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[AnnoyingPentium]

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

there's a clonk from o/s/f and n/s/r suspension

ARB bushes tend to shit themselves on these. See also CV related things.

Edit - I may have some ARB bushes sitting about, I'll be in touch if I can find them.

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

driver's seat belt doesn't return all the way, which is fucking really annoying.

Wee drop of furniture polish as both my front ones were like this.

Good buy though.

[mitsisigma01]

On 9/3/2022 at 12:25 AM, mitsisigma01 said:

Are there any Bongo or Freda owners on here .....

I am trying to bump up interest in a set of 4 alloys with winter tyres fitted . I am going to see them tomorrow so will try and get some pictures and tyre details. 

Watch this space ....

I've bought them myself.... Just need the rest of the Bongo now 🙄

[mitsisigma01]

 

"Suits you Sir"

[stuboy]

2 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

 

"Suits you Sir"

 

[brownnova]

Phone call from the Saab people: 

“Your car’s ready, I gave it a good checkover like you asked… nothing else wrong with it, only thing I noticed was someone has bodged the exhaust mount…”

”Yeah, that was me. It works for now” 

“Yeah, looks solid so if it works keep it like that”

That’ll be my garden wire exhaust mount. I think that’s specialist approved bodgery now?

Can’t wait to get the 9000 back! 

[Lankytim]

Spent a pleasurable hour or so this afternoon fixing the Lagunas sticky OSF brake caliper. It looked pretty scaly so a wire cup brush on an angle grinder was used to remove all the flakes and tidy things up. The pads were copper greased where needed and the caliper reassembled. It seems to have done the trick, I’ll do the NS at some point too as presumably it’s nearly as corroded as the OS. 

[Bear]

How it started:

How it was going (thanks M5):

Made it to Nottingham turnoff and:

[Bear]

(I did check the inflation on the spare - that was the "out of hardshoulderless hell let's check things - was happily bimbling home at 40 and then the other front tyre went. Lilith is definitely one for drama as I changed the spare in an actual lightning storm. Also worried that looking for a place to check tyre I got snapped by a lane closure camera on the M42 so today really has gone to shit - as the whole plan was driving to my friend's house near Chelt to sort her car MoT - booked with Halfords ages ago, they told her at 10am they don't do tests on Monday at that garage - like, they had weeks to tell her this. Absolute fucking waste).

[Bear]

Fucking hell the AA are absolute shite. Good thing I'm not a motoring writer.

[SiC]

5 hours ago, RichardK said:

Fucking hell the AA are absolute shite. Good thing I'm not a motoring writer.

Are they trying to avoid covering you?

I know I've read in T&C's that they don't necessarily cover someone who has a flat in their spare tyre. Whether they enforce that is another matter. 

[egg]

For the fifth or sixth time since we've lived here someone has scraped my parked car. Thank fck it wasn't the Mondeo this time as the i10 was parked in the Mondy's spot. They left a note. People just cannot drive.

[JJ0063]

It’s what he would have wanted x

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, SiC said:

I know I've read in T&C's that they don't necessarily cover someone who has a flat in their spare tyre. Whether they enforce that is another matter. 

I had to argue with the call handler to get them to come out when I had two blowouts on a trailer in the same journey (the fact that I had 3+ tonnes of Saviem tipper truck on the trailer was of course completely unrelated).

[Tony McVeigh]

Reply to egg:

Yep, people can't drive, as experienced when my Twingo got totalled when parked at 01:00 - plus side, got my 205 with the payout 😁

[HillmanImp]

Yeah, you never know whats going to happen. Look at the damage done to this guys car that was caught on his ring doorbell. The person who did it was obviously drunk. 

 

[Tony McVeigh]

Hilarious!!

 

[Datsuncog]

You told me you'd deleted that.

[egg]

One of those days, daughter's school taxi (Touran) 'smouldering' at side of road on way to pick her up....luckily another taxi that comes our way can bring her home. 

It's done 250,000+ miles though.

