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[paulplom]

I love the colour. It's very understated. 

[HillmanImp]

Every now and then a person who was in the public eye for one reason, suddenly appears doing something completely different. 

Like that bird off Coronation Street wearing an of the shoulder number in Parliament. 

Here's another one. 

Travel reporting suddenly got very abstract and possibly quite dark. 

Glad to see he's keeping busy though. 

[lanciamatt]

It's right what they say, there is more older cars on road near London than most places. I was at What's left of vauxhall head office for last 2 days on a training course, saw alsorts of 80s and 90s chod driving about. I was sad to see vauxhall site like it is, pretty much totally empty now, only on star there, everything else gone to Coventry, end of an era. 

[yes oui si]

10 hours ago, stuboy said:

 

 

SOS button calls a taxi to get you from the car to the curb. 

[meggersdog]

The 206cc has developed a misfire again.Bought a cheap coil pack off ebay three months ago.I've just asked at the local factors and it was less than half price of a Motorquip one never mind NGK. Going to try a new set of plugs first. Although the old adage  buy cheap buy twice springs to mind.

[LightBulbFun]

12 hours ago, stuboy said:

Well today I had the pleasure of driving a 69 plate 208 pug, and it was terrible, u need feet size 3, why is the analogue and digital speedo, rear seats are only fit children and midgets, what's the sos button for?, gear change vacant, steering light and fast no feedback, redeeming feature is dab radio and thank christ a normal handbrake not that infuriating electric one...

 

Oi Give it back, I need that for tomorrow!  (wait until you have something set on the sat nav, and then the digital speedo inexplicably fucks off!)

[MorrisItalSLX]

I bought a new laptop a couple days ago and it just dawned on me that it was almost double what I paid for my Corolla.

The worst bit is that the car will easily outlive the computer. Sigh.

[Floatylight]

Oh dear, looks like the Passat's number might be up.... Yet to speak to the garage...

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[320touring]

*insert James Brown Meme here*

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Looks like the head gasket set for the CX is being delivered after lunchtime...

That was a bit quicker than I thought. 

[N19]

If anyone has a Milllets nearby, they're having a warehouse sale on. Picked up a couple of 360 degree camping lanterns for 3.50 each yesterday - LED, very bright but dimmable, found them very very useful for lighting up under bonnet works. Bargain. 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Floatylight said:

Oh dear, looks like the Passat's number might be up.... Yet to speak to the garage...

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Mostly down to poor servicing then ? 

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday my friend Derek was supposed to call round to borrow my jump pack because his adult son had been given an MGF off the road for 18 months by a work college and dad got the job of collecting it! The plan was Derek would inspect the car yesterday so he knew what the car was like, if it would start and where it was situated for collection, then return with a trailer next day. Unfortunately Derek’s carpet fitter took longer than expected and nothing happened yesterday.

Some days don’t go to plan!

Today I got a call from Derek to say could he borrow my jump pack because he wanted to go to the MGF and assess it, I volunteered to go with him in his Citroen C5. When we got there it started up immediately with a fresh battery and while it took a moment for the oil to quiet the tappets it soon ran sweetly. We put a litre of water in it and let it run up to temp while we drunk coffee and all seemed particularly well so I suggested we prebook an MOT close to home 20 miles away and just drove it away.

We got 5 miles and the temp rose dramatically so I stopped in a farm gateway and before I could park it tidily a hose blew off and steam everywhere. We went back to Buckingham and collected my Range Rover and Derek’s trailer and performed the rescue.

[Stinkwheel]

I bet that MGF was awful to drive as well, the suspension looks right at its lowest, especially at the back. These things are amazingly good with properly set up hydragas units and absolutely spine shattering when they are flat.
My ex has one and it’s a really fun car to drive.

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Stinkwheel said:

I bet that MGF was awful to drive as well, the suspension looks right at its lowest, especially at the back. These things are amazingly good with properly set up hydragas units and absolutely spine shattering when they are flat.
My ex has one and it’s a really fun car to drive.

This one was a bit bumpy but not as hard as the updated MG TF!

[egg]

incoming....

Just left a £50 deposit on some 90's shite. Not that exciting, but it does have a carb, a choke, 4 speeds and no PAS.

The kind sellers are delivering it to my door Saturday morning. 

Possible future roffle fodder ahoy...

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

15 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

..... I got a call from Derek to say could he borrow my jump pack because he wanted to go to the MGF and assess it, I volunteered to go with him in his Citroen C5. When we got there it started up immediately with a fresh battery and while it took a moment for the oil to quiet the tappets it soon ran sweetly. We put a litre of water in it and let it run up to temp while we drunk coffee and all seemed particularly well so I suggested we prebook an MOT close to home 20 miles away and just drove it away.

