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[Stanky]

My local Aldi had reduced 1 litre bottles of Prestone universal coolant to 99p each (from £2.49) so I bought 8. I may get round to changing the mercedes coolant over the weekend.

[Eyersey1234]

@LightBulbFun no shame in having a lot of lessons, I had about 50 or so when I learned to drive in 2004-5, that was because I wasn't doing any driving outside of lessons as I wasn't insured for the family Multipla due to cost. 

 

Edited to add this was car licence, I passed my bus test in 2007 and class 2 HGV in 2017.

[Aston Martin]

I had to go to Tesco for my mum and I decided to take the Alessi as it hadn't been used in a while,

It's soo bastard fun and I hate to be that prick, but it does turn heads. I mean, so would walking around covered in dog shit. But still....

[richardmorris]

This morning in a fit of enthusiasm I stripped the covers off the two 2cv seats I collected in December. One was too far gone foam backing wise to be worth doing anything with, but the passenger side cover is pretty good. No deterioration in the padding. Anyway, it went in the washing machine and came out in one piece too. Now drying in the sun. Tomorrow’s job may be to swap it for the one in the car at the moment.

A new set is getting on for £300 and as this was free it’s fantastic.

 

ps anyone want two 2cv seat frames?

[lanciamatt]

Been off work has got some jobs I've been putting off finished. Most of our dealer network has closed but I'm on call for essential workers so we can try keep there cars on the road, working out of Barnsley branch. Just hope this all ends soon when safe to do so. Biturbo all working at min, but can't use it, but I might go to work in it Wednesday. Regassed A/C so be good to see how that functions. 

[richardmorris]

Now time for a treat. 

[N19]

The brake fluid on the Bluebird looked a bit murky and was of an indeterminate age, so decided to flush new through. Front done fine. OSR, bleed nipple sheared off immediately i turned the spanner. 

S**t. 

On a bank holiday weekend and in the middle of a lockdown when factors are closed. 

Double s**t. 

It seems to have sheared without turning at all, doesn't leak under pressure, but even so it's not something I'd want to leave. Unless a tidal wave of people on here say "nah it's fine stop worrying". 

Triple s**t! 

[vulgalour]

Put a wood screw in it, cover it in some sort of goop.  Fixed*

[rmjbn1]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Now time for a treat. 

That's the tonic. I'm a 51 man myself, but can appreciate Ricard's approach to brand development:)

[richardmorris]

12 minutes ago, rmjbn1 said:

That's the tonic. I'm a 51 man myself, but can appreciate Ricard's approach to brand development:)

I prefer henri badouin for preference, but Ricard was the choice last time I was in the French wine dealers, plus I have a collection of ricard and 51 carafes.

[stuboy]

Decided I'd use my lunch break to wash the mondeo, wanted to take galaxy to work and do the same, batterys stone dead, keeps doing it, think I need new one, euros Easter offer brings to £67, I may to sell my body ...lol

[rmjbn1]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I prefer henri badouin for preference, but Ricard was the choice last time I was in the French wine dealers, plus I have a collection of ricard and 51 carafes.

Right! I'm off to France as soon as it's allowed!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

15 minutes ago, rmjbn1 said:

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Now time for a treat. 

That's the tonic. I'm a 51 man myself, but can appreciate Ricard's approach to brand development:)

Indeed, Ricard takes that type of thing very seriously..... It's the culture, allegedly.

 

[Zelandeth]

Man I hurt...have spent all day working on the garden.  Just a few cuttings to get shot of.

More of the same tomorrow.  Skip will be getting swapped out for a fresh one on Tuesday.  I reckon we'll be looking at four skip loads before we're done.

[High Jetter]

Could you not burn it? (Cuttings, not the skip).

[rmjbn1]

30 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Man I hurt...have spent all day working on the garden.  Just a few cuttings to get shot of.

More of the same tomorrow.  Skip will be getting swapped out for a fresh one on Tuesday.  I reckon we'll be looking at four skip loads before we're done.

I know how you feel...

We have a solid fuel boiler stove, so all this will be useful in a couple of years' time. Just need to process it all...

[mitsisigma01]

10 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Man I hurt...have spent all day working on the garden.  Just a few cuttings to get shot of.

