andyberg Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 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 showsđ take care Eddy and stay safe . eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 That's the ex @Skizzer Golf Rivage back on the road. Many thanks to @Mk2 Craig for all his efforts. Rust Collector, davehedgehog31, Nyphur and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 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! mercedade, Jazoli, Back_For_More and 20 others 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Nice to see the old girl getting some tlc. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpjitservices Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Got home from Beamish, Citroen behaved. No dramas. loserone and Yoss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 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. wuvvum, LightBulbFun, AnnoyingPentium and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 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! JakeT, Rust Collector, GMcD and 19 others 5 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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. cpjitservices, Dyslexic Viking, brownnova and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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 Supernaut, Schaefft, Yoss and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 My 'GovUK' autoMOT reminder has just bongged.... đ 7th Sept .... my, how time flies â°âď¸ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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.   tonedepear, Snake Charmer, Coprolalia and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookiesouwest Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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 SiC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 That looks like a excellent car to just use. IMO any time / effort / money spent on the paintwork would be wasted. Engine cover - Genius! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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... Snake Charmer, chadders and Yoss 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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 filthyCambelt 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 ÂŁ50. 3hrs labour so ÂŁ150 labour. But if I DIY I need a locking kit - ÂŁ12ish 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 đŤŁHad 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. Popsicle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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. New POD, wuvvum and Snake Charmer 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Iâve been down to goodwood circuit this morning to cycle round the track. Iâll 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. âCheck tyre pressures, system fault, reset requiredâ. No actual tyre pressure problem - it said all four were flat which was clearly a lie so I ignored it. Iâve had to wait until I got back home to check the manual for the procedure as I didnât have my reading glasses and the font is 2point! Have done it now ( basically press a button I didnât know was there for two seconds). its also saying a service is due in four days or 2980 miles, so thatâs about 6,000in twelve months. Longbridge Apologist, Snake Charmer and Nyphur 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbridge Apologist Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 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...) Snake Charmer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 I can recommend a general garage in weybridge. Not vag specialists though. More on the French side. grovegarageweybridge.co.uk  Longbridge Apologist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Charmer Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 14 minutes ago, Longbridge Apologist said: Now tooling around in my sadly departed Dad's Mk5 Golf: My Stepson had a diesel Mk5, I drove it a couple of times and thought it felt a better than a Mk4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbridge Apologist Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 29 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said: My Stepson had a diesel Mk5, I drove it a couple of times and thought it felt a better than a Mk4. It's must closer (in a good way) to the MK1 Focus in being a bit more dynamic than the MK4 I think, but not as YESSPORTFIRM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Met up with the famous @treehugger(decent chap) at Whitby steam, traction rally. Saw tractor pulling for the first time. I feel a bit off it was red hot and I've burnt my napper. Snake Charmer, Dyslexic Viking, Sunny Jim and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ0063 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Got this brand new sealed for £5 off the car boot, should be handy for van related adjustments Back_For_More, Sunny Jim, Stevebrookman and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Well the Focus now has a big crease in the door and wing mirror bent after someone directed some roadrage at me while filling up with fuel. đ A guy approached me and was staring at me. I asked if he needed help. Apparently I parked to close. I said I don't think so as there isn't a big gap where I'm stood near the petrol pump. He then flipped, opened his door and started smashing it against mine, then lent on the wing mirror. He got in his car just fine and drove off, so can't have been that close?! After he drove off, someone else parked up at the pump, got out and filled up okay too. I've reported it to the coppers and petrol station have told me they have footage. I didn't catch the reg, only a picture of him in the car. Probably should report it to the insurance too, even if I'm not claiming as its all on record? I hope this car isn't like the Astra G I had about 5 years ago, where it provoked random aggression towards when driving! Cookiesouwest, Nyphur, Popsicle and 16 others 3 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schaefft Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 This is probably good news as the guy will need to pay for the damage, which probably equals or exceeds what you paid for the car. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 He wasn't Ronnie Pickering, so likelies got off easy M8 Bttardd đ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, MrGTI6 said: I agree with @Schaefft that this is good news. Go through his insurance, let them write it off for about a grand, then buy it back for about a hundred quid. It will be recorded as a Cat N but you'll have a free car while the nutcase's premiums will likely double. That's assuming that he was insured of course... Problem is, its then the hassle of having to declare that on every insurance renewal for the next five years. I know you're supposed to declare all accidents even if you don't claim, but this was malious and certainly not an accident. I've not found non-fault claims to cause my insurance to go up but I know others have had. However its all now on record and I imagine the police will be in contact with my insurers anyway as its not showing up on the MID just yet. Stupid thing is, he had a relatively new looking Mondeo Mk5 on a private plate. He ended up bending his door edge in and taking the paint off the edge too. So caused far more expensive damage to his own car than he did to mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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