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[HMC]

Great result! Rightly or wrongly, maf is my usual “parts darts” go to for a flukey fix

[HMC]

Maf lexicon

out of spec = FUCKED MATE

[SiC]

Haven't seen that down here for kin ages

It's not been it for a while, but it is that price around Bristol at the moment.

[Amishtat]

At a car show in the next village to me, some nice stuff here too. The third picture though.. What an absolute fucking piece of shit. JFSI. 

Edited June 16, 2019 by Amishtat

[hairnet]

why would you take a modern to a car show with bits missing ffs

verdict - belm

[SiC]

Just now, hairnet said:

why would you take a modern to a car show with bits missing ffs

verdict - belm

It's a Golf with go faster bumpers on. The bits were probably nicked there. 

[HMC]

Love the NADA spec p6- I remember a practical classics feature on a resto of one in the 90s - that particular one had a glass roof(!)

[00833827]

On 6/11/2019 at 4:12 PM, 00833827 said:

all back together, gonna fill with water before coolant to see if any leaks. also thinking of a dishwasher tablet or two in there to clear out all the remaining junk - i have read great things on here about it

Got the Carina out for a spin this morning after the waterpump and belt change. Wanted to see the temperature was being controlled ok so up the hills i went. Lots of 2nd and 3rd gear climbing and waiting for the temp guage to go up to the top but she held centre. Fan came on too and hoses and rad getting hot so seems to be all good. Hot air coming into cabin so seems to be all boxes ticked. Happy that i was able to complete such a job as tb and wp as its one i always wanted to tackle.

[hairnet]

19 minutes ago, 00833827 said:

Got the Carina out for a spin this morning 

 

the vee?

[00833827]

Just now, hairnet said:

the vee?

No thats the layby up near Powers the Pot above Clonmel.

[richardmorris]

21 hours ago, brownnova said:

Took the 2CV to the zoo today. 

As an exhibit?

chester presumably? 

[richardmorris]

Just written a  moan about an idiot audi q driver this morning and decided even I couldn’t be bothered about it. On the plus side, locally sourced lamb for dinner. Stupidly. Locally sourced in Waitrose Bagshot all the way from New Zealand when the real thing is 100m away.

 

[brownnova]

51 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

As an exhibit?

chester presumably? 

Just on a jolly! Yes Chester, always worth a visit!

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, brownnova said:

Just on a jolly! Yes Chester, always worth a visit!

As a 6month old I was taken for walks in a pushchair through the middle on the public footpath- parents lived in Upton before moving to wrexham.

My dad plays tennis with one of the zoo’s directors, so if you’ve any complaints......

[dozeydustman]

9 hours ago, SiC said:

That's the standard supermarket price of petrol down here in the expensive South....

Most around Chichester are 131.9 petrol 133.9 diesel......

Sainsbury's is 127.9 for both

[MarvinsMom]

we has been to The Yorkshire Farming Museum's classic car show, it is the same day as the big one at Castle Howard, and the Modified Car Show at Scampston Hall.

we MUCH prefer going to Murton Park, its a small, intimate kinda show, plus there is the Derwent Valley Light Railway there, so it is possible to have a ride on a train.

and we don't have to look at Barried up Corsa's, or pay £12 each for the privilege of showing our car...... We were dead lucky with the weather too, we had got back to the lock-ups and got the the cars away before we got caught in the rain. it was only a short shower, but the was heavy!

these are some of the vehicles we have seen today.

 

 

[Skizzer]

Erm, I appear to have bought yet another slightly scabby old car.  

It’s brown with a brown interior - but it’s not Kiltox’s X5 (sorry blud).

Collection capers to follow soon, just waiting to hear back from the seller re logistics.

[HMC]

Based on colour combo presume it’s 70s- any more clues?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

.... locally sourced lamb for dinner. Stupidly. Locally sourced in Waitrose Bagshot all the way from New Zealand when the real thing is 100m away.

 

...but ye'd have to have the 100m version poached.

[Skizzer]

37 minutes ago, HMC said:

Based on colour combo presume it’s 70s- any more clues?

80s actually - it's a 1983 on an A prefix.  It will make up a dandy Giant Test trio with my Audi 80 2.0E and Honda Accord Aerodeck; it predates them both by half a model cycle, but they did overlap.

[Brodders]

I am guessing it is an executive vehicle made by a mainstream manufacturer. Going with my gut, I would say Vauxhall Carlton, however I cannot help getting visions of something French and brown.

Is it a Peugeot 604?

