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[DVee8]

8 hours ago, aldo135 said:

Just brought this up to Edinburgh from Chester-le-street, it’s lovely and even better than described! Thanks @gm

I have just done that run and back as well.

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

 

Wish I’d come to the FoD instead.... 

 

I mean you'd still have been laughed at, but in a much nicer way... 

[aldo135]

10 hours ago, gm said:

bloody hell, you must have taken the long way home ! pleased to hear you are happy with the mazda, let’s hope the mrs is impressed when she sees her* new toy

great to catch up with you again, have fun, gm

 

 

Aye, made an arse of the petrol situation and had to divert, then got caught in fog. Car went really well though and the initial rage has calmed at home...

[wuvvum]

Chips, anyone? 

[SiC]

Went to a classic car meet earlier. Turned out to be absolutely packed. Unfortunately starting to turn away some nice cars. Shame as it was supposed to be a pre 90s meet but there was a lot of modern cars (think brand new X5,etc) cluttering the car park.
https://www.facebook.com/ChewValleyClassicCarMeet

Here are some odds and sods photos I took: that I have lazily dumped into this post in no particular order:

 

 

[PhilA]

Adusted my brakes again. 

There's always one that likes to pull on at speed and get hot. Couple clicks fixed that.

 

Phil

[DVee8]

4 hours ago, aldo135 said:

Aye, made an arse of the petrol situation and had to divert, then got caught in fog. Car went really well though and the initial rage has calmed at home...

Did you head back up the A1? The North bound traffic was something else,It must have been 15 miles of tailbacks from Newcastle up,I'm glad I wasn't stuck in it . As we where driving back south.

[wuvvum]

FFS. 

[tooSavvy]

East European Clubs 'knees up' @TESCO Hexham atm.

Skoda, Wartburg, Lada, 'oily' 2stk!

NSU & Urals bike + sidecar

*I'm in having brunch......

#All away now#

[wuvvum]

I think it's fair to say that this head gasket has seen better days. 

[Lord Sterling]

21 hours ago, Yoss said:

I'm not going blind am I? There is no centre cap on this wheel is there? 

It was a Peugeot (obviously) 208, I think. How do you balance it if there's no hole in the middle? Does anything else have wheels like this? 

Yes. My Peugeot 407:

Some of the other alloys I've seen for the 407 do have a centre cap but some particular alloys don't. 

[SiC]

Even if they have a centre hole, you don't necessarily balance on them. A few Renaults are like that. 

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Chips, anyone? 

Funny, I was just changing the oil on my own Felicia today and the filler cap looks like this. 

But mine is the VW engine and it always looks like this, often worse and there is condensation steaming out of the exhaust for ages. I often watch Mrs Yoss reverse into the drive and think that really shouldn't be doing that. In winter it's obviously worse.

Trouble is most journeys are no more than five miles so it never clears. I've checked it after long journeys and it's always clean. I don't know why it produces so much condensation, is it just mine or is it a general VAG thing? I don't get it with the Favorit or Triumph.

I spent about two years worrying that the head gasket was going but I've had it 9 years now and it never gets any better or worse so I've stopped worrying. I still take it for a long run before the MOT though just to stop the steam coming out the exhaust. 

[Sigmund Fraud]

1 minute ago, Yoss said:

I don't know why it produces so much condensation, is it just mine or is it a general VAG thing?

It's typical of that generation of small VW OHC engines, and not helped by the poor design of the crankcase breather system.

You're absolutely right not to worry about it.

[Asimo]

23 hours ago, Yoss said:

I'm not going blind am I? There is no centre cap on this wheel is there? 

How do you balance it if there's no hole in the middle? Does anything else have wheels like this? 

Balancing machines have adapters to fit these sort of wheels, Citroen, Renault 5-stud old Beetles etc.

As long as the adapter locates the wheel in the same way the car does there is no problem as long as the tyre-fitter can be bothered to find the correct adapter.

[louiepj]

Scorchio.

A contractor's van went up in flames this morning and this is what's left. Props to the local (volunteer) fire service for putting it out this quickly.
 
*I forgot to add the doors were open and there was a puddle of melted tools and boxes. Father and I wonder if one of those tools' batteries went up.

Drove past this yesterday afternoon in Tunbridge Wells while out delivering and did wonder what happened.
Also drove past a few prime specimens of chod in Groombridge as well as a few steam/traction engines.

[Fumbler]

13 minutes ago, louiepj said:

Drove past this yesterday afternoon in Tunbridge Wells while out delivering and did wonder what happened.
Also drove past a few prime specimens of chod in Groombridge as well as a few steam/traction engines.

Ah, did you see the Sierra estate in the village? It's just down the road from me.

[bunglebus]

On 5/26/2021 at 9:52 PM, bunglebus said:

My son in law is a nidiot.

This is the drowned Astra's replacement. Will this end well?

[Fumbler]

No turning back now...

[wuvvum]

Back together again.  (Well apart from the broken head bolt obvs.) 

[Fumbler]

We're done

[tooSavvy]

3 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

East European Clubs 'knees up' @TESCO Hexham atm.

Skoda, Wartburg, Lada, 'oily' 2stk!

NSU & Urals bike + sidecar

*I'm in having brunch......

#All away now#

https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/category/Cars/ifaclub/posts/

[richardmorris]

Productive* afternoon sitting outside reading and drinking. Called the duty swinley ranger at 3 as I could see smoke rising from the forest. He called back five mins later just as I could hear sirens going down the main road. Big fire apparently.

[aldo135]

4 hours ago, DVee8 said:

Did you head back up the A1? The North bound traffic was something else,It must have been 15 miles of tailbacks from Newcastle up,I'm glad I wasn't stuck in it . As we where driving back south.

Wasn’t too bad thanks, though I was a bit later maybe, back of 8 I left GM

[gm]

And has the mrs been swanning around all day with the roof down and now forgiven you ? 

[wuvvum]

Well it starts, and I ran it for half an hour or so and it didn't boil up or hydrolock.  

Just doing a quick oil and filter change before I take it for a test drive. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well it starts, and I ran it for half an hour or so and it didn't boil up or hydrolock.  

Just doing a quick oil and filter change before I take it for a test drive. 

Mmm....Ovaltine

[Cord Fourteener]

20 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well it starts, and I ran it for half an hour or so and it didn't boil up or hydrolock.  

Just doing a quick oil and filter change before I take it for a test drive. 

Would you like a Flake in that?

[crad]

3 hours ago, Yoss said:

Funny, I was just changing the oil on my own Felicia today and the filler cap looks like this. 

But mine is the VW engine and it always looks like this, often worse and there is condensation steaming out of the exhaust for ages. I often watch Mrs Yoss reverse into the drive and think that really shouldn't be doing that. In winter it's obviously worse.

Trouble is most journeys are no more than five miles so it never clears. I've checked it after long journeys and it's always clean. I don't know why it produces so much condensation, is it just mine or is it a general VAG thing? I don't get it with the Favorit or Triumph.

I spent about two years worrying that the head gasket was going but I've had it 9 years now and it never gets any better or worse so I've stopped worrying. I still take it for a long run before the MOT though just to stop the steam coming out the exhaust. 

my clio does the same thing when its cold weather -checked it today and no gunk funnily enough

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Next stop: pub....