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[cort16]

They're money pits if you get s bad one trigger I'd walk way and find another . If you can see rust then there's lots of rust. If you can't see rust then there's still rust .

[5speedracer]

I thought I'd find somewhere to stop at the airport to work out a route home, navigating into the airport I picked a destination which happened to be Car Park 2 as I thought Car Park 1 would be closer to the terminal, because numbers. It's not 'till you get to the barriers they point out the charges and there was no way back other than reversing back through the one-way system.

My prior experience of driving around an airport was Aberdeen which is a wee bit smaller...

 

Beyond the Clyde Tunnel junction I have no idea what goes where further down the road, the only place I drive to that isn't in the West End is work! I can't stand city/motorway driving so I'm tragically unfamiliar with the area...

£2 drop off at Aberdeen airport too if you get lost!

[320touring]

They're money pits if you get s bad one trigger I'd walk way and find another . If you can see rust then there's lots of rust. If you can't see rust then there's still rust .

If cort says its a bad one then walk away...

[SiC]

I agree with what your saying but it's really playing on my mind today, i keep trying to justify in my head what it will cost to sort, i don't want a show car which i can't use but its got to be presentable, the sills will need patching but a skim of filler on top and stone chip will tidy them, rear valance will probably need a couple of patches too but again i can paint that..

 

The hole in the door top is a pain but I'd probably just fiberglass it and just puff it in. Passenger door bottom would clean up, bead of mastic and touch up as would the bit around the rear light inside the boot. But the arch would have to be done properly, if i done it at all. The mileage is high but it's got a stack of history and it does feel really well cared for and drive remarkably well apart from a dry suspension top mount bearing.

 

I think it's the potential that i can see in it and that rare and extremely comfortable buffalo interior as well as the originally which is tempting me. It's just that £2800 price, it just feels a bit too much.

Personally i would avoid it unless your happy to sink another £1000-1500+ into it getting it back to a condition which you'll be happy with.

Sounds a bit like my deliberations with that MGB GT.

 

Its local, you know the issues, its an easy transaction to make and your want level is huge - even though you'd never go near it if it was on eBay/Gumtree/etc. Thus one half of the brain is trying to find every way of justifying something to get it, that the other half is trying to say avoid. That side sounds like its currently winning.

 

I know the feeling all too well!

[trigger]

Fuck it, time to move on!

[richardthestag]

You're joking right? Glasgow roads and particular the city centre is a rabbit warren of conflicting one way systems and confusing over passes. I've been up here 15 years and work in Glasgow but still can't safely navigate into the centre without the potential of ending up in totally the wrong place or lost.

There are often routes to places you can't follow back. This means if you go somewhere the route too and from there is totally different. Also there's no road signs so unless youre local or have sat nav you're going to end up lost or in Stirling .

 

It's the worst place I've ever driven!

 

cpt 70s it is theoriticly possible to get to the west end with out going through the Clyde tunnel but its very very easy to end up in totally the wrong place .

 

You should try Reading. fucking nightmare

[SiC]

You should try Reading. fucking nightmare

I actually find Reading pretty easy once realising that all the major roads either lead into or out of the centre. I drove around a fair bit when I was younger, not long after passing my test.

 

I've lived in Bristol for over 12 years though and I'm still learning parts and cut-thrus all the time. Don't get me started on rush-hour traffic!

[dollywobbler]

Oh nice one Trig. If you win that, I'll be making a very long trek to visit!

[RobT]

Fuck it, time to move on!

 

 

Good luck x10000!

[Eddie Honda]

You should try Reading. fucking nightmare

That's another piece of piss, especially on a motorcycle for Reading and Bristol were two early adopters of letting them into the bus lanes.

 

I used to live in Wycombe. Roundabouts on a roundabout (Ring junctions) are dead easy too. Denham Roundabout, no problem. The Plough Roundabout, Hemel, easy. Greenstead Roundabout, Colchester, don't even break a sweat. Magic Roundabout, Swindon, what's the fuss?

 

Milton Keynes is visually hard work as it all looks the same, but once you've got all your horizontals and verticals worked out, it too is a piece of piss.

