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[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It's an Excellence as well - about the rarest of the lot, most of them snapped in half years ago.

In the photo above, you can just about see that the window frame verticals of the front and rear doors are not quite parallel to each other. Is the body flexing already?

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

payday cant come soon enough as driving about with fresh air in the tank... anyone else had a 6 week payday break because of xmas etc..?

Yup.  January is a loooong month, for several reasons.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

payday cant come soon enough as driving about with fresh air in the tank... anyone else had a 6 week payday break because of xmas etc..?

Getting a sizeable tax demand doesn't help. 

[Eyersey1234]

First proper day of route learning on National Express today. 

[BeEP]

8 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

In the photo above, you can just about see that the window frame verticals of the front and rear doors are not quite parallel to each other. Is the body flexing already?

Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was sagging, even before I read Wuvvum's comment!

[Stanky]

I went to check my tyre pressures yesterday after the new tyres had had a chance to settle in and made a few corrections to level them all out to what I like (34 front, 32 rear) and as i was walking back from the petrol station shop I suddenly thought I ought to check the spare too.

Just as well i did! it was inflated to a whopping 9psi. Glad i discovered and corrected that now and not while changing a flat tyre in the dark & pissing rain on the side of the M25 at 8pm. its also worn down to the 3mm markers, suggesting its been used in anger for a while in the past. its a full size steel so no reason not to I suppose. anyway, glad thats done.

[egg]

12 hours ago, stuboy said:

anyone else had a 6 week payday break because of xmas etc..?

Not for me, they don't pay us until 31 Dec anyway, so it's normal...

[richardmorris]

And there's more, including this lovely ex Alan Clarke MP Bentley.

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, BeEP said:

Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was sagging, even before I read Wuvvum's comment!

professional photo for the auction looks better.

[Ghosty]

I've bought something that won't surprise anyone on this forum. It's reliable*.

306 is for sale now, is £750 a fair price?

[vulgalour]

After a couple of days of hard work, we've got the driveway sorted out.  Doesn't look like we've done anything at all now it's done, looks like it's always been like this, and that's just fine.

Ordinarily, you'd just get someone out to redo the lot in one go of course, and we'll likely do that in the future.  Thing is, this job cost us the sum total of nothing bar a bit of elbow grease and back ache, since all the materials we needed were dotted around the property in places we didn't want them and now we have the benefit of an area to park that isn't edged in mud.

[Tenmil Socket]

@Split_Pin I think you need to run a Geiger counter past those plates...

[mrbenn]

On 1/18/2020 at 6:38 PM, LightBulbFun said:

Had to do a double take there!

you were very close to where I live LOL

those are the Morris minors I have talked about in my thread (cc @mrbenn   )  , and I remember spotting that pickup back in 2015 or so, I found it most interesting that it was a US truck but RHD  (somewhere I might have a crappy photo I took of it back then)

(although I dont recall the blue moggie living so close to the green traveller maybe there are more moggies around here then I realise!)

Thanks for that, Dez. Looks like chod central round there!

[Tickman]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

looks like it's always been like this, and that's just fine.

That is a win, looks tidy which is always good when you're the new neighbor.

[nigel bickle]

Same color as my Bravo HGT. Seemed rude not to....

[lanciamatt]

Today didn't start too well, run out of diesel in rush hour 10 yds off a roundabout, then battery went flat, managed to get mi dad's car next to it with jump leads, couldn't get it started. Had to go buy a battery from local motor factors, realised I couldn't pay for it as my new card only came day before and I didn't have pin number so it was declined. Then no tools to fit it. Luckily they know me and lent me tools and I can pay for it when pin comes. Moral of story fix the known dodgy fuel gauge, and don't get drunk and loose your wallet and have to cancel all your cards. 

[Dannyk]

Bloody mot testers, worse than traffic wardens ?

[Spurious]

50 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

MOT was today:

 

 

Which ended with:

 

 

The rot:

 

 

So around corner to the garage for the tame welder and mechanic, picking it up tomorrow after a full service as well. 

 

Not a great few days for MOTs here ?@Dannyk and his Polo, me and now yourself. 

 

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Camry update. Garage reported that the code suggested LH front ABS sensor is at fault, but they can't get hold of one at sensible cost.

Spent much of this evening removing one off the spares car. Not easy when it's the side that is against the hedge, and the car is on gravel. Eventually get car jacked-up and wheel off.

Everything was undoing OK, even the arch liner fixings. Unfortunately I failed at the final hurdle, when the sensor snapped-off in the housing.

Having done a search, which I wish I'd done when they first told me, it looks like I might be able to get a new one from a UK supplier for £30. Just need to check it's correct for my car, then fingers crossed it is that one that's at fault.....

