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[stuboy]

Thought make start looking at cracked door wires on the galaxy....its dead..grr

[High Jetter]

If yer trying to jump-start it there's something missing!

[reb]

All the essentials in.

No bench yet, so had to improvise for mounting the truing stand

Shimmed with a lump of the free kindling I got the other day.

[paulplom]

I'm pissed bored here like. I've even tidied under my bed.
I found a tv/dvd combi if anyone would like it. 22" with a decent looking bracket. I presume it could be used as a monitor.
I'll leave it in the front garden if anyone would like it. No contact required. You could collect on a essential trip to tescos.

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[Split_Pin]

Tinkered around the cars today, mainly the Clio.

The clamp holding the tail pipe to the mid section was loose.

The clamp holding the second tailpipe to the system is also rotten but still tight.

Helpfully I have neither size so have ordered 2 from ebay.

The rear heatshield was only held on by one bolt and was rattling something awful.

Off you fuck.

While I was there I fitted a new hanger for the second tailpipe and applied Vactan to the rear chassis rails followed by stonechip.

The whole mid section is only held on by this one bizarrely designed rubber. It is hanging a bit low so I'll order another.

Sits a bit more even each side now.

 

I also fixed the non working numberplate light bulb by binning the shitty LED item and robbing a bulb from the Corsa. Garage had said it was the wiring but that looked fine and it now works.

Moved onto the front nearside and treated some light corrosion with Vactan and then stonechipped it. I did the offside about a month ago.

I had some Vactan left over so treated a small patch in the Audi's front wheelarches, same both sides.

Poked the hole in the Corsas strut top again and made it bigger. Rest of the car is OK but realistically its worth more in bits.

[Jazoli]

I fitted parking sensors to the Insignia today, no pics as I didn't take any, but I can now park with confidence as previously it was a guessing game as the visibility was shit due to it being a modern.

I also had to fit a new battery to the wife's 307CC, yesterdays fucking about finally killed it and it wouldn't start well today and was showing 12.1V at rest, we have been having random bouts of windows dropping and spurious warning lights, which all pointed to the battery on its way out, its now fixed, annoying thing was is that I had a brand new battery in the garage but the wife thinks because I already had it she can have it for free

[Cord Fourteener]

4 hours ago, reb said:

All the essentials in.

No bench yet, so had to improvise for mounting the truing stand

Shimmed with a lump of the free kindling I got the other day.

You're actually using a real trueing stand! Luxury. I normally used the upturned bike and the brakes as a reference.

[stuboy]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

If yer trying to jump-start it there's something missing!

Bluetooth connection...lol

 

realised id put leads away

[stuboy]

Had a look in door loom only 2 split wires so crimp in some extra wires.

 

Still cant get remote to work for central locking, ( following YouTube instructions)

[reb]

Rust removal done*

Need to find a more precise wire wheel to get at the bits at the top of the bracket shell, but that went far better than expected. I'm going to cover it in some alloy wheel lacquer I have lying around because the owner likes the "lived in" look. Fine by me.

Makes me thankful for always having had Reynolds stainless frames, none of this nonsense to deal with. Absolutely not worth it from any sane man's perspective, but that's why I'm here.

[Cord Fourteener]

Breaking news! I found a complete set of gives for my BMW E46 estate!

At long friggin last. eBay of course.

And there's a chance, what with lock-down rules, I can make the time to fit then myself.

And I ordered two flowering currant bushes, I'm tempted to order 4 more blackthorns from the woodland trust.

I've had a good day ?

Edit: I meant to say hinges but I was too excited to proof read... Phone typo. Sorry ?

Edited April 5, 2020 by Tim_E

[Cord Fourteener]

45 minutes ago, reb said:

Rust removal done*

Need to find a more precise wire wheel to get at the bits at the top of the bracket shell, but that went far better than expected. I'm going to cover it in some alloy wheel lacquer I have lying around because the owner likes the "lived in" look. Fine by me.

Makes me thankful for always having had Reynolds stainless frames, none of this nonsense to deal with. Absolutely not worth it from any sane man's perspective, but that's why I'm here.

Dremel and the flexible extension with wire brush set?

[Timewaster]

9 hours ago, reb said:

The only lead piping in this unit is this godawful Raleigh Equipe, thank you.

I always wanted a Raleigh Equipe! 

When I had made enough paper round money I went to buy one, but a Peugeot Elan caught my eye instead. 

 

[stuboy]

16 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Breaking news! I found a complete set of gives for my BMW E46 estate!

gives??

[Tadhg Tiogar]

*heavy sigh* - battery recharge still in progress.

 

27 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

I always wanted a Raleigh Equipe! 

When I had made enough paper round money I went to buy one, but a Peugeot Elan caught my eye instead. 

