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[brownnova]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

A truly smart man would have left the headlights where they are and just swapped the number plates

That was for the drive home when one was rescued off a drive after having sat for a number of years… allegedly… 

[Ghosty]

On 2/2/2023 at 9:16 PM, LightBulbFun said:

fuck thats proper shit! 

It was only the other day I was looking at it in the picture you put up of the other one you helped collect for a friend and thinking it was a nice car (and had to me a nice registration mark LOL, Surrey registered FTW)

it it is interesting to see how its gotten bent out of shape (ahead of the rear wheel) but not even rear hatch glass has popped

 

but regardless of all that I hope you have come out of it intact at least?! and I hope insurance pays out a suitably healthy amount at least!

Yep - Guildford plate, had a few cars registered there.
The glass hasn't broken because the tailgate aperture is quite high up on these and the bumper protrudes out so (I think) the crashbar takes the impact and distributes the shock into the car low down around the chassis rails and bypasses the tailgate - as a result  the rear slam panel is stoved in, and the boot floor has creased on the o/s. The rear wing has buckled and been pushed forward so much that the door is overlapping it, barely closes and won't lock. The rear windows aren't bonded in, they pop out on a hinge, which probably saved them from shattering. 

Filled in the claim online and Admiral's web thing immediately surmised total loss. Just need to argue the toss for the payout, but given recent values of these that won't be too hard as I've got decent evidence and I've facilitated two purchases of similar Civics in excess of £3000 each lately.

 

My mid back and the right side of my neck are still aching severely a day later, I'm going to see my GP, or see if I can get work's private healthcare to check me out, as something's not right. I'm unscathed on the outside and I can work though.

[Wibble]

You should claim for personal injury. I didn’t want to after an accident but in reality my lower  back hasn’t been right since. Years later I was told that driving an automatic probably made it worse as I was stationary, foot on brake when hit and this transfers a lot of force up through your pelvis to your lower back. A paramedic told me it’s a common cause of broken pelvis. This was my car after impact:

There was no dispute and the settlement for injury was only a couple of grand, no where near enough the problems it still causes me. Best of luck!

 

[Ghosty]

31 minutes ago, Wibble said:

You should claim for personal injury. I didn’t want to after an accident but in reality my lower  back hasn’t been right since. Years later I was told that driving an automatic probably made it worse

I have every intention to, my back was iffy anyway but fuck me it's rough now.

This was an auto too.

[17-Coffees]

Collection inbound...

A trip down Souf, so my dad has decided to take the scenic route down, A93 via Braemar, to the Central Belt. 

[cort1977]

Aboyne!

[Rust Collector]

After what was possibly one of the shortest collection missions of my shiteing career (0.8 miles) I’ve collected a car which I’ve possibly waited longer between agreeing to buy and picking it up (3 months!) than any other purchase. I reckon it was worth it though, it’s the tidiest car I’ve brought home in a long time.

[17-Coffees]

This route takes much longer than the A90, but the view is always worth it, even with the standard February weather...

First time in 3 years I've been up this way as too. 

Should hopefully have car in the next 2 hours. 😃

[High Jetter]

39 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

After what was possibly one of the shortest collection missions of my shiteing career (0.8 miles) I’ve collected a car which I’ve possibly waited longer between agreeing to buy and picking it up (3 months!) than any other purchase. I reckon it was worth it though, it’s the tidiest car I’ve brought home in a long time.

Nice! 1 local owner?

[Rust Collector]

17 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Nice! 1 local owner?

One owner from new, who ran it until he gave up driving in his mid 80’s! Locally supplied as well, and spent its whole life in Seaford going by the service records:

I haven’t had a proper leaf through, but I appear to have every bit of service paperwork going back to the eighties 😅

I couldn’t pass it up once I knew about it!

[High Jetter]

I remember Jermyn's well. Sold that address for housing and moved to Seaford, but recently opened a MG sales place in an Eastbourne shopping centre.

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

After what was possibly one of the shortest collection missions of my shiteing career (0.8 miles) I’ve collected a car which I’ve possibly waited longer between agreeing to buy and picking it up (3 months!) than any other purchase. I reckon it was worth it though, it’s the tidiest car I’ve brought home in a long time.

Good God that's clean!

[320touring]

That's the Elgrand earning it's keep...

Tip run the first

 

One of these is a small estate, the other is a Mini..

[17-Coffees]

Car achieved...

😎

[vulgalour]

Last bit of paving to jetwash and I've been really enjoying it.  The plan was never to have this down long enough for it to warrant getting jetwashed, let alone repaired and the flagstone reseated/replaced.  Fact is, things being what they are lately, we simply haven't got the funds for even the materials to redo all this properly in a decent concrete slab so we'll have to make do and mend.  It likely would have lasted better had we not told the skip lorry it was okay to park there to un/load, but at the time it didn't matter since we only expected these flags to be down for six months, a year tops.  Ah well, get it all clean and then we can see what we're dealing with a bit better and sort it all out with what we've got about the place and it'll do for another six months to a year by which time we can hopefully redo it properly.

[RoverFolkUs]

3 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

After what was possibly one of the shortest collection missions of my shiteing career (0.8 miles) I’ve collected a car which I’ve possibly waited longer between agreeing to buy and picking it up (3 months!) than any other purchase. I reckon it was worth it though, it’s the tidiest car I’ve brought home in a long time.

That's looks brilliant, and the bodywork is very much "DO NOT IMPROVE" 

The grime and faded bumper really adds to it in my opinion

[sutty2006]

Today I finally got 4 minutes of free time to scooch on up to my unit and fit the newly cleaned Monza Recaros to the manta.

