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[Ghosty]

On the way back from FOTU the Rover's horn died, it was only a fuse, but since then, the intermittent setting on the wipers has also stopped working. I hope I don't have to go all electrowizard to fix it. The headlining has also completetely collapsed so I need to look into getting it replaced - luckily I have an owner's club guy about 3 miles away that is reopening his Rover specialist one town over from me, so I'll probably farm it out to him as he has multiple R8s and his wife dailies a 600.

[phil_lihp]

Good morning, fine day for a collection.  I have a train to catch in 45 minutes and a trip to Warwick to complete.  Not for me, this time, I'm going on behalf of another shiter for a change.

 

I'd be a little more awake right now if I hadn't been woken up, along with everyone else on my road, at 3AM by a Renault Master with a very persistent and very loud alarm.  In fact, possibly the only person who slept through it was the owner, given the length of time it went on for.  Never mind, once it did finally stop, the seagulls who've nested across the road got all excited and made similar levels of noise for some considerable time too.  Yawn.

[Simonsays]

Off out later on this afternoon to pick up a second hand toolchest and some random tools that I spotted on Bumtree.

 

No pic in advert but 'only used once m8'

 

Still, smoll outlay of cash only and seller sounded okay. WCPGW?

[AMC Rebel]

I WANT TO LIVE IN SCOTLAND NOW

 I would move to Scotland or Ireland tomorrow if it wasn't my for daughter who is still at school round here.

[AMC Rebel]

Wish me luck - swapping a pez tank from my spares car to my "working" AMC today - I keep finding things to do instead of starting as I am expecting it all to go pear shaped in spite of collecting the parts for months

 

 

In the unlikely event I get that done, instead of enjoying the sun in the convertible, I need to finish fitting the towbar to the Disco and then sort out all the front splitter/undertray action on the Jaaaag after I ripped it off on the kerb at the co-op (doh!)

[3VOM]

Bought this as new 'vintage' car stereo radio cassette player from eBay:

 

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I have no particular need for it at the moment (The Volvo has a nice Blaupunkt unit), but it only cost £15 all-in and no doubt will come in handy one day.

 

Some schmuck is selling the same stereo for £159! Good luck with that, buddy!

Which international marketing genius came up with that name?

[iainrcz]

Today is National scrub your hallway till your knees hurt day.

 

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[egg]

That looks great, original or reproduction windows?

[iainrcz]

Reproduction glass and tiles.

 

The hallway originally had cheap laminate, it offended me so much I ripped it straight up.

 

The glass is our own design.

 

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[Bobthebeard]

My news. I have recently bought a couple of items on eBay that both resulted in an email from eBay stating that the 'item has been removed as it is from a compromised account. If you have already paid please contact us etc etc"

Two separate items from two different sellers. I paid via PayPal and they didn't release the funds to the seller* thankfully so am no worse off.

Never had this shizzle in ten years of buying from eBay. A new scam?

The payment recipients name changed from the original sellers email address to a chinese email address once I hit pay now.

The items were both from established UK sellers, although admittedly ones that hadn't used their account for a year or so. Not high value items either. £11.22 and £14.99 . Similar products so maybe same scammers?

[loserone]

I'd even forgive owning an RCZ for taste like that.

[oldcars]

I saw Bandit at a show near Bexleyheath some 20 years ago and they had a stunt car MK2 then too. I wonder....

Be the same one i would guess, chap has been doing the show i think since the 90s.

[MikeR]

came across this nicely parked Fiesta   , 20 out of 10 for effort

 

not bad for jumping the bridge

 

 

going a bit wide and finding the only hard bit for yards

 

 

and doing a nice 180 to park nicely against the kerb

 

 

 

should be ok after 2 new wheels and a bit of gaffer tape ?

 

he should also be able to have a chat with the stores for the security vid to put on youtube .....

[Stanky]

Git my new Saab key in the post this morning, its just the shell of but with the buttons on, looks like this:

 

 

because the rubberised coating had gone all weird and sticky and was falling off, the 'buttons' covering the microswitches weren't working and one had fallen off. 

 

£4.50 delivered, swapped the battery and circuitboard over, after carefully cleaning the microswitches with contact cleaner and a bit of clean rag, cleaned the key (which slides into this bit) too and put it all back together. 

 

The new one is hard plastic rather than soft-touch rubberised but seems to be fine.

 

Would recommend.

