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[xtriple]

Anyone fancy a project?

 

In my search for a new(er) car I have just seen a Bentley Turbo RT on an auction. 98 so last of the breed and a real hotrod with over 400HP and 750 lb/ft of torque.

 

It's currently sat at about a grand.

 

It's as rough as a badgers arse: drivers side rear wing rust all over, all the wheelarches are gone/going and not movable as it's burst brake pipes. It's a £25K -£30k car and low mileage ffs!

[chodweaver]

Apparently, the day before yesterday was Wirebrushing Friday.

 

Today was Kurusting Sunday

 

 

Today may turn out to be Grinding Monday and hopefully will also be followed by Tickling Tuesday

 

This is the o/s chassis rail on the camper, that I was told by my tame MOT man many months ago should get some attention, if I have any love for the vehicle. The pic doesn't show how badly the steel around the big round hole is delaminating. I may need to go out and buy some thicker sheet steel.

 

 WCPGW?

 

[Ghosty]

Once again our man buying the Volvo confirms his intention to collect, saying he's booked train tickets and so on. Looks promising so far.

 

Oil and filter changed on the Prelude as it was an unknown quantity and could have been in there for 5000 miles/4 years. Nope, almost brand new filter on it - oh well, good to do anyway.

 

Observations:

 

• Old Man keeps telling me the alarm is playing silly buggers even with the isolator switch turned off (I have to wonder if he's just rotated the entire barrel) but it only ever does it when I've gone out for the night and left the car at home.
  Weird. Old Man's disconnected the alarm siren in my absence (fair enough, for once). However this has had the unintended side result of working remote central locking, which is nice.
• one of the slider springs on the sunroof isn't retained by anything (missing/broken plastic parts) and can spring out and jam the sunroof. Luckily I know what's going on, might be an idea to just take the spring out as it functions perfectly without it, there's still one on the other side.
• the light in the gear selector has an iffy connection, to such a degree that switching gears knocks it on and off. Contact cleaner job.
• steering is shite with the collapsed shock. Was hoping to have the replacement shocks arrive and get them fitted by now as I ordered them on Tuesday and I got an email saying they'd be here by 4pm Weds, but the tracking info seems to have given up once they got to the delivery depot (which is in bloody Stockport), they didn't even get there until Thursday morning and I don't have a sodding clue where they are now - probably still in Stockport because they got there slightly too late in the day to go out again (6:30am). If they don't show up this Tuesday I'll be pissed off. APC Overnight if anyone's wondering.
  Overnight my arse, this is going to take 6 days at least.

[panhard65]

Anyone fancy a project?

 

In my search for a new(er) car I have just seen a Bentley Turbo RT on an auction. 98 so last of the breed and a real hotrod with over 400HP and 750 lb/ft of torque.

 

It's currently sat at about a grand.

 

It's as rough as a badgers arse: drivers side rear wing rust all over, all the wheelarches are gone/going and not movable as it's burst brake pipes. It's a £25K -£30k car and low mileage ffs!

Any details ad you know how I like the cheaper versions of Crewe's finest

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The HBOL sez the auto box looks like this:

 

 

That's not what it looks like from here:

 

 

That could be a dipstick, but who knows!?

[somewhatfoolish]

Anyone fancy a project?

 

In my search for a new(er) car I have just seen a Bentley Turbo RT on an auction. 98 so last of the breed and a real hotrod with over 400HP and 750 lb/ft of torque.

 

It's currently sat at about a grand.

 

It's as rough as a badgers arse: drivers side rear wing rust all over, all the wheelarches are gone/going and not movable as it's burst brake pipes. It's a £25K -£30k car and low mileage ffs!

Tell us more, bwana!

[SiC]

The HBOL sez the auto box looks like this:

 

IMG_20180402_091711.jpg

 

That's not what it looks like from here:

 

IMG_20180331_160729.jpg

 

That could be a dipstick, but who knows!?

Looks alright to me?

 

The HBOL showing the torque converter to the right, but your engine bay pic shows it to the left. Engine bay pic of dipstick below the green sphere matches up with the dipstick on the top left of the HBOL.

[richardmorris]

Anyone fancy a project?

 

In my search for a new(er) car I have just seen a Bentley Turbo RT on an auction. 98 so last of the breed and a real hotrod with over 400HP and 750 lb/ft of torque.

 

It's currently sat at about a grand.

 

It's as rough as a badgers arse: drivers side rear wing rust all over, all the wheelarches are gone/going and not movable as it's burst brake pipes. It's a £25K -£30k car and low mileage ffs!

