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[RobT]

Good on you clayts, I hope things work out.

[Saabnut]

Slightly battered, slightly singed and quite damp but I have lived through another offshore survival refresher. Now they have added diving equipment (well a compressed air bottle) and there are also seven trips in the helicopter simulater, including two in washing machine mode. Was only 3 when I first did it!

On my first survival, 32 years ago, there was an "older gentleman" (about 60) on the course and I felt sorry for him. Today, there was 4 people on the course, 3 under 30 and me! I hope they felt sorry for me as I am now that "older gentleman"

Still, that is me ticketed up for another 4 years.

[NorthernMonkey]

On 1/28/2020 at 8:55 PM, richardmorris said:

Anyone near Wigan/ Golborne  able to collect a spring compressor set (he won’t post).....rick will pay for item and postage / I can collect.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/spring-coil-compressor-for-mercedes-benz-cars-and-many-others/1364487306?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_android

That particular set is £39.50 brand new on eBay with free delivery

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F282526265363

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, Saabnut said:

Slightly battered, slightly singed and quite damp but I have lived through another offshore survival refresher. Now they have added diving equipment (well a compressed air bottle) and there are also seven trips in the helicopter simulater, including two in washing machine mode. Was only 3 when I first did it!

On my first survival, 32 years ago, there was an "older gentleman" (about 60) on the course and I felt sorry for him. Today, there was 4 people on the course, 3 under 30 and me! I hope they felt sorry for me as I am now that "older gentleman"

Still, that is me ticketed up for another 4 years.

@Mrs6C has done hers for when she worked in the Gulf of Mexico on a seismic survey vessel.

[Six-cylinder]

1/2 a Mini in Luton Airport!

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Was only 3 when I first did it!

Surprised they had helicopters when you were 3 years old. ?

[richardmorris]

22 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

1/2 a Mini in Luton Airport!

The poor thing. Is it even English wine?

[Steve79]

On 1/29/2020 at 1:37 PM, Saabnut said:

Oooh, my Saab suspemsion is looking a bit low this morning, wonder what is causing that?

My friend, and ex business partner called me this morning, saying he wanted rid of the workshop manuals etc that were from our workshop and he had kept, but now needed the space. These are mostly Haynes BOL but there are a fair number of factory manuals, general guises etc, mostly for older and more obscure stuff. Thinking of this place, I said I would nip up and collect them. He asked which car I was taking which should have warned me of the quantities involved......

Yes, that is the back of the car, seats folded, loaded to window level! As a bonus I also got a load of test equipment (fuel injection, water system, a code reader, a glow plug tester etc).

A few of the manuals I will want to keep, but I will photograph and list the others when I unload them and offer them here.

Dibs on any bmw e28 specific ones you have plz

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

The poor thing. Is it even English wine?

It is probably Luton-intolerant.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

@Mrs6C has done hers for when she worked in the Gulf of Mexico on a seismic survey vessel.

Your good lady wife does seem to have had quite a varied career path...

[brownnova]

5 hours ago, clayts450 said:

Oh, need to buy a van first of course.... 

Luckily for you this popped up on Facebook today... 

Van... tick! 

[xtriple]

Been looking at clocks for the slk most of them are in the hundreds and no guarentee that they aren't fucked as well. But, one set was for a manual 350 (and as they sold about three manual 350s in the UK, not a lot of call...) and cheap.

But for an expat Northerner, not cheap enough so I offered £30. Bloody declined, miserable sod obviously wants to make a living!

Against my better judgement and while crying bitter tears into my open wallet, I offered £35. If Postage was included... don't ask, don't get. The chap obviously thought the easiest way to never hear from the whinging twat ever again (I do a good line in 'sob stories') was to accept!

And he did!

All I want from the clocks is the two LCD panels which don't need coding into the car (whole clock sets etc really do). Of course there's every chance they also have a dancing 'pink shrimp' living in one or other of the displays but cheap enough to find out. There is also the chance that I will brick the entire cluster when I try to swap one set into my clocks and I end up having to fork out £1800 (yes really!) to MB for a new set. Oh well, live fast, die young, leave a pretty (poor) corpse!

Please note: I live slow, too old to die young and my corpse would be the ugliest in the graveyard, but you didn't read that here, okay?

[SiC]

43 minutes ago, xtriple said:

But for an expat Northerner, not cheap enough so I offered £30. Bloody declined, miserable sod obviously wants to make a living

Cheaper?

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32902053818.html?pid=808_0000_0101&spm=a2g0n.search-amp.list.32902053818&aff_trace_key=&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=7191amp-2bANBZjV9F2JMbL8dDu7LQ1580495005965&browser_id=2529d6b0078b4cb7b9dda5d8f13703e2&is_c=Y

[xtriple]

2 minutes ago, SiC said:

Cheaper?

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32902053818.html?pid=808_0000_0101&spm=a2g0n.search-amp.list.32902053818&aff_trace_key=&aff_platform=msite&m_page_id=7191amp-2bANBZjV9F2JMbL8dDu7LQ1580495005965&browser_id=2529d6b0078b4cb7b9dda5d8f13703e2&is_c=Y

Sadly not for my car, earlier version. But if this doesn't work I shall investigate.

[Alan_Green]

Today, a pass with no advisories for this bad boy:  (my Mazda 626 Coupe):

[High Jetter]

Well prepared then, and looking good. Must be rare now

[vulgalour]

Tried out some Captain Tolley's on the BX earlier today.  I suspect the water is getting in via the gutter trim or windscreen surround on the driver's side and, looking at how quickly the Tolley stuff disappeared on that side compared to the other, I daresay I could be onto something.  I'll keep dosing it up until it won't dose up any more and hope that cures the water ingress because I'm stuffed if I can figure out where else it's getting in without pulling the car apart.

