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[Zelandeth]

6 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

I wonder where the rest of the Riva is? We've had a front grille, engine and now doors!

A fair chunk of the interior has shown up too.  If those doors aren't totally rotten someone would probably want them.  Especially being white as it was a common colour.

[richardmorris]

23 hours ago, brownnova said:

Decided to daily the 2CV this week, I think it’s the first time I’ve done the full 5 (well 6 as I used it last Friday too) in it. 

Almost faultless to the very end. Truly is totally capable of the daily grind at 36 years old, and far more economical than the Volvo!! 

A 2cv is really the only car anyone needs. 50mpg, 4 doors and a decent boot. Took mine to waitrose this morning with the roof down at 7.30am  and 21 degrees and it rained on the way back with no clouds in the sky!

[grogee]

Stopped at a services somewhere in NE Leics. 

Do they really think anyone will buy oil at these prices?

[grogee]

On 6/16/2022 at 10:18 PM, MJK 24 said:

Super steady….

I'd be reporting that. Not ok to endanger others. 

[catsinthewelder]

3 minutes ago, grogee said:

Stopped at a services somewhere in NE Leics. 

Do they really think anyone will buy oil at these prices?

I'd buy a litre for £20 if the light was on but probably refuse to spend money there ever again.  Bet they don't sell many 5L bottles at £73.

[grogee]

Just now, catsinthewelder said:

I'd buy a litre for £20 if the light was on but probably refuse to spend money there ever again.  Bet they don't sell many 5L bottles at £73.

I know! I'm wondering if it's a typo. 

[RoverFolkUs]

31 minutes ago, grogee said:

I know! I'm wondering if it's a typo. 

Don't think so, think they're about £85 at my local! 

Concur with catsinthewelder, people might buy the 1L bottles in a pinch but don't think anyone's going to shell to buy a bottle for an oil change!

[AnnoyingPentium]

Fuckkkkk I bought 5L for £19 not too long ago!

[grogee]

A few minutes before the chequered flag drops, to start today's Aslackby Charity Car Rally. 

Had a minor mishap with my Puma's NSF mudflap but we're good to go now. Onward!

[wuvvum]

16 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Fuckkkkk I bought 5L for £19 not too long ago!

Was in Tesco earlier and their own brand oil is £17 for four litres, so it hasn't gone up that much - it's just the services charging stupid prices.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, wuvvum said:

Was in Tesco earlier and their own brand oil is £17 for four litres, so it hasn't gone up that much - it's just the services charging stupid prices.

Didn't notice that the photo was taken at a services, pays to be observant in my case. I can get 5L of the stuff I use online for £22 or so. So that'll do me fine.

[DVee8]

The air ambulance has just landed behind our house  not good news if landing in a residential area. There were more people out to watch this than the jubilee.

[grogee]

A beautiful classic in pristine condition, and some old British beater. 

[Floatylight]

I haz agreed to do a buy!

In typical autoshite fashion, £600, moon miles, retail silver with rust bless, no MoT, not seen it running and won't run unless it's started on easy start and I've not really got anywhere to store it.

😂

[Sunny Jim]

Looks like Jackson Pollack has been turning round outside my house.

Discovered where the leak is coming from - just got to work out where the other end of the pipe goes! Fairly certain it goes to the the OSF strut return but there's a bundle of pipes behind a clip which I'll need to remove first to be sure. Fastener for the clip currently soaking in penetrative oil before I attempt to remove it.

[grogee]

1 hour ago, Floatylight said:

I haz agreed to do a buy!

In typical autoshite fashion, £600, moon miles, retail silver with rust bless, no MoT, not seen it running and won't run unless it's started on easy start and I've not really got anywhere to store it.

😂

If it lets vital fluids out and rainwater in, that's Autoshite full house

[HillmanImp]

Think I finished all the welding needed for the MOT on the Visa today. 

It needs a fair bit more work to get it right but definitely feels good to have what the tester will hopefully consider sills and floor. 

[SiC]

On 6/16/2022 at 11:31 PM, wuvvum said:

Just had a look at the emissions readout for the Innocenti from its test today.  CO was 0.03% and hydrocarbons were 24ppm - pretty amazing for a 30-year-old carburettor engine that's been sat around for most of the last five years.  In fact it's cleaner than the 107...

107 may have been tested on cold/luke warm idle. I think garages do it early on a test if it's more convenient for them to do, as if it passes when not up to temperature, it's still a pass. 

[brownnova]

I had hoped that for Father’s Day I would get more time in the garage than I did, but I’ll take the quick half an hour deciding which of the front wings I have for the 2CV are least rotten and most saveable. 

