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[SRi05]

WBOD achieved. This is it's pretty side

[GrumpiusMaximus]

TL;DR should have bought a Nest or Hive. Bit twirly knob that sets the temperature you want it at. It'll then change itself when the next scheduled time to change it.

I’m not made of money! Hence the 14.5 degrees...

 

Besides, it’s easybto use if you read the manual.

[mrbenn]

First gritting of the season round here seems to have come very early this year

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I’m not made of money! Hence the 14.5 degrees....

Just wear more clothes.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Just wear more clothes.

We do. And I’m a fat bastard. I never put the heating on in the 3 years I lived in my own.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

We do. And I’m a fat bastard. I never put the heating on in the 3 years I lived in my own.

A true Yorkshireman / Jew / Scrooge / insert preferred miser

[Mally]

Mines on full bore most of the time.

The wife pays the bill.

[leanycan]

WBOD achieved. This is it's pretty side

Hope you enjoy the car mate if you ever do decide to sell it again in the future can I have first dibs on it.

[SRi05]

Hope you enjoy the car mate if you ever do decide to sell it again in the future can I have first dibs on it.

Sure can mate! I've got it booked in to get that damage on the rear passenger side sorted, pal will do it for me for mates rates. I'll get that alloy sorted during the week and it'll be looking smart very soon

[Ghosty]

 

 

[leanycan]

Sure can mate! I've got it booked in to get that damage on the rear passenger side sorted, pal will do it for me for mates rates. I'll get that alloy sorted during the week and it'll be looking smart very soon

Superb fella. It’ll look good when it’s done

 

 

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[GeordieInExile]

Don't forget that the 900 is a 1960s car with extra nose weight added.

Ah but the extra arse weight should balance that out...

[Lacquer Peel]

I decided to wash the Passat today for the first time in my ownership, only because local hooligans have been drawing crudely drawn cocks in the dirt while it's been parked outside. It does look a lot better with a Wash #5.

[stuboy]

Went up to sittingbourne to help my friend fix his wifes car.. top mounts on ford fiesta st..

[stuboy]

Went up to sittingbourne to help my friend fix his wifes car.. top mounts on ford fiesta st..

[tooSavvy]

A true Yorkshireman / Jew / Scrooge / insert preferred miser

..... You looking to be deselected m8

[richardmorris]

Met another w124 coupe in waitrose carpark this morning alongside a 190. Odd security on my driveway too- think they’re there to dissuade potential SpartanRace visitors from using the wrong entrance.

 

Traction Avant news tomorrow.

[DodgeRover]

Pointed the Transit North on Thursday night and arrived safely 4 hours later back in Derbyshire (Twinned with the Free Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire), no water consumed after a leisurely 190 miles of motorway cruising at 55 mph, plan K (seal) appears to have been effective.

Having spotted 2 places advertising lpg at 54ppl i'm hoping we have enough left onboard to reach the outskirts of London without refuelling on Sunday.

 

Also Bolsover council tip is a revelation after being down South (need a permit for the van and an inspection each time) and going to drop some stuff off at the Worksop dump for my sister (need everything about the producer in blood, in triplicate). Bolsover it's just drive in, no questions or inspections, off load and go, beats me why twats still feel the need to fly tip around the area.

[cobblers]

 Bolsover it's just drive in, no questions or inspections, off load and go, beats me why twats still feel the need to fly tip around the area.

 

 

Every morning I drive past a layby near Mastin Moor and at least once a week there's a big pile of shit dumped there. It's 1 mile away from that tip. People are just arseholes I suppose.

[DodgeRover]

Every morning I drive past a layby near Mastin Moor and at least once a week there's a big pile of shit dumped there. It's 1 mile away from that tip. People are just arseholes I suppose.

Twas nice to meet you earlier by the way, I'm busy looking at bigger solar panels and charge controllers now! Sorry if I was a bit quiet - I'm knackered!

[RobT]

Day trip to France today in the 19. 327 miles done without issue, apart from a few butt clenching moments where it wouldn't start on le shuttle. I think it was luck more than anything which prevented me being 'that' person in a rubbish old car causing delays.

