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[calebaaront]

The Trabis turn for a tip run this week, I just about managed to fit 4 bags in. However that is with the spare tyre still in 

[cort1977]

Started Mustang last night, been sitting for a while hiding from salt and rain.  Stupid aftermarket immobiliser had flattened the battery but soon had it going.  Started right up, sounds good.  Quick test drive showed rear brake binding, tyres a little flat and LH indicators doing something funny probably related to conversion relays.

Recently got a set of Koni springs and dampers to replace the fairly nasty Maxspeedingrods(TM) stuff.  Plan this week is to get that fitted in time for the summer*

[calebaaront]

Took the Trabant to a little car meet this evening, I doubt a 58 Plymouth and a Trabant have ever been pictured together. I do love the Trabant but I do know what I would rather have

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, calebaaront said:

Took the Trabant to a little car meet this evening, I doubt a 58 Plymouth and a Trabant have ever been pictured together. I do love the Trabant but I do know what I would rather have

A Christine fan.

[Justwatching]

Car meet this evening at Mavericks. It's the first time I've ever taken the DeLorean to any kind of show or meet. It was very well received. 

[wuvvum]

Where's your flux capacitor m8?  LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Justwatching said:

Car meet this evening at Mavericks. It's the first time I've ever taken the DeLorean to any kind of show or meet. It was very well received. 

I can imagine it being rather depressing, if you were turned away "not another bloody Delorean"

[brownnova]

2 hours ago, Justwatching said:

Car meet this evening at Mavericks. It's the first time I've ever taken the DeLorean to any kind of show or meet. It was very well received. 

The one week I don’t go to Mavericks!!

[Justwatching]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Where's your flux capacitor m8?  LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Oh right, I spoke to you at the meet then.

[Justwatching]

6 hours ago, brownnova said:

The one week I don’t go to Mavericks!!

I know, every time I go you're not there! I was hopeful of seeing your Pontiac.   

[Metal Guru]

36 minutes ago, Justwatching said:

Oh right, I spoke to you at the meet then.

The one and only De Lorean I’ve ever seen was a pretty poor recreation of the film car at a car show . They’d ruined it.

[eddyramrod]

Regular readers will remember that my compact digital camera died.  With our European road trip looming I bit the bullet the other day and bought one in Argos, and this morning I took my first snap with it.

Not the most exciting shot, you might think, but a potentially valuable record.  This poor little thing has been parked in this spot, undisturbed, in our back alley for a good six weeks now.  It shows up as taxed and MoT'd, and the back is loaded with decorating kit.  Up front, the driver's window is down an inch or so, and both seatbelts are fastened.  I've seen a police van apparently taking an interest, but no Police Aware sticker has appeared yet.  Interesting...

[SiC]

51 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Regular readers will remember that my compact digital camera died.  With our European road trip looming I bit the bullet the other day and bought one in Argos, and this morning I took my first snap with it.

Not the most exciting shot, you might think, but a potentially valuable record.  This poor little thing has been parked in this spot, undisturbed, in our back alley for a good six weeks now.  It shows up as taxed and MoT'd, and the back is loaded with decorating kit.  Up front, the driver's window is down an inch or so, and both seatbelts are fastened.  I've seen a police van apparently taking an interest, but no Police Aware sticker has appeared yet.  Interesting...

According to TotalCarCheck it is stolen.

Link is here: https://totalcarcheck.co.uk/FreeCheck?regno=Pn60ytm

 

Phone the police now to say it's been abandoned there and total car check says it's stolen. Also let them know where it is. I had it at my old place and they leave them in a quiet area to see if it's still hot or not. It was recovered shortly after phoning. 

Some poor bugger is probably lost a fair bit of money thinking they've lost all their tools. 

Might be the plod that investigated it didn't enter the reg number correctly or wasn't logged properly as stolen when they went around. 

Also don't touch it as it may go off to forensics and better off not having your prints on it too!

[eddyramrod]

Thank you, that was interesting!  I didn't know about TotalCarCheck.  I've just 101'd it.  The nice police lady said it came up on her system too.  Now they know where it is we might see some action!

[eddyramrod]

As I was saying... just over an hour ago I had a visit from a child dressed as a policeman (tbf he's probably 28 or so; I'm just old now).  Since then a recovery truck has appeared and hoisted the Citroen away.  PC said they think they know who the culprit is, and he's now doing time for something similar.

Score one for Neighbourhood Watch!