[stuboy]

Plugs arrived... just gotta find time to fit them whilst looming after mini stuboy 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Inching closer to having the XJ back .. this week.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I had to argue with the call handler to get them to come out when I had two blowouts on a trailer in the same journey (the fact that I had 3+ tonnes of Saviem tipper truck on the trailer was of course completely unrelated).

Same experience with the AA after running over road debris thet holed the fuel tank  - fun fact plasterboard at 65 mph will hole a plastic Volvo petrol tank.  "We dont recover acccident damaged"  vehicles. It took 3 phone calls and a 4 hour wait and the patrolman was half a second from striking up and lighting a fag next to the car..

[Split_Pin]

I just came here to say I think these are such handsome buggers:

 

[Crackers]

I hate car hunting. I've got my sights set on buying a cheap barge for the winter, but as usual, I've got a fairly specific set of criteria. Bring on weeks upon weeks of frustration... if anyone's got a decent 530d/E320cdi/Saab turbo/Volvo T5 they want to part with, I'm interested...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

I just came here to say I think these are such handsome buggers:

 

No wonder.

They are were the future present now then. 

[Split_Pin]

17 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

No wonder.

They are were the future present now then. 

A classic advertising strapline indeed. (Except the carried over engines and suspension!)

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

A classic advertising strapping indeed. (Except the carried over engines and suspension!)

I still clearly remember the tv adverts from when the Calibra was launched. As a car-mad young teen, I wanted one! Fortunately I have managed to own a couple of Cavalier GSIs over the years so same difference. Ish. 

[HillmanImp]

23 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I hate car hunting. I've got my sights set on buying a cheap barge for the winter, but as usual, I've got a fairly specific set of criteria. Bring on weeks upon weeks of frustration... if anyone's got a decent 530d/E320cdi/Saab turbo/Volvo T5 they want to part with, I'm interested...

Its a nightmare these days. No £500 bangers that'll last a few months, they're all £1,500 now. 

If you were flush in the good old days, you'd maybe chuck an extra £500 in and throw a grand to get something a bit fancy but that's gonna be a £2.5k car now. 

If it grenades itself, thats a lot of money to lose. 

So you may as well go for a much better car thats 10 years newer and (hopefully) much less likely to blow up for not much more, say £3.5k. 

Bangernomics isn't making sense like it did. 

I think here is the place to buy, that Xantia @TheXUDfilesfiles is selling looks a proper barg. 

[Crackers]

3 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Its a nightmare these days. No £500 bangers that'll last a few months, they're all £1,500 now. 

If you were flush in the good old days, you'd maybe chuck an extra £500 in and throw a grand to get something a bit fancy but that's gonna be a £2.5k car now. 

If it grenades itself, thats a lot of money to lose. 

So you may as well go for a much better car thats 10 years newer and (hopefully) much less likely to blow up for not much more, say £3.5k. 

Bangernomics isn't making sense like it did. 

I think here is the place to buy, that Xantia @TheXUDfilesfiles is selling looks a proper barg. 

Couldn't have said it better. £1500 isn't gonna get me much, and for the sort of car I want, it'll be absolutely scraping the barrel for the ropiest, most risky examples.

However, a £3500 E-Class is potentially a worse proposition than a £1500 one... it's at risk of all the same faults as a £1500 one, but you stand to lose more money when it lets go. You're just paying the extra for it being a much better example while it's working. I could only risk it on a really short-term purchase, hoping it'll work properly for 6-7 months and then sell again for a small loss some time next year. 

What I really need is for someone on the forum to sell me a nice Saab estate in petrol turbo flavour so I can stick a Noobtune map on it (m8). That'd do nicely for a few months.

[reb]

If I needed an car for the winter I'd either buy @TheXUDfilesxantia or @jcr's fabia, even with the cost of an MOT for the Fabia it's still about the best bangernomics you could manage in the current market.

[sdkrc]

@Crackers have you considered a Lexus in your barge search?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202207318315849