[HMC]

Bmw e23 7 series 

[17-Coffees]

Slapping the wheels from my old Civic Aerodeck onto the Basket has helped tenfold! Helps they are all the same tyre(Falken ZE914’s if memory serves) and balanced. 

It’s transformed it handling wise and I’d even say has helped with the scuttle shake. I’d been feeling a bit meh on the car of late but this has restored hope in it.  

Now a set of lowering springs(nothing silly) and a strut brace are a bit too tempting...

[Amishtat]

Had a drive in this earlier, first time the poor thing has seen daylight for about 18 months. Also had the P5 running for the first time in a couple of years. 

[HMC]

Love the slightly menacing look of the p5!

[wuvvum]

Not got as much done today as I'd been hoping as it kept bloody raining.  I went out in the Y10 this morning and it was playing up like buggery, popping and farting about and refusing to accelerate.  The fuel light was on, but I ignored it as I'd stuck £10 in the tank since I repaired the filler and only done a couple of miles.  It got worse and worse though and I ended up pulling into a petrol station and sticking another tenner in - that cured it and it went back to being only mildly temperamental as per usual.  It's odd though that sticking £10 in was barely enough to touch the sides, especially with such a small tank - I wonder if whoever siphoned the fuel out went below the "usable" bit of the tank somehow?

I got home and then jump started the Renault 6 to go to Tesco - it usually needs jump starting if it hasn't been used for a while as the mechanical fuel pump takes ages to drag fuel up from the tank, and the ancient battery (the same one that was on the car when I bought it 11 1/2 years ago, and it was far from new then) can't crank it over for that long.  Once it's started it's then fine for the rest of the day.  It's running quite happily and the offside front brake doesn't seem to be sticking as badly as it was, but I think I might have an earthing issue on the nearside rear light cluster as the indicators have started playing up if I brake whilst indicating.  I didn't get a chance to look at that today, so that's a job for next weekend.

Got the CX up on the ramps for a more detailed poke around, which I'd been unable to do up to now because either I've been busy or the weather's been shite.  In terms of rot it's not the worst CX I've had - probably no worse than the blue estate was when I bought that - but it has had some slightly shoddy repairs done on the sills in the past.  Fortunately they're normally hidden by the sill covers so not the end of the world.  It's definitely going to need a bit of patching up under there though.  Also the offside CV boot appears to have lost its retaining clip at the hub end, which is odd - the boot is still in place but it's obviously not tight so it's been chucking a bit of grease out.  I've got a spare clip somewhere, so next weekend I'll repack the CV joint with grease and then attempt to bodge the clip into place (I bloody hate those CV boot clips, but I don't think there's room for a Jubilee clip).  It also has a bit of an LHM leak from somewhere around the accumulator sphere - it is very minor though, it doesn't leave a wet patch on the ground and the LHM level hasn't dropped in the 1200 or so miles I've now done in the car, so I'm going to ignore it for now...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

57 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

.....Got the CX up on the ramps for a more detailed poke around, which I'd been unable to do up to now because either I've been busy or the weather's been shite.  In terms of rot it's not the worst CX I've had - probably no worse than the blue estate was when I bought that - but it has had some slightly shoddy repairs done on the sills in the past.  Fortunately they're normally hidden by the sill covers so not the end of the world.  It's definitely going to need a bit of patching up under there though.  Also the offside CV boot appears to have lost its retaining clip at the hub end, which is odd - the boot is still in place but it's obviously not tight so it's been chucking a bit of grease out.  I've got a spare clip somewhere, so next weekend I'll repack the CV joint with grease and then attempt to bodge the clip into place (I bloody hate those CV boot clips, but I don't think there's room for a Jubilee clip).  It also has a bit of an LHM leak from somewhere around the accumulator sphere - it is very minor though, it doesn't leave a wet patch on the ground and the LHM level hasn't dropped in the 1200 or so miles I've now done in the car, so I'm going to ignore it for now...

No news is good news ?

[DeeJay]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

  Also the offside CV boot appears to have lost its retaining clip at the hub end, which is odd - the boot is still in place but it's obviously not tight so it's been chucking a bit of grease out.  I've got a spare clip somewhere, so next weekend I'll repack the CV joint with grease and then attempt to bodge the clip into place (I bloody hate those CV boot clips, but I don't think there's room for a Jubilee clip).  

Would a couple of cable ties hold it in place? 

[wuvvum]

I've never had a lot of luck with cable ties on the "big" end of the boot.  They normally suffice for the small end though.

[stuboy]

Leads and coil changed..adds 5 bhp