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[dollywobbler]

Or, to reflect the modern times we live in, what about Bangra...

[cort16]

I've got to admit that it's a bit depressing to see this back in here. I thought those days were over.

 

ohno by cort16, on Flickr

 

Also although the repair on my Saab door is pretty good the paint although shiny is a SHIIIIT match. I blended it into the door okay at the front but when it gets to the back at the B pillar is looks too green. Pish, I can't be arsed doing it again thats for sure.

[treehugger]

spotted this popular near Menston, West Yorkshire. No idea about it's status, or if that's allowed on here, but somebody might be interested. Not visible from road, so don't worry about thieves or banger drivers!

[Lankytim]

Fitted an "unknown" CD autochanger to the Xantia today. It came with a matching "unknown" head unit which I fitted last week and found worked. Unfortunately when removing it from the scrap door car I cut through the head connecting the head unit to the boot mounted changer. A mate at work soldered it all back together but I was pretty dubious whether it would work or not, seeing as it hadn't been used in years and probably didn''t work anyway.

 

After a few hours tonight, removing trim and threading the lead through the dashboard and into the boot I was delighted to find it all worked perfectly. Amazing!

 

Best of all the CD changer ejected a stack of ancient CD's including Meat Loaf and Roxette. All now donated to the inlaws.

[Cavcraft]

My son has found the ideal car, typically it's pissing hundreds of miles away. Oh well, 'best offer' submitted, and if we 'win' it maybe a trip to Devon is on the cards, unless Shipley come up trumps.

[philibusmo]

My son has found the ideal car, typically it's pissing hundreds of miles away. Oh well, 'best offer' submitted, and if we 'win' it maybe a trip to Devon is on the cards, unless Shipley come up trumps.

Let me know if you want me to glance over it or turn up on the sellers door step with a bat if he does not accept your very generous offer, assuming its in a part of Devon close to Tiverton and not in North Tawton, Minehead or one of those other town that aren't that far away but take hours to get to.

[Cavcraft]

Ply Mouth

[philibusmo]

Ply Mouth

Ah the one area of Devon that takes ages to get to because it is bloody miles away.

 

If you do decide to drive down, make sue it's not on a day that Plymouth Argyle are playing Exeter City at home. The town will be grid locked and some-one will try and start a fight with you for "not being from round 'ere".

[Cavcraft]

Lol, cheers.

[Lord Sterling]

Did a slight more fettling on the KV6 today, the tyre that was punctured by a nail has been changed so it now has a good spare. Then I tried to resolder the drivers window switchpack in which I utterly PHAILED at, mind you, its hard to do a precise job standing up trying not get in peoples way blancing the switchpack on cardboard and using equipment I aint familiar with. Fed up with a switchpack that can't be arsed to work I ventured into the loft into my various parts boxes and found a switchpack, plugged in it works marvelously, its nice to have window switches that actually work for once.

 

Next thing I'd like to do is change the bootlid, straighten up the front bumper and get a spare alloy that isn't flaking paint off.

[Junkman]

The big news!

 

Woman who gave birth to a boy in a hospital names him George.

[treehugger]

Woman is now milf?

[philibusmo]

Today new front suspension was fitted to the SD1.

 

It rewarded me by not riding any better at all (although this now shows that it is the rear at fault) and blew a rear light bulb.

 

I have changed the bulb and it will not work. I have checked the new bulb in the other side and that works. I have also put a multi-meter across the bulb holder and it is showing 12volts, just put a bulb in there and no matter what it will not light up.

 

Damn you electrics by Lucas!

[cobblers]

Sounds like a shit earth or generally crummy connection on the high side.

[vulgalour]

Phil, have you tried letting the smoke out of the wiring loom?  That's probably what's stopping the electricity getting to where you need it.

[dollywobbler]

Phil - the correct fancy shockers (Boge Nivomats which I think yours would have had) are available for the SD1's arse end - the downside is they're £700 a pair!

[cms206]

Just spent two-thirds of what the Council Estate cost to buy on service items for it, in preparation for a long weekend's holiday with the better half in about three weeks time.

 

Thought it best to give it a freshen up mechanically as in true Scotoshite 740MASSIV! fashion we're driving to Exeter. I suspect a fortnight in Gran Canaria would've been cheaper than the fuel bill will be.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Thought it best to give it a freshen up mechanically as in true Scotoshite 740MASSIV! fashion we're driving to Exeter. I suspect a fortnight in Gran Canaria would've been cheaper than the fuel bill will be.

 

Yes, but you get to travel in Swedish luxury, rather than in a crowded Ryanair tin can, surrounded by the great unwashed and their screaming progeny.

[dollywobbler]

Today, I mainly spent £140 getting the Merc welded up. Two subframe mountings (both solid, just one face corroded) and a repair to the rear of the LH wheelarch. Now need to get my finger out and fix the rear brakes, then it's back on the market. Seriously pushed for money at the moment, so it really has to go.

[worldofceri]

Last Friday afternoon this happened to the Volvo.

 

 

Mrs_Ceri was driving back from work, when some idiot veered onto the wrong side of the road, swiped our car, then promptly fucked off.  There were a couple of witnesses, but nobody got the offender's reg.

 

I'm pretty pissed off as I like this car and am still pondering what to do.  I could:

 

a.  claim on insurance, get payout or (less likely) car repaired, but get bummed in premiums for the next ten years due to loss of no claims

 

b.  get it fixed at my own expense.

 

c.  break it/sell it/weigh it in and buy something else.

 

d.  do nothing and drive around as is.

 

I've rigged up a wing mirror from the glass of an old Renner 5 mirror I had in the shed (further evidence that all the old shit we hang on to does come in handy sometimes) so it's OK to drive for now.  I R expurt accydent reepare speshulist!

[cort16]

That's a pisser. Will eBay not turn up a course of doors in the right colour?

[CreepingJesus]

Pissing annoying that. I had something similar happen in Kirkcaldy train station car park years ago. It was a shit F-reg Cav, so I left the damage as it was.

If the B-pillar is straight, I'd leave it as is. Or lob on some odd coloured doors from the scrappy.

[vulgalour]

Tidy up any bare metal and loose trim bits and run as is until a set of doors in the correct/any colour becomes available.  Properly shit that it's happened.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Supposedly got a banger racer coming to take away the 760 tomorrow evening

[Cavcraft]

If they don't turn up don't forget to blame Sean!

[M'coli]

Right, got home from work this morning and decided to have a go at getting the 205's head out of the engine bay.

 

State of play as it stood: engine supported on wooden blocks, so top engine mount removed.  Radiator removed, and a scissors jack inserted between bulkhead and the rest of the engine mount and the engine moved forward.  More effing pipes removed, and eventually, the head comes free of the engine bay. 

 

Looks like the HGF was in cylinder #1, judging by the steam-clean.

 

I remembered to take a photo of the link pipe/sieve between the radiator bottom hose and the water pump...

 

[autofive]

i have one of those pipes

 

you want it?

[M'coli]

Yes please, it'll save me having to make one...they're £20-odd ont' eBay!  PM me details, please.

[autofive]

okay

[cort16]

 

 

 

 

I hope you're doing this in lab condition those look like digestive biscuit crumbs down the bore holes