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[mitsisigma01]

What's the poster in the osr window say? 

[somewhatfoolish]

8 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

They take these little ones to rural properties in twisty little narrow roads, many of which are private and the residents won't fill in the potholes or ruts. 6 years of going where a Unimog would struggle has taken its toll

It's an HGV,  surely it should be getting eyeballed regularly enough to spot that kind of thing before it does an impression of a dog being dragged to the vet for deknackering?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

What's the poster in the osr window say? 

Looks like a reproduction period advert for the 164...

[dozeydustman]

3 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

It's an HGV,  surely it should be getting eyeballed regularly enough to spot that kind of thing before it does an impression of a dog being dragged to the vet for deknackering?

Every 6 weeks. One of our fitters isn’t that good though and likes cable tie and gaffer tape repairs....

[Jim Bell]

On 11/4/2020 at 9:28 AM, dozeydustman said:

Taken a truck to a crew that has broken down.

 

IMG_3711.MOV 12.09 MB · 49 downloads

just a little bit broken 

It's just one of those wagons with a steering wheel at both sides.  

[wuvvum]

9 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Looks like a reproduction period advert for the 164...

Yep, that's what it was.

[N19]

Just been poking around at the LEDs behind the Capri dash. I bought these and installed about a year / 3k miles ago... 

Hmm... All of them have gone this way. Not really what you want... Gone back to standard ones. Dash pod now illuminating beautifully on the bench! 

Perfect timing as the Mondeo fog lights arrived just as I finished that job! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

49 minutes ago, N19 said:

Just been poking around at the LEDs behind the Capri dash. I bought these and installed about a year / 3k miles ago... 

Hmm... All of them have gone this way. Not really what you want...

The current ones based on rectangular SMD / square COB LEDs are supposedly longer-lasting and better able to cope with constant changes in temperature.

[Stanky]

Today has been incredibly quiet work-wise, so I took 45 minutes to get the mercedes on the lift and deal with two serious issues.

1. Remove the co-op 'bag for life' that had become melted to the catalytic converter about 4 weeks ago and stunk when I came to a stop in traffic or in the work carpark. I had hoped it would melt and fall off, or wash off in the rain we've had recently but no such luck. Robust action with a wire brush and a craft knife removed almost all of the remaining melted bits. I was sort of tempted to take it back to the coop and exchange a handful of extremely melted, but still legible remains for a nice new bag, but decided that my karma for doing that would be to pick up a new melted-on bag within a week.

2. Removed a rear wheel to release the small pebble that had become wedged between the inner edge of the brake disc and the backing plate which made a horrific screeching noise, pitch increasing as you got faster until about 50mph when it became so high pitched I couldn't hear it any more, but probably set dogs off barking like mad as I drove past. It came out without any fuss, somehow having managed to become trapped in a recessed dimple in the backing plate so it couldn't come out by itself. Its worn lovely and smooth and flat on one side.

Exciting stuff eh? I also noticed it badly needs a pressure wash in the arches to get the mud and grot out, and was able to look at the diff oil plugs. I've ordered a litre of 75w85 diff oil for that job which i hope might be here by the weekend.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Today has been incredibly quiet work-wise,.....

Same here. The client I most want to speak to is currently keeping a very low profile.

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Same here. The client I most want to speak to is currently keeping a very low profile.

In your line of work, might that not mean that they have shuffled off this mortal coil?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, wuvvum said:

In your line of work, might that not mean that they have shuffled off this mortal coil?

Entirely possible.....

[Vince70]

Today I put the misses Ford Ka into hibernation till spring and gave it a wax and put a cover over it.

It recently just passed its MOT with no advisory’s and the MOT tester thought he had gone back to 1998 as he hadn’t seen a rust free example before but It has only done 19000 so it’s not surprising I guess and the best £150 I’ve spent on a motor.

I was thinking of drilling a couple of holes in the  sills and filling them up with old engine oil to stop any rot but hopefully if it’s not going near any salt I think it should be ok.
 

But now it’s upside down I should be able to check the underside at least.

[SiC]

Someone had a bad day!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHNz2KPDNLc/

 

[egg]

36 minutes ago, Vince70 said:

Today I put the misses Ford Ka into hibernation till spring and gave it a wax and put a cover over it.

I harbour a little fantasy of finding the earliest Ka left and keeping it mint. Preferably a base model (even though no PAS on early ones) - apparently Richard Porter had one as his first car cos the reviewers said the non-PAS car handled better. 

[cobblers]

This got delivered today. 310bhp. I did one lap of the business park in it. Fucking terrifying. Absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with it.

[loserone]

you can't just give us one picture, we need a whole thread and ideally a test drive video.  Hell, I'd even film it myself it needed

[cobblers]

I need to get it insured first! The first two places I phoned had seen it on youtube, so they respectfully declined

[cort16]

11 minutes ago, cobblers said:

This got delivered today. 310bhp. I did one lap of the business park in it. Fucking terrifying. Absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with it.

