mercrocker Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Probably......Mind you, I still can't believe the whole Chinese MG thing is for real. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panhard65 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Took this out of the boot of a customers car this morning apparently it was a pot hole. Shep Shepherd, Christine, Eddie Honda and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nacho man Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 I bet you get some funny excuses for stuff, and why it has broken. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramz7 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 I hope it was someone on here who bought the mega late 605 on auto trader. SRDT Automatic on a T (!) plate. I call first dibs if it was one of you. Brodders, Lacquer Peel and chaseracer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Vectra has passed it's MOT. Just need to find out why I am having cooling issues. oldcars, clayts450 and Rusty_Rocket 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 And now it has an MOT. Really glad it's been saved by someone. Note slight VAG scene yo! changes - that's a different front grille and it looks a tad lower more stanced than when I had it! A bit like the white Corsa, this looks like a 'theshadow' find that will live on... Rusty_Rocket, Vantman, clayts450 and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Took this out of the boot of a customers car this morning apparently it was a pot hole.november 17 057.JPGnovember 17 055.JPG That's impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 This didn't happen much with good old 155 13 SR , 165 14 hr OR DARE I SAY even modern 185 70 13's . Progress eh? alf892 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Pick up the keys to my new lockup today. Plan is to make it a winter retreat for the Locost and store some other crap out of my garage in there leaving me able to actually work on cars in my garage Vince70, Bucketeer, holbeck and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Pick up the keys to my new lockup today. Plan is to make it a winter retreat for the Locost and store some other crap out of my garage in there leaving me able to put new, different shit in my own garage The Moog, dome, clayts450 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucketeer Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Congratulations to the new lockup owners/renters. I've got the day off today and am going to look at one this morning. Myself and the girlfriend have two parking spaces and two cars, a new garage would add room for one more, and I'm currently hoping to buy two more cars in the next few days. Oh well, at least there's a Tesco just up the road with plenty of parking/long term storage. Supernaut, Six-cylinder, The Moog and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 These are NOT my hands, nor is it my picture...... 'Car Mechanics' with Eddie Izzard...? Sigmund Fraud, DeeJay, Barry Cade and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 'Car Mechanics' with Eddie Izzard...? Nah, nails'd be black Sent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 attempting to change flexi piepe on the fozzie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Flexi was too flexi so got one off ebay cheep, set about chopping 2 rust bolt hanging to cat, then thought id just chop through with disc cutter... once chop and then no room at all, and thought oh pants as need to get it cut, spoke to future Fil and he has air saw , so drove it the most deafing mile to his house only broke 2 blades, only thing is replacement has straight join where on car its curved, hammered on and tested blows but im physically broken.. DeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 ^^ I just fucking hate working on exhausts, in general. I think the main thing I don't like is that you're constantly working against gravity while trying to join together some stupid bits of pipe that don't want to go together. Pattern parts for exhausts never seem to fit just quite right too. tooSavvy, chaseracer, stuboy and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Does the Rickman Ranger also belong to your FIL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 ^^ I just fucking hate working on exhausts, in general. I think the main thing I don't like is that you're constantly working against gravity while trying to join together some stupid bits of pipe that don't want to go together. Pattern parts for exhausts never seem to fit just quite right too. You forgot the carbon & rust falling in your eyes every time you try to align anything. strangeangel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 I Say Again.... ATS (me with arms folded, looking on) proved it for me.... Up Up.... And Away (goes my rusty auld $hite) TS DeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Time and experience has taught me that universal exhaust flexi joints are just not worth the hassle . Barry Cade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 ^^ I just fucking hate working on exhausts, in general. I think the main thing I don't like is that you're constantly working against gravity while trying to join together some stupid bits of pipe that don't want to go together. Pattern parts for exhausts never seem to fit just quite right too.Friend of mine maintains that he always leaves exhaust work to the guys who do it all day long, but if he doesn't have that option, his preferred method is to strafe the underside of the vehicle in question with a 50 caliber weapon to 'loosen things up first'... Sent from my BV6000 using Tapatalk tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Exhaust are a real pain in the arse, unless you have a ramp and the big blue spanner- then I love 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 What's the big blue spanner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Oxy-acetylene I bet, fits both metric & imperial exhausts. M'coli, DeeJay, eddyramrod and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Yup also known as the hot spanner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 After reading stuboy's experience, I've decided I'm not going to fit the new front exhaust section myself. In fact I asked a local garage to quote (they'd deffo come in cheaper than the £350 Kwikshite quoted) but they advised me the front pipe and cat are separate sections (despite me giving them the exact MGR part number, and the replica Klarius part number) I can't be arsed pointing out to them that the Streetshite is not a fucking ShittyRover, it's a 25/ZR. Gonna get the guys at MG Mobile Mechanics in Derby to do it instead - at least they know their stuff stuboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Does the Rickman Ranger also belong to your FIL?yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Cheap Saab 9-3 2.2 TiD (2002 MY so the 1,100 different changes version of the 900) up for sale locally which looks pretty good and only 110K on the clock with FSH - gen me up guys - are these hopeless ? Know its a Vox injun. And sorry Eddy - has to be a manual eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Cracking reliable engine - I'd say one of vx best . Bit noisy and inj pump electrics can just fail but thats Robert Bosch's fault .Egr and inlet manifold gums up - mucky afternoon cleaning that out .Poor starting esp when low on fuel and /or parked uphill can be leak off pipes / t pieces or injector seals . Officially a cam out job but you. Am so it without . About 60 quids worth of bits and 4 ish hours work at home . Watch for the pedals moving when turning the steering wheel - bulkheads crack where the rack mounts and it's a bastard to repair esp with the big diesel lump in there . Rest of the car is pretty good but arches rust and interior is pretty small / cramped . I prefer the 9-5 clayts450, Sigmund Fraud and Barry Cade 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Don't know if it's been posted on here before but I've just noticed that the online DVLA MOT-history-check no longer lists the location of test-centre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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