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[oldcars]

Just found out today my PPI re-claim has been approved. Just over 14k!

http://autoshite.com/topic/31579-v8-mustang-powered-mg-zt260/

 

This is all you need to know.

[panhard65]

A quiet day and stuck for parts on the Seat has meant the Porsche has had a little love today. I gave it a good run last week over 500 miles and by the time I got back the pot holes of Essex had done their worse. At least all the wheels are still round and just one rear antiroll bar link knocking like a good un. It's a lovely car and all but doesn't half cost to keep it perfect. I will have to wash it again later before it goes back under it's cover in the garage.

[xtriple]

The tightened fan belt seems to have done the trick, peeing down with rain so lights, wipers, air con all blasting away and no problems with electrics and no squeeling.

 

Got my new phone as well, it's a Huwhaihai or something like that and it's brill! I can turn it on with a fingertip and its been a few weeks since I could say that! 

[tooSavvy]

.... Sorry, m8, was that phone or a laydee

[xtriple]

.... Sorry, m8, was that phone or a laydee

Sadly.......

[Ghosty]

The bumper on the Prelude doesn't sit right:

 

 

so today I had the thing off to see how it goes together, give it a clean, and investigate. I also polished the exhaust tips.

 

 

doing this also confirmed the car's had a blowover at some point.

 

The bumper is held on by a metal box section across the middle that bolts to the car, and the bumper is attached to this with trim clips - so in effect it's held on by four bolts. As well as this there's a bracket at each side going from the body to the bottom of the bumper.

It seems that someone has reversed into something at some point and bent the brackets down, as you can lift the bumper up and round, cleaning up the shutlines. As soon as you let go it sags back down to how it was. I'll bend them up tomorrow.

 

I also feel like some of the impact absorption stuff that goes in there has gone missing at some point, I should probably look to replace that.

[egg]

yeah, that's basically why Mk1/2 Mondeo Bumpers get broken with plastic side brackets.

[Mally]

I wish my 75 bumper fit was as good as your Prelude.

[twosmoke300]

Prelude bumpers never fitted very well

[dean36014]

Put the newly acquired Citroen xm in for a mot. It failed but only on emmisions due to a dodgy exhaust. New parts have been ordered. On the downside I somehow managed to reverse the towbar on the xm into the front bay of the house. It's going to need more than a tcut. Managed to move about 5 bricks. On the plus side the xm is fine but will lose its towbar!

[SiC]

 

Isn't there supposed to be a crash beam across that back? Or too old for that sort of thing?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Looking out of the door of front this afternoon, making a cup of tea for my beloved (you enter our abode by kitchen) and my gaze did draw upon her Focus.  'Isn't your rear tyre a bit flat, dearest, oh light of my life?' I recant.

 

Alas.  It is.

 

 

For a screw hast entered.  The MOT gentlefolk did mention of a requirement for all new booties, sadly we were to await such spending until our wages had been bestowed upon us.  My lady did make enquiries with a mobile service, who quoted a princely sum of £125 for a black ring of shite with dubious provenance.  Spurred by her cries of 'FUCK THAT!', I was granted permission to fit the saver of space.

 

 

Completed, I did notice the label on the sidewall.  60PSI, it instructed.  Sadly, I had only a single-barrel footpump and I am a gentleman of large affliction.  Gladly the weather was of a fine disposition and not too Hellishly warm and thus sweat is a substance I am not cursed by this evening.  Now my toils are completed, I will seek convalescence with the aforementioned beverage.

[Ghosty]

 

Isn't there supposed to be a crash beam across that back? Or too old for that sort of thing?

 

 

All that was there was the bumper iron. 

 

I think it's missing, the workshop manual suggests there should be one.

[HillmanImp]

I wish my 75 bumper fit was as good as your Prelude.

My Jags bumper was hanging off when I got it. I noticed it is again recently which must meant the cable ties I mended it with are broken.

[Jon]

Had a visit to a local Car museum today (Motorlife Museum, Wollongong) and had a long wander around. Sorry for lack of photos, too busy drooling on everything!

 

Next thing I know I'm chatting to one of the volunteers and he asked what cars I liked, BL I replied, Well he said "come have a look at these"

 

"You want them?"

"You bet!"

 

I have no idea how the Maxi stuff got here, they were never sold in Oz!

The Force 7V is quite a rare one as BL Oz went bust before it went into production, but the books had already been printed, and about 100 somehow found their way to the public. Now I finally have one!

 

 

Wow, a Force 7V owner's manual!! I don't even think that many made it to the public - probably less than 50, according to something I read about them a while back. I've just finished reading my August 1974 issue of Wheels magazine, where they'd bagged some scoop shots of one:

 

 

Apparently, there was to be a base model with the 6 cylinder motor and three on the tree, called Force 7. The Force 7V was the 4.4 V8 model (sort of P76 Targa Florio spec) and then an ultimate luxury model, called the Tour de Force!

