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[Mr_Bo11ox]

wow I bet it made a spectacular banger 

[coalnotdole]

This crossflow powered heap of shit happened to me recently:

 

 

 

 

 

And finally:

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Sigmund's classic* fleet update :

 

The 740 is now MoT'd for another year. After two unsuccessful attempts, I copped out and had the garage change the brake flexis for me. Naturally, by the time they got the car, the WD40&Plusgas&ATF cocktail had done its job and they told me that undoing the unions was piss-easy. Argh !

 

The 'Hairdresser special' is due it's MoT in two weeks, and a preliminary check revealed it needs a rear spring. As I'm too cheap to pay £40 for a pair of new ones, I'll probably buy a crusty £10 pair off ebay. I'll then spend a whole weekend installing them and they will invariably snap on the way to the test.

 

The 760 is on the back burner for now. Current plan it to get it through an MoT and move it on. It's a decent old beast, but it's not much faster than my 740 and does 10mpg less !

 

And the shitty, broken Allegro is safely in the hands of its new custodian. The problem with this is that I now have £300 burning a hole in my pocket, though I am fully* aware that I really, really shouldn't buy another car...

[Wilko220]

Completely differing outcomes from sales of my Maxi and my Renault 14 which I both recently sold!

 

The Maxi is now resplendent after having been stripped of pain and now looks stunning newly painted in Sandglow. He has done a great job with it.

 

The 14 has unfortunately ended its days being Banger Raced. Lankytim has sent me a video of it with several other "classics" including a Maxi (which also saddens me). I know it was very rotten but it still saddens me that it has met its end this way. The person I sold it to has stripped the lights and badges and part ex'd (presumably with the racer) for an Allegro. Unfortunately the car had several new parts including two shock absorbers, brake caliper, wheel cylinder, which will probably be lost for ever if it gets weighed in!

 

Such extremes of joy and misery in one post! Sorry to hear about the 14 - must be very disappointing.

[theorganist]

Yes it is sad. I partly blame myself, if I hadn't been so lazy and undersealed it two years ago it may have been a different story!

 

It was rotten I was quoted nearly £1000 by two separate places for welding so it was obviously a big job!

[theorganist]

Yes it is sad. I partly blame myself, if I hadn't been so lazy and undersealed it two years ago it may have been a different story!

 

It was rotten I was quoted nearly £1000 by two separate places for welding so it was obviously a big job!

[Junkman]

Neighbor's 51-plate Rover 25 just suffered OMGHGF. Bridgage is imminent I'm afraid.

[dollywobbler]

Two pieces of copper pipe later at the Golf's heater is working again. Apparently, the heater bypass valve was fitted so that if the heater matrix fails, it won't dump hot coolant all over the passenger. Sorry wife. I've put you in the firing line! There are no signs of any leakage. 

 

Quick blat around the block to check all's well and I'm reminded why I like that car. It seems I'm running short of vehicles suitable for long distance work. Will see how the Disco fares in a few weeks...

[wuvvum]

In today's news:

 

1) I am a forgetful twat.

 

2) The fine for driving a car with an expired MoT has now gone up to £100.

[dollywobbler]

Oh, forgot to mention. Buy the Sept 2013 issue of C&SC (or borrow a copy in the WH Smith library) and see if you can spot the venue for Shitefest '12! I'm also quite pleased to have got my mate's hand-painted 2CV into it. It's not all posh stuff.

[Cavcraft]

In today's news:

 

1) I am a forgetful twat.

 

2) The fine for driving a car with an expired MoT has now gone up to £100.

 

 

Shit! I best keep an eye on mine then!

 

Today another Peugeot has joined the fleet, taking my total to 4. I'd just about had enough of the 400/4, we never quite got it running (it was two or three weeks away as someone was going to do the carbs for me) and it was getting on my tits seeing it in bits round the garage. So a Gumtree-r offered me a deal with this, and although I got the worse of the deal I went for it anyhow.

2004 Speedfight 100, seems great fun and isn't half nippy. I'll price up insurance and if it's cheap (I would hope for £50 or so) I'll use it for a while, though I may just offload it anyhow.

 

   

[chaseracer]

I have discovered what the intermittent orange light on the Merc's dash was trying to tell me.  Best throw some finest* lube down its neck.  Still - at least it wasn't an oil pressure warning...

 

#twat

 

 

[dollywobbler]

I'd double-check the manual Mr Racer - sounds more like the low coolant warning light to me. Don't think there's an oil level warning?

[Lankytim]

Scored a 51 reg Rover 25 today, dirt cheap from someone at Church who had bought a nearly new Chrysler Orangutan  and needed shot of her old car. I offered her scrap money without seeing it but when I collected it today I found it's in pretty good order, 1400 petrol, 11 months MOT, taxed until the end of the month 50k from new, recent head gasket replacement and it runs and drives great, although it feels a bit slow so I suspect it has the restricted throttle body on or something. It only has a drivers airbag and has keep fit windows so I think it's a base model. Apart from surface rust on the front wings it looks mintola.

 

The wife loves it so her Astra estate is going up for sale.

