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[trigger]

The profit isn't such a big deal as I can't see him getting it, it more the fact that he lied to me about wanting to keep it as his parents had one etc and that he stuck it back up for sale hours after getting it and even using my photos with literally no effort taken at all on the car. 

[BorniteIdentity]

3 hours ago, trigger said:

All true, just annoying though, to be honest I sold it at what I think it's worth, the rear panel is rotten, there's a hole in the wheel tub on the offside as well as needing a new arch and the mileage is likely incorrect plus it was crash damaged and the tailgate was crooked and wiring damaged in the hinges

With the greatest of great respect (and I love you young Michael) - you didn't list any of that stuff in your advert either!  I know because I was perilously close to pulling the trigger (pun intended).

I doubt he'll sell it - certainly not quickly - but it only takes one buyer.  If it's how he feeds his kids, then so what?  

Sorry man, I know this post isn't particularly 'on message' - but this sort of thing has gone on since the beginning of time.

Don't let it stress you out.  It's certainly not stressing him!

Dx

[trigger]

It's fine, as I say I did say in the ad there was no history to back up the mileage and the rear panel is only noticeable if you remove the back bumper, I treated it with some kurust and painted it with some red hammerite.

 

I was just a bit annoyed. I did message him to say I was disappointed to see it back up for so much after his initial keenness and he's replied apologising as it was a knee jerk reaction due to him spending £1200 on some new alloys for it that didn't fit and it overheated? (I spent a hour in traffic in it on Tuesday and the gauge never moved from the middle...) never the less apparently it's now at his garage and it's a stuck thermostat and the garage have told him it's a really good car and he's now keeping it so who knows. 

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, trigger said:

more the fact that he lied to me

Yep,that would annoy me too.

[MJK 24]

No early finish for the weekend today…

 

[junkyarddog]

Found this rummaging in my late uncle's shed.

Chuffed to find this,dates to around 1962/3.

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, trigger said:

It's fine, as I say I did say in the ad there was no history to back up the mileage and the rear panel is only noticeable if you remove the back bumper, I treated it with some kurust and painted it with some red hammerite.

 

I was just a bit annoyed. I did message him to say I was disappointed to see it back up for so much after his initial keenness and he's replied apologising as it was a knee jerk reaction due to him spending £1200 on some new alloys for it that didn't fit and it overheated? (I spent a hour in traffic in it on Tuesday and the gauge never moved from the middle...) never the less apparently it's now at his garage and it's a stuck thermostat and the garage have told him it's a really good car and he's now keeping it so who knows. 

Sounds like a chancer to me. Nothing wrong with that as such, but... still a chancer.

[Ghosty]

After having to call them twice when they failed to call me, Kwik Fit have finally called me back and are sending a fitter tomorrow evening to make right. 

They don't know why the previous fitter couldn't complete the job and won't until he's back on shift on Monday. I think he's also chipped the paint on one of my wheels as there are several fresh looking large chips around the lip of the wheel, tapering outwards to the lip. 
 

[Cluffy]

7 hours ago, grogee said:

@Cluffy has a story about keys locked in car ... 

Thanks George, I don’t think I’ll ever forget this one  

A day that was going so well. @grogeegave me a lift to pick up my V12 XJ-S from long term storage and we had a nice burger onboard halfway home. Cruising along and it started making alarming noises so i pull over (engine still running). 

Cant see anything visible poking head underneath as best as possible. Then I try and get back into the car to find the doors locked and no other key on my person. To add to the ridiculousness of the situation is that I’d just had spares cut and they were dangling on the same key ring hanging out of the ignition!

Queue 30 minute wait for AA man who tried with rods etc to unlock but in the end we needed to smash a quarter light to get in. 

Lessons learned. 1) Don’t leave keys in ignition when leaving a car and 2) Always keep spares separate from original keys!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Cluffy said:

Lessons learned. 1) Don’t leave keys in ignition when leaving a car and 2) Always keep spares separate from original keys!

I went through a phase of getting out of my van and locking my door leaving the keys in the ignition. Had to get handy with wire coathangers on a few occasions. I always have 2 sets of keys in my pocket (1 for home and a bigger one for work) so solved the problem by putting a spare key on the work set.

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 10/5/2022 at 3:53 PM, SiC said:

Another Ceri delivery! This one actually got the neighbours out for a look.

