Erebus Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 41 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Piaggio van failed MOT today on O/S headlamp and 2 front tyres (which I knew were low) with an advisory on the N/S headlamp. Headlamps are made of unobtanium - but I have a pair squirrelled away for just such a contingency. MOT place's tyre suppliers don't now list 155x12 8-ply - no problem, said I, I'll go to my usual tyre place (estd 1925) as I've done for decades: "Sorry, none of our suppliers list that size now". Bollocks. Black circles, here I come - unless someone recommends anywhere else? Edit: BC only do car tyres in that size, not 8 ply. Found Nankang cw25s on Camskil, £171.40 for 4 delivered. Am happy with Nankang, anyone had problems with Camskill? I've used them a few times and they've been fine. Sure I've heard others on here suggest them as well High Jetter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 26 minutes ago, barefoot said: It was Paul who worked on my car. He seemed a nice bloke & gave me a lift back to the bus station however, I suspect that he may be just a little prone to exaggeration. He told me that he'd previously worked as a chauffeur. Now pay attention to the numbers. He told me that he'd been provided with a Mercedes S class which had 200k on the clock. When he returned the car a year later it had 160k. So that's 960,000 in 12 months. I went home & got out my calculator and assuming he worked 48 weeks of the year, he'd have been driving 20,000 miles a week, which is 4,000 miles a day. Assuming that he drove everywhere at 70 mph without stopping for fuel, he'd have to put in 57 hours a day... Pah, you're obviously wrong! He would only have needed to work 40 hours a day if he worked 7 days a week, or he could have only worked 24 hours a day if he'd worked 12 days per week. Honestly, this is basic stuff man. This exact question was Q1 of my GCSE maths exam. Q. "Paul works in a MG Rover specialist in <somewhere northern>, he moonlights as a chauffeur in a 200k mile Mercedes S-class, how many days a week does he have to work to put 960,000 miles on the S-Class in 12 months assuming he never stopped for fuel or food, pissed in the footwell on the move and did 70mph everywhere, all the time? Show your working" A. 12 days per week (crude drawing of a stick man pissing in a Mercedes footwell) 93 marks Datsuncog, tooSavvy, barefoot and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Yaris has had a slow flat since I bought it. Goes down every 3 days. Asked the tuning shop to sort it with the exhaust, they couldn't find an issue. It was audibly leaking... Anyway there's a local car guy I see around a lot that's recently bought an EG Civic. I've spoken to him on Instagram but that's it. It transpired he was a tyre fitter at my local Ford dealer and was happy to do a repair in exchange for a set of EG wheeltrims I had knocking about. Win win. He found the hole easily, but it hadn't gone through the tyre completely hence why they couldn't find an issue the first time. Drilled out and plugged, sorted. Datsuncog, louiepj, Schaefft and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 1 hour ago, High Jetter said: anyone had problems with Camskill? Quite the opposite, they're brilliant. If you have a tame fitter it's about the cheapest way to do tyres. High Jetter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 2 hours ago, High Jetter said: Piaggio van failed MOT today on O/S headlamp and 2 front tyres (which I knew were low) with an advisory on the N/S headlamp. Headlamps are made of unobtanium - but I have a pair squirrelled away for just such a contingency. MOT place's tyre suppliers don't now list 155x12 8-ply - no problem, said I, I'll go to my usual tyre place (estd 1925) as I've done for decades: "Sorry, none of our suppliers list that size now". Bollocks. Black circles, here I come - unless someone recommends anywhere else? Edit: BC only do car tyres in that size, not 8 ply. Found Nankang cw25s on Camskil, £171.40 for 4 delivered. Am happy with Nankang, anyone had problems with Camskill? Camskill are fine as far as I know, I've only ever heard good things about them wuvvum and High Jetter 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 7 hours ago, RayMK said: Update: 1994 Tipo 1.4ie which FTP'd last July and was recovered to a garage: Don't get too excited. Hardly anything has happened except that I've had a brief discussion with the garage. We agreed that as it was a 'back burner' job in a busy garage it was unlikely to receive attention in the foreseeable future. In the next week (+/- a few days) it will be made accessible to a trailer or whatever so that I can have it transported to my house where I can tinker with it and generally ponder its future. Towing is not possible because it is SORN'd and no longer MOT'd or insured. Although I've missed having the option of driving a vaguely interesting, practical, manual car, in all honesty it has been quite convenient to have just two cars outside the house. My '61 Reliant is still with me and roadworthy/road legal but requires considerable enthusiasm to clear its way out of my garage, something which is lacking these days. It rarely gets driven. Rather than just give up on the Tipo (it was tempting), I'm hoping that circumstances will allow something favourable to happen in the next several months. I can always polish it to improve my morale and extend its period of grace for a while. Has the crank sensor been checked/replaced yet? Despite it's age I believe they have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Bought this last week as something to do. It came with half a tank of pez so have a viaduct shot instead. 