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[sierraman]

23 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Oh wow really? With the Trade Card?

Yeah, log into your trade account with Halfords and have a look, I’ve had all sorts of odd stuff that was way cheaper than anywhere else. Some things are the same price but others are cheaper. 

[auntiemaryscanary]

10 hours ago, reb said:

Well aware, your point?

The only thing there that wasn't publically available already is the address. So I suppose some weirdo might turn up, but they wouldn't achieve much.

IF it bothers you @reb registered office address services are available (says t'internet) from £20 a year.

[JakeT]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Haynes Motor Museum is a Registered Charity -  separate to Haynes Publishing Group owned by Infopro Digital, a technical data company. That's owned by Tower-Brook Capital Partners - US private equity co. 

December 2020 Haynes stopped any new repair manuals on paper - all content would be online only. Pre-existing titles remain available apparently - but I expect in dwindling numbers.

So there is maybe very little contact between the museum and publisher.

Ah, makes sense. Thank you. I suppose turning the museum into a charity stops any VC types liberating some of the valuable stuff for the bottom line, too. I did Gift-Aid my entry fee, which I hope helps them too.

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Fulda are good, just not very well known in the UK.

Good to know. Thank you.

[Sunny Jim]

Sailing from Portugal to Madeira? Completed it M9.

Me and a mate have just sailed 500 miles from Faro to Porto Santo the longest passage either of us had done.

It's 2.30 in the morning and we need beer and a fry up but for now it's rum o'clock.

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, sierraman said:

They do a ‘basic’ range now, a bit like those 500 piece ones you used to get from Woolworths. 

I’ve got a Woolworths mini socket set I’ve had since 1985. Admittedly it’s never seen much torque  but it’s done sterling service on lawnmowers and the like.

[Sunny Jim]

7 hours ago, Sunny Jim said:

Sailing from Portugal to Madeira? Completed it M9.

Me and a mate have just sailed 500 miles from Faro to Porto Santo the longest passage either of us had done.

It's 2.30 in the morning and we need beer and a fry up but for now it's rum o'clock.

S'alright here. Hope the natives do fry-ups. Must get ashore and explore. 

[Lankytim]

FUN FACT. Nissan Juke wheels fit Mk3 Lagunas.

I found the 18” alloys previously fitted to the ‘Gooner a little crashy over bumps, plus they were pretty tatty with curbing damage and various areas touched up with what looks like silver Hammerite, the budget tyres they had fitted had an advisory at the last mot so instead of replacing the tyres I had a look around for a set of 17” wheels. Due to the 5x114.3 stud pattern aftermarket wheels attract JDM tax and as not many Mk3 Lagunas were sold in the U.K. cheap used  OEM wheels are hard to come by. At the time, Renault and Nissan had some sort of partnership going which meant that many parts are shared and cars like Jukes and Quashqais have the same stud pattern and centre bore. 
 

A nice set of Juke alloys were sourced locally and shod with a set of part worn Michelin tyres I’d been storing in the loft. 

I think they look pretty nice and road noise is greatly reduced. It feels nicer to drive with less tramlining too.
 

To celebrate the new wheels I took the Laguna through the local ARC automatised car wash but got shouted at by the attendant when the automatic park brake applied after I turned the engine off and I couldn’t release it in time before the front wheel was pulled out of that moving track thing with a loud clunk. Whoops! 

 

[mitsisigma01]

does anyone know of any foolish mad enough to be trying to keep a mk1 Ka in good condition... I have heard about a brand new bonnet for one , still in the box , so could be immaculate or rusted to fk !

Urgent response please as its got to go quickly 

TIA

[wuvvum]

I agree re the original wheels on the Gooner - they didn't do it any favours.

[stuboy]

Took the missus to Littlestone to walk the kids, and the hound..

[stuboy]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

Took the missus to Littlestone to walk the kids, and the hound..

