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[clayts450]

Blimey that was close

 

 

Now to focus on the two cars I really* want to win - let's drop some balls, mofos.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

When I speak to my friend again I'll ask him about the history. He's owned it for at least 10 years now and there's a Brian Blessed TV connection somewhere in its past as well.

I got it in Kettering and ebayd it to a tall thin funny and slightly camp feller whose eBay name was 'Sebagmont', I think he came to my flat in Manchester to collect it! That's about all I can remember as it was in the days before my tat blog!

[tooSavvy]

No one getting 'brass kohonis' and going for the White Auto Carina....

[davehedgehog31]

Uh oh, no change

 

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I will lose this, right ?

 

With this and the Lanos roffle I'm a quivering wreck

It better be a Rover R8

[clayts450]

Nope....was a Conny SE 75 with Personal Line interior.

 

I'll get one soon, but back to the R8 and SK1 searches again

[stuboy]

Popped into lidl to buy some washing tablets, and walked out with a arc welder, rods etc

 

Do i need it... probably not, will i ever use it, but who knows not used one since college..

[richardmorris]

Further to the previous entry: ebay folk want £35 plus post for a second hand hella horn, so I’ve ordered a new pair of Bosch in the correct dual tone hz ranges for £14 delivered. It’s not going into a concours so who cares? Strictly speaking I suppose one horn is enough, but it’s not right ( god i’m Beginning to know how xtriple works).

[Vantman]

No one getting 'brass kohonis' and going for the White Auto Carina....

 

Tell me more about this please.--I have obviously missed the appropriate post

[puddlethumper]

FACT. I first met Mr Bollox when I sold him one of those, also in Russet Brown.

I always thought it was Gusset Brown.

[bangernomics]

Popped into lidl to buy some washing tablets, and walked out with a arc welder, rods etc

 

Do i need it... probably not, will i ever use it, but who knows not used one since college..

Keep the rods in the house, damp shed or garage ruins them.

[bangernomics]

That's the square sausage light, it's run out. It knows this, which is why it stopped you by a butchers but you failed to give it square sausage, which needs to be fed into the 3rd slot down in the passenger side air vent.

 

That light means you must now fill the square sausage holder up And fill the irn Bru bottle up. Failure to do so within 3 days will trigger the homing mode, which will see the car make you roffle it, get won by a Scotsman and return to Scotland.

Lucky the Boaby light hasn’t come on. Or is that a come on?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Been offered another Mercedes barge for £300, no v5 and the 6 digit plate is now on another car.

It starts and drives.

Worth a punt?

The "888" plate would be highly prized by Chinese families and businessmen.

[SiC]

Now it's working, I think I might keep this TT after all... The get-up and go it has is very addictive. Especially as it rattles through its cogs very quickly and little fuss. It's a bloody quick car.

 

Service is in 2.5k miles. If it's behaved by then, I might dish out 900 quid and get the gearbox sorted too. Actually not too bad as it is, just a little embarrassing when you have passengers and sitting in traffic. Basically like someone with poor clutch control. Sometimes you pull off and it's 100% ok, sometimes a gentle kangroo and very rarely it gives 2 decent bunny hops. But driving around town this evening has put my mind at rest that I can live with it like that for now.

 

I'm really not an Audi fan (yes I know I have 2) but they do handle very good and are nice comfortable places to be sat.

[Jim Bell]

I appear to have been removed from one of the local fb car sales groups. I asked a seller via pm for the reg number obscured in his pictures to do an mot history check. Got a terse message back saying Id have to come and view the vehicle to find out.

 

Apparently he didnt like my response to this bit of infantile bollocks and managed to get me removed.

 

No. Sad. Loss.

Wasnt a Toyota was it?

[Bobthebeard]

Been doing a few hours work on the Dolomite in the garage as couldn't sleep and a warm night. Just tinkering around with the interior and heard a snuffling noise. Assuming it was the dog next door it was ignored. Then remembered that they don't have a dog now. Snuffling and noise of stuff being knocked over in the garage....

Then a hedgehog appeared! Have no idea how or when it got into the garage. No gaps large enough and have been away for a while. Whilst happy to see a hedgehog am concerned that it somehow got shut in there by me, but not sure how and when. Maybe it was hibernating. Dunno. Poor chap seemed pretty weak so put it onto the lawn with some canned dog food. After a while the dog food was munched and off he went. Thankfully.

Still mystified as from where he came from!

[SierraMikeHotel]

I thought it was annoyed about something ( to quote dr McCoy), but there was no one else about to collide with. ( with which to collide ).

Mrs H is on her second C-class (company cars, not our money) and the collision warning has been paranoid on both. I think it's a case of TADTS.

[MorrisItalSLX]

Been offered another Mercedes barge for £300, no v5 and the 6 digit plate is now on another car.

