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[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Presumably hire vans are now ZOMG£££ because ZOMGPANDEMIC means everything white, cube-shaped and mobile is required for delivering 'essentials'. Before this nonsense shopping about could get you a days hire for less than £20.

Whatever it is, I need a van. I have a van. It's costing £67, but its usefulness in shifting what looks like a decent quantity of CX S2 spares is immeasurable......

[5speedracer]

Threw the truck in the workshop to be sorted out. New window reg, new sump, new engine and body mounts, major service including all belts and fluids, battery leaking, camber all out of whack too so that’s a block and tackle job on these.
Decided to get all the car park dings ironed out while its in - its not like i’m using it much right now after all so they can keep it a week or so. 
 
 

Thought "trucks" went forever!

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[Rod/b]

4 minutes ago, 5speedracer said:

Thought "trucks" went forever!

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You still have to maintain them properly!

Other than the window reg and the oil pan all this is just service stuff really. Big service stuff but still! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Currently voicing objections online at a Council Planning Committee meeting, against a proposal for a nightmare flats development next door.

Update: planning application refused!

There is a God after all. 

[N19]

12 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Update: planning application refused!

There is a God after all. 

Since starting working for a Council a little further west, I have done the tech for a number of virtual planning and licensing committees. They are rather illuminating.

I get the feeling that developers propose a horrible and totally unworkable scheme (c.f. Finchley Central and High Barnet car parks), whip up a load of local anger, tie up council officers for a while and then, after the inevitable refusal, come back with a less intrusive scheme - which is probably what they wanted and what's viable in the first place - and get it approved as it's not as bad!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 minutes ago, N19 said:

Since starting working for a Council a little further west, I have done the tech for a number of virtual planning and licensing committees. They are rather illuminating.

I get the feeling that developers propose a horrible and totally unworkable scheme (c.f. Finchley Central and High Barnet car parks), whip up a load of local anger, tie up council officers for a while and then, after the inevitable refusal, come back with a less intrusive scheme - which is probably what they wanted and what's viable in the first place - and get it approved as it's not as bad!

Not this one. The developer here keeps coming back with ever larger, more unwieldy schemes.

[5speedracer]

You still have to maintain them properly!
Other than the window reg and the oil pan all this is just service stuff really. Big service stuff but still! 

Aye, I know. Big miles or rough roads?

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[Rod/b]

6 hours ago, 5speedracer said:

Aye, I know. Big miles or rough roads?

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It’s got 140k km on it, mostly motorway, but it does a fair amount of off-road although nothing spectacularly gnarley. However there’s a lot of sand and high temps so i like to get things done ahead of schedule.

The sump was previously repaired after a spanner monkey span the plug threads so it was time for another when it started leaking again.  

[Split_Pin]

Started on clearing out my garage today, ready for painting.

First I needed to move the Corsa to a position where it was out of the way but all my other cars can be off street but not crammed together. My wife expressly said that I was not allowed to park a car on the stones out front. So I waited until she went to Aldi and now it's parked on the stones. Fits well.

Here are bits of the nearside strut tower.

Garage before: everything stored on the floor and dusty.

 

Pulled everything into the middle of the floor or binned stuff. There is a Corsa engine in there somewhere.

 

Having a break and going to sweep the floor and then start painting.

[gm]

6 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

 My wife expressly said that I was not allowed to park a car on the stones out front.

So I waited until she went to Aldi and now it's parked on the stones. 

 

 

You are a brave / crazy man ! She'll have your stones if your not careful  

[Split_Pin]

She took those 10 years ago!

[BL Bloke]

Taxed the 205 this morning so I'll take some exercise up to the garage this afternoon and give it a little run out for the first time since lockdown.

[richardmorris]

Today's more money than taste spottage.

[Zelandeth]

Enterprise are never the cheapest for van hire.  I always use them though as the vehicles I've had from them are always immaculate and the service has always been good.  Having been messed around by Buget Hertz and most recently Sixt (which sent me out in a van that was virtually undriveable) I've vowed to just stick with Enterprise...yes they're a bit dearer but you get what you pay for.

I imagine with the amount of places doing delivery only type services at the moment as folks have suggested there's probably been a big spike in demand for van rentals so it doesn't surprise me the price has gone up a bit.

[mitsisigma01]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Today's more money than taste spottage.

