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[bramz7]

 

Picked this up today. Only cost £60. 212k on the clock but it still pulls well. Does have a window made out of perspex but we'd all have ailments after that mileage right?!

 

Oh and the lovely AX went. Nice to meet you Colin.

[SiC]

That's lovely thing and that's a bargain!

 

Anyone noticed eBay & Gumtree is down?

[RobT]

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Picked this up today. Only cost £60. 212k on the clock but it still pulls well. Does have a window made out of perspex but we'd all have ailments after that mileage right?!

Oh and the lovely AX went. Nice to meet you Colin.

Bagsy when you're done with it bramz. A ZX Aura is on my To Do list.

[Ghosty]

That's lovely thing and that's a bargain!

 

Anyone noticed eBay & Gumtree is down?

It isn't? I've just been looking at DOHC VTEC engines - if the damn things weren't worth about 20% more than my entire car I'd be seriously tempted to make a Rover 216VTi automatic...

[SiC]

Maybe an issue with the link between virgin media and the eBay servers.

[bramz7]

Bagsy when you're done with it bramz. A ZX Aura is on my To Do list.

I'll give you first dibs! Think it needs new glow plugs mind you. Felt like getting back into an old pair of trousers with the ZX.

Only issue was that it was registered on disabled use, so had to panic and find a bloody post office in swindon, found one at 528. I'm not making this up...

[Kiltox]

First day as a scumbag IT contractor for a large London based bank.....

 

Police cordons and media circus around Borough Market is still very much real

 

I was paid £40 to sit and wait in the reception this morning because the idiot receptionist emailed rather than calling the person I am reporting to

 

Financial services compliance training is ridiculous

 

Quite sure this role is going to be lengthy and satisfying

[cort16]

I had someone come and look at the Cadillac tonight. Spend aaaaages looking at it then offered nearly half the asking price.

Good times, at least they turned up.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Yesterday afternoon I passed a grey Tatra 603 in oily rag condition going through Hagley. Does that description ring a bell with anyone, has/did Sam Glover of this parish own one?

There were several eastern European cars parked in a pub car park near me. I saw that Tatra too. Saw several of th em again later that day in Bridgnorth. A few Trabants and a lovely yellow and white Moskvitch amongst others

[alcyonecorporation]

I think it was because of the SALT meet; they were convoying around that area and around Crich if memory serves. 

[Lord Sterling]

Am in Scotchland at the moment. Motherwell to be exact. Tomorrow up to Aberdeen then bus/train to Inverness then an 8-hour drive home I reckon Looking forward to that I am not...

[320touring]

Am in Scotchland at the moment. Motherwell to be exact. Tomorrow up to Aberdeen then bus/train to Inverness then an 8-hour drive home I reckon Looking forward to that I am not...

 

Motherwell? You'll be grand:)

[Noel Tidybeard]

What capacity is an R8 tank? I filled it from empty-ish (there's no light, and it took 35 litres) and after 300 miles it's back down to E. That's 39mpg, that can't be right, my foot is too heavy.

 

prolly 50 litres

as a badermatic the mpg is not that pleasant with the 1.6

[loserone]

Urgh.  What an hour to start a two day collection :-/

[taxi paul]

I have just looked outside and it's blowing a gale and pissing down. Perfect day then to go and collect a small camp pug cabriolet.later bitches.

[Jerzy Woking]

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Picked this up today. Only cost £60. 212k on the clock but it still pulls well. Does have a window made out of perspex but we'd all have ailments after that mileage right?!

Oh and the lovely AX went. Nice to meet you Colin.

I can say the ZX is indeed an absolute bargain-looked good and seemed to drive well (from a passenger point of view).

 

And the AX is great. Not had a car without electric windows, a rev counter, power steering, 5 speed gearbox or rear doors since 1982. Nor 50mpg from a pez car!

 

Most enjoyable-and good to meet Sam and be told of his upcoming purchase (which I wont tell anyone about).