[beko1987]

My news. I have recently bought a couple of items on eBay that both resulted in an email from eBay stating that the 'item has been removed as it is from a compromised account. If you have already paid please contact us etc etc"

Two separate items from two different sellers. I paid via PayPal and they didn't release the funds to the seller* thankfully so am no worse off.

Never had this shizzle in ten years of buying from eBay. A new scam?

The payment recipients name changed from the original sellers email address to a chinese email address once I hit pay now.

The items were both from established UK sellers, although admittedly ones that hadn't used their account for a year or so. Not high value items either. £11.22 and £14.99 . Similar products so maybe same scammers?

I've bid and lost a fair few pc and thinkpad bits recently. Have had 5 second chance offers because the winner was a fake account... Sadly for the sellers when I lost said auctions I went and hit buy it now on the second choices I'd found in my basket assuming the values to be quite high.

[ruffgeezer]

Will have this for sale in a few weeks, one owner from new, 2.0hdi with air con.

 

It'll have had a service and a full not so if anyone is looking, please pm me for details!

[loserone]

Looks great on those wheels

[richardmorris]

Warm outside today!

Have a pic of the new clutch cylinder whilst I wait for rick to come and bleed it.

[Kringle]

I'm traipsing around Bath city centre today, not seen one person smiling today, including myself. Why do we need to buy all this shit, OMFG Yankee Candle sale! Blow it out your arse.

 

Xantia has also just commenced it's MOT, fingers are crossed.

[richardmorris]

If you give that a gentle tidy up with some fine grade wet 'n dry as much as possible and the a dose of rattle can lacquer it should improve things a lot. It certainly did on some scuffed paint and peeled lacquer on my Saab. Be very careful not to take off too much paint though - I did on one wing mirror and went through to the primer underneath and it now looks worse.

Found an Aldi paint repair kit in the cleaning box. Tried some of the paper like wet and dry wet on the worst bit ( what could go wrong!) then there’s a two stage polish. The first is quite rough and supposedly breaks down into smaller beads as it works. Then a second tube of polish compound. I then finished it all off with a couple of coats of autoglym dark. Improved things a lot, but it was in full sun and my finger got burned!

 

It’s hard to photo but is a big improvement. The paint is sound, it’s the lacquer that’s damaged ( car is parked in south facing full sun). You can see in the first pic that the top layer has been removed and the second pic where I’ve polished to. Top corner was the worst before.

[pshome]

504 got new tyres, now my steering wheel no longer starts wobbling at 100 km/h. Do i have to be concerned?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Due to the idiosyncrasies of Citroën battery positioning, I have been out spending on tools that are apparently necessary to extract a battery from a CX.... and which, naturally, I didn't have to hand. Let's see...

 

£10 on a Halfrauds socket extension bar

£13 on a set of 10 Amtech stubby spanners, only three of which I actually used

 

and £7 on a multimeter.

 

So that's twenty-three quid just to get a battery out. It's now in the shed, being recharged on an ancient Halfrauds 11amp trickle charger. Should be at full power by some time next week....

 

To actually get the feckin' thing out, it is necessary to unbolt the air horns and the compressor, so I took the opportunity to dismantle these and give 'em a bit of an oul clean.

 

Photos to follow....

[richardmorris]

Well Rick has admitted defeat. He thinks the master cylinder has stuck. One more thing to order, although with that done he’s also going to fit the new oil pressure sensor I bought from Mercedes this morning and new anti roll bar bushes too. Just have to wait a fortnight until he’s free- he’s off to donnington now to mechanic for the 2cv racing tomorrow.

 

The oil pressure sensor is a £95 thing you can touch ( if you’re double jointed) but not see.

[ruffgeezer]

Buddy of mine is having a clear out...

 

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-and-Decker-Valvemaster-Refacer-valve-grinder/132713032487?_mwBanner=1&_rdt=1

 

[Simonsays]

Off out later on this afternoon to pick up a second hand toolchest and some random tools that I spotted on Bumtree.

 

No pic in advert but 'only used once m8'

 

Still, smoll outlay of cash only and seller sounded okay. WCPGW?

Turned out to be a thoroughly decent seller. I got a 4 drawer 'no brand' tool chest and a more or less intact set of tools for £25. Most of the tools are junk, i managed to break a ratchet just by spinning it round. Still..... Spares.

[meshking]

Is this rick, Mr Pembro?

