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[SiC]

1 hour ago, juular said:

various other crimes against motoring

I've seen my own today too. The MOT history is particularly colourful. 

[cobblers]

52 minutes ago, trigger said:

Thanks, they are reproduction plates from Retroplates, I had a photo of the orginial ones so knew what they should be like and when I bought the car a previous 'dubber' had fitted modern tin plates. 

Expensive but very good

He's done mine too, freestyled them from a window sticker for the logo. They're beautiful:

[wuvvum]

40 minutes ago, SiC said:

I've seen my own today too. The MOT history is particularly colourful. 

Stuboy, is that you?

[Spurious]

1 hour ago, trigger said:

Expensive but very good

How expensive is expensive? Wondering what I could get for my Audi. 

[robinmasters]

The current 'Harvey Dent' fleet*. 

[trigger]

55 minutes ago, Spurious said:

How expensive is expensive? Wondering what I could get for my Audi. 

I believe it was £60, if you aren't bothered by the logo and just want plain period font plates then fancyplates are very good too. 

[SRi05]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

I've seen my own today too. The MOT history is particularly colourful. 

Fairly sure the added on tat will be structural at this point 

[Broadsword]

1 hour ago, robinmasters said:

The current 'Harvey Dent' fleet*. 

Does my old Xantia live on?

[vulgalour]

Out of gas and flapwheels to be able to finish this off.  Got the trailing edge of the arch and the end of the sill to finish.  Amazed at how little distortion I ended up with in the panel since there's two really long butt welds to put a fillet in above the repair panel because I managed to cock up the initial fitting.  If this were restoration, this wouldn't be good enough because the profiles aren't correct at the sill-to-arch bit due to the repair panel being really wrong in that area and me not having the skills to make it right.  Fortunately, this is just repair, so it just needs to not be rusty.

Shouldn't need a lot of filler to finish off, though I'm not expecting a perfect finish on any of this.  I am amazed that the city X sticker didn't burn away, must have controlled my panel heat pretty well to pull that one off.

[Bren]

So Boris got a fine.

Well he has proved everybody wrong - he can organise a piss up.

[barefoot]

5 hours ago, trigger said:

I believe it was £60, if you aren't bothered by the logo and just want plain period font plates then fancyplates are very good too. 

Fancy plates put logos on for me, I just emailed him a photograph.

[Fumbler]

Gotta love defective parts. I hit a bump on the way to work and was greeted by bouncy speedo of bounciness and a loud scuffing noise. I phoned Chevronics and they said it was probably the cable falling out the socket in the binnacle. It wasn't. It turns out the bottom cable, which is new from the OEM, managed to fall out its crimped plug thingie

You can faintly see the imprints where the plug was really weakly crimped on. I wiggled it back into position and applied liberal amounts of superglue.

I pushed it home and put in the rubber stopper. I also routed the cable a bit better before putting the airbox back in place.

[beko1987]

I guess part of selling your boring and uninteresting soul to the great Lord Alphabet is some cool stats... 

Went to dad's this weekend. Home to my granny's, then granny's back home today. 72 miles dead on each trip. 45 minutes more today coming home thanks to leaving Alwalton at 10 to 4 and hitting every rush hour bottleneck the A1 Southbound has to offer, and some roadworks in wing that sprang up fucking yesterday as they weren't there Sunday, vs a Sunday at 08.30 nailed to the floor no other cars on the road as fast as I fucking can with the kids in the car so a touch of sensibility 1h38 door to the petrol station 3/4 of a mile from my grans house. 

Then from granny's to dad's is another 16 miles. There's 2 ways I go, both 16 miles each it seems, but the a16 is quicker. We got stuck behind a tractor and there's roadworks by bretton and we still did it 5 minutes quicker than a pretty decent drive via eye and Thorney, fast where I could and meh where I couldn't. 

🤓

Can see why people get into this trip logging lark

[RoverFolkUs]

8 hours ago, SRi05 said:

Fairly sure the added on tat will be structural at this point 

"exhaust wrapped in foil" - 

Mmmmmm, fantastic! 

Though I imagine that foil has better structural intregirty than the rest of the Kak

Also, 146,000 miles!? That's the highest I've seen a MK1 Ka reach!

[Ghosty]

 

High praise. 

[Ghosty]

The sedan has been in for some paintwork. It came back on Friday afternoon, and on Saturday morning I fitted new discs and pads to the front, as braking had gone a bit vague lately. Discs were on offer from ECP so cost a tenner and Blue Print (Febi) pads were £15. While fitting them I found a loose CV boot held on with a cable tie... that has a proper clip on it now. Saturday afternoon I wandered off to Kettering to meet up with some mates at a Premier Inn and subsequently off to Japfest. Had a belter of a weekend, hopefully I can make the most of the season. I truly love this car, finding it last year was simply fait accomplis.  Car has performed flawlessly but I vaguely suspect the rear suspension is coming up on renewal as there's a bit of a clunk from the rear top mounts when it goes over bumps (four up with luggage admittedly). 

A mate took this pic. 

I'm hoping to enter it to the show and shine at the northern Mimms Honda Day meet next month. FOTU concours would be nice but I don't think it's up to that. 

