The new news 24 thread

[High Jetter]

Can't find the no pic spotted thread, but passed a convoy of classics coming the other way a while back. First a R8 soft top (who flashed me, but no idea  who the driver was), a pickup I didn't recognize, 2 A30/A35s, a Rover P5, a Lotus Elan and several others. Must have missed a local meet, somehow. 

[stuboy]

Anyone else's missus do this... just got the car all clean and nice looking £30 diesel in it, and then says oh can she borrow it too take herself, her friend, 4 kids 10 and under and 2 dogs too a dog show, cause say no look a to55ser in front of friend and kid whose visiting, or smile and go ok and walk off throwing kittens off bridges ( joking by the way ).

[Erebus]

12 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Anyone else's missus do this... just got the car all clean and nice looking £30 diesel in it, and then says oh can she borrow it too take herself, her friend, 4 kids 10 and under and 2 dogs too a dog show, cause say no look a to55ser in front of friend and kid whose visiting, or smile and go ok and walk off throwing kittens off bridges ( joking by the way ).

As soon as I've cleaned our car the Mrs and kids make it look like a mobile shit tip.  Wouldn't mind but she goes metal if the house is messy or untidy!

[egg]

^ Mrs Egg drives auto only now, so no chance of that happening with the Mondeo

[RoverFolkUs]

There are very few reasonably priced, acceptable quality pubs/restaurants my way. 

Wetherspoons, and Greene king, are the only places where I can go knowing there will be something I like and I'm not going to have to pay through the nose for it

I could go to McDonald's and spend a tenner on that crap or go to spoons and spend that tenner on a much nicer burger or even a steak and a pint. 

Any time I've been to another pub or restaurant, it's ended up being nearly £30-40 a head so that means its special occasions only as it's unsustainable (for me) to go there regularly. 

Wetherspoons will usually be at least half of that and I'll end up enjoying it more.

I went to the Harvester last year for the first time in a long time, used to be really nice, but it was £100 for 3x people and I didn't even enjoy any of it. Small portions and it all seemed microwaved or sitting under a heat lamp for hours, dried out. 

None of the spoons I go to seem to suffer from the piss soaked atmosphere as described above. Maybe I just choose the right times! 

Can't fault the breakfasts, I went to a small independent pub for a cooked breakfast and was served those 30% meat (if you're being generous) 70% bread sausages like supermarket value brand ones, and a "latte" served from a catering tub of Nescafé that wasn't fully dissolved 🤢 - rather than at least from a coffee machine. That was £9.50.. spoons would be much nicer with a proper coffee from a machine, less than a fiver? Can't argue. 

No it's not spotlessly clean, and no it's not free from dubious characters but it's a chain pub so what do you expect?

[ProgRocker]

Surveying the clutter in my spare bedroom. I wonder if this stuff that was sitting in my dad's shed is still any good after 30+ years? 

[JakeT]

Haven’t posted a lot recently, as I’ve been doing no AS activities. But I’ve been watching. Like this fella.

 

E36 oil change today. It was last done in December 2021, 4,231 miles ago.

Backed into the garage. The cloth on the bonnet is in case it touches the garage door when it’s jacked up. Genuine BMW filter and Millers 10w40

Oil draining. Still nice and golden, given the mileage I’d expect so.

6.5l back in and at the correct level. Reset the service light too, from three green back to five.
 

Also seeing @sutty2006 collect a Disco and have a gala pie slice, I also went out and had a slice, since it’s been too long  bliss.

 

[sutty2006]

4 minutes ago, JakeT said:

Haven’t posted a lot recently, as I’ve been doing no AS activities. But I’ve been watching. Like this fella.

 

E36 oil change today. It was last done in December 2021, 4,231 miles ago.

Backed into the garage. The cloth on the bonnet is in case it touches the garage door when it’s jacked up. Genuine BMW filter and Millers 10w40

Oil draining. Still nice and golden, given the mileage I’d expect so.

6.5l back in and at the correct level. Reset the service light too, from three green back to five.
 

Also seeing @sutty2006 collect a Disco and have a gala pie slice, I also went out and had a slice, since it’s been too long  bliss.

 

That reminds me, the second (emergency) gala pie is still around. Must take that to car show tomorrow. 

[dome]

If it's been around that long the emergency may occur after consumption, not before 

[stuboy]

7 minutes ago, dome said:

If it's been around that long the emergency may occur after consumption, not before 

bowel cleansing

[sutty2006]

Quite happy to take that risk 👌🤪

[stuboy]

19 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Quite happy to take that risk 👌🤪

i had a 6 month out of date diet coke thursday, cured my inability too poo that week

[w00dy]

From the moment I bought my 6 series, there has been one change I wanted to make and I finally managed to get hold of some sports seats in the correct Chateau red for a decent price.

Before

 

After

 

[egg]

This is an interesting abandoned car spotter on Insta to follow - in bloody Kiev of all places.

https://www.instagram.com/abandoned_cars_kiev/

[richardmorris]

[Dyslexic Viking]

Took the Mercedes for a drive in perfect autumn weather today.

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

For @LightBulbFun

[sutty2006]

Gala pie round two 

 

yum yum 

[richardmorris]

[Metal Guru]

17 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

There are very few reasonably priced, acceptable quality pubs/restaurants my way. 

