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[alf892]

I’ve just got back home with the Mercedes.1FC473F4-8F6E-4774-84A1-74BE49E07F59.jpeg

Tyres still a couple of mm above limit, so I’m just about to check prices. This thing does like tyres- I seem to be changing a pair a year, fronts were done last year.

Now it’s snowing.

Small world.....your car was tested by my nephew!

[richardmorris]

Small world.....your car was tested by my nephew!

Really? Don’t ask him what he thinks of it- I like to live in denial!

 

I’ll need to check back through the records to see who’s signed the mots- I’ve had all the cars ( part from the fiat ) done there since 1996.

 

He will know all my mechanic friends from PTS though. Lee, Pete and rick,

[Angrydicky]

Finally got a pair of new tyres on the front of the Clio today. £31.95 each for 155-70-13 ditchfinders supplied and fitted, which was the cheapest locally (Bell Tyres, Westcliff). The old ones were well worn and upon inspecting the old tyres in the scrap pile I found a nail in one. That'll be why it was losing 10 psi a week then!

Checked the discs and pads while the wheels were off and found they were in very good condition with minimal wear. Its definitely had a wishbone pan on the passenger side not long ago and a CV joint on the drivers side. All backs up the impeccable maintenance this car has enjoyed in the past

[stuboy]

If autoshite was an hgv... it would be as beige as this .

[vulgalour]

 

They're both fine, don't worry, the Princess just needed to give the Rover a jump.  After two months and a meagre 20 miles during that whole period, the Rover's battery only had enough grunt to unlock the doors.  I took it on a run to get some charge back in it.  I guess I'll have to use it a bit more often and stop driving the Princess everywhere.

 

 

[xtriple]

While walking his royal fatness this morning, I noticed that the new neighbours Jaguar X types lights were on. Being of a kindly disposition, I rang the bell, then knocked on the relevant door.

 

Wish I hadn't bothered as the sour large lady demanded to know who I was, why I was banging on the door, how did I know it was her car and what business of mine was it anyway! Oh, and stop Chester from peeing on the wheel.

 

If I hadn't just had a gypsy's kiss I would have joined him!

[wuvvum]

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They're both fine, don't worry, the Princess just needed to give the Rover a jump.  After two months and a meagre 20 miles during that whole period, the Rover's battery only had enough grunt to unlock the doors.  I took it on a run to get some charge back in it.  I guess I'll have to use it a bit more often and stop driving the Princess everywhere.

The Princess looks really fed up in that picture.

[320touring]

Course it is - it's supposed to be out driving:)

[vulgalour]

It's very put upon.

[Ghosty]

 

Tyres still a couple of mm above limit, so I’m just about to check prices. This thing does like tyres- I seem to be changing a pair a year, fronts were done last year.

 

 

 

Having stuck a set of s/h Uniroyal RainExperts on my Civic in lieu of 2x new Goodyears and 2x old shit (along with new wheels but let's ignore that) and have to say they're damn good, especially for the price. Can't comment on longevity but I've never heard a bad word against Uniroyal.

[New POD]

Having stuck a set of s/h Uniroyal RainExperts on my Civic in lieu of 2x new Goodyears and 2x old shit (along with new wheels but let's ignore that) and have to say they're damn good, especially for the price. Can't comment on longevity but I've never heard a bad word against Uniroyal.

They are decent.

[HillmanImp]

Actual view at mine this morning. Very fine coat of ice covering the whole car.

 

[loserone]

Went the quite long way to work this morning, in the MGF. I was going to get a nice picture in a particularly frosty spot, but the road was closed when I got there. Four police cars, incident response unit, paramedic, and air ambulance by the time I got turned around.

 

It's a bloody slippy spot, I reckon I take that route 5% of the time and I see a crashed car about half of those.

[Jazoli]

Wife had a few moments in her Landsail summer tyre shod 307 this morning so a trip to Kwik fit and £560 later the car has a set of michelin cross climates fitted, I do hope she realises that you can't defy the laws of physics!

[Bren]

Fired up the granada for the first time this year. Battery was last charged about a month ago - it fired up almost immediately. Even the tyres have held air.

