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[New POD]

ABOUT 20 years ago I bodged 2 fence panels between the house and the garage, by nailing 2 fence panels to them. The wooden post rotted at the bottom and I hammered 2 bits of wood into the ground to stabilise it. The panels started falling apart about 4 years ago and I used a selection of large long cable ties to hold it all together. 

I can't believe it survived last night.  I would be fine with it failing.  I might replace the 10 foot with a bespoke gate. 

 

 

[egg]

Just dropped the metro at the local tyre place to see if they can do something about the comical steering wheel alignment. I need it to be more like Zel's Jag ;-)!

Reckon the carb needs a tune-up slash clean.

[egg]

£40 for the tracking (and so it begins)...

But, now the steering wheel is about 5 degrees out rather than 45 and steers better for sure.  Improvement number 1, tick.

However, I knew this place would diagnose other issues for me, and I have a water leak (lucky it came with a new pump in the boot then) and a clicking nearside CV joint - which will probably need doing.

Roffle ticket price increasing ?

I'll start a thread for car (not the roffle!) soon.

[jcr]

Micra bodywork continues. Got a mobile welder to do the rear sill ends + rear part of the arch both sides, charged £200 which was reasonable I feel. The whole corner of the sill had gone, all the way through so was a tricky one. Unfortunately he overlapped the metal instead of just tacking it end to end + grinding so has required a metric ton of filler to get flat.

I managed to do the boot floor, looks pretty poor but nobody's going to see it, and it's properly attached and all! 

Hopefully will look passable eventually + after fixing the leaking rear lights and re-directing the sunroof drain through the sill drain grommet (nissan has it drain into the sill, fantastic design), should last for a few more years. 

 

Got a 400 mile round trip to south Wales coming up this weekend so we'll see how it fares

[MikeR]

I washed my car today .........

and put petrol in it ....

its had a birthday !!

[egg]

#alltheblues #90'sstreetscene.

[Six-cylinder]

I almost forgot this picture I took last Friday while shopping!

Usual look around the car park revealed nothing that caught my eye so I returned to my car and realised there were many things more interesting than what I was parked next too!

I looked over and could not say what it was until I found a badge.

Bland, bland, bland!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Six-cylinder said:

...I looked over and could not say what it was until I found a badge.

Bland, bland, bland!

Something by Kia or Hyundai?

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Something by Kia or Hyundai?

Hyundai was my first thought, but no.

[LightBulbFun]

27 minutes ago, egg said:

#alltheblues #90'sstreetscene.

I dont see your Mk12 anywhere in the shot! that would be maximum street scene/all the blues 

(I do know of a few Mk12's that made it into the 1990's dont know of any yet that made it until the end in 2003 tho sadly)

[paulplom]

2 hours ago, egg said:

£40 for the tracking (and so it begins)...

But, now the steering wheel is about 5 degrees out rather than 45 and steers better for sure.  Improvement number 1, tick.

However, I knew this place would diagnose other issues for me, and I have a water leak (lucky it came with a new pump in the boot then) and a clicking nearside CV joint - which will probably need doing.

Roffle ticket price increasing ?

I'll start a thread for car (not the roffle!) soon.

I'm sure they're meant to use a thing to hold the steering wheel at 12 o'clock and adjust the track rod ends to suit. Take it back.

[rmt87]

28 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Something by Kia or Hyundai?

Nissan qashqai

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, rmt87 said:

Nissan qashqai

Yes, but knowing that makes you bottom of the class. You must unlearn unnecessary stuff like this!

[egg]

12 minutes ago, paulplom said:

I'm sure they're meant to use a thing to old the steering wheel at 12 o'clock and adjust the track rod ends to suit. Take it back.

Might well do that, I need to get it up to speed to see how the wheel sits then. He admitted he didn't take it for a test run because we have a lot of congestion in town today (due to the collapsed building I posted during this week's storm).

[paulplom]

They did it with my last van. It tracked fine afterwards but the steering wheel was on the piss. I took it back and it was sorted. It was perfectly straight beforehand.

[Alex66]

12 minutes ago, rmt87 said:

Nissan qashqai

It's just an overpriced Dacia Duster

[mk2_craig]

55 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I almost forgot this picture I took last Friday while shopping!

