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[clayts450]

Finally got round to opening my flaps*, missus

 

Cheers, Craig

 

 

*(mudflaps for Streetshite)

[richardmorris]

You could raise money for a replacement by attatching a chain and listing it on ebay as a retro scene necklace, dubbers would fap themselves silly over it

 

Was it the 80s or 90s there was a fad for knicking vw badges for chains?

 

You can have the merc’s for free!

[fordperv]

Blame the beasties boys for that one mid to late 80s iirc

[clayts450]

Correct - they had my Beetle badge away, the little fuckers.

[egg]

Blame the beasties boys for that one mid to late 80s iirc

Which shows you just how long VW has had a hipster association !

[puddlethumper]

Bloody hell !!   The young guy who works the corner shop across the road has been murdered. 

[twosmoke300]

That's a bit close to home !

[richardmorris]

In a robbery?

[vulgalour]

Was a trying drive back from Maidstone to Stockton-on-Tees.  M11 had some minor chaos thanks to a BMW shunting a Micra and a Mk1 Picasso throwing a front wheel off  (not related incidents).  Rover is performing impeccably, even after I accidentally ramped it off that killer speedbump on the entrance to the Wetherby Services car park.  Never has 10mph felt so dangerous!

[blackboilersuit]

Spent the afternoon welding up the exhaust on the CRV after it split on Saturday. Feeling quite pleased with myself as I parked it back up until I noticed the brake was a bit spongy. Investigation has revealed the bias valve block bolted to the bottom of the bulkhead is soaking in fluid. The valve and the four lines that go into it are all pretty rotten and have been getting cleaned up and painted for many a year for the MOT because it's a bit of an arse of a job to do properly. Lesson learned the hard way, rotten brake lines should be changed out straight away and not left to need doing on the side of the road in the dark in the middle of January. On the car flaring tools and bags of unions ordered tonight from ebay. Weather permitting the strip out work will start tomorrow night. At least I am within 40 min walking distance of work and food shops and 60 mins walking distance of a parts factor so I can live without the car for a bit. 

[mercrocker]

Spotted today in the South, but no photos!!!  

 

Chevrolet Greenbrier on the M271 (feck, that is rare)

 

Citroen AMI6 Break in Arundel - anybody on here?

[SiC]

I've been given a preliminary "maybe it might be ok" with Mrs SiC on getting another (old) car. Not a resounding yes, but then I'm not likely ever to get that. It also doesn't solve where I'm going to put it but at least it allows me to start properly bidding.

 

Just need to find a spare garage in Bristol so I can have one tucked away off the drive here. Ideally within short cycling distance.

[wuvvum]

I've actually had some success on the fettling front this weekend.

 

Got the offside rear wheel bearing changed on the silver Rover yesterday, and bloody hell has it made a difference.  I can actually now hear all the other strange noises the car is making.  I had to drill out the drum retaining screw to get the drum off, but that turned out to be a 2-minute job as the screw is made of brass, rather than steel as on the 200.  It may have helped that I was using a half decent drill bit rather than the shit Rolson job I was using before mind.  Anyway, got everything back together and went for a test drive - lovely. 

 

Then this evening I went out to get some diesel, braked at the end of my road and an almighty graunching noise starts up from the offside rear.  I immediately had my suspicions, which were confirmed when I got home and took the drum off again (in the dark) - the threaded bit of the bastard retaining screw, which I had assumed had fallen on the floor somewhere, had somehow got lodged up in the brake shoes, and eventually with the movement and vibration had found its way down into the drum.  It was swiftly evicted and everything put back together, and normal service was resumed.

 

I got the nearside front wishbone off the 205 yesterday once I'd got the correct sized spanners together - the rear bolt was a bit awkward and took a while, but everything came off easily enough considering.  The inner metal bore of the bush fell out in my hand as I wiggled the wishbone off, and I was able to pull the rubber out of the outer casing with my fingers, so yep, it was pretty fucked.  Took the wishbone to a mate with better workshop facilities than me (not hard...) and as suggested in the SQA thread, a combination of hacksawing and twatting with a hammer (plus some jiggling with pliers) had the outer casing out, then the new bush was driven in using a vice.  Everything went back together with much the same degree of awkwardness as it had come apart (although I had to put the front mounting bolt through the hole the other way round to how it'd come out (nut on the outside) as for some reason I couldn't get the holes to line up going the other way). 

 

Then the test drive - it's made a massive difference to how the car drives, it now accelerates in a straight line rather than diving for the offside verge with every prod of the accelerator.  Of course there's still the issues of the tired rear shocks, leaking steering rack, rusty inner sills, weird bearing noise when driving etc. etc. to contend with, but it's now a car I'd be happy to jump in and drive as a daily, which is a lot more than I could have said of it before.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Spent all yesterday afternoon searching the barn for a part I know I have but couldn't find it. Just ordered a new one. £23...

 

Then the 306 heater matrix started leaking and steaming up the windows so I put some k seal in it. Now no heat comes out the heater....

 

Anyone here ever changed a Peugeot 306 heater matrix?

[Anthony]

Anyone here ever changed a Peugeot 306 heater matrix?

It's a swine of a job - basically the entire dash has to come out. There's a few reasonable guides online, but bank on it taking a full day (if not best part of two days) if you've never done one.

