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[Dick Cheeseburger]

13 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Yup. No regerts thus far. Loved it but enjoying the change of pace of punchy pez at the moment. I know @Lacquer Peel will show it more of the world and make it go faster on a regular if not constant basis, than I ever would have. 

Fair do. Good to see it remain within the fold regardless. You do realise you've missed the opportunity to get AnnoyingPentium's sticker dealer to make up the ultimate window sticker for it though - 'I love my Rexton'. Maybe SplitPin could pick up the reins...

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

get AnnoyingPentium's sticker dealer to make up the ultimate window sticker for it though - 'I love my Rexton'.

Could be arranged when I'm not swamped with work.

[wuvvum]

You need to get some stickers made up for the Volvo 740 owners too.

[Bren]

2 hours ago, brownnova said:

Got to say, the selection of chod in the car park isn’t as good as the last time I was here… 

Much better weather though! 

Lovely part of the world.

[Soundwave]

Made the mistake of sitting down and trying to tot up my various automotive expenditures - servicing, MOT dates, insurance renewals, taxation, storage, upcoming parts costs, jobs to do etc. Actually trying to do it properly, with a spreadsheet and everything. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with it all, and thinking I might need to thin the herd a bit.

Not sure how you serial collectors do it, I'm only on 5 and things feel like they're spiralling!

[Saabnut]

9 hours ago, Soundwave said:

Not sure how you serial collectors do it, I'm only on 5 and things feel like they're spiralling!

It is really easy. Whenever you get the urge to sit down and add it all up, go on to AS/Ebay/Marketplace etc instead and buy another one. Once purchased, the urge to add up will pale into insignificance.  After a while, the urge to add up may return, when you repeat the cycle. Eventually, there will be just too many things to add up and the urge will not return.

Problem solved. 

More advice available on request.

[brownnova]

10 hours ago, Soundwave said:

Not sure how you serial collectors do it, I'm only on 5 and things feel like they're spiralling!

Once you get past 5 it gets easier…. At least that’s what I keep telling myself. 

[Rust Collector]

You just need to push through and get to a number of cars where you start to forget some of them and find it difficult to list them all off the top of your head. Spreading them over at least a couple of different sites will help with this.

[Stinkwheel]

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

You just need to push through and get to a number of cars where you start to forget some of them and find it difficult to list them all off the top of your head. Spreading them over at least a couple of different sites will help with this.

I got to 16 cars plus 'some' motorcycles at one point. It feels so much better to be back down to the manageable and known number of 6 cars and 4 bikes - That's what i keep telling myself anyway

[SiC]

12 hours ago, Soundwave said:

I'm only on 5 and things feel like they're spiralling!

I'm on 7 and occasionally add it all up. Definitely don't do that if you want to keep them all. MOT/Tax exemption does make owning multiple cars less painful.

My intention is to sell at least two and get back down to five. Ideally lower. That was after I realised that insurance+tax+storage costs are £300pcm. Then maintenance/fuel on top. Probably nearer £500pcm all said and done. It does helps on costs that not all are on the road and in storage too. 😅

But then I'll buy something else to clutter back up again. 

My thought was that I could sell most and get back down to 3 or 4 cars (two dailies for wife+me, one project toy and one working toy) - £300 pcm could go toward a loan on something a bit more special as a toy. 

[brownnova]

I’m at 8 (9 if you count the BiLs Kangoo which has been abandoned here), 3 of which are projects… albeit ones which are making snail pace progress. I said to myself that if I hd made no progress on the Nova by the end of the summer holidays it would go, it’s currently the final day of the summer holidays and I’ve done nothing to it. I also promised myself no more projects until I’d completed one. 

So I have two more cars arriving on Saturday which have been off the road a long long time, but which I couldn’t bear to see the owner scrap which seemed to be becoming a real possibility… 

Which is my way of saying, don’t try and make it make sense. It doesn’t 😂

[Ohdearme]

Bollocks.