Is that the darksides developments one? Did you win the raffle?

If so, well done!

[cobblers]

Yes,  and yes!

[cort16]

2 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Yes,  and yes!

Bloody hell, great stuff. I watched their youtube video on it a while back it's absolutely mental. Is it still like a race car inside?

 

[doug]

2006 Reliant kangoo

£400

 

Spair or repair run on gas aswell .new starter alternator van will run and drive but loud tapping from top end .contact mark [hidden information]

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1077208262725353

[dave j]

39 minutes ago, cobblers said:

This got delivered today. 310bhp. I did one lap of the business park in it. Fucking terrifying. Absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with it.

Wow! Nice one Cobblers. I didn't get a ticket but it looks like a real weapon! 

[vulgalour]

My print/scanner combo has decided it doesn't want to talk to my computer any more, which means I've got a couple of unfinished traditional automotive art pieces there's not much point in me finishing until I replace the thing, or get it talking again.  Tried all the usual updates with drivers etc. and while the computer can see the device, and the device can see the computer, they're not on speaking terms and we can't figure out why.  Never mind, I've been wanting to replace it with a laser printer and a separate flatbed scanner for a while so this is as good an excuse as any.

That means I've been trying to get better at digital automotive artwork and I've been picking away at this Fury, getting stumped for a wheel choice until finding this excellent photo in the reference folder which might originally have been posted by someone on here, I'm not sure.

No idea what the wheel is, I just know it works for what I'm creating and seemed to be a fairly popular style for American stuff in Australia.

 

[Zelandeth]

3 hours ago, Vince70 said:

Today I put the misses Ford Ka into hibernation till spring and gave it a wax and put a cover over it.

It recently just passed its MOT with no advisory’s and the MOT tester thought he had gone back to 1998 as he hadn’t seen a rust free example before but It has only done 19000 so it’s not surprising I guess and the best £150 I’ve spent on a motor.

I was thinking of drilling a couple of holes in the  sills and filling them up with old engine oil to stop any rot but hopefully if it’s not going near any salt I think it should be ok.
 

But now it’s upside down I should be able to check the underside at least.

That looks bloody lovely. 

I really do fancy one of these.  Only modification I'd do would be the alloy ball gear knob from a Puma as it feels so much nicer in the hand.  Such fun little go karts these original Kas.

[Eyersey1234]

8 hours ago, egg said:

I harbour a little fantasy of finding the earliest Ka left and keeping it mint. Preferably a base model (even though no PAS on early ones) - apparently Richard Porter had one as his first car cos the reviewers said the non-PAS car handled better. 

IIRC all early Ka left the factory as the bASe and the upgrade to Ka2 was done at the dealers. Wonder why adding PAS made a difference to the handling 

[Angrydicky]

10 hours ago, Vince70 said:

Today I put the misses Ford Ka into hibernation till spring and gave it a wax and put a cover over it.

It recently just passed its MOT with no advisory’s and the MOT tester thought he had gone back to 1998 as he hadn’t seen a rust free example before but It has only done 19000 so it’s not surprising I guess and the best £150 I’ve spent on a motor.

I was thinking of drilling a couple of holes in the  sills and filling them up with old engine oil to stop any rot but hopefully if it’s not going near any salt I think it should be ok.
 

But now it’s upside down I should be able to check the underside at least.

That’s a rarity. Ours only had 30k when purchased but had clearly been sat outside for years and the screen pillars are both rotten where they meet the scuttle (which might not be too clever either). It’s also on its way in the sills, under the back of the drivers door, the inner sills at the back and the front subframe mounts. The fuel filler pocket is a notorious rot spot but ours is ok there, saved by the low mileage.

If you want to keep it, I’d paint the underside and underseal it, dinitrol the sills and keep it garaged.

[egg]

1 hour ago, Eyersey1234 said:

IIRC all early Ka left the factory as the bASe and the upgrade to Ka2 was done at the dealers. Wonder why adding PAS made a difference to the handling 

I didn't know that. I think the PAS thing was just car journo speak.

[Vince70]

A friend of mine had an early Ka  years back and it was non power steering I think it was actually on a P plate and back then it seemed all of the base models were red.

This one is a poverty spec car and it drives great and it doesn’t give you any toys and we have another one which is an 04 which is fully loaded.

When we first got  the 04 car It was bought for an 18th birthday present  it was such a great car to drive that my misses wanted one for herself and the nearest thing I can think it reminded me of was my Mk3 XR2i back in the early 90s.

[Eyersey1234]

2 minutes ago, Vince70 said:

A friend of mine had an early Ka  years back and it was non power steering I think it was actually on a P plate and back then it seemed all of the base models were red.

This one is a poverty spec car and it drives great and it doesn’t give you any toys and we have another one which is an 04 which is fully loaded.

When we first got in the 04 car for an 18th birthday present  it was such a great car to drive that my misses wanted one for herself and the nearest thing I can think it reminded me of was my Mk3 XR2i back in the early 90s.

Phooarrr one chodtastic Ka you have there.