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[SiC]

3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Found mum a car.

Shit, I'm off to Basingstoke in the morning.

If you pass a Harvest Gold MGB GT, give us a wave. 

[stuboy]

Anyone I'd these please

[richardmorris]

18 hours ago, Lankytim said:

This thing just won’t run and I don’t know where to start fixing the problem. It’s had loads of welding done but the interior is shit and it’s full of dents. My mojo is at a low with this. Time to focus on more pleasurable things? If it’s dragging you down, fuck it off-as someone famous possibly once said. 

Fuel pump? It did start on what was in the carb and sounded ok until it ran out of fuel.

[Stanky]

A right old result today, went to fill up the mercedes with fuel today (as the local Shell had some pez and no queues) and on my return to the car after paying, spotted this little gem on the ground

Its only one of those 'magic fuel catalyst' tablets that contain PARTICLES that give you a million MPG and 400bhp boost because they used them in planes in WW2 or some sort of tosh. The ones endorsed by all the reprobates like Mike Brewer and Quentin Willson who tell you its the 'motoring industry's best kept secret' because VW would obviously much rather spend billions developing direct injection and turbocharging and software cheats and all sorts of old bollocks rather than just bunging a penny sized bit of flipping tin in the tank of every car they sold, right?

https://ftcdirect.com/

Dunno which one it is, but even the cheapest magic tablet is nearly £40 so thats a right old result. I'm going to put it into the mercedes this afternoon and watch as the tank fills itself from petrol condensing from fresh air and the old M111 donkey is transformed into a RR merlin V12 rivalling 2000hp beast.

For posterity, I'm currently getting 30mpg long term average over about 14k miles.

[lisbon_road]

Stanky, amazed you knew what it was.

[Stanky]

55 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

Stanky, amazed you knew what it was.

Disclaimer, I may have just put a random bit of scrap metal into the filler neck of my car...

[mintwth]

10 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Disclaimer, I may have just put a random bit of scrap metal into the filler neck of my car...

I wondered where the button from my jacket had gone.....

[artdjones]

Checking out a camper my brother-in-law has been offered very cheaply.

2.5 Indenor

And column change.

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Checking out a camper my brother-in-law has been offered very cheaply.

2.5 Indenor

And column change.

Indénor and column shift = maximum Whin.

As today is the first afternoon I've had no guests, visits or other arrangements I had a fiddle around with my stepdaughter's Mini.

The intermittent radio appears to be a badly fitted iPod kit connected into a mangle of Scotchlocked wires. Aftermarket shite removed and took the car for a spin and no cutting out. If it does do it again I have read up it's a bad component in part of the switching power supply in the amp, so hopefully I can repair that if needed. The central locking appears to have cured itself after madam used the key in the lock for the last however long since I updated the world. Apparently it helps with sticking actuators so I've sprayed a bit of lube in there and exercised it with the key a few times. Another spin round the block and whereas before when the anti-hijack kicked in and locked the doors it wouldn't open again. Taken a little slack out the internal handle cable and it's working. I did order some universal bowden cable nipples but no idea where they are, so when I find them I'll put a new end on the inner internal cable.

Grump is the n/s/f wheel bearing is grumbling, and along with new discs, a droplink and a CV joint I may have an afternoon or two of work to do before the MoT in November.

[Crackers]

Looks like I have a slightly binding NSF brake. This wheel gets a little warmer after a long drive and has more brake dust than the others:

Not terrible, but I will need to get that wheel off and inspect the caliper at some point. I'm waiting for a load of underseal supplies to turn up, so will probably kill two birds with one stone when I take the wheels off for that. 

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

Checking out a camper my brother-in-law has been offered very cheaply.

2.5 Indenor

And column change.

May not be Indenor, but a Sofim. I'm a bit rusty on 80s diesels.

[MarvinsMom]

Got all 4 cones changed on Cocopop, at last. George has had a mare of a job with it, as everything has been seized solid, and then the other week he had been in and out of the garage to deal with loonies running outta fuel.

the car is more like a monster truck instead of the low rider, that we were driving before hand.

car is booked in now for its MOT next week. the first time in more than 2 years

we have had the tracking done, now we have to run it for a bit, and then get the tracking done again when the suspension settles a bit.

 

[HillmanImp]

I did something grown up today and went to a book fair with loads of other intellectual people who read books. 

