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[Christine]

Stick some plastic dog shits with super glue on the forecourt 

[New POD]

Today I finished servicing the daughters BINI (it only took me 2 weeks in total)

 

I replaced the air filter today, and it occurred to me that I may not EVER have replaced it since we got the car, some 26 K miles ago. The one that came out was very shitty.

 

Then I fixed the new rear wiper on and unblocked the washer jet.

 

Then I followed the instructions in the Haynes manual and turned off the oil service light.

 

Then I put all tyre pressures up to 32 psi and washed it.

 

Daughter is driving back to Cardiff, tomorrow so hopefully with new 4 electrode bosch plugs and new air filter, the fuel consumption will be better. I took it on a test drive and the mid range and bottom end are much better now.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I took the Bora TDi through the car wash at Sainsbury's. I was quite surprised to see the machine actually finish the process without stopping, unlike last time out.

[Jams]

One of these drivers doesn't have PCP..

 

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See that big Italian lump at the end! Well there not on my nice list!

 

Send to replace a door glass on one. Gets the keys opens it up all very nice and Italian leather etc starts it up and it’s only a flipping derv! Any way takes Old glass out realising they have copied bmw with all switches and mechanisms etc

Fitted new glass goes to operate and it keeps stopping so I try and reset the bloody thing. But then it’s stuck at the bottom of the door! 3 and a half hours I was there!!! 3 and a half!!!!

 

Motor and Mec out Old glass in rammed to the top “take it to the dealers” well mr fancy pants wasn’t very happy with me blah blah blah

 

But wait... according to the dealer every time you replace the glass/disconnect anything inside the door it needs to be reset! At a cost of 350 quid!!!

 

 

Stupid stupid stupid car all moderns are shit etc give me a cavalier any day ha

[stuboy]

Used xmas voucher on halfrauds steering wheel cover... feck me it was tight to get on!!

[Matt]

I'm sure most here already get bombarded by ECP emails but for those that don't they've got a site wide 50% off sale going on today with code SALE50.

 

[twosmoke300]

Really ? Next you will be telling me Mountain Warehouse have a sale on !

[omegod]

Jut had an Omega estate tugged back 20 miles, I got a bite with a post on facebook asking for transport and two lads aid they would frame it back, I think tugging 1.7 tonnes  with a renault kangoo van was optimistic and it never went over 25 mph all the way back, 

[Matt]

Really ? Next you will be telling me Mountain Warehouse have a sale on !

 

DFS too! I didn't think they did site wide ones at 50% often.

[richardmorris]

I am rapidly turning into an old man...

[Guest Hooli]

Now you have to drive everywhere at 42.7mph, it's part of the membership term & conditions.

[steve28]

Been to see how fil got on building his roofed area..

That is so full of awesomeness.... its something i need to do at mine 

[cort16]

I’ve kind of run out of reasons not to put my cortina in for its mot. I think I just need to take a deep breath and do it next week.

Also thinking of selling the maestro and getting another modem ruinous barge as I never use it.

[Cavcraft]

That Focus 'Collection' I bought a few weeks ago seems to be turning into a good idea quite quickly. Someone is selling the kit (bumpers, skirts and grille) off one for £150 more than I paid for the car itself!

[anonymous user]

Used xmas voucher on halfrauds steering wheel cover... feck me it was tight to get on!!

I have the same problem with hula hoops

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I am rapidly turning into an old man...

 

Shouldn't there be a chrome and enamel AA or RAC badge as well?

[richardmorris]

Shouldn't there be a chrome and enamel AA or RAC badge as well?

 

Possibly, I’m in the rac through Aviva insurance not directly. But I don’t like the badge. A friend has a POW Survivor’s grill badge on his s class. that is quite smart!

[Ghosty]

That Focus 'Collection' I bought a few weeks ago seems to be turning into a good idea quite quickly. Someone is selling the kit (bumpers, skirts and grille) off one for £150 more than I paid for the car itself!

Sell it to Stuboy lol.

[Bren]

Got the SD1 going today. The battery is on the small side, even with a booster it is a bastard to get going - easy start is required sometimes. Tomorrow I will check the timing.

[somewhatfoolish]

I’ve kind of run out of reasons not to put my cortina in for its mot. I think I just need to take a deep breath and do it next week.

Also thinking of selling the maestro and getting another modem ruinous barge as I never use it.

Roffle? 3 radomes pls.

[tooSavvy]

..... this thread has achieved 'Triumph' status!

 

If memory doesn't fail me next up is a SIMCA... ??

