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[BorniteIdentity]

Different? COLT COLT COLT!

 

Not a headache? Er, can you weld?

Not one bit. And I've absolutely no appetite for learning.

 

Just missed a peachy 205 for £475. 2 owner 1.4 with impeccable history.

 

I've got three in mind now.

 

1. Colt. But the various foibles mean I'll probably be as annoyed with it as I am my own shite.

 

2. Starlet 70. Vendor seems to be a bit reluctant to even give me a slight deal. That's always a bad sign. (There'd be no luck money here I can tell you)

 

3. Mystery car. It's not me but I'd like to try one before time is too late. Deal with fellow AS member pencilled for next month.

[Ghosty]

Mystery car beats KP and Colt IMO. Is it the same size as the other options or bigger?

[For Fiats Sake]

Don't forget the lovely Uno, with MOT and superb rustless* condition is still available!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*(for a Fiat, but I have to say the underneath is tip top).

[BorniteIdentity]

Mystery car beats KP and Colt IMO. Is it the same size as the other options or bigger?

I do love the Jap Tat tho

 

It's a bit bigger the mystery car but, like on those property shows, it's a curve ball. But I liked it enough to call shotgun.

[AMC Rebel]

Another snap from my weekend in Ireland

 

 

There was a note pinned to the door saying "open at 6.30" - it didn't say which day (or year) - and it looked to have been there a while.

[AMC Rebel]

 

Ever wish you'd never started something?

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About 27 times a day on average.

[Kiltox]

Think I'll need to give in and put a set of tyres on the Rover.... one rear has a slow puncture and they're cracked and perished to buggery

Not sure whether to just sling a set of ditchfinders on it or get something a bit better - it's not exactly a rocket ship 

[BorniteIdentity]

Think I'll need to give in and put a set of tyres on the Rover.... one rear has a slow puncture and they're cracked and perished to buggery

 

Not sure whether to just sling a set of ditchfinders on it or get something a bit better - it's not exactly a rocket ship 

 

Good tyres:  For me the simplest but most effective thing you can do to transform a car.  I never realised until I put proper winter tyres on my WBOD 3 years ago and it was like nothing I'd ever felt... they were tacky almost to the road surface.  

 

If you think what a small percentage of them are on the road at any one given second, I think it deserves to be good stuff.

 

Tyreleader always seem to have tyres on offer at around £35: so if you can get them, i'd not bother messing around with the chinese plastic stuff.

 

Just my 2p

[BorniteIdentity]

Think I'll need to give in and put a set of tyres on the Rover.... one rear has a slow puncture and they're cracked and perished to buggery

 

Not sure whether to just sling a set of ditchfinders on it or get something a bit better - it's not exactly a rocket ship 

 

Ps @JohnK had a nasty incident with old cracked tyres earlier  this year.  If you do any sort of speed/miles I'd have a look at them as a priority.

 

Not lecturing, but  they do expire.

[Kiltox]

Yeah they are shagged and really must go, I just know the weather will change permanently when I shell out for them and I won't drive the sodding thing!

[dugong]

Good tyres:  For me the simplest but most effective thing you can do to transform a car.  I never realised until I put proper winter tyres on my WBOD 3 years ago and it was like nothing I'd ever felt... they were tacky almost to the road surface.  

 

If you think what a small percentage of them are on the road at any one given second, I think it deserves to be good stuff.

 

Tyreleader always seem to have tyres on offer at around £35: so if you can get them, i'd not bother messing around with the chinese plastic stuff.

 

Just my 2p

 

^^this. Half decent tyres for most shites are available cheap from My Tyres or Tyreleader (no bung was received) so why bother with scrapyard tyres, part worns or dog salad ditchfinders? 

[HillmanImp]

MR2 is in for its test. Its not going to pass but at least I will know exactly how much needs doing.

 

[Kiltox]

Never bother with part worns etc 

 

Aren't the likes of tyreleader mail order? I don't have the means to fit tyres myself and getting tyres fitted you didn't purchase there is usually pretty expensive isnt it?

[dugong]

Never bother with part worns etc 

 

Aren't the likes of tyreleader mail order? I don't have the means to fit tyres myself and getting tyres fitted you didn't purchase there is usually pretty expensive isnt it?

