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[richardmorris]

mo

[richardmorris]

mo has a challenger.

[320touring]

Driverless Corr

[SiC]

1 hour ago, 320touring said:

Driverless Corr

Sounds about right if it's driverless ... it's driving on the wrong side of the road!

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

mo has a challenger.

Ooh.  DB6 on wires or Topolino wagon with a flat tyre.  Tough one that...

[dieselnutjob]

21 hours ago, Pete-M said:

No. That post was from 2011. 

My old 604 was for sale again not long ago. 

I have no idea how I came to read an eight year old post.

[egg]

Ford Mondeo, all the car you'll ever need, the car you always promised yourself, whatever, I love it...

[iainrcz]

Fashion news : today I tried on some tan brogues.

 

And no, before anyone gets excited : I won't be getting any tattoos, wearing tight fitting tweed suits or using beard conditioner.

 

In unrelated, Japanese car news. It now has a Milltek exhaust.

 

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[stuboy]

2 hours ago, egg said:

Ford Mondeo, all the car you'll ever need, the car you always promised yourself, whatever, I love it...

wheres this pub, looks familar?

[egg]

Charing Heath, Stu.

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Ooh.  DB6 on wires or Topolino wagon with a flat tyre.  Tough one that...

Oddly that fiat is the only car I’ve seen mistreated, by being pushed and dragged with a flat. Of the lot seen today I think I’d have to choose the Ferrari coupe.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

CX going to local French car workshop Wednesday morning to have dead alternator replaced. First question from workshop boss: "It's an automatic, isn't it?" followed by a distinct groan, followed by him launching into tales of woe about what happens when a mounting bolt - the reverse mounted one - is found to have seized. Going to cost at least 200 quid in labour, as I'm supplying the new alternator.

The man has a BX 14 St. Tropez in at the moment for something or other. He says it brings back memories of when he was doing his training on BX and CX: "....they haven't got any easier with age....", etc.

[richardmorris]

I was telling sixcylinder I think it was, of a church friend of my parents ( in fact she and their son was the previous owner of my 2cv). Anyway, they were coming back from a French holiday in their cx 25gti when there was a bang, flash and smoke from the engine. Car was running fine though, apart from all the warning lights being lit, and so they pulled over on the autoroute, and a quick inspection found a mounting bracket for the alternator he said had sheered off and cut through part of the main loom.  Got back to the ferry without turning the engine off, including refuelling!

[richardmorris]

The car was a year old at the time too! It replaced a very early P reg CX I remember riding in.

[reb]

I think the panel gaps I have achieved are pretty good.

For the entire front end being held on with 3.5 zipties that is.

[Split_Pin]

Found out tonight that my Audi 80 Cabriolet doesn't have a brake servo, instead having an accumulator sphere driven off the PAS pump, filled with LHM. You can just make out the line running up from it to the ABS pump.

It's a bit tired and losing pressure a touch when left parked up for a few days or more

Such an unconventional system in a car like this.

[richardmorris]

I never knew audi used Citroen tech,

[Tadhg Tiogar]

14 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I never knew audi used Citroen tech,

Must have been good.

[Semi-C]

It can only mean one thing.

(P.S. The Ferrero Rocher isn’t a subtle hint at an Ambassador collection)

[GrumpiusMaximus]

10 hours ago, egg said:

Charing Heath, Stu.

Until last June, I lived two minutes from that pub.  I never saw anybody much there, so well found...!

[wuvvum]

10 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I was telling sixcylinder I think it was, of a church friend of my parents ( in fact she and their son was the previous owner of my 2cv). Anyway, they were coming back from a French holiday in their cx 25gti when there was a bang, flash and smoke from the engine. Car was running fine though, apart from all the warning lights being lit, and so they pulled over on the autoroute, and a quick inspection found a mounting bracket for the alternator he said had sheered off and cut through part of the main loom.  Got back to the ferry without turning the engine off, including refuelling!

Maybe Junkman was right after all - maybe CXs really are murderous bastards, and I've just been lucky with mine.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Semi-C said:

It can only mean one thing.

(P.S. The Ferrero Rocher isn’t a subtle hint at an Ambassador collection)

For a minute there I thought that was mould on your plate.

[320touring]

2 hours ago, Semi-C said:

It can only mean one thing.

(P.S. The Ferrero Rocher isn’t a subtle hint at an Ambassador collection)

Anything anywhere as cool as your 'tinas?

Or another Applause?

[HMC]

Italian Tin foil? Breadvan? 

Alfa Romeo F12?

 

[Semi-C]

2 hours ago, 320touring said:

Anything anywhere as cool as your 'tinas?

Or another Applause?

I think it’s fairly trick and there is a tedious link to the manufacturers of aforementioned Cortinas.

2 hours ago, HMC said:

Italian Tin foil? Breadvan? 

Alfa Romeo F12?

 

The only thing italian about it is the colour and hopefully not the electricity retention tendencies.

 

Currantly (mouldy bun reference) facing the opposite way to my direction of travel whilst passing through:

[wuvvum]

I hate facing backwards on trains.

[320touring]

32 minutes ago, Semi-C said:

I think it’s fairly trick and there is a tedious link to the manufacturers of aforementioned Cortinas.

The only thing italian about it is the colour and hopefully not the electricity retention tendencies.

 

Currantly (mouldy bun reference) facing the opposite way to my direction of travel whilst passing through:

Better not be a Hyundai..

[RayMK]

2 minutes ago, 320touring said:

Better not be a Hyundai..

I also wondered whether it might be.   There's an ebay seller who put one up at an optimistic price but had 0 bids.  Reducing it by £100 this week has had the same level of response.   

[anonymous user]

I reckon the clue is the hot cross bun, the cross is a stand in for the Saltire, which means the SVM, therefore collection of a Volvo, in gold to match the chocolate wrapper

[RayMK]

Yesterday I was under the Tipo investigating why the exhaust note had become uncharacteristically sporty.  Needless to say, the exhaust is several weeks out of its 2 year warranty and the flex-joint has failed.  A Nescafe Americano (decaff) tin, some aluminium foil tape and two jubilee clips are now on duty until a replacement arrives.  Fortunately, a new downpipe with integral flex-joint and fitting kit is only £45.  Whilst the front of the car was on ramps I was pleased to see that the floor pan looks solid enough, though I was not bold enough to poke it - it is Italian, after all.