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[The Moog]

All depends on how much m8.

 

My friends laugh at me from buying cars from someone called The Shadow.

 

B & Q car park is a step up from that

[egg]

Too rich for theShadow I'm sure!

 

It is solid though, one wheel arch is going, but looks bodge-able, only surface rust underneath the car. Brakes are sharp, really sharp, no noises driving it round the car park lol...

 

I'll give it to the mechanic to test it, and see where we are.

 

72,000 miles feels genuine - the guy bought it from an old boy after it had sat for a year which makes sense (as this car was first spotted by me in the tat thread October 2016).

 

Small PAS leak as well (I think), pipes rusty. 

 

Basically, that glass boot is a thing of beauty, and I was sold at hello

[madrat]

But it was the campers fault obviously

No my fault, I hit him but he parked like a twat, and his mirror was already fucked. I just don't want an insurance fight.

[AlabamaShrimp]

At in the Xscape car park. My Frontera is by far the oldest thing in here.

[Broadsword]

Drove a brand new car for the first time ever today due to being given a free hire car after someone crashed into my XJ40 (totally the other persons's fault and her insurance is accepting full liability). It's a Golf 1.0 TSI. While it is overall perfectly fine, for £20k list price it's not actually an improvement on my Xantia in terms of ride, handling and fuel economy. Also what's the point when absolutely everything works. Thrifty tried to put me in a Honda Jazz, I was having none of it.

[panhard65]

Well it looks like the Boxster is going to be rehomed and I feel something sill coming on involving flights ferries and a renner 7

[Kiltox]

Bloody hell what idiot is buying that?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

..... Also what's the point when absolutely everything works.....

[Shep Shepherd]

Fitted the LED headlight bulbs to The Volvo. They were like for like replacements, and as such, were installed without drama. Even during the day, the difference between LED bulbs and the old halogen bulbs is striking:

 

 

 

I'm going to keep the latter in the car just in case I run into practical or legal difficulties with the the LEDs, however. 

[320touring]

Technical success on the GSA..

 

Full report to follow, but first I must sort the tools out!

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Fitted the LED headlight bulbs to The Volvo. They were like for like replacements, and as such, were installed without drama. Even during the day, the difference between LED bulbs and the old halogen bulbs is striking.....

 

...I'm going to keep the latter in the car just in case I run into practical or legal difficulties with the the LEDs, however.

 

That's the one reason why I haven't converted either the CX or the diesel Borat to LED headlamps. Bright they may be, but I have real doubts about the reflection and beam patterns in lamps that were designed only for halogens. I sometimes get blinded by oncoming traffic with these megabright heads out in the country because the headlamp beams don't follow the same "throw"/pattern as standard.

 

Is there any way of checking the beam throw and spread? Does your local garage or MoT station have a device for verifying that the LEDs go correctly?

[Shep Shepherd]

The beam pattern, height and spread seem to be all right (if anything, the beam seems to be lower than it was before), but I'll check them properly when it gets dark. If need be, I'll consult my garage about further adjustments.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

..... I'll check them properly when it gets dark. If need be, I'll consult my garage about further adjustments.

In particular, try sitting in a car positioned as if your Volvo were the oncoming vehicle, on a left-hand and then a right-hand, bend. That's where I tend to get blinded.

 

I'd be intrigued to know what your observations are.

[madrat]

Fitted the LED headlight bulbs to The Volvo. They were like for like replacements, and as such, were installed without drama. Even during the day, the difference between LED bulbs and the old halogen bulbs is striking:

 

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I'm going to keep the latter in the car just in case I run into practical or legal difficulties with the the LEDs, however.

Be interested to see if the beam pattern is the same?

[Kiltox]

If anyone needs a 2 year old Relay for about £6k please let me know - I’m not in a rush / want to sell it but Miss Kiltox would think it prudent to get rid before the Porsche arrives

 

30k miles, FSH. Cat C damaged and not repaired.

