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[The Vicar]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Ooh, where did you find that?

In Ireland of all places

[BeEP]

9 hours ago, Popsicle said:

I've found the SGS trolley jacks to be no better, having to constantly purge the air out the system and top up with hydraulic oil becomes a bit boring every time I use it.

Glad I'm not the only one; other people seem to rate them.

[Spottedlaurel]

10 hours ago, The Vicar said:

New purchase:

Wonderful! Please let me know if/when you ever want to move it on, it still feels like I have unfinished business with these.

[Spottedlaurel]

I shall soon be playing with another LS400 that's appeared on the driveway now Miss SL and her BF are back from uni.

[Snake Charmer]

10 hours ago, Popsicle said:

I've found the SGS trolley jacks to be no better, having to constantly purge the air out the system and top up with hydraulic oil becomes a bit boring every time I use it.

 

1 hour ago, BeEP said:

Glad I'm not the only one; other people seem to rate them.

We have a set of four hydraulic wheel dollies at work, two have leaked from almost new and we're never returned.

The folding engine hoist does its job once set up but is a seriously ungainly thing once folded and will fall over if left unattended or not tied up.

The welding on a set of tall axle stands doesn't inspire confidence in their weight limit, luckily most of the cars we use them on are 1000kg.

The service trolley I have is OK apart from the castors it came with only being fit for the bin.

All the above come in a very nice shiny black powder coat finish.

[The Vicar]

1 hour ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Wonderful! Please let me know if/when you ever want to move it on, it still feels like I have unfinished business with these.

First outing this morning to a local gathering:

If I didn’t already love it I would now. It really is just so nice, and even if I’m a bit biased, so nicer than a W124!

I will keep you in mind when I come to sell, more than likely in August/September. I only really bought it to run around in for a few months of summer while I’m home on holidays! 

[Rust Collector]

I had a play with this yesterday, seeing as it’s been sat doing nothing for some time:

I’ll do a better write up in my fleet thread, but the long and the short of it is I can get it to crank by shorting the starter but it won’t fire.

It has previously been converted to electronic ignition:

I’ve converted it back to points just in case something was awry with the electronic kit. Still doesn’t work, although I couldn’t use the ballasted coil as it’s missing the contact from the terminal for the king lead.

Amazingly, a wiring diagram is available for the car, and even more amazingly it’s very clear and easy to read:

Im going to sort out the starter and coil wiring next time I have a chance and go from there, as the starter wiring has definitely been fucked around with.

[SiC]

I was hoping to get my P4 to this local meet today but not finished with the brakes yet. Met this chap with his 110 and got chatting. His son is actually local in the village and owned the immaculate Red Scoobie.



His P4 was rocking a Lockheed conversion too.




I think the local Morgan 3 wheeler club must have all turned up.


Push bike computer as the Speedo is a nice touch.



One of the new 3 wheelers





Not sure if this was a genuine Alpina



Yute!


A few other moderns but they didn't interest me enough to take a photo. So have some more oldies instead.

[lesapandre]

Car designer Chris Ruddell's website. A whole lot of good Jaguar stuff under 'galleries' I have never seen:

http://www.cliff-ruddell.co.uk/home.html

[HillmanImp]

I noticed that the handbrake was on in the Visa today, Imp Jr must've pulled it up at some point. 

I let it off and the car was stuck solid as has been sat for over a year. Oh well. 

I wandered off to do something else and came back to find it had rolled backwards about 3ftinto the bins behind it, so obviously wasn't as stuck as I thought. 

You can see the brick that was supposedly chocking the rear wheel on the floor under the car.....

In the plus side, we've found that missing shoe. 

Glad the bins were there, otherwise it'd have rolled into the Nissan. 

We then went and saw the Flying Scotsman when it came through Shipley. 

And someone drove into the back of the Mazda on the way home. 

Said we'd see if its a cheap repair locally but suspect it'll be going through insurance that. 

Fun fun fun. 

[wuvvum]

Liked for Visa and steam train, not for dent in bumper.

[Justwatching]

Passed my motorcycle theory test on Friday, and then on the drive home, the Ford LTD spontaneously repaired its own horn which hasn't worked since I bought it. Double win! 

[HillmanImp]

32 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Liked for Visa and steam train, not for dent in bumper.

Meh, its like getting a dent in the washing machine 'innit. 

Just white goods the Mazda. But red. 

[brownnova]

Some fascinating stuff at the NEC this weekend! 

[Fumbler]

I buyed a clicky thing for the 850!

This should mean the car goes click-clack-click-clack-click-clack while frantically flashing the seatbelt LEDs again. I honestly didn't expect to find a flasher relay but it seems Volvo relays are rather cheap and plentiful.

[RoverFolkUs]

39 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

I buyed a clicky thing for the 850!