 

Edinburgh is a pain in the hole, not because it is difficult navigate as such (piece of piss on foot), it's just the council are a bunch of anti-car arses and have done everything to make life difficult for the motorist, so routes tend to be rather circuitous.

[dollywobbler]

Have dizzy cap and new HT leads for the Bluebird. Hoping I can get them fitted before the MOT tomorrow. Dizzy cap is currently quite loose, and held in place with garden twine...

[richardmorris]

Just back from the garage with a new mot ( no advisories of course).

 

 

It was sitting next to a very tidy J reg BX TZD turbo in Olympic blue! Ed Davidge ( him of the SM engined decap DS) has just bought it from them for a full restoration.

[taxi paul]

Today I painted my hallway. Big hallway. Anyway I used matt emulsion and painted over the silk emulsion allready on walls. Paint has now all cracked like an alligator skin. Quick Google and you shouldn't paint over silk with Matt paint. Don't know wether to try kitchen and bathroom paint ,a bit thicker or start wallpapering. Pain in the arse.

[beko1987]

Spray lacquer over it and pretend it's the effect you've been going for and cost a fortune for the special paint?

[stuboy]

Today I painted my hallway. Big hallway. Anyway I used matt emulsion and painted over the silk emulsion allready on walls. Paint has now all cracked like an alligator skin. Quick Google and you shouldn't paint over silk with Matt paint. Don't know wether to try kitchen and bathroom paint ,a bit thicker or start wallpapering. Pain in the arse.

i was asked to paint my mates mum bathroom with matt paint over silk i told her it go crappy but she insisted on it.. looked crap.. as predicted.

[taxi paul]

My hallway has been pineappled!!!!!.

[cobblers]

Tesco have semi synthetic oil for £5/2l and fully synthetic for £6/2l at the moment.

[Bobthebeard]

Spent an afternoon working on the Oldsmobile today. The (last) brake caliper to have new pads fitted had a siezed slider and handbrake arm. No amount of penetrating oil, heat and hammering would free anything off. Then the slider broke. Bugger. Expecting the worst I checked Rock Auto. £39 including shipping from the USA for a complete rebuilt caliper! Sounded good to me so one is now on the way.

A pile of rusty flakes on the floor turned out to be a disintegrating heat shield above the rear silencer. So removed silencer and shield. Silencer full of water and rust, shield was crispy so binned both. Remarkably little rust on the underside once the large heat shield was gone. Wire brushed it all and gave it a good dose of Dynax UB.

Just 'out of interest' I fired her up without the rear box, as you do....

Sounded wonderful! Wasn't actually that loud (has a silencer after the cat) but for a short while 'I was* blipping the throttle on a Dodge Charger before leaving Rosco P Coltrane slithering in a ditch.'

[drum]

Thanks to Facebook I have a full 14 inches now.

 

Turns out there is a fellow allegro owner local to me with a pump for the hydrolastic suspension.

[MarvinsMom]

i think we are going to see this at the weekend, assuming that its still for sale

 

http://www.platinummotorcompany.co.uk/used-cars/jaguar-xj-3-0-xj6-4dr-batley-201705315977085

 

 

now i like the Rover. i mean really, really like the Rover.

 

so i don't need another car, especially another XJ6, which will be a money pit!

 

but,

 

BUT its a jaguar,

 

and i like Jaguar's....

 

its a 3 litre V6, so eaier to live with than a V8, has 70k on the clock. good service history, and its advertised at £3700.

 

WCPGW, apart from me really taking a shine to it and buying the bloody thing!!

 

anything i should look for, besides paint bubbles, warning lights either not coming on and going out, and electric things not working?

[holbeck]

This evening i went to view this BMW 525e which was advertised on ebay.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132248822683

 

It was very local and really caught my eye so it was worth a look, it turned out that it belongs to a local garage owner who i know who buys cars to sell, he didn't really want to sell this but said i could have it for £2800, it drove really bloody lovely for a old car with nearly 200k, it honestly felt like it had done less than half that mileage and the 2.7 6 cylinder sounded amazing.