More of the same tomorrow.  Skip will be getting swapped out for a fresh one on Tuesday.  I reckon we'll be looking at four skip loads before we're done.

WITH smokeless zones nowadays no, how much are skips where you are, I think an 8 yard skip is over £300 darn sarf ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

..., I think an 8 yard skip is over £300 darn sarf ?

About £280. I hired one from Biel Bros to clear an Estate property. Unfortunately this wasn't enough, so we hired a second. We might need a third.....

[Christine]

15 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

About £280. I hired one from Biel Bros to clear an Estate property. Unfortunately this wasn't enough, so we hired a second. We might need a third.....

It's a bugger getting rid of Mk 1 Escort parts innit .....?

[Zelandeth]

50 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Could you not burn it? (Cuttings, not the skip).

Sadly not.  No burning of anything aside from smokeless fuels are allowed in our area.  There wasn't even an exception for barbeques until a couple of years ago.

Think it was about £250 for the skip for a week.

[mitsisigma01]

I hope you are going to get in that skip with the chainsaw! 

[mitsisigma01]

Or rent a heavy duty chipper 

[Zelandeth]

2 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

I hope you are going to get in that skip with the chainsaw! 

A lot of it has actually been cut up before going in there - except the bloody hawthorn because screw messing around with that more than I have to!  Most of what you can see is the brushy remnants from one of the piles and those sodding climbing plants which grow like wildfire.

We did look at renting a chipper, but it was going to be another £300 odd!  By that point we would be 9/10 of the way to having paid a landscaper in to do the work.

We do have a small chipper, it's as much use as a chocolate teapot.

Here's a plan view of our property...the red shows where we have overgrown conifer hedges that we are basically using this lockdown period to get on top of.  It had been let run wild by the previous owners and we've been forever playing catch up for the last five years.

At least once we've sorted it out future maintenance will be pretty easy...just actually getting there is a challenge!

Today we dealt with about a third of the bit by the drive.

 

[lanciamatt]

We still have coal man delivering to houses up our way, and non of it is smokeless. It wouldn't burn right in our fire, so just used normal, there was no smoke once it was going right

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Man I hurt...have spent all day working on the garden.  Just a few cuttings to get shot of.

More of the same tomorrow.  Skip will be getting swapped out for a fresh one on Tuesday.  I reckon we'll be looking at four skip loads before we're done.

Don't forget we have a large burner at the FoD that needs any decent sized logs you have.

[somewhatfoolish]

Depending on the nature of what you've grubbed up(not rhododendron or similar as chopping them up just creates an army of rhoddy saplings), a chipper can be a greener option; once chipped you can just spread the stuff back where it came from and let it mulch and keeps weeds down too for a while.

[vulgalour]

Having a bit of a quandary over here.  I want more cars, but to acquire them I need to part with one of my existing cars.  I do not want to part with either of my existing cars because I like them both very much.  I'd really, really like a Citroen Dyane, it's a want that's never gone away, much like the BX and the Princess, so it's probably something I'd really enjoy owning.  A 2CV is easier to acquire, but it's the Dyane I want because I love how they look.  Other half does not want to share any sort of air-cooled Citroen because they're not his bag at all so I can't blag it as a joint project.  I also really want something pre-war and British, or a BMC Farina of some shape, which at least we can agree on as a joint project and have promised to ourselves once more house things are got through this year.

What to do?

Probably nothing.  Probably just enjoy the fact I've got a really nice BX that I like a lot, and a really weird Princess that I like a lot and don't go getting a Dyane which is likely going to be a whole world of bother.

[somewhatfoolish]

A series really aren't much bother barring rust or SPOTs, fine pieces of automotive engineering.

[vulgalour]

They do seem very straightforward and they sound nice.  If someone waved a reasonable Dyane at me and wanted to swap it for the Princess or the BX I think I'd be in a very difficult position.  Nobody is going to do that, so thankfully I'm safe.

[richardmorris]

46 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

They do seem very straightforward and they sound nice.  If someone waved a reasonable Dyane at me and wanted to swap it for the Princess or the BX I think I'd be in a very difficult position.  Nobody is going to do that, so thankfully I'm safe.

Look at 2cvtv and https://retrospecparts.com/114-cars-for-sale for decent cars.