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Diesel.  Will be fast, I’m sure!

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Didn’t expect to see this in Liverpool, late November.

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[wuvvum]

What's the number plate on that Pantera trying to spell out?  Or is it just a really shit home-made plate?

[Bren]

Our new whip to replace the vectra

[sierraman]

2.2?

[Bren]

32 minutes ago, sierraman said:

2.2?

2.0.

[MJK 24]

59 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

What's the number plate on that Pantera trying to spell out?  Or is it just a really shit home-made plate?

I don’t know but it looks awful.  I thought it was A118 OOY but that doesn’t come up on the MOT site.

[High Jetter]

Ali body? All Booy? Real reg is A118 ODY.

[4wheeledstool]

5 hours ago, Schaefft said:

How much then?😂

3 bags. It's red though. Hmmm.

[Fat_Pirate]

Am now back from Japan with it's electric heated toilet seats, to the UK with it's copious rain and er... other great stuff, I imagine.  Some photos;

Kyoto railway museum, where I exchanged knowing glances with other nerds.

I remember these from Top Trumps.

 

Akihabra electric town in Tokyo.  I'm also an old gaming nerd so I remember when this was the epicentre of Japanese gaming culture.  Now it's multiple floors of those bloody claw-crane machines, baffling.

Did find a floor of retro arcades machines eventually though, had a go on OutRun.  Was rubbish at it.

There were also some modern arcade machines - this train sim for a start, then drums/guitars games, etc.

Didn't have any space in my luggage for anything here.

Went on a open-top bus tour and took a photo of a particularly plush taxi - yes, this is normal behaviour.  They made these up to 2018, apparently.

[MJK 24]

2 hours ago, 4wheeledstool said:

3 bags. It's red though. Hmmm.

There was one on Facebook a month or so ago.  £5k with the head in a box in the boot.

[richardmorris]

Anyone know anything about buses breaking down? Parents went to Chester yesterday on the bus from Wrexham, broke down on the way back, engine fine but gearbox wouldn’t have it. Driver said it’s his sixth failure this year.  And the parents think they’ve been on at least three that have died en-route in the last few years. 

[brownnova]

7 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

Darn! Hadn’t realised this was on. Fancied a car based activity this morning too! 

[brownnova]

One out! 

Ovlov will be staying on the forum, I’ll allow the new custodian to reveal themselves should they so desire. 

Deal was done for this: 

One in! 

Uber dad wagon - easily fits all the kids, their car seats and their gubbins in. Really rather good this.

Collected a toy kitchen in it today.

[stuboy]

8 minutes ago, brownnova said:

 

Deal was done for this: 

One in! 

Uber dad wagon - easily fits all the kids, their car seats and their gubbins in. Really rather good this.

Collected a toy kitchen in it today.

i did consider these before buying the galaxy, on negative was only 'temporary 6/7 seats'

[Spottedlaurel]

Hadn't intended it to be this way, but turned-out to be quite a car-filled weekend for me.

Started off with a handful of Hot Wheels purchases and a few 1:1 car spots when we had to nip into town on Saturday, then changed a headlight bulb on Mrs SL's Auris. £4.99 from the local parts shop, open bonnet, remove dead one, fit new one, sorted - no removing bumpers, going to the dealer or anything.

Master SL came back from a driving lesson and his instructor started talking to me about Japanese cars (he runs a Yaris), and did I know anyone who might be interested in an old one? Err, maybe.....

He says it's an R-reg Mitsubishi Carisma auto, owned by his father from new then passed onto mother when he died. Been standing a while, might go for scrap if no one takes it on. It's up in Lincs, which is less than ideal for me, but certainly worth getting more details. I know it's not the most exciting car out there, and it might be knackered, or it could be a low mileage gem just needing a good clean-up and getting ready for FOTU etc.

In between starting to dismantle nextdoor's pretty decent greenhouse which she's kindly giving us, and building the log store above, I then spent a bit of time on the LS400.

Most important task was to change the wheels and tyres, as the Pirelli had gone bad (it'd split like that around the whole circumference) and the rest were a bit of a mixture.

It now has the very good set of matching Dunlops  on better wheels I bought off @Semi-C several years ago and had on the Camry for a while. They were a bit messy from being stacked for the last 14 months,  and the rest of the car was grotty from being stood, so I gave it a quick clean-up:

I know it doesn't make any difference, but I'd like to think the MoT tester will be a touch more sympathetic if it looks half-decent rather than having moss and other plants growing in the gaps and crevices.

Also emptied this lot out, as it'd been used for storage:

With that done, it was time for Master SL to get his Yaris over to the garage in readiness for tomorrow's MoT on that one. The plan is for his to be done, then swap it over with the Lexus later in the week (after payday!). But how would we get home?

No problem, the ex- @BorniteIdentity Avensis taxi was waiting for us. Miss SL and her BF had come back for the weekend to swap his MR2 over for more sensible winter transport. It's been parked-up in the garage since they got back from their European trip and after a checkover and top-up of the tyres in the week it was ready to go.  They think it still has French fuel in it. They'd forgotten how well it drove and even as a passenger I could enjoy the smoothness. As a treat I've been promised I can have some drives of it when they're back for Christmas.

Yaris and LS400 MoT news to follow as and when.....