But TL;DR it's a one owner local Bristol car that was his company car. Creme Cake (iirc) was in use until 2004 when it failed it's MOT and parked up for restoration. Left outside since then, it sadly slowly deteriorated.
They had a number of lovely pre-war Austins in the garage which presumably was always the main interest and this just never got done.
The chap passed away and the family decided that this had to be sold. When the cat came out from underneath and more rust fell out, they knew it was never going back on the road.

I paid basically scrap price for it. I hate the idea of ever scrapping a car but this is by far past it. I'll primarily be using it for body cuts and the like. Maybe selling the odd part cheap if anyone is after anything. My purchase money went to a Parkinson charity, so will only be right if I donate a proportion of anything I sell there too.

I'll do a video later of it after work. Apparently the engine runs really sweet. Ceri mentioned it even drove onto the trailer under its own power!

My better half would like to know what is the car in the garage with the carboard boxes on the bonnet?

I have no idea myself tbh

[Mally]

3 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Found this rummaging in my late uncle's shed.

Chuffed to find this,dates to around 1962/3.

Are they worth anything? I could have a look for mine.

[junkyarddog]

16 minutes ago, Mally said:

Are they worth anything? I could have a look for mine.

From a £tenner up depending on condition. 

The smaller motorbike version are worth a bit more apparently. 

[HMC]

On a similar subject re flipping-

About 4 months ago I nearly bought a wolseley landcrab for 2k. I’ve seen it up more recently for £5k in basically the same condition as was then. 

Im pretty philosophical about it- Selling is such a ball ache good luck to them. Ultimately  I’m in it for the love of cars, I make my money elsewhere; but for some it’s their main income stream.

[Yoss]

I've never owned a car where it is possible to pre lock the drivers door as you get out but at work on both the Sherpa (and LDV Pilot etc) and the later Transits it was possible. So I had a routine where the second I stop the keys went in my shirt pocket then I push the button in the way out. This was marginally quicker and easier than locking the door with the key from outside but when you are getting in and out  a hundred times a day it all adds up. This was long before central locking obviously, I mean central locking existed but not at Royal Mail where everything is ultra base spec. 

This worked fine until you get a distraction, like waiting to see what three in ten was on Popmaster, where you have to leave the key in to keep the radio on. Did that a few times and would have to ring the office to get them to bring the spare out. Although a couple of times I was near enough to just walk back to the office. 

I had a 55 plate Transit and I reckon it was less than five years old. One day I came out of the office and got in what I thought was my van except I'd forgotten I'd parked it somewhere else in the yard. It wasn't until I got in I realised it wasn't mine because it had more rubbish in it. That's odd, I thought, I'm sure I just unlocked it. Maybe it wasn't locked in the first place. So I tried the key in the door and sure enough it worked. So, being curious, I walked over to another Transit and found I could unlock that too. So by the time they were five years old the keys and door locks were completely interchangeable on the whole fleet. I expect that sort of thing with my old Leyland stuff but not by the mid 2000s. 

One day, I'm out doing packets and there's another RM Transit sitting outside a local post office with the driver stood outside looking bored. He was doing collections so came from a different office to us. I stopped to see if he was OK and he'd managed to shut his his keys in the back of the van. It was a Transit like mine so I thought let's have a go. Fiddled with the key in the back door for a while but to no avail. So moved to side slidey door. It didn't like it but I could feel a bit of movement and after a bit of wiggling it gave way. The other guy was so relieved as he'd come from the big mail centre up by the airport and it would've taken ages to get a spare key out to him.

I kept an old Transit key on my home keys after that, you never knew when it might come in handy. It's not an issue any more as we've entered the late 20th century and now have central locking on our vans. We still have some 08 plate Combos with windy windows and tape players though. 

[andy18s]

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, Cluffy said:

Queue 30 minute wait for AA man who tried with rods etc to unlock but in the end we needed to smash a quarter light to get in. 

Leaving a V12 Jag idling for 30 minutes probably cost more than a year's AA membership too.

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

young Michael

Isn't Trig older than you?

[BorniteIdentity]

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Isn't Trig older than you?

Considerably 😉😬

[trigger]

Hold on there, I'm not sure about the considerably part! 

[Matty]

5 hours ago, trigger said:

The profit isn't such a big deal as I can't see him getting it, it more the fact that he lied to me about wanting to keep it as his parents had one etc and that he stuck it back up for sale hours after getting it and even using my photos with literally no effort taken at all on the car. 

