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[NorfolkNWeigh]

The Rover 600 has gone.

Bought it off AngryDicky's Dad 2 years ago when it was 2 days from the bridge. The plan was for some of my daughters to use it for a French road trip then scrap it when the ticket ran out.

They took it to France abused it for 2000 miles and then.... It seemed silly not to run it in for a test, it passed with no money spent on it.

My second oldest started using it( note I didn't say bought it) she is quite simply a killer of cars, but it wouldn't die.

It did need a few quid spending for last years MOT , exhaust,cat and a calliper. She managed to reverse into a lamppost and rear end a brand new 3 Series plus many scuffs and dents on pretty much every panel, still kept going though .

A couple of weeks ago it cut out and then the battery was completely dead, what with the smashed headlight and a couple of iffy tyres, I decided to replace it with a 1993 520i ( although she since swapped it with her sister's C Class)

 

Anyway at the weekend I had a look and discovered the battery to body earth had come adrift, so I put it on Gumtree. Last night a lad turned up and wanted to buy it- but I can't find the logbook!!!

Turned the house upside down ,but nowhere to be found. Had to turn him away.

This morning phoned a local ' cars wanted' ad. Turned up, want it for banger racer and breaking so not bothered about V5. I'll just SORN it and if the V5 turns up I'll fill it in as scrapped.

Forgot to take a picture as it drove up onto the rustiest mk3 Transit beaver tail I've seen in a long while.

So, bottom line purchase price £100, 2 years 100% reliable service including international executive express duties. Sold for £50 . Seems like a good deal.

Plus it's going out in a blaze of glory.

[catsinthewelder]

1/1/97

 

To get pre 97 entitlements on a post 97 licence you would need to take a moped test,  a minibus test (D1), light truck test (C1) then take a trailer test in the light truck to give you C1+E which would also give you D1+E and B+E.

 

Edit,  sorry didn't spot the last page of posts.

[vulgalour]

Stuck the new plug leads on the Renault but waiting to see if the local motor factors can get me a correct wet coil for it for less than getting one online before I can go any further with it.  Might have figured out the timing issue with the Princess too having remembered that setting anything on that car by the book results in it not working properly so what should be TDC according to the book probably isn't actually TDC.  We had this problem before and it took an age to figure out.

 

Not sure if I'll get the shocks done on the Rover this weekend as I'm probably helping Chompy with his Picasso.  We'll see how we get on.  Motivation still at a bit of a low lately, the state of the world is getting me down quite a lot.

[Barry Cade]

 

This morning phoned a local ' cars wanted' ad. Turned up, want it for banger racer and breaking so not bothered about V5. I'll just SORN it and if the V5 turns up I'll fill it in as scrapped.

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Please don't do this. I spend every evening now collecting cars off the street that have "no registered keeper" or "have just been sold, but I gave them the V5"... Usually been rallied around the streets or used for "criminal activity".

[BorniteIdentity]

Please don't do this. I spend every evening now collecting cars off the street that have "no registered keeper" or "have just been sold, but I gave them the V5"... Usually been rallied around the streets or used for "criminal activity".

Hmmm. Difficult one. No MOT and nowhere to put it? Plus if everyone followed the rules you'd be out of a job.

 

You should be thanking him really.

 

(Jk)

[For Fiats Sake]

Did a bit of tinkering with the Regata this afternoon.

 

Clutch biting point was approx 1" off the bottom of the pedal travel,  as it has had a new clutch but not a cable I had a thumb through the Haynes manual and looked for pictures of what to look for.

 

 

Look at all that space in the engine bay!

 

 

needs a bit of rust cure there.

 

Finally a car that can accommodate my gigantic hands!

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Please don't do this. I spend every evening now collecting cars off the street that have "no registered keeper" or "have just been sold, but I gave them the V5"... Usually been rallied around the streets or used for "criminal activity".

