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[Floatylight]

34 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Wtf

Indeed! Absolutely no sign of the bolts!

[GagaStan]

22 hours ago, GagaStan said:

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

Diagnosis complete - all it needs is a coil, phew. Going to replace all four to avoid the others giving up the ghost in sequence... and give it a service too. Robert's your mother's brother and reliable motoring will be restored!

[Pat Earrings]

Taking my chances with this shit/good weather and cracking on with a full service of the goona

[Rust Collector]

If you will believe it, contact cleaner and a toothbrush has got my Discovery 3 into a driveable state.

I can’t really believe it, and I’m now waiting for the other shoe to drop 😅

[alcyonecorporation]

Took the SVX to the tip. 






All the shit fitted in the boot, and it was good. 



I listened to a terrible MiniDisc mix I compiled on my NetMD machine at home. 
It's silver, bulky, not that useful, heavy on juice, and a bit weird. Yes, it's the SVX in MiniDisc form. 

Said SVX likes to go wrong in weird ways; its favourite by far is 'blow H3 bulbs sporadically'. Earlier this week, however, on a business trip, see if you can work out what it decided to do: 



Yes, that's right, the rear plate fell off. I'm eventually having some fancy full size dealer jobs made, but they're pricey and I needed to keep the car legal lest I want to fart around in it (not that I think the local 5-0 would give much of flying fuck about a car without a rear plate; I drove it back 130 miles bereft, and nary a goose was booed). 





Halfords stepped into the breach, and gifted me a replacement, slightly on the piss plate for a trade card friendly £18. They're now ally instead of ABS plastic, and the face is printed/laminated in one go over the top. 

[The Vicar]

Took this old girl out for it’s final spin before it gets picked up by it’s new owner 

 

[stuboy]

My son out in Hastings and he seen these... anyone idea them..

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I collected my new car. 

I love it. It's great fun. Surprisingly perky. I was worried it'd feel slow, but it doesn't at all. The pedals appear to be designed for the feet of a Barbie doll but it's otherwise comfortable. Massive boot, and 50mpg on the hundred mile trip home. 

It's only my second car ever with a tape player, so I bought an old stereo and made a couple of mix tapes for the trip down there in Junkman's Citroen CX and my trip home - well... the tape player in the CX doesn't work at all, and the one in the 106 warbles so much anyone singing sounds like they're about to burst into tears. Time to revisit the lost art of belt replacement! 

[andyberg]

These are great little cars. My son bought the yellow one from here. It's a cracking little thing, more comfortable than it should be and a decent engine. He loves it, it's his first car.

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

I collected my new car. 

I love it. It's great fun. Surprisingly perky. I was worried it'd feel slow, but it doesn't at all. The pedals appear to be designed for the feet of a Barbie doll but it's otherwise comfortable. Massive boot, and 50mpg on the hundred mile trip home. 

It's only my second car ever with a tape player, so I bought an old stereo and made a couple of mix tapes for the trip down there in Junkman's Citroen CX and my trip home - well... the tape player in the CX doesn't work at all, and the one in the 106 warbles so much anyone singing sounds like they're about to burst into tears. Time to revisit the lost art of belt replacement! 

Great little cars.  That's a cracking interior colour option too.

[somewhatfoolish]

5 hours ago, stuboy said:

My son out in Hastings and he seen these... anyone idea them..

 

Bottom looks like a Lotus Elan.

Actually they both could be Elans.

[Stanky]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Bottom looks like a Lotus Elan.

Actually they both could be Elans.

Yeah my thought too with the way the leading edge of the door cuts into the front wing...

[Ghosty]

On 5/3/2023 at 9:55 PM, RoverFolkUs said:

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

Wait, we're collectively scrapping C3s?

[brownnova]

45 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Wait, we're collectively scrapping C3s?

And once we’re done with them we’re on to the C4s, some murmuring of discontent when we move on to the C5s, and outright dissenting in the ranks when we scrap the C6s.  

[brownnova]

Quite fancy a car show tomorrow, but can’t find anything even vaguely local other than a ‘cars and coffee’ which means pop and bang maps and cut springs galore… and I’m not sure I can be arsed with that. 

[Ghosty]

3 minutes ago, brownnova said:

And once we’re done with them we’re on to the C4s, some murmuring of discontent when we move on to the C5s, and outright dissenting in the ranks when we scrap the C6s.  

I'd advise  caution handling C4.

[RoverFolkUs]

27 minutes ago, brownnova said:

And once we’re done with them we’re on to the C4s, some murmuring of discontent when we move on to the C5s, and outright dissenting in the ranks when we scrap the C6s.  

The C8 right about now: 

[stuboy]

Fil has fitted wider jockey wheel too his trailer but wanted it welded for extra strength, it gave me a chance to tryout my clearance sale lidl arc welder, I welded it up and missus was watching and I asked her do u want a go for which she said yeah, left her go over what I did, she was very proud of her self...lol

 

 

 

[artdjones]

I got the 205 started for the first time for a year.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Took the Mercedes out for a 60km drive today

[artdjones]

A great car for that kind of drive.

( Also for driving from Nordkapp to the Bosporus).

[egg]

Car themed pub re-opened in Challock, Kent. Car meets etc will be happening there.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/inside-the-empty-pub-turned-into-paradise-for-petrolheads-286492/

 

[stuboy]

Went too the boot fair and this locked up in a compound

[junkyarddog]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

I got the 205 started for the first time for a year.

Diesel??

[junkyarddog]

36 minutes ago, stuboy said:

this locked up

Best place for it🤣

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Best place for it🤣

I was just thinking of a witty comment along the lines of - it’s to stop it escaping.  

[JJ0063]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

Went too the boot fair and this locked up in a compound

Looks like the car auction featured in Salvage Rebuilds recent video. This is the Fiestdeo from Chop Shop.

[artdjones]

3 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Diesel??

No, a 1.1GL.

[junkyarddog]

5 minutes ago, artdjones said:

No, a 1.1GL.

Pity.

[JJ0063]

Went out to Holt artisan market this morning. Took Rodney with us in a sling as he’s had his first jabs so can’t go on the ground but we wanted to get him out and about seeing different sights. Think he knackered himself out..

 

This afternoon I cut the grass and washed the cars, was surprisingly warm today after the rain stopped.