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[danthecapriman]

My new log cabin garage kit arrived this morning!

I've got bricks and mortar for the base ready to go, foundation already there ready to go. So guess what I'll be doing this weekend...

 

Not particularly looking forward to building it tbh but I can't wait to get it up and be able to use it. It'll be a perfect home for the Capri.

I'll get some pics up over the next few days, it's a nice looking building.

[Bobthebeard]

Having bought the Rover 75 unseen from eBay last month I have now given it a thorough going over...

Looking good. Good service history and signs of a caring owner. Matching tyres, recent service including the cam belts, water pump etc and brake pads and discs. Downside was a badly scratched windscreen due to a damaged wiper blade, but a new screen now fitted on insurance. £60 excess. Nice.

[cort16]

Goodbye you hateful little pile of shit

 

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How good did that feel?

[oldcars]

Howmanyleft has just done it's big annual update and 2016 detailed data is now complete.

 

Large drop in mk1 Mondeo's​ in the last year. Under 3,000 on the road now, excluding SORN.

 

Down to 234 taxed Favorit's including the van derivatives.

Only 172 Kia Shuma SX on the road. Need to get mine back on the road, its just finding the money to get the work done on it 

[egg]

What's the Shuma need out of interest?

[tooSavvy]

HunnieMummy X 1/9 owner... With purple & 3chinzz ?

 

Ahhh

 

 

TS

[tooSavvy]

Windermere Station, Booths store/bus station.

 

Earlier this afternoon, coming out of that carpark - confronted by a very toothless M5 (guess) which had punched straight thru the slate perimeter wall [straight across roundabout I guess] + 15yards! Airbag deployed and very shook up octogenarian fogey sitting in ambulance ...

 

ooof

 

 

TS

[cort16]

The Cadillac doesn't show on the mot history website for some reason. I didn't have time to call to find out if it passed, I can see a bit of paper under the sun visor but he didn't leave the keys in my lockup. MOT STATUS UNKNOWN.

Actually it looks like bit's of paper under the visor, which indicates a fail. aargh.

[Kiltox]

How good did that feel?

Only thing better would be to get video footage of the grabber going through its ungrateful fucking roof

[beko1987]

Sad to see it go then?

[hairnet]

Goodbye you hateful little pile of shit

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Panda say no dis panda

[Kiltox]

Spent today packing most of my unit into a locker at Safestore because my landlord is a massive stroker

 

 

There's some hoover porn somewhere for beko's benefit but the photos don't show it - some Hoover bagless thing I bought for a quid on eBay to deal with the hugely dusty floor

 

Absolutely fucking knackered - full van load (LWB Trafic) and more there plus I've taken a van load to the tip today

 

There's still more!

[egg]

Fusion handed over to my local mech for oil/filter and new plugs.  

 

Hoping the plugs might solve it's stammer/hesitation (and it's not core plugs or leaking water jets as suggested before by Kiltox and twosmoke). We'll see on a 90 mile round trip to Dartford tomorrow.

 

In true old Ford style, there's other issues of course - he's spotted a driveshaft oil seal leak and the PAS pump is a little damp(?)

[BorniteIdentity]

Two DREADFUL photos, none of which show the entire car.

 

No MOT.

 

A vendor who has refused to reply to my emails over the last 10 days... tries shill bidding against me...then bottles it and finally messages me 5 minutes before auction end.

 

More money than I've spent on a car in 7 years.

 

Don't even want the car, just one bit of it.

 

Only bloody won it.

 

Serious, serious explaining to do.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That sounds intruiguing!!!

[Kiltox]

Rover is fixed, tested and ready for collection tomorrow. Wallet will hurt a bit but I couldn't be arsed fixing it myself

Collected this today, drives SO much better with new trailing arm bushes! Needs a proper 2 bucket wrongun job and some tyres.

[anonymous user]

That sounds intruiguing!!!

That sounds like a Sierra base rear bumper. If not it should be

[BorniteIdentity]

That sounds like a Sierra base rear bumper. If not it should be

Sadly not. It's not even for me, and i know nothing about what I've just bought.

 

More tomorrow once I've had a word with myself.

 

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[Stanky]

5 litres of own-brand 5w/30 (all) Vauxhall ('s are shit) spec oil was down from £20 to £13 in my local Asda this evening. All their 5l oils were, so thats the service for the Saab largely sorted for next month then.

 

Wait for it to blow up and me to be ridiculed for saving £7 on shit oil in due course.

[cobblers]

Yeah I've just found that online, I'm going for a couple of bottles of any old shit to use as flushing oil, might even leave it in if they have the right grade for the van.

[cort16]

I just looked at last years MOT on the Cadillac and it says Make: GENERAL MOTORS, MODEL: CADILLAC.

Just tried the MOT website with these details and it's only passed with no advisories. W@@T

 

[320touring]

I just looked at last years MOT on the Cadillac and it says Make: GENERAL MOTORS, MODEL: CADILLAC.

Just tried the MOT website with these details and it's only passed with no advisories. W@@T

 

It passed?you must sell it immediately!

 

Congrats

[cort16]

correct

[Bear]

Gonna get a needle in the eye today. It'll be fun.

 

Success!

 

My eyes now both look vaguely in the same direction at the same time. And with contacts in, I can see with both of them.

 

[Eddie Honda]

"Like" for the success rather than mug shot 

[HMC]

BOOM!

 

MG ZT-T+ purchased and due to be delivered on Tuesday. Can't wait!

[cros]

Would you not keep dropping the garage door before the fucking things right out?

 

 

I was a bus wanker this morning because I've no rear seat belts to strap the kids in the back of the car. I've not gone Rolf, there's no seats either.

Anyway all the way to Nantwich some cunt kept ringing the bell even though we were miles from a stop. Eventually the driver got pissed off, turned round and told me to stop leaning on the handrail.

 

 

[For Fiats Sake]

 

Topped up the oil and cleaned off tape residue on the tailgate with thinners.

 

Still my favourite mk3 panda mum has it now, she says at every MOT if it's too much do i want it back - of course I do!

 

[tooSavvy]

In Tesco Hexham ATM... Well fit MILF just surged past me, followed by junior >> BraFail 9/10

 

She was going up/down/sideways (occasionally in synchrony) like Marty Feldmans eyes.

 

oooof

 

 

TS

[cros]

And your eyes