 

 

TS

[Squire_Dawson]

Shouldn't there be a chrome and enamel AA or RAC badge as well?

 A real giffer would have both, and be a member of neither.

[darkfour]

Today's crappy job was to replace the rubber pipe that connects the filler tube to the gas tank on the Plymouth as it leaks. The previous owner had seen fit to install the jubillee clips with the screw head facing up! I didn't want to drop the tank so had to use a bare hacksaw blade to cut the jubillee clips off. I could only manage a 1 inch stroke so it took ages.

 

Waiting for the mail man to arrive with the new rubber connector and new clips.

 

[wuvvum]

Today I watched a nice but completely boggo Fiat 128 saloon sell for £5,600.  So there's another car I'll never own.

[Bren]

Anything retro is getting pricey.

[bramz7]

If you want a Fiat early 90s stuff is still worthless. I saw an tidy Uno with MOT sell for £256 the other day.

[somewhatfoolish]

Today I watched a nice but completely boggo Fiat 128 saloon sell for £5,600.  So there's another car I'll never own.

 

Ouch. Some interesting late additions to the catalogue. What did those two baggy looking Jensens fetch?

[MarvinsMom]

been to York, and for the first time in a long time visited the NRM.

 

we'd gone to see this, and try the VR re-enrty thing. we couldn't get tickets when it was up at Shildon, so them moving it York gave us another go. and yes, it was really good!

 

they have new exhibits, starting with this

 

a 373 class power car, which is very impressive close up. i've only ever seen them either as a 00 model, or running along HS1.

 

then there is the flying banana, not new by any means (it was built in the 1930's!) but this was the first time ever that i've seen one up close (and i'm 43!)

it looks amazing, just a stunning vehicle.

 

then there is this, i've seen the strealined Duchess before, but this is the first time i've seen the re-painted 3rd class LMS coach coupled up behing the locomotive. and very impressive it looks too

 

i don't ever remember seeing this too, the Pullman car named Topaz, just looking at the workmanship that has gone ito the marquettry and trimming of the interior, sadly nothing today can match it.

 

and at the other end of the spectrum, i don't ever recall seeing this either, the PLM/LNER ferry van. i guess i must have seen it at some point, but not been a steamer i guess it would have passed me by

 

coupled up to the ferry van, is GNR 1247, a mundane steam shunter, but in the full edwardian livery. its lined out EVERYWHERE! no need of course, its been lined out like that cos it looks nice...... and all that on a work-a-day loco, its not a top link engine, but its been painted up to the same standard. beautiful, just beautiful.......

[M'coli]

Peugeot 106 stuff: early ones have driveshafts with an untapered CV joint, later ones have the tapered variety, and never the twain shall meet unless just about everything is changed front suspension-wise. Late Saxos also have the taper driveshafts.
So: 5 months ago I went to replace the driveshaft that I'd bought a year ago. It didn't go well. It's a phase 1 106 - non-taper - wearing bub2006's old Saxo's struts and driveshafts (taper), so a year ago I typed in the reg. no. of the Saxo into GSF and got a driveshaft on discount. The 106 then shat its rear brakes big style(edit: a year ago today, took 11 hours to get home from work!), I took the huff, and banished it to the naughty step until I sold the Puma.
So when I went to change the shaft, I was surprised to find it was a non-taper shaft that I'd been supplied - surprise because I'd replaced the passenger side one and the correct taper one had been supplied. Everything got bolted back up, but to my dismay I nicked the bottom arm balljoint boot. Took old driveshaft back to GSF to confirm it was wrong for the Saxo reg, but couldn't exchange it because time barred - the assistant was excellent though, and sold me the correct taper one at a good discount.
Today I went to change the lot - I'd been nursing the clacking driveshaft, but now there's a hint of free play in the balljoint.

Lower arm - off, nae bother. Driveshaft -ditto. New driveshaft - I was dreading this going tits-up - on nae probs too.

New lower arm? That's 2 and a half hours I'll never get back.

Ended up getting the angle grinder out to take fuck-knows how much of it off to get it to fit. Offer it up, bolt won't go in, take it out, grind off where you can see it's touching. Repeat and try again. Bolt goes in a bit? Retrieve bolt without making a stramash of the threads, take the a out, grind a bit more, and try again.
It's all back together again but the gearbox needs new oil because there's metal in it, and the tracking is well buggered up. Oh joy!

[iainrcz]

Exciting news, in 30 minutes I'll be halfway through my working week. So only 18 hours left to do!

 

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