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[SRi05]

1 minute ago, cort16 said:

I can' t believe I sold mine for £1500 😟although I did pay £500 for it. OLDMANMEMORIES

 

"A Poo" registration 😂

[cort16]

1 minute ago, SRi05 said:

"A Poo" registration 😂

Apparently a lot of the press cars were POO.  I've have seen old reviews of Sierras with POO cars in them.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Infamous poo

[AnnoyingPentium]

New steering wheel (to replace old, scabby one) procured but yet to be fitted, new Falken tyres fitted at Abbotsinch in Killie, new wiper blades awaiting fitment and a known good MAP sensor from a 2005 Fabia is also waiting to be fitted.

[puddlethumper]

Effing road tax. £295 this year for a 34 year old van. Stewards of bars !!!!

[eddyramrod]

@andyberg: a joy to meet you too, and the lovely Mrs Berg.  Hope you're having a great day!

[richardmorris]

The X1/9 has just appeared on Instagram as a background model! Perhaps it should get an appearance fee?

[richardmorris]

My dad liked the Vauxhall - although obviously not enough to take a proper photograph.

[andyberg]

4 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

@andyberg: a joy to meet you too, and the lovely Mrs Berg.  Hope you're having a great day!

Had a lovely day thank you. Mrs Berg loved the scenery around the lakes. We went along Honister pass, just stunning. Then we saw a double decker bus coming the other way!!! Bloody hell that driver had big balls! Thank you for the stuff and recommending the car show, Mrs. Berg was impressed. Of course this means I can take her to more car shows😁 take care Eddy and stay safe .

[320touring]

That's the ex @Skizzer Golf Rivage back on the road.

Many thanks to @Mk2 Craig for all his efforts.

[Split_Pin]

Another fantastic job by @GingerNuttz this time on my black 93. Its a great car and my wife loves it so well worth fixing in my opinion.

Offside outrigger wasnt:

New outrigger fabricated, the rest of the sill was scabby but didn't need any welding. Legend!

Delighted as always, my wife especially can't wait to get it back!

[Jazoli]

Nice to see the old girl getting some tlc.

[cpjitservices]

Got home from Beamish, Citroen behaved. No dramas.

[SiC]

Like many on here, I have a cheap car eBay saved search. While I wanted a TT, this came up "locally" for £550. So I did a quick hit of the buy-it-now button before anyone else did.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195269718822

Despite it only being 30 miles away, it ended up being a 1hr45 round trip over the Mendips and back. Nice road though and a pleasant journey.

Current owner had his two sons use it over the last 8yrs. Youngest has gone travelling so they decided to get rid of it.
Paint work is absolutely shite. Looks like the lacquer is flaking off. Might attack it with some G30 or whatever that polishing compound is. No paper service history and the current owner has never done the cambelt. Last serviced 2yrs/12k ago. Also only one key. MOT is only 38 days away too.

On the plus side it drives really well and it even managed nearly 47mpg on the way back. Not bad from a petrol engine. No warning lights, brakes well and drives straight. Everything works bar the air conditioning. It's had an alternator recently and I think a new battery too.
The house was in a nice area just outside Frome and the chap was a honest guy who basically just wanted to get rid of an old unused car from his drive.

I don't think I did too badly in the current market for £550 buy-it-now. It's worth £280 scrap, so technically a £270 car?





My first Ford product that I've owned and it's a decent steer. Not very exciting but as a tool to save miles being racked up on the Civic running around locally and saving the Boxster getting dented, it will serve that perfectly.

I might treat it to an oil and filter change. Probably get it through an MOT first though.

It should tide me over until I find a reasonable TT that has been relatively looked after. 

[Timewaster]

I've had my new daily a couple of weeks now.

Taking some stuff out to the bin, I look at it and wondered if the little square inserts on the front bumper were headlight washers. 

To cure my curiosity,  I opened the door, stood outside the car, turned the lights on and washed the windscreen. 

I can report that Yes, it  does have headlight washers, they are very powerful and the screenwash tastes fucking awful!

[Yoss]

Currently in Germany. The other night I stopped for pizza and beer in a small place called Bargteheide. 