 

True. You have to find an indie who a: isn't hopeless and b: actually exists. 

My local Hi-Q used to do it provided one of their managers was in. I found another place locally which charges a flat rate for tyres sourced from elsewhere. Other experiences may differ. 

I understand how fast fit places make a crust - most folk can't / won't spend half a day trawling round two or three places to save £20. 

 

It's also fun trying to get WE WILL BEAT ANY PRICE PHAAAARK YEAH DEALER type places to fall on their sword and admit they can't compete with online prices (such as [NAME REDACTED])

[meshking]

My new news... Having decided to have a clear out of cars have now gone from five to two. Not incuding the daily. Everything now sold. Feels a bit bleak to be honest. The drive is so empty...

An opportunity to complete "the circle of shite", by filling up your drive once more.

[M'coli]

Never bother with part worns etc 

 

Aren't the likes of tyreleader mail order? I don't have the means to fit tyres myself and getting tyres fitted you didn't purchase there is usually pretty expensive isnt it?

Tyreleader are mailorder but will deliver the tyres to an approved fitter of your choice.  I bought 3 new Yokohama BluEarths for £30 each from them and the local place fitted them for a tenner a wheel (others wanted to charg £15), and you pay the fitters while you're there.  You can sort all this out before you cough up online for the tyres, too.

[xtriple]

The weather has changed, cold(ish) and going to rain so I wanted to put the BGD (Big Green Dollop) away in the garage. Yes, I know, what a pussy and all that... Anyway, had to wait for the valeter to come round and give me an opinion/quote for 'detailing' the car. Yes, I know its just been painted, yes I know there should be no need, but... 1, I am OCD to an extreme and, 2, there's 'orange peel' on the sides and it annoys me. He turned up early (cool) and when I asked him to wet sand and colour polish it he declined as it was 'too much work'! Too big a car to get into that sort of thing - he said it would take him a couple of days at least... no problem says I, 'no thanks' says he!

 

It has reached epidemic proportions round here this attitude of anything that needs more than a quick blast with the polisher and a coat of wax is too hard.

 

So, It is just getting a machine polish and sealed and waxed.

 

Anyway, went and got the Kia out and put the BGD away, and by the chrin, it is fucking tight to get it and the Mazda in there together.At one point, I touched the back of the MX5 with the wheel arch of the Bentley, but I was doing about 0.005mph and no damage to either car, but even now having adjusted angles of attack it is very tight. Just shows how much wider it is than the Kia as that fits, sort of alright.

 

I am almost ashamed to admit this next bit but... After driving the BGD for a week and getting used to it again, the Kia feels like a piece of shit! It clunks and clanks over the crappy roads and everything feels cheap and nasty. Yes, I am comparing a Kia with a Bentley which is hardly fair, but after a few weeks of driving the MX5, the Kia felt superb!

 

I am such a tart!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

He might have picked up on your 'OCD to the extreme' and decided not to get involved

[andy18s]

Chap here at work has a Magentis that he got for peanuts.

He's run it for a while but the clutch is starting to go on it so he's looking to get rid and replace with a 406 'cos it's cheaper than a new clutch.......

[oldcars]

The weather has changed, cold(ish) and going to rain so I wanted to put the BGD (Big Green Dollop) away in the garage. Yes, I know, what a pussy and all that... Anyway, had to wait for the valeter to come round and give me an opinion/quote for 'detailing' the car. Yes, I know its just been painted, yes I know there should be no need, but... 1, I am OCD to an extreme and, 2, there's 'orange peel' on the sides and it annoys me. He turned up early (cool) and when I asked him to wet sand and colour polish it he declined as it was 'too much work'! Too big a car to get into that sort of thing - he said it would take him a couple of days at least... no problem says I, 'no thanks' says he!

 

It has reached epidemic proportions round here this attitude of anything that needs more than a quick blast with the polisher and a coat of wax is too hard.

 

So, It is just getting a machine polish and sealed and waxed.

 

Anyway, went and got the Kia out and put the BGD away, and by the chrin, it is fucking tight to get it and the Mazda in there together.At one point, I touched the back of the MX5 with the wheel arch of the Bentley, but I was doing about 0.005mph and no damage to either car, but even now having adjusted angles of attack it is very tight. Just shows how much wider it is than the Kia as that fits, sort of alright.