[Lord Sterling]

Am in Scotchland at the moment. Motherwell to be exact. Tomorrow up to Aberdeen then bus/train to Inverness then an 8-hour drive home I reckon Looking forward to that I am not...

Well, Inverness isn't happening because the van I'm meant to be picking up has been postponed yet another day so I have a car from Blairgowrie to Merseyside. Going home in that though. This is almost a reverse of the trip I ded tae Scotland a year agoo. Och aye.

[bub2006]

I have insured gaybod the pug ,which I am collecting tomorrow from djimbob. Was going to wait and tax it tomorrow with the slip. However my lad tells me if I tax it online and set up a direct debit . They take money after 30 days. So he says you then cancel direct debit online after 28 days and then set up a new one. So car shows has taxed but you don't pay. Is this true or will MI5 come hammering my door down at 5 am.

I pay monthly. They take it out within usually 14 days and first payment is usually double. Never cancelled it before but I assume you still pay for the time taxed and declare a sorn.

[oldcars]

Well, Inverness isn't happening because the van I'm meant to be picking up has been postponed yet another day so I have a car from Blairgowrie to Merseyside. Going home in that though. This is almost a reverse of the trip I ded tae Scotland a year agoo. Och aye.

Enjoy* the weather, its battered down here for hours.

[somewhatfoolish]

It's gishing down over this side too, making up for accidentally letting the sun out the other day.

[junkyarddog]

Took the old man's '99 Ford Focus estate for it's test this afternoon,

(he couldn't take it as he had a hospital appointment,had a valve replacement op last year)

 

Glad to say both passed their respective appointments with flying colours,

Chuffed is an understatement!!

[dollywobbler]

Arse. Nippa has run out of brakes.

 

Now discovering once again the downsides of unusual motoring. This is going to be costly...

 

Pretty ashamed by that, but I think both calipers are sticking. Still some pad left on the offside, but both sides feel stick to turn. Must admit I can't remember the last time I had the front wheels off. Probably hasn't happened since it had new steering rack gaiters fitted when we got it. Two years ago...

[dollywobbler]

Oh and the 2CV isn't running right and has wipers that occasionally don't turn off, so probably not up to substitute duty, while the Bluebird is still in bits. That's a woeful 25% when it comes to running cars. Feeble.

[loserone]

This is ok, because (south of Leeds) mandates wearing short trousers.

 

 

Unfortunately I've not had my tea, and the next train doesn't land until 1900hrs.

 

This is supposed to be okay also, for the same reason, but I hsd breakfast at 5..

[beko1987]

It went from lovely and sunny to fuck me its raining so hard I can't see several times during my 17 mile drive home just now. It's certainly odd

[Pillock]

It went from lovely and sunny to fuck me its raining so hard I can't see several times during my 17 mile drive home just now. It's certainly odd

I've just done Slough and back, the journey down was pretty bad - three separate instances of people trying to use Lane 4 on the M40 and chewing up the Armco. Presumably hitting standing water. One of them had the road closed by the wombles for 10 minutes, which wasn't bad because I was already late through oversleeping but now I had an excuse.

 

Way back went rapidly between bright sunshine and ZOMG WHERE DID THE ROAD GO and back again in the space of half a mile several times. And two more people stacking their cars on the M40 and M42.

[beko1987]

Ah my m40 run wasn't that bad, there was standing water, and coming down the cut combined rain so hard you couldn't see with sun so bright the other side of the hill you couldn't see...

 

I might have had the upper hand though as I was doing 55 behind a royal mail lorry as my wheel doesn't shake at that speed, and the traffic wasn't going fast enough to do 67 which is the other side of the shake! L2 and 3 dropped speed very quickly at some points

[dollywobbler]

Oh jeepers. The Nippa seems to have munched through a set of boots in under 8000 miles as well. Tracking must be out.

[twosmoke300]

You need a maintainance regime . Like six weekly inspections that lorries get

[twosmoke300]

Oh and I thought you were gonna say a bottom balljoint had let go from that pic