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[SiC]

Been away in Jersey for the last week.
Saw a lot and went to a very good museum on the island. Small but plenty of interesting stuff.


A lot of random WW2 paraphernalia is deposited around the island.


Including tunnels dug during the war.




Saw this beauty.


But the highlight definitely was the hire car that I had for the day. That though, belongs in a more appropriate thread:
https://autoshite.com/topic/48871-bmcbmhbl-readers-wives/?do=findComment&comment=2560868

[stuboy]

Rescued some bits were heading for the scrapyard

[AnnoyingPentium]

Bodgetacular, innit.

[HMC]

Well it started up fine this morning and wasn’t sagged onto its bump stops so that’s a win for my first morning with a flakey old Mercedes coupe.

[bunglebus]

I'm sure there was an early Mondeo thread but I can't find it. Stole this from FB

 

[neil1971]

11 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

I'm sure there was an early Mondeo thread but I can't find it. Stole this from FB

 

K reg Mondeo topic is here, headed Mondy rather than Mondeo so probably makes it tricky to search for

[Schaefft]

14 hours ago, HMC said:

Something big and flakey….

 

 

Flakey in a number of senses! Yes I have purchased. 

Oof, I've considered these for a while and eventually decided that it's just not worth it. Still great looking cars though. Was it cheap?

[cort16]

8 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

Oof, I've considered these for a while and eventually decided that it's just not worth it. Still great looking cars though. Was it cheap?

I've had one and they definetely are if you can get one cheap enough with no ABC lights on! I see HMC's has got the weird boot hinge/spring issue my was also afflicted with. 

[Rust Collector]

I’m off to go and see the man from the ministry:

Countdown to the disappointment…

[3VOM]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Bodgetacular, innit.

You can get single DIN "pockets"/"shelves" to fill the gap, e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284819624615?hash=item42509292a7:g:xMEAAOSwGI9ihNZp

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, 3VOM said:

You can get single DIN "pockets"/"shelves" to fill the gap, e.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284819624615?hash=item42509292a7:g:xMEAAOSwGI9ihNZp

I have a nice drawer from the posh spec model that goes in there, but I wanted to run the iPod which requires the cable to be attached at the back of the unit. It's only a temp unit anyway, I'm waiting for another cassette one so I can use the already wired CD changer.

[JJ0063]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I'm sure there was an early Mondeo thread but I can't find it. Stole this from FB

 

Have you seen what he’s done to it? I’ll try and find a pic 

 

EDIT:

😥

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Tidied up the garage, took a load of oil the tip and made ready for the mustang to come back for welding Monday.  Then gave the Rover some massively long overdue love - an oil and filter change, topped off all fluids and even cleaned out the fire traps. Rewarded myself with a bath in the afternoon. Then cleaned the bath as it was dirtier than the garage floor 🤪

[EightMegs]

On 6/30/2022 at 10:42 AM, 320touring said:

Tayinloan waiting on the Gigha ferry. 121 miles, 45.4mpg reported average speed 42.2mph. cheeky wee breakfast in Inveraray on the way down.

The 172 is pretty bloody adept at fast A road work - shift down and fuck off.

Beats working for a living 😀

I wonder how Inverary's council would react if you painted your house in a colour that isn't white...

[MJK 24]

F - O - R - D

[beko1987]

7 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

F - O - R - D

Is it a Vauxhall 🤔

[reb]

One of the reasons I've not been doing much work on the 205 lately is the fact that so much of my 200 piece Halfords advanced socket set is either missing or fucked. In the first step to rectifying this I ordered a 38 piece 3/4" Bahco set. I'll be getting a 1/2" set once my tax refund comes through.

Prices seem all over the place with Bahco sets, I could have got a similar set but without the imperial sockets (which are a bit ??? as it's supposedly a metric set) and with some 1/4 stuff for significantly less for some reason, but that didn't have as many accessories and I already have a 1/4" set anyway.

As for why I chose Bahco? Simply because it reminds me of dad.

[Fumbler]

8 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I’m off to go and see the man from the ministry:

Countdown to the disappointment…

Good luck mate

[wheel nut]

My mothers garage roof is badly rotten and close to collapsing so I’m trying to clear out everything before we decide what to do about the roof. Got to the back corner today where I uncovered a jag engine and gearbox. I thought they were bolted together so I was pleasantly surprised to find that the gearbox was just pushed into the engine but not actually bolted together.

Moved the gearbox from where its been sitting for almost 40 years. I’ll need to return with my engine crane to move the engine - it’s a really heavy lump of a thing. 

[loserone]

Do you have something appropriate like a lawnmower or an MX5 to fit it in?

[SRi05]

Gave the Saab a pro valet today with some old cloths and a bottle of polish from 1987. I felt a bit sorry for it as it hasn't been used much since buying the Civic. Cleaned up well, then it pished down. Great success. 

Certainly hasn't been floppytop weather up here recently 

[Yoss]

9 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I’m off to go and see the man from the ministry:

Countdown to the disappointment…

Has this happened yet then? 