I had a Peugeot Talisman for many years, fitted with a trad Iku speedometer running dynamo-style off the tyre wall (none of this digital thing!), 

replacing a junior Peugeot 5-speed racing bike. Wouldn't ride any other make, not after an early encounter with a Raleigh Arena that didn't feel right.

The Talisman was criminally underused after I passed my driving test in 1989. Sold it on eBay in the mid-2000s.

[N19]

Today I incremented the counter of "skeptical people who asked for a jump start, looked amazed when I brought this around and then doubly amazed that it worked"... 

[mitsisigma01]

4 hours ago, stuboy said:

gives??

Still none the wiser.... 

Full set... ?

Only TimE has the answer.... 

[beko1987]

10 hours ago, stuboy said:

Had a look in door loom only 2 split wires so crimp in some extra wires.

 

Still cant get remote to work for central locking, ( following YouTube instructions)

Its done a vauxhall! A quick repair will snap again, I ended up chopping the entire loom back to inside the car and ran new wires. Can't tell you how long that will last as the car got scraped 5 months after... 

[Cord Fourteener]

11 hours ago, stuboy said:

gives??

Sorry, typo. Hinges. I found hinges.

I was obviously too excited to proof-read my post!

[Cord Fourteener]

7 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Still none the wiser.... 

Full set... ?

Only TimE has the answer.... 

Typo, obviously I was too excited to proof-read my post. The excitement is high, BMW quoted me about £450 fitted for this.

[Mat.T]

As I have no access to any of my interesting cars due to the lock down I've been tackling jobs on the boring moderns. Finally, got round to doing the cam belt and water pump on my wifes Peugeot 308.

Car has done 76k and coming up to 11 years old, Peugeot say 96k for a belt change or 10 years. The belt was just starting to crack and the water pump was showing signs of a slight weep. Also gave it an oil and filter change.

Cam belt isnt to bad to do there is enough room to access things once I'd removed a large pile of plastic from the car

[stuboy]

My mums 70th can only put card through the door so came home... bored so thought I'd get on with exhaust project..

Missus says gloves are need of going into the bin

[reb]

I was going to go to the workshop today and finish off that bike, but it's got a bit more in depth than anticipated, so i need to step back and regroup I think. Also, it's fucking Sunday!

[stuboy]

Love a flap wheel to hide sins...

Coat of heat paint, couple slices to make it clampable.

 

[Split_Pin]

I applied some Renovo to the Audi's hood today, it came up well I think.

[paulplom]

Anyone know anything about fridges? I've just opened mine and it stinks of basil.

I think it might be fawlty.

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[Agila]

8 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Anyone know anything about fridges? I've just opened mine and it stinks of basil.

I think it might be fawlty.

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I'd have a look in the Manuel. 

 

Forget that, the instructions are all in Spanish. 

Edited April 5, 2020 by Agila
Looked in Manuel

[doug]

Painted the garage floor. The light switch is on the back wall, can't switch it off till the paint dries. Thunked that out well.

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[doug]

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[HillmanImp]

*SHOCK NEWS**HOLD THE PRESS*

H. IMP DOES ACTUAL CAR WORK. 

I know, mental, yeah! People probably forget I used to sometimes do stuff to my cars (quite often wrongly as people on these pages often pointed out) and I'm not just here to shitpost. 

The 944 has had rusty wings since before I got it. Obviously it was going to be the first thing I did when I got the car. 

So here we are 15 months later and they're still not done. 

If anyone remembers I have tried to buy proper repair panels but they were fucking shite so I sent them back. 

So today I decided to try and sort one of the shitty wings. Didn't start well with me breaking the side repeater trying to get to the bolts down the door frame. 

However after an hour or so the wing was off.

Helpfully the awkward one to get to next to the light wasn't there. Reckon thats a bumper off job so hell, thats fine with me. 

Sadly things didn't get better after breaking the indicator. The wing was pretty rotten. This is how much I had to cut out. 

Was at it for a few hours, including beer breaks. 

Until this happened. 

Will try and sort it tomorrow but probably need a new liner. It had been a little temperamental for a few minutes before but went full on bollocked in no time, so I may be able to blag it for a bit. I've no idea if Machine Mart are open, I'll check in the morning unless anyone else knows? Sure theres an emergency plastic liner somewhere in the garage though, will look. 

It was already getting late though so I sacked it off for the day. 

Wing currently looks like this. Its a well fucking awkward bit of metal. Lots of curves and angles. 

I reckon the chances of it being the right size afterwards are pretty much zero. I was constantly measuring the wing on the other side but its equally as fucked so I was guessing where the end of what I was measuring was. Hopefully it will be close enough though. 

It can be metal and filler, thats fine. Will probably still be better than the £230 or whatever it was I'd paid for those other repair panels.