 

Being photo bombed by a Xantia

 

 

In a village called Ault in the Somme department where I also spotted a 25, 21, Safrane, Mk1 Uno and this minter...

 

 

The rotten to feck A-pillar is what impressed me most!

 

I also wanted to go to the Renault factory in Douai where 19s were made, but couldn't be bothered in the end. The car itself drove well the whole trip, and is quite relaxing being comfy with the 1.4 Energy engine being unobtrusive (or maybe I wasn't driving it hard enough...)

 

On the way back to Calais I was thinking how open for business France seemed today, but as if to prove Junkman right I saw this.

 

 

Bit annoying as I really needed a piss at that point.

[HMC]

Sounds a great road trip! Did you see many other 19s? And did you get any double takes with the uk plates?

[Saabnut]

That Aire has been closed all summer, it is being redone.

[HMC]

Meanwhile I mainly listened to the v6 as I pootled around town. Thermostat ordered, and gear linkage taken apart, cleaned, greased and reassembled to that it’s less stiff across the gait. Bene!

[RobT]

Sounds a great road trip! Did you see many other 19s? And did you get any double takes with the uk plates?

Nope, none others. Funny you should say but I did get quite a few looks, and the woman at the Eurotunnel terminal directed me to the LHD kiosk. Light was fading and she obv just assumed I was a Frenchie!

[bramz7]

Weird seeing two of my former cars on the same page out and about with other serial shiters....

 

Wait did I say weird? Brilliant, I meant.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I must get into Europe and have a pootle about sometime soon.

 

Any particular reason you went over today, Rob?  Or just fancied it?

[wuvvum]

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The rotten to feck A-pillar is what impressed me most!

Bloody hell, that makes my C-Class look concours...

[wuvvum]

Got some stuff done today despite the weather.  The Rover 45 now has a shiny new cat, a shiny new offside rear wheel bearing and a shiny new nearside rear anti-roll bar bracket. 

 

The bracket was the most awkward bit - getting the old one off wasn't actually too bad in the end, the set of bolt extractor sockets I'd ordered off eBay arrived yesterday and whilst the 10mm socket wouldn't get a grip on the bolt head, the 9mm was persuaded on with a bit of help from a lump hammer and that wound the bolt straight out.  One of the bolts holding the bush onto the bracket needed similar treatment.  Getting it all back together was a bit more involved - for one thing three out of the four bolts were shagged so I had to go out and buy some more, and I'd also managed to bend the metal frame of the bush whilst wiggling it around trying to get it off, so it took a while for me to persuade it to line up properly - got there in the end though.

 

The wheel bearing was a piece of piss as expected - the bit that took longest was getting the drum off, it wouldn't come off for love nor money for about 20 minutes and then it suddenly came away in my hands.  No, I don't know either.  The cat wasn't too bad of a job - 6 bolts, none of which was seized amazingly, and the gaskets on the car were reusable (a good thing because the cat didn't come with any) so it was just the faff of getting everything to line back up (and stopping the fugging gaskets falling out) whilst lying under the car with the exhaust about 4" above my head.  Again though it's on there now, and I couldn't detect any gas leakage when I fired the car up - it hasn't made the exhaust much quieter though.

 

So it should be more or less ready for its retest now - all I need to sort is a rear tyre, I haven't yet decided whether I'm going to try and get the local tyre place to fit one of the decent 185/55x15s I have in stock, or whether I should just borrow a pair of wheels from the Rover of Doom to get it through the test.  I might have another bash at bleeding the brakes too - they're not too bad but the pedal could be firmer.

 

The Merc now has new wiper blades all round, and I've had a first go at cleaning the inside of the windows, which were filthy - I'm going to have to have a second pass tomorrow I think, but I can see out of it much better now.  I'm still thoroughly enjoying driving it.

 

I haven't tackled the CV joint on the Audi yet - that will be a job for tomorrow if I can be arsed, as well as sorting the directional control for the heating on the LDV.

[egg]

Went up to sittingbourne to help my friend fix his wifes car.. top mounts on ford fiesta st..

 

Good work, and look at that poor Citrine Mondeo loitering under a tarp in the background, you'd never see me doing that......oh.....