I bought these. 

In the first one I looked at I found this belter of a photo story with drama, romance, violence and top knotch shite content. 

I posted it on the Citroën car club Facebook page but none of the miserable bastards on there liked it except LankyTim. Maybe I should've said I found it in Just17 or something. 

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, Crackers said:

Looks like I have a slightly binding NSF brake. This wheel gets a little warmer after a long drive and has more brake dust than the others:

Not terrible, but I will need to get that wheel off and inspect the caliper at some point. I'm waiting for a load of underseal supplies to turn up, so will probably kill two birds with one stone when I take the wheels off for that. 

Could be the caliper or a failing flexi hose.

[Six-cylinder]

What am I looking at?

It is from a recent OCADO advert and it appears to be real and floats from a comment on FB by somebody who spotted it.

The real question I am asking is it some sort of amphibious car or was it a boat faked up to look like it may have wheels by the production company who made the Ad?

[High Jetter]

It's a Dutton Surf, real amphibian car.

[Sham]

Beat me to it - 4wd SURF (timdutton.com)

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

It's a Dutton Surf, real amphibian car.

That one passed me by, I don't remember even reading about it let alone seeing one!

[JJ0063]

Completely in a state of being over tired and not being able to sleep at 1am I decided randomly to have a go at a mock motorcycle theory test without ever having done any revision and managed 49/50.

I then proceeded to book my theory for 13th November.

Ive never ridden a motorcycle since having a moped at 16 and don’t know anything about bikes. 
 

You only live once! I’m going to do my direct access in the spring, might then replace the Discovery with a bike to see what the fuss is about.

[High Jetter]

I vaguely knew someone who worked at Dutton years ago, when I worked in Longlife Accessories in branches in Sussex and Hampshire - Dutton were/are based in Littlehampton.

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Completely in a state of being over tired and not being able to sleep at 1am I decided randomly to have a go at a mock motorcycle theory test without ever having done any revision and managed 49/50.

I then proceeded to book my theory for 13th November.

Ive never ridden a motorcycle since having a moped at 16 and don’t know anything about bikes. 
 

You only live once! I’m going to do my direct access in the spring, might then replace the Discovery with a bike to see what the fuss is about.

I need to do this, I have grandfathered rights on a 50cc, but have this Aprilia scooter sitting in the garage for the last 4 years waiting for me to get my licence.

I think I will do my theory, cbt and take to the road and see if I like it before doing my test. I had a 50cc Honda on the road 7 years ago and the traffic passing me was unpleasant, so I bought the 125cc. And yes partly bought it because I liked the look of it even if it is only a plastic fantastic.

[Bren]

I bought a can of spray for the vectra's headlights - they look more like a dockers teeth and are a fetching shade of yellow.

However as I masked them up I have decided that they are too far gone - most of it is on the inside.

[dozeydustman]

Just pulled into Sainsbury’s petrol station for the airline. Wife pointed out an “old brown car”. It was @Crackersin his P6

[D.E]

So it seems LHD CityRovers do (or did) exist after all! Every day's a school day eh... 

 

[Mally]

3 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

That one passed me by, I don't remember even reading about it let alone seeing one!

Been building them for years. Had problems with the early ones, but seems he's got them sorted now.

Clever bloke Tim Dutton. Took the Ford motor company on about the the Sierra name, and didn't lose.

[barefoot]

As you may recall, I administer a small fleet of mini-buses. I got a phone call to let me know that the tail lift on one of them had failed leaving an old dear in a wheelchair stuck on board. I'm no mechanic, so I fired up an alternate bus with a working lift, thinking I'd be able to scoop her out of the back. I carefully mashed a flask of sweet, milky tea & two mugs and set off for what can best be described as 'a mercy dash'...

[Cookiesouwest]

Unhappy neighbour

[Zelandeth]

Excuse the shouting, but...

FINALLY!

That took several orders of magnitude longer than it really should have.

[andyberg]

The northern Bumflam is now a southerner 😁

[GrumpiusMaximus]

East Kent - Wolferton via Lechlade and Cheltenham yesterday.  Wolferton to East Kent via Cheltenham today.  Some of the nicest roads I've driven on in a long time but bugger me I'm tired.  How you professional drivers put in hundreds of miles a day, I'll never know.  Not like my car is particularly uncomfortable or anything, either.  I'm just a fat bastard.