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[Vince70]

4 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

A nice simple 90s car with just a Bluetooth head unit as the only nod to modernity is just perfect.

Hence me still having an E36 on fleet, with exactly that upgrade.

We think alike my friend, as my E36 is exactly the same,  as it’s totally original apart from a nice Bluetooth head unit.

Out of all my cars my Ti is the favourite out the lot and if I had to make a choice of keeping just one car, the E36 would win hands down every time.

 

[Supernaut]

1 minute ago, Vince70 said:

We think alike my friend, as my E36 is exactly the same,  as it’s totally original apart from a nice Bluetooth head unit.

Out of all my cars my Ti is the favourite out the lot and if I had to make a choice of keeping just one car, the E36 would win hands down every time.

 

Mine is a 323i sport that a previous owner fitted a fruity rear silencer to, and I shoved a Pipercross air filter in...

[Vince70]

45 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Mine is a 323i sport that a previous owner fitted a fruity rear silencer to, and I shoved a Pipercross air filter in...

That’s a real beauty and I would love a Six pot.

The last 6 pot I bought was  with some mates  and it cost us £50 about 12 years ago and we drove it down to Rome.

Ours was only a 320 automatic though but throughly reliable and was a pre vanos model.

My mate kept it afterwards and the flames stayed on the car.

I paid £750 for mine,  but even back 8/9 years ago it was getting hard finding nice examples.

I bought another really nice cabriolet example as well around the same time and sold that 3 years ago for £1200 with I think 68000 on the clock but didn’t realise at the time how much a nice E36 was worth.

 

 

[dozeydustman]

Thankfully the Kia’s steering problem looks like it’s only a pipe or hose. Bad news is it looks like a Kia special order unless I play parts darts with Autodoc. Stepdaughter needs the car soonish so I think Kia may be best bet but will try a couple local motor factors on way over to Bognor.

[sdkrc]

Friend of a friend bought this seemingly good MR2.

Seemed reasonably solid on initial inspection. Some rust but nothing chronic. 

 

Turns out it's fucked. Not massively surprised but shit break for the young owner

[SiC]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

Friend of a friend bought this seemingly good MR2.

Seemed reasonably solid on initial inspection. Some rust but nothing chronic. 

 

Turns out it's fucked. Not massively surprised but shit break for the young owner

Is that inbound to @GingerNuttz soon? 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

Friend of a friend bought this seemingly good MR2.

Seemed reasonably solid on initial inspection. Some rust but nothing chronic. 

 

Turns out it's fucked. Not massively surprised but shit break for the young owner

Probably the last thing he wants to hear right now, but if he's in the market for a similar driving experience in an equally lithe shell, the mk3 MR2 Roadster is a riot to drive. So direct, so much fun and apart from rear crossmembers, not particularly prone to rust. Sad to see the state of his mk1 though - it looks pretty rogered.

[GingerNuttz]

37 minutes ago, SiC said:

Is that inbound to @GingerNuttz soon? 

[chodweaver]

Friend of a friend bought this seemingly good MR2.
Seemed reasonably solid on initial inspection. Some rust but nothing chronic. 

 
Turns out it's fucked. Not massively surprised but shit break for the young owner

I've taxed worse.

Doesn't have a reg ending in XLM does it?

[sdkrc]

10 minutes ago, chodweaver said:

Doesn't have a reg ending in XLM does it?

Nah, 'tis JHJ

 

 

14 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

@GingerNuttzOn the topic of welding PTSD, I thought you'd enjoy what a mate uncovered in his recently purchased mx-5. Sill plates had been hot glued down over this. 

 

Seller said the the floors were perfect. This is after brushing them down. Underside appears to have been undersealed dirt-and-all 

[GingerNuttz]

1 minute ago, sdkrc said:

Nah, 'tis JHJ

 

 

@GingerNuttzOn the topic of welding PTSD, I thought you'd enjoy what a mate uncovered in his recently purchased mx-5. Sill plates had been hot glued down over this. 

 

Seller said the the floors were perfect. This is after brushing them down. Underside appears to have been undersealed dirt-and-all 

That sill is just pure laziness and the fitter should be ashamed  😂

 

[GingerNuttz]

I had a good one earlier in the week.

Tack welded arch repair panel but at the rubber side strip they just stopped welding the 5mm gap they somehow cut and fiber glassed it 🤣

Soon as I tapped it the whole thing cracked right up to the rubber

[JakeT]

6 hours ago, Supernaut said:

A nice simple 90s car with just a Bluetooth head unit as the only nod to modernity is just perfect.

Hence me still having an E36 on fleet, with exactly that upgrade.

Funnily enough, so do I. A Kenwood one I had a few years ago for a Golf GTi. Pulled it out before sale as the car was ruined.

 

Even matches the interior illumination nicely and dims when the lights go on.

[Markeh]

24 minutes ago, JakeT said:

Funnily enough, so do I. A Kenwood one I had a few years ago for a Golf GTi. Pulled it out before sale as the car was ruined.