 

[dome]

17 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Out of gas and flapwheels to be able to finish this off.  Got the trailing edge of the arch and the end of the sill to finish.  Amazed at how little distortion I ended up with in the panel since there's two really long butt welds to put a fillet in above the repair panel because I managed to cock up the initial fitting.  If this were restoration, this wouldn't be good enough because the profiles aren't correct at the sill-to-arch bit due to the repair panel being really wrong in that area and me not having the skills to make it right.  Fortunately, this is just repair, so it just needs to not be rusty.

Shouldn't need a lot of filler to finish off, though I'm not expecting a perfect finish on any of this.  I am amazed that the city X sticker didn't burn away, must have controlled my panel heat pretty well to pull that one off.

12 year old me is very jealous of your rear wash wipe and digital clock. My folks had a City with no X on it in the same colour. E930 DOS.

Why I can remember that reg and not where I put something 5 minutes ago is a source of constant wonder to me.

[vulgalour]

Took a gamble on a speedo cable for an 1800 Princess fitting the 1700 Princess because I couldn't see BL changing the instruments and the gearbox.  Paid off.  Still a rotten job to do and I've managed to gouge my forehead on the dashboard so the mandatory blood sacrifice has been made.  Hopefully this one lasts, a spare has been ordered just in case it doesn't.

[grogee]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Took a gamble on a speedo cable for an 1800 Princess fitting the 1700 Princess because I couldn't see BL changing the instruments and the gearbox.  Paid off.  Still a rotten job to do and I've managed to gouge my forehead on the dashboard so the mandatory blood sacrifice has been made.  Hopefully this one lasts, a spare has been ordered just in case it doesn't.

This was the meeting at which the instrument update for the 1800 Princess was discussed. 

After a brief* strike, they decided to carry over the 1700 instruments unchanged. 

[Ghosty]

Wait, that Micra you're wasting your life on is CVT? 


Christ.

[Fumbler]

7 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Wait, that Micra you're wasting your life on is CVT? 


Christ.

You didn't know? I'd have left the high idle bollocks be if it were a manual.

[Fumbler]

53 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

The loom over the throttle position sensor was exposed, and when wet/damp would send the sensor intermittent or off, hence the high idle.  Wrapped it up with insulation tape, and even after a car wash no more problems.

Pic before for reference.  

Would I be better swapping the insulation tape for something more specialised? 90% sure this was the issue as the random high idle I've been having for over a year now is exactly the same RPM as when you disconnect this plug and switch into D.  So it appears least to me that the car was loosing connection to this plug randomly when driving (or I think in wet/damp conditions)

 

Pot it in epoxy or something.

[SiC]

Put 240v and finally kill it off completely

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, SiC said:

Put 240v and finally kill it off completely

Not enough. I suggest getting a microwave transformer.

[SiC]

15 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Wait, that Micra you're wasting your life on is CVT? 


Christ.

To be fair, you have to give him some points for being so dedicated in trying to keep the damn thing on the road!

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

The loom over the throttle position sensor was exposed, and when wet/damp would send the sensor intermittent or off, hence the high idle.  Wrapped it up with insulation tape, and even after a car wash no more problems.

Pic before for reference.  

Would I be better swapping the insulation tape for something more specialised? 90% sure this was the issue as the random high idle I've been having for over a year now is exactly the same RPM as when you disconnect this plug and switch into D.  So it appears least to me that the car was loosing connection to this plug randomly when driving (or I think in wet/damp conditions)

 

Use hot glue. Layer it up and wait a few secs between layers so it doesn't just run off, then lick your fingers wet, man up and mould the glue nicely before it hardens! 

It removes more easily than epoxy if needed, I do similar with hoover repair bodging, if it doesn't work it all picks off OK and you sigh and then get the epoxy out... 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 08/04/2022 at 11:05, grogee said:

This is probably old news to the BL lickers among you, but I've just learned there was a Portuguese-assembled Morris Ital (badged Marina there) with a 37bhp 1.5 B-series diesel. 

Imagine that. Whatever you are driving today, and no matter how badly it is behaving, it isn't going to be as arse-clenchingly awful as a diesel Ital.

Massive amounts of want from this quarter, of course. 

that would be the same as Maurice Marina could have- i remember hearing one many years ago and thinking diesel marina?

[Fumbler]

18 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

that would be the same as Maurice Marina could have- i remember hearing one many years ago and thinking diesel marina?

I remember posting an ad for a Maltese diesel Marina on the tat thread. Same B-series boat anchor chugging away under the bonnet.

[GMcD]

Got out of shopping commitments (yay!) to wait in for a delivery. So I replaced the disks on the red MX-5 this evening. 

The disks on it were put on very recently. They have no lip, but they were starting to pit and try as I might I could not clean the face of them off. 

£48 for "quality" unipart branded discs. Will see how I get on.

[paulplom]

Off to Peterbogghorror to collect a free tower scaffold from a trusted wobber and former shiter.

Three and a half hours each way in the ex kiltox shitroen relay. I've brought Morty on his first road trip. Look at him, he can hardly contain his excitement.