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[mitsisigma01]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

How long can you drive a car with the clutch release bearing whining? It sort of whines and clicks in time as something near it in the drivetrain revolves when you depress the clutch . Hmmm

Just turn the stereo up and pretend it's not happening 

[xtriple]

Last night I bought a 'private plate' from the DVLA. It is for my son (it's his birthday soon) and is his initials and I thought, quite good (Y10 KLT). However, tonight having a chat with said offspring it appears that he hates private plates and calls them by a really derisory (and devisive) name. I didn't mention what I'd done... So it would seem at some point I will be driving a car with my sons initials on it!

Also just bought a pair of air filters and a pollen filter for the Merc, for not much just on the off chance that 'Full Mercedes service history' is as crap as I suspect! To be honest, the car does seem to have been very well looked after and is in sparkling condition but the air con being low of refrigerant (out: 159 gms, in: 760 gms) seems to me that the last long term owners had tired of spending on it and were looking to replace it for a while before they actually did. I might be wrong and go to the effort of getting the filters out and find they are all 'as new', but I doubt it!

[vulgalour]

Release bearing on the Princess was noisy for at least 5 years before I replaced it and that only happened because the clutch failed, I imagine it would have soldiered on for ages.

[Mally]

2 hours ago, clayts450 said:

I also fancy a driving job, but it seems to be a self-employed nightmare, from dodgy 'if your face fits' type multi-drop outfits, to ridiculously early start 'last mile' deliveries. 

One thing's for certain,  I need to be out and about driving, and not working in an office, something I've done all my life.

There's a lot to be said for working in an office all your life.

The grass is always greener, but the pay and conditions in the next field are often much worse.

I meet and talk to a succession of Hermes drivers. They are nice people, but not always happy people.

[reb]

1 hour ago, xtriple said:

Last night I bought a 'private plate' from the DVLA. It is for my son (it's his birthday soon) and is his initials and I thought, quite good (Y10 KLT). However, tonight having a chat with said offspring it appears that he hates private plates and calls them by a really derisory (and devisive) name. I didn't mention what I'd done... So it would seem at some point I will be driving a car with my sons initials on it!

I call them wanker plates, yet own two of them (N321 REB & M321 REB). Maybe I'm just a wanker though.

Shame it's a bit too new to go on one of these

[Fat_Pirate]

Spotted in a museum today, an ex-NASA computer console which I'm reliably informed is now the Autoshite server!  The box on the right uses the latest 1960s valve technology to ensure Cavcraft's photos are comically squashed, no matter what device you view them on.

[mk2_craig]

8 hours ago, xtriple said:

Last night I bought a 'private plate' from the DVLA. It is for my son (it's his birthday soon) and is his initials and I thought, quite good (Y10 KLT). However, tonight having a chat with said offspring it appears that he hates private plates and calls them by a really derisory (and devisive) name. I didn't mention what I'd done... So it would seem at some point I will be driving a car with my sons initials on it!

Also just bought a pair of air filters and a pollen filter for the Merc, for not much just on the off chance that 'Full Mercedes service history' is as crap as I suspect! To be honest, the car does seem to have been very well looked after and is in sparkling condition but the air con being low of refrigerant (out: 159 gms, in: 760 gms) seems to me that the last long term owners had tired of spending on it and were looking to replace it for a while before they actually did. I might be wrong and go to the effort of getting the filters out and find they are all 'as new', but I doubt it!

The other issue with retaining a registration mark ad infinitum is that they’re a liability, either retention certificate fees which I think carry an annual charge? or transfer fees each time you swap it from one vehicle to another. Fine if it’s a combination that increases in value over time, but a lot of these Select marks never do and you often see them still attached to worthless cars when they get to end of life status. Sorry if that doesn’t make you feel better about it! Maybe see if there are any companies with those initials who might be interested...

[Split_Pin]

12 hours ago, HMC said:

How long can you drive a car with the clutch release bearing whining? It sort of whines and clicks in time as something near it in the drivetrain revolves when you depress the clutch . Hmmm

Piece of string question I'm afraid. The RB on my first 75 was pretty whiney but I just turned the radio up. 

Just drive it till it doesn't drive any more and then see to it.

[egg]

Mazda has just disappeared to have it's new radiator fitted today.

[C1am]

15 hours ago, HMC said:

How long can you drive a car with the clutch release bearing whining?

About 500 miles in my experience. It failed at the end of a 250 mile trip. Good car. 