Wetherspoons, and Greene king, are the only places where I can go knowing there will be something I like and I'm not going to have to pay through the nose for it

I could go to McDonald's and spend a tenner on that crap or go to spoons and spend that tenner on a much nicer burger or even a steak and a pint. 

Any time I've been to another pub or restaurant, it's ended up being nearly £30-40 a head so that means its special occasions only as it's unsustainable (for me) to go there regularly. 

Wetherspoons will usually be at least half of that and I'll end up enjoying it more.

I went to the Harvester last year for the first time in a long time, used to be really nice, but it was £100 for 3x people and I didn't even enjoy any of it. Small portions and it all seemed microwaved or sitting under a heat lamp for hours, dried out. 

None of the spoons I go to seem to suffer from the piss soaked atmosphere as described above. Maybe I just choose the right times! 

Can't fault the breakfasts, I went to a small independent pub for a cooked breakfast and was served those 30% meat (if you're being generous) 70% bread sausages like supermarket value brand ones, and a "latte" served from a catering tub of Nescafé that wasn't fully dissolved 🤢 - rather than at least from a coffee machine. That was £9.50.. spoons would be much nicer with a proper coffee from a machine, less than a fiver? Can't argue. 

No it's not spotlessly clean, and no it's not free from dubious characters but it's a chain pub so what do you expect?

I wouldn’t rank a Harvester any better than a Spoons. 
Greggs do decent breakfast items.

[Split_Pin]

Spent the last week trying to re-make and replaced these fuel pipes on the TT which were badly perished.

The issue I had was 2-fold.

1) 2 other TTs in the breakers had the same issue with perished lines

2) New ones are unavailable

My first attempt was a bum steer as the fuel line was too thick. As you can see above they bend down low to clear the boost pipe which is above (removed in this picture) and I could t get the marine grade stuff to do that. My second attempt was with slightly thinner and more flexible hose. I lashed it down as much as I could and also made a spacer for the boost pipe so it sat a touch higher. This finally gave some clearance. When I started it I gave the garage and engine a shower in fuel as I hadn't tightened one of the hose clips enough. Interesting how much pressure it's under as it was fair skooshing out.

All seems OK for now but I need to take it on a drive to see if these lines and the trimmed back coolant hose all hold OK.

[brownnova]

A rather damp cars n coffee meet this moninrg meant that quality was far more than quantity… 

Firstly, fair play to the fella who told me his favourite car of the meet was “that old Saab 9000 over there” before he knew it was mine 😂

Car of the meet though… 

Absolutely love a Prowler!!!

Close runner up though… 

And bonus spottage on the way home… both a 2CV and a shiter! 

[richardmorris]

27 minutes ago, brownnova said:

A rather damp cars n coffee meet this moninrg meant that quality was far more than quantity… 

Firstly, fair play to the fella who told me his favourite car of the meet was “that old Saab 9000 over there” before he knew it was mine 😂

Car of the meet though… 

Absolutely love a Prowler!!!

Close runner up though… 

And bonus spottage on the way home… both a 2CV and a shiter! 

Wrexham car, I’ve had STU and RTU on Citroens from brooklands garage.

(autuns).

[Split_Pin]

Welcome to my new car.

The pedal extenders I bought are shonky as fuck and my wife doesn't feel confident with a block  cable tied to the pedal either. So she's getting the TT back, I just hope I have fixed it right. The fuel lines are fine but I'm still not convinced all is well with the cooling system as the auxiliary water pump is kicking in and out at weird times. Her works only a mile away so I can always rescue her if needed.

Ive also made it 75% faster because I moved the seat closer to the wheel so I can now press the pedal harder and it goes like fuck now.

 

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I wouldn’t rank a Harvester any better than a Spoons. 
Greggs do decent breakfast items.

Jeremy Hardy commented about them. On entering and being asked “have you been to a harvester before” , well I’m not going to make this mistake twice.

[Six-cylinder]

The headline was NSU show, I imagined a field of Prinzs, 1200s and Ro80s surrounded by dozens of Quickly mopeds. Well not really, but I was still a little disappointed that all we got was one Prinz and 8 NSU bikes. There were three Velocettes, one Yamaha RD250, two MGAs, a VW 412 @Slowsilver Maxi and the star of the show for me was a 1949 21 seater Guy coach. Oh yes I took my Rolls Royce.

It was held at the Caldecotte Miniature Railway, Milton Keynes which is a great venue for a smallish show it is just a shame it was not better promoted and one of the gate people didn’t realise the Maxi was a classic car!

There was a small derailment on the railway but only took a few minutes to lift the open passenger car back on the rails.

Still a good day out and next year as they were happy to lets the motorcycles perambulate around the field maybe I should try and take my VeloSolex along..

[richardmorris]

7 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

Gala pie round two 

 

yum yum 

You are  sitting behind a lotus esprit mk 1?

[Wibble]

17 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

You are  sitting behind a lotus esprit mk 1?

Opel Manta is my bet.

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Wibble said:

Opel Manta is my bet.

I haven’t got my glasses in reach. But they look very like my x1/9 carello lights,