 

 

 

The interior was remarkable too, the leather had no damage, everything works other than a rear window and apparently its a rare spec with heated leather seats and switchable auto?.

 

 

Sadly thats were things started to go down hill, the rust was worse than i hoped, a rear door had a hole and the front door was rotten inside the shut and inside base.

 

 

The rear valance was quite soft and snotty with a small hole in the inside rear arch base and one arch was bubbling.

 

 

And other sills with scabby and looked a bit soft, especially the wing bases.

 

 

That said none of it looked awful and all seemed relatively straight forwards to tidy up. He said he would service it for £2800 too, I'm really quite tempted as i was taken too it but it just seems a bit expensive considering the rusty bits?

 

A bit late to this, I know Trig decided (probably rightly) not to make an offer.

 

I love it because it's brown inside and out, and it's an auto.

 

Sadly, as I have found to my cost in the past. Those things also make it undesireable to all but a select few.

 

 

 

Having said that, still kicking myself that I didn't make Breadvan an offer on his Brown e34, seeing as it got broken in the end.

[trigger]

I decided against that Daimler in the end, I had a long hard think about it and even spoke to the owner on the phone and whilst it all sounds good on paper i had this feeling that i was probably jumping into it a bit after a rebound from the BMW, the seller said he had replaced absolutely loads on it but it would probably break me and it really is a long way away from here, i worked it out that it would cost me at least £200 just to get it home and that was if it was as nice as it sounded.

 

Oh well the hunt continuies...

[cort16]

Did you see the 6 series I posted on the tat thread?

[trigger]

I like 6 Series's but i want something more practical, we have a 18 month old and another one the way so it needs to be able to take two car seats (preferably rear facing to keep the wife happy) and room in the boot for a pram. A Mk2 Granada is still looking the most likely at the moment.

[DodgeRover]

I like 6 Series's but i want something more practical, we have a 18 month old and another one the way so it needs to be able to take two car seats (preferably rear facing to keep the wife happy) and room in the boot for a pram. A Mk2 Granada is still looking the most likely at the moment.

Import yourself a XD, XE, XF Falcon station wagon from Aus available with 351 V8 for maximum climate improvement. Like a granny but bigger and better.

[DeeJay]

i think we are going to see this at the weekend, assuming that its still for sale

 

http://www.platinummotorcompany.co.uk/used-cars/jaguar-xj-3-0-xj6-4dr-batley-201705315977085

 

 

 

 

anything i should look for, 

 

Chequebook and nearest petrol station.

[Brodders]

Oh well the hunt continuies...

What about the Orion that was mentioned a few weeks ago? Is that a no go?

[stuboy]

i think we are going to see this at the weekend, assuming that its still for sale

 

http://www.platinummotorcompany.co.uk/used-cars/jaguar-xj-3-0-xj6-4dr-batley-201705315977085

 

 

now i like the Rover. i mean really, really like the Rover.

 

so i don't need another car, especially another XJ6, which will be a money pit!

 

but,

 

BUT its a jaguar,

 

and i like Jaguar's....

 

 

go for it !!

[trigger]

What about the Orion that was mentioned a few weeks ago? Is that a no go?

I'm still waiting on that, I'm waiting on the tractor blocking it in to be fixed but that will probably replace the Dolomite. Even if i get it tomorrow it will still take a while to recommisson anyway, I'm looking for a bigger usable classic for up to £4000 to use and the Orion will be the Dolly replacement.

 

I guess sensibly i should kept the Dolly and wait until the Orion is ready and concentrate on that but when have i ever been sensible when cars are involved and i have money in the bank?!

[captain_70s]

the Orion will be the Dolly replacement.

Replace a 1500SE with an ORION? We are no longer friends...

 

In other news I got lost again tonight, ended up in Shawlands, although that is closer to my intended destination and didn't feature the charges I met at the airport. I have now devised a new route avoiding the M74 and instead heading North on to the M8 and then on to Great Western Road, it might even be a bit faster than my usual route given the lack of traffic at midnight... Probably should have done this last night...