[JohnK]

Supposed to be going to MITCAR in Coventry on Sunday, but @richbraith's Tipo isn't going to be ready. Anybody got anything Italian we can borrow for the trip? Unfortunately I don't think our other option will successfully get us through the gate  

 

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, JohnK said:

Supposed to be going to MITCAR in Coventry on Sunday, but @richbraith's Tipo isn't going to be ready. Anybody got anything Italian we can borrow for the trip? Unfortunately I don't think our other option will successfully get us through the gate  

 

3 Alfas and they are all broken or you would be welcome to borrow one.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

16 hours ago, xtriple said:

Last night I bought a 'private plate' from the DVLA. It is for my son (it's his birthday soon) and is his initials and I thought, quite good (Y10 KLT).....

A plate that sounds like that awful "healthy bacteria" ( but is actually just liquidised sugar) drink Yakult.

So you won't be needing that Puch, then?

[xtriple]

25 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

A plate that sounds like that awful "healthy bacteria" ( but is actually just liquidised sugar) drink Yakult.

So you won't be needing that Puch, then?

Not needing, no. But if it's cheap(ish) I'd still quite like it  

[richardmorris]

Bugatti something or other on middle eastern (could be Dubai or Kuwait I can't read it) plates.

[davehedgehog31]

12 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Bugatti something or other on middle eastern (could be Dubai or Kuwait I can't read it) plates.

That looks like a big mouth eating the back end of a car. 

Fucking hideous, you can't buy taste.

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, davehedgehog31 said:

That looks like a big mouth eating the back end of a car. 

Fucking hideous, you can't buy taste.

Sounds good though - like thunder. 

https://www.hrowen.co.uk/bugatti/chiron/

 

£2.5 million apparently.

[SierraMikeHotel]

Shiny new discs and pads.



Now those rusty calipers look really shit.

[JeeExEll]

BBC news. 'Man fined after driving a car with another car on it's roof'.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-49508070/man-fined-after-driving-car-with-a-car-on-its-roof-in-aberystwyth

Check out the short vid. What's the problem, looks fine to me.

[Datsuncog]

Stop everything, kids...

https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/news/rust-could-be-a-new-source-of-renewable-energy-scientists-say-4528?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily Newsletter

Looks like my last Cortina could have been a perpetual motion machine, with a little bit of tinkering.

That's science, that is.

[JohnK]

2 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

'Man fined after driving a car with another car on it's roof'.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-49508070/man-fined-after-driving-car-with-a-car-on-its-roof-in-aberystwyth

Check out the short vid.

After my Shitefest 2016 success with A-Framing my Cortina with a Lada Samara, I feel the bar has been set to a new height looking at this article. I need to have a plan for Shitefest 2020....

[egg]

Mazda back home, no chance to inspect it - but new rad/coolant, oil and filter and apparently the PAS leak dealt* with.

I'll update the thread in the morning, but sounds good.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Sounds good though - like thunder. 

https://www.hrowen.co.uk/bugatti/chiron/

 

£2.5 million apparently.

A mere bagatelle to a young Gulf Arab. No doubt it's been brought here for "The Season", i.e. driving in a cavalier manner around Kensington & Chelsea to the delight* of local residents and the local Council......

I remember one year that a Lamborghini (think it was either red or orange) was seized, either by the Met, or by RBK&C, for some offence. It was never reclaimed, and was auctioned off. The owner merely went and ordered a replacement....

[Christine]

3 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

That looks like a big mouth eating the back end of a car. 

Fucking hideous, you can't buy taste.

Bugatti Pacman?

[richardmorris]

47 minutes ago, Christine said:

Bugatti Pacman?

Just after this, I was a little busy so no pic, , but did see a silver birch ( what else!) Aston Martin db5, RHD with GB badge but on Swedish? ( S on the plate anyway) number plates. Now that’s what a two million pound car should look like.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Today’s chariot to Devon to pick up a sofa. 

Hire fleet poverty spec but is well put together. Steering incredibly light, underpowered because it’s poverty spec but actually pretty decent otherwise.

[ShiteRider]

Due to life changes that are happening on their own, and others i'd like to happen i'm going to be selling all my chod.

1982 cortina 1.6gl

2000 mk3 reliant robin

1993 mk2 reliant robin

Mk1 golf gti campaign breaker (cat B  so will have to chop up

A transit van full of parts, mainly cortina but other stuff as well.

I'm not having a crisis or anything, just a realisation. Since I got the dog,any free time I have I spend with her, which I enjoy more than fucking about with old shit.

I'll put ads up in the for sale section, if anyone wants to share it with people who my be interested pm for a number/email.

[ShiteRider]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

38 minutes ago, ShiteRider said:

....... Since I got the dog,any free time I have I spend with her, which I enjoy more than fucking about with old shit....

Hang on, so you're getting rid of shit to spend more time with something that can produce shit?

[brownnova]

I was browsing Saab 900 convertibles for sale when I saw this...

Which looks lovely, and may seem unremarkable at first until you look at one of my 9000s number plates... 

Now need to resist some serious temptation!