[Dan_ZTT]

STOLEN TRUCK

Apologies if duplicate as I rarely keep up with this thread, just throwing this up as I saw it on faceache 

[PhilA]

My roof has been leaking onto the car on this side due to the tin being somewhat worse for wear.

Utilizing gooey black tar stuff and Long Stick On A Stick I managed to haphazardly patch up the worst of it. 

My neighbors love* the way it looks.

Really the metal needs to go and a proper architectural shingle roof to go on. But, for now I'll take a look to see if that's remedied the worst of it. The main problem is it's the old metal from the sides, recycled into roofing, with the holes that used to contain the nails holding it to the walls patched up and then painted silver. Far from ideal.

But, garage is garage so we'll see how it pans out in terms of replacement. 

The clouds are moving in and we're forecast rain. Maybe I'll even get results tonight.

 

Phil

[Aston Martin]

I had a weird dream last night, I was at the services and I had just bought a car. I can't remember what it was but it was silver. @captain_70s was there for some reason and he had also bought a car. A red, well pink Almera and he was thrilled and putting stickers all over it. ?

[00833827]

got the camshaft seal on the Pajero Junior changed yesterday - had intended to have if for sale this morning but mechanic says that the oil has been leaking all over the timing belt and its f**ked. He said he was nervous even driving it back out of the workshop. Being a jap import the belt is not laying about on shelves locally so will be Monday before it arrives in. I will get it, leave the jeep outside the mechanics place for whenever he can do it. If he was that nervous I dont think i will risk it either. So its shanks mare for a few days.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

I had a weird dream last night, I was at the services and I had just bought a car. I can't remember what it was but it was silver. @captain_70s was there for some reason and he had also bought a car. A red, well pink Almera and he was thrilled and putting stickers all over it. ?

Are you due to see your GP? ?

[Ghosty]

Been fucking had, new car has gone all RELIABLE HONDA ENGINE on me. Turns out nobody had run it with any coolant in (fucked radiator - pressurised and blown out?). Supposedly it ran well.

Of course I'm only told this a few hours after I sell the 306.

It's in fucking Felixstowe at the moment, 2-3 weeks plus labour to fix or £350 to recover it.

Can't get to work, no money whatsoever, Jag is on SORN as I can't afford to run it at the moment, aside the fact I don't want to in winter.

Fucking fuck.

[loserone]

Has the 306 gone?

[BorniteIdentity]

55 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Been fucking had, new car has gone all RELIABLE HONDA ENGINE on me. Turns out nobody had run it with any coolant in (fucked radiator - pressurised and blown out?). Supposedly it ran well.

Of course I'm only told this a few hours after I sell the 306.

It's in fucking Felixstowe at the moment, 2-3 weeks plus labour to fix or £350 to recover it.

Can't get to work, no money whatsoever, Jag is on SORN as I can't afford to run it at the moment, aside the fact I don't want to in winter.

Fucking fuck.

Did you collect it? Or did they confess before you got there?

If I can help - I will. Tell me everything!!

[Craig the Princess]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

Been fucking had, new car has gone all RELIABLE HONDA ENGINE on me. Turns out nobody had run it with any coolant in (fucked radiator - pressurised and blown out?). Supposedly it ran well.

Of course I'm only told this a few hours after I sell the 306.

It's in fucking Felixstowe at the moment, 2-3 weeks plus labour to fix or £350 to recover it.

Can't get to work, no money whatsoever, Jag is on SORN as I can't afford to run it at the moment, aside the fact I don't want to in winter.

Fucking fuck.

Ouch. Was it an expensive one? If not, and it doesn't hold a sentimental value, is it not worth scrapping it and starting again?

Invest the car take back money in a reliable* replacement.

[Ghosty]

It's a fairly high spec Honda Concerto, twincam auto. Not worth masses but has rarity value as well as suiting my needs to the ground, plus I know the things back to front. Scrapping it wouldn't solve anything, I'd end up with a misery spec Civic 1.4i or something. Besides, the body is as good as Hondas come and it's on a set of BMW E30 wheels that I can always flog for cashback if I need to.

I'm also invested in it already as it's had a set of locks and a new radiator. I can fix it once I get it, it'll be the fourth D-Series head gasket I've done.

 

 

[BorniteIdentity]

7 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

It's a fairly high spec Honda Concerto, twincam auto. Not worth masses but has rarity value as well as suiting my needs to the ground, plus I know the things back to front. Scrapping it wouldn't solve anything, I'd end up with a misery spec Civic 1.4i or something. Besides, the body is as good as Hondas come and it's on a set of BMW E30 wheels that I can always flog for cashback if I need to.

I'm also invested in it already as it's had a set of locks and a new radiator. I can fix it once I get it, it'll be the fourth D-Series head gasket I've done.

 

 

My folks are in Felixstowe - it’s my hometown - I’m well connected. If you need a hand please let me know. If not, good luck. 

[Saabnut]

As it is the 1st of the month I taxed the "flash sale" Renault Modus DCi this morning, then added 15% of the cost to the fuel tank. Been out for a run and covered about 60 miles. Verdict? For a boring modern* POS it is all right actually. Certainly good enough to abandon in the airport carpark for weeks at a time. Bit early, but counting that as a win.

[louiepj]

Just waiting on a text for confirmation on a £150 car with some mot in saaf London that will need picking up this evening.