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[Split_Pin]

Pleased with it?

[Squire_Dawson]

It looks a hundred times better for a polish, I love two-tone cars.

[Split_Pin]

Lightened the picture a wee bit, now you can see the shine much better. She looks very well indeed.

[mrbenn]

406 has just done a grand job of piloting us very quickly to the hospital to take Amy to a 111 appointment, as she is very much poorly! Haven't driven that fast since the XM days! 406 lent a bit more in some of the corners though...

 

Hope she's ok!

[Mally]

Spent much of the day taking Mrs Mally to Hospital. Realised at 3pm I hadn't had food or a drink yet.

First doctor said she's dehydrated, no great problem.

Second doctor after through examination and blood test was a little more ominous,

Admitted for further tests and scans.

I mention this every time, but wherever I go, the NHS and it's staff are great.

[mrbenn]

Spent much of the day taking Mrs Mally to Hospital. Realised at 3pm I hadn't had food or a drink yet.

First doctor said she's dehydrated, no great problem.

Second doctor after through examination and blood test was a little more ominous,

Admitted for further tests and scans.

I mention this every time, but wherever I go, the NHS and it's staff are great.

 

Hope she's ok, too.

[beko1987]

Hope she's ok!

Seems to be, pins and needles in her arms, slightly high pulse and blood pressure and feeling like shit.

 

The doctor who saw us, despite being a rude cunt did have an impressive array of gadgets! Did it all on his iPhone, had the ear thing that clipped over the camera, 2 pads on the back of the case to measure the pulse etc.

[320touring]

Pleased with it?

Course I am:)

[captain_70s]

1974 called, it wants it's shite auld car back.

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

If you want to know how much safety has come on watch this-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUdY8clZsw

No serious injuries at all. She is one lucky puppy.

 

 

Holy fucking shit.  I read the story, I hadn't seen the crash.

 

If you're 17 and you come out of your first big crash as relatively unharmed as she has, you're doing well.

 

Wow.

 

EDIT.  If you listen carefully around 2 minutes, you can hear an English bloke clearly shouting:  'Fucking red flag it!' Yep.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Seems to be, pins and needles in her arms, slightly high pulse and blood pressure and feeling like shit.

 

The doctor who saw us, despite being a rude cunt did have an impressive array of gadgets! Did it all on his iPhone, had the ear thing that clipped over the camera, 2 pads on the back of the case to measure the pulse etc.

 

 

I hope that was a company device, not a personal one or the GDPR fairies might be calling...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Got the Oxford out into the sun for the first time since Mr Split_Pin came over to polish it..

 

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I've always, always wanted one of those.  Especially in estate form.  Phwoar.

[xtriple]

If you want to know how much safety has come on watch this-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUdY8clZsw

No serious injuries at all. She is one lucky puppy

Broken spine, operation tomorrow. She has already been 'tweeting' so very lucky indeed!

[320touring]

I've always, always wanted one of those. Especially in estate form. Phwoar.

Have a read at my ownership thread before you get in too deep;)

[tommotech]

Last weekend I went to see a Panther Kallista project, that will appear in a thread when I get around to getting on with it. However, driving along the shoreline of Lake Bala there was a massive bang under the car, although it continued to drive fine.

 

I stopped at the next safe place and noticed rear left had dropped, ever so slightly. That’ll be a broken spring then.

 

I called to TPS during the week to procure two rear springs and fitted them this afternoon, easy enough job with no dramas, thankfully. Have a couple of photos.

 

 

[Tam]

Joking aside, I've just discovered that they did away with the external boot release button - the underside of the tailgate moulding is now just a flat piece of tin.  The only way of opening the boot is via the button down by the driver's right foot.

On the later and facelift cars if you hold down the door opening button on the fob for say 5 seconds the boot should pop.

[wuvvum]

Well I took the "new" 75 out for another blat last night, and on checking it this morning, the oil is still clean as a whistle but the expansion tank is looking decidedly sludgy.  So it looks like the HG has indeed F'd.  Ho hum.

 

It's still not getting hot though (I tried the diagnostic trick Split_Pin suggested and the temp sits between 82 and 85 degrees no matter how I'm driving).  It did however have a flat battery this morning (not completely flat but not enough oomph to start the car) - I'm hoping that I left something switched on and it's not that the battery has suddenly shat itself - it was fine yesterday and the car obviously hadn't moved for a while when I collected it.

 

I've nicked a couple of bits of trim off it for the estate - the chrome bit that goes around the driver's interior door handle, and the trim that goes over the auto dimming mirror gubbins.  The chrome bit is actually a completely different fitment to the estate (I assume the Phoenix Four found somebody who could make them .001p cheaper) but a bit of superglue soon sorted that.  Also the rear parking sensors work, so I might see if I can nick the unit for the estate (again, assuming it's the same).