 

Turns out it’s the two red ones… so that’s me painting them green then. Some brief repair work done to them ready… but didn’t even get time to get back and sand the filler I’d applied down. Where do the weekends go!?! 

[Ged]

subframe polybush for my racing diesel 305 m8, 3 more and it can have its back wheels on the ground again. 3D printed molds are easier to sacrifice than trying to get the bushing out.

[Dobloseven]

20 hours ago, grogee said:

Stopped at a services somewhere in NE Leics. 

Do they really think anyone will buy oil at these prices?

Daughter came round a couple of Sundays ago. Oil light had come on in her car. Checked dipstick which wasn't reaching the oil. Evening so all the usual suspects were shut. Car, 66reg Peugeot 208 needs 0w30 stuff. Got lots of oil in shed, but none of that. Phone oldest son, he hasn't got any either. He lives near the Leicester Forest East M1 Services. Phones me up, 23 quid a litre. Fortunately I'd just been to the petrol station at the bottom of the road and paid 15 quid. That got it back on the dipstick. Only holds about 3 litres anyway. Bought 5 litres and a filter from GSF later for around 40 quid, but haven't got round to changing it for her yet. She's going to Dubai in August so car will be sold off anyway. Been a good car for her really. Had it new on a Just add fuel PCP, bought it outright when the 3 years were up. Just got in on the £20 pound tax. WBAC come up with more than she paid for it,so all good. 

[RoverFolkUs]

9 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

Daughter came round a couple of Sundays ago. Oil light had come on in her car. Checked dipstick which wasn't reaching the oil. Evening so all the usual suspects were shut. Car, 66reg Peugeot 208 needs 0w30 stuff. Got lots of oil in shed, but none of that. Phone oldest son, he hasn't got any either. He lives near the Leicester Forest East M1 Services. Phones me up, 23 quid a litre. Fortunately I'd just been to the petrol station at the bottom of the road and paid 15 quid. That got it back on the dipstick. Only holds about 3 litres anyway. Bought 5 litres and a filter from GSF later for around 40 quid, but haven't got round to changing it for her yet. She's going to Dubai in August so car will be sold off anyway. Been a good car for her really. Had it new on a Just add fuel PCP, bought it outright when the 3 years were up. Just got in on the £20 pound tax. WBAC come up with more than she paid for it,so all good. 

5W-30 would have been better than nothing

[Metal Guru]

7 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

5W-30 would have been better than nothing

I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30?

Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service.

[JakeT]

1 minute ago, Metal Guru said:

I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30?

Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service.

I wouldn’t think so. If a car is seriously low on oil I’d put anything in which is relatively close. 
 

Just checked the Shell app, and they generously allow 10% off of their own oils. That brings the price down to… far too much.

[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30?

Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service.

Yes. 5w is thicker from cold but both have the same viscosity at operating temperature.

On my old Civic diesel, the tolerances were so tight that it because important that you used 0w30 and nothing else.

In an emergency though, the car would obviously get what it was given.

[bunglebus]

I think this completes the Saaab welding saga. Crumbly bit under the battery tray that would have been much easier to fix while I had other bits chopped out.

View is looking down on the OSF inner wing

Cut out 

Test fitting one half of the repair 

Weld that on...

And make a small patch for the other bit

Underneath 

bit of tidying and paint and it can be MoT'd

[stuboy]

More lada estate doors tailgate and more scrap.. bumpers and gearbox...

And a dawes bicycle too..

 

This fella never threw anything away.. 

 

Anyone check out the numberplate?

[RoverFolkUs]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I know what the figures mean, but is there really any practical real world difference between 0W-30 and 5W-30?

Re services oil prices, garages especially main dealers charge at least £60 for 5 litres during a service.

Not particularly, it's just thicker from cold. If you put something like 10w-40 you might get issues, but a small difference would be ok.

Generally speaking, if it's less than 10years/100k miles I put 5w-30 or if over then 10w-40. Never had any issues. 

Exact oil grades are only really important when you've got hydraulic tensioners, or hydraulic VVT and suchlike. 

In your case I would have filled it with 5w-30 then just changed the oil back to 0w-30 when you were able to get it at a reasonable price, i.e not shell

[Longbridge Apologist]

This feels like the moment when Alan Partridge watched his book getting pulped…

“IT LOOKS LIKE PORRIDGE!"

[Zelandeth]

54 minutes ago, stuboy said:

More lada estate doors tailgate and more scrap.. bumpers and gearbox...

And a dawes bicycle too..

 

This fella never threw anything away.. 

 

Anyone check out the numberplate?

Is there a steering box on the other end of that steering wheel?  If there is, even if the rest gets binned, please save that.  RHD specific steering parts are made of unobtainium, especially steering boxes.  So one that's either serviceable or in a rebuildable condition is something that is well worth saving.