 

[stuboy]

Just now, stuboy said:

 

 

[wuvvum]

Well yesterday was a complete washout, although I did spend a happy* half hour or so pinning up the headlining in the Rover 75 so I can actually see out the back window.  It's suffering from water ingress - I think around the GPS shark fin on the roof - which means that not only is the headlining dripping wet but all the glue has dissolved.  Fantastic*.  That leaves the 107 as the only car in the fleet that is entirely watertight.  I also rigged up some USB LED lighting for the Maxus' instruments - it suffers from the usual Christmas tree dashboard lights and I really can't be arsed to take the clocks out again to try and get the contacts to stay working, so I'm going to stick with the external LED strip for now.  Power is handily provided by the USB slot on the front of the stereo.  On the subject of which, it's stopped flipping over to the reversing camera view when it's supposed to - I'm hoping that it's just a wire come loose on the back of the unit rather than the stereo itself that's stopped working properly.

Today once the wind had died down a bit and the showers had buggered off I went outside to have a play with the Visa.  I drilled out the mounting holes in the front of the crankcase to 6mm and then went at them with an M7 tap - I had to remove one of the handles from the tap turny thing though as there wasn't enough clearance.  Then I found the bolts I'd bought were too long so I had to slice a bit off the end of them with a dremel (would have been quicker with the angry grinder but I couldn't find it, I think it might be buried in the back of the Maxus).  It all worked out OK though and the ignition module is now held on rather more securely than before.

I still want to add a couple of washers to try and keep it all in place - I can't go too mad tightening the bolts up as they're screwed directly into 40-year-old French alloy so I don't think it'd take too much to strip the threads.  Then I finished putting the carb back together (there's one mounting nut which isn't quite as tight as I'd like but it's almost impossible to get to with normal tools (unless I take off the oil filler pipe but the mounting nuts for that are equally impossible to get at)) - I'm going to have to invest in a crow's foot spanner I think.  It's held on well enough though, and once everything was back together the car fired straight up.

That sounds a lot healthier.  Bit tappety, but then a chatty tappet is a happy tappet.   No fuel leaks so far, although I didn't run it for very long because there's no cooling fan at the moment.  Once I've got the washers on the ignition module bolts and I'm as satisfied as I can be that they aren't going to come undone, I can get the fan back on and then start putting the front of the car back together properly.  Then hopefully I can go for a drive!

I then jump started the Innocenti off the 107 and left it to run with the heater on to try and dry the carpet out a bit.  While it was doing that I put the Toyota up on the ramps (that needed a jump start too) and emptied the rest of the can of cavity wax into the bits of chassis I could get the lance into.  I haven't done it all as the can ran out but I've got another can on the way.  Then I had great fun sponging out the water from the carpet in the nearside rear footwell.  One of these days when it's raining heavily I need to go out and sit in the car to find out exactly where the water is coming in - I think it's round the door seal somewhere but I can't work out exactly where.  It was getting dark by that point, so I had to stop playing, but I took advantage of the fact that the wind had dried the roads out nicely and took the Innocenti for a drive as it hadn't moved in a few months.  I still love that little car...

[Ghosty]

Yesterday I posted an LS430 in the tat thread, being sold by a bloke at the top of the street. A while ago he said to let him know if I ever want to sell the green MX5.
He's sent me a WhatsApp, he's sold the LS and how much am I looking for for the MX5?

He had the LS up for 2500ono.

That's how much I want.

Fuckin' winner.

[New POD]

10 hours ago, stuboy said:

 

I do like a barnacle 

[Lankytim]

11 hours ago, wuvvum said:

 

Today once the wind had died down a bit and the showers had buggered off I went outside to have a play with the Visa.  I drilled out the mounting holes in the front of the crankcase to 6mm and then went at them with an M7 tap - I had to remove one of the handles from the tap turny thing though as there wasn't enough clearance.  Then I found the bolts I'd bought were too long so I had to slice a bit off the end of them with a dremel (would have been quicker with the angry grinder but I couldn't find it, I think it might be buried in the back of the Maxus).  It all worked out OK though and the ignition module is now held on rather more securely than before.

