The new news 24 thread

[Snake Charmer]

On 11/09/2022 at 21:05, Crackers said:

Been thinking about selling both the MX5 and P6 recently to fund a nice luxury estate and release some spare cash. I'd probably take a loss on both, quite a big one on the P6 looking at where their values have gone lately. 

If anyone wants either of them...

E320 CDI or E55 estates otherwise you are off my Christmas card list! 🤣

[Snake Charmer]

14 hours ago, Yoss said:

I may have spoken too soon. 

Get to fuck. 

Have you seen the prices people are willingly paying for a kit Cobra? 😆

[Metal Guru]

25 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

Have you seen the prices people are willingly paying for a kit Cobra? 😆

Kit Cobras seem to vary massively in price from £20k for something with clapped out Rover V8 to close to £100k for a brand new very good copy with a 7 litre Ford.

[Crackers]

6 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

E320 CDI or E55 estates otherwise you are off my Christmas card list! 🤣

You are reading my mind. A 320 estate is very much on the radar and fairly high up the list, although a decent 500 or 55 is far beyond what I'm willing to spend! 

[Barry Cade]

Just become a grandad again 🙂 grand daughter no2,  born this afternoon a wee bit early. 5lb8. Ella Rose.

Got another 2 on the way!

 

[High Jetter]

38 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Just become a grandad again 🙂 grand daughter no2,  born this afternoon a wee bit early. 5lb8. Ella Rose.

Got another 2 on the way!

Many congrats, even though she sounds a wee bit like a Stobart truck! Are you feeling older tonight?

[andy18s]

Nothing to do with me but I know there are a few bus fans on here,and didn't want it swamped in the ebay thread

[Barry Cade]

12 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Many congrats, even though she sounds a wee bit like a Stobart truck! Are you feeling older tonight?

Thank you, that made me laff! Not totally convinced about the name yet...

I am older tonight,  it was my birthday yesterday, so I'm older today.. that sounds daft!

I had a letter about my pension today too.. I'm only 48 FFS!

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Thank you, that made me laff! Not totally convinced about the name yet...

I am older tonight,  it was my birthday yesterday, so I'm older today.. that sounds daft!

I had a letter about my pension today too.. I'm only 48 FFS!

Youth today!

[Justwatching]

Took the LTD along to Mavericks car meet in North Wales this evening. 

Luckily there were a few other yank tanks for me to perv on.

I've fancied a Kia Magentis for ages. It's probably bland AF, but it looks quasi-American without having all the drawbacks (e.g. LHD, doesn't fit anywhere, bullshit handling, low MPG). 

 

 

[Barry Cade]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Many congrats, even though she sounds a wee bit like a Stobart truck! Are you feeling older tonight?

You were right!

[stuboy]

1 hour ago, Barry Cade said:

I had a letter about my pension today too.. I'm only 48 FFS!

ive been getting funeral plan emails...

 

 

 

 

 

im only 47

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

ive been getting funeral plan emails...

 

 

 

 

 

im only 47

There'll be a Saga in about 3 years!

[HillmanImp]

On 9/12/2022 at 6:05 PM, HillmanImp said:

Yeah, hopefully its not that. I'd expect to see a fair bit of smoke if you can hear it? I don't know, never had owt like it before. 

I guess anything could've happened to the car in the past that might've caused it, if it is that. 

Will see what they say and how much they charge to tell me. 

Got the update.

Apparently one of the other injectors was a dodgy one, some sort of 'continental rework' one, so they've replaced that and its running better. 

They're not sure of the cause of the rattle though, they're still concerned it could be something sinister. I've basically said it was a cheap car, its not smoking or anything at the moment, I'm happy with that for the time being lets just roll with it. 

Will see how it gets on over the next few weeks pre MOT time. Will try a good oil change to see if it quietens it down

[egg]

This is the rather insane process to change the in tank fuel filter on the Hyundai i10. I can be sure my local mechanic will say, yeah, don't fancy it m8.

 

[reb]

I handed in my notice today.

Thank God for that.

[SiC]

2 hours ago, egg said:

This is the rather insane process to change the in tank fuel filter on the Hyundai i10. I can be sure my local mechanic will say, yeah, don't fancy it m8.

 

I don't think anyone really bothers to change in tank filters in the UK. Our fuel is clean enough generally to not need it. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

I'll make a proper post on my own thread at some point, but thought it was worthwhile sharing this little success.

[egg]

25 minutes ago, SiC said:

I don't think anyone really bothers to change in tank filters in the UK. Our fuel is clean enough generally to not need it. 