[bigfella2]

Probably the newest car you could get with the rugged TU engine, non of this prince rubbish, what a shame.

[RoverFolkUs]

15 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

As I was saying... just over an hour ago I had a visit from a child dressed as a policeman (tbf he's probably 28 or so; I'm just old now).  Since then a recovery truck has appeared and hoisted the Citroen away.  PC said they think they know who the culprit is, and he's now doing time for something similar.

Score one for Neighbourhood Watch!

Great work! 

Autoshite: solving vehicular crimes, one Citroen C3 at a time 😁

[brownnova]

15 hours ago, Justwatching said:

I know, every time I go you're not there! I was hopeful of seeing your Pontiac.   

Next time you come here’s hoping I’m there! 

[High Jetter]

Uh, did you really mean that? 🤣

[GagaStan]

New shite acquired. 2007 Kia Rio 1.6 pez automatic - was going great until it developed a misfire an hour from home. Maybe it's just trying to be a 3 cylinder 'cos it knows I love them...

Hopefully will be more reliable in service. Seems like a nice little motor, the slushbox is actually very nice and it even has a dipstick! None of this sealed for life crap. Does 2500rpm at 100km/h (60mph) so cant complain about that.

Hopefully just needs an ignition coil and isn't completely farked. We'll see.

[LightBulbFun]

who wants a set of smart car wheels with 4 miss-matched and worn tyres? can be quite amusing what people will just randomly dump in stairwell landing zone...

nicely curbed

just wondering now who on our floor has a Smart car LOL

[wuvvum]

Took the R4 to work today.

Smoll car is smoll.

[ProgRocker]

16 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Took the R4 to work today.

Smoll car is smoll.

Hopefully I'll have the pleasure of seeing this fine motor in the flesh in the near future but I'm on annual leave this week. 

I park my modern thing in the ajoining car park in space number 1. The individual spaces are a decent width. 

[Floatylight]

Starter motor fell off (literally) been to Audi and bought new bolts now attempting repair on friends driveway where it broke down

Ballache of a job, given up, needs recovery to friendly garage

[Cheggers]

Wondered about MX5 seat upgrades: mk2 seats drop straight into mk1s. The standard cloth mk1 seats in my car had been replaced with early low spec mk2 seats. Both are completely undesirable and worthless, but the mk2 seats are slightly more hard wearing and comfortable.
Anyway a quick foray into Marketplace reveals that seats for MX5s are extremely easy to get hold of, much like every other part. They're also cheap... the basic UK cloth seats with adjustable headrests are worth under 100 quid and for sale everywhere for £40-80. mk1 tombstone seats (the ones with headrest speakers) start at around £80, a bit more for leather, and then £150 can get you a set of heated leather mk2 Sport seats, albeit at that price the driver's bolster will be fucked. However, there was a tidy set for sale in Derby for £180, messaged the seller and he replied instantly, so I went down and picked them up last night.
Gave them a quick clean with an old bottle of Liquid Leather that was lying around, bolted them in, they make a phenomenal difference to both the look and driving experience, and the cabin has a nice smell to it too. The mk2 seats have heating elements, I'm not utilsing these but making them work could be an interesting project.
Next, interior wise, I think I'd like to source  some nicer door cards, the replica teardrop speaker trims are just screwed straight on to the standard cards.

MX-5 seats used to be a popular upgrade for Scimitar owners (maybe just the SE5?) as very few other modern seats are narrow enough.

[Ghosty]

Heralds, too.

[wheel nut]

My land rover had a flat battery from lack of use over the winter.  My battery charger is the modern "intelligent" type and it wouldn’t recognise the battery. I heard that you can work around this problem by connecting a good battery to the charger in parallel to the dead one just to get it to start charging. However I never got to try this as after getting a good battery out of another car, the charger then decided it was happy with the land rover’s battery and started to charge it.

[hairnet]

On 4/29/2023 at 3:45 PM, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

Oof

[BorniteIdentity]

New plan worked a treat tonight. 

Went to a car meet without a car just to have a nose and talk to some friendly faces. Decided we’d have our chips in the corner, so picked the most salubrious cars to perch behind. All night people asking “is it yours” and me modestly nodding like some slightly younger George Harrison type. 

never had that with a Sierra. 

Some nice old stuff out because wealthy village and Willy waving. Whatever. 

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Starter motor fell off (literally) been to Audi and bought new bolts now attempting repair on friends driveway where it broke down

Ballache of a job, given up, needs recovery to friendly garage

Wtf