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2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Not sure you quite get the idea of 'blinging', but nice try

I like to think I am tasteful (people who know me would laugh at this statement).

[beko1987]

On 06/12/2020 at 22:09, reb said:

Indeed a Fiesta, a "Black edition" whatever that means. The seats have been fitted later. It's only a 1.4, it'll do the job of being a winter runabout alright though.

Ooh fancy! I had a Puma 'Black', was a nice interior! Hope you don't have the alloys with the plastic caps all over them... They corrode... 

[1duck]

On 12/5/2020 at 5:10 PM, Yoss said:

 

... to allow me to park on double yellow lines, pedestrian crossings or wherever the hell I like really! I am only half joking, if you have trouble parking anywhere just get an old Royal Mail van, you can put it where you want. 

BRB making a copy of that in word and printing it off, cheaper than buying an ex RM van. I mean my 107 is red so semi believable. 

[Cord Fourteener]

Conversation with wife this morning after using her car this morning. Paraphrased.

Me: you need to clean the inside of your window.

Wife: why do my cars always get dirty windows?

Me: because time and all dirt that. 

Wife: I thought you never had to clean them.

Me: what made you think that?

Wife: I thought they kept themselves clean and you could never touch the inside?

Me:???!!!???? (Recovers) ok you're not meant to clean condensation with a cloth unless you're desperate or put fingerprints on the glass inside, but you do have to clean the inside.

Wife:???!!!???? (I think she's just about recovered)

Doctor-owned cars for you. She thinks getting the annual MOT = keeping it serviced.

 

[Mike D]

Few more bits done on the mini - cleaned up the front brakes:

Then as usual, everything started to spiral out of control 🙄

it seemed to be sitting a bit higher than i remember at the rear, a bit of a bounce on it revealed the drivers side radius arm had seized up - and back when it was being used, I had to weld the outer radius arm bracket on while out and about as 2 of the bolts had sheared. It was all looking a bit crusty under there too, and I discovered a bit that must have been missed and might need a poke...

I gave the heel board trunnion bolts a bit of a working, and thankfully they all came out!

The rears weren't so cooperative

 

And on the floor. 

 

On to the crispy bit:

Oh dear!

 

That should sort that  The rest of it looks cock on  thankfully.

Radius arms removed, i'm pleased as I can give them a clean up and rebuild now, theyre a bit rough:

I've got all new shafts and bearings to rebuild them with, and with the subframe off, at least replacing all the brake lines etc will be more pleasant. Speaking of which I've also taken the long shlanger of British heritage down to the hinge end and ordered a new genuine subframe  

 

Cheers!

[Cord Fourteener]

Breaking news! In Surbiton, London, a portal to the early 90s has opened.

 

[Lord Sterling]

Just before I came to Belgium, I took the bloody Peugeot to a Peugeot dealer in Worcester. Just because...erm...yeah......

Then I found out my Peugeot was originally bought from Regal Peugeot in Wolverhampton so could, and will take it there.

[Yoss]

On 12/5/2020 at 8:59 PM, stuboy said:

is it beige?

Funnily enough I actually saw a new beige Transporter today. 

Meanwhile for the last two days I've been given this. 

Don't need to be quite so paranoid about this one as it already has 35k miles on it and a bit of a dent in the side door.  It also only has four buttons on the steering wheel that I'm never going to use instead of the 18 on the Transporter which is frankly ridiculous. 

I would probably upset a lot of people (not on here but all those dub scene people) if I said this is a better van than the Transporter. The seat is lower which does make it easier to get in and out of and once in the view ahead is better so the dashboard on the VW is too high for a van. The VW may be better as a long distance delivery vehicle but I only do seven miles in about six hours (usually four hours when it's not a Lockdown Christmas Armageddon Crossover) so I can't judge that. This is better as a start stop delivery van. 

Mind you they're both better than our normal Pug Partner. At least I have more room to spread my packets out. I like to sort them in to little piles for the different areas I do but at the moment I just have too many. One day last week I had to leave some packets behind as they physically wouldn't fit in the Pug. 

One thing with this Vivaro, it has this big green light... 

... under the digital speedo which I have no idea what it is supposed to signify. It comes and goes but has no symbol in or around it. It's green so I assume that's a good thing and therefore ignore it. 

[louiepj]

Neighbours son just posted a brake job on a van for a customer after the brake pad fell out!
I think they got maximum value out of these discs.

[stuboy]

11 hours ago, Yoss said:

green light means ur economic driving style, and goes amber then red if you cane it

[Yoss]

Oh really? It is only ever green or off, I've not seen it any other colour. Even whilst sat idling for 15 minutes on my break trying to get some heat in the cabin, which doesn't seem to work very well either but that's not surprising when you're only doing 7 miles in 6 hours, a diesel really needs to be worked to get any heat out of it. 

If they give it to me tomorrow I shall try and make it change colour. What do you think I have to do to make it turn red?😊

[Cord Fourteener]

32 minutes ago, Yoss said:

 

If they give it to me tomorrow I shall try and make it change colour. What do you think I have to do to make it turn red?😊

Drive it like you stole it.

[Ghosty]

I miss owning an R8. 
Early GSI, hmmmmm. 