 

I pulled the base off and swapped it for the manta one. Perfect fit. Dropped it into the car, bolted it up and had a sit in…. 
 

…..ouch!! Ooooo!!! This isn’t right!

 

scrunched up behind the backing foam on the back rest was this! 
 

 

107% part of an old curtain from the 70s. That material is THICK. 
 

 

 

I love it already. Mmmmmm comfort.

[richardmorris]

First walk I planned this morning didn’t work out as the parking area was full with no alternative, so eventually ended up walking from work including the mclaren site, horsell common and back. On the way back passed several branded Alan Mann racing vehicles and trailers at fairoaks airfield. Perhaps they’re stored, but thought they were  in by fleet?

[Soundwave]

On 12/26/2022 at 7:14 PM, Soundwave said:

Couple of closed down shops in Nuneaton are being refitted, the signage being taken down reveals some high-street names from the past... 

The recently closed Poundland was Woolies in a past life... 

The now-former O2 shop still carried the name of its distant predecessor under its signage... 

 

Love seeing stuff like this.

Since this went down pretty well, another bit of high-street past revealed by the Nuneaton redevelopment project... wonder how old this optician signage is? 

 

[goosey]

1 hour ago, sutty2006 said:

Today I finally got 4 minutes of free time to scooch on up to my unit and fit the newly cleaned Monza Recaros to the manta.

 

I pulled the base off and swapped it for the manta one. Perfect fit. Dropped it into the car, bolted it up and had a sit in…. 
 

…..ouch!! Ooooo!!! This isn’t right!

 

scrunched up behind the backing foam on the back rest was this! 
 

 

107% part of an old curtain from the 70s. That material is THICK. 
 

 

 

I love it already. Mmmmmm comfort.

Are those Monza Recaros the ones with the extendable bases ? 

[sutty2006]

1 minute ago, goosey said:

Are those Monza Recaros the ones with the extendable bases ? 

Yes sir, yes they are. 

[goosey]

Brings back memories of modifying a set to fit my mk2 escort years ago, soooooo comfortable 👌

[Ghosty]

@Speedy came by again today for an oil change and a fettle of his Civic. 

Did loads of small jobs and checks on it, seeing as I had a load of spare parts lying around that both Speedy and my mum's cars could benefit from. 

New tyres and backbox for my mum's car first off, and some genuine floor mats and such to make it pretty much perfect. 

I decided to check the spark plugs on Speedy's car - the HT leads were knackered, the rubber ends all fell off, and the plugs and bores were all doused in oil - well that explains why it smoked on load, the seals had gone dry on the rocker cover, causing the head to leak all the oil down the plug bores and into the cylinders, glad I found that, as it's not every day you just have spare rocker covers and HT leads for 30 year old cars lying around. 

Changed the oil and filter - the oil was a litre underfilled from burning off 😬 

Speedy's car is transformed with the change, it feels significantly more healthy now, and it was good to start with. There's not much that compares to a D-Series in fine fettle. 

It needs a brake bleed and the clutch cable adjusting at some point, but I'll get round to that - I think the car might be holidaying here this week. 

 

 

[Ghosty]

This is the chassis rail on the dead Civic: 

[sutty2006]

7 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

@Speedy came by again today for an oil change and a fettle of his Civic. 

Did loads of small jobs and checks on it, seeing as I had a load of spare parts lying around that both Speedy and my mum's cars could benefit from. 

New tyres and backbox for my mum's car first off, and some genuine floor mats and such to make it pretty much perfect. 

I decided to check the spark plugs on Speedy's car - the HT leads were knackered, the rubber ends all fell off, and the plugs and bores were all doused in oil - well that explains why it smoked on load, the seals had gone dry on the rocker cover, causing the head to leak all the oil down the plug bores and into the cylinders, glad I found that, as it's not every day you just have spare rocker covers and HT leads for 30 year old cars lying around. 

Changed the oil and filter - the oil was a litre underfilled from burning off 😬 

Speedy's car is transformed with the change, it feels significantly more healthy now, and it was good to start with. There's not much that compares to a D-Series in fine fettle. 

It needs a brake bleed and the clutch cable adjusting at some point, but I'll get round to that - I think the car might be holidaying here this week. 

 

 

I had a G reg civic hatch about 18 years ago. That was a brilliant car! 1.4 twin Weber with electric everything! It was ace! 

[RoverFolkUs]

23 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

This is the chassis rail on the dead Civic: 

Shows how far car designs have come, it would take an awful lot more to do that sort of damage to something made in the last ~15 years

[Ghosty]

26 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

I had a G reg civic hatch about 18 years ago. That was a brilliant car! 1.4 twin Weber with electric everything! It was ace! 

Weber, must have been a conversion? I think I've seen that done once before, the guy spoke well of it. 

[sutty2006]

38 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Weber, must have been a conversion? I think I've seen that done once before, the guy spoke well of it. 

Unless it was a dealer option, I’ve no idea. Whole car seamed completely original. ‘‘Twas a twin choke Weber. Went like stink for a 1.4 manual. Don’t think I ever took a photo of it, but  I t-boned a fairly new mk4 Astra with it. It got wrote off but was still drivable. 

[Ghosty]

25 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Unless it was a dealer option, I’ve no idea. Whole car seamed completely original. ‘‘Twas a twin choke Weber. Went like stink for a 1.4 manual. Don’t think I ever took a photo of it, but  I t-boned a fairly new mk4 Astra with it. It got wrote off but was still drivable. 

They're Keihin as standard, carbs weren't an option you could change. They really fly for 90hp. 

[sutty2006]

Well maybe someone changed it early on then. Shame it got writer off, it was waaaaaaay ahead of anything Ford or Vauxhall could Chuck out at that age!