 

I love reading about stuff like the Marina 6 but my collection is rather thin pre-74, so doesn't cover other BL anomalies, such as the Nomad. Thankfully, I'm only 3 issues short of the full run from 1974-1990 and am reading chronologically, so Leyland Australia is still a thing in my world and there's talk of an interesting straight six Chrysler for '75, called the Centura.....

[MorrisItalSLX]

Wow, a Force 7V owner's manual!! I don't even think that many made it to the public - probably less than 50, according to something I read about them a while back. I've just finished reading my August 1974 issue of Wheels magazine, where they'd bagged some scoop shots of one:

 

 

Apparently, there was to be a base model with the 6 cylinder motor and three on the tree, called Force 7. The Force 7V was the 4.4 V8 model (sort of P76 Targa Florio spec) and then an ultimate luxury model, called the Tour de Force!

 

I love reading about stuff like the Marina 6 but my collection is rather thin pre-74, so doesn't cover other BL anomalies, such as the Nomad. Thankfully, I'm only 3 issues short of the full run from 1974-1990 and am reading chronologically, so Leyland Australia is still a thing in my world and there's talk of an interesting straight six Chrysler for '75, called the Centura.....

Did you know, there is a supposedly 2 Tour de Forces hiding in a shed somewhere, a green one and a pink one.

 

 

 

I have actually seen 4 of the surviving 8 Force 7Vs. They are such good looking things, what a shame Leyland Australia went bust.

[clayts450]

Second attempt this evening at re-attaching the rear view mirror to the PTSD, which threw a hissy fit and fell off when I attached a rear view mirror dash cam module to it. 

 

Attempt #1 at the weekend epic fail. Bought the appropriate Loctite kit, drew a nice little outline on the outside of the screen of the original location, cleaned off as much as poss, and set to work putting the kit into action. Smear fishy smelling substance over mirror mount and smooth it out - check; cut out 'activation mesh' so it was the same shape as mount - check; prodded and poked so the glue came through the mesh - check; line up mirror to outline and hold it for a minute - check. Dropped straight off. Now I had a sticky mess on my windscreen and no rear view mirror.

 

Streetshite-d it to Halfrauds to buy a comedy temporary rear view mirror and another Loctite kit - the temp mirror was because I needed to give the PTSD a run in the countryside due to lack of use.

 

Bought some isopropanol yesterday - delivered this morning (eBay as well - not bad). Cleaned off the mount and the windscreen. Difference this time - er, actually unscrewing the mirror from the mount. What A Twat I Am.

 

Anyway, 2 minutes in and the mirror-less mount is still holding steady. Not gonna reattach the business end until tomoz

 

IMG_20180416_193540.jpg

 

 

FFS - went to reattach the mirror, all looking good, tightened up the screw holding the mirror to the mount. Whole thing dropped off again.

 

Any bright ideas anyone - this was the 'so-called' stuff for the job I used:

 

http://www.halfords.com/motoring/paints-body-repair/adhesives/loctite-rear-view-mirror-adhesive-kit

[junkyarddog]

I've used a two part epoxy putty to reattach interior mirrors in the past.

 

 

 

This stuff.

[clayts450]

This sort of stuff maybe ?

 

http://www.go-araldite.com/products/epoxy-adhesives/araldite-crystal-2-x15ml-tube

[dollywobbler]

You need to be careful sticking mirrors. The wrong glue can knacker up the windscreen pretty well.

[clayts450]

Doing some more research and Ford adhesive pads seem to be a cut above the boggo standard Halfraud ones - just blagged five off eBay for a few quid, can't hurt to give that a go.

[Guest Hooli]

The normal problem with sticky pads is the screen wasn't clean enough.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Nice day today. It'll be a nice hot drive home (at last) but to make it more interesting I'll be carrying 12 square metres of tiles in the boot, 50 miles home. She's low.

 

Edit: it's still alive. Same again tonight then!

[Ghosty]

Spotted a police liveried BMW i3 earlier. 

 

The hell do the police need a £35k EV for?

[catsinthewelder]

Saving £20k of diesel over 5 years?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Spotted a police liveried BMW i3 earlier. 

 

The hell do the police need a £35k EV for?

 

They're surprisingly rapid, too...

[Kiltox]

Spotted a police liveried BMW i3 earlier.

 

The hell do the police need a £35k EV for?

Probably didn’t cost £35k...

[cort16]

Lapd has about 300 i3s that they’re not using for some reason

https://electrek.co/2018/01/18/lapd-bmw-i3-fleet-barely-used/

[Jon]

Good news yesterday, when my Cavalier passed its first WOF in my ownership:

 

 

Burst a front brake pipe when giving the brakes a test, so STUNO and I expertly fixed it in no time* but it failed on a front flexi and poor pedal feel. Found that an Astra G flexi is a good substitute, so all fixed and the system bled, which cured the pedal issue. Will get some flexis ordered from Ebay, as it's small things like that that make owning a non-NZ car in NZ quite interesting...

[Tayne]

 

The hell do the police need a £35k EV for?

You’re going to get a shock when you find out what they spend on motorway patrol vehicles, 4x4s, bulletproof vehicles, dive support units, boats, helicopters, etc.