I still want to add a couple of washers to try and keep it all in place - I can't go too mad tightening the bolts up as they're screwed directly into 40-year-old French alloy so I don't think it'd take too much to strip the threads.  Then I finished putting the carb back together (there's one mounting nut which isn't quite as tight as I'd like but it's almost impossible to get to with normal tools (unless I take off the oil filler pipe but the mounting nuts for that are equally impossible to get at)) - I'm going to have to invest in a crow's foot spanner I think.  It's held on well enough though, and once everything was back together the car fired straight up.

That sounds a lot healthier.  Bit tappety, but then a chatty tappet is a happy tappet.   No fuel leaks so far, although I didn't run it for very long because there's no cooling fan at the moment.  Once I've got the washers on the ignition module bolts and I'm as satisfied as I can be that they aren't going to come undone, I can get the fan back on and then start putting the front of the car back together properly.  Then hopefully I can go for a drive!

 

I'm so chuffed this is finally getting the TLC it deserves!

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

On 1/13/2023 at 8:39 PM, MrGTI6 said:

A colleague with a 16-plate Audi A3 often tells me that he'll never buy a French car because they're unreliable.

This evening, a small queue had formed on the way home from work. I thought perhaps there were some temporary lights in place. Got to the front of the queue and saw my colleague's A3 was the cause of the obstruction, just sat there with its hazard lights flashing.

It turned out his state-of-the-art dual-clutch S-Tronic gearbox decided to completely lose drive and he has no breakdown cover. 

I towed his car back to the yard using my unreliable 25-year-old French car. Only just got back home having dropped him off at his house. 

 

 

I hope you took a picture for 2023's Xmas card.

[Ghosty]

Landed myself a job as a primary school IT assistant.

Get in.

[New POD]

Paid holidays? 

[Ghosty]

1 minute ago, New POD said:

Paid holidays? 

That's everyone's question... I think there's some work in the hols but not much.

It's a Mon-Fri role though and that's more than good enough for me.

[reb]

Spent an hour tidying the unit with MsReb.

I know it's still an absolute tip, but it was *really* bad before.

The amount of shite I swept off the floor is astounding, especially since we only really did a quarter of it.

[loserone]

That looks like a brilliant space Reb 

[reb]

4 minutes ago, loserone said:

That looks like a brilliant space Reb 

It's not quite as big as the ultra wide shot makes it look, but there's enough space for a good few cars if hoarding is your thing.

I'll be sacraficing some of the space for business purposes if all goes well though.

[ruffgeezer]

16 minutes ago, reb said:

I'll be sacraficing some of the space for business purposes if all goes well though.

Looks good that,  what's you be doing business-wise, that's if it is not rude to ask?

[reb]

Just now, ruffgeezer said:

Looks good that,  what's you be doing business-wise, that's if it is not rude to ask?

Building analogue guitar effects and synthesizer bollocks. I have my own designs I'm working on but initially I'll be doing clones. It's theoretically viable with the right marketing. As long as it pays for itself I'm not too arsed.

[chadders]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

That's everyone's question... I think there's some work in the hols but not much.

It's a Mon-Fri role though and that's more than good enough for me.

My missus did the same sort of role in a secondary school soon after she took early retirement from her statistical planning job. It was the school our eldest was attending and that helped to tip the balance to accepting it.

She didn't have to do much during the holidays, her and the boys spent virtually all of them on the Norfolk Coast.

Good Luck!

 

[chaseracer]

I've been doing some DIY...

Keep 'em peeled!

[RoverFolkUs]

Public service announcement: 

STOP resting your foot on the clutch in traffic!!

10 shite points* up for grabs if you identify the vehicle... 5 shite points* if you identify the engine

 

* Redeemable against fuck all

[richardmorris]

33 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

I've been doing some DIY...

Keep 'em peeled!

I’ll name that car in one!

Looks like a crime watch still - have you seen this man acting suspiciously etc.

[richardmorris]

Also no pic, but an Aston Martin Valkyrie outside work today. Internet says £3million and it still kept dropping the gullwing doors on the heads of the people pushing it.

ugly thing too especially in this ones white pearl colour.