 

It starts and drives.

 

Worth a punt?

 

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When do you pick it up?

[Craig the Princess]

As the Volvo started playing up on looked at the multipla again.

 

Fed up with eBay I bought a code reader in Wilco. No codes stored. Turned light of but it turned on again straight away.

 

Googled this, it said turn the light off again then start and rev to 5000rpm. Did that, light went out and started out on a 10 mile test drive.

[MikeR]

re hedgehog ... being a rodent , it prob shares some assets that a rat has ???

 

[meggersdog]

did my first Dangerous fail mot : do not drive this vehicle, repair immediately  today.        It was a tyre with wire exposed.

Customer was " ok, I'll drive into Stamford get a replacement then back for a retest ".

 

So the big bold letters saying "do not drive" didn't phase her.

[beko1987]

The dangerous fails do not drive bit doesn't fully worry me anymore I probably wouldn't present a car for an mot with the cords exposed in the first place...

[vulgalour]

See... that's a good instance of being allowed to take a car off someone until they  learn sense.  Since a good number of folks are incapable of learning sense, this would make a lot more space on the roads and ease congestion and pollution as these folks are forced to use public transport.

 

Alas, we do not live under Junkman's Law so this will never come to pass and the people who cannot learn sense will continue to annoy everyone else.

[mercrocker]

did my first Dangerous fail mot : do not drive this vehicle, repair immediately  today.        It was a tyre with wire exposed.

Customer was " ok, I'll drive into Stamford get a replacement then back for a retest ".

 

So the big bold letters saying "do not drive" didn't phase her.

 

You could have big bold letters under the tyre tread with DO NOT EVEN PRESENT FOR MOT WITH THIS STILL ON THE CAR and they still would.

[meggersdog]

this dangerous fail is a bit odd.

Earlier in the week massive egg in the sidewall of a tyre major fail but not a dangerous one. So a potential blow-out at any time isn't dangerous ? Then today someone has been to a tyre place (no naming and shaming) to swap the spare with one on the car.They'd let the car go with the spare just hooked in it's cradle swinging about under the car without tightening it up.This again was deemed major but not a dangerous fail.So a spare wheel could bounce out of it's cradle into traffic is not dangerous ?

[D Spares & Tyres]

A welding spark falling into an open gallon tin of thinners makes a loud wooshing noise but nothing else happens ☺

 

(Well, apart from making me move it elsewhere)

[BeEP]

After yesterday's playing with the VP Allegro, today a friend in the village popped over to extract his Toledo prior to taking it to a few shows over the next couple of months...

 

 

... and before anyone asks, no I'm not running a car storage business!  It's just that when you have a bit of space and have friends with like-minded car collecting tendencies then "can I leave one with you for a few weeks" turns into mutliple cars, multiple years or both.

[mercrocker]

I love those early 2 door Toledos, great colour too....

[madrat]

this dangerous fail is a bit odd.

Earlier in the week massive egg in the sidewall of a tyre major fail but not a dangerous one. So a potential blow-out at any time isn't dangerous ? Then today someone has been to a tyre place (no naming and shaming) to swap the spare with one on the car.They'd let the car go with the spare just hooked in it's cradle swinging about under the car without tightening it up.This again was deemed major but not a dangerous fail.So a spare wheel could bounce out of it's cradle into traffic is not dangerous ?

That's weird, I would hope that bits like this will get ironed out but I wont hold my breath.

[richardmorris]

Mrs H is in her second C-class (company cars, not our money) and the collision warning has been paranoid on both. I think it's a case of TADTS.

Any idea what the back P in a blue square ( like a parking sign) is on the dash display? It usually appeared with a <arrow symbol to one side.

 

And a C to the right of the gear selector indicator?

 

PRND I got!

But couldn’t find a handbrake at all.

[SiC]

Any idea what the back P in a blue square ( like a parking sign) is on the dash display? It usually appeared with a <arrow symbol to one side.

 

And a C to the right of the gear selector indicator?

 

PRND I got!

But couldn’t find a handbrake at all.

The C is for Comfort mode. Part of the "dynamic select" mode. Allows you to change the steering/engine/Aircon between Comfort, Economy and Sport. There is Comfort, Economy, Sport and Individual modes. On Individual mode you can select each system individually (in the big screen computer) on if you want Economy/Sport/Comfort.

 

On the display, are you talking about the P like this?

 

If it is then that's for Gearbox currently in park.

 

If not, does it have auto parallel parking? So the symbol is telling you which side it can auto parallel park in?

 

Another thing I learnt was that if you press the brake lightly, the auto-stop doesn't kick in straight away. Press medium and it will. Press the brake all the way will engage auto-hold on the brakes. This allows you to let go of the brake and it won't creep. Pushing the accelerator will then release it and move off.