This should mean the car goes click-clack-click-clack-click-clack while frantically flashing the seatbelt LEDs again. I honestly didn't expect to find a flasher relay but it seems Volvo relays are rather cheap and plentiful.

I've got flashbacks from diagnosing an S90 with an ABS fault, half an hour in the footwell sussing out the ABS control unit against a sketchy wiring diagram with that relay clicking away while I had the engine running 🤣

[Schaefft]

11 hours ago, The Vicar said:

First outing this morning to a local gathering:

If I didn’t already love it I would now. It really is just so nice, and even if I’m a bit biased, so nicer than a W124!

I will keep you in mind when I come to sell, more than likely in August/September. I only really bought it to run around in for a few months of summer while I’m home on holidays! 

The blue leather really reminds me of my Toyota Celsior, they must have used exactly the same dye.

[stuboy]

On 3/23/2023 at 10:29 PM, stuboy said:

My dad's selling his car, same I can't afford it as bloody mint and perfect autoshite

talking to my dad/stepmum.... should i get a loan and saddle up with £100 loan for 5 years...  is it reliable and autoshite worthy

[JJ0063]

3 minutes ago, stuboy said:

talking to my dad/stepmum.... should i get a loan and saddle up with £100 loan for 5 years...  is it reliable and autoshite worthy

Having in the past taken a 5 year bank loan for a car, don’t bloody do it. 5 years is a very long time to be paying off an old car. 60 months of having £100 odd off your monthly wage. 

A car that will be 13 years in old, once you’ve paid off will be 18 years old. 

Seriously, it’s just really not worth it. 

[wuvvum]

This finally happened this evening. 

Now I need to get up on time tomorrow to get the hubs to the garage so they can fit the new bearings. 

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

talking to my dad/stepmum.... should i get a loan and saddle up with £100 loan for 5 years...  is it reliable and autoshite worthy

Absurd how that shape of CRV has retained so much of their value. I'd never encourage a bank loan with £££ APR to fund a continuously depreciating asset ...

[wuvvum]

17 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Absurd how that shape of CRV has retained so much of their value.

I've seen them a helluva lot cheaper than that on eBay...

[RoverFolkUs]

4 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I've seen them a helluva lot cheaper than that on eBay...

It does seem to vary greatly on area, I see them as not much more than £3k cars but having seen chops garage on YouTube he seems to be able to get £7-8k retail on a well specced one in Devon 🤨

[lesapandre]

Audi garage charging woes. There is not much sympathy tho...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/mar/27/alarm-bells-rang-when-i-felt-i-was-being-overcharged-by-an-audi-dealership

[SiC]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Audi garage charging woes. There is not much sympathy tho...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/mar/27/alarm-bells-rang-when-i-felt-i-was-being-overcharged-by-an-audi-dealership

The problem is that many people don't know any better. Their car breaks and they believe the best or only place to fix such issues is at a dealer. Not helped by many (decent) garages been swamped and not wanting to deal with such electrical problems.

I do take issue with this comment though:

"I’m not sure when it became the norm for this type of diagnostic charging to take place, but it is now ubiquitous."

While Audi's hourly rate is bonkers expensive, someone has to pay for the time figuring the problem. If it's not the customer, it's the garage in lost time they could be doing paid work. In some/many cases the time to diagnose will be far longer than the time to replace the broken part. 

[dozeydustman]

Had a long weekend away and now back on Kia steering woes. Silverlake’s website isn’t working properly so the diesel Rio they are showing as available for parts has gone. They said nobody had wanted anything off it for the however many weeks it was sat there, so they put it through the baler. Wasn’t a wasted journey as I got a couple of bits for the C2 while I was there, which are needed for restoring the correct air filter housing instead of the rudeboy cone filter currently fitted. Also a nice gear knob, gaiter and an auto up/down window switch for passenger side. The mild fart cannon can wait until the back box is knackered.

There is a Pirtek in Portsmouth I discovered over the weekend so (hopefully) the rotten steering pipe will be off this afternoon and I can get a new one made up, or at very least the rotten section replaced.

[dozeydustman]

1/6th of a turn at a time. Who forgot his flare pipe spanners….

Not sure how this p-clip is held on as there’s no obvious bolt or nut. And no, it’s not the bolt head to the left

Yeah, that’s bollocksed. I’m off to Pirtek

[chaseracer]

On 23/03/2023 at 22:45, 320touring said:

When we arrived at Weston we went for a stoat to a local hostelry for scran, and met some Llamas 🦙

Saracen's Head?  Good scran there.

[320touring]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

Saracen's Head?  Good scran there.

Indeed it was

[stuboy]

19 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I see them as not much more than £3k cars

i looked at 3k cars on ebay and they was rough