We got 5 miles and the temp rose dramatically so I stopped in a farm gateway and before I could park it tidily a hose blew off and steam everywhere. .....

MGFHGF?

[Six-cylinder]

Just now, Tadhg Tiogar said:

MGFHGF?

Most likely.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Six-cylinder said:

Most likely.

Whoever gets the job of replacing it might (not) want to have a look at mine......

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Whoever gets the job of replacing it might (not) want to have a look at mine......

Derek may do it himself or there is a mobile Rover K specialist he has used in the past.

This is the guy who helped me change the head gasket on my silver Rover 114i and has lots of Rover experience.

[Cavcraft]

First day at new job complete.  14,500 steps on the Fitbit and the first couple of hours I wasn't really doing anything. 

[BeEP]

56 minutes ago, egg said:

incoming....

Just left a £50 deposit on some 90's shite. Not that exciting, but it does have a carb, a choke, 4 speeds and no PAS.

The kind sellers are delivering it to my door Saturday morning. 

Possible future roffle fodder ahoy...

 

I'll guess Rover Metro 1.1C/1.1L

[bramz7]

I'm going to go with a 106 or AX...

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Oi Give it back, I need that for tomorrow!  (wait until you have something set on the sat nav, and then the digital speedo inexplicably fucks off!)

Can’t you cycle back through the info screens to get the mph back  using the button on the right stalk?

[LightBulbFun]

28 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Can’t you cycle back through the info screens to get the mph back  using the button on the right stalk?

Erm no idea! tbh I have no idea how you work most of the functions or even what functions the car has!, I have been focused on driving and trying not to kill or be killed, rather then fiddle with the auxiliary controls,  modern cars are overly complicated/not very intuitive these days! (and also because its not my car i dont want to go pressing all the buttons and accidentally mess up something my instructor had set for himself or something!)

I do know how you work the windscreen wipers and headlamps as thats obviously something you need to know, 

I will figure it all out/ask the instructor about stuff in time (perhaps tomorrow since you have brought it up )  , as ill need to know for the show me tell me questions https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/car-show-me-tell-me-vehicle-safety-questions/car-show-me-tell-me-vehicle-safety-questions

 

at least in my own car its pretty bloody obvious what all the switches on the dashboard do! (all 2 of them...)

 

[stuboy]

Today I had this suzuki vitara EcoBoosta thingy.. quite nice car, bouncy suspension, good oomph on driving, autobox was ok, dab radio was fab and great all round vision, and rear camera screen was brill

[Burnside]

Decided at the last minute to try again ( after failing Saturday ) at fitting a replacement rear bumper to my Stilo this afternoon.

After nearly two hours, I've finally managed to get it fitting about right. Just ran out of light to fit the corner bolts and adjust the tailgate slightly. But overall my car mojo restored! 

[brownnova]

One of my former cars had come up for sale! 

Craptical Plastics are selling JLO the Dolomite which has been converted to run an MX5 engine.

Here I it is when it was mine... many moons ago! 

Price tags put me off... or I totally would! 

[mk2_craig]

3 hours ago, egg said:

incoming....

Just left a £50 deposit on some 90's shite. Not that exciting, but it does have a carb, a choke, 4 speeds and no PAS.

The kind sellers are delivering it to my door Saturday morning. 

Possible future roffle fodder ahoy...

 

I want this to be a Fiesta Popular with no clock in the dash and in that flat blue colour that half of them came in. 

[vulgalour]

After many, many hours of graft, the work room is now usable as a work room.  After pulling off six layers of wallpaper and filling nearly 100 holes in the walls, repairs to the plaster from historic water damage (overfilled bath, we think), replacing the electrical fittings with new stuff, and even restoring furniture to go in the room I can say I'm happy with my choices.  Except for the two desks, they need some alteration, namely a lot more teak veneer.  Since most of my furniture was already 1960s and 1970s stuff, I just rolled with that and went for a nicely offensive shade of green to really show off the teak.  Spent too much on old anglepoise lamps (one brown, one orange).  Flooring is just generic carpet tiles, it took longer to decide on a colour and pattern for them than it did to fit them.  Suffice to say, I'm really happy with how it turned out and I can look out of my window and see the cars while I work, which is probably motivational or something.

It'll look better when that second desk is cleared.  On the model cars, only two casualties which was one mirror coming unglued and one running board on the Beetle coming unglued which, honestly, is pretty good for how fragile built model kits can be.