bought @Prince_of_darkness91

[MrGTI6]

This morning, I've been looking into getting hold of a certificate of conformity to try and make my 306 ULEZ-compliant.

Not sure if it will work, and some of the websites seem dodgy, but I've heard others have had success doing this with late-'90s petrol cars. 

I'm very nervous about clicking on this green button though... 

[richardmorris]