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[dollywobbler]

Off with her wheels!

 

The paint on them is the wrong colour, and is falling off. Thought I'd better get them sorted before they're ruined. I have loads of rusty 2CV wheels... These have gone to be blasted, zinc primered and powder coated.

 

Transporting them was quite jolly too! Spring is here.

[Lacquer Peel]

A warranty is useless if you need to use it often

 

The dealers are awful

 

Apart from that, cheap.

Are MG dealers bad? They're often sold by small dealerships the type of which are going extinct and being replaced by genuinely awful dealer mega groups. MG UK themselves are awful.

[Squire_Dawson]

Regarding left-foot braking whenever I have tried this (only in manual trans. cars) the brakes always slam on, despite only applying - what seems to be - light foot pressure. Unless it's down to foot co-ordination I don't know.

[Kiltox]

Are MG dealers bad? They're often sold by small dealerships the type of which are going extinct and being replaced by genuinely awful dealer mega groups. MG UK themselves are awful.

The one in Gloucester just changed hands and it’s now run by a dodgy outfit that peddles second hand crap that was too shit to keep a Kia franchise...

 

It was previously Warner’s who mainly peddle PSA tat (and don’t seem too bad, not sure why they bothered with MG for the relatively short time they did)

[cort1977]

Shamelessly pinched of pistoneds but thought this would be of interest on here:

https://www.vansoestklassiekers.nl/collectie/

[clayts450]

And the winner of today's Crappy 1990s Pun on the Back of a Millenial Vehickle Award goes to me:

 

 

Do I win (1) £5 or (2) a visit outside to be be put out of misery and shot. You decide. Call 0800 etc etc etc to vote now

[davehedgehog31]

Not a bad view to eat my bag of chips.

[SiC]

Regarding left-foot braking whenever I have tried this (only in manual trans. cars) the brakes always slam on, despite only applying - what seems to be - light foot pressure. Unless it's down to foot co-ordination I don't know.

My left foot has 3 states. Full down, bite point and full up. If I'm pressing on the brake accidentally with my left foot, my natural instinct in a bad situation is to fully disconnect the engine from the gearbox. So I end up pressing the pedal even harder.

[Kiltox]

My left foot has 3 states. Full down, bite point and full up. If I'm pressing on the brake accidentally with my left foot, my natural instinct in a bad situation is to fully disconnect the engine from the gearbox. So I end up pressing the pedal even harder.

You only do it once though

 

Everyone that has ever driven a manual before must have done that in an auto once

[SiC]

You only do it once though

 

 

You'd think so?! I do it every so often. Never did it in the Laguna but that was very different place to sit than the Civic. Same with the Smart Roadster. However the auto TT feels very like the manual A4. So you can forget at times...

 

My dad did it once when on an American freeway with a car full of his bosses... They weren't best pleased.

[Kiltox]

Ah yeah I suppose your two Audis would be reasonably similar to your subconscious mind - interesting

[GrumpiusMaximus]

There's an H-reg Rover 100 in Thanington (Canterbury) for sale.  Has a mobile number in the window.  If anyone wants some deep cuts of true, unadulterated shite I think it might be a good shout.  On a private drive, in white.  Before you get to the Resource Centre from Chartham direction...

 

I pointed it out to Lady Grumpius as we drove past this evening and she just sighed and gave me a withering look.  I don't think it's in my future, even if it just a warmed-over Metro...

[Lacquer Peel]

An original H-reg Rover 100 doesn't exist unless it's LHD.

[stuboy]

Came out of Fil house to find some chesnut dented my car.... fuming no idea why or whom....ggggrrr

 

Get home take boot apart and there a double skin with only a hole size of a pencil.. managed to push most of it out and used a dent puller sucker...

 

Better but im still pissed off

[dollywobbler]

Regarding left-foot braking whenever I have tried this (only in manual trans. cars) the brakes always slam on, despite only applying - what seems to be - light foot pressure. Unless it's down to foot co-ordination I don't know.

 

It's purely down to training. I left-foot brake all the time in autos, but I still can't do it quite as smoothly as I can with my right foot. I hadn't really realised quite how much I modulate the brake pedal when slowing down. I am the king of the jolt-free stop. Right-footed. Left, not so much.

