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[Guest Hooli]

CBs were always popular with the 4x4 crowd when I was into that. Winching is a hell of a lot safer if everyone can hear whats going on for starters.

[Guest Hooli]

If it's illegal to use a phone whilst driving isn't a cb useage illegals too?

 

When I looked into it, press to talk was exempt for some reason I never understood.

[HH-R]

"ROGER THAT"

[bub2006]

I hope to have my cb dug out sooner or later. Living in Derbyshire I've found they are quiet popular. Either having no phone signal or if we are all still yokels I don't know

[bub2006]

I had convoy on a country and western album I've got playing out loud as we left Haydon end route to shitefest

[trigger]

My dad was well into CBing back in the early 80s, he had it wired into his Mk2 Escort estate and use to do some treasure hunt thing using them with the rest of his CB homies.

 

Our family name is Carpenter so his handle was Woodentop and i was known as baby Woodentop...

[Bren]

My mate had one in his mk 3 essy in 1990 - complete with mag mount.

 

It was the precursor to social media ie every conversation would end with somebody threatening to twat somebody.

[HillmanImp]

I have a CB somewhere in the garage. Never rigged it up.

 

We used to use them as kids and just shout abuse at people until some older lads tracked us down somehow and gave us a hiding (as in we legged it and hid).

[Noel Tidybeard]

I'll find out this afternoon. It main reason for purchase is that I'm scrapping four Volvos at the minute and had taken the council estate off for a quick overhaul, 'cos I've sold the 406 saloon I thought a nice 850 would have been a decent backup with a return at the end. She doesn't think so. TBH I wouldn't have done it if she didn't turn her nose up at my works Astravan.

 

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

 

 

so techincally its HER FAULT

[Kiltox]

Tyres on my 216 are fucking shite in the wet - wheel spin ahoy

 

They're pretty bald, old and perished so I think I'll need to bite the bullet and replace all 4 - big expense on a sub £500 car!

[Jazoli]

Tyres on my 216 are fucking shite in the wet - wheel spin ahoy

 

They're pretty bald, old and perished so I think I'll need to bite the bullet and replace all 4 - big expense on a sub £500 car!

 

Yep, I have the same issue with the Alfa, the tyres have plenty of tread but are worlds away from the new conti's I put on the (now wife's) Focus 3 months ago, I think I'll probably sell it rather than put £300 worth of tyres on it.

[For Fiats Sake]

Still waiting confirmation from Italy that my payments cleared so I can make arrangements to collect and strip parts off the pandavan.  Paid with credit card and it was a municipal payment site so confident it's not "hooky".

Getting a week off work for chod parts collection may be trickier than Italian bureaucracy though.

 

Cold turkey is kicking in with no cars bought/collected for three weeks, even looking for a 1.4 16v Fiat punto/stilo as engine donor for the next project despite purchase price will bite into the funds for the 4x4 engine swap due in a few weeks!

[Kiltox]

Yep, I have the same issue with the Alfa, the tyres have plenty of tread but are worlds away from the new conti's I put on the (now wife's) Focus 3 months ago, I think I'll probably sell it rather than put £300 worth of tyres on it.

Trying to weigh up whether 4 budgets at £108 all in will actually be worth the money or not!

[M'coli]

Tyres on my 216 are fucking shite in the wet - wheel spin ahoy

 

They're pretty bald, old and perished so I think I'll need to bite the bullet and replace all 4 - big expense on a sub £500 car!

Not really, if you value your lower limbs and NCD...

[Lord Sterling]

Spent a few hours the other day polishing up the BMW as I thought it was high time it needed it. It still needs a service and brakes sorting but time and use of other cars hasn't given me time for that.

 

Results courtesy of Mer polish and a Samsung camera phone:

 

 

Now I'm in an airport in the originating country of my BMW waiting to go to Istanbul. I kind of fancy going to Beirut...

 

Anyone fancy an Autoshite meet in Istanbul?

[daveb47]

Large fire at breakers at Hythe Quay in Colchester.

[Tamworthbay]

If anyone wants bits for a gold focus they better be quick.

[Kiltox]

Anyone fancy a go in a 216 Cabriolet?

 

84k miles, MOT April 17, runs and drives very well with no K series chaos to report - owes me £350

[Kiltox]

Looks like I've sold it already - not to a shiter though

[Asimo]

This bit of hedge

 

did this to Mrs Me's Suzuki **.

 

Which is annoying enough (£188 + fill & paint the door) but the piece of wood was loose and easy to push back into the hedge out of harms way and judging by the quantity of smashed glass and plastic around it had seen off several mirrors, but nobody else had thought to push the hazard out of the way.

 

** edit - Grand Vitara

[Kiltox]

Ah fuck sake. £188 for a mirror is strong though, what model?

[cort16]

Does this restore mean all that stuff with my panda didn't happen as the alternator still seems to be stuck ?

[Kiltox]

Does this restore mean all that stuff with my panda didn't happen as the alternator still seems to be stuck ?

Had a think about that - think you need to try and reach them from underneath but will need a bunch of weird sized extensions and U joints

[rml2345]

Keep meaning to do thread on it but nevermind. Xantia steering had been getting heavier but a new aux belt failed to cure it. Next cheapest step was an LHM flush. Being a smartarse I went to the scrappies for a screenwash motor and some hose thinking it woulf be a soddle for emptying the tank.

 

 

Unfortunately it didn't work. I'm guessing the pump is gravity fed or something or I've done somethibg wrong. Anyway, managed to manhandle the LHM free and this is what came out;

 

 

Manky. Cleaned the filters, bled the crap out the brakes and filled it with LHM flushing stuff which stays in the system for 1500 miles. Everything hydraulic is now much improved and the car rises much more quickly than it did before, helped by a new accumulator sphere so it was worth the effort.

[cort16]

I finally found something on google about a grande punto with the same engine and alas it seems the air con compressor needs to come out to gain access.

I was starting to think this way after I got the 2 bottom bolts out and could by even get my hand up the back of it .

I also recon it needs to come up , it'll not come out through the subframe .

When I went to the scrappies today the guy said the fiat ones are shite hawks for seizing . They had 2 pintos, one was seized and the other didn't have an engine . eBay it is then!

[stuboy]

Been waiting for this to come into my possesion, been 3 years ... no idea what it is or does just think its cool from enginnering point of view.

[omegod]

Auto unrelated but I'm off on jollies next week so the feet that are more like hooves will be on show. Wife wasn't impressed when I broke out the dremel with grinding wheel to sort them out, Dremels..their uses are endless    

[Asimo]

It's something like this

 

[Ghosty]

Ahh, we're back.

 

No news to report here as nothing is broken, Bini works, Audi only gets used once a week, and my bikes are all behaving themselves.

 

Just before the forum went down I made a post about the mostly forgotten Bucketeer quiz of last year, or whenever it was - well apparently I won (Alex never finished the answers!), and I have now received my prize in Rover Lord sterling silver. Cheers!

[richardmorris]

More welding, but rest of inner wing solid and outer wing wire brushed and rustproofed.