[Ghosty]

As far as I know things are go, well the money is on its way anyway (this is rather protracted). My 'new' car is in the middle of nowhere, in a county that you should generally avoid (but has nothing to do with Junkman). From there it will be moved an hour the wrong way, to an apologist of the model in question who I understand is going to MOT it for me. When it is ready and my 306 sells, a collection mission shall ensue. I might have a friend coming with me on the collection, but he is expecting a baby so details of the collection mission are very much up in the air. 

[Jamie]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skoda-est-4x4-1-9-TDI-2010-spares-or-repair/392638768044?hash=item5b6b1823ac:g:xH8AAOSwPkhd-P8K 

 

@dome you seem a glutten for punishment, how about another? Not far either

[stuboy]

9 hours ago, jamiechod said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skoda-est-4x4-1-9-TDI-2010-spares-or-repair/392638768044?hash=item5b6b1823ac:g:xH8AAOSwPkhd-P8K 

 

@dome you seem a glutten for punishment, how about another? Not far either

2k........................jesus

[dome]

9 hours ago, jamiechod said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skoda-est-4x4-1-9-TDI-2010-spares-or-repair/392638768044?hash=item5b6b1823ac:g:xH8AAOSwPkhd-P8K 

 

@dome you seem a glutten for punishment, how about another? Not far either

Dear god, what kind of idiot do you take me for?

No, that one has got @Fraz written all over it

[Eyersey1234]

11 hours ago, Ghosty said:

 I might have a friend coming with me on the collection, but he is expecting a baby

Is your friend a seahorse lol? 

[Dannyk]

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18184040.abandoned-house-leads-safety-fears-rodbourne-cheney/?fbclid=IwAR2n5qrB_4yjYkvMkqEF_fTCxVGFLv2xppaVUYFZXCu-xPrTDo8Fi8BEyBA#gallery2

[BorniteIdentity]

34 minutes ago, Dannyk said:

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18184040.abandoned-house-leads-safety-fears-rodbourne-cheney/?fbclid=IwAR2n5qrB_4yjYkvMkqEF_fTCxVGFLv2xppaVUYFZXCu-xPrTDo8Fi8BEyBA#gallery2

If you're on Facebook - check out the page "Angry People In Local Newspapers".  

I know several snappers for the papers, and I constantly ridicule them for this sort of shit.  "Yes - can you look disappointed please chaps.  Bit more?  No come on - you're fed up with having to live next to this pl... THAT'S THE LOOK".

[vulgalour]

Well, the Old Car that bf and I were off to view has sold, which is a bit of a shame.  Sensible head on, there's things we should definitely spend the money on instead, like carpets and cookers and boring stuff like that.

What we're actually looking at acquiring is most likely an Austin Somerset.  After much hunting and browsing and comparing, it's the one model we both keep coming back to so is probably the best option for the almost-pre-war motoring experience.  They're also pretty cheap and plentiful, comparatively speaking.  We've considered a lot of different models and the Somerset is the one we come back to the most, Lanchester LD10, and Austin Sixteen being close seconds, and Morris Ten coming in third.  We'd love something big and swish, like an Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire, but realistically we haven't the space to look after something like that properly yet, and it's probably better to cut our teeth on something more humdrum like the Somerset to really figure out if old fashioned motoring is actually for us.

[Fraz]

7 hours ago, dome said:

Dear god, what kind of idiot do you take me for?

No, that one has got @Fraz written all over it

£2000!!!!

 

jesus Christ .... not at that price. Half that and I’d consider it. 

[holbeck]

C15 MOT fail.

Merde!

Quite a long list, but mostly do-able.

The worst of it is corrosion to seat belt mounting and rear subframe mount. The garage are  getting me an estimate from their sub-contract welder.

Ho hum.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

Well, the Old Car that bf and I were off to view has sold, which is a bit of a shame.  Sensible head on, there's things we should definitely spend the money on instead, like carpets and cookers and boring stuff like that.

What we're actually looking at acquiring is most likely an Austin Somerset.  After much hunting and browsing and comparing, it's the one model we both keep coming back to so is probably the best option for the almost-pre-war motoring experience.  They're also pretty cheap and plentiful, comparatively speaking.  We've considered a lot of different models and the Somerset is the one we come back to the most, Lanchester LD10, and Austin Sixteen being close seconds, and Morris Ten coming in third.  We'd love something big and swish, like an Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire, but realistically we haven't the space to look after something like that properly yet, and it's probably better to cut our teeth on something more humdrum like the Somerset to really figure out if old fashioned motoring is actually for us.

I've driven two Somersets.  The one I had as a courtesy car years ago was bloody horrible.  Angrydicky's was lovely - although the 1489cc engine upgrade helps there, the original 1200 is a little underpowered for modern traffic.