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[BavarianRetro]

I've learned, through my contact on the French Car Forum, of the existence of a black Xantia estate in Huntly.

 

He wants to take spares off it, as it's been off the road a year. However, it's apparently in better cosmetic condition than my car.

 

Also... BLACK. XANTIA. ESTATE. That's my dream Xantia right there. The interior is even grey with red dots. That sounds ACE!

 

 

 

I really, really want to get a look at it, and try saving it if possible...

There's a 2000W Xantia lying in a driveway on Glasgow Rd., Milngavie, on the same side as and along from the petrol station. Directly across the road, in a driveway, there's a 1997 P MX-5. Both have obviously not moved in months.

[Kiltox]

This afternoon I'll mostly be washing / polishing this (warning: dull modern content)

 

[danthecapriman]

Anyone done their B+E trailer test? How much did you pay for training and was the test as much like retaking your driving test as it reads like it is?

I did mine about 7 years ago now. No idea about cost as mine was paid for by my employer.

 

The test is like another driving test. I was told that you can do all the trailer related stuff ok but still fail the test on your normal driving skills being too poor.

I did a few lessons before the test with the instructor just to get back into driving the way the examiners want it done.

 

The test has a reversing manoeuvre, you have to hitch up correctly (in correct order of doing certain things) then reverse back around a dog leg type bend and into a coned off bay. You must stop the vehicle before the rear end of the trailer crosses a line at the back of the bay. You fail if you hit the cones or cross the line.

You also only get a maximum of 3 (I think?) shunts, that's going forwards then back again. And a max of 3 times you can leave the vehicle to check your positioning.

Once that's done it's all driving. You'll probably have to pull over and set off again, and if possible do a hill start. Then once back to the test centre you have to park up and un-hitch the trailer, again in the correct order.

 

I did mine through the middle of Reading town centre at rush hour and had an argument with the examiner half way through the test (he was a rude arrogant cunt!) but I still passed. It's not actually too bad to do, once you relearn how to drive for a test. Of course once you've passed then you can go back to driving your own way again!

[Supernaut]

I'm sure you can buy a t-shirt with the slogan "double the Xantias, double the pussy!".

 

The double of zero is still zero, though.

 

If I get a chance to look at it, I will either try to buy it, or just some parts off it. A grey interior with red spots sounds funky as hell though. It would need to go in mine.

[320touring]

Achieved DUGONG spec spottery earlier..

[Supernaut]

The black Xantia estate is a no-go. It's about a 5 minute walk into a breakers yard, so is very much off the road. I've been informed it has some nice bits and bobs on it though.

[dollywobbler]

Achieved DUGONG spec spottery earlier..

 

Jeepers. New wiper blades mebbies?

[320touring]

Jeepers. New wiper blades mebbies?

wiper blades function well. Washer jets keep sunroof (steel) immaculate.

 

#cbawifpin

[holbeck]

 

This is mine!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Congrats!!

[Kiltox]

Scrubbed up well

 

[hairnet]

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This is mine!

who are you and what have you done with skizzer

[egg]

Had a mooch around a breakers in Sittingbourne today, in my lunch break! Nothing exciting for my Ford's, but there was an A reg Orion that looked good and wasn't in the main yard. Unfortunately didn't get to talk to someone to get the full story...

[taxi paul]

My lad has had to put the Honda prelude he recently purchased through the forum onto ebay. Insurance has proved a nightmare for him. Adrian flux quoted him a grand fully comp. He got a few more that were around £1,600. So he rang them back to accept the price when I suddenly became £2,000 , because original company had withdrew qoute. I rang Admiral today and to put him onto my multi car policy till end of Feb was £800. That's more than a years fully comp on his 2.0 turbo s60. So he has put it for sale while he still gets qoutes. Don't think he will get a good one.

[Supernaut]

My lad has had to put the Honda prelude he recently purchased through the forum onto ebay. Insurance has proved a nightmare for him. Adrian flux quoted him a grand fully comp. He got a few more that were around £1,600. So he rang them back to accept the price when I suddenly became £2,000 , because original company had withdrew qoute. I rang Admiral today and to put him onto my multi car policy till end of Feb was £800. That's more than a years fully comp on his 2.0 turbo s60. So he has put it for sale while he still gets qoutes. Don't think he will get a good one.

I've noticed Adrian Flux have recently gone to rat shit. They quoted me £1,200 to insure the Omega I had. Before that, though, they insured my A4 quattro complete with S4 exhaust system and a stage 1 remap for £350. Eh?!

