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[mitsisigma01]

18 hours ago, High Jetter said:

You can't fit quicker

Strange wear pattern 🤔

[Ghosty]

34 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Strange wear pattern 🤔

One word: Crail.

[Cord Fourteener]

So I had the oil deterioration light on the Mondeo and the smoke and the failed regens.

A quick oil change and dtc reset later and fingers crossed maybe I'll have sorted it.

 

[GeordieInExile]

New alternator and battery on the 850 in the last week .. Still getting the battery light flashing up when I kill the ignition. Apparently TADTS. Hmmmmm.

[Cookiesouwest]

2 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

The man from the ministry said NO .... 

Could have been worse, £15 worth of parts will change that result

Just waiting to go in for retest now! 

Liked for the 15 quid parts to pass. Not the original fail

[Cookiesouwest]

Off to a local car meet in 30 mins. Will post pics

[RoverFolkUs]

3 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

The man from the ministry said NO .... 

Could have been worse, £15 worth of parts will change that result

Just waiting to go in for retest now! 

That's better

Was just a couple of ball joint boots. 

No advisories either!

[andyberg]

1 hour ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Off to a local car meet in 30 mins. Will post pics

I'm bloody well working😡

[Cookiesouwest]

Pics as promised. Good little local meet.

 

 

 

 

[stuboy]

Collegue at work says my brakes seem rubbish... before he purchased it the previous owner had changed the front discs.. but not the pads.. seemly the old discs chamfered the pads...

[SiC]

Washed the Boxster this evening as it was filthy from living outside. Not helped by filler dust emanating from the garage...





Filled up. The last person at the pump put a fiver in. Can't imagine this went far.

[Cookiesouwest]

7 minutes ago, SiC said:

Filled up. The last person at the pump put a fiver in. Can't imagine this went far.

Unless it was a moped

[SiC]

Pulled the BGT out of storage tonight too. Booked in for its MOT tomorrow.


Only 100 miles to go!


Filled up. Fuel economy (UK MPG) isn't too bad on this fill up. Actually worked out 1MPG better than the Boxster.


Did a pre-MOT essential.


Not because it's needed for the MOT, but because at £2p/l and parking in Bristol, I'm not risking it!


First time I think I've ever managed to get all my cars (Civic is Mrs SiC so doesn't count...) in a photo for a very long time.


Which brings me onto my next thought. Next month will be 5 years since I bought this. This September I've got the MGB 60th anniversary I'm going to in Gaydon (providing it gets me there!).

After that, I never thought I'd say this, perhaps I may consider selling it. Not certain yet but a combination of factors makes me think it might go. No doubt it's read this and bloody let me down at the worst possible place in Bristol! 🤣

[SiC]

5 minutes ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Unless it was a moped

That's still probably only like half a tank in a moped too!

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Pics as promised. Good little local meet.

 

 

 

 

 

I did consider going to that tonight but decided the Boxster was too urgently needing a clean! I think the other one is on Saturday though. Going to try going to that if I can. 

[Cookiesouwest]

14 minutes ago, SiC said:

I did consider going to that tonight but decided the Boxster was too urgently needing a clean! I think the other one is on Saturday though. Going to try going to that if I can. 

Cool. I'm going to try and make it. @andyberg Will you be going? Blue Bowl meet in the valley at noon

[andyberg]

18 minutes ago, SiC said:

That's still probably only like half a tank in a moped too!

Exactly, it costs a tenner to fill my son's bike up 

[andyberg]

1 minute ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Cool. I'm going to try and make it. @andyberg Will you be going? Blue Bowl meet in the valley at noon

🤔 I am off work Saturday. May be a chance to give the GT a run 😁😁

[Split_Pin]

26 minutes ago, SiC said:

Pulled the BGT out of storage tonight too. Booked in for its MOT tomorrow.


Only 100 miles to go!


Filled up. Fuel economy (UK MPG) isn't too bad on this fill up. Actually worked out 1MPG better than the Boxster.


Did a pre-MOT essential.


Not because it's needed for the MOT, but because at £2p/l and parking in Bristol, I'm not risking it!