1.2 HLX with working City mode. Paint is thoroughly knackered but it drives fine, and will do as a stop gap whilst I sort the Xedos out come MoT time next month. I initially thought the tow bar was for trailer tip runs, but the seller used it to occasionally shift his MG Midget about. RayMK, Supernaut, artdjones and 20 others 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popsicle Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 4 hours ago, barefoot said: So that's 960,000 in 12 months. Pah - bloody part timer..... High Jetter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said: Has the crank sensor been checked/replaced yet? Despite it's age I believe they have one. The AA chap said it was pulsing so he suspected the coil or ignition ECU. Lack of sparks caused the FTP. Replacing the coil with a new one made no difference and has, I think, been sent back by the garage. We replaced the ECU with an identical one salvaged from a scrapped but running car by a dealer. That made no difference either. I have a NOS crank sensor but have not fitted it yet. Battery voltage was too low to conduct meaningful ECU pin-out checks. When it is back home I'll fit the crank sensor and a decent battery and see what happens, then do pin-out checks if further clues are required i.e. it still does not run. I may buy a new coil of the correct type as they are less than £30. If I can get it running (mojo permitting and decent weather) I'll check its vitals, insure it and submit it for MOT. No urgency on this, although it makes sense to get it running again before the summer if possible. I had hoped that a garage would be better placed and willing to do the work but understandably bread and butter work comes first. I've used them before many times. Certainly no hard feelings in either direction there. RoverFolkUs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 13 hours ago, Ghosty said: Quite the opposite, they're brilliant. If you have a tame fitter it's about the cheapest way to do tyres. 12 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said: Camskill are fine as far as I know, I've only ever heard good things about them Thanks, have placed an order. RoverFolkUs and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Just found noticed this on some rag is was using, anyone else remember the Camel Trophy? Gaffer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Ex- @BorniteIdentity Avensis SR had an MoT today, not immediately great news but it'll depend how weldable it is..... Most of it seems to be the back of the sills and rear inner arches. For something that's done 282.5k there's a lot it didn't fail on, so hopefully they can do something as it'd be great to get it to 300,000 miles. Rust Collector, RobT, Richard_FM and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Bollocks. If you decide to abort the mission, please let me know and I'll come and fetch it. MorrisItalSLX, Spottedlaurel, barefoot and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 41 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said: Bollocks. If you decide to abort the mission, please let me know and I'll come and fetch it. Don't go making plans for the journey just yet, bits of fresh metal are being welded-in right now! Datsuncog, CGSB, RoverFolkUs and 8 others 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 RayMK and HillmanImp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 HillmanImp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 22 hours ago, barefoot said: I'll have it recovered to a bloke down the road who has no fear of anything... This is not entirely true. I took it to him and asked if he'd be able to sort it. I said that he needn't worry if he couldn't because I knew where there was a nice Citroën C6 that I'd replace it with and he could work on that instead. SiC, Yoss, Sigmund Fraud and 10 others 2 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I know its being a bugger but washed it after being neglected, Saabnut and HillmanImp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Avensis sorted for another year! Popsicle, BorniteIdentity, Rust Collector and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 On 20/03/2024 at 22:14, Nyphur said: That means he drove it for a year and clocked it by at least 40k I was going to say, I think he was discreetly offering to clock your car as a homer... Joey spud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 CGSB and Six-cylinder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I'M ALIVE! Ahem, sorry. This is newsworthy because i have been trying, on and