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3 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

The Panda now has a new MoT, didn't bother with the extra Boris time as fixing it in November might be a bit colder than it actually is today. Note to self though; don't get too clever when welding the sills and nicely fill them with a skim of wob so it all looks neat. The MoT man will make you remove it all so he can see it's been welded properly, then he'll say "nice welding", just to piss you off !!

 

Still confused about the ruling here. So if you MOT as normal will you get 12 months again or will it be 18 months MOT?

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1 hour ago, Mrcento said:

As of yesterday, i now own a Vectra.

Mods- how long of a banning offence is this?

I’ll discuss with the others but at least a year... ?

Which generation of Vectra would that be? 

Posted
20 minutes ago, AndyIggs said:

Still confused about the ruling here. So if you MOT as normal will you get 12 months again or will it be 18 months MOT?

You get 12 months, but weirdly, given what's happened to me, it's just 12 months, no extra weeks. By that I mean the Panda MoT expired on the 17th of May, I had it tested on the 7th which it failed. On that day the DVLA still said it expired on the 17th. Between the 7th and today, the 11th, the DVLA extended the MoT until November 17th, despite it having failed last Thursday. Today when it passed they put the expiry date as 10th May next year, not the 17th.

Could I have driven it for another 6 months after I'd fixed it?. You tell me how it's working.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, brownnova said:

I’ll discuss with the others but at least a year... ?

Which generation of Vectra would that be? 

C-

I do plan to issue an appeal to have my sentence reduced by a month on the basis that it's at least listed as colour-beige. ?

Posted
1 hour ago, Mrcento said:

As of yesterday, i now own a Vectra.

Mods- how long of a banning offence is this?

I hope the gear knob doesn't come off in your hand when selecting reverse, the little plastic clip you pull to get the cover off the spare wheel is still there and you don't need the paramedics to lift you out of it after a four hour drive back from Glasgow.

Other than that, WHY???

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since driling out the exhaust studs ive upset the lambda sensor and its throwing eml on, wonder if got covered in wd40 that i was using as drilling lube

Posted
7 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

don't get too clever when welding the sills and nicely fill them with a skim of wob so it all looks neat. The MoT man will make you remove it all so he can see it's been welded properly, then he'll say "nice welding", just to piss you off !!

Utter bollocks.  Are you going to be expected to do that every year?

It's either solid or it's not.  A thin skim of wob on the sills isn't an MOT fail afaik.

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Yeah, I didn't think they were permitted to do that, a worrying development for bodgers everywhere if correct.

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The garage I use like to see the welded repair before it's skimmed in and painted to be certain it's a legitimate repair. Otherwise it could be a pop rivetted plate covered in filler as far as they know. I never had an issue with it, do repair, mot retest, then beautify under half a tin of bog.

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It appears it was just being unloaded to fit an F40 on the top deck.

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Meh sorry Ferraris don't do anything for me, now if it was a bASe Mk1 Mondeo like @egg has it would be different 

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Being key workers both my OH and I thought it would be a good idea to get tested for Covid-19, fuck me what an experience having a stick shoved down your throat. Thank fuck they both came back negative 

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7 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Meh sorry Ferraris don't do anything for me, now if it was a bASe Mk1 Mondeo like @egg has it would be different 

There was a Mondeo st thing a while back, but yesterday there were a couple of four door sierras with cross channel ferry-sized exhausts. Maybe cosworths?

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20 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Meh sorry Ferraris don't do anything for me, now if it was a bASe Mk1 Mondeo like @egg has it would be different 

This is my problem, I like some Ferraris and cars others would say have no merit at all!

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Polished my headlights... again. Now up to attempt number three. Attempt number two took place last week and I thought it was a success, but I was wrong.

So wrong...

I polished them and then got bored, read some reports and went and bought the Armorall wipes things that are supposed to be the Bees knees. To be fair, they looked great for about a day then whatever lacquer was left on the headlights reacted and it looked like it had acne, bad acne...

So today I sanded them with the Autoglym kit but instead of doing it with a drill, I did it by hand (what a man!) and they came out loads better almost look really good! It was much easier doing it by hand - 800, 1500, 2000 and then 3000, the last stages almost had them shining before I polished them.

I can live with them now they look 'proper' and better than spending many, many hundreds on new ones.

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6 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Polished my headlights... again. Now up to attempt number three. Attempt number two took place last week and I thought it was a success, but I was wrong.

So wrong...

I polished them and then got bored, read some reports and went and bought the Armorall wipes things that are supposed to be the Bees knees. To be fair, they looked great for about a day then whatever lacquer was left on the headlights reacted and it looked like it had acne, bad acne...

So today I sanded them with the Autoglym kit but instead of doing it with a drill, I did it by hand (what a man!) and they came out loads better almost look really good! It was much easier doing it by hand - 800, 1500, 2000 and then 3000, the last stages almost had them shining before I polished them.

I can live with them now they look 'proper' and better than spending many, many hundreds on new ones.

How much was the autoglym kit ? my SLK headlights are pretty yellow and could do with a bit of attention

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I'm just after firing up the CX after six weeks' dormancy. Remarkably, no oil or coolant warning lights. Oil gauge still reading minimum, even after decanting another litre of Castrol 10w40 into it.

Booking it into Garages Dubois-Loizou next month to get another coolant flush, plus a leakdown test for the head gasket. LHM is three years old now so that will probably need replacing. And get all the brake pads/discs checked, and handbrake reset. Big bill anticipated.

