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[Arthur Foxhake]

While you are there, would you mind asking one of the black bonnet VW van owners why they all have black bonnets please?

Thanks.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This

 

Is more likely to have started life as one of these

 

Than one of these

 

It shows my age that when I think ' Army Lorry' that's what's in my mind not a TK or whatever the 4x4 was called.

[Noel Tidybeard]

It's a custom twin cam a-series. I only know as I googled the sticker in the engine bay.

Open the link and look at the price 

 

BMW motor bike cylinder head. Blimey. 

 

http://twinkam.co.uk/epages/191f6b26-60bf-483c-b021-755a0c9099c1.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/191f6b26-60bf-483c-b021-755a0c9099c1/Categories/2/11

 

 

funk me i'm glad i was sat down already !!?!

[Ghosty]

While you are there, would you mind asking one of the black bonnet VW van owners why they all have black bonnets please?

Thanks.

Bonnet bras perhaps?

[bramz7]

Xantia throttle cable snapped whislt on the slip road to the M4 today. Mildly interesting...to say the least.

[Bren]

Vectra started with a jump off the audi but even a charge would not save it.

 

New battery it is then.

[Lacquer Peel]

Gingercators applied. Intact spring and strut soon.

 

 

[HMC]

Destination: Dortmund

Via Le Mans, Paris and Reims

 

This newly purchased merc dizzler isn't not going anywhere at the mo, mind. The rear suspension feels like it isn't there, I suspected borked suspension spheres and this proved to be the case once I'd ever so carefully eased the unions and fixings off them, thankfully without rounding off or breaking anything. The new bits are on order and should be here tomorrow. I've also done a quick cosmetic tart up with flap disc, hydrate 80 and silver hammerite as I'm meeting SWMBO plus sprogs in Dortmund; it will be the first time she's seen it and various typical Merc Blair era rust scabs were all over the shop.

 

I should have it back together, new self levelling hydraulic fluid pumped through and bled and height corrector mechanism serviced by tomorrow evening. Destination at the weekend for 80% of the unoxidised remains of a w210: Das Heimatland.

[UltraWomble]

Off to the Haynes motor museum tomorrow

The way home will be the reverse of the route there

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Destination: Dortmund

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Via Le Mans, Paris and Reims

This newly purchased merc dizzler isn't not going anywhere at the mo, mind. The rear suspension feels like it isn't there, I suspected borked suspension spheres and this proved to be the case once I'd ever so carefully eased the unions and fixings off them, thankfully without rounding off or breaking anything. The new bits are on order and should be here tomorrow. I've also done a quick cosmetic tart up with flap disc, hydrate 80 and silver hammerite as I'm meeting SWMBO plus sprogs in Dortmund; it will be the first time she's seen it and various typical Merc Blair era rust scabs were all over the shop.

I should have it back together, new self levelling hydraulic fluid pumped through and bled and height corrector mechanism serviced by tomorrow evening. Destination at the weekend for 80% of the unoxidised remains of a w210: Das Heimatland.

Trying to keep up with the comings and goings of your fleet is a bit like when I ask Mrs N the simple question ; " Who's that?" Whilst she watches Game of Thrones. A great long tale of treachery , murder, sex and gore follows ,when all I'm interested in is the tits on a bird that used to be in a soap.

So, without too much gore and sex, when did this morph from a W211 to 210 and isn't your silver, dodgy suspended Merc a Gangsta V8 ?

[HMC]

Yes I confuse myself most of the time too! Yes the w211 was perfect and I got abut bored with it. The gangster v8 cls is still here (well at Bristol airport currently- long story!) and I collected this at the weekend- E320cdi so a 3.2 straight six turbodiesel, Love the sound of it!

[omegod]

St ives bay holidays park. Down with all the family. Went to st ives yesterday. Won't be going again. Nice place but packed and I don't eat pasties or surf.

 

Is that the camp with wooden chalets?  I had a full massive pastie nicked off me in St Ives by a pterodactyl posing as a fucking huge seagull.  