[The Moog]

Diesel leak off pipes fittes to 306 but hasn't made a jot of difference. still leaves cloud of white smoke at start from cold. ordered primer bulb and fuel line as next step. Got new thermostat to fit at some point as well as new radio (can't quite bring myself to do that yet, it is a mega bundles of odd coloured wires).

 

Today going round a corner I lost all power. Pedal was flat to the floor. Arse biscuits, instantly.thought.cable.had.snapped. Coaxed to a stop and popped the bonnet. Cable looked fine so checked pedal and found clevis pin had dropped out. Simple bodge with a piece of wire and counting chickens that it wasn't on motorway.

 

Of course the shite gods had only served that up as an amuse bouche, because then the dipped beams stopped working

 

On positive side missus loves it and 600 miles to a tank means I think it might stay.

[trigger]

Oh dear, I've just sent a ebay offer on a car which is incredibly normal and sensible with short mot and tax which is pending and then found a local Mk3 Escort in my budget full of awesomeness, wish i waited now!

[vulgalour]

Retract the offer, buy the Escort, tell the eBay vendor you found something "more sensible" and that "your wife had a coronary when she saw the eBay car".  That's the norm, I believe.

[Cavcraft]

Epic road trip planned for tomorrow!

[trigger]

It's ok, the ebay seller has sent a counter offer  for £575 which has given me a window, I don't think a 205 with short tax and mot is worth that much, even if it is a DERV.

[vulgalour]

Golf, you are the wrong car.  For that reason I'm going to get it tidied up, retrim the seat facings to make them nice and get an MoT on it and then sell/swap it for something I do want.  I bought it because it was there at what I thought was the right time but I've seen a number of cars that have made me wish I'd waited an extra week or three to find something suitable.  I'm not happy with the Golf, it's going to be a battle to make it something I enjoy I think.  Not the car's fault, really, it's just not appalling enough for me to bond with it.

[Lankytim]

Or buy an Astra estate.

[skattrd]

I may have just had a little accident on ebay. Details to follow once it's been collected, I think most of you will approve.

[cort16]

A lot of twitchy ebay fingers and car buying going onto fellas, sterling work.

I'm trying to lash up some kind of air filter for my SD1 as the tumble dryer/dusty bin arrangement normally found on the SD1 is missing on mine. I'm going to run an extended induction hose and OMG Halfords gift voucher cone filter arrangement. Most of the induction kits you can buy connect to a 3 inch pipe and conveniently the SD1 has a 2.75 inch pipe on the air filter intake. I now need to find some 3 inch pipe so I can lop the old one off and weld the new one on. Once I get all this bollocks setup I'm going to try to get it running a right so I can get it through it's MOT as currently it's running like a right bag of shite.

[trigger]

A mate of mine had a fright yesterday at the Nationals, as he was parking up in front of me his front wheel collapsed!, The rod was only completed a few months back and a ex friend of his done all the mechanical work for him, first a few weeks back his steering rack failed, now the bottom ball joint managed to undone it's self!.

 

 

Luckily for him, and a credit to the old car scene a number of other rodders where soon on the scene with their tools out and got him all fixed before the show started..

 

 

 

The cars coming of the road now to get full checked over.

[outlaw118]

Back from sunny Devon, and in the absence of my Volvo thread (disappeared) here's a brief update.

 

Seat misbehaved...a bit. Indicators were working fine, then Tuesday stopped. ordered the bit from Seat Croyde, and collected it Thursday, by which time the wipers had given up too. changed relay, nothing. Asked if there was any chance of them taking a look, but they were fully booked. gave me a free fuse though! Took it to West cross Garage in Braunton, and they fitted me in for the afternoon. Dropped it off, hour's labour later, fixed. Off to Coombe Martin, drove about, everything stops again, Mrs_Outlaw very annoyed. Rang them, agreed to bring it back friday morning, they fiddled again, and found a relay under the dash, so £13odd later, fixed. So far still fixed. It did 37mpg on the way home (A361, M5, M4, M25) and on a private* section of the A361 i saw an indicated 110 with no nasty noises or vibration. Winner.

Moose is on ebay now, and despite me saying there's no BIN, within 25 minutes I had a question "what will you taek m8". I give up.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290967273752?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

[skattrd]

New motor has now been collected.

I'm not sure if i should try and keep it's identity secret until shitefest or not. Knowing me though something on it will break and I'll be asking you lot how to fix it.

[trigger]

I've just booked in my Civic to have both front wings and the drivers door painted on Friday, Hopefully it will come out looking much nicer.

 

Also outside the bodyshop there was a Chrysler Voyager in the middle of the road, it looks like it's turned into the doctors next door and all 5 wheel studs have snapped off and the wheels came off! I've never seen that before. 

[nigel bickle]

Exactly what happened to us last week:-

 

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No warning -just an immediate violet shaking, causing us to pull over. If the 4th had gone too -we'd have been in the centre barrier at 70mph. The wheel is round, stud holes undamaged; no other damage that we can find -just 3 studs snapped off.

 

Cars off the road till they are all replaced!

[trigger]

^ That's exactly like this Voyager today except all 5 were clean snapped off, I wondered if the lady had been driving with the wheel loose?, I wonder what can cause that to happen?.

[Junkman]

Overtightening the lug nuts is what causes it.