First time I think I've ever managed to get all my cars (Civic is Mrs SiC so doesn't count...) in a photo for a very long time.


Which brings me onto my next thought. Next month will be 5 years since I bought this. This September I've got the MGB 60th anniversary I'm going to in Gaydon (providing it gets me there!).

After that, I never thought I'd say this, perhaps I may consider selling it. Not certain yet but a combination of factors makes me think it might go. No doubt it's read this and bloody let me down at the worst possible place in Bristol! 🤣

What would you replace it with?

[andyberg]

2 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Pics as promised. Good little local meet.

 

 

 

 

 

Looks a bit better than last week. I'll try to get to next week's 🤞

[SiC]

21 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

What would you replace it with?

Cash.

With the way the economy is going, it could be the most useful thing. 

[OM646]

So, I decided to unlock some stereos from the scrapyard (now that the Alana is up and running in my Aldi)

And it was all going well until i hooked up a Skoda MS402 tape deck from an early Fabia mk1 to my 12V source.

I don't know if I'm spending too much time on AS and inheriting @AnnoyingPentium's bad luck with Fabia MK1 related stuff as a direct result but the damn thing won't power on. It'll illuminate the buttons and draw 0,1A, but when i press the knob to turn the radio on, nothing happens.

(the two Symphonies i unlocked work fine though)

[brownnova]

MG is finally through an MoT… 

Of course I’m not able to go and collect until next week due to work commitments.

Oh well at least it might make the impending bill after pay day. 

[GagaStan]

Finally got out in the Starlet for a proper blat. Public holiday here today - took it down my favourite local twisty and I'm amazed at how well it did. Plenty of poke and gets to 100kph/60mph in second which is a hoot. One of the nicer  Toyota engines I've come across, it doesn't sound like it wants to disintegrate as you approach the limiter - and it still manages to have low end grunt despite being twin cam injected blah blah.

The car seems to run the smallest bit smoother after a good thrashing too. Or maybe I'm just making excuses... who cares, I'm happy!

[barefoot]

I'm off to show my face at the new, local car meet in the morning and shall be going in the 944S. To me, it is obvious that I should dress in a sharply pressed white shirt & red braces, but does everyone on here dress to suit the vehicles they drive? I always used to wear a Breton shirt & hang a string of onions around my neck when I went out in the Vel Satis. What a palaver, I was glad when that moved on & I finally stopped smelling like a greengrocer.

[Split_Pin]

I did some rust prevention on the inner sills of the red 93 today. 

This is the nearside,  offside was the same. Nothing crunchy, just slight surface rust. A good coat of Vactan and then stonechip once that had dried. For some reason the picture displays here upside down, even when I rotated the original.  You can see the Y -shaped brace on the inner sill, these are a perfect mud trap. It should have been closed off from the factory but as well as the middle, each of the ends of the Y shape are open, where it meets the inner sill. They all rot here eventually, stupid design.

The black Saab is a bit worse but nothing serious, it's getting a small amount of welding done later in the summer.

Cleans up very well this!

[Sunny Jim]

The view from my office today.

I was Entry Control Officer for a team entering the dam's hydroelectric plant to devise rescue plans for maintenance workers.

Slightly concerned to be stood in the middle of a dam next to a metal access davit with lightning forecast but fortunately it didn't materialise!

 

[beko1987]

Did you rescue all the maintenance workers though? 

[Sunny Jim]

It's classified as a Confined Space so by law before maintenance teams can go in rescue plans have to be devised so that workers can be extracted in case of emergency.

Only once my colleagues and I had worked out how we would rescue them were the maintenance team allowed in.

Fortunately nobody required rescuing today which is how I like it. 🙂

[loserone]

5 hours ago, barefoot said:

I'm off to show my face at the new, local car meet in the morning and shall be going in the 944S. To me, it is obvious that I should dress in a sharply pressed white shirt & red braces, but does everyone on here dress to suit the vehicles they drive? I always used to wear a Breton shirt & hang a string of onions around my neck when I went out in the Vel Satis. What a palaver, I was glad when that moved on & I finally stopped smelling like a greengrocer.

Twat.