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[loserone]

One of our neighbours houses is a holiday let.  The couple in it have had no fewer than six visiting couples staying at least one night.  All in their sixties, all parking in stupid places blocking everyone else (I had to help a neighbour to carry his ladders over the top of a golf to his van yesterday).  

[Split_Pin]

11 hours ago, Cheezey said:

I must confess I spent five mins there checking the prices of them all on eBay. I just wanted to make sure one of them wasn’t a limited run by Faberge or something. I reckon if I’d sold them all individually I’d maybe get £100 with a bit of luck. Edit: there is a Range Rover fire service as well not pictured . 

@Split_Pin I’m happy to pass them on to you if you’d get enjoyment from them. Send me your address and I’ll drop them off some time. 

Cheers chap, happy to give you something for your trouble though, I'll fire you a PM!

[sdkrc]

This isn't mine but a family member's.

All I can say is WOW. I love it.

✅ Red 3 spokes

✅ Spoiler

✅ Mysterious line stickers

✅ Tin 'no smoking' sign

❌ Decals with the previous owner's name. Sadly removed

[Leyland Worldmaster]

I fucking love this commute:

[Cheezey]

8 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Cheers chap, happy to give you something for your trouble though, I'll fire you a PM!

Och, don’t worry about it. Happy to pass on my

luck finding them. 

[Kiltox]

Vauxhall Corsa or similar 👌 

 

(our i3 is at the spa - they give you an Enterprise rental when it’s in for recall work. That’ll do. )

[Mike D]

My hunt for a Mk2 Golf ended on Monday

 

To say i'm happy with it is an understatement, it's in fantastic condition, I know the suspension and wheels won't appeal to a lot on here, but I think it suits them. It seems to be great on fuel, and I've not stopped grinning every time I drive it - it's an absolute weapon with the 1.8 20v Turbo conversion. Power steering model too so it's actually nice to drive around town.

Verdict - Well chuffed

[New POD]

Nicely understated. 

[sierraman]

That’s what I like to see, nicely installed and neat. Not a mass of cables spliced together. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Wheels look similar to Ronals

[wuvvum]

They're a good engine those 1.8 turbos.  I understand they will also fit in a Peugeot 403 with some minor modification.

[Mike D]

10 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Wheels look similar to Ronals

They are!  Ronal R10 Turbo BPS's

[Rocket88]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

They're a good engine those 1.8 turbos.  I understand they will also fit in a Peugeot 403 with some minor modification.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Barry Cade]

 

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

They're a good engine those 1.8 turbos.  I understand they will also fit in a Peugeot 403 with some minor modification.

[vulgalour]

That Golf looks just tweaked enough, nicely considered mods making the best of what's already there.  The colour helps loads too, nice to see a Golf that isn't black, white, silver, or red.

[dome]

Latest poor life choice has been made

[Craig the Princess]

Big thanks to @BeEP for the use of his Maestro van to collect some concrete blocks earlier.

[Bren]

I had an autobox service on the 545  today - I took it to Preston. It needed a mechatronics sleeve as the old one was leaking - the oil pan had a date stamp of 2010 which was a relief as I expected it to be the original.

Not a lot of oil came out - I have no oil on the undertrays or my drive so I can only assume however did the job did not add enough oil.

To say the car has been trandformed is an understatement - the shifts are smooth and hardly noticable. Before the first few changes would make you lurch in your seat.

[sdkrc]

44 minutes ago, dome said:

Latest poor life choice has been made

RIP YO BANK

[captain_70s]

49 minutes ago, dome said:

Latest poor life choice has been made

Shares in Isopon dutifully taken out.

[MiniMort]

Well in an interesting and very fortunate turn of events today I interviewed Chris Goffey for my motoring online radio show/podcast! He was such a nice guy and had so many funny stories to tell about his time Road testing for Top Gear, Wheels and Autocar

[puddlethumper]

Last Saturday while popping along on the M1 coming home from seeing a mate there was a bang. At first I thought I had run over some debris, but hadn't seen anything in the lane. The loss of a bit of power made me realise that it was an injector pipe going bang. Didn't stop  till the next junction and had a look. Yep, squirting diesel all over the engine. Decided that stuffing a rag around the pipe and getting it home would work ok. Had an appointment for Monday at DFTR Auto for some sill welding for the mot next month so left it with them and went hunting a pipe. 