[xtriple]

Absolute shock and horror this morning, had to de-ice the car! This is Devon where it never gets cold (pah!) and the cheap de-icer I bought from some dodgy shop about three years ago was utterly useless. This just goes to prove that my usual habit of NOT leaving the gaff until 10:00 am is justifiably correct.

[oldcars]

Freezing here as well. Reliant was frozen on the inside of the screen but started first time. The silicone spray i put in the locks and on the door rubbers seems to have stopped the doors freezing to the body as well. Still cold inside it mind.

[Guest Hooli]

My heated windscreen doesn't work so I had to scrape it after doing the side windows. It's been parked at work in the sun all morning & the ice on the roof and boot hasn't started to melt yet.

[mrbenn]

You'll have to defrost it in the usual way, like us peasants. Scraping away with your bank card cos you can't find the scraper, trying unsuccessfully to coax the last bit of de-icer out of the can while freezing your hands until they're blue in the process, before finally resorting to breathing on the screen in the vain hope of being able to leave within the next hour.

 

Not me, like. My heated front screen works fine.

[Justin Case]

Mazda 6 passsed its MOT this morning with just one advisory on a worn tyre, which I was already aware of. Best of all, no sign of the dreaded Mazda corrosion underneath, no doubt due to regular visits to the local jetwash Will probably have a look round at what's on offer now, as no immediate expense should be needed for a while.

 

Oh and frost tip, wipe door seals when dry then spray lightly with dry silicone lube, works a treat

[pauldoubleyou]

You'll have to defrost it in the usual way, like us peasants. Scraping away with your bank card cos you can't find the scraper, trying unsuccessfully to coax the last bit of de-icer out of the can while freezing your hands until they're blue in the process, before finally resorting to breathing on the screen in the vain hope of being able to leave within the next hour.

 

Not me, like. My heated front screen works fine.

 

See your avatar?

 

Thats me stood on the bonnet of a Beetle i was breaking last year

 

How odd

[mrbenn]

I know. As I said at the time you posted it:

 

 

I didn’t know how to process this, so I made it my profile picture.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

You'll have to defrost it in the usual way, like us peasants. Scraping away with your bank card cos you can't find the scraper, trying unsuccessfully to coax the last bit of de-icer out of the can while freezing your hands until they're blue in the process, before finally resorting to breathing on the screen in the vain hope of being able to leave within the next hour.

 

Warm water - not HOT - just a bit warm...… defrosted in seconds and all good. Never had an issue...… I'm not freezing my fingers or anything scraping the shit off thanks 

[Guest Hooli]

You'll have to defrost it in the usual way, like us peasants. Scraping away with your bank card cos you can't find the scraper, trying unsuccessfully to coax the last bit of de-icer out of the can while freezing your hands until they're blue in the process, before finally resorting to breathing on the screen in the vain hope of being able to leave within the next hour.

 

Not me, like. My heated front screen works fine.

 

I've got a proper scraper & TBH it takes as long for the inside to clear as it does to scrape the outside so it's not wasting anytime. I don't bother with de-icer as it just makes the ice smoother & harder to scrape.

[mrbenn]

I'm sure de-icer used to be more effective in the "old days". I don't bother with it anymore, decent scraper is the way to go. Warm water a good call.

[Supernaut]

The aerosol de-icer I use seems to do a pretty good job.

[mrbenn]

Which brand is it?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Glad I got new tyres recently.  Had to go a different way to work (due to ridiculously short-sighted traffic management out of my town and roadworks as a result of two housing developers trying to renege on their statutory arrangements to improve the roads when they add 500 houses to a town) and ended up going through some single-track lanes.  A light dusting of snow and dust all over the road.  Not a problem but the standard of driving this morning on the way to work was predictably poor...

[BeEP]

Today I did a buy, and saved this from going for scrap...

 

 

49000 miles and totally solid underneath; never welded and better than mine in this respect, although having been a town car all its life it does have a number of dings and scrapes.  Wants a few odds and ends doing but can't see it needing much for an MOT.

 

 

Will be for sale once MOTd....... Supernaut, I'm looking at you

[oldcars]

I've got a proper scraper & TBH it takes as long for the inside to clear as it does to scrape the outside so it's not wasting anytime. I don't bother with de-icer as it just makes the ice smoother & harder to scrape.

Brutal stuff. Wrecks wiper blades and window rubbers.