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[richardmorris]

Brightening up the morning is this lovely pair.....

[Kiltox]

Spotted this online while looking for something else. I'm sure it's not brilliant, but for £15.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271683563122

 

Megabarg I reckon!

[dave21478]

Looks alright for the cash, but couldnt they have spent an extra eight pence to put ISO plugs in its wiringloom?

[brickwall]

Spotted this online while looking for something else. I'm sure it's not brilliant, but for £15.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271683563122

 

 

I have one. It's a bit iffy, but it works. Chinese handbook.....

[saucedoctor]

Those badly translated handbooks you get with some cheap electronics are hilarious. "Push the button of power very surely, and with ponderance and persistance. When the indicator lamp is in the happy place, proceed of the bluetooth marriage".

[Kiltox]

Shame about the lack of an ISO block on that, didn't notice at first

[brickwall]

To a word

[Noel Tidybeard]

Those badly translated handbooks you get with some cheap electronics are hilarious. "Push the button of power very surely, and with ponderance and persistance. When the indicator lamp is in the happy place, proceed of the bluetooth marriage".

 

have you got the dollywobbler subtitles on again?

[reb]

One of the managers at work had one of his classics with him yesterday. Even did a couple of deliveries in it when it got busy.

[chodweaver]

LT on a 98S is a Merc Sprinter with a VW engine. Don't know what the engines are like, but an S-plate Sprinter doesn't appeal.

Oops, sorry, thinking of the previous shape. Disregard everything I said except for about the Brickyard, that still applies

 

Sent from my GT-S5830i using Tapatalk 2

[taxi paul]

With the river off to a good home and the modern flecked off I bought a crv for winter use. Nice and easy for the missus to get into and a decent little motor apart from one key and central locking not working. Any how after a week or two of driving it I don't particularly like it and much prefer my comfy auto hiace. So today I went and swapped the hiace for another hiace but one in 4wd flavour. Looking forward to 20 mpg.

[Lord Sterling]

Today the Land Rover of 50mph was finally dropped off to the garage in Bury St Edmunds, got a lift off the country lady who's husband owned the dealership I dropped car to and who's skirt was a little on the short side and my eyes were slightly occupied.

 

Upon arriving on the other side of Bury St Edmunds I went off to pick up a 4.0 Jaguar XKR for a 160-mile trip up to Cold Meece. I've driven V8s before but this was a right laugh, burbling V8 sound and went like shite down the sheer drop side of a mountain.

 

Sadly, comfort wasn't high on thier list when they built this car (well, it is sports car after all). At first I felt a bit out of my league driving this thing but I soon got used to it, handling felt fairly predictable. I loved watching people trying to keep up with me

 

Now I'm down to a Peugeot van

[Bobthebeard]

Well, the MG ZT has successfully done the road trip from Scotland to Lytham to the ' pre booked'  MOT after the cam belts change. Sadly it failed the MOT due to corrosion in the rear suspension mountings. The local friendly garage has been tasked with the two smallish areas of welding needed. Hopefully a re test tomorrow will result in a pass. Fingers crossed. I do hope so... I love this car!

[For Fiats Sake]

Spent sometime looking at extra storage options, including buying a very cheap metal shed from Argos.  In the end I came to the conclusion that a sort out of the garage would be better.  I've ended up with a 2ft run down one side to access the washer and fridge freezer.

When first built I could do this:

 

 

 

Anyway, that was before the previous garages content was emptied into it.

 

Hopefully one of these:

 

 

Will help me get a start on fitting another car back in there.

 

Any ideas on how to store doors and bonnets and tailgates without taking up tons of space?

 

 

 

 

 

[andy18s]

Today the Land Rover of 50mph was finally dropped off to the garage in Bury St Edmunds, got a lift off the country lady who's husband owned the dealership I dropped car to and who's skirt was a little on the short side and my eyes were slightly occupied.

 

Upon arriving on the other side of Bury St Edmunds I went off to pick up a 4.0 Jaguar XKR for a 160-mile trip up to Cold Meece. I've driven V8s before but this was a right laugh, burbling V8 sound and went like shite down the sheer drop side of a mountain.

 

Sadly, comfort wasn't high on thier list when they built this car (well, it is sports car after all). At first I felt a bit out of my league driving this thing but I soon got used to it, handling felt fairly predictable. I loved watching people trying to keep up with me

 

Now I'm down to a Peugeot van

Cold Meece Stoke? Should have called in for a brew.....

[beko1987]

went like shite down the sheer drop side of a mountain.

 

Wait what, you drove it off a cliff? Wasn't the owner annoyed?

