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[Asimo]

This must be the spot of the year! Even after millions of those mis-labelled Corsas, this is what I first think of as a Nova.

 

Wonderful that one is still in use. A beetle-based kit car with a fibreglass body has to be a likely candidate for "last shite still drivieable" in my pension-poverty future....

[egg]

Second time this has happened, parked in the same spot. Same white colour car too. The curse of Mondeo bumpers

 

[mrbenn]

^^^ Bastard.

 

Still, I'm sure they left their details along with an apology and assurance of recompense....

[egg]

Yes, just like they did last time 

[mrbenn]

May be time to invest in a dashcam?

[Liggle]

Second time this has happened, parked in the same spot. Same white colour car too. The curse of Mondeo bumpers

Had this on my Octavia a couple of weeks ago, to add insult to injury I keep seeing the white car I suspected of doing it driving around... with blue paint on one rear corner of her car. Bugger all you can do it about it without a dash cam. 

[egg]

It's not too bad really, last time was worse, but annoying all the same.

[SiC]

Just spoken to my estate agent. Still needs confirmation from the horses mouth (other solicitors) but it looks like everyone is ready to exchange. Mid march for completion is the target. *Keeps fingers crossed*

 

I better get into the garage, put the engine back together and start tidying!!

Aaaaaaaand after speaking to my Solicitor it turns out that is all lies. fFs.

 

Spoke to my agent and she said that they aren't allowed to call the other solicitors apart from the ones related directly to the property they are selling. So they can only find out information from the other agents and they can only go by what they tell them.

 

However its looking like our buyers solicitor that is being the slow one, so at least our agent can put pressure on my buyer too.

[BorniteIdentity]

Aaaaaaaand after speaking to my Solicitor it turns out that is all lies. fFs.

 

Spoke to my agent and she said that they aren't allowed to call the other solicitors apart from the ones related directly to the property they are selling. So they can only find out information from the other agents and they can only go by what they tell them.

 

However its looking like our buyers solicitor that is being the slow one, so at least our agent can put pressure on my buyer too.

Protocol is, as described, only immediate solicitors with a relating transaction may correspond. I imagine GDPR now plays a part too.

 

Estate agents can phone estate agents tho, and that is often more effective.

 

Good luck. Won’t be long now.

[catsinthewelder]

I remember that from selling my (quarter share of) last house.  My solicitor handed me a list of questions the buyers solicitor was demanding answers to.  I phoned the buyers solicitor and received a verbal bollocking because I wasn't allowed to contact them. Once I'd got a word in I pointed out that they used to be my solicitors so could look in their own files to find the answers.  I was told I couldn't be found on the system so I suggested they looked harder because they surely had files from 7 years earlier.  I'll just speak to mine to tell him you'll either sort it out or whatever ombudsman looks into these things can.  Funnily enough it was all sorted.  I fucking hate dealing with solicitors and estate agents and will generally break protocols like that wherever possible.

[New POD]

Aaaaaaaand after speaking to my Solicitor it turns out that is all lies. fFs.

 

Spoke to my agent and she said that they aren't allowed to call the other solicitors apart from the ones related directly to the property they are selling. So they can only find out information from the other agents and they can only go by what they tell them.

 

However its looking like our buyers solicitor that is being the slow one, so at least our agent can put pressure on my buyer too.

I believe it's a legal requirement to bend the truth so far they can fuck themselves senseless from the rear.

[richardmorris]

2cv on bbc.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-manchester-47409170/stolen-and-stripped-citroen-2cv-back-to-its-prime-a-year-on?fbclid=IwAR0641G8E9-CG1znGG1DPoY4JZ11E__BKR2A6eK3gG1u_o-tU1JkhdPe7Ik

[Split_Pin]

Injector 2 and 4 away on the Clio 172 again. It's in the garage having the radiator replaced and I have been supplied with the wrong one so now the whole job is subject to VAT as they have to buy a bit. Bastarding things.

[MorrisItalSLX]

2cv on bbc.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-manchester-47409170/stolen-and-stripped-citroen-2cv-back-to-its-prime-a-year-on?fbclid=IwAR0641G8E9-CG1znGG1DPoY4JZ11E__BKR2A6eK3gG1u_o-tU1JkhdPe7Ik

 

That would be this one?

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/31132-stolen-2cv/page-8

 

Great news that it has been fixed up.

[Ghosty]

Ticket!

 

[SiC]

Thanks to Taxi Paul of this parish, I have a new* car radio that I intend to put in the 1100. Before I did that, I thought I better wire it up to some speakers to see if it worked.