[Schaefft]

Good luck with the mot tests, good to see more of the LS400!

[JMotor]

5 hours ago, Fat_Pirate said:

Am now back from Japan with it's electric heated toilet seats, to the UK with it's copious rain and er... other great stuff, I imagine.  Some photos;

Kyoto railway museum, where I exchanged knowing glances with other nerds.

I remember these from Top Trumps.

 

Akihabra electric town in Tokyo.  I'm also an old gaming nerd so I remember when this was the epicentre of Japanese gaming culture.  Now it's multiple floors of those bloody claw-crane machines, baffling.

Did find a floor of retro arcades machines eventually though, had a go on OutRun.  Was rubbish at it.

There were also some modern arcade machines - this train sim for a start, then drums/guitars games, etc.

Didn't have any space in my luggage for anything here.

Went on a open-top bus tour and took a photo of a particularly plush taxi - yes, this is normal behaviour.  They made these up to 2018, apparently.

Looked a great trip had there. 

Japan is a country I'd love to visit someday.

[AnnoyingPentium]

18 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

He says it's an R-reg Mitsubishi Carisma auto, owned by his father from new then passed onto mother when he died. Been standing a while, might go for scrap if no one takes it on. It's up in Lincs, which is less than ideal for me, but certainly worth getting more details. I know it's not the most exciting car out there, and it might be knackered, or it could be a low mileage gem just needing a good clean-up and getting ready for FOTU etc.

I know a lad who is very much into his Carismas, I'll pass this on if you like.

[stuboy]

Misses moaning about stuff at her house in the way but decided more usefully at the villa, so we loaded up the dog, oldest and the youngest and crap for the villa and headed off to sunny leysdown. 

[Spottedlaurel]

10 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I know a lad who is very much into his Carismas, I'll pass this on if you like.

Please do! That's what I'm hoping will happen here, either straight off to a good home or at least me knowing it has an interested party if I take it on for a bit.

I seem to recall we had someone on here who liked them.

[Ghosty]

Doing some autobahn testing in the 300E caused the ABS light to randomly come on. I wondered if a ring was duff as just before coming to a stop, the brake pedal would 'ping' a few times, so to speak. 

MOT's on Weds... 😬

Restarting the car put the light out, and the brake pedal isn't pinging any more. Wonder if sheer speed and power dislodged some corrosion or something. 

In other news I have a job interview in the morning for a first line support role. The pay's not great but the job sounds alright - Fujitsu no less. Unfortunately I'm shite at interviews.

[MJK 24]

2 hours ago, brownnova said:

Darn! Hadn’t realised this was on. Fancied a car based activity this morning too! 

Last Sunday in the month!

[Richard_FM]

1 hour ago, JMotor said:

Looked a great trip had there. 

Japan is a country I'd love to visit someday.

It's at the top of my bucket list of places to visit, but I've got too much going on for now!

[wuvvum]

I was planning on having a day on the Visa on Saturday, but then on Friday night I got a text from a mate saying that there was a classic auction on at Wymondham, so I met up with him and went to that instead.  It was the usual eclectic selection of classics, semi-classics and vaguely interesting moderns, with a couple of rarities including a 1921 Kenilworth scooter.  The autojumble wasn't as big as usual, but I did nab this rather excellent FSO Caro model:

By the time I got home there was less than two hours of daylight left, but I thought I'd get a bit done on the Visa anyway.  I fitted the electronic ignition system that I'd bought for it, but I couldn't get a spark and eventually had to give up as it was getting too dark to carry on.

This morning rain stopped play, but this afternoon it dried up a bit so I went out to have another go.  After some buggering about trying various things I realised that the ignition live that I'd used to power the ignition module, which I borrowed from the electric fuel pump, was cutting off whenever the starter motor was engaged, which would explain why I wasn't getting any sparks.  I borrowed a live feed direct from the battery, turned the key and the car soon started popping and farting and trying to start.  With the choke halfway out it did actually eventually fire up, and ran for a minute or two, but then it died again - it appears to be leaking fuel from the carb, which was a recurring issue when Lankytim owned it, so that's going to need looking at next.  At least I've heard it run now though, even though I haven't been able to drive it yet, and it does sound quite sweet.  I also need to mount the ignition unit properly, which will mean drilling and tapping the mounting holes as at the moment it's half-heartedly held in with a couple of M5 bolts which don't hold it very securely.

I've also got the screen wash working and more of the rear lights, although I still can't get the offside indicator to work despite cleaning up all the contacts - I think it might be a PCB issue, I'll probably try and find another light cluster eventually.  I've fitted one cardboard heater tube, I'm waiting for the other to be delivered, but that should at least give some heat assuming I can get the engine running.  It becomes MOT exempt on Tuesday, I'll probably tax it on Thursday so at least then it's legal and nobody can whinge about it being on the car park...

[Six-cylinder]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I've also got the screen wash working and more of the rear lights, although I still can't get the offside indicator to work despite cleaning up all the contacts - I think it might be a PCB issue, I'll probably try and find another light cluster eventually.  

The rear lights are always a hit and miss affair on Visa's.

[loserone]

10 hours ago, Ghosty said:

The pay's not great but the job sounds alright - Fujitsu no less.

Good luck!  At least there should be plenty opportunities for progression there.