[Tetleysmooth]

On 12/7/2020 at 10:47 PM, stuboy said:

Amazon do it again.. 8 valve caps in a mahoosive packet

It does seem rather daft, but I'd say there's less chance of that large packet getting lost in transit, rather than a fag packet sized parcel. Especially at this time of year. So, possibly makes sense.

[barefoot]

Just to confirm that the contents weren't broken or damaged?

[catsinthewelder]

3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

I miss owning an R8. 
Early GSI, hmmmmm. 

What you need is a 220 SLi.  You can have mine 😉

[Cord Fourteener]

7 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

What you need is a 220 SLi.  You can have mine 😉

The stuff of dreams! For my 17 year old self it was.

[richardmorris]

Father Christmas delivers early. Sorry for the blurry pics, I was excited!

 

[richardmorris]

Sometime last week...

[davehedgehog31]

17 hours ago, Tim_E said:

Breaking news! In Surbiton, London, a portal to the early 90s has opened.

 

@Split_Pin The biscuit is inbound.

[Split_Pin]

21 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said:

@Split_Pin The biscuit is inbound.

Enter right a speeding Suzuki Super Carry, watch yer motor The Biscuit!

[dome]

14 hours ago, Yoss said:

Funnily enough I actually saw a new beige Transporter today. 

Meanwhile for the last two days I've been given this. 

Don't need to be quite so paranoid about this one as it already has 35k miles on it and a bit of a dent in the side door.  It also only has four buttons on the steering wheel that I'm never going to use instead of the 18 on the Transporter which is frankly ridiculous. 

I would probably upset a lot of people (not on here but all those dub scene people) if I said this is a better van than the Transporter. The seat is lower which does make it easier to get in and out of and once in the view ahead is better so the dashboard on the VW is too high for a van. The VW may be better as a long distance delivery vehicle but I only do seven miles in about six hours (usually four hours when it's not a Lockdown Christmas Armageddon Crossover) so I can't judge that. This is better as a start stop delivery van. 

Mind you they're both better than our normal Pug Partner. At least I have more room to spread my packets out. I like to sort them in to little piles for the different areas I do but at the moment I just have too many. One day last week I had to leave some packets behind as they physically wouldn't fit in the Pug. 

One thing with this Vivaro, it has this big green light... 

... under the digital speedo which I have no idea what it is supposed to signify. It comes and goes but has no symbol in or around it. It's green so I assume that's a good thing and therefore ignore it. 

I look after a fleet of 6 vans at work-we have 2 of these on fleet just now, both around 5 years old and sitting on over 100k. They've had a few issues but nothing major and are great to drive. We're replacing them with Transporters though (not my choice but the numbers do add up) so I'll report back. Initial thoughts are that the Trafics are a better drive though. 

It's so far taken VW almost a year to deliver 2 of the new vans. Well, they tried to deliver them in March but somehow had managed to build us completely the wrong spec of vans. It's not gone well so far! 

[egg]

Mazda sold and Mondeo SORN'd. So only transport remaining at home is a modern of many dents! Yuk!

[Floatylight]

C4GP failed MOT on diesel leaks from injector seals, garage want £250 to replace the seals on all 4 injectors,  have watched some youtubes and reckon I could do it myself, should I give it a go or isnit the path to madness?

[Jazoli]

*if* you can get the injectors out its quite simple.

 

[tooSavvy]

15 hours ago, stuboy said:

green light means ur economic driving style, and goes amber then red if you cane it

Ahh.... If my auto had one of those, I'd imagine my handbrake was still on!

[wuvvum]

Had an interesting fault with the Skoda last night - went out at about 10pm in sub-zero temperatures and the driver's door wouldn't unlock.  I sprayed deicer at the lock but that made no difference.  Got in via the passenger door, tried unlocking the driver's door from inside, but it still didn't want to play ball.  I was only driving for about 10 minutes, but in that time the (very efficient) heater had got the car nicely warmed up, and when I got back the driver's door unlocked and opened fine.  So it must have been the mechanism inside the door which had frozen up.  Odd.

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Had an interesting fault with the Skoda last night - went out at about 10pm in sub-zero temperatures and the driver's door wouldn't unlock.  I sprayed deicer at the lock but that made no difference.  Got in via the passenger door, tried unlocking the driver's door from inside, but it still didn't want to play ball.  I was only driving for about 10 minutes, but in that time the (very efficient) heater had got the car nicely warmed up, and when I got back the driver's door unlocked and opened fine.  So it must have been the mechanism inside the door which had frozen up.  Odd.

Our ZX goes the other way lets you open the door, then won't let it relatch until it has warmed up.

[Six-cylinder]

Driving the XM 2.0 16v Auto out of Milton Keynes this morning as I accelerated from a roundabout I found a old looking US Ford van was catching me so I pushed harder, then my hardest and it just rushed on past me. I quite liked how this quite large van picked up its skirts and ran.

I caught it at the queue for another roundabout and papped it, says it is an E150 on the back and total car check says it is 4600cc and 2004. Thing is it comes up as taxed but no MOT, how is this?

[Andyrew]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

So it must have been the mechanism inside the door which had frozen up.  Odd.

My favorit used to do this aswell, a kettle of hot water over the door lock and handle area used to unfreeze it. 

Its a Common thing, on mother rews felly she finds a car top cover this time of year helps massively. 

 The lock barrels can corrode and become weak aswell.