 

In action. The screwdriver is a makeshift aerial that worked surprisingly well! (Sorry for the awful radio station that we all hate now)

[Video]

 

Power draw isn't too shabby either.

 

Next up is to disconnect the tape player head and wire up a 3.5mm cable so I can play stuff through my phone while having the retro sound of a 80s amplifier. Because 21st and all that.

[BorniteIdentity]

That power switch looks immeasurably satisfying to operate.

 

Great work, SiC!

[Ghosty]

When we bought Mother Ghosty's Cooper S two years ago it'd had the split rim wheels refurbished. They'd been powder coated in one piece, and this is starting to fail in the join between the face and lip, where corrosion is manifesting somehow where the powder coating hasnt, well, coated properly.

 

A full refurb costs more than a set of new Ultralite wheels.... You can see where I'm going.

[stuboy]

Had this spoiler in my shed for my missus focus, but she dont want it and wondered if suited the mondeo...

[Supernaut]

No, it doesn't.

[Christine]

Had this spoiler in my shed for my missus focus, but she dont want it and wondered if suited the mondeo...

Yes it does . 

 

Stuperb !

[shoddybanger]

A month ago I replaced the right rear brake piston on the Nubira (see here) and a couple days ago the wife, who does most of the driving on it, reported a grinding noise coming from the rear left of the car. I did that side last summer... or tried to, what with the new brake piston being too fat to fit in the caliper bore. I suspected that cleaning the old pitted piston and replacing the seal ring with a new one wasn't good enough, but didn't expect it to pack up this quick.

 

Yesterday wife reports that the brake warning light is now staying on, so I topped up the brake fluid. A known good brake piston and seal kit is ordered.

 

I'm also browsing for cheap C5 estates, as I want to experience one. There's one for sale that's apparently well cared for, but the suspension has packed and car won't rise. Would require trailering, and it's a couple of hours away, too. Hm.

[SiC]

Wired in a 3.5mm jack into this SPARKOMATIC radio. Easy little job for anyone to do on any cassette radio. Basically desolder the wires on the magnetic pickup head.

 

Chop a 3.5mm cable. Solder the pickup wires to the cable. Generally red is right, white is left and other colour is ground.

 

Tidy up.

 

Enjoy. Sound quality is awful as the speaker isn't really designed for the wide frequency range of this track. Also way under spec on what should be connected to it. Better speakers should sound a lot better. Gives you an idea though.

[Video]

Fiddling with the tone control and the input source volume did help reduce some of the distortion.

 

At least it gives an authentic sound quality of the 70s/80s!

 

Just need to finish the car now!

[stuboy]

Yes it does . 

 

Stuperb !

touch of sarcasm there ?

[taxi paul]

Top work. You have lots of snazzy stuff. My way of testing it would have been to balance it on the wing of car. Put wires to battery. Try and turn it on and then knock it off wing onto floor. good work all round.

[Squire_Dawson]

Stuperb !

 

lolz. One for the AS Lexicon that.

[SiC]

Top work. You have lots of snazzy stuff. My way of testing it would have been to balance it on the wing of car. Put wires to battery. Try and turn it on and then knock it off wing onto floor. good work all round.

Tools of the trade!

[dozeydustman]

House move all going well thankfully. Just furniture to take over there tomorrow.

 

Can’t wait to be out of this cold creaky house

[Christine]

touch of sarcasm there ?

No ...like i said before, it's really groovy man

[SiC]

In other news, 100 quid gets you this nowadays.

 

2 light bulbs. Naturally being Audi they use a newish size that are bloody expensive. That's a good price for a pair too, most retailers want double that for them. Got them from Amazon and they go up + down like a yo-yo in price, so been waiting to catch them at the low point.

 

I can't complain though as these have done 179k miles and nearly 9 years. They still work but are noticeably dimmer than many other cars. You can not own an Audi and not have Retina Burners on the front, right?!

 

Fitting them required gouging the eyes off the car.

 

Looks worse than it is. 4 bolts to remove the light, undo connector and the whole thing slides off. Way better than cutting your hand to pieces trying to get to the back of them while the clusters are still fitted - like most cars.

 

Once out, twist off cap.

 

Unplug connector and twist out bulb. Reverse to complete.

 

Old bulb (left) Vs new bulb (right).

 

Old.

 

New

 

Old bulb had all this crap built up on the back of the envelope.

 

I'm curious to see the difference at night now. Was tempted to only do one bulb to see if it was significantly noticeable. Suspect it is, but would help justify that £100 pricetag.