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[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.   

[Cookiesouwest]

Mrs leaves for work.

2 mins later she calls. Car won't start.

I go give her the keys to my CRV and I am reminded that she did tell me last week it was playing up.

Quick trip to Halfrauds to purchase a new HB075. Surprisingly they were cheaper than ECP.

It was a bastard to fit. No pictures as I was too busy swearing and threatening the car with being cubed.

Passing pedestrians not to impressed with the language emanating from under the bonnet.

Also forgot that @andyberg Jnr has a bloody trade card. Cock wombles.

All done now.

[Supernaut]

44 minutes ago, Longbridge Apologist said:

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

 

“IT LOOKS LIKE PORRIDGE!"

Best thing for an E90, anyway.

[meggersdog]

22 hours ago, grogee said:

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

those Challenger kit cars do look good and are very convincing, shame it's still registered as a Daimler though.

[Longbridge Apologist]

1 hour ago, Supernaut said:

Best thing for an E90, anyway.

I rather liked it…

[HMC]

Agreed that’s a decent replica e. For extra points swap the kent alloys for those period chromed steels; like the v12s, or chuck an older plate on it. Weirdly I feel a set of chromed wires would make it look more trying too hard/ fake. Having not red as the colour also helps avoid looking like it’s trying too hard which is always the risk with replicas. 

[Angrydicky]

4 hours 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?

Any SD1 manual boxes?

[The Vicar]

On 5/26/2022 at 3:58 PM, The Vicar said:

Some character building in the form of a rear ending for my Italian stallion this morning:

So my Punto is no more; seems there was more damage done than meets the eye. Here's its replacement:

It's a 1400cc petrol with factory LPG so is predictably gutless, but a 6 speed box helps it at motorway speeds. I've done 700 km today alone and it has been fine otherwise. On to Innsbruck tomorrow!

[bunglebus]

On 19/06/2022 at 18:22, Sunny Jim said:

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

Same here - but it's not mine. There are trails of it all around the estate (they turned round outside my house)

and obviously popped to the shops

[bunglebus]

5 hours ago, stuboy said:

Anyone check out the numberplate?

E782 KJF
✗ Untaxed
Tax due:
1 December 1998
MOT
No details held by DVLA
Vehicle make
LADA
Date of first registration
May 1988

OGN 738V
✗ Untaxed
Tax due:
1 September 1995
Incorrect tax status?
MOT
No results returned
Vehicle make
LADA
Date of first registration
June 1980

MOT
BKN 889Y
✗ Untaxed
Tax due:
13 September 1993
Incorrect tax status?
MOT
No details held by DVLA
Vehicle Details
Vehicle make
LADA
Date of first registration
August 1982

MOT
D32 JKP
✗ Untaxed
Tax due:
1 December 1995
Incorrect tax status?
MOT
No details held by DVLA
Vehicle Details
Vehicle make
LADA
Date of first registration
September 1986

E518 CDP
✗ Untaxed
Tax due:
11 January 1993
Incorrect tax status?
MOT
No details held by DVLA
Vehicle Details
Vehicle make
LADA
Date of first registration
October 1987

J749 LKP
✗ Untaxed
Tax due:
24 August 2000
Incorrect tax status?
MOT
No details held by DVLA
Vehicle Details
Vehicle make
LADA
Date of first registration
September 1991

[Split_Pin]

New boots for this today.

I went for my usual Falken Zeits. This is the first time I had used a mobile tyre fitter so I was slightly anxious about how well the wheels would be balanced, especially given that his van wasn't even level where he was parked. But at £82 each including £1.20 mobile fitting charge it was a no brainer.

I took the car out for an illicit spirited* drive while I was supposed to be studying and they're spot on. Tracking is way out though as both of the old tyres were heavily worn on the inside edge. It doesnt affect the drive though.

I also fixed* the Cavaliers headlining as it was sagging enough to block the rear view mirror! 3 bulldog clips had it sitting much better!

The sunroof was also very graunchy in operation so I lubricated it with some lithium grease and it works great now.

 

[Ged]

Molded polybushes for the 305 subframe fitted perfectly, before and after photos.