To be honest, that's why I didn't sell it to the lad from Gumtree, he was happy to take it without V5, and would have paid twice as much.

The guys who picked it up, I vaguely know. I've lived here for 37 years and been in and around the lower ( dodgy) reaches of the motor trade on and off for all this time.

[Junkman]

The haunted Rover wouldn't be haunted, if it wasn't haunted.

 

After returning from the Rover Sanatorium, it gave sterling service to the extent, that it morphed into a veritable high performance saloon (refer to my account of Shitefest shenanigans). However, this came to an abrupt halt, when it was used on a trip to look at another car (refer to my Peugeot 405 thread for reference), when it suddenly decided to piss petrol out of the overflow of the offside carburetter.

Well, some ad hoc carb removage, dismantlage and needle valve needle cleanage did indeed stop it pissing petrol all over everything, but it ran like shit all the way back and then some. It didn't pull and it cut out every time it became stationary, which is quite tedious in a country that has a red traffic light every 50 fucking yards and a government that tells its population that speed kills and said population buying into that horseshit, despite never having actually travelled at speed, because there is a red traffic light every 50 fucking yards.

 

So today, I played some Blues on my Martin Smith parlour guitar and then set to work.

I took out both carburetters (only people who have done that can appreciate how shit that ordeal is), dismantled them and cleaned them out, all the time ensuring that the settings set by noted Rover P6 Guru Tom from Lake View Garage remained undisturbed.

I refitted said carburetters (only people who have done that can appreciate how shit that ordeal is), restarted the car and it made exactly the square root of sod all of a difference.

 

Thats when I got pissed off.

And whenever I'm pissed off (when I'm pissed off, I can guarantee you, that I weigh ten metric tons, exactly like when cake portions are too small, which they weirdly are exactly in Canada of all places, where you would expect everything to be big, but they are fucking Puritans, that's why cake portions are so small there), things are going to happen.

 

So let's note:

 

1. Cars fitted with a distributor only run right, when the distributor cap is actually fixed to the distributor.

 

2. Your petrol pissing carburetter may be a show stopper, but no matter how well you mend it, your car will only run right, when your distributor cap is actually fixed to the distributor.

 

However.

 

There is another thing.

 

For six years (6 years. Since I bought the car in 2001), the windscreen wipers weren't self parking. And the interval didn't work.

So I got used to switching off the wipers exactly the moment when they were in the park position. In fact, I got so used to it, that I did the same thing in all cars, which's windscreen wipers

actually self parked in exactly the position they self park.

 

Today, I attached a black wire that was never connected to anything to a connector that never had anything connected to it.

Low and behold, now the windscreen wipers do self park. But that's not all. Oh no no no no no.

The interval also works beautifully, something that's unheard of in Rover P6 circles. Something that will make me the envy of everyone at the upcoming Didsbury car show.

[trigger]

I was just looking at the tyres on my Astra as they are a bit cracked and not great in the wet, does the date stamp 241 mean 1991?!

 

 

 

If they are 1991 then they must still be the original tyres? They have done bloody well for a 65000 mile car, they still have over 2.5mm of tread left!

[garbaldy]

Date stamp is four numbers is it not ?

I take mine to mean 21st week of 2015 and if that's true yours must be 1941 😂

 

 

I've never seen a set of Michelins without cracks.

[scaryoldcortina]

date codes from the 90s only have three digits - that is indeed week 24 of 1991

[garbaldy]

date codes from the 90s only have three digits - that is indeed week 24 of 1991

2001 was my first thought untill I checked my tyres,

I thought that tyre dating was a fairly new thing ?

[danthecapriman]

My Transit was still wearing it's original 1984 tyres on it's front wheels, I'm sure that date code was three numbers. I made changing them for new my priority on getting the van home as they wouldn't grip at all and gone hard and shiny.

