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[Guest Hooli]

Nice looking Merc RobT, well bought.

[Guest Hooli]

Stupid question time. The cap says dot 3 only. I need to buy some but Halfords have dot4 is it ok to use either?

 

Aye as Davenumbers says they mix fine. Dot4 has a higher boiling point but that's unlikely to be important with a clutch.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Driving to just north of Cambridge later to collect something. Hopefully no traffic on the roads as everyone else will be glued to the telly watching an important* football match.

... and I'm back from Cambridge, with a new racing saddle:

 

 

25 quid. There are cars out there that cost less.

 

Almost no traffic on the roads, as everybody was elsewhere. Something to do with England playing Sweden.

[wrenchvolt]

Learned how to do it here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDJFjAD6kY

[egg]

Good effort, have you done the glass too?

[RobT]

Excellent work wrenchvolt, glad you succeeded where I failed!

[HMC]

Great buyage rob! Like the 330i / m3 these are value and underrated because E55.

[wrenchvolt]

Hello Egg, no I didn't put in any glass, I just put the perspex RobT cut in the window channels. Thank you RobT! Failure should be removed from your lexicon after your most recent purchase. That is one horny motor! What's it go like? Was traffic moving well?

[RobT]

Rob, that Merc used to belong to Prab of this parish. Drop him a PM, I'm sure he can fill in some of its history

Cheers Richard, will do.

 

Despite having to peel myself off the leather seats the journey was comfortable, and fug me is it quick. But equally it's happy to bimble along at giffer speeds and feels quite a large old lump because you sit low down behind a large slab of dashboard.

 

Mind you I shouldn't have bought it really and I can see the novelty wearing off quickly (apart from the Senator I'm not really a barge person to be honest). It's either this or the ZX that'll go but I'm enjoying that too much at the moment!

[RobT]

Hello Egg, no I didn't put in any glass, I just put the perspex RobT cut in the window channels. Thank you RobT! Failure should be removed from your lexicon after your most recent purchase. That is one horny motor! What's it go like? Was traffic moving well?

It is stonkingly quick in a straight line, less so round bends, but it's a land yacht innit! Traffic was busier than I anticipated, but it didn't help I came home a different route via Hampton Court. Like a dork I'd forgotten the flower show was on...

[BorniteIdentity]

Traffic was busier than I anticipated, but it didn't help I came home a different route via Hampton Court. Like a dork I'd forgotten the flower show was on...

Still. 8 cylinders.

[Guest Hooli]

Why can't Junkman find proper engines like these anymore?

[wrenchvolt]

I have a thing for V8 engines, although never owned a car with one. My dad had an SD1 back in the day and a bloke in our village had a pearlescent white Pontiac Firebird, the sound has just stuck with me ever since I was a kid. I just think a V8 is one of those truly awesome things.

[Guest Hooli]

The only one I've owned was in a Lt/Wt Landy, I will own another.

[wrenchvolt]

It's got to be done. Insane amounts of fun to be had with something like that.

[richardmorris]

Aye as Davenumbers says they mix fine. Dot4 has a higher boiling point but that's unlikely to be important with a clutch.

 

Thanks. I’ve been LHM up until now!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

This bit of Chinese tat is just after arriving from Amazon:

 

 

A compact jump starter. Will it work? Only one way to find out....

[Lord Sterling]

[V8 Merc]

Nice car Rob, very nice. I'm sure it'll be sold/roffled before I can muster some money together but I hope I can buy this someday and own some V8 chod for once.

 

Anyway, in own car news, for the first time in my life, ever, I own a car that actually has working aircon. BMW got its aircon topped up today so now I can travel in comfort on the way home without having warm wind blowing at the side if my face.

 

I've owned many cars with aircon but thier systems are too old and have run out of gas.

[Kiltox]

This bit of Chinese tat is just after arriving from Amazon:

 

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A compact jump starter. Will it work? Only one way to find out....

Just bought a massive one of these - 1000A starting current / 2000A peak

[richardmorris]

I’ve found another use for the new pressure washer toy.

Hold the nozzle straight in the air and stand underneath it. It’s a lovely cold mist that falls back to earth .

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just bought a massive one of these - 1000A starting current / 2000A peak

Mine's supposed to be 12000mAh for cars up to 4ltr (pez) or 3ltr (dizzle)

 

I’ve found another use for the new pressure washer toy.

Hold the nozzle straight in the air and stand underneath it. It’s a lovely cold mist that falls back to earth .

How the other half live.

[Kiltox]

The mAh rating is bollocks 99% of the time.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The mAh rating is bollocks 99% of the time.

Only one way to find out.

[richardmorris]

Mine's supposed to be 12000mAh for cars up to 4ltr (pez) or 3ltr (dizzle)

 

How the other half live.

 

Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. As I heard sir Stirling say about max mosely.

[Talbot]

How the other half live.

The other half? It' a jet of water into the air... hardly throwing money away!

[Supernaut]

Went to a housewarming earlier. Didn't know anybody except the hosts.

 

Doug the Pug was friendly though.

 

[fordperv]

Phew...

 

Today, I agreed with an old lady who is a neighbour that I'd shove her Fiesta out from its 5-year slumber spot and down the driveway which would act as a deterrent from people using her driveway to turn around in.

 

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As the Fiesta had been sitting there for around 5 years (she gave up driving after a stroke) I thought I had my work cut out. So after a couple of aborted attempts (family etc...) I went down to have a look and see how 'stuck' the Fiesta was.

 

Amazingly, it wasn't stuck at all. The handbrake was off and with bit of minor rocking the Fiesta was moving out of its spot where it had been in slumber.

 

I wasn't expecting to move it then. The old lady had offered me the space if I needed it as changes to free parking might be coming. The council are trying to rent the spaces out at £800+ per year.

 

Soon, the Fiesta, complete with cobwebs and the like was on the move.

 

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I was manoeuvring the Fiesta in a parallel-parking way, the drivers-side window was almost stuck but I managed with a bit of persuasion to free it so I could steer the car. I got it into position and got it parked in front of the van. The old lady was very happy and so was I as I have somewhere to put my car.

 

The Fiesta is solid, I reckon a some minor recomissioning work would easily see it back on the road.

Ooohhh a stoke registered fester, by any chance does it have its dealer plates? I can't see a sticker in the window, I want to know if it was from king ford, I've got a thing for local to me registered shite

 

What's its fate, is she looking to sell or just happy to have it as a garden ornament to look at reminiscing?

[SiC]

Went to a housewarming earlier. Didn't know anybody except the hosts.

 

Doug the Pug was friendly though.

 

It's why mobile phones and 4g was invented for.

[richardmorris]

It is stonkingly quick in a straight line, less so round bends, but it's a land yacht innit! Traffic was busier than I anticipated, but it didn't help I came home a different route via Hampton Court. Like a dork I'd forgotten the flower show was on...

My merc is similar. It will steam away from the lights if I want faster than almost anything else if I stomp the pedal, but heaves like the queen Mary round tight bends. But it’s not a sports car- the fiat isn’t nearly as fast but handles a lot better.

[Talbot]

An E-class merc was never meant to really handle. They're a big heavy cruiser.

 

That said, if you ignore the initial bodyroll, they corner faster than many people are expecting!