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[bobdisk]

On 8/23/2021 at 5:38 PM, LightBulbFun said:

this photo says otherwise!  (ahh memories, I look forward to hopefully recreating it with my own Model 70 at some point )

yeah funnily enough I have not had any letters with regards to ULEZ despite living in Central London next door to the Congestion Zone/current ULEZ zone LOL

 

strangely any historic vehicle I punt into the ULEZ Checker still says it has to pay despite them being exempt

I wonder if thats because the ULEZ checker cant check what taxation class a vehicle is in, but the ANPR cameras can?

or are a load of 40+ year old vehicles going to be falsely charged come the 25th of October because someone at TFL forgot to make historic vehicles exempt like they say they are

 

certainly on the TFL website they say it goes by what taxation class a vehicle is in,

which brings up an interesting problem because a Car in the disabled tax class is Congestion charge exempt, but wont be ULEZ exempt, however a car in the historic vehicle taxation class will be ULEZ exempt but not congestion charge exempt

so what do you do if your disabled person running a historic vehicle, you cant have it in 2 tax classes at once LOL

Both the Kitten and the Daf, come up with the same page that says "charges apply", even though they are both registered Historic Vehicles, and the Daf is sorn.  At the bottom of the page is "You need to register your vehicle with us if you believe it meets the required standards for ULEZ or LEZ" I did that for both a couple of weeks ago, they were accepted but still get that "charges apply" page for both if I go to the "check vehicle" page. But if I go to the "registered" page, I get this:

@LightBulbFun, look at REV again!

[GingerNuttz]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I was looking for that, is that the stuff that's like treacle?

Thick brown shellac type stuff and looks like treacle.

[Split_Pin]

Aye that's that's it, I've bought some

[wuvvum]

Passed this on the M4.

It was doing rather well considering - it must have been cruising at 65, admittedly down a slight hill, but Wyverns were never a performance vehicle. 

[Mrcento]

Thinking of putting the Cinquecento and Civic up for sale.

Cinq taking up room and to be honest, done what i want with it now so would be better at somebody who used it.

Civic, good car, now totally behaving after a rocky start with MOT and some electrical gremlins, but driving it every day, i keep coming back to the same conclusion, It's too Jiggly for me. Not outright bad a ride, but just enough to be annoying.

Looking at wafters.

[320touring]

5 years today since I bought this tub.. it's had its ups and downs, but all in, it's not the worst!

[JJ0063]

Was dismantling a pallet last night, all going well until I stood straight on a batton that had two nails sticking straight up. Fuck me that hurt. Straight through my trainer and into my foot.

Today my foot feels so bruised and I’ve got to move my old dears contents of her house on Friday, brilliant! 

[Split_Pin]

15 hours ago, Mrcento said:

 

Looking at wafters.

Thoughts? 

[Split_Pin]

4 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Was dismantling a pallet last night, all going well until I stood straight on a batton that had two nails sticking straight up. Fuck me that hurt. Straight through my trainer and into my foot.

Today my foot feels so bruised and I’ve got to move my old dears contents of her house on Friday, brilliant! 

Tetanus shot 100% required please.

[Zelandeth]

Ooh, look what DPD just dropped off for me.

Odds of actually having time to install it in the garage today?  So far looking like slim to none.  Between that and the extension hose I should be able to reach all corners of the drive with a minimum of hassle hopefully.

[brownnova]

One out! 

Delivered to the seller  buyer this afternoon… of course the brake lights decided to stop working en route. Seller was good about it though and wouldn’t take my offer of recompense as a gesture of good will. 

[JJ0063]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Tetanus shot 100% required please.

Booked for 11:15 tomorrow! Thought I best play it safe. Last one was 2008 so will be due.

[Split_Pin]

Good man, I always get one if something like that happens to me. 

Last time was 2013 when I jumped a fence to take a pee and literally ripped myself a new arsehole on a rusty nail.

[Arthur Foxhake]

13 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Booked for 11:15 tomorrow! Thought I best play it safe. Last one was 2008 so will be due.

Silly fucker! How are the bimmers going?

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

One out! 

Delivered to the seller this afternoon… of course the brake lights decided to stop working en route. Seller was good about it though and wouldn’t take my offer of recompense as a gesture of good will. 

I'm confused. Did you mean seller or buyer? 

[Fumbler]

Bush repair has been done.