off, for weeks, to compress a front spring on the Chrysler Voyager, after the top mount and the top of the strut parted company (how, I'm not yet sure, as the top is still covered up by scuttle, sound insulation, assorted wires and pipes). Whatever, the strut, top mount and spring have to come out to find out what needs replacing, so the spring, a quite stout item, supporting as it does, over a quarter of the GVW of a (Grand) Voyager, needs to come out. Anyway, everyone who has been aware of this has shaken their head and expressed what widow makers non-hydraulic, non-floor mounted spring compressors are - even the man in the local parts shop who sold me a beefier pair for this job. "I really don't like selling these" he goes. "Everyone i know who has ever used them has been injured. Haven't they Bob?" Bob, the other customer present, replies: "Oh, aye. That young lad at the garage next door, he's been using them years. Still, had one slip on him and now he's got a plate in his head" Etc etc.. So it is with some surprise and not a little jubilation that i have at least completed the first stage of this apparently potentially life threatening or at least life-changing-injury-rich pastime... Wish me luck catsinthewelder, Rustybullethole, RoverFolkUs and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 On 20/03/2024 at 23:32, RobT said: Bought this last week as something to do. It came with half a tank of pez so have a viaduct shot instead. Enysford viaduct. Those Puntos have thinned out a lot, but still a few around. RobT and GrumpiusMaximus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 On 20/03/2024 at 15:42, RayMK said: Rather than just give up on the Tipo (it was tempting), I'm hoping that circumstances will allow something favourable to happen in the next several months. I can always polish it to improve my morale and extend its period of grace for a while. Does your son have any interest in taking it on Ray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayMK Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 1 hour ago, egg said: Does your son have any interest in taking it on Ray? He bought the Tipo in February 2013 after I'd mentioned seeing an advert for it. In mid 2018 he sold it to a friend after acquiring a V70. The friend had been desperate for a means of transport because his VW was having problems but by January 2019 the Scirocco was running again and the Tipo's MOT was due. It needed a fair bit doing, including floor and inner sills welding. The friend was not willing to spend on this temporary steed and scrapping beckoned. I stepped in, bought it back for a nominal sum, funded the considerable MOT work and slowly grew to like the Tipo. Meanwhile, my son had a few company cars before buying a new diesel Tipo which after 3 years was ultra reliable and economical but hardly an inspiring drive. He therefore passed his full motorcycle test, bought a succession of bikes (he now has three) and was lured away from his new Tipo by a low mileage sporty BMW 5 series diesel which he loves. So, in answer to your question, NO 😄. Tickman, auntiemaryscanary and egg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Ordered 4 tyres from Camskill yesterday, had a couple of emails, oe of which said a tracking email would be sent at 6pm. Nothing received so I guessed they'd arrive on Monday. Got home to find them outside the front door, soaking wet. Wife was unaware as courier made no contact. 30 mins later I got the tracking email! Went to put them in the ZTT but the battery was flat and not unlocking. Bugger. Rust Collector 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 5 hours ago, richardmorris said: Koenigsegg Agero richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 20 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said: Koenigsegg Agero Thanks I didn’t see a badge. £3 million it seems. Shame they had to jump start and / or push it. Six-cylinder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Apart from accidentally cutting someone up on a roundabout today - honestly, lane choice and indication suggested they were going around the whole way, not coming off, and then the Princess did that weird bogging down thing that it does sometimes I've never been able to solve - this thing drove past me while doing some shopping. Not my photo, I wasn't able to get one, so I stole it off Pinterest. It genuinely looks better on the move than it has in any photo I've seen of it. I knew it was up north somewhere, and a regular at Whitby for obvious reasons, now I wonder if it's actually pretty local so I shall be keeping an eye out for photo opportunities on this one. Someone did tell me what it was built on once, but I've since forgotten. paulplom, stuboy, richardmorris and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 3 hours ago, egg said: Enysford viaduct. Those Puntos have thinned out a lot, but still a few around. Just don't try the ford at this time of year. Used to love that as a kid. Went to the Roman Villa on a reasonably regular basis... egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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