Sat in Beamish Car Park with a metal shard pissing air out of tyre.

Spare not coming out of underside.

Anyone got a 5 stud renner wheel with a 225 55 R17 spare?

or know a decent mobile fitter?

 

[Ohdearme]

23 minutes ago, Ohdearme said:

Bollocks.

Sat in Beamish Car Park with a metal shard pissing air out of tyre.

Spare not coming out of underside.

Anyone got a 5 stud renner wheel with a 225 55 R17 spare?

or know a decent mobile fitter?

 

Solved by a very helpful ring around of Indy tyre men of the north.

shout out to the ones that didn’t help but passed me on and now one is coming!

We R Tyres - Sunderland on the way,

Tyres2u NE dipton couldnt do it but told me to ring We R tyres. 

and https://www.leadgatetyrecentre.co.uk couldn’t help but told me to ring dipton.

I love small businesses, no charging for nitrogen in my tyres, just three blokes helping out a punter with a knackered tyre.

 

[bunglebus]

Why is it as soon as you wash your car, some low-flying bastard shits all over it?

Fuckers  

[barefoot]

I had some minor work done to the Scirocco last week, new engine & gearbox mountings, new alternator belt, brakes re-built, Oh, and a brand new hard to get fuel tank and filler neck. This obviously requires the back axle to be removed, so I also had new axle mounts and all new rubbery bits. Yesterday the ungrateful bastard broke down. I was quite grumpy, but the problem was quickly resolved by adding a can of petrol. Odd because the gauge still indicated a quarter of a tank. I drove it to the garage where I managed to squeeze in another 34.87 litres. It appears I'm probably the only bloke in the world who owns a late model Scirocco with a fuel tank from a much earlier one. 40 litres with a full size spare Vs 55 litres with a spacesaver - fuck sticks.

[gm]

1 hour ago, Ohdearme said:

Bollocks.

Sat in Beamish Car Park with a metal shard pissing air out of tyre.

Spare not coming out of underside.

Anyone got a 5 stud renner wheel with a 225 55 R17 spare?

or know a decent mobile fitter?

 

sounds like you’re sorted but shout if you need anything - i’m about 15 mins away 

[Ohdearme]

46 minutes ago, gm said:

sounds like you’re sorted but shout if you need anything - i’m about 15 mins away 

All done and back on the road. Cheers.

Mentioned the fitters as I know there’s a strong country Durham contingent of shiters.

[grogee]

Moar Turkish deShite. 

Rennow neuf Broadway

Suzuki SJ (belongs to local tourist centre apparently) 

Fiat OhNo

[egg]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Fuckers  

permanent in a costal town,  if the sea salt doesn't get your underside, the seagull poo gets your paint.

[stuboy]

Collegue came back from Turkey and I said I'd like pictures of hot babes and fast cars... guess what I got..

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Why is it as soon as you wash your car, some low-flying bastard shits all over it?

Fuckers  

At least they shat on the glass.

[DVee8]

4 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

Bollocks.

Sat in Beamish Car Park with a metal shard pissing air out of tyre.

Spare not coming out of underside.

Anyone got a 5 stud renner wheel with a 225 55 R17 spare?

or know a decent mobile fitter?

 

Myself and @gm are only along the road about 3 miles away 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

Collegue came back from Turkey and I said I'd like pictures of hot babes and fast cars... guess what I got..

Demote him, no babes on view...

[trigger]

My mate talked me into doing a YouTube video with him yesterday on a 2CV he's bought in auction, I've watched it tonight before it goes and could stop cringing! I'm just giggling and chatting shit all though it 🙈

It's my first proper experience with a 2CV, and shall we just say, they are an interesting car, especially this one which belonged to some well known Italian Motorsport artist and been held together with ducktape.

[trigger]

The same mate has been buying a lot of cars lately, I bought my Mondeo of him which he also bought in the auctions, one of his recent purchases was this 400000 mile TX1 taxi called Purple Haze, it had a petrol engine fitted and a LPG conversion a few years back as part of a  government scheme, it was my first time driving a taxi, it's a right giggle but I can't imagine doing that kind of mileage in one! 

