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[cort1977]

1 hour ago, lanciamatt said:

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. 

Interesting to know, I have heard that all kinds of nuns and kittens will die if you ever mix gasses. 

[richardmorris]

I’ve just registered the x1/9 for the Capel car show in August. Is anyone else thinking of going?

[stuboy]

53 minutes ago, clayts450 said:

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

just for you

[MarvinsMom]

got our tickets to go to the Grange over Sands car show in August.

got 2 entrance pass things cos i said i'd take either Rodney Mini, or something else.

i cannot remember what the something else is/was.

oops....................

[New POD]

49 minutes ago, stuboy said:

just for you

Southport pier.  I see the tides IN again.

[gm]

do you have a cousin in the north ? 

 

 

 

a couple saw me taking photos and laughed, I laughed too until I realised that they thought it was my car !

[gm]

it was in the same car park as that fooking awful jag a few weeks ago

[SiC]

1 hour ago, cort1977 said:

Interesting to know, I have heard that all kinds of nuns and kittens will die if you ever mix gasses. 

I believe it's the different oils that are used with the different gasses that can be the problem. 

[gm]

I'm casually browsing houses for sale, look at this throbber's garden ornament !

 

 

[SiC]

I'm more impressed that you can get a house with a garden and garage for under 160k!

[gm]

the rest of the house looks ok but I had a drive round the area recently and a few streets away it gets a bit rough - broken domestic appliances dumped in poorly kept gardens types of places, I'll keep looking 

[gm]

you do get a lot for your money up here though

3 bed, garden, garage, £135k

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-81960638.html

I may book a viewing tomorrow

[Lord Sterling]

14 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

Not sad to me. Did the same for Mum and Sis_Sterling's Micras. Seemingly some of them came with strut-top covers and some didn't.

[egg]

Nice article in the old Torygraph about a Ford Consul, readable if you have a login.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/classic/uks-rarest-cars-1975-ford-consul-2000l-one-12-left-british-roads/

The Telegraph to my mind has always provided the best motoring coverage of any UK broadsheet.

 

[cort16]

the guy at the garage next to me has picked uo

a mint 70,000 k reg base 190e as it failed it’s mot on some welding and some other bits and bobs. He was asking me what I thought it was worth motd. You don’t see many low mileage ones so I recon £2500?

if anyone fancies a nice one let me know . The interior is like new!

 

[Anthony]

The man from the Ministry says yes to another 12 months ticket

That's three clean 1st time passes in a row now - none too shabby for an French tin can that's nearing 30 years old  

[busmansholiday]

17 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Interesting to know, I have heard that all kinds of nuns and kittens will die if you ever mix gasses. 

I believe lanciamatt doesn't live that far from me which may* explain why I haven't seen many nuns or kittens in recent years.

[lanciamatt]

Was thinking today, I bet the mot is due soon on the thema td, I checked and it run out 4 days ago. So booked in tomorrow morning, hopefully will pass 

[stuboy]

53 minutes ago, lanciamatt said:

Was thinking today, I bet the mot is due soon on the thema td, I checked and it run out 4 days ago. So booked in tomorrow morning, hopefully will pass 

ooopsy

[mitsisigma01]

On 6/6/2019 at 9:01 PM, richardmorris said:

I’ve just registered the x1/9 for the Capel car show in August. Is anyone else thinking of going?

Which Capel be that, Surrey? 

[tommotech]

Would really like to have done Shitefest this year but have commitments this weekend. However, this afternoon has been spent fitting new front springs to my daily Audi A4 - front RH had broken. I also fitted new top mounts, all genuine parts from TPS. 

Front suspension is now much quieter (previous to the broken spring there were a few noises on rough roads) and ride is nice, rear springs were replaced earlier this year. Next jobs are front discs and pads along with brake fluid change. 

[richardmorris]

21 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Which Capel be that, Surrey? 

Yes...

https://www.capelcarshow.com/

[Amishtat]

So it seems our house is sold stc.. Looks like I need to sell some cars 

[mitsisigma01]

Just a few miles up the road from me, been a couple of times, just used the link to the website, sounds like its getting busy up there with over 700 cars last year. Whereabouts are you travelling from?  I used to get the use of an X1-9 and a Jag xj12 and a Marina van where I used to work back in 84 until the passenger in the van pushed and pulled the steering wheel taking us into a small oak tree doing 60mph, luckily hit it dead centre pushing engine and gearbox back into the cabin and snapping my left femur and nearly out of my butt cheek!  The van headlights were wrapped round the tree nearly touching each other!  Sad to say it was a write off as was I nearly with my head trapped in the top of the windscreen between the roof and steering wheel after the old style seat belt snapped! Oh happy days! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Might take the CX for a run to nowhere in particular.

[lanciamatt]

Thama was in for mot this morning, a clean pass, very happy about that. I got the car last May after it had been off the road 11 years, service done, new cambelt, changed tyres and that's all it needed for mot. I've used it pretty much every day for 12 months as work car. It's not missed a beat (touch wood). Not the quickest thing but OK work commute to Doncaster, and it's good on juice. 

[reb]

Another veggie cold start this morning, and it was actually cold unlike yesterday's midday 14°! It was less funny this time, took even more cranking and it didn't sound at all happy with me. Fired along to the next village to get some pez to thin it out (but also for cleaning bits of HDI) then went for a little bit of a rag around the back roads to slosh it around in a vague effort to mix it properly. Once it's nice and hot it runs perfectly on veg, so it's good clean fun if the "carbon neutral" argument is true...

[Lacquer Peel]

Was that in the 850 reb?

 

 

 

 

[dozeydustman]

My brother's good lady has managed to rescue a number of Haynes and other workshop manuals from her local community facebook page, and will be in my possession next time I pop up to Gravesend or my family come here to visit. I have promised the lady giving them away they will go to good homes. All I know is they are "old" and suitable for most rammel on here.

[320touring]

Dug this out from under a tree after 8 weeks, and slung it in for an MOT ..

It only went n passed