 

I still haven't decided what to do with the car.  If we get another decent weekend like this one, I might try giving it a drain'n'flush and tipping a K-seal in to see if that does the job - although my experiences of renewing the coolant on K-serieses have normally involved airlocks.  If not it'll probably head off to Rover heaven as there's no way I'm going to do the head gasket at this time of year, and I don't want to pay (expensive) tax all winter just for it to sit around.

[HillmanImp]

Welded a new front floorpan into the GT6.

 

 

Couple of bits need attention from the inside afterwards where I got a bit enthusiastic with the angle grinder and the bit of floor above the outrigger isn't as good as I thought so thats going to have to be done too.

 

Ordered the sill ends and have 2 bits of floor towards the back to replace and I think I can roll it onto the other side and start that.

[Tamworthbay]

Holy fucking shit.  I read the story, I hadn't seen the crash.

 

If you're 17 and you come out of your first big crash as relatively unharmed as she has, you're doing well.

 

Wow.

 

EDIT.  If you listen carefully around 2 minutes, you can hear an English bloke clearly shouting:  'Fucking red flag it!' Yep.

 That was my reaction too, seen some bad crashes but nothing like that. 

Broken spine, operation tomorrow. She has already been 'tweeting' so very lucky indeed!

The report I read said ‘minor injuries,’, not sure I would count a broken spine as minor but the fact she is not dead still makes her lucky. Had she not been going backwards I think it would have been a very different outcome.

[fordperv]

Welded a new front floorpan into the GT6.

 

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Couple of bits need attention from the inside afterwards where I got a bit enthusiastic with the angle grinder and the bit of floor above the outrigger isn't as good as I thought so thats going to have to be done too.

 

Ordered the sill ends and have 2 bits of floor towards the back to replace and I think I can roll it onto the other side and start that.

How are you finding working on the car with those tilt bars that mount to the hubs? I've been thinking about getting a pair, I've got a rotisserie but they are only really good for a stripped shell

[HillmanImp]

How are you finding working on the car with those tilt bars that mount to the hubs? I've been thinking about getting a pair, I've got a rotisserie but they are only really good for a stripped shell

 

It fantastic. I was sat on a chair whilst I did most of that floor. I didn't get any slag rolling in my ear, I wasn't soaking we and cold from lying on the floor, visibility is great and I don't have a sore neck this morning. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

CX was collected this morning by BSM Car Transport and should be arriving at its destination any time now.

 

Would have helped if the transporter driver had asked me for payment before he left, rather than halfway through the trip....

[dollywobbler]

If you want to know how much safety has come on watch this-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUdY8clZsw

No serious injuries at all. She is one lucky puppy.

 

No serious injuries? I heard a broken spine and a serated liver (driver and one marshal). It's frankly amazing it wasn't worse.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.... I wasn't soaking wee....

 

EFA? 

[somewhatfoolish]

Well I took the "new" 75 out for another blat last night, and on checking it this morning, the oil is still clean as a whistle but the expansion tank is looking decidedly sludgy.  So it looks like the HG has indeed F'd.  Ho hum.

Could it just be residual clag from a previous OMGHGF that's just not been flushed properly?

[alcyonecorporation]

 

SVX managed another local trip out. Still considering whether or not to take legal action against the specialist who butchered it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.... Still considering whether or not to take legal action against the specialist who butchered it.

 

As ever, the longer you leave it, the less likely you are to pursue it.

 

I'd be looking at commissioning specialist engineers' reports into the damage caused by the faulty / deficient / negligent work.

[alcyonecorporation]

As ever, the longer you leave it, the less likely you are to pursue it.

 

I'd be looking at commissioning specialist engineers' reports into the damage caused by the faulty / deficient / negligent work.

No-one will go on record. Makes it very difficult to fight a case when no-one wants to help.

It weakens my argument, unless I use my nuke. Perhaps I'll do that.

 

In the end, I want the money to sort it out right. Not unfairly, I feel.

 

Plus, I don't have the time, as much as their shit-scrubbing bodgery upsets me.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

No-one will go on record.....

 

Any reason why not?

[DVee8]

Renault Nissan to the News 24

 

https://news.sky.com/story/shares-hit-on-claim-nissan-renault-chairman-carlos-ghosn-faces-arrest-11557910?fbclid=IwAR0azIvfPS5cMy5V9dGept1ZVTBC0xE9XsfZsaXCyU_ZuWR1AaEfWUmX5js