 

Such is progress - a 205/309 one takes about 20 minutes.

[scaryoldcortina]

Phone call! Only an hour and a half into a working week, have I found an engine or a cheap car and do I know anyone who would lend her a car?

 

Anyone? ????

[320touring]

Phone call! Only an hour and a half into a working week, have I found an engine or a cheap car and do I know anyone who would lend her a car?

 

Anyone? ????

Give her the back office number for a BMW dealership..

[vulgalour]

Needed a break on my way home yesterday and the M11 apparently has no services, at least on the stretch I was on.  Ducked into the Imperial War Museum instead and found a tank in the car park.

 

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

This is my 1000th post.

[DodgeRover]

Phone call! Only an hour and a half into a working week, have I found an engine or a cheap car and do I know anyone who would lend her a car?

 

Anyone? ????

Enterprise rent a car?

 

How many numbers does she have to ring from and why does she think you would be remotely interested in fitting an engine she can't pay for...

[Jams]

Phone call! Only an hour and a half into a working week, have I found an engine or a cheap car and do I know anyone who would lend her a car?

 

Anyone? ????

 

You need to tell her to sod off tbh

 

I doubt you will see your money or 065 anytime soon

[scaryoldcortina]

Enterprise rent a car?

 

How many numbers does she have to ring from and why does she think you would be remotely interested in fitting an engine she can't pay for...

 

I don't know, and I don't know. I forgot to block the third number though, that's the one she used this morning.

 

You need to tell her to sod off tbh

 

I doubt you will see your money or 065 anytime soon

 

Agreed. I laughed and hung up when she asked to borrow a car!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

After accidentally putting 1.6litres of diesel in the tank of the (petrol) CX  , I think I might have got away with it after brimming the tank with Shell V-Power unleaded......

[Tickman]

Phone call! Only an hour and a half into a working week, have I found an engine or a cheap car and do I know anyone who would lend her a car?

 

Anyone? ????

 

I love this, she really is happy with your work isn't she!

[scaryoldcortina]

Further phone call - she can borrow a car from a friend of hers if she can get to Middlesbrough to collect it. Could I drop everything in the middle of a work day and run her through to the boro? Offered a fiver petrol money too!

 

I told her there is a Durham - M'bro bus about once an hour and it's £4.80.

 

 

And no, I don't know why she hasn't given up yet!

[Pillock]

Correct - they had my Beetle badge away, the little fuckers.

And my mum's Polo badge off the bootlid.

After that she took to removing the front badge every time she parked, and clipping it back in before driving away again.

 

Every. Single. Time.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Bloody hell !!   The young guy who works the corner shop across the road has been murdered. 

 

 

That's a bit close to home !

 

 

In a robbery?

 

Is that the one in Mill Hill Broadway? Very close to home if so. I drove past there a few hours before the incident.

[alcyonecorporation]

Further phone call - she can borrow a car from a friend of hers if she can get to Middlesbrough to collect it. Could I drop everything in the middle of a work day and run her through to the boro? Offered a fiver petrol money too!

 

I told her there is a Durham - M'bro bus about once an hour and it's £4.80.

 

 

And no, I don't know why she hasn't given up yet!

Wait - is this the spackbauble from last year with the knackered Focus? What do you look like, a bloody charity??!

[scaryoldcortina]

Yup. That's her.

 

She's also the same person my daughter wrote the following rant about on the day the police relived me of both my liberty and a datsun 260z about 10 years back...

 

 

 

And this leaves me to the loitering customers, I refer to as "sweating fat heiffer". The reason for which she has this nickname is that she conveniently never has enough money, owns a deisel corsa, and seems to never think of taking a bath! The funny thing is, my dad was looking at her car as requested by her to see if he could "bodge" the very badly beaten curse word box, which had a burnt out clutch, snapped gear box mount, and smelt like a herd of goats had lived in it for a millenium. This is because she had it in the paper next day for £300ish as working condition. Even though its a revolting death trap of a diesel corsa. My dad told her just before he had been arresed that there was no way in hell he was going to "bodge" her car, and that the only way to make anything off it would be to scrap it for £50. But no she insisted that he told her he was going to do it and that my friend and I must have heard wrong. So shortly after hearing that statement I when blue in the face and told her kindly to remove her body from the premises. She never handed the money that she owed to me at the time, because she weanted to flutter her eyelids as he gazed into her eyes of beauty. (what a load of.....) So after she had took some of her rubbish out of her car in fear of the off chance that her car may be broken into in a secure garage in a secure compund. In my opinion only a blind, traveller with no sense of smell would target that biological hazard! As i know of personal experience my oldest most stupid dog will not go near that car! And she's nearly dead

 

Some people just can't take a hint!

[Parky]

To be honest even if I had a spare car (which I don't) I would be extremely reluctant to lend or sell it to someone like that. Firstly if I lent it I wouldn't get it back, and if I sold it I would expect to be told she can't pay for it yet but will owe it to me. Meaning I'm not getting paid. Plus she seems the sort of person who would expect anything she gets will come with a lifetime parts and labour warranty.

 

Think I would be inclined to say you will be happy to find and fit her a replacement engine. You will need £500 up front and you will get around to it at some point in the next month. If that's no good she had best speak to someone else. Maybe that expert who managed to blow the last engine up could do it?