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[brownnova]

Check out my hot holiday hire car action!!!

 

 

 

The Nissan sadly...

 

Definitely a future autoshite mobile. Cheapest car on sake in the us in 'base' trim according to a quick google!

[Ghosty]

And to think, cheapest thing here is a Dacia or something.

[purplebargeken]

Wouldn't say no to one though. Would have to be white though.

[tooSavvy]

And to think, cheapest thing here is a Dacia or something.

...... Not a bad car... BUT, one can helm more 'interesting' fossils

 

TS

[fraser.innes.3]

Saw a strange 3 wheeled thing on a roundabout in Hereford.

Imagine a morph of Bond Bug and Sinclair C5 with a single rectangular headlight.

Due to camera fail - battery - no picture. Any ideas?

Its always parked at the leisure centre on Homer road.

 

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[fraser.innes.3]

Its always parked at the leisure centre on Homer road.

 

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Forgot to add, will get a pic on Saturday when i drop my daughter off there.

 

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[STUNO]

Just a taster for a thread to come. Myself , Jon, Philibusmo and Petrolize shared an experience today involving lots of this.

 

A part of the hubcap supply. Need a replacement cap for your Goliath, I know they have one .

 

It's a business that has been in the spares business for a long time.

 

 

The rest will probably be loaded into Jon's spotted thread within the next day or so, added to by we three non-photographers. There is also a collection mission which has been underway now for about 13 hours now and all going well has several more to go, powered by Philibusmo and Petrolize who may have done something silly , or not !

 

 

[Lankytim]

KROOZA failed it's NOT, but not too badly...

 

Garage project progressing nicely.. but FFS, concrete is hard work!

[trigger]

I just had to laugh, the aircon has dried up on the Fiesta (i don't think mum ever used it) so I'm googling about the cheapest way to renew the gases, there's a Groupon deal for a garage around the corner which is charging £22.50 for the regas so i done some googling on the place and found loads of piss poor reviews on them, it's aways a good sign when the owners wife has to pretend to be a customer to give them a good review!.

 

[purplebargeken]

Not the brightest bulbs in the light fitting then lol.

[dugong]

Saw a strange 3 wheeled thing on a roundabout in Hereford.

Imagine a morph of Bond Bug and Sinclair C5 with a single rectangular headlight.

Due to camera fail - battery - no picture. Any ideas?

 

One of these? 

 

 

It's an Ellert. Danish thing built in the late 'Eighties. Yellow car on the far right is a Kewett El-Jet. 

[oldcars]

One of these? 

 

 

It's an Ellert. Danish thing built in the late 'Eighties. 

There cool, would love one of these. A Bamby.

[vulgalour]

Ah yes, the plethora of tiny 3 wheeled vehicles designed to make even the shortest, slowest journey a terrifying example of the dangers of everything.  You can either pay for a fancy skydiving whatever, or get yourself one of these diminutive road legal death traps.  Where do I sign?

[Sheefag]

Pedicar perhaps?

 

In a world of Crown Vics and F100s, you'd have to really have hated life to throw $500 at this

 

[xtriple]

I now have a Bentley again! 8.5 weeks away and I have forgotten how to drive the sod I am/was suffering a little trepidation about bringing her home after last nights goings - on, but she is sat outside.  I put the KIA in the garage with the Mazda and so nearly hit the rear wing of one with the front wing of the other - there is a fag paper width to spare...

 

I parked the Bentley outside a shop (illegally - I AM a Bentley owner after all!   ) and when I came out, was quite unsure as to whether she would start as that was the exact kind of behaviour that would have made her play up before. Started fine   Then I tried to pull away and couldn't understand why she wouldn't go - I had my foot on the brake pedal which is in the same place as the KIA's throttle! Trying to make a swift getaway in your flash motor and basic stupidity shows you up for the poseur you really are.

 

The bill was a little daunting I have to say - £1271 and pence and most of that was labour:9 hours at 80 odd quid an hour, soon adds up! The actual ecu repair was another £400 odd and the investigations I got them to check (coolant temperature, wheel bearings,) were all fine. The car runs at the exact temp specified by Bentley but the gauge reads slightly high - slightly north of upright and it upsets my OCD but apparently, there has been quite a few of these fitted with new senders that are now reporting this 'fault'. Of course, along with all the other work she had done last year, new senders was among them.

 

So, she has a new clock (not in the bill as I supplied that myself and they fitted it while the dash was out) and two new bulbs in the dash lights and... that's all I'm actually sure is repaired! However, they have tested it repeatedly over the last week and it has been fine, and I have used it in all the circumstances she would have normally played up and she was fine... I do hope this is fixed!

 

But, lovely to have her back. Even though I can't drive it to save my life (the KIA of great indifference is SO much easier to drive!) she sounds lovely and I had forgotten how quiet and refined she is. The KIA tends to have a bit of a rattle and clunk around our dreadful roads (along the bits known locally as 'Millionaires row' the roads would do well in a fairground as they dip and rise at six foot intervals and they really are all over the place) and the Bentley is of course, completely silent. Nice...

 

Oh, and it's still fast as well. Put your foot on the throttle firmly, like after spending thirty seconds pressing the brake to make it go, say,  and it fair flies up the road with a hint of wheelspin as well. This of course, makes you look even MORE of a knob than you did thirty seconds previously !

 

     

[Asimo]

One of these? 

It's an Ellert. Danish thing built in the late 'Eighties. Yellow car on the far right is a Kewett El-Jet.

 

The red one above is a dead ringer for it, but white made it look more utilitarian. Fraser's photo awaited with interest.