 

Even matches the interior illumination nicely and dims when the lights go on.

Had the exact same head unit in my Megane II. Was honestly brilliant. Even kept it for 3 years after selling the car in case I bought something that took a single DIN unit again.

[horriblemercedes]

29 minutes ago, JakeT said:

Funnily enough, so do I. A Kenwood one I had a few years ago for a Golf GTi. Pulled it out before sale as the car was ruined.

 

Even matches the interior illumination nicely and dims when the lights go on.

One & One? Children? 

[320touring]

Boat day #3 started off well:

Hollandaise sauce and black pud ftw!

Then it was off down the Staffs canal.

Had to do a double take when I saw the name of this boat, thought i was on the m6...

I had originally wanted to turn the boat at Tixall wide - as the name suggests plenty space..

But the good lady had other plans. There was a winding hole further on, so we went for that instead.

A 55ft boat, about 70ft of width at the widest point, and boats either side..

Thankfully the boat went round well, no issues!

 

We moored up and went for a stoat. Here you can see an antiquated victorian mode of transport, and a narrowboat

 

On our wander, we saw a rotting hulk, and a narrowboat called Sheldon

 

There was a 'Billy Big Baws ' in Milford - what a two car fleet

Cannock Chase is ahead* of the times..

On the way back we got to some heady heights of revs..

And we're able to keep up with this walker

At Tixall Lock, the wind caught the boat -literally no steering. 

Had to aim for the mouth of the lock, and the burd stepped off and took the centre line to pull the boat into the lock landing.

That dealt with, we have moored for the night at Tixall Wide, with a few miles to do tomorrow.

It's a grand holiday, and a lovely way to travel

[JakeT]

18 minutes ago, Markeh said:

Had the exact same head unit in my Megane II. Was honestly brilliant. Even kept it for 3 years after selling the car in case I bought something that took a single DIN unit again.

I did the same. Came out of the golf, Into a stopgap fiesta, and then into this. Agreed, been a great unit. I have a remote for it too.

14 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

One & One? Children? 

Children I’d imagine. Great tune, and reminds me of playing the original Ridge Racer game.

[BorniteIdentity]

Is this the one with our tyres on it? 

[wuvvum]

Don't think so, unless it's had a respray and a plate change.  (Which would technically be illegal as it was an S plater so a T plate would make it look newer than it is, which is against the rules.)

[Ghosty]

The Eunos I got in December turned out to be a shoddily repaired heap, and it recently burst a clutch hose, so it's going. 

With assistance from ms_ghost (aye I know), I picked up a replacement. No collection thread as it consisted of sitting in a Ka in traffic around south Manchester and bugger all else. 

Excuse potato cam, I'm having to use my spare phone at the moment. 

[rantingYoof]

7 hours ago, sdkrc said:

Friend of a friend bought this seemingly good MR2.

Seemed reasonably solid on initial inspection. Some rust but nothing chronic. 

 

Turns out it's fucked. Not massively surprised but shit break for the young owner

The same thing happened to me in 2005 with a 1989 T-bar in light blue. I'm staggered this car still has atoms left that resemble a car.

[HMC]

On the school run…..

 

Sticking out in the works car park…..

And suitably  shonky accessory just fitted….

[w00dy]

T25s in their natural habitat at the garage.

[dozeydustman]

19 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Thankfully the Kia’s steering problem looks like it’s only a pipe or hose. Bad news is it looks like a Kia special order unless I play parts darts with Autodoc. Stepdaughter needs the car soonish so I think Kia may be best bet but will try a couple local motor factors on way over to Bognor.

Looks like it’s one of those order from Kia only parts. £176. Plenty of LHD ones on the internet for about £40

both rubber sections of the line are badly perished and the lowest metal part is so crusty it has a pinhole. 

[mitsisigma01]

Can pirtek or a n other hydraulic hose supplier make one up

[mitsisigma01]

Working with dustcarts you probably blowout pipes regularly , what does your fitter see or say 🤔

 

[dozeydustman]

3 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Can pirtek or a n other hydraulic hose supplier make one up

Local guys can’t do anything for nearly 2 weeks. One quoted me not much less than Kia which I thought was a rip-off.

2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Working with dustcarts you probably blowout pipes regularly , what does your fitter see or say 🤔

 

We make our own hoses up or order direct from Dennis Eagle. Our fitters have nothing that small.

[barefoot]

Ready for the new season...

The Spice Daves are about to hit the road.

[Yoss]

On 3/22/2023 at 10:02 AM, wesacosa said:

Spent a long but interesting day off work yesterday driving from London to Lincolnshire to view a couple of Skoda Estelles.  Both requiring levels of recommissioning.  A really nice looking beige one but it was a lot of money and a straight and solid red one but with pretty weathered paint.  As of yet neither purchased

 

Have you bought one yet? 

[wesacosa]

41 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Have you bought one yet? 

Not yet. I thought seeing two on one day would be a good idea but its now meant that the question isn't just do I want/need to buy a new car to but is now do I want/need to buy a new car and if so which one!