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[Angrydicky]

Wish I'd gone to Fressingfield now Nigel. I honestly thought it would be virtually all sports and racing cars so didn't bother!

[Spottedlaurel]

3 hours ago, Angrydicky said:

Wish I'd gone to Fressingfield now Nigel. I honestly thought it would be virtually all sports and racing cars so didn't bother!

There was enough there to keep us occupied for the middle part of the day. They were relaxed about people coming and going whenever, so we didn't have to commit to the whole thing.

Perhaps we should try and organise something for a few of us next year?

[quicksilver]

On 5/31/2019 at 9:10 PM, vulgalour said:

 a French car with too many things in the way of the thing you're trying to fix.

Never a truer word. The way this thing is going the correct instruction in the HBOL should be "remove car from engine". Literally everything is attached to everything else by inaccessible fasteners.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Saturday samples from Coombe Park, Coventry:

[Broadsword]

What is it with people deliberately bidding on cars out of sheer malice with no intention to buy? I got one bid on the XJS and within 5 mins of the auction ending the guy says he never had any intention to buy the car. Strange business.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Broadsword said:

What is it with people deliberately bidding on cars out of sheer malice with no intention to buy? I got one bid on the XJS and within 5 mins of the auction ending the guy says he never had any intention to buy the car. Strange business.

He will if you sue him. After all, auction rules, etc.

[vulgalour]

Yeah, good luck with that.  Ebay don't give a fig about the sellers, only the buyers.

[robinmasters]

Electric fluid transfer pumps. Dem de shit. Always thought this was some sort of cheat/shortcut/bodge. You just pump the old oil into empty pop bottles. AMAZING. 

[adw1977]

On 6/2/2019 at 9:25 AM, Spottedlaurel said:

I think the owner of this lovely Cavalier is/was a member here too

Cavboy80 owns that two door Cavalier.  He hasn't visited the forum since December, but there's no change of keeper recently so he presumably still owns it. 

[richardmorris]

I’m now at my parents after leaving coombe this morning..

cold and wet last night, so an impromptu make a curry for fifty people in the marquee took place. Much drink was drunk.

Now I’ve transferred half of what was in the 2cv into the x1/9 to drive home tomorrow. And the exhaust now has a rattle at idle, but not at speed.

[Bucketeer]

I had an interesting day yesterday. I went to a nearby workshop to drop off a car for six_cylinder, and ended up driving their Iveco flatbed up to North Lincolnshire to collect a doom blue Zafira which is needed to be destroyed on film today.

This is the last image Billy sees in his dreams before he wakes up in a cold sweat, shaking uncontrollably.

For all the Iveco naysayers, this one was fine. Apart from an orange engine light. And a flashing red one. And kangarooing down the road for ten minutes after starting before the engine decided to stop spluttering and behave. And apart from needing to solve three riddles before a troll would grant you access to second gear. And rattling and shaking in the cab like two skeletons wanking a biscuit tin and a filing cabinet, inside a cement mixer. Or something.

Other than that, it was ace.

[beko1987]

Not the same doom blue zafira recently sold by Ruffgeezer was it?

Bet Chris wondered where the heck you'd got to, the fastest I've ever done MK to Lincolnshire is an hur and 10 minutes... (although the A1 isn't 50mph anymore by the A14 so that could be beaten now, just not in my current car...)

[Bucketeer]

25 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Not the same doom blue zafira recently sold by Ruffgeezer was it?

Bet Chris wondered where the heck you'd got to, the fastest I've ever done MK to Lincolnshire is an hur and 10 minutes... (although the A1 isn't 50mph anymore by the A14 so that could be beaten now, just not in my current car...)

It wasn't Tim's, it was from a garage up somewhere in Skattrdland. It was three and a half hours each way.

[barefoot]

My neighbour, the mysterious Dr Torque appears to have got rid of the 03 plate Toyota Corolla he's been using as a shed.

It was collected on a flat bed truck early this morning.

Early?

The idling of the big diesel truck woke me up at 01:30 - FFS

Wasn't one of you lot was it?

 

[anonymous user]

19 minutes ago, barefoot said:

My neighbour, the mysterious Dr Torque 

 

Is he a Bond villain, does he have a white cat and secret lair?

