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[Tickman]

Good job you like them!

[Schaefft]

35 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Welcome to winter with a 75.

Welcome to bmw ownership. I've held my door shut more than once driving to work. I didn't need that reminder...

[SiC]

#BecauseSomerset

 

[Supernaut]

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Welcome to winter with a 75.

My Saab is currently doing the opposite!

The hinges on the driver's door are tired, and now really showing it. I have to push up on the door handle and pull it open at the same time in order to get in it.

[davehedgehog31]

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Welcome to winter with a 75.

Memories of various ingeniously* deployed bungee cords on cold commutes.

[stuboy]

Nothing exciting... moved some stepping stones and ran over a worm..

[alcyonecorporation]

stop running over worms man 

[Mike D]

Managed to get a few hours mini ing this aft, got the drivers door window and regulator fitted, and got a bit of headway made on building the subframe up. I'd have got the handbrake cables fitted but i thought id bought some new quadrants for the radius arms, seems i bought everything but! 🤦‍♂️

Ill blast the old ones up tomoz and see if they will go again

[egg]

I'm looking forward to Jonny Smith's updates on this in the New Year...

[bunglebus]

Going to look at a Lupo tomorrow. Much excite

 

 

[richardmorris]

43 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Going to look at a Lupo tomorrow. Much excite

 

 

At least the car is wearing a mask!

[Cord Fourteener]

5 hours ago, Supernaut said:

My Saab is currently doing the opposite!

The hinges on the driver's door are tired, and now really showing it. I have to push up on the door handle and pull it open at the same time in order to get in it.

I have to do that all year round in my tired Mondeo!

[Asimo]

10 hours ago, egg said:

I'm looking forward to Jonny Smith's updates on this in the New Year...

Wot?

Toyota Crown  (edit -🙄) I understand but... do you have a link?

Edited December 29, 2020 by Asimo
Gin

[egg]

1 hour ago, Asimo said:

Wot?

Toyota Crown I understand but... do you have a link?

[clayts450]

Yay - van passed its MoT - let's see if I can get it to 200K now....

[brownnova]

Step one to a tidy garage... buy a tool cabinet. 

[N19]

2 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Step one to a tidy garage... but a tool cabinet. 

Next step, now you have space, buy more tools to fill tool cabinet and leave overspill on garage floor?

[brownnova]

Just now, N19 said:

Next step, now you have space, buy more tools to fill tool cabinet and leave overspill on garage floor?

Exactly. 

[Joey spud]

This needs to find a new home so...

The battery has been on the charger/conditioner..

Then the exhaust started to blow and needed a bit of welding.

I needed a new gasket for the tail pipe and found this up the shed.

Yee haa. I also snapped the two studs off and had to weld on a couple more.

That'll do. Mot is booked for tomorrow then it's  getting put up for sale as i have a van for work so never really used it.

[Joey spud]

I needed to check my tyre pressure's and didn't have an airline handy so knocked up a dummy airline to keep the pressure in the inflator.

Simple fixes are the best.

[Joey spud]

While i'm here.

Random fact Polski caravan wheels would fit a Minor if used with wobble bolts,which begs the question could i fit the Weller 8 spokes to the caravan ?

[Mr Pastry]

10 minutes ago, Joey spud said:

While i'm here.

If you want 13 inch wheels on a Minor, then A35/Sprite/Midget wheels have the right PCD and offset and will go straight on, though on some types the centre hole will need enlarging slightly to fit the front hub.  There are also Vauxhall options if you can find any.  If you stick with 14 inch, then IIRC Wolseley 1500 have the same centres and slightly wider rims.  Just get some decent tyres and it will be fine.  I wouldn't even think about wobble bolts.

[Split_Pin]

Oil change on the Audi yesterday.

ACTION PUMPO

 

It's MOT isn't until 6th February but I'm going to have it done before that in case they close garages again to all but the most valued members of society.

 

 

 

[Joey spud]

Yeah i was only playing around.

I am starting to be swayed into rerimming moggy centres with wider 5.5j  rims from a Focus/Astra wheel and selling the 13" eight spokes.

[Ghosty]

Shuffled my insurance around a bit. The Aerodeck isn't the cheapest thing to insure for what it is, at least it wasn't when I got it, at £670 a year or something, and that was for 6000 miles on commuting cover. 


Civic was on Esure, the MX5 on Admiral - I like Admiral more and they're generally cheapest for me, and helpful too.  So out of interest I decided to see what it'd cost to change the MX5 policy to the Civic, upping the mileage to 12k and adding commuting cover. It was 60 quid or something, and it also included 'driving other vehicles' cover as I'm 25 now. Winner. 
SPECTRAL DELIVERY SERVICE AVAILABLE 
It made sense to keep the Admiral policy as it was significantly cheaper to start with, and the start dates of each were two weeks apart -  cancel the more expensive one for a bigger refund. Also, as explained, this had the added bonus of other vehicles cover. 
Anyway....

I want to get something a bit newer than the Aerodeck - it has a lot of strange design choices that are just slightly grating on a day to day basis. Don't get me wrong it's a fantastic car, it's just horribly counterintuitive to use in so many ways, and I do over a thousand miles a month, over half of that is motorway, and I really need a sixth gear. 
Also, my dad's starting to show his age, and has basically hung up his spanners now - he hung up his driving gloves not long after I got my first car. He's a named driver on both my car and my mum's Mini, but hasn't had a car of his own since 2017, and doesn't want to work on cars any more. It's sad, but unsurprising. I just never thought I'd see him give up, I always thought he'd work himself to death. 

