The new news 24 thread

[tommytwo]

Thats a great save on the Fiat. Should give you years of service. Good luck.

 

Must be colder in South Devon than here. Have not needed any deice spray for 4 years now. The can I bought 4 years ago is still full. May be because I live close to the sea.

[Bren]

Not much snow here but plenty of frost. I have been treating the passat doors with kid gloves as the utterly shite locks hate the cold, break easily and cost a fortune to replace.

[Lacquer Peel]

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

If the air temperature is cold enough that warm water will re-freeze quickly.

[bramz7]

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

 

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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.

 

P519GGM osf.JPG

 

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

Excellent purchase. Will look out for the for sale thread as I've not had one yet....

[Broadsword]

Punto looks fab. When you snag a solid one they are cracking motors, well saved!

[oldcars]

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

 

P519GGM nsr.JPG

 

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.

 

P519GGM osf.JPG

 

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

Can you run the ldv on veg. Class plate if you can.

[catsinthewelder]

405 passed its MOT today, tester complemented the lovely comfy seats. I said wait until you get the Dacia in. They had a Pirelli tyre pressure chart on the wall which didn't list any of my cars as it predated the 405's introduction. It did list the 604, Talbot Tagora, Matra Rancho etc.

[tooSavvy]

Recently [ice box mornings] I have had a 'rat scratching in a box' sound coming from the interior, as I drive along..

 

Again thismorning...

 

Some serious thinking/listening/spatial theorising had me resolve it was the Sunroof seal (like crushing very cold snow into a snowball) = whirrr UP/collumpp DOWN & noise gone

 

Silicone spray all around seal next job....

[tooSavvy]

BOL m8

[beko1987]

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

 

P519GGM nsr.JPG

 

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.

 

P519GGM osf.JPG

 

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

Ill buy him a ticket if it goes to a roffle (and I've got money when that happens!)

 

I had to de ice the car more leaving work at 6pm than this morning! I opted for the easy solution of taking the key off my keyring and turning it on with the heaters full, then saying hi to mum for 5 minutes. One flick of the wipers after that and away we go!

 

Then luckily I got stuck behind a 'slow driver' once I got off the motorway all the way to thame, which was ace as I could see the shining patches of ice and didn't want to go any faster anyway. Car behind me was very cross I think as he flashed many times before giving up and joining the waft.

[Maurice Marina]

Punto looks fab. When you snag a solid one they are cracking motors, well saved!

Until you bump into something other than a marshmallow...

[clayts450]

Talking of deicing fun, went out to the 620 and it was solid ice all round. Started scraping away with proper plastic £1 thing from Wilko, came off lovely in the morning sun on the side windows. Front and back widnows and mirrors, that shit weren't for budging.

 

Neighbour parked next to me also going at it, although his weapon of choice was a case from a PS3 game.

 

'Fuck this shit' said I. Walked back in to the house, came out minutes later with kettle of tepid tap water, poured it all over front and back windows, job done. Neighbour informed me I'd break my windscreen doing that. I pointed out it wasn't boiling water.

 

I was outta there.. Meanwhile, he carried on scraping away with Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto or summat. 

[BeEP]

Punto looks fab. When you snag a solid one they are cracking motors, well saved!

 

Agreed.  I normally move my everyday cars on within a couple of months, yet I've had my 55SX over 9 months and have no intention of selling.  They're great, which is why I was keen to save the blue one above.

 

Until you bump into something other than a marshmallow...

 

I try not to crash into anything, including marshmallows.  I am also not afraid to risk leaving my house occasionally; it's dangerous out there.

[Angrydicky]

Talking of deicing fun, went out to the 620 and it was solid ice all round. Started scraping away with proper plastic £1 thing from Wilko, came off lovely in the morning sun on the side windows. Front and back widnows and mirrors, that shit weren't for budging. 

What's yours like for demisting? Mine steamed up very easily and was hard to shift, and I'm sure RobT said his one was the same.

[clayts450]

Demisting is fine and it seems to stay pretty clear, but the offside rear glass is always steamed up for some reason. Typical Rover blast furnace heaters, mind - very toasty.

[bramz7]

800 is the same, constantly steaming up.

Rear window visibility is perpetually zero. Must be a Rover thing.

[Skizzer]

Recently [ice box mornings] I have had a 'rat scratching in a box' sound coming from the interior, as I drive along..

Again thismorning...

Some serious thinking/listening/spatial theorising had me resolve it was the Sunroof seal (like crushing very cold snow into a snowball) = whirrr UP/collumpp DOWN & noise gone

Silicone spray all around seal next job....

Sunroofs are pure evil.

[alf892]

I'm too tight to run the engine for de icing........place fan heater carefully in car and go in for cup of tea.

 

Return to car and drive off toasty warm......run heater on recirc air till engine warms a bit

[RobT]

800 is the same, constantly steaming up.

Rear window visibility is perpetually zero. Must be a Rover thing.

Yep, the ex-Bo11ox 623 would mist up all too easily, mostly on the rear windows.

 

Incidentally, despite me knackering the headgasket it still lives. I sold it to a mechanic friend who plans on sorting it this year. He's robbed a few parts off it for his other 623, but that's only the new tyres I put on and the electric window switch that Bo11 fixed when he had it.

[brownnova]

I’m also a warm water from the kettle type de-icer.

 

Number of cracked windscreens: 0

Number of pedants who tell me I will crack my windscreen: eleventy-million

[New POD]

Gave up trying to defrost the omega this morning. Went to the garage and took the mx5. As no frost.in garage. Put the top down too.and put my hat on.

Heater is very hot, exhaust is very loud.

It's not very fast but sounds mental.

[wuvvum]

Two of the three 600s I've had were really bad for misting up.  The only one which wasn't was the diesel.

[stuboy]

I'm sure de-icer used to be more effective in the "old days".

no longer has ethanol in it

[vulgalour]

It's definitely a Rover thing.  The 400 is a bugger for misting up unexpectedly before everything is warmed through and will mist up the rear screen at any point.  Solution is the same as in the Princess; crack the front window open a quarter inch.  Cars need to go back to having opening quarter lights, then this sort of thing wouldn't be an issue.

[Ghosty]

It's not a Rover thing as much as a big car thing. The loadspace windows on the Volvo are equally bad for it (as was my 740), the only way I could even remotely counter it is the microwaveable car dehumidifier/rice sock method, every day every winter.

[paulplom]

An other +1 for hot water. I just fill the kettle from the hot tap. It just needs to be luke warm. 25 years and no cracked screen.

[HillmanImp]

The Visa was frozen on the inside when I got back to the station yesterday. I thought it had just misted up on the inside as I had parked facing the sun but when I went to wipe I had to scrape that with my Screwfix card too.

[Tamworthbay]

no longer has ethanol in it

Damn those Austrians cornering the antifreeze market

[bangernomics]

Grump for the day 5:30am start for work due to generator testing on another site we support.

 

Grin for the day, despite 50% failure of all the UPS' my bodgery last time we had a power failure to get everything working with loads of cables draped everywhere seems to work. Except for the phone system, but if they can't report a fault it didn't happen right? Besides that's so old fashioned it'd survive a direct nuclear attack (which would improve Rotherham).

 

Overall I don't think it's a grin or a grump so news 24 is the place for it. Plus I get to finish at 1:30 if I want because of the silly start time.

Do you work for Cap? That’s a big DC they have on the Corus site.

[bangernomics]

This sort of information makes me wonder if "we" are ALL on some sort of spectrum.

Still got my rubber key zx81 somewhere jload mofos