 

I am almost ashamed to admit this next bit but... After driving the BGD for a week and getting used to it again, the Kia feels like a piece of shit! It clunks and clanks over the crappy roads and everything feels cheap and nasty. Yes, I am comparing a Kia with a Bentley which is hardly fair, but after a few weeks of driving the MX5, the Kia felt superb!

 

I am such a tart!

Colour sanding is great fun, did half of my 75 mate did other half.

[Dave_Q]

RE: tyres and fitting, I started a thread a while back asking what people paid for fitting as I'd been quoted £10 a tyre and thought it might be a bit much as I used to pay £5 a tyre m8s r8s in Nottingham.

 

The general consensus is that £10-15 is the going rate, especially in THE SOUTH. I currently pay £8 each which I am pretty happy with.

 

I would say its worth trying a local tyre hut as sometimes they can be better than tyreleader once fitting is included, I got a set of 4 Toyo T1R 195/50/16 for my Subaru for 220 fitted from "Euro tyres" in Lockwood, Huddersfield, tyres alone from tyreleader were 56 a corner.

 

Mind you, when I wanted 175/70/14s for the Berlingo they were twice the price for unknown brands vs Uniroyals from tyreleader.

[beko1987]

I always pop round to our local tyre place first before ordering from tyre leader to check they are happy to fit them. I'll always ask them to check their prices too, as if it's only £5 or so more per tyre I'll put the business their way, for the Meriva they were the same price (£50 fitted, rather than £42 plus a tenner to fit and balance) so I left it with them.

 

When I can afford tyres for the Xantia I'll go through the same process, incase new staff work there and they've turned shitty or something

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Autoshite Pineapple Recovery in action.

 

Our Seat Arosa's current custodian has just got back from a 5 week school trip to Peru- I know, I know, I was lucky if I went to the local museum too. Wonder why I haven't got an SD1 or a Granada - what that cost would have bought a feckin Vitesse...

Anyway I parked the Seat outside FathaN's because he's away too, went to it today and it fired up first turn of the key, just one slightly soft tyre to inflate.

You know, these Dubber Savages might have a point, the old ones are reliable as feck.

As my youngest is coming up to 18 and now got a years NCB the whole raison d'etre for keeping this( mega low insurance) has passed. I'll be loath to get rid though as its been abused by 3 of my 4 as a first car and still drives nicer than the Fiat 500.

[xtriple]

Ah, I am ocd, but so is he - he was most proud of his ocd and attention to detail. Also, he is doing a job that only ocd/fussy twats would ever want doing to their cars - detailing!

[Cavcraft]

I can't get out of the MX5. Keep thinking of rotating my cars and the van to go to work in, but every day I get up I just head for the Mazda instead. Went a slighlty different route in again this morning and smoked a Golf GTi off in some style at the lights, and coming home I was just being a knob and dropping a gear/revving it up under motorway bridges.

[purplebargeken]

Went to my mates this morning to do a bit more on his CF. 

 

He had been out earlier in the morning to help another customer of his to pull his camel out of a pond. The dopey beast fell in and got stuck overnight.

 

However, in his haste to reach the camel, he drove across the field in his 16 plate Transit. He had in the heat of the moment forgotten that he had recently dug a huge Transit sized trench and proceeded to deposit the Transit in the trench ripping the front and back end of the Transit to pieces.

 

The camel got pulled out with a JCB, as did the Transit.

 

I looked my mate in the eye and said....... 'I bet he had the right hump after that'. An hour later when we had both stopped laughing.......

[worldofceri]

Camel? WTF?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Is Ken sniffing the solvent he used to clean the glue off the Amazon dash?

[purplebargeken]

Not today he ain't. The bloke has camels, reindeer, an emu, wallabies and other furry stuff.

 

He also has quite a classic car collection. His 2 door, very sleek Jag (XK140 I think) was in for fixing the day before.

[Vin]

When I came back from Leeds yesterday afternoon, the M180 westbound by Brigg was closed. I saw all the wreckage of an accident...and the emergency services there all dealing with it...

 

Somebody posted this footage on my facebook this morning. Recovery wagon with a Sprinter on the back rear ended by a container wagon...Amazingly, nobody died...