It was last used for the Queen's Jubilee on Pall Mall so he's currently getting it so he can use it for taking his boy to school in!

Another one he's bought is this beautiful 1980 Volvo 345 DL with only 39000 miles, it's been of the road since 1993 so it's a bit of a project, I quite like it though, the colours nice too.

[wuvvum]

Looks like he's been cleaning out the King's Lynn auction!

[Cookiesouwest]

9 hours ago, trigger said:

My mate talked me into doing a YouTube video with him yesterday on a 2CV he's bought in auction, I've watched it tonight before it goes and could stop cringing! I'm just giggling and chatting shit all though it 🙈

It's my first proper experience with a 2CV, and shall we just say, they are an interesting car, especially this one which belonged to some well known Italian Motorsport artist and been held together with ducktape.

Which YT channel?

[Lankytim]

12 hours ago, trigger said:

The same mate has been buying a lot of cars lately, I bought my Mondeo of him which he also bought in the auctions, one of his recent purchases was this 400000 mile TX1 taxi called Purple Haze, it had a petrol engine fitted and a LPG conversion a few years back as part of a  government scheme, it was my first time driving a taxi, it's a right giggle but I can't imagine doing that kind of mileage in one! 

It was last used for the Queen's Jubilee on Pall Mall so he's currently getting it so he can use it for taking his boy to school in!

Another one he's bought is this beautiful 1980 Volvo 345 DL with only 39000 miles, it's been of the road since 1993 so it's a bit of a project, I quite like it though, the colours nice too.

Those early nose 340s were believed to be extinct in the U.K. at one time (or so I was told) what a nice find!

In other news, returning from that London to Stoke on Trent. Heard a bang from under the Laguna on the M40 just as we crossed the M25. Sudden loss of power but the Laguna still ran and drove so I pressed on- I didn’t want to stop on the HS and didn’t want to turn the engine off in case it didn’t start again. Clouds of clag on uphill sections and overtaking had to be planned in advance, all compounded by middle lane hogging morons- don’t they know I’m nursing my shite home?? Luckily I could give them the “red arrows” treatment when I finally got round them. We’ve stopped in Warwick services and as suspected, it’s a burst boost pipe, the top one too which should make repair easy. I’ve got some pipes at home which may fit but for now, the users of the M40/M5/M6 might have to use their headlights. 

[gm]

i’ve put the SLK on sorn and swapped the insurance onto the green mazda, so thought i’d give them a quick wash

and while i had the bucket and spong handy, the black mx5 got a scrub too

what a handsome fleet  

(in case anyone hadn’t spotted it, the slk is up for roffle - tickets are selling fast* get ‘em while you can !)

 

 

 

[TheOtherStu]

On 8/29/2023 at 2:37 PM, mercedade said:

I'm a student* again.

Figured I've spent so long being annoyed at my lack of mastery of the dark arts (AKA welding), and the ever-decreasing supply of back street garages that do it, that I'd sign up to the local Adult Education college for their Intro to Welding (MIG and TIG) course.

So I officially enrolled this morning and - best of all - despite having budgeted a couple of hundred quid for it, they found the magic box on the form that brought the cost down to £zero. Not quite sure how, but I'll take that as a win.

10 weeks of Monday nights, get my head around the basics of sparkly sticks and decide if it's something I've got a handle on or not.

I've had years of looking at welding forums, 'try this, get stuck in' kind of advice, but needed something to force me to get started as I've never actually bothered. My only experience of welding was literally 25 years ago when I tacked a sill on my old Chevette under the supervision of the patient garage I was doing Saturdays and holiday work in. Quite looking forward to it.

Out of interest, where is this and how much was the full amount?

I'm Southampton way and all the courses are 8-9 weeks and in the region of £250-450 pounds. The latter, sadly, is the closest.