I'd wash my hands of the job. He will either clear a profit or he won't. I know it's annoying but don't look again. It'll only wind you up. Plus you know you didn't act like a cunt. He did by inventing some bollocks back story. So he is a cunt. And no one wants to be a cunt 👍

[stuboy]

11 hours ago, trigger said:

Cunts 🤬

Unbelievable, I sold this a couple of days ago for £3300 and its already up on Facebook for £5500! He hasn't even bothered to take new photos! Mega annoying

least it wasnt this dude..........

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[junkyarddog]

26 minutes ago, Matty said:

I'd wash my hands of the job. He will either clear a profit or he won't. I know it's annoying but don't look again. It'll only wind you up. Plus you know you didn't act like a cunt. He did by inventing some bollocks back story. So he is a cunt. And no one wants to be a cunt 👍

 

[SiC]

2 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

My better half would like to know what is the car in the garage with the carboard boxes on the bonnet?

I have no idea myself tbh

Dolomite Sprint! The destination for most of the parts cut off this donor. There is a tarpaulin on the bonnet to protect it from too much scratching.  

I've a thread somewhere on it. Not properly worked on it for a while now. 

[Matty]

Just now, junkyarddog said:

 

Lovely stuff. I swear a lot (blame work) but that word still has a lot of power. I try to use it sparingly 😄

[Cluffy]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Leaving a V12 Jag idling for 30 minutes probably cost more than a year's AA membership too.

There was also the nerves that the thing was going to overheat too!

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, Yoss said:

I've never owned a car where it is possible to pre lock the drivers door as you get out but at work on both the Sherpa (and LDV Pilot etc) and the later Transits it was possible. So I had a routine where the second I stop the keys went in my shirt pocket then I push the button in the way out. This was marginally quicker and easier than locking the door with the key from outside but when you are getting in and out  a hundred times a day it all adds up. This was long before central locking obviously, I mean central locking existed but not at Royal Mail where everything is ultra base spec. 

This worked fine until you get a distraction, like waiting to see what three in ten was on Popmaster, where you have to leave the key in to keep the radio on. Did that a few times and would have to ring the office to get them to bring the spare out. Although a couple of times I was near enough to just walk back to the office. 

I had a 55 plate Transit and I reckon it was less than five years old. One day I came out of the office and got in what I thought was my van except I'd forgotten I'd parked it somewhere else in the yard. It wasn't until I got in I realised it wasn't mine because it had more rubbish in it. That's odd, I thought, I'm sure I just unlocked it. Maybe it wasn't locked in the first place. So I tried the key in the door and sure enough it worked. So, being curious, I walked over to another Transit and found I could unlock that too. So by the time they were five years old the keys and door locks were completely interchangeable on the whole fleet. I expect that sort of thing with my old Leyland stuff but not by the mid 2000s. 

One day, I'm out doing packets and there's another RM Transit sitting outside a local post office with the driver stood outside looking bored. He was doing collections so came from a different office to us. I stopped to see if he was OK and he'd managed to shut his his keys in the back of the van. It was a Transit like mine so I thought let's have a go. Fiddled with the key in the back door for a while but to no avail. So moved to side slidey door. It didn't like it but I could feel a bit of movement and after a bit of wiggling it gave way. The other guy was so relieved as he'd come from the big mail centre up by the airport and it would've taken ages to get a spare key out to him.

I kept an old Transit key on my home keys after that, you never knew when it might come in handy. It's not an issue any more as we've entered the late 20th century and now have central locking on our vans. We still have some 08 plate Combos with windy windows and tape players though. 

Back in the day it was Fords that were notorious for completely interchangeable keys. Cortinas especially.

[brownnova]

My gran had a Metro, one day she parked it in a multi storey car park, and forgot where she parked it. Eventually she was relieved to find it, and unlocked it and drove off towards the exit… at which point she realised it wasn’t her Metro as it had different coloured seats!

She carefully returned it to its spot and found hers!

Or so she says… 

[Yoss]

31 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Back in the day it was Fords that were notorious for completely interchangeable keys. Cortinas especially.

Yes Fords had a reputation for it but in reality all cars at the time were as bad as each other. I suspect they got their locks from the same supplier. I can start my Triumph with anything that will fit in the lock, doesn't even have to be a key. Or at least I could if it worked. 

[Rust Collector]

I've just updated my insurance ready for tomorrow's colekshun. It's the first time in a while that I'll be driving a purchase back; since buying a trailer I've mainly been doing colekshuns on the 'easy' difficulty setting. Luckily I'm buying something sensible* and not at all known for mechanical hissy fits, so what could possibly go wrong?