[wuvvum]

Well my expert* repair to the Lancia's fuel filler pipe using an empty energy drink can, some imitation Tiger Seal (still £7.49 a cartridge mind) and a couple of Jubilee clips supplemented by cable ties appears to have worked.  Obvs it's not a long term solution (I doubt it'd pass an MOT like that for one thing) but I've just tipped a jerrycan of petrol in without any of it pissing out, so the old crate is mobile again, at least temporarily.

[barefoot]

12 hours ago, anonymous user said:

Is he a Bond villain, does he have a white cat and secret lair?

Yes

[andy18s]

22 hours ago, barefoot said:

My neighbour, the mysterious Dr Torque appears to have got rid of the 03 plate Toyota Corolla he's been using as a shed.

It was collected on a flat bed truck early this morning.

Early?

The idling of the big diesel truck woke me up at 01:30 - FFS

Wasn't one of you lot was it?

 

Are you sure he knows it's gone?

[Shep Shepherd]

I put the contents of this can into The Aero's A/C system today, as although the system was still working, it hadn't been regassed since just before I bought the car in 2016 and I was convinced it could have been a lot colder than it was: 

Here's the result:

A pretty good result for £20 and ten minutes' work 

[Jazoli]

Amazon special? I've bought a couple since the Halfords ones went to 60 quid!

[Shep Shepherd]

12 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Amazon special? I've bought a couple since the Halfords ones went to 60 quid!

eBay.  Slightly cheaper than Amazon:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Aircon-Air-Con-Air-Conditioning-Top-Up-Recharge-Refill-Regas-DIY-Gas-Can/233216262626

I had the application hose/pressure gauge already, so all I had to do was pay for the can 

 

[wuvvum]

How much are the adapters on top?  I have a couple of cars in the fleet that "need a regas m8".

[Shep Shepherd]

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

How much are the adapters on top?  I have a couple of cars in the fleet that "need a regas m8".

Less than £15 on Amazon

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Shep Shepherd said:

I put the contents of this can into The Aero's A/C system today, as although the system was still working, it hadn't been regassed since just before I bought the car in 2016 and I was convinced it could have been a lot colder than it was: 

Here's the result:

A pretty good result for £20 and ten minutes' work 

Useful to know. The diesel Borat's A/C system hasn't been refilled/regassed since 2008.

[shoddybanger]

On 5/21/2019 at 3:04 PM, shoddybanger said:

I have reflected on life and Trajet during past two hours and have perhaps drawn conclusions. So there is new news.

I ringed the person selling the 390 euro example. It has apparently only done 200k km, but has bad lacquer peel on bonnet and failed its latest MOT for a rusty front suspension arm. Should be reasonably ok otherwise.

A suspension arm swap sounds not too bad, but we shall see.. it might turn into a "no probs just swap the whole chassis m8", so I plan to go take a look at it in the upcoming days.

The above happened a few weeks ago. Well, I went to have a gander, and the seller had apparently "remembered wrong". Car in fact had a rotted out frame member instead of a rusty suspension arm, so yeah.. "swap the whole chassis m8".

...and judging by the amount of filler and bodgery on the sills and arches, "swap the whole body while you're at it m8" was not too far fetched either. To the credit of the seller, the lacquer peel on the bonnet was bad, just like he said it would be.

So that was a waste of time. I suddenly felt that our Trajet is in fact in very reasonable shape!

[Cavcraft]

12 months test acquired on the Galaxy this morning, what's the best way to celebrate that, then?

 

[beko1987]

That veg oils bought the paint up a treat! 

[stuboy]

Sad i know.. but finally sourced a pair of strut top covers, sort of tidy up the engine bay, little please little minds...lol

[lanciamatt]

Regarding A/C systems, if your car has got the old R12 system and it doesn't work you can buy adapters that screw onto the R12 system charge points that allow R134a gas to be put in. I've done this on my thema about 2 years ago and it's still ice cold. 

[clayts450]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

Sad i know.. but finally sourced a pair of strut top covers, sort of tidy up the engine bay, little please little minds...lol

Disappoint as not pink. Or shaped like a cock n balls