Yes, I think I decided to leave it thanks. OEM part is only £10-12, but that's a good couple of hours work for me, but expect the book time is  a lot less. A lot of i10 videos are from India where roadside mechanics video this stuff.

It feels a bit like sealed for 'life' auto transmissions.

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Got the update.

Apparently one of the other injectors was a dodgy one, some sort of 'continental rework' one, so they've replaced that and its running better. 

They're not sure of the cause of the rattle though, they're still concerned it could be something sinister. I've basically said it was a cheap car, its not smoking or anything at the moment, I'm happy with that for the time being lets just roll with it. 

Will see how it gets on over the next few weeks pre MOT time. Will try a good oil change to see if it quietens it down

Well that's tentatively good news!  The rattle didn't get any worse during my ownership so hopefully that trend will continue...

[HillmanImp]

8 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well that's tentatively good news!  The rattle didn't get any worse during my ownership so hopefully that trend will continue...

It behaved in the 10 miles or so home from the garage too in traffic, so fingers crossed that no4 injector change works. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Took the Audi for a little drive today as it has been sitting for several months. The brakes are still not good and the engine does not run properly, but I was able to drive it a bit. I have tried to sell it to cover the purchase of the Mercedes but no one is interested, it seems impossible to sell, so it is possible that it will stay with me forever.

There are 19 years between these 2 and it is noticeable as the Audi is not so different to today's cars while the Merc is, so a lot happened to cars in these 19 years.

[Fabergé Greggs]

8 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Took the Audi for a little drive today as it has been sitting for several months. The brakes are still not good and the engine does not run properly, but I was able to drive it a bit. I have tried to sell it to cover the purchase of the Mercedes but no one is interested, it seems impossible to sell, so it is possible that it will stay with me forever.

There are 19 years between these 2 and it is noticeable as the Audi is not so different to today's cars while the Merc is, so a lot happened to cars in these 19 years.

Wow, the developmental leap that happened over that time is crazy. It's hard to imagine noticing any difference between a car built now and one built in 2003

[Dyslexic Viking]

18 minutes ago, Fabergé Greggs said:

Wow, the developmental leap that happened over that time is crazy. It's hard to imagine noticing any difference between a car built now and one built in 2003

Yes, it is quite difficult to notice a big difference between a 2022 and 2003 model. So it is incredible the development cars had in quite short time back then.

A good example of the development of cars then is a 1974 Beetle and a 1984 Golf 2 they are like 2 different worlds.

[richardmorris]

On 9/13/2022 at 11:59 AM, Metal Guru said:

Kit Cobras seem to vary massively in price from £20k for something with clapped out Rover V8 to close to £100k for a brand new very good copy with a 7 litre Ford.

There’s a specialist just up the road that uses our neighbours hanger for storage. Redline engineering, ottershaw. Huge prices.

[Ghosty]

Someone has pressed 'make offer' on the ad for the car I wanted to view at the weekend, and it's been auto-accepted by eBay which has ended the listing with no reason given. 
The seller is on holiday, I asked him about the listing ending, and he said he'll have to wait and see if the 'buyer' pays for the car or not. 

 

FFS, back to the drawing board. 

[SiC]

8 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Someone has pressed 'make offer' on the ad for the car I wanted to view at the weekend, and it's been auto-accepted by eBay which has ended the listing with no reason given. 
The seller is on holiday, I asked him about the listing ending, and he said he'll have to wait and see if the 'buyer' pays for the car or not. 

 

FFS, back to the drawing board. 

Why didn't you do the same when you saw it online? The offer facility on eBay for cars is a request but not compelled to buy iirc. 

[Ghosty]

3 minutes ago, SiC said:

Why didn't you do the same when you saw it online? The offer facility on eBay for cars is a request but not compelled to buy iirc. 

I phoned the seller and arranged to view it, as it was a classified ad. I'm not willing to buy blind. 

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Ghosty said:

I phoned the seller and arranged to view it, as it was a classified ad. I'm not willing to buy blind. 

"For items listed in Property and eBay Motors classified listings, bids are considered non-binding. When you bid on an item in these categories, you're expressing a strong interest in buying the seller's item, but no formal purchase contract is created if you're the winning bidder."

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/rules-policies-buyers/nonbinding-bid-policy?id=4228

 

[stuboy]

7 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'll make a proper post on my own thread at some point, but thought it was worthwhile sharing this little success.

u brought a trailer??