Everything else still works, but I'm definitely going to need a replacement heater blower fan - anyone out there got a spare working one?

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I’ve no idea why I like these old Waddingtons Super Top Trumps so much. As a boy I probably played with them two or three times in total. Anyway I’ve waxed lyrical about my passion for this sort of thing before, so I won’t bore you to tears with the script again. 

Anyway, my sons and I knew the lorries deck inside out so I’ve invested another £6 on a new* set from eBay. 

Just look at them. 
 

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10/10 would go on a bawdy trans-continental coach holiday via Neoplan Skyliner driven by a balding Sid James type character. 

Would recommend. 

Posted
2 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I'm just after firing up the CX after six weeks' dormancy. Remarkably, no oil or coolant warning lights. Oil gauge still reading minimum, even after decanting another litre of Castrol 10w40 into it.

Booking it into Garages Dubois-Loizou next month to get another coolant flush, plus a leakdown test for the head gasket. LHM is three years old now so that will probably need replacing. And get all the brake pads/discs checked, and handbrake reset. Big bill anticipated.

Everything else still works, but I'm definitely going to need a replacement heater blower fan - anyone out there got a spare working one?

Lhm lasts forever being non -hygroscopic , if you had it all hydroflushed when you got it that’s it for the next twenty years.

 

also you say the oil gauge is reading min, but are you checking the dipstick too?

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22 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

I’ve no idea why I like these old Waddingtons Super Top Trumps so much. As a boy I probably played with them two or three times in total. Anyway I’ve waxed lyrical about my passion for this sort of thing before, so I won’t bore you to tears with the script again. 

Anyway, my sons and I knew the lorries deck inside out so I’ve invested another £6 on a new* set from eBay. 

Just look at them. 
 

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10/10 would go on a bawdy trans-continental coach holiday via Neoplan Skyliner driven by a balding Sid James type character. 

Would recommend. 

Those old Setra coaches go like the clappers, and sound great whilst doing so.  Merc V8 if memory serves. 

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14 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Those old Setra coaches go like the clappers, and sound great whilst doing so.  Merc V8 if memory serves. 

I would absolutely love a go on a coach. Why don’t people organise THIS as a red letter day rather than the option to spank a lotus around a disused airfield. I’d be much happier taking a bunch of pensioners to Southwold for the afternoon. 

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The earliest Setras are well over 30 years old now, so legally drivable on a car licence.  You wouldn't be able to carry pensioners though sadly.

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43 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

....also you say the oil gauge is reading min, but are you checking the dipstick too?

Yes, and despite the now two litres of Castrol I've now poured in, I'm struggling to see any trace of oil between the dipstick markers. I always do the check when stone cold before starting. 

Now I accept that my eyesight has worsened over the years, but when I wipe the dipstick the oil traces all come from the bottom section below the marks and not even the hint of a stain between them. Je ne comprends pas. C'est vraiment bizarre.

Posted
26 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

The earliest Setras are well over 30 years old now, so legally drivable on a car licence.  You wouldn't be able to carry pensioners though sadly.

Can you drive a full size on grandads rights (car test passed before xxxx) but be limited as to how many seats (maybe 9 or 13 or 15) and should Mr Bornite purchased a full size coach and if he say had insurance that allowed others to drive it, would others be covered on his insurance or third party only cover from other persons own insurance ????

Just a thought ?

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23 hours ago, stuboy said:

since driling out the exhaust studs ive upset the lambda sensor and its throwing eml on, wonder if got covered in wd40 that i was using as drilling lube

Oxygen sensors get a hard life, in the harshest environment. Even vibration from any hammering / spannering can see them go into a failed existence. I had to replace one recently, on a Peugeot 207 and the car drives massively better and uses less fuel now. 
There is usually a reset within the ECU so the new parameters of the sensor can be learnt and Oxy Sensor ageing zeroed. 

Posted
37 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Yes, and despite the now two litres of Castrol I've now poured in, I'm struggling to see any trace of oil between the dipstick markers. I always do the check when stone cold before starting. 

Now I accept that my eyesight has worsened over the years, but when I wipe the dipstick the oil traces all come from the bottom section below the marks and not even the hint of a stain between them. Je ne comprends pas. C'est vraiment bizarre.

The oil in my x1/9 is so clean it’s hard to see, but even so it’s there. I have no experience of the 2.5 cxs but like you say, it’s bizzare. Are you in the ccc? Have you asked Stan platts?

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14 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Can you drive a full size on grandads rights (car test passed before xxxx) but be limited as to how many seats (maybe 9 or 13 or 15) and should Mr Bornite purchased a full size coach and if he say had insurance that allowed others to drive it, would others be covered on his insurance or third party only cover from other persons own insurance ????

Just a thought ?

Third party cover from your own (car) insurance would definitely not cover you to drive a coach.  I think 8 passengers is the limit for driving on a car licence.

Posted
11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

The oil in my x1/9 is so clean it’s hard to see, but even so it’s there. I have no experience of the 2.5 cxs but like you say, it’s bizzare. Are you in the ccc? Have you asked Stan platts?

I am in the 3C. I think I will have to ask Stan if he's come across anything like this. Incidentally, this has only started happening since the oil and filter were changed. 

After running the engine today,  I switched off, then turned on the ignition without starting. The oil gauge flicked over to about one-third, so it does agree the oil is in there somewhere. 

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