 

This one?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BENTLEY-TURBO-RT-LWB-DIAMOND-BLUE-SILVER-46-000-MILES/323183229879?hash=item4b3f38bbb7:g:tukAAOSwF~JasXae

[xtriple]

That's the fella! Up to £2K now but still, effin' cheap as chips boy...old yer 'and out!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

That's the fella! Up to £2K now but still, effin' cheap as chips boy...old yer 'and out!

I've seen enough of Panhard's posts to have the fear of god around a cheap Bentley/rolls.....and enough of yours to have the fear around an expensive cared for example!

 

6 days to go, watching out of interest....

 

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[SiC]

Effing VAG. Got the lock out and eventually freed up. The lock now works. Tried putting it back together and the overly complex mechanism that is supposed to make it easy to refit has messed up. So off comes the door card anyway.

 

 

Now fixing the fixings that have been damaged by whoever was in here last to fix the window regulator.

 

I'm hating this car at the moment....

[SiC]

Put it all back together now. Door lock barrel works again. Which means I can use the spare key (that has lost sync) in the door lock, which had resynced it. So now two working remote keys.

 

As a bonus, putting the door card back on properly has fixed the door catching. It seemed like the door has dropped but actually was just the door card catching. Whoever did this window regulator last made a right balls up job of it.

[captain_70s]

I bet they didn't even look at it. Mechanic has hit their targets for the month and so not bothering doing the work requested. Happens all too often in many dealers unfortunately.

My Civic snapped it's driveshaft three days after being serviced by a Honda dealer! When I enquired about this I was informed it was impossible to check for and that "they all do that, sir".

 

A service is often just oil, filters, etc. Anything outside of that simply isn't covered/looked at unless you're taking thing to your local trusted friendly garage, hence why I service my own cars now...

[Datsuncog]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

 

 

Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

 

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

 

20180402_134141.jpg

 

Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

 

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

Shit.... You OK?

 

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

^^

That's quite a pool under the car... Has the engine now seized or were you able to switch off in time?

[SiC]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

 

20180402_134141.jpg

 

Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

 

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

Feck. Siezed solid?

[Datsuncog]

Nope, not seized - but making some very strange noises. It'll all be on dashcam - stupid diversion, tricky junction across a dual carriageway, idiot driver who wouldn't accelerate leaving me to floor TAZ in order to avoid a collision with a speeding Merc coming up fast... and five miles down the road, mucho clonking and blue smoke. Oh dear oh dear. Some very pretty road rainbows behind but lots of the black stuff all over the bay... waiting on RAC recovery now. Should get to me by early September, if their call centre queue's anything to go by...

[danthecapriman]

Well, fuck-a-roonie.

20180402_134141.jpg

Total oil loss on the M2? Looks like it, boss.

Exit one otherwise sound Laguna.

Shit!

 

How did that happen?

I once serviced one of those and somehow stupidly left the oil filler cap off! Took it for a test drive afterwards and got back to find the stench of burning oil and mess everywhere. Luckily I didn’t do any damage but the mess under the bonnet took some cleaning up.

 

Any chance of a used engine? Be a shame to see another early Laguna go if not.

[purplebargeken]

Shame as that is a decent looking Laguna. 

[320touring]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/laguna-v6-auto/1292687460

 

Laguna issue fixed

[richardmorris]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/02/queens-youngest-grandchild-seen-driving-family-land-rover-windsor/

 

 

He’s been practising for months. Does a circuit of the park here at about 7.30 each morning sitting on Sophie’s lap. That’s their disco and I’m surprised the reg is shown for security reasons. Yellow badge must be a police security tag.

 

He’s just missed me on the bike a couple of times! Seems a polite young man when we’ve talked.

[mrbenn]

Nope, not seized - but making sone very strange noises. It'll all be on dashcam - stupid diversion, tricky junction across a dual carriageway, idiot driver who wouldn't accelerate leaving me to floor TAZ in order to avoid a collision with a speeding Merc coming up fast... and five miles down the road, mucho clonking and blue smoke. Oh dear oh dear. Some very pretty road rainbows behind but lots of the black stuff all over the bay... waiting on RAC recovery now. Should get to me by early September, if their call centre queue's anything to go by...

Dislike. Hope you get recovered soon, at least.

[DodgeRover]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/02/queens-youngest-grandchild-seen-driving-family-land-rover-windsor/

 

 

He’s been practising for months. Does a circuit of the park here at about 7.30 each morning sitting on Sophie’s lap. That’s their disco and I’m surprised the reg is shown for security reasons. Yellow badge must be a police security tag.