Usual look around the car park revealed nothing that caught my eye so I returned to my car and realised there were many things more interesting than what I was parked next too!

I looked over and could not say what it was until I found a badge.

Bland, bland, bland!

New version due out this year I think. Which is even blander!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

They all look the same these days

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

I almost forgot this picture I took last Friday while shopping!

Usual look around the car park revealed nothing that caught my eye so I returned to my car and realised there were many things more interesting than what I was parked next too!

I looked over and could not say what it was until I found a badge.

Bland, bland, bland!

Sorry, I can't see anything in this picture.

[New POD]

I don't know. I saw a 69.reg civic type R and that was just mentally disturbing. 

[Six-cylinder]

9 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

They all look the same these days

40 odd years ago when when I was sat in my Triumph Vitesse I could name any car marketed in the UK from a picture this size, Cortina, Datsun, Fiat, whatever.

The question is, is it me getting old or are cars more difficult to identify now?

Maybe there is a bigger range on sale today or my brain is full from looking at cars for 50+ years?

[Fumbler]

8 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

40 odd years ago when when I was sat in my Triumph Vitesse I could name any car marketed in the UK from a picture this size, Cortina, Datsun, Fiat, whatever.

The question is, is it me getting old or are cars more difficult to identify now?

Maybe there is a bigger range on sale today or my brain is full from looking at cars for 50+ years?

It seems to me as if car manufacturers are going after the sharp angles polygon look on their cars, even if it looks silly. It's a bit like when car manufacturers made their cars all bubblly and smooth in the 1990s. I'm sure this current style will fall out of fashion at some point.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Mostly forgettable,  but will they become the shite of tomorrow?

[yes oui si]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

40 odd years ago when when I was sat in my Triumph Vitesse I could name any car marketed in the UK from a picture this size, Cortina, Datsun, Fiat, whatever.

The question is, is it me getting old or are cars more difficult to identify now?

Maybe there is a bigger range on sale today or my brain is full from looking at cars for 50+ years?

Cars look as similar to each other now as they did in the past. 

Metros look like Fiestas, Visas, Unos etc. 

In any given time period there has been a particular style for cars, and the vast majority of cars of any time period have looked like each other save for minor trim, grill and light differences.

[Lord Sterling]

Had another fit of enthusiasm today, might need to see the doctor about this, but in this episode I managed to change the side light light on the Vectra:

The large intake pipe in the centre of the pic could be taken off from one end and moved about making it easier to access the rear of the side light (the small circular cap on the right of the pipe) thus also easier to fit my hand and comfortably grip and unlip the side-light bulb holder and bulb. Had some spare bulbs and within another couple of minutes the all was normal again with the Vectra. All lights are now working.

[Broadsword]

Jag lickers might appreciate this video of an extremely well executed XJR6 automatic to manual converted car. British racing green and has an exhaust harking back to a 1960s Mk. 2 Jag getaway car. It's just my idea of purrfection.

 

[Cookiesouwest]

Not car related. Lost my wedding ring yesterday. Think it fell off in B&Q. Mrs Cookie unhappy.

Took her for a nice posh pub lunch today. Been before, great food, figured I was onto a winner.

1/2  hr after leaving, became clear she had been glutened (she is coeliac). FML

[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, egg said:

Might well do that, I need to get it up to speed to see how the wheel sits then. He admitted he didn't take it for a test run because we have a lot of congestion in town today (due to the collapsed building I posted during this week's storm).

Could you not just hoik the wheel off and then refit it a couple of splines round?  Should be easy* with no airbag to worry about.

[RobT]

On 2/15/2020 at 5:54 PM, RobT said:

I didn't get time to swap the door handles and integral lock, and it looks a pain to get them off, so that's unlikely ever to happen if I'm being honest.

Took me 2 minutes this evening to get the old one off.

Lazy twat.  I should've done a proper job on Saturday.  Oh well, might have a go next weekend. But only if I can manage to remove the torx headed screw I rounded off whilst fitting the door card to the replacement door...

[Bren]

Saw an S plate focus today in Southport. Apart from some rust on the doors it looked ok.