[richardmorris]

I now have a Bentley again! 8.5 weeks away and I have forgotten how to drive the sod I am/was suffering a little trepidation about bringing her home after last nights goings - on, but she is sat outside.  I put the KIA in the garage with the Mazda and so nearly hit the rear wing of one with the front wing of the other - there is a fag paper width to spare...

 

I parked the Bentley outside a shop (illegally - I AM a Bentley owner after all!   ) and when I came out, was quite unsure as to whether she would start as that was the exact kind of behaviour that would have made her play up before. Started fine   Then I tried to pull away and couldn't understand why she wouldn't go - I had my foot on the brake pedal which is in the same place as the KIA's throttle! Trying to make a swift getaway in your flash motor and basic stupidity shows you up for the poseur you really are.

 

The bill was a little daunting I have to say - £1271 and pence and most of that was labour:9 hours at 80 odd quid an hour, soon adds up! The actual ecu repair was another £400 odd and the investigations I got them to check (coolant temperature, wheel bearings,) were all fine. The car runs at the exact temp specified by Bentley but the gauge reads slightly high - slightly north of upright and it upsets my OCD but apparently, there has been quite a few of these fitted with new senders that are now reporting this 'fault'. Of course, along with all the other work she had done last year, new senders was among them.

 

So, she has a new clock (not in the bill as I supplied that myself and they fitted it while the dash was out) and two new bulbs in the dash lights and... that's all I'm actually sure is repaired! However, they have tested it repeatedly over the last week and it has been fine, and I have used it in all the circumstances she would have normally played up and she was fine... I do hope this is fixed!

 

But, lovely to have her back. Even though I can't drive it to save my life (the KIA of great indifference is SO much easier to drive!) she sounds lovely and I had forgotten how quiet and refined she is. The KIA tends to have a bit of a rattle and clunk around our dreadful roads (along the bits known locally as 'Millionaires row' the roads would do well in a fairground as they dip and rise at six foot intervals and they really are all over the place) and the Bentley is of course, completely silent. Nice...

 

Oh, and it's still fast as well. Put your foot on the throttle firmly, like after spending thirty seconds pressing the brake to make it go, say,  and it fair flies up the road with a hint of wheelspin as well. This of course, makes you look even MORE of a knob than you did thirty seconds previously !

 

  

 

 

I've had worse bills ( but in isolation, not one of many). To be fair, I was thinking it would be worse! You could recoup money at the next shitefest by offering drives for £20!

[xtriple]

I've had worse bills ( but in isolation, not one of many). To be fair, I was thinking it would be worse! You could recoup money at the next shitefest by offering drives for £20!

I'm thinking about raffling it - any chance there'll be some takers at £500 per ticket? Failing that, leave it parked outside and if there's a repeat of last nights fireworks, I may just have a windowless burnt out shell which will achieve something I suppose, just not sure what?

 

From Specialist cars, that bill is not bad but when you realise I bought a really rather pleasant Kia, V6 auto with all the toys for less, sort of puts it in perspective!

[richardmorris]

True. I think you need to use it now( fuel bills permitting). I'm sure lack of use does cars more harm than the regular waft ( Bentley term!).

[Timewaster]

Why am I so shit at buying cars?

Is it lack of practice?

[vulgalour]

^genuine lols there, Timewaster.

[Skizzer]

New ignition coil for the XJ-S finally turned up today, almost a week after it was promised (by Amazon).

 

I fitted it.

 

It didn't make any difference.

[Bear]

That's because the XJ-S has gone into a sulk knowing that a far superior vehicle is on the way

[Bear]

Seriously considering a T-plate A-class with semi-auto "non runner" because it looks really very clean and tidy, has a sunroof, and is a good bright red - purely to shove in a corner and forget about for a while so it's still there when all the W168s have been killed, pre-facelift ones first.

[hairnet]

they were using them versas as team cars in the cycling in brazil

[Bear]

Just hacked chunks out of housemate's Saab 9-3 to fit a clearance bargain Double-DIN radio to it, success! And a happy housemate 'cause her car hasn't played CDs for a year, and now it plays music direct from her phone, has handsfree, etc.

[stuboy]

Collegue says her fiat is rattling...

 

I said scrap the pile of cack... found random bracket on manifold and 2 studs and nuts missing

[Kiltox]

FINALLY stopped my van from roaring at 50mph plus - thought it was a wheel bearing but it's the fucking roof rack! Covered the underside of the bars at the front with pipe lagging and cable ties and its silent* now!

[danthecapriman]

Yesterday I washed the Transit.

It was absolutely filthy, it's not been used for months and just sat under it's cover. It cleaned off ok but one side was really dirty, lots of stubborn ingrained black crap all over it!

So I broke out the T cut and spent hours cutting the whole van back, the went around again with Autoglym super resin polish.

 

Looks nice now, and the paint is super smooth.

 

 

It was hard work though! It's big and there's a lot of body to polish. Funny doing it all to a van, most people wouldn't bother!

[fordperv]

Yesterday I washed the Transit.

It was absolutely filthy, it's not been used for months and just sat under it's cover. It cleaned off ok but one side was really dirty, lots of stubborn ingrained black crap all over it!

So I broke out the T cut and spent hours cutting the whole van back, the went around again with Autoglym super resin polish.

 

Looks nice now, and the paint is super smooth.

 

 

It was hard work though! It's big and there's a lot of body to polish. Funny doing it all to a van, most people wouldn't bother!

This is autoshite my friend where people do the strangest of things, polishing a lovely looking transit seems quite normal to me