First picture was the trial fit and the second is with the suspension on high and fully pressed in. Had to put 500ml of LHM back in the system, fingers crossed it holds up until Friday.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Took the Audi on a longer drive today nice weather and little traffic was a great drive.

 

 

 

[Spurious]

10 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Took the Audi on a longer drive today nice weather and little traffic was a great drive.

 

 

 

We need a communal Audi thread. #madeinInglostadt 

 

Here's mine enjoying the sunny Pennines last week. 

[JJ0063]

2 hours ago, Arthur Foxhake said:

Silly fucker! How are the bimmers going?

335d is just the best thing I’ve ever had

 

e30 is on eBay 😂😂

[Dyslexic Viking]

13 minutes ago, Spurious said:

We need a communal Audi thread. #madeinInglostadt 

I am only interested in the older Audi and not those from the 90's and newer so do not know about such a thread. But one thing is for sure yours is very nice.

[stuboy]

Well as some u may remeber misses has her princess wagon which she loves dearly, well she maybe replacing with her dads old car see picture (not actual car but exactly the same ) her dad bought a used car on finance and trade in made naff all difference to payments so there is talks to let her use this... ( and no its not having pink stickers on it etc etc )

[brownnova]

53 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

I'm confused. Did you mean seller or buyer? 

Buyer… silly me! 

[brownnova]

A small selection of the offerings of from Mavericks car night tonight. 
 

Lancia Beta Montecarlo

A big Chevrolet! 

Vermillion Allegro

The ex @cms206Montego! 

And an Austin 7 Special. 

There were 200 plus cars again… but these were the highlights! 

[Ghosty]

37 minutes ago, stuboy said:

( and no its not having pink stickers on it etc etc )

 

[OM646]

1 hour ago, Spurious said:

We need a communal Audi thread.

Indeed we do. I don't work on my 80 enough to make it deserve its own topic

[Lankytim]

Last week I swapped the lower wishbones for polybushed items on my 2004 V70 as the original bushes were a bit soggy. The passenger side wishbone was exchanged for one I’d previously polybushed while the drivers side wishbone was removed, polybushed and refitted. I couldn’t test drive the Volvo as I was still isolating but fast forward to this morning and I was finally able to take it out for a spin. The tracking was absolutely miles out, the passenger side needed around half an inch letting out of the track rod for the wheels to face vaguely the same direction. I’ve fitted polybushes before and never had to alter tracking so I was a bit confused. I thought maybe I’d fitted odd wishbones but they’re all the same size apparently. I’m going to get it tracked up properly and see what’s what. 
 

After finding the V70 undrivable Mrs LT, myself and the Lanklets took her Fusion on a day trip to Buxton, picking up a couple of Volvo 140 wheels on the way. One rim was an early type which I’ve already fitted to replace a bent rim, the other was a later style but both had ancient tyres fitted, one of them being made in the GDR! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

23 minutes ago, Lankytim said:

.....picking up a couple of Volvo 140 wheels on the way. One rim was an early type which I’ve already fitted to replace a bent rim, the other was a later style but both had ancient tyres fitted, one of them being made in the GDR! 

Pneumant were probably the only brand you could buy for your Trabant or Wartburg back then.

Tigar is probably the best-known Serbian brand after Zastava/Yugo. They were a massive sprawling rubber product manufacturer, but have experienced considerable financial problems in the last 20 years. Back in 2008, they even bought the original Dumfries production line, lasts and tooling that had produced Hunter wellies, after Hunter went off to China.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 8/23/2021 at 5:25 PM, LightBulbFun said:

you might want to put the original bulbs back for reasons explained at 15:47 in this video

 

Errm, no.

The new OSRAM LEDs that I've put in really do work and are quicker to react. And this product quality tester explains why:
 

 

[HillmanImp]

Was at one of these farm places that are full of kids today. 

There was this contraption, which was a bit phoenix nights that dragged the kids round a field in barrels. 

Thing is, it was a petrol quadbike with the exhaust sticking out the back. The kid in the barrel directly behind it would probably fail their MOT if they blew into an emissions tester straight after the ride. 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I am only interested in the older Audi and not those from the 90's and newer so do not know about such a thread. But one thing is for sure yours is very nice.

In the early 1980's a mad old farmer wanted to sell me his Citroen DS and/or an Audi 70? 75? Foreign scared me then, used to BL unreliability.