[hairnet]

Spanish army win autoshite

[ruffgeezer]

I have completed the Jumbuck's head gasket replacement, I reckon it is probably the most work I have done for the least miles driven, I've put it up for sale at £1900 ono which granted is a fair bit more than I paid for it, but reflects the amount of work I have put in and the current market for these things, I expect it's a bit rich for shitests, but just in case, here is what I have done since I bought it earlier in the year;

 

Mot until 26/09/2017
72k on the clock

 

New Battery
Headgasket replaced as of today (advised on mot as "oil leak")
Cambelt & Waterpump, New pads, rear wheel cylinders, exhaust and Antifreeze changed at 68k/ April '16
Clutch slave cylinder changed July '16
4 New tyres on OZ alloys (covered 4k miles)
Original steel wheels & trims supplied
Pioneer double din USB/Bluetooth Stereo
Fibreglass top & Bed bars
Towbar
Both Keys
Bed liner

Lovely truck generally, but a crease in the bottom of the driver's door/quarter lets it down a bit.

 

 

 

[Kiltox]

May have ordered an ECU set for one last stab at the Shite Panda.... idiot I know

 

Also looking at some NOS Colt parts but they're a lot of money

[dugong]

I have completed the Jumbuck's head gasket replacement, I reckon it is probably the most work I have done for the least miles driven, I've put it up for sale at £1900 ono which granted is a fair bit more than I paid for it, but reflects the amount of work I have put in and the current market for these things, I expect it's a bit rich for shitests, but just in case, here is what I have done since I bought it earlier in the year;

 

Mot until 26/09/2017

72k on the clock

 

New Battery

Headgasket replaced as of today (advised on mot as "oil leak")

Cambelt & Waterpump, New pads, rear wheel cylinders, exhaust and Antifreeze changed at 68k/ April '16

Clutch slave cylinder changed July '16

4 New tyres on OZ alloys (covered 4k miles)

Original steel wheels & trims supplied

Pioneer double din USB/Bluetooth Stereo

Fibreglass top & Bed bars

Towbar

Both Keys

Bed liner

Lovely truck generally, but a crease in the bottom of the driver's door/quarter lets it down a bit.

 

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I have sat in this vehicle and made brum brum noises.

 

It is very good

 

sincerely

 

dugong

[beko1987]

I have bought tools from the back of this vehicle whilst slightly drunk and muddy. A1 vehicle, would recommend!

[beko1987]

Oi ruff, is your pm box full? Was it you who had a cam cover and bolts set for a 1.9td?

[STUNO]

Spent sometime looking at extra storage options

 

Any ideas on how to store doors and bonnets and tailgates without taking up tons of space?

 

Look up towards the large empty space just under the roof 

[stephen01]

Spotted this online while looking for something else. I'm sure it's not brilliant, but for £15.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271683563122

 

no cd, I'm out

[tooSavvy]

I have completed the Jumbuck's head gasket replacement, I reckon it is probably the most work I have done for the least miles driven, I've put it up for sale at £1900 ono which granted is a fair bit more than I paid for it, but reflects the amount of work I have put in and the current market for these things, I expect it's a bit rich for shitests, but just in case, here is what I have done since I bought it earlier in the year;

 

Mot until 26/09/2017

72k on the clock

 

New Battery

Headgasket replaced as of today (advised on mot as "oil leak")

Cambelt & Waterpump, New pads, rear wheel cylinders, exhaust and Antifreeze changed at 68k/ April '16

Clutch slave cylinder changed July '164 New tyres on OZ alloys (covered 4k miles)

Original steel wheels & trims supplied

Pioneer double din USB/Bluetooth Stereo

Fibreglass top & Bed bars

Towbar

Both Keys

Bed liner

Lovely truck generally, but a crease in the bottom of the driver's door/quarter lets it down a bit.

 

20160727_165020.jpg

Yo! as a recent 'expat' on POC-UK................

 

I have to say......... HaHaaHaaa......*really?

 

 

Sell it to someone who [really] believes hay bales go to horses in ... well... anything!!!

 

 

TS... *YouHaveBeenWarned

[SiC]

no cd, I'm out

Can't play vinyls either, so I'm out too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[doobietoo]

Look up towards the large empty space just under the roof 

 

Damn beaten to it...... Drill holes in the roof joists and buy several sets of ratchet straps to hold them up out the way...

[gm]

the little red Mazda is going in for it's mot today - wish me luck !

[garbaldy]

You will be lucky because then it will be worth upto £11 grand apparently.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

Strong veg mix fine in England, not so good north of Perth. At least it got me to placenames I recognise.