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[Fabergé Greggs]

Need to make my way back from Cornwall to London tomorrow, anyone want anything driven??

[andy18s]

Thought this deserved a bit more attention than the Ebay tat thread

[clayts450]

Fuck me, I thought I was shit at parking

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/panic-land-rover-driver-crashes-17582248

[stuboy]

Thought I'd swing by the unit behind my base and order my next car.. 

[jumpingjehovahs]

Thought I'd swing by the unit behind my base and order my next car.. 

Which one did you go for?!


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[00833827]

300km on the little Pajero Junior. At least another 300 yards left in it i reckon.

[stuboy]

7 minutes ago, jumpingjehovahs said:

Which one did you go for?!

Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Volante : 2018
Price:	£559,990

[brownnova]

Just when the neighbours didn’t think my driveway could get any more classy... there’s been an 04 reg Renault Kangoo wheelchair accessible van parked in my drive all week... No I haven’t gone mad... it’s my Brother in Laws MoT failure of a van... 

He says he is fixing it tomorrow... 

[richardmorris]

21 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Volante : 2018
Price:	£559,990

I’ll go with the little Ferrari Dino.

[stuboy]

18 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I’ll go with the little Ferrari Dino

im too stiff for older cars

[richardmorris]

Just now, stuboy said:

im too stiff for older cars

 

[wuvvum]

Once again it's early on a Saturday morning and once again I am on a train going to collect a car I didn't intend to buy, have no real use for and only bid on because it was cheap. 

I'm beginning to think there might be something wrong with me... 

[KitKat]

12 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Once again it's early on a Saturday morning and once again I am on a train going to collect a car I didn't intend to buy, have no real use for and only bid on because it was cheap. 

I'm beginning to think there might be something wrong with me... 

There’s nothing wrong with you. Loads of people are up early on a Saturday

[SiC]

11 hours ago, stuboy said:

Thought I'd swing by the unit behind my base and order my next car.. 

That is an awful lot of expensive tin that they've left outside. Brave. 

[Parky]

MOT on Thursday.  Usual pacing up and down watching a man with a concerned look on his face pulling and prodding things.  

End result? “Yeah good as gold mate, one of the headlights was slightly out so I tweaked it down a bit so all good.  No advisories or anything, brake pads could do with a change soon but that’s all good.  £40 please”

Twelve years old and its one and only failure was last year when the rubber seal in the filler cap had split which was an £11 replacement part.  Goes to show that keeping an eye on stuff and maintaining regularly is a good idea.  Shame it’s lousy cosmetically!

Will treat it to a wash and wax later.  Good old Leon....

 

[BorniteIdentity]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Once again it's early on a Saturday morning and once again I am on a train going to collect a car I didn't intend to buy, have no real use for and only bid on because it was cheap. 

I'm beginning to think there might be something wrong with me... 

If it’s that Merc and you’re open to investors than please let me know. Had I seen the tat thread that day I’d have put my hand up sooner!

[skattrd]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Once again it's early on a Saturday morning and once again I am on a train going to collect a car I didn't intend to buy, have no real use for and only bid on because it was cheap. 

I'm beginning to think there might be something wrong with me... 

I know that feeling. 

You need to stop buying things just because they're cheap. By the time you get them home, fix a few bits, tax MOT etc it's not that cheap, and you've got another car you don't really need. Fix one of the cars you own instead, or go for a drive and enjoy one of them. 

This is what I keep telling myself, and currently it's working. I've not bought a car this year. 

[wuvvum]

55 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

If it’s that Merc and you’re open to investors than please let me know. Had I seen the tat thread that day I’d have put my hand up sooner!

Sadly not.  I wanted that and fully intended to buy it but couldn't afford it.  Today's purchase is nowhere near as interesting. 

[Cavcraft]

What's the point of these places then? Sat here 45 minutes and then found out they don't even know what Crisp n Dry is, let alone sell it.

 

[320touring]

Someone has helpfully already written a for sale ad for my ML..

 

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[Parky]

Cunt?  Karana converters? Shit, where do I sign!!!!!!

[Amishtat]

2 hours ago, skattrd said:

I know that feeling. 

You need to stop buying things just because they're cheap. By the time you get them home, fix a few bits, tax MOT etc it's not that cheap, and you've got another car you don't really need. Fix one of the cars you own instead, or go for a drive and enjoy one of them. 

This is what I keep telling myself, and currently it's working. I've not bought a car this year. 

This is what I'm trying to do. Sold a couple of cars last year and I'm trying hard to ignore the cash in the biscuit tin (that brown Cresta in the ebay thread though.. Phwoarrr..) in favour of finally doing something with the Gazelle and the 164. I've had each for three years and they've been shamefully ignored in the shed for pretty much all that time. 

[anonymous user]

I hope the mx5 is not going to be one of those cars. I had not driven it for a fortnight and it only just started, I defrosted it and let it warm up while I defrosted the Kia and got it out of the way.

I went up to collect my prescription meds in the Mx5 and it fired up straight away after. Unfortunately on my way to get some petrol, so I could give it a good run out, I made the mistake of putting the driver's window down, it has suffered the usual Mx5 window mechanism cable failure and wouldn't go back up. I have come home. I had bought another set of window switches (the passenger one is dodgy). I had the faint hope that it was the driver's switch as well, it wasn't. To compound my annoyance the new* switch is for the later Mx5 and has a shorter lead as it's in a different place on the console (even though it was shown as a Mk1 switch) so while it works it's no good to me. The car is now back behind the gates in disgrace with the door panel off, centre console off and a window that I can't get all the way up (without chopping the chewed up cables off the mechanism) I have temporarily filled* the gap and will beef this up with gaffer tape (only I can't find it so will have to go back out to buy some).

And I've just remembered that I've left my prescription in the glove box.

[gm]

those window cables are a bugger to fit - I would recommend just replacing the whole mechanism if you can find a good used one. there is an aftermarket 'worm drive' type available which is a much better design but I'm not sure where to buy one - my old v-spec had them fitted, the windows were much quicker and smoother to use.

good luck

 

[wuvvum]

Cuntmobile acquired. 

[hairnet]

19 hours ago, jumpingjehovahs said:

 

Which one did you go for?!


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merc 280 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Cuntmobile acquired. 

no motorway in norfolk boss

 

[egg]

Why, Wuv, why? ?

Was it very cheap?

[eddyramrod]

It couldn't be cheap enough.  I'd want paying, and at a bloody good hourly rate too!

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Cuntmobile acquired.

...And nobody ever let you out of a junction or anything ever again...