Well Rick has admitted defeat. He thinks the master cylinder has stuck. One more thing to order, although with that done he’s also going to fit the new oil pressure sensor I bought from Mercedes this morning and new anti roll bar bushes too. Just have to wait a fortnight until he’s free- he’s off to donnington now to mechanic for the 2cv racing tomorrow.

 

The oil pressure sensor is a £95 thing you can touch ( if you’re double jointed) but not see.

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

With the CX battery being flat, it would have to be extracted from under this lot:

 

 

Realise that you're not going to have access with the basic socket set, so mitch off to spend a tenner on an extension long enough to clear the battery, and splash out on a set of ten stubby spanners (only three of which you'll actually use, but your friendly* motor factors assure you it's cheaper (£13) to buy the set than the three individual spanners at six quid each):

 

 

Then realise, on getting back from the factors, that nothing's coming out unless you first unbolt and remove the air horns and compressor. This turns out to be the only easy bit of the job:

 

 

Note that the whole horn thing's looking a bit fucked after thirty years, but we'll deal with that later. The extended socket proves only just long enough to clear the battery and undo the two bolts on the retaining plate.....which looks well past its best:

 

 

Fish out the 13mm stubby spanner to undo the negative terminal clamp next to the wing. Scrape your skin getting your hand in there to lift clamp away. Then fish out 11mm spanner to undo positive terminal clamp and lift away. Somehow lever out battery from underneath Citroen comedy cabling:

 

 

'tis a battery, Jim, but not as we know it.

 

Notice the now-empty battery tray is almost in as bad a state as the retaining clamp. The rust needs hoovering:

 

 

...so you sweep it onto the ground instead:

 

 

Move battery to shed and connect trickle charger. Should be ready in about a week, so. Make mental note of capacity in case this battery is kaput and you need to spend more money on a new one:

 

 

Later on, the air horns....

[richardmorris]

Is this rick, Mr Pembro?

 

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Not Rick Pembro. Although I understand they will be together tomorrow at the 2cv racing.

 

Rick meyers who I’ve known for nearly 25 years now. He used to be full time at PTS in isleworth then went his own way, most recently at the N Randell rolls Royce specialist I mentioned to xtriple. Now he’s bus driving in London, part time at PTS and mobile too. He does work hard I’ll give him that! His daughter is now in second year at university studying mathematics- I remember her being born!

 

Anyway, he’s basically looked after all my cars for twenty years.

 

He’s pretty booked up. But if you need things doing on the 2cv I’ll ask if he’s interested - he lives in Hampton.

 

Oh, and the GSAMI rally is coming up if you want somewhere to go to - rural life centre in Farnham.

http://rural-life.org.uk/html/Events/Citroen-rally.html

[richardmorris]

With the CX battery being flat, it would have to be extracted from under this lot:IMG_20180331_160904.jpgRealise that you're not going to have access with the basic socket set, so mitch off to spend a tenner on an extension long enough to clear the battery, and splash out on a set of ten stubby spanners (only three of which you'll actually use, but your friendly* motor factors assure you it's cheaper (£13) to buy the set than the three individual spanners at six quid each):IMG_20180721_172328.jpgThen realise, on getting back from the factors, that nothing's coming out unless you first unbolt and remove the air horns and compressor. This turns out to be the only easy bit of the job:IMG_20180721_171855.jpgNote that the whole horn thing's looking a bit fucked after thirty years, but we'll deal with that later. The extended socket proves only just long enough to clear the battery and undo the two bolts on the retaining plate.....which looks well past its best:IMG_20180721_170517.jpgFish out the 13mm stubby spanner to undo the negative terminal clamp next to the wing. Scrape your skin getting your hand in there to lift clamp away. Then fish out 11mm spanner to undo positive terminal clamp and lift away. Somehow lever out battery from underneath Citroen comedy cabling:IMG_20180721_172051.jpg'tis a battery, Jim, but not as we know it.Notice the now-empty battery tray is almost in as bad a state as the retaining clamp. The rust needs hoovering:IMG_20180721_171328.jpg...so you sweep it onto the ground instead:IMG_20180721_172111.jpgMove battery to shed and connect trickle charger. Should be ready in about a week, so. Make mental note of capacity in case this battery is kaput and you need to spend more money on a new one:IMG_20180721_172044.jpgLater on, the air horns....

All this is making me realise I never moved the battery on mine in 6years! It was a lifetime guaranteed one the first owner bought in 1996. I bought the car in 2001 and sold it in 2006 without taking it out.

[320touring]

CX battery Joys*

That's bringing back nightmares of my S1 Prestige!