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[Craig the Princess]

19 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

A stacklighted beauty!

 

(And nice Longbridge Longroof m8)

[Craig the Princess]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

That is a really nice looking Allaggro.

Thank you. The scary thing is we'll have owned it 15 years in October!

[egg]

Well done Wuv! Does it run? (Trailer is a hint...)

[egg]

1 hour ago, HillmanImp said:

Have I missed something here? Don't recall a Metro? 

Here you go!

 

[RobT]

@wuvvum Fucking brilliant.

[captain_70s]

*JDM INTENSIFIES*

[TataBobu]

8 hours ago, paulplom said:

Just broke my favourite cup while washing the dishes. The cup has always been ironic. The irony being, it was bought for me by the biggest cunt I've ever had the misfortune to meet.

Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk
 

When you got it, did you thank and assured  the other person that the mug will always remind you of him or her?

5 hours ago, BoggyMires said:

Instrvctions in Transylvanian too it would appear!

Could you take a picture of said instructions and post it? I do love me a nice bit of google translate humour.  Last chinese bit of kitchen equipment I bought had a nice recipe on how to make soup from babies.

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, egg said:

Here you go!

 

I didn't see that. I saw you were collecting something but never saw the outcome, I thought it was the Mazda. 

[egg]

I called the Mazda guy twice more, nothing doing

[Ohdearme]

Insured the Renner today so all the fleet is now driveable, Mot pending on white one 22/2 so situation is fluid.

 

[N19]

Bluebird wouldn't start this morning, didn't have time to look at it until I got home. Came back and spent a while pissing around with checking the ignition system, before realising that one of the autochoke flaps was stuck shut, and it starts perfectly if prodded open. Sod's law dictates that this is just as it gets too dark and cold to reasonably do any work, so will have to investigate further tomorrow.

[PhilA]

On 2/18/2020 at 12:28 PM, PhilA said:

Stage 1 is nearly complete. I'm glad I put the air conditioner on in the workshop else the paint would've bloomed.

 

Phil

New speaker grill fabric arrived. Original scrap right there to compare how it should look. Really nice fabric, happy with that.

 

Phil

[dozeydustman]

New boots ordered for Suzuki. £160 I didn't want to spend, but as I'm off to Canterbury on Saturday morning to catch up with some old Uni chums who still live round those parts I don't want 1 Polish death ring, 2 almost worn out Nankangs and an 18 year old spare.

4x Avon ZV7s to be fitted, and going mingebag by asking them not to change the valves. Only place that could have fitted them by Saturday afternoon is Formula 1 in Bognor.

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

hnnnng

[puddlethumper]

Arriving at the Sloth in a Bowl palace this morning, coz working there, pulled the handbrake up

to be greeted by a twang and nothing. Bollix ! I got new ones about 3 years ago. Pre coronavirus crap

I suppose.

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Arriving at the Sloth in a Bowl palace this morning, coz working there, pulled the handbrake up

to be greeted by a twang and nothing. Bollix ! I got new ones about 3 years ago. Pre coronavirus crap

I suppose.

Your mistake there was using it in the first place, all custodians of citroen CXs stopped applying them after a week. 

[puddlethumper]

I'll remember that if I ever have the luck, or not, of owning a CX.

[puntopaul]

8 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Be nice to see it get over 200k, my aim for my Focus is at least moon mileage, at nearly 195k now. 

Your a little bit ahead of me on mileage then! but likewise hope your Focus makes it to the moon an back again ? 

[Christine]

Oh fucking bollocks , major FTP after filling up with diesel in the garage.....starter motor failure. Not a  click , well you hear a click  but no starter motor .. not the inhibitor either as I smashed it off and bridged the wires ..Automatic Pajero so no chance of bump starting!  and it looks a right bastard to get at... Bro in law towed me home..

[Cavcraft]

8 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

 

Thread over, forever.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Your mistake there was using it in the first place, all custodians of citroen CXs stopped applying them after a week. 

Especially automatic ones....

[wuvvum]

9 hours ago, egg said:

Well done Wuv! Does it run? (Trailer is a hint...)

Well it drove onto the trailer, but I don't think it would have driven home...

[wuvvum]

Well after 18 hours, 670 miles, £115 of diesel and one police stop, the Rover, the Merc and I are safely home and the trailer is back with the esteemed shiter to whom it belongs.

I won't be doing anything like that again in a hurry.  Comfortable though Rover 75 seats are, 16 hours is more than enough time to spend sat in them in a day.  It did an OK job of towing the Merc home, but it was abundantly clear that it was only about 50kg off its max towing weight - hill starts in particular had it scrabbling for grip when the road was wet, and pulling out to overtake lorries on the motorway took some forward planning.  It managed it though which was the main thing.

Tomorrow's job is to clear out the garage (which will involve turfing out the Innocenti and the boat, among other things) and stick the Volvo in there so that the Merc can take up temporary residence on the drive whilst I go over it and sort out what it needs.  I was hoping to make a start this weekend but I have a job interview on Monday which I need to prepare for so Merc fettling might need to be put off for a week.  I'll take some more photos tomorrow though - it's quite a vehicle...

[richardmorris]

One of my favourite F1 cars.

 

[wuvvum]

[loserone]

What did the police say @wuvvum?

[richardmorris]

27 minutes ago, loserone said:

What did the police say @wuvvum?

Good evening sir, I see we are winning at life.

[wuvvum]

No, it was when I was returning the trailer so the Merc wasn't present.  They basically wanted to make sure I hadn't nicked it - towing an empty car transporter trailer through the wilds of Norfolk late at night does look a bit dodgy tbf. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

35 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

My cousins used to run the W115 coupé version of that in the 1980s. ACD 824K. Quite a thirsty thing.

[wuvvum]

Well this is a 2.2 diesel so I don't anticipate it being particularly thirsty.  It will, however, probably be slow.