Pizza and beer. 

But what's that in the background?

A decent and more to the point original and unmolested looking E39. I thought if it was still there when I finished my pizza I'd take a decent picture, but alas it left. 

But two minutes later... 

This time it was still there when I left. 

But what are the chances of two shite barges occupying the same spot within minutes? It's not like Germany is crawling with old cars. It isn't. Made my evening anyway. 

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

Currently in Germany. The other night I stopped for pizza and beer in a small place called Bargteheide. 

Pizza and beer. 

But what's that in the background?

A decent and more to the point original and unmolested looking E39. I thought if it was still there when I finished my pizza I'd take a decent picture, but alas it left. 

But two minutes later... 

This time it was still there when I left. 

But what are the chances of two shite barges occupying the same spot within minutes? It's not like Germany is crawling with old cars. It isn't. Made my evening anyway. 

That looks more like an E34 than an E39 to me 

[barefoot]

After its recent driveshaft gear linkage, the Scirocco was looking a bit odd, high at the back... The reason it was high at the back was because it had snapped a spring at the front - fucksticks. Off it went to my man with the specialist Volkswagen spanners who decreed that because the damping parts of the struts were original & haven't actually been doing anything for a while, he'd replace both entire McPherson bits. He also fitted a complete new gearbox linkage kit. The car has stopped rattling every time it sees a pot hole and changes gear like a totally different vehicle. It still looks like a bag of shit though. Do you think I should wrap a length of rope around one end of the bumper so that folk think it's 'rat look'?

[tooSavvy]

My 'GovUK' autoMOT reminder has just bongged.... 😀

7th Sept

.... my, how time flies  ⏰✈️

[Yoss]

3 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

That looks more like an E34 than an E39 to me 

My mistake. I couldn't see all of it but that's no excuse. 

[SiC]

14 hours ago, SiC said:

Like many on here, I have a cheap car eBay saved search. While I wanted a TT, this came up "locally" for £550. So I did a quick hit of the buy-it-now button before anyone else did.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195269718822

Despite it only being 30 miles away, it ended up being a 1hr45 round trip over the Mendips and back. Nice road though and a pleasant journey.

Current owner had his two sons use it over the last 8yrs. Youngest has gone travelling so they decided to get rid of it.
Paint work is absolutely shite. Looks like the lacquer is flaking off. Might attack it with some G30 or whatever that polishing compound is. No paper service history and the current owner has never done the cambelt. Last serviced 2yrs/12k ago. Also only one key. MOT is only 38 days away too.

On the plus side it drives really well and it even managed nearly 47mpg on the way back. Not bad from a petrol engine. No warning lights, brakes well and drives straight. Everything works bar the air conditioning. It's had an alternator recently and I think a new battery too.
The house was in a nice area just outside Frome and the chap was a honest guy who basically just wanted to get rid of an old unused car from his drive.

I don't think I did too badly in the current market for £550 buy-it-now. It's worth £280 scrap, so technically a £270 car?





My first Ford product that I've owned and it's a decent steer. Not very exciting but as a tool to save miles being racked up on the Civic running around locally and saving the Boxster getting dented, it will serve that perfectly.

I might treat it to an oil and filter change. Probably get it through an MOT first though.

It should tide me over until I find a reasonable TT that has been relatively looked after. 

Had a look at this in the light of day. Paint looks to have lost its clear coat and then sun or polish has taken the rest off?

Fuel light is on but the gauge isn't reading minimum. I suspect the stop point is wrong looking at the gauge sweep.

 

Gauge looks like someone has been in there and fiddling with it 

 

Best thing of all is the engine cover the previous owner made. Iirc these suffer water in the spark plug tubes problem and ford didn't fit a cover, unlike Volvo. Anyway top marks for effort on this. 

 

 

[Cookiesouwest]

3 minutes ago, SiC said:

Had a look at this in the light of day. Paint looks to have lost its clear coat and then sun or polish has taken the rest off?

Fuel light is on but the gauge isn't reading minimum. I suspect the stop point is wrong looking at the gauge sweep.