Now I thought it would be a simple task to get one, as these engines were put in a lot of Pug/Cit stuff. Straight on Ebah and found nothing. Internet in general ? Bugger all on the shelf. Ok, can't be too hard to get one made shirley ? Rang a Diesel pump/injector guy I know and he said he could make one but not till next week. Bugger ! So I suddenly remembered a guy, Dean Hunter, who has Pug/Cit stuff from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Why I didn't think of him earlier I'm buggered if I know as I've had bits off him before. Rang him and got an Email address so sent pics of the pipe off with a rule to see the length. Rang later and he was puzzled coz he couldn't find one. Oops, sorry Dean my engine is out of a Cit Xantia. Send pic of engine. Upshot is it's in the Post, first class, so hopefully get it tomorrow. I hate being without wheels. 

[New POD]

7 hours ago, sierraman said:

That’s what I like to see, nicely installed and neat. Not a mass of cables spliced together. 

The only minor improvement, and I'm slicing hairs here, is that I'd like the air filter in a neat black plastic box which looks more standard (even if not) I don't like to think of air being sucked in from a warm/hot engine bay.  I mean why bother with an intercooler, if you aren't going to duct cool air into the inlet?

Plus I are jealllloooous 

[puddlethumper]

While round at DFTR I spotted something familiar and an old Datsun.

[Split_Pin]

Made a start on the timing belt on the Cav. Got stuck trying to get the crank pulley off though. One of the screws had been replaced with a bolt at some point so I got that out but even my impact gun wouldn't touch the other 3.

Obviously the engine kept turning when I tried a breaker bar on the others. I'll need to find some way of stopping the engine turning.

I've never done a timing belt before and I forgot how much I hate scrabbling around under cars in a stupid wee garage. Wish I hadn't started the job now!

 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, MiniMort said:

Well in an interesting and very fortunate turn of events today I interviewed Chris Goffey

As you do. He was great, a genuine bloke. Mayb not quite showbiz enuf though

[Cord Fourteener]

2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

As you do. He was great, a genuine bloke. Mayb not quite showbiz enuf though

A, if he made his living who's to say he's not showbiz enough.

B. If you are a celebrity and still a nice human being then in my book that's great. 

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Made a start on the timing belt on the Cav. Got stuck trying to get the crank pulley off though. One of the screws had been replaced with a bolt at some point so I got that out but even my impact gun wouldn't touch the other 3.

Obviously the engine kept turning when I tried a breaker bar on the others. I'll need to find some way of stopping the engine turning.

I've never done a timing belt before and I forgot how much I hate scrabbling around under cars in a stupid wee garage. Wish I hadn't started the job now!

 

Big ratchet on the central bolt while using a smaller ratchet on the smaller bolt? Then pushing down on both, the smaller one should undo without the engine turning too much, if at all. Big one is tightening and so won't cause that to come undone. 

That's basically how I got similar bolts undone on my E28.

 

[High Jetter]

19 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

A, if he made his living who's to say he's not showbiz enough.

B. If you are a celebrity and still a nice human being then in my book that's great. 

If you are still a nice human being then I'll talk to you. We all put our trousers on one leg at a time, irrespective of 'achievement'

[Split_Pin]

7 hours ago, SiC said:

Big ratchet on the central bolt while using a smaller ratchet on the smaller bolt? Then pushing down on both, the smaller one should undo without the engine turning too much, if at all. Big one is tightening and so won't cause that to come undone. 

That's basically how I got similar bolts undone on my E28.

 

There's not much room from above so I'll try that from below. Knew I should have given it to a garage to do but I don't really want to spend any more money on it as I'm thinking of possibly moving it on. I felt that a years MOT and a new belt kit would help that.