Give us a clue as having fk all money my taste in motors is rather restricted but obviously better than this ghastly looking thing 

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Give us a clue as having fk all money my taste in motors is rather restricted but obviously better than this ghastly looking thing 

Two tone Ferrari 612?, the avocado green e type is rather nice.

[mitsisigma01]

Hasn't even got 4 doors ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

37 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Two tone Ferrari 612?, the avocado green e type is rather nice.

A Scaglietti.

Thing that gets me about supercars is that they take up so much room on the road, yet have barely enough space to transport two people.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

 

I imagine with the amount of places doing delivery only type services at the moment as folks have suggested there's probably been a big spike in demand for van rentals so it doesn't surprise me the price has gone up a bit.

just put in for one next week 1 day thrifty swb tranny 116 quid ffs

last time i hired it was 50 ish

if the demand is there of course theyll take the piss why not

 

[Zelandeth]

That was quick!

Came all the way from Buffalo in the US. Only ordered it on Friday.

Hopefully this and a regas will get the A/C on the Jag going again.  Not expecting miracles though and am fully expecting further leak fixes to be needed at the very least.  Though there is pressure in the system, albeit not much.

[richardmorris]

This Is a better view from the window. Just delivered by HR Owen.

[Andyrew]

This may be news to some but

The design of the humble 2cv/dyane engine and gearbox. 

It's wank

utter wank. 

Complete and utter wank

 If you dont want to take the front off everything is in the bloody way.

 

WANK!

[Split_Pin]

Here is where I got up to at close of play today.

It looks a bit shit because I have discovered that unless you spraypaint them, you'll never fill all the crevices in the surface of breeze blocks with paint. However it is functional insofar as it now reflects light coming in so I can see what I am doing as the one lightbulb doesn't do much. 

Ceiling next when I have the right paint. Delivery of the shelving and my workbench is shit slow. Don't order anything from Bigdug if you are in a hurry.

[camryv6]

6 hours ago, gm said:

You are a brave / crazy man ! She'll have your stones if your not careful  

Brave or stupid ?

[Tickman]

20 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

It looks a bit shit

It looks much better. 

Hope the workbench and shelving come soon.

[beko1987]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

 

I imagine with the amount of places doing delivery only type services at the moment as folks have suggested there's probably been a big spike in demand for van rentals so it doesn't surprise me the price has gone up a bit.

When my stepdad went to get a van for their 2nd try at moving we were about 3 weeks into the 'proper' lockdown (probably the weekend cummins drove to durham whilst I felt like a criminal driving helping mum move, which was legal tenuously) they initially didnt have any. Then he spoke to the cap who sorted him out the week before on abortive move one who remembered him. Ended up in a van that came back 10 minutes before, signed the forms saying it wasn't washed or inspected, to waiver him from blame and got £40 knocked off for the privelidge. Think it still cost him £300 for the weekend though, as his sister lent it to him as his last roll of the dice before the move was cancelled and he went bankrupt as he couldn't afford the mortgage (which is why they moved, cheaper property for retirement etc)

When we dropped it back it went straight into the wash bay, I imagine then straight back out the door again.

I was more amazed that at 85mph we were doing 16mpg... never seen a modern derv so low, although we were fully loaded at the time. Even dropping the speed (once he realised the 85mph, was not a single other car on the road and the bit between oxford and bicester is boring as fuck and downhill) it was in the low 20's until we got off the motorway and back to 45mph in the b roads

[Split_Pin]

22 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

Brave or stupid ?

I might be a lot of things but stupid is not one of them.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Andyrew said:

This may be news to some but

The design of the humble 2cv/dyane engine and gearbox. 

It's wank

utter wank. 

Complete and utter wank

 If you dont want to take the front off everything is in the bloody way.

 

WANK!

It’s a pain on dyanes but it’s only five mins at most to take off both 2cv wings.

[Stinkwheel]

This may be news to some but
The design of the humble 2cv/dyane engine and gearbox. 
It's wank
utter wank. 
Complete and utter wank
 If you dont want to take the front off everything is in the bloody way.
 
WANK!

But it’s a hemi - great fun winding up Mopar guys.


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[Andyrew]

9 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

It’s a pain on dyanes but it’s only five mins at most to take off both 2cv wings.

You bastard.

 

 

Then there's this mug full of wank.