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[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.

[320touring]

335 fettling- tonight.

 

2 tasks - sort the non functioning handbrake at the passenger side and weld in a patch.

 

Great* news re the handbrake.. got the adjuster in the rear sorted, and tried to take up the cable slack.

 

New cable time then..

 

Onto the patch.

 

Reasonable access from the top, but we also needed access from below

 

 

Got it cut out and cleaned up

 

And the first panel shaped up

 

We got about 5 decent tacks on it, then the blahhdy extension tripped it's thermal cut out.

 

Packed up and came in. At least it was a start.

[DodgeRover]

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...

Flexis would be the same as a Holden Camira wouldn't they?

[Jon]

You'd think so but no bananas. Camira used 'conventional' fittings (well, to me they're the normal male/female threaded couplings) but GM stuff of that era uses banjo fittings, which I'd not previously known about. Every day's a school day!

 

Plus, brake parts for an unloved Holden which didn't sell all that well, nigh on 30 years ago, is not well catered for.

[Cavcraft]

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...

 

 

Oh, absolutely love that. SR or SRi?

[Cavcraft]

Transit failed the MOT (as expected) so looking own the barrel of a touch over £500 to get it through. 

[Jon]

Oh, absolutely love that. SR or SRi?

 

An SR would be more shite-pointy but it's an early SRi, judging by the rear wiper position (thanks dollywobbler).

 

 

More details here: http://autoshite.com/topic/7520-my-new-zealand-shite-update-0304-mkii-cavalier-goodness/?p=1465660

[meggersdog]

new style mot certificates came out today.Larger lettering and more bold letters.Don't know where advisories are going to go as so far I've just done a retest.

Oh, and my phone number isn't on the certificate.

[clayts450]

I think you're supposed to squeeze it in at the top somewhere:

 

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/693918/dvsa-vt20-mot-test-certificate-new-design-defects.pdf

[Jim Bell]

Theyre horrible.

[BeEP]

new style mot certificates came out today.

 

I appreciate you're a tester and therefore know what's happening, but according to this page of the gov.uk site:

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mot-changes-20-may-2018

 

the new certificates (& defect categorisation) come into effect on 20th May, along with all the other changes.

 

Confused?  Me?  Never!

[Lacquer Peel]

Saw a panda car today flying through Rochdale, a brand spanking new Peugeot 308, going FAR quicker then the povvo spec diesel lump.

Even the base 308 diesel goes 113MPH and does 0-60MPH in 10.9s. For perspective that's not much slower than a Senator 3.0 12v.

[meggersdog]

I appreciate you're a tester and therefore know what's happening, but according to this page of the gov.uk site:

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mot-changes-20-may-2018

 

the new certificates (& defect categorisation) come into effect on 20th May, along with all the other changes.

 

Confused?  Me?  Never!

 

bloody site went down for three hours this morning.New certificates now but new defect categories not until next month !! Even dvsa don't know what's happening yet as it's still all in a draft.It's supposed to bring us inline with the rest of the E.U. even though erm yeah

[mrbenn]

Had one of my cars MOT'd this lunchtime. Tester said, as above, new certificates brought in yesterday and system down today. Had to get a temporary certificate which will be exchanged for a proper one when system back up and running. Wasn't showing as a pass online earlier but now is so guess it's sorted itself out. Quite glad I've got in before the changes next month!

[panhard65]

Yeah I had an mot earlier and the system went down half way through. What twat decided to update things in the middle of the day. It has put the testing station way behind and my 12.30 got moved to 5pm. The new "certificate" is harder to read in my opinion. Nothing is in nice easy to understand boxes it is just a mess. So much for trying to make things easier for the general public to understand. DVSA 0/10 Fuckin idiots

[BeEP]

Something else I spotted in the summary of MOT changes doc I linked above.  It states that the 40 year exemption applies from the car's 40th birthday (the example they use is a car registered on 31/5/78 becoming exempt from MOT on 31/5/18).  Fair enough, you may think.  Yet the docs describing everything about the 40 year exemption in detail describe the eligibility as being linked to having historic tax status (you will only have the option to claim exemption when at the point of taxing a vehicle in the historic tax class).  Historic tax doesn't apply (unless the rules on this have changed as well) until 1st April of the year following the year in which the car passed its 40th birthday. Unless they've updated the detailed docs re MOT exemption since I read them a couple of months ago DVSA seem to be contradicting themselves.

[meggersdog]

put me behind too because I'd run out of ct20 forms and couldn't log onto the website to download any more.put it in a pdf now so should be ok next time.Might have cost me a new trade customer too will have wait and see.

[SRi05]

Anyone here used a site called carparts4less before? Seems to use the same interface as eurocarparts but slightly cheaper. Need a couple of rear brake discs for the panda and they're selling them for £18 a pair!

[egg]

yep, CP4L is the same company I believe (I learnt that here, not my own knowledge!)