[taxi paul]

Is that the camp with wooden chalets? I had a full massive pastie nicked off me in St Ives by a pterodactyl posing as a fucking huge seagull.

yes it is the very place. My daughter spent half an hour cooking a m and s finest burger . Put it on a plate and a seagull swapped and whipped it away.

[Bobthebeard]

Having tucked the new* Saab 9-3 up in the garage awaiting a replacement autobox it was today time to collect the unexpected ebay Rover 75 purchase. Put in a low bid of £255 and won it. Oops.

It is a 2000 W reg 1.8 Auto. Spoke to the seller to arrange collection (50 ish miles away) and it transpired that he was selling it as part of his late fathers estate. His dad died in December last year and the car had been on the drive ever since. Reportedly started easily with jump leads after 9 months.

Turned up at 5pm today and the lad had been and bought a new battery for it so top marks for that. One rear wheelarch is crusty and evidence of welding to the jacking point at the same side but otherwise looked reasonable. I was handed a bunch of papers that the lad 'thought I might want' and we parted company. Brakes were a bit scrapey for a while due to standage and the interior a bit musty.

Mrs Beard and I had a bar snack at The Snooty Fox pub close by in Kirkby Lonsdale then I set off homewards with Mrs B following in case of a FTP.

No dramas ensued. The auto box flared a bit (a lot) when changing into third which was worrying but stopped doing it and changed normally after a couple of miles. Lack of use I hope.

Anyway. Getting home and looking through the bunch of papers I was handed was something else!

Dozens of invoices from the same village garage at the bottom of his street. Dozens. Totalling just short of £10,000 including one for a remanufactured K series engine in 2009 (£1650 from an engine rebuilder PLUS fitting at local garage. £525.) Replacement radiator, rear suspension arms, loads of services, trim parts etc etc. A huge list.

The lad did say as I was leaving that he didn't know much about cars, but it had been his fathers pride and joy. Clearly!

It is still a 17 year old Rover with a couple of crusty bits but obviously loved by the old chap for over 10 years.

[Coprolalia]

Scirocco engine swap begins...

 

[fiatdaft]

Finished yet?

 

 

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[stuboy]

assmunkeys..noticed car was shaking..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj1bkqsg5_0

Whilst swapping wheels over i knew nearside sill was getting frilly but its worse..see pics..

[stuboy]

Whilst swapping wheels over i knew nearside sill was getting frilly but its worse..see pics..

So with welding..cambelt..and clutch its getting nonviable to throw money at it.. been offered this 1.6 auto cheap, thinking stop gap car until baby come, im not massive fan of focus but itll get me about...

[fiatdaft]

Better than an escort !

 

 

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[BorniteIdentity]

Having tucked the new* Saab 9-3 up in the garage awaiting a replacement autobox it was today time to collect the unexpected ebay Rover 75 purchase. Put in a low bid of £255 and won it. Oops.

It is a 2000 W reg 1.8 Auto. Spoke to the seller to arrange collection (50 ish miles away) and it transpired that he was selling it as part of his late fathers estate. His dad died in December last year and the car had been on the drive ever since. Reportedly started easily with jump leads after 9 months.

Turned up at 5pm today and the lad had been and bought a new battery for it so top marks for that. One rear wheelarch is crusty and evidence of welding to the jacking point at the same side but otherwise looked reasonable. I was handed a bunch of papers that the lad 'thought I might want' and we parted company. Brakes were a bit scrapey for a while due to standage and the interior a bit musty.

Mrs Beard and I had a bar snack at The Snooty Fox pub close by in Kirkby Lonsdale then I set off homewards with Mrs B following in case of a FTP.

No dramas ensued. The auto box flared a bit (a lot) when changing into third which was worrying but stopped doing it and changed normally after a couple of miles. Lack of use I hope.

Anyway. Getting home and looking through the bunch of papers I was handed was something else!