[Guest Hooli]

I've got a LED H4 kit in my bike. The throw & cut off look the same as a normal bulb to me & it's passed the MOT fine with it. Like the volvo above the cutoff was a bit lower so I had to wind the light up a bit but that's all.

[wuvvum]

On the subject of small blue 3-door cars with strange rear screen designs, I got the cat off the C4 this afternoon - a task which proved to be just as much fun as I'd anticipated.  I think I may have found why it was struggling to get through the CO emissions mind.

 

 

That's as it came off the car.  Now I'm no expert, but it looks to me like there's something missing...

 

I'm going to fit the replacement cat tomorrow - there is a burr on the top flange which needs filing off first or it won't seal properly, and I can't find my file.  The gasket is pretty knackered, and annoyingly the new cat didn't include one - not sure whether to try and get one or whether to just reuse the old one with a load of gun gum and hope for the best...

[Guest Hooli]

Must be a sports 'hi flow' cat.

[richardmorris]

I’m amazed it hasn’t sprung up the dreaded “ anti pollution fault”.

[wuvvum]

I’m amazed it hasn’t sprung up the dreaded “ anti pollution fault”.

It used to, but it hasn't in a while.

[Spottedlaurel]

Made the most of the decent weather today. Popped into town in the '88 Sunny and picked up some paint I'd had mixed-up for the Datsun 1200, then had a pleasant drive out in the lanes to a bodyshop on a farm recommended to me for some work on the Nissan. That's booked for next month, want to get it smartened up in time for FOTU.

 

I'm paying someone else to do it because this is my effort from today:

 

 

Mrs SL's verdict was that it looked a bit "textural". TBH that's what I was left with in primer after a previous MoT repair, and given how much filler is in the rest of this thing it's not worth doing too much more. At least it's all one colour now.....

 

 

Laurel and 1200 then given a decent clean and even some polish on one of them, in preparation for Ipswich-Felixstowe tomorrow.

[blackboilersuit]

I just put a new cat on my car and the paperwork that came with it mentioned something like 5 times that any exhaust paste used upstream of the cat would immediately invalidate the warranty. 

 

You should be ok to fit it without a gasket and put up with a bit of blow untill you can get a new one IMHO.

 

 

On the subject of small blue 3-door cars with strange rear screen designs, I got the cat off the C4 this afternoon - a task which proved to be just as much fun as I'd anticipated.  I think I may have found why it was struggling to get through the CO emissions mind.

 

IMG_20180505_192746.jpg

 

That's as it came off the car.  Now I'm no expert, but it looks to me like there's something missing...

 

I'm going to fit the replacement cat tomorrow - there is a burr on the top flange which needs filing off first or it won't seal properly, and I can't find my file.  The gasket is pretty knackered, and annoyingly the new cat didn't include one - not sure whether to try and get one or whether to just reuse the old one with a load of gun gum and hope for the best...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Be interested to see if the beam pattern is the same?

This might be an eye-opener

[stuboy]

Had no kids bar the baby so decided to release the seized handbrake on ns of the daddy wagon, missus likes to help so i guided her through the process of whats to do.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

^^

She'll be rebuilding engines next.

[MarvinsMom]

you have gotta start them young......

[alcyonecorporation]

 

Got out for a brief drive in poobaru as the sun went down. 

26 mpg this time; driving long distance off boost/70 mph is key. 

And yes, blebby surround is blebby. 

[dollywobbler]

And now you are reading in the voice of Morgan Freeman.

 

I wish I could say that Dollywobblers convoy was of such a length to be impressive, but it was not. What I do know is that sometimes its not size that matters. Its whats inside.

The really bad news is that in the end, we didn't even convoy! Logistic reasons meant I was on the M4 before Mrs DW had left the house. Impressively, be both arrived at the holiday house at the same time (my sister gave me a lift after picking me up from the centre of Bath. Not a nice place to drive!)

[dave21478]

This might be an eye-opener

 

 

Bulb seller states that £139.99 bulbs are better than £29.99 bulbs. How surprising.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Bulb seller states that £139.99 bulbs are better than £29.99 bulbs. How surprising.

The patterns and throw were all different, though.