[richardmorris]

Shamelessly pinched of pistoneds but thought this would be of interest on here:

https://www.vansoestklassiekers.nl/collectie/

 

 

 

Lots of lovely cars.

[tommytwo]

Stuboy, you made a very good job on that dent, take a bow. Don;t know if you have heard of this but with small dents, pouring a kettle of very hot water over the dent will sometimes expand the metal and cause the dent to pop out as it cools. Works a treat on plastic bumpers.

[richardmorris]

It's purely down to training. I left-foot brake all the time in autos, but I still can't do it quite as smoothly as I can with my right foot. I hadn't really realised quite how much I modulate the brake pedal when slowing down. I am the king of the jolt-free stop. Right-footed. Left, not so much.

I’ve never felt the need really. Lift off the throttle and it will slow down. Want to slow down more then apply the brake. Why disturb the other leg?

[dollywobbler]

I’ve never felt the need really. Lift off the throttle and it will slow down. Want to slow down more then apply the brake. Why disturb the other leg?

 

Because my left leg gets bored when I drive autos. It wants to help.

[richardmorris]

Because my left leg gets bored when I drive autos. It wants to help.

I am sure my merc was designed for those having suffered a stroke down one side. Was quite useful after the hernia op!

 

My left leg often goes wandering anyway in the 2cv. My record is 3 hours in 4th without changing gear.

[SiC]

I'd dread to think what I'd be like with a pedal parking brake.

[richardmorris]

I'd dread to think what I'd be like with a pedal parking brake.

 

Reading the literature from merc. It’s designed as an emergency brake, hence the foot pedal where you can get more leverage than a handle. I don’t really use it much, leaving it in P is fine. A hangover from the Cx days when the handbrake was useful one day a year at the mot station.

[Lacquer Peel]

Try left-foot braking in a manual car with Bosch electronic diesel control, it just cuts the power. I like left foot braking because I am helmsman - I practiced in my first car, a Mk2 Polo with no brake servo which might have helped.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

An original H-reg Rover 100 doesn't exist unless it's LHD.

 

Didn't catch which way around the steering wheel was but I'm just reporting what I saw!

[iainrcz]

Broke the flusher on the bog, can't suss how to fix it.

Being a bodging bastard I feel I'm letting myself down.

 

Although, they are only £15 to replace.

[Noel Tidybeard]

It's purely down to training. I left-foot brake all the time in autos, but I still can't do it quite as smoothly as I can with my right foot. I hadn't really realised quite how much I modulate the brake pedal when slowing down. I am the king of the jolt-free stop. Right-footed. Left, not so much.

 

amateur!

[xtriple]

I always left foot brake, I learned on dodgy autos with carbs and points that didn't want to run when they were cold. Left foot to brake, right foot to keep the sod running!

[robinmasters]

Broke the flusher on the bog, can't suss how to fix it.

Being a bodging bastard I feel I'm letting myself down.

 

Although, they are only £15 to replace.

There's a floppy bit of plastic inside the flush bit which you can replace with any bit of floppy plastic cut to the same shape. Aside from that, unless anything has just come disconnected, it's port much all plastic so just change it.

 

I'm another in the on/off nothing in between left-foot braking category.

[Bucketeer]

I tried left foot braking once at autotesting. It was really difficult, it felt numb and jerky. A bit like swapping hands for some special alone time.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Seen a mildly rat look ford ranger on the motorway yesterday......... And actually quite liked it.

 

Didn't get a pic because driving but it was what looked like a 2wd single cab, generally very battered and rusty but with some fancy chrome wheels and lowered a tad but not "slammed" (yo)

 

Lots of stickers on the rear window naturally, bucket seats and a nascaresque homemade spoiler on the top of the tailgate. (basically a sheet of steel welded along the edge at an angle, ala lightning mcqueen)

 

This so far has been outside my sphere of motoring interest but I had a pleasant evening browsing images of rat rod trucks (pickups to us) and can see the appeal.

 

Would be tempted to buy this and build my own:

 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F302715900953

 

Thankfully for the sake of my marriage I'm fairly skint and have enough to do to the current fleet first....

 

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