 

Gauge looks like someone has been in there and fiddling with it 

 

Best thing of all is the engine cover the previous owner made. Iirc these suffer water in the spark plug tubes problem and ford didn't fit a cover, unlike Volvo. Anyway top marks for effort on this. 

 

 

You have done well. These are good cars

[Timewaster]

That looks like a excellent car to just use.

IMO any time / effort / money spent on the paintwork would be wasted.

Engine cover - Genius!

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

 

 

155mph out of a 1.6 petrol Focus is pretty impressive.  You might not want to hold that speed for too long though, the engine is getting a bit warm...

[SiC]

The cover is held on by bolts that have been drilled into the camcover


Had a quick poke around.
Battery is new (with the alternator)


Air filter is filthy

Cambelt is cracked. Probably the most major issue it has. Debating whether to DIY this or get my local garage to do it. Kit is about £50. 3hrs labour so £150 labour. But if I DIY I need a locking kit - £12ish off eBay and the hassle of doing it.
Given it's cracked, I think its far too risky to cambelt roulette for any length of time.


Went to check the pollen filter. Tried getting this cover off but couldn't. Then realised the thing inside was metal and definitely not the cabin filter 🫣


Had a Google and found its the otherside. Not particularly easy to get to still and I removed the glove box and the fuse box (GEM?)


Filter was disgustingly dirty. Had this Honda Civic filter to hand. A bit bigger and thinner.


But it kinda fitted. Enough to work and better than nothing. It won't be going in the Civic anyway as I prefer activated carbon filters in there because of hayfever.


Quick code scan saw a few error codes.


Engine code was the smart alternator. I cleared it and the code went away. Presumably why the alternator was replaced.
Instrument Cluster code was no CAN communications. Cleared that and it went away.
GEM code was B1217 horn relay coil failure. Clearing that didn't get rid of it. Horn works fine. Googling says that code is for the alarm siren. So I guess it's failed or been disconnected. I can live with that.

So I think I'll chat with my local garage and get it in for an MOT. If it passes then have a cambelt done. Oil+filters I'll do myself and maybe even chuck a set of new plugs in it too if I'm feeling generous.

Aircon has no gas whatsoever. I don't have much hope of that ever working again to be honest.

[SiC]

39 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

155mph out of a 1.6 petrol Focus is pretty impressive.  You might not want to hold that speed for too long though, the engine is getting a bit warm...

More worrying would be the fast approaching houses at that speed and the brake warning light on.

[richardmorris]

I’ve been down to goodwood circuit this morning to cycle round the track. I’ll have had the new TIPO exactly a year this week, and the ungrateful thing threw up its first ever error message on the hogs back. “Check tyre pressures, system fault, reset required”. No actual tyre pressure problem - it said all four were flat which was clearly a lie so I ignored it. I’ve had to wait until I got back home to check the manual for the procedure as I didn’t have my reading glasses and the font is 2point! Have done it now ( basically press a button I didn’t know was there for two seconds).

its also saying a service is due in four days or 2980 miles, so that’s about 6,000in twelve months.

[ProgRocker]

The 2003 Nissan Almera 2.2 dCi that I owned up to last year (traded in for the i10) ran out of MOT on 22nd July. Seems like it's now at the end of road sadly.

i10 now has complete working daytime running lights and new windscreen wipers.

[Longbridge Apologist]

Now tooling around in my sadly departed Dad's Mk5 Golf:

1.4TSI with a 7 speed DSG. Sensible nice riding 15" alloys. Practical 5 door. 2008 but he and mum only ever done 42,000 miles in it.

I can't bring myself to move it on, so have decided it will be my reliable, comfy modern daily. It's a very relaxing thing to tool around in, even if it is of course not a sexy or desirable model.

One thing concerns me with it though and that's the DSG. At either 40mph or 70mph, gently applying revs gets it into a bit of a tizz. It'll pop down from 7th to 6th, but then almost labour like an old manual slipping the clutch under load?

Are these DSG's sealed units or need an oil change?

(Time to find a good VAG specialist somewhere nearby in SW London/N Surrey, if anyone could recommend one...)

[richardmorris]

I can recommend a general garage in weybridge. Not vag specialists though. More on the French side.

grovegarageweybridge.co.uk