 

Trig, on yours the three numbers are the date, so week 24 year 1991. There is also a small triangle symbol after the date code, this indicates a 1990's manufacture. If that triangle is not there but you still have a three figure date code it indicates 1980's manufacture.

 

I'd say they definitely got their money's worth out of those tyres!

[Junkman]

My Transit was still wearing it's original 1984 tyres on it's front wheels, I'm sure that date code was three numbers. I made changing them for new my priority on getting the van home as they wouldn't grip at all and gone hard and shiny.

 

Just drive on them for 2,000 miles and they will be soft and supple again.

[danthecapriman]

Just drive on them for 2,000 miles and they will be soft and supple again.

I had them changed for new. I didn't like the idea of using them tbh even though there was loads of tread left. They were rock hard and cracking, the surfaces had all gone like a glossy shiny finish and the grip/steering was terrible. They are commercial grade tyres so should be a lot stiffer anyway but the difference with new tyres was huge.

[trigger]

I can't believe 3 out of 4 of my tyres are still original, it's not like it's mega low mileage or anything either, there's one Michelin Classic on the front but that doesn't have a date code on it.

[danthecapriman]

I can't believe 3 out of 4 of my tyres are still original, it's not like it's mega low mileage or anything either, there's one Michelin Classic on the front but that doesn't have a date code on it.

Whoever owned it had done very well out of them that's for sure!

You going to change them?

[trigger]

Yeah I'll have too as i can't risk a blow out and they don't grip very well in the wet. The trouble is I'm looking at spending £160 for a set which is quite a lot on something I'll probably not keep for 5 minutes, i don't think I've got a lot of choice though.

[Asimo]

 

Just fired this pair up for the first time in a couple of months to drive them around the garden to "loosen them up". Both started immediately, which sort of reliability still seems amazing to me even after ten years of not having VW or Renault. But they do stink inside, a horrible dusty, dry, stale pong of neglect, like old vacuum cleaner bags. Subaru EML light came on, perhaps it just needs a blast down the M50....

 

 

And this hasn't moved in two weeks since getting a new MOT, except when I push it out of the way of grasscutting. I don't like having stuff I don't use but I just don't want to drive anywhere these days.

[Asimo]

Intending to sell but doing nothing about it 'cos lazy and busy with other stuff.

[Supernaut]

I'll have that Legacy if it's a 2.5 (or above) and the price is right.

 

My driving style will definitely blow out the cobwebs.

[cort16]

Yeah I'll have too as i can't risk a blow out and they don't grip very well in the wet. The trouble is I'm looking at spending £160 for a set which is quite a lot on something I'll probably not keep for 5 minutes, i don't think I've got a lot of choice though.

 

Get a decent set of part worns on it. At those tyres sizes it'll probably cost you £60 for all 4

[Asimo]

Legacy is the 100kW 2.0, the slow but economical one.

[Ghosty]

Get a decent set of part worns on it. At those tyres sizes it'll probably cost you £60 for all 4

 

Aye, it was much less than £160 for four partworns for the A4, in 255/45/17 or something equally daft.

[cms206]

Bought this 26 minutes ago. Not told the wife. Just pitched up at her work. So dead.

 

 

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[Asimo]

I can identify with that , I've been a bit tardy sorting the BMW for sale.

How much would the Insight be, and can you point me at the thread for the car please?

PM'd

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/17934-honda-inshite/

[Richard]

Bought this 26 minutes ago. Not told the wife. Just pitched up at her work. So dead.

 

 

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Tell her I approve. That'll make it ok.

[cms206]

Tell her I approve. That'll make it ok.

Didn't work. She's livid. I on the other hand am exceedingly happy with it.

 

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[320touring]

Didn't work. She's livid. I on the other hand am exceedingly happy with it.

 

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welcome to park the 406 at bottom of wur street to camp

[cms206]

welcome to park the 406 at bottom of wur street to camp

One hour fifteen in and she's not spoken a word to me yet. That may be an option.

 

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