[bramz7]

My insurance on a 1.4 ZX is £1500 a year, fully comp. The few redeeming features are a low excess and decent call centres. Oddly putting a lower value put the premium up, and putting on pass plus did nothing.

Might I add that that insurance price is with my mum as a named driver. Without, it's nearer £1800. 

 

I didn't go for the cheapest as the lowest one had awful reviews. I'm 25 too so assumed even as a first driver, I wouldn't be so out of pocket. 

[taxi paul]

I don't know what it is must be insurance group for the Honda I guess. Two years ago when he was 25. His Volvo c70 coupe was only £700.00 fully comp with adrian flux. He is 27 with four years no claims. I think he is going to do the adding his mum or me insure with him has named driver.

[dollywobbler]

Has he tried the classic insurers?

[panhard65]

Off to see a Corvair in the morning. I hope it isn't quite as bad as it looks, the seller says it is really solid. Priced at less than the shipping costs of bringing one over. I might even be able to keep my Rolls if this one comes off.

When it was last for sale.

and what it looks like now

[17-Coffees]

Heading down to Morris Leslie's Classic car auction down at Errol today along with Supernaut.

They have a Toyota Sorer (Lexus SC) up for sale....and it's the rare V8 model as well! 

 

It's estimate is only £500 - £1000! 

 

If it hovers around that mark I cannot be responsible for what happens...

[DodgyBastard]

Heading down to Morris Leslie's Classic car auction down at Errol today along with Supernaut.

They have a Toyota Sorer (Lexus SC) up for sale....and it's the rare V8 model as well! 

 

It's estimate is only £500 - £1000! 

 

If it hovers around that mark I cannot be responsible for what happens...

 

 

Forget the Soarer, there's a Zastava Yugo in the auction.

[DodgyBastard]

Picked up this yellow thing in Arbroath last night.

 

Pez station shot by srblythe, on Flickr

 

It's actually pretty quick, I can kinda see why Wilsonx2 likes them. I'm just getting prepared for my journey south of the border with it today.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Dropped the Puma with Bub2006 and am now waiting for the train back from Derby to Brum. Derby station is busy with diesels, I quite like it.

[dean36014]

A week off work, and the old Zx is going to embark on another trip to norfolk broads to revist some childhood haunts. A mate was asking about breakdown cover and it put a niggling doubt in my head. Checked my policy and it turned out I had named vehicle cover and not personal membership. I've been blindly driving round the country in a 24 year old car with no cover in place, oops!

[beko1987]

I've never had breakdown cover...

 

Just take the £50 zx and if it breaks set fire to it and get a taxi to the nearest train station!

[oldcars]

Forget the Soarer, there's a Zastava Yugo in the auction.

Just had a look that's class, looks mint as well.

[bub2006]

Dropped the Puma with Bub2006 and am now waiting for the train back from Derby to Brum. Derby station is busy with diesels, I quite like it.

Thank you many times over for help

[HillmanImp]

After this incident earlier in the week where I left my window open overnight:

 

 

The drivers side window had stopped working.

 

On the day of the DOH! both passenger side windows had decided to just wind themselves down everytime I turned the car on and not wind themselves back up but that had resolved itself at least.

 

So last night I decided to take out the switch and clean it up and see if that sorted it.

 

 

After dismantling the switch the wrong way round so that everything fell out, I gave it a bit of a clean with a cotton wool bud soaked in alcohol (single malt scotch - it is a Jag) and put it all back together and I had a working window again.

 

Relieved, I put the door back together again and went to put my tools back in the garage.

 

Unfortunately, I now couldn't get out of the car as the door wouldn't open.

 

Sadly with the failing light I couldn't get the door apart again either as couldn't get the little plastic cover off one of the screws in the dark, i could only savage everything around it, so I had to sack it off till this morning but thankfully, I now have windows again, even if the front passenger window will only wind down from my controls. I can wind it back up from the passenger side one.

[plasticvandan]

The downside to having been riding an MZ for the last month,is now I really,really want a Trabant.

[holbeck]

My lad has had to put the Honda prelude he recently purchased through the forum onto ebay. Insurance has proved a nightmare for him. Adrian flux quoted him a grand fully comp. He got a few more that were around £1,600. So he rang them back to accept the price when I suddenly became £2,000 , because original company had withdrew qoute. I rang Admiral today and to put him onto my multi car policy till end of Feb was £800. That's more than a years fully comp on his 2.0 turbo s60. So he has put it for sale while he still gets qoutes. Don't think he will get a good one.

 

For God's sake someone buy this, so that I can have it at some unspecified point in the future.