I'm gonna have to do the unthinkable and get a modern - thankfully I have the money and I know what I want, and I know I'll be able to do the work on it as I've already had the front half of one - I'm looking at manual Volvo V50s. Gonna get a decent one to keep long term, and I'll hold off shitters for a while until I've improved my income and such - which I intend to do in 2021.  
Mercifully I have a friend who's practically agreed to buy the Civic off me for the right money when I'm ready to sell, and another friend tells me he's bouncing off the walls at the premise, so things are looking pretty promising. 

Watch this space... 

[Cord Fourteener]

3 hours ago, Joey spud said:

This needs to find a new home so...

The battery has been on the charger/conditioner..

Then the exhaust started to blow and needed a bit of welding.

I needed a new gasket for the tail pipe and found this up the shed.

Yee haa. I also snapped the two studs off and had to weld on a couple more.

That'll do. Mot is booked for tomorrow then it's  getting put up for sale as i have a van for work so never really used it.

Now that's what I call sexy Japanese origami shite!

As in, according the MCM they actually have a tactile demonstration at the Daihatsu factory, that still produces cars, of how thin steel is three times stronger when folded twice.

Love it.

[Lord Sterling]

Upon returning from La Belgique I did some self-isolation time. Then upon release I decided to some stuff to the Peugeot.

Firstly I gave it a clean:

It has Peugeot rubber mats which have never really been cleaned but upon giving them a wipe over with a damp cloth and scrub with black shoe polish, they came up like brand new.

My hand-held Gtech vacuum gave the carpets and seats a good vacuum.

In isolation, I'd ordered and paid for a centre arm rest lid. Mine was shit, the plastic retaining pin had snapped off so driving about, the arm rest lid would fly open or closed when slowing down which was highly annoying. My cack-handed attempt at repair did not work.

However, even more annoying was the fact that Peugeot, in their infanate wisdom decided to use all sorts of different centre console configurations. The one I had bought had a retaining was located 1cm over to the left of the pin retainer. Enough not to be able to easily move the plastic pin on the lid:

Red is my cack-handed repair and yellow is on the new incorrect lid.

Peugeot are known for using whatever parts they can lay their hands on. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of usi g the same parts across the same models. Even stupid things like brake pads can differ from one car of the same model and year 😡 ***slow clap***

So I found a small bolt, screwed into the crappy hple made in the original lid and used that to close the lid successfully:

Now it just needs tracking and a minor investigation into why the left headlamp doesn't work (hint: it isnt the bulb) maybe look at why the passenger side window plays up and possibly, if I feel flush, a return of the passenger side check-strap.

 

[Shirley Knott]

12 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Oil change on the Audi yesterday.

ACTION PUMPO

 

It's MOT isn't until 6th February but I'm going to have it done before that in case they close garages again to all but the most valued members of society.

 

 

 

Of all the tools I have, the Pela pump has to be biggest game changer. Great aren't they?

Loads of others have made life easier- Ratchet spanners, mains impact tools, Sealey brake bleeder etc, but none of the above have seen as much use as the Pela. In the 8 years or so I've had mine I must have done 40-50 oil changes with it, still going strong.

[MorrisItalSLX]

The Sydney Bus Museum is raising money to restore their 1983 Mercedes-Benz O305G Bendy Bus, which is to be repainted back to its original brown and orange livery.

If you would like to donate to the cause, and you should, just look at that glorious colour scheme, there is a go fund me on their website.

https://www.sydneybusmuseum.com.au/mercedes2556

[Craig the Princess]

7 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Upon returning from La Belgique I did some self-isolation time. Then upon release I decided to some stuff to the Peugeot.

Firstly I gave it a clean:

It has Peugeot rubber mats which have never really been cleaned but upon giving them a wipe over with a damp cloth and scrub with black shoe polish, they came up like brand new.

My hand-held Gtech vacuum gave the carpets and seats a good vacuum.

In isolation, I'd ordered and paid for a centre arm rest lid. Mine was shit, the plastic retaining pin had snapped off so driving about, the arm rest lid would fly open or closed when slowing down which was highly annoying. My cack-handed attempt at repair did not work.

However, even more annoying was the fact that Peugeot, in their infanate wisdom decided to use all sorts of different centre console configurations. The one I had bought had a retaining was located 1cm over to the left of the pin retainer. Enough not to be able to easily move the plastic pin on the lid:

Red is my cack-handed repair and yellow is on the new incorrect lid.

Peugeot are known for using whatever parts they can lay their hands on. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of usi g the same parts across the same models. Even stupid things like brake pads can differ from one car of the same model and year 😡 ***slow clap***

So I found a small bolt, screwed into the crappy hple made in the original lid and used that to close the lid successfully:

Now it just needs tracking and a minor investigation into why the left headlamp doesn't work (hint: it isnt the bulb) maybe look at why the passenger side window plays up and possibly, if I feel flush, a return of the passenger side check-strap.

 

I remember from the 206 I had the multiple options Peugeot put on things for no reason, very annoying.

The 407 looks amazing in that colour though 👍