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[SierraMikeHotel]

Could be worse, when I was 16 I helped a mate with a very second hand DT50, a previous owner had rewired it. Sadly he only had brown wire. That was sooooooo much fun to sort.

I've owned old Citroëns.

[BeEP]

5 hours ago, EssDeeWon said:

Rover passed the MOT this morning not even an advisory this year !! 

I did ask about the slight oil leak, the tester said it was a little damp and ‘weepy’ under there but nothing drastic and not dripping so nothing for him to be concerned about. 

Seeing this made me realise I haven't posted a photo of the latest resident here.  2.0v6 manual in Club SE spec (I think) recently bought by a friend, the paint is very faded (yes it really is primrose!).

[EssDeeWon]

Superb.  Yes the primrose paint does fade badly, my horizontal panels i,e, bonnet and boot have faded but it looks better /  brighter on a sunny day or in good light. And T cut doesn't work as I tried that.

[BorniteIdentity]

19 hours ago, RobT said:

I do hope he'll be happy with it though, as he's a trusted shiter.  In other circumstances I would keep it, as it's rather lovely and the sort of car I would spend ages looking for (if I was a Clio perv).

Gutted to have missed this. I had an identical Mk1 Clio back in 2005.

Hopefully it’s BramBram who’s bought it and it’ll be up for sale for £87 by the end of the bonk holiday weekend.

 

 

EDIT: It’s an auto. 

Absolutely never. Ever. Not even if it was driven by Nicole herself, sans underwear. 

[BorniteIdentity]

14 minutes ago, BeEP said:

Seeing this made me realise I haven't posted a photo of the latest resident here.  2.0v6 manual in Club SE spec (I think) recently bought by a friend, the paint is very faded (yes it really is primrose!).

Did they do those Union wheels at launch? I thought they came later on the Longbridge cars.

Either way, the launch colours are the best!

[BeEP]

1 minute ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Did they do those Union wheels at launch? I thought they came later on the Longbridge cars.

Either way, the launch colours are the best!

I'm sure EssDeeWon will give you the definitive answer, but like you I think they only came on later cars so I assume the previous owner fitted them because he liked them.

[Cavcraft]

Good...

 

 

Not so good...

 

 

That's 1.5 miles before it 'did a Jag' ?

[angle]

1 hour ago, Tamworthbay said:

Could be worse, when I was 16 I helped a mate with a very second hand DT50, a previous owner had rewired it. Sadly he only had brown wire. That was sooooooo much fun to sort.

I was about to say, the last electrical thing I did was to change a two gang light switch on the hallway. The wires were red, red, red, red, red, red and red. 

(admittedly they still are) 

[xtriple]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLACK-Leather-Dye-Colour-Restorer-MERCEDES-Leather-Car-Seats-Interiors-Repairs/152763174952?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

That's the leather balm I used, good stuff.

Not impressed with the Jag above, looks a lot like my old one but I sold that months ago!  

[Cavcraft]

Redeemed itself, suspect duff battery

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

Fuck it I'd be happy just to sit in that!

[xtriple]

Entirely my fault. It's been sat around for about a month and the mmobiliser and the stereo do drain the battery. The usual way of telling it's got a low battery, i.e. slow churning when going for a start don't happen with it as it has a 'high torque stater motor' and they work right down to a point a normal starter would have just whimpered. It started fine yesterday and this morning but I really should have thought about it. So sorry Billy (Sir William) spoilt your frst nights fun.

 

[Cavcraft]

You do not owe me an apology, I owe you one for the incredibly levels of FUCKABOUTERY this whole episode has caused. There'll be more  (tales) of that this weekend at some point.

[strangeangel]

Managed to successfully interview for a promotion today... the downside is that I'll lose the current idyllic location that I work from, but my existing secondment would have finished at the end of September anyway.

 

All things considered, it's a result 

[BL Bloke]

I've bought a car with a yellow gear knob!

DSCF0641 by timothy jones, on Flickr

[egg]

top bombing! £200 was it?

[EssDeeWon]

2 hours ago, BeEP said:

I'm sure EssDeeWon will give you the definitive answer, but like you I think they only came on later cars so I assume the previous owner fitted them because he liked them.

16" Unions available from launch, they were an option in my original 75 brochures that I sadly no longer have.  They will be the original wheels on that primrose club se.

[Steve79]

1 hour ago, BL Bloke said:

I've bought a car with a yellow gear knob!

DSCF0641 by timothy jones, on Flickr

Saxo Forte

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 hours ago, EssDeeWon said:

Coorrr who's is the SD?  ...

'tis just one of a 30-car collection owned by one man. The engine bay is so clean you could eat breakfast, lunch and dinner off it.

[bramz7]

3 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Gutted to have missed this. I had an identical Mk1 Clio back in 2005.

Hopefully it’s BramBram who’s bought it and it’ll be up for sale for £87 by the end of the bonk holiday weekend.

 

 

EDIT: It’s an auto. 

Absolutely never. Ever. Not even if it was driven by Nicole herself, sans underwear. 

Nah I'm quickly buying up German RWD stuff off of here at the moment. 

 

Nice Clio though. Especially with the early seats. 

[BL Bloke]

56 minutes ago, egg said:

top bombing! £200 was it?

Yes, not bad for a car with 7 months Mot.

[BL Bloke]

29 minutes ago, Steve79 said:

Saxo Forte

It is a Saxo, but an East Coast.

[MorrisItalSLX]

How fucked does the Autoshite consensus think this is?

But keep in mind that it has a graphic equaliser and Japanese plastic wood.

[Tickman]

11 hours ago, angle said:

I was about to say, the last electrical thing I did was to change a two gang light switch on the hallway. The wires were red, red, red, red, red, red and red. 

(admittedly they still are) 

Glad they are still all red as they are all live (at some point) when switched so should be red.

 

*Hope there is an earth in there somewhere

[SiC]

Red is the colour you go if you touch it when it's on. Brown is the colour your trousers go if you touch it when it's on. 

Can't forget which is which now you have that in your mind!

[Datsuncog]

12 hours ago, angle said:

I was about to say, the last electrical thing I did was to change a two gang light switch on the hallway. The wires were red, red, red, red, red, red and red. 

(admittedly they still are) 

I tried replacing a broken ceiling pendant in the hallway in my old flat in Hove, and had a similar experience when every damn wire (and there were quite a few of them) was red...

Of course, the terminals on the new light fitting were in a different layout to the old one, so it wasn't a simple matter of just swapping them over.

I thought I'd managed to do an ok job, but when I finished up, switched the power back on and flipped the hall light switch... every damn light in the house came on, really dim, and slightly pulsating... took a bit of trial and error before I finally got them to do what they were meant to do.

These days, I tend to leave certain jobs to electricians...

[Timewaster]

11 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

I've bought a car with a yellow gear knob!

DSCF0641 by timothy jones, on Flickr

Multicoloured seat belts too?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

For EssDeeWon:

 

[dozeydustman]

15 hours ago, Tamworthbay said:

Could be worse, when I was 16 I helped a mate with a very second hand DT50, a previous owner had rewired it. Sadly he only had brown wire. That was sooooooo much fun to sort.

I helped a fitter at my old firm when my lorry's wiring loom had a short. The wiring in a Geesink Vulture refuse body are all red feeds and all black returns with alphanumeric codes printed on them in the smallest writing possible.

[wuvvum]

12 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

I've bought a car with a yellow gear knob!

DSCF0641 by timothy jones, on Flickr

Glad this got saved, looked like a proper barg.