Dozens of invoices from the same village garage at the bottom of his street. Dozens. Totalling just short of £10,000 including one for a remanufactured K series engine in 2009 (£1650 from an engine rebuilder PLUS fitting at local garage. £525.) Replacement radiator, rear suspension arms, loads of services, trim parts etc etc. A huge list.

The lad did say as I was leaving that he didn't know much about cars, but it had been his fathers pride and joy. Clearly!

It is still a 17 year old Rover with a couple of crusty bits but obviously loved by the old chap for over 10 years. image.png

Well done for buying it.

 

Please make it all lovely and share it around when you're done.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Looks a cracker that Beardy. I imagine a 1.8 auto to be pretty slow, but these are not cars to hurry anyway are they. What's the drive like?

[Bobthebeard]

Looks a cracker that Beardy. I imagine a 1.8 auto to be pretty slow, but these are not cars to hurry anyway are they. What's the drive like?

Surprisingly it doesn't seem that slow tbh. Not KV6 levels but not that far behind really. Very quiet and refined in my short experience.

[Rod/b]

I've been having some serious wants over acouple of Jap import Merc C280s i've spotted for sale the last couple of days. Both 1998 cars with under 100k km. Any Mercpervs know much about such things?

[tooSavvy]

Finished yet?

 

 

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.... I think you have confused him with SomeoneElse 

 

TS

[beko1987]

Euro Car parts have a 50% wiper blade sale today! Just reserved 2 fancy bosch fronts and 1 bosch rear as my current blades are all utter shite for £20.48.

 

Will update my thread or summat when I collect them at lunchtime and they are correct, but thought I'd mention it

 

The code is WIPER50

[Lacquer Peel]

Someone had fitted Rover or Honda wheels to the white one in the past, same PCD but smaller centre bore, the wheel I wanted to remove is totally welded on with rust (a shame, it has a good tyre) so removing the strut with the wheel fitted was the only option, a little awkward but got there in the end.

The ride has improved a lot now it has a non-Pineappled spring

[Bobthebeard]

Had a poke around the recent Rover 75 this morning. Despite all the massive amounts of money spent by the previous long term owner it needs work. Spent all of its life in Casterton, a small village in Cumbria so am assuming a lot of road salt and bad winters. Rust. Nsr wheel arch in tatters and weldage done to ns sill rear. The off side is solid strangely. Surface rust on fuel tank straps and rear suspension central mounts but doesn't look terminal. The arms and springs are fairly new. Mud and shit in every wheelarch and crevice as to be expected I guess given the location. (When I picked it up we spent five miles behind a tractor leaving a carnival of slippy cack all over the road!)

Usual giffer car really. Chamois leather and sweeties in the glove box, serviced every 5,000 miles, no job too small to spend money on except the bodywork. I suspect the garage at the bottom of the street don't do bodywork and he was too old/infatuated to notice.

All in all it has the makings of a good car. It drives nicely and is quiet and comfortable. It has a fairly recent rebuilt K Series engine and a new radiator.

I added up all the bills/invoices that came with the car and they totalled £9,857.56.

Since 2007.

It's either a very needy and shite car or a well sorted example due to £££s spent.

Time will tell.

It is growing on me. Was a bit meh at first, but.....

Am liking it more and more.

[Bucketeer]

Rust. Nsr wheel arch in tatters and weldage done to ns sill rear. The off side is solid strangely.

 

Maybe it was always parked on the side of the road with the OS facing the pavement and the NS getting sprayed with water, mud, salt, etc from passing traffic.

Just an ill-educated guess.

[Ghosty]

Would anyone be interested in buying my Rover?

Alternatively I'm happy to roffle it.

[Bobthebeard]

Maybe it was always parked on the side of the road with the OS facing the pavement and the NS getting sprayed with water, mud, salt, etc from passing traffic.

Just an ill-educated guess.

It seems that he garaged the car every night. Since 2007.

Maybe the garage was damp in places. Although the wheel arches were full of mud and cack. He just relied on the local friendly garage for everything. Not many local friendly garages will clean out the wheel arches without being asked. I wouldn't either. Although I do it routinely on my own chod.