[wheel nut]

33 minutes ago, loserone said:

Do you have something appropriate like a lawnmower or an MX5 to fit it in?

It’ll be getting sold. It has been kept for around 40 years just in case we found a use for it, but I think the time has come to admit that my family has hoarded more than I will ever use so sensible to move some stuff on.

[reb]

43 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

I do most of my fucking up a perfectly good car maintenance at my parents house as until a few years ago theirs was the only place I had to keep my tools, trolley jack, stands etc. We bought a fantastic 1/2" bahco set many years ago now which ha served us proud.

Really good tools for the price.

I have a little 1/4" set I got for christmas a few years ago, it's so much nicer to use than the halfords stuff, and wasn't much more expensive.

I find it easier to keep track of sockets if only one drive size goes in each case, so hopefully I won't lose any of the sockets from any of the Bahco sets like I have done with the big halfords set.

[stuboy]

Love my galaxy.. I kept thinking shall I replace it with a van...something sporty u know mid life crisis...lol... well if I got a van were would the kids sit.. and with osteoarthritis only thing low would be an invacar... ha ha.. but back to the daddy wagon moved some super long timber from deceased uncle to missus house.

 

Sorry not a very exciting post.

Had a day off for once on my week off.

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

Has this happened yet then? 

MOT was booked for 15:15, but seeing as the test station is just around the corner from my office I used the car for my morning commute drove to my pre-booked appointment early. In the end, they didn't look at it until last knockings which meant the last hour or so of my day at work was spent pressing refresh on the DVLA website instead of doing anything productive. It failed, but seeing as it was last car of the day the tester put it back up on the ramp to show me what I needed to weld so that he'd be happy. It's not too tragic, but the fail sheet looks awful as there's pretty much a 2p sized rusty hole conveniently located on each of the 4 corners of the car 😅 I need to sort out the front brakes as well as they're knackered from being stood so long. So not really too much to do to be back on the road.

There's a much longer story to it as last night whilst prepping it for today we had some unrelated bad news that caused something of a cascade of shit events from then until now, but I'm still decompressing from that with a few beers and not really feeling upset about the car at all as there's much worse things in life than a car not passing its ticket.

[320touring]

Back home now after 283.1 miles in 2 days in the 172.

Mpg apparently 47.4 (likely low 40s actual). Absolutely brilliant at whatever is asked of it.

Gawd bless the lil Renaultsports: frustrating to own but brilliant to drive..

[wuvvum]

The Jag went in to the local garage today to get plugged in to their diagnostic machine in an attempt to find out what is wrong with it as my DS150e wasn't finding anything.

It seems injector #1 is probably the problem - the flow rates on that injector are considerably higher than the others.  Injector #1 is on the offside bank - the ticking noise from the nearside bank is apparently a noisy tappet as I thought when I first bought the car, rather than a ticking injector.

I'm going to give it an oil and filter change (I have the filter and I'm pretty sure I have enough of the correct grade of oil in the shed) and tip in a tin of valve lifter treatment to see if that quietens down the ticking.  I think the oil currently has a bit of diesel in it too, presumably from when the previous giffer owner used to start it and just leave it running on the drive for ages to keep the battery charged, which I imagine caused a failed regen or two.

The garage's machine actually picked up nearly three pages of fault codes, but none were actually related to the running issue - they were almost all stored codes from when the battery had gone flat before I bought it.  I did 40 miles in it this evening and it ran fine, it's odd that most of the time it behaves itself but occasionally it'll be a pain in the arse.

[Joey spud]

 

My wifes CRX was previously owned by an old giffer who had hand painted the cam cover a nice shade of orange.

So I had a go at improving it with some wrinkle paint.

After spending an eternity getting every trace of the orange off it was scuffed up with a scotch pad and degreased.

The instructions on the rattle can advise three thick coats applied five mins apart then leaving it for a day to wrinkle up or even baking it in an oven to speed up the curing process.

But looking at some vids on YouTube things can also be hurried along by using a heat gun so after an hour with no sign of any wrinkles I gave it a once over.

Five mins with the heat gun got the crinkles starting to form so I left it alone for a good 36 hours to harden before attempting to fit it back onto the engine.

I am quite chuffed with how it turned out the paint was £14.50 a can and I haven't used half of it.

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, Joey spud said:

 

My wifes CRX was previously owned by an old giffer who had hand painted the cam cover a nice shade of orange.

So I had a go at improving it with some wrinkle paint.

After spending an eternity getting every trace of the orange off it was scuffed up with a scotch pad and degreased.

The instructions on the rattle can advise three thick coats applied five mins apart then leaving it for a day to wrinkle up or even baking it in an oven to speed up the curing process.

But looking at some vids on YouTube things can also be hurried along by using a heat gun so after an hour with no sign of any wrinkles I gave it a once over.

Five mins with the heat gun got the crinkles starting to form so I left it alone for a good 36 hours to harden before attempting to fit it back onto the engine.

I am quite chuffed with how it turned out the paint was £14.50 a can and I haven't used half of it.

That looks really smart I think.  Well done.