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[brownnova]

14 minutes ago, NorthernMonkey said:

48hrs later….

Much less than that… The gap between car leaving and my viewage… about 18 hours… 

I currently have a couple of brands in the fire… I have sold two cars so far this year and bought none… 

[Ghosty]

2 hours ago, Schaefft said:

How is this 300 quid, Civic coupes have been decent money for years!

The mother of all mates rates. He just wanted it gone.

[grogee]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Your missus is V6?

Lucky bugger. Mine's a (very) large capacity twin cylinder

[puddlethumper]

4 stroke ??

[SRi05]

Some of you may remember this Honda from the roffle thread a few weeks ago:

 

 

 

 

 

Scrubs up not too bad eh  ? I made the mammoth collection of around 3 miles from my house and it had sat on the drive for a week as I was busy at work. Finally took it out for a wash & a little get to know you drive & a short time later a brake hose decided to shit about 5 billion litres of fluid out on the way home which was a laugh*  So it was immobilised for another week or so till yesterday when it was finally replaced.

I'm trying to sweet talk a mechanic I know into swapping the gearbox over, it has a known issue dropping down from 3rd to 2nd gear were it makes an extremely unpleasant crunch, I can drive around it for now though. Plan is to get it through it's MOT in May and take it from there. I'll probably use it more than an I initially thought due to petrol prices being OMFG, makes sense when the rest of the fleet are thirsty bastards.

Overall VELLY PLEASED

[goosey]

Kind of underestimated how much room I’d need for tyres

[Ghosty]

BMW's gone.

I put it on Marketplace yesterday morning. 

Two 'is this still available' and a swap for an E240. 

I woke up in the middle of the night and a chap's messaged asking to view it. 
I thought sod it, reply in the morning. 

Messaged him around 9am, asking when he wants to view, he says today, can be there in a couple of hours - turns out he's in Rhyl. 
Shows up at midday and looks over the car, says he's got £1,180 in cash and £30 in the bank, is that okay? 

Damn right it is, £40 off asking price. 

He sees the car starts, doesn't even look under the bonnet, hands over cash, V5 done, gone. Turns out he needed a car by Monday as he was getting fucked to the high heavens by a finance company on a Disco 3.
He's left in the E34 to get a mate and he's coming back later to pick up the Disco.

fucking WINNER. 

[junkyarddog]

Finally managed to source a rear hatch glass for my 205.

Took me ages to find one,but thankfully a mate turned one up on his travels. 

More battered that a fish in a chip shop but the glass was intact. 

A nice polish chap by the name of Eddie fitted it for me just a few mins ago, quite a battle to remove it from the old tailgate,but he had the tools and the talent.

Chuffed.

[GingerNuttz]

 

[Rust Collector]

Seeing as I’m stuck in the house I decided to make a start on an idea I had recently.

obviously PLA isn’t thermostable enough to be any use, but I’m going to get some ABS in and see how that holds up when heated. The tip of the design needs narrowing also, I cocked the dimensions.

If ABS is durable enough I’m thinking to use copper tubing as a core, with a little extra length to slot it into the remains of the original tube. Than some two part epoxy to bond the two plastic sections.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

 

Is that still the shiny new Mustang?

[GingerNuttz]

6 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Is that still the shiny new Mustang?

Aye it's the Mustang.

Fuckers mint 👌

[grogee]

[grogee]

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

 

Not even one of mine. Strange old times...

[GingerNuttz]

24 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Not even one of mine. Strange old times...

Strange times indeed when you've not got any rotten cars 😂

[camryv6]

6 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

4 stroke ??

Is that all it takes ?

[LightBulbFun]

9 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

Strange times indeed when you've not got any rotten cars 😂

well he still has the Yellow dolomite right? LOL  

[GingerNuttz]

6 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

well he still has the Yellow dolomite right? LOL  

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........

[stuboy]

9 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

4 stroke ??

 

[stuboy]

2 hours ago, camryv6 said:

Is that all it takes ?

allows me more time to be on here...

[stuboy]

5 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Finally managed to source a rear hatch glass for my 205.

Took me ages to find one,but thankfully a mate turned one up on his travels. 

More battered that a fish in a chip shop but the glass was intact. 

A nice polish chap by the name of Eddie fitted it for me just a few mins ago, quite a battle to remove it from the old tailgate,but he had the tools and the talent.

Chuffed.

bet you was shattered..lol

[Ghosty]

Update: E34 got back to Rhyl, apparently it's leaking oil from the dipstick (?) but no comeback. Chaps been back for his Disco and said nothing, I'm calling that caveat emptor. That's how we like it. 

[loserone]

8 hours ago, goosey said:

Kind of underestimated how much room I’d need for tyres

thats eight in a 205, it is doable.

[stuboy]

22 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Your missus is V6?

Very 6exy

[stuboy]

23 minutes ago, loserone said:

that you ed sheeran?

[loserone]

5 minutes ago, stuboy said:

that you ed sheeran?

Oh aye

[brownnova]

10 hours ago, Ghosty said:

BMW's gone.

I put it on Marketplace yesterday morning. 

Two 'is this still available' and a swap for an E240. 

I woke up in the middle of the night and a chap's messaged asking to view it. 
I thought sod it, reply in the morning. 

Messaged him around 9am, asking when he wants to view, he says today, can be there in a couple of hours - turns out he's in Rhyl. 
Shows up at midday and looks over the car, says he's got £1,180 in cash and £30 in the bank, is that okay? 

Damn right it is, £40 off asking price. 

He sees the car starts, doesn't even look under the bonnet, hands over cash, V5 done, gone. Turns out he needed a car by Monday as he was getting fucked to the high heavens by a finance company on a Disco 3.
He's left in the E34 to get a mate and he's coming back later to pick up the Disco.

fucking WINNER. 

Oh it’s coming to North Wales? I’ll keep an eye out! 

[DVee8]

There are some nice lots going through Mathewsons auction next weekend.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/details/-march-classic-vehicles--memorabilia-auction/?au=4&pn=2&g=1

2007 PROTON SATRIA NEO estimate £600 - £900.

 

 

LOT 182 2004 FORD FOCUS ST170 estimate £1,500 - £2,500 . Didn't someone on here want one of these?

 

 

 

[andyberg]

9 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

There are some nice lots going through Mathewsons auction next weekend.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/details/-march-classic-vehicles--memorabilia-auction/?au=4&pn=2&g=1

2007 PROTON SATRIA NEO estimate £600 - £900.

 

 

LOT 182 2004 FORD FOCUS ST170 estimate £1,500 - £2,500 . Didn't someone on here want one of these?

 

 

 

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