 

He’s just missed me on the bike a couple of times! Seems a polite young man when we’ve talked.

Somebody needs to introduce him to trials bikes, quads and moto-x bikes, think of the fun the protection lot would have riding round with him

Plenty of space to play in too.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The CX is sort of back to normal, although closer inspection of the trans fluid level revealed nothing more than a suggestion of fluid down there. Access is comically awkward because French and I didn't have a filler neck with a small enough diameter to fit into the hole. I tipped about half a litre of fresh Dexron III into the hole, and another half all over the driveway. There are greasy slicks on the paving; hopefully we might get some more rain....

 

I am going to try some of that Lucas Auto Trans Fluid Conditioner and see if that stuff works.

[MarvinsMom]

another day, the same friggin' mini been tinkered with.....

 

today we have mostly been going backwards

 

all this to get at the split pin and clevis pin in the brake pedal so that the master cylinder can be changed. a fiddly crappy job on any car, but no fun at all on a minature one. (this actually took us a couple of hours to get this far)

 

new one on, i'm hoping that i've put it on the right way round as it was a tight fit into the hole down to the pedal. now the old one was tight there too, but looking at the bottom of the old cylinder, the seal has a split in it and it was wet. so i think we may have gotten to the bottom, sort of, the brake problems. (this bit was dead easy)

 

hmmmm, we wil see......

 

then on to the back, we have decided that the back flexis are going to be changed too. the first union, onto the metal pipe on the swing arm was a piece of cake, the second one through the subframe... wel that one didn't undo so well. in th eway it wouldn't undo at all. bugger it..... that will have to keep till next time. 

[MikeR]

looks like I might be taxing the vets Beamer this week ........... 

 

 that aside she is doing well for her age , still argues , still wants her own way , still goes where she wants to , does what she wants ......

 

thats a bitch for you ...

[Jon]

Word up Shiters, someone's re-uploaded the 1982 BBC Arena documentary about the Ford Cortina, after a previous upload was removed quite a while ago. Here's a blue text link below, as I'm not sure how to attach a Youtube direct video link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2wdYfRzy8

 

 

Anyway, if legend is to be believed, the gent that features in the home film at 10:30 and who is interviewed a couple of minutes later is the one and only TOO SAVVY! This isn't a reference to the fact that I couldn't figure out what the heck he was saying, as he is in fact surprisingly eloquent but I'm sure old TS himself made reference to the fact on here a few years ago, that it was him (and his now ex-wife).

 

Presumably, he hadn't owned a Hillman Imp by this stage and Protons hadn't yet been invented. 

[captain_70s]

Word up Shiters, someone's re-uploaded the 1982 BBC Arena documentary about the Ford Cortina, after a previous upload was removed quite a while ago. Here's a blue text link below, as I'm not sure how to attach a Youtube direct video link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2wdYfRzy8

 

That Mk1 2-door fetching £670 at auction, Jesus wept... ( LNX 770C is no longer registered with the DVLA though). 

 

FYK 611C lives on though!

 

[Datsuncog]

Cheers for the kind words and thoughts folks.

 

TAZ the Green (oilless) Gooner was eventually recovered, after a slightly less than pleasant three hours by the side of the motorway in the sleet. Initially (after 20 mins on hold) the RAC call handler made the rather controversial assumption that Belfast was just outside Dublin, and sent a wagon to Junction 1 of the M2 in the Republic of Ireland.

 

Once this amusing little error had been cleared up, RAC then handed it off to a known useless recovery company who made contact, assured me they'd be there shortly, and then didn't show up. After 45 minutes I called the recovery dude back directly, only to be told that they'd been stood down from the job. Another jolly 15 minutes on hold to the RAC elicited the information that yet another recovery company had been given the job, as the first lot were 'too busy'.

 

In fairness, not long afterwards I did receive a call from the second (third?) recovery guy, who was with me two minutes later and was just the right blend of solicitous, professional and sanguine. TAZ was scooped up onto the back of the wagon and taken nine miles home through the heavier snow, and is now on the driveway oozing vital fluids onto some old trays and rubber mats. Blokey on the recovery wagon couldn't tell 100% what the issue was, but said it looked like the sump had gone.

 

So there we have it. Further updates (including dramatic reconstruction and dashcam footage) will doubtless appear on the Gooner thread, starting tomorrow... but I doubt this time we're going to get our a fairytale ending.