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[brownnova]

I think the Saab 9000 must have hit classic status… 

Usually I can take it to shows or run around in it and it’s roundly ignored. But lately people want to talk about it in car parks, several of my new colleagues have been interested in it, at shows I’ve been told it’s the most unusual thing there, and today a café proprietor hosting a classic car morning bustled past us as we entered saying (along the lines of) “I’ll be back to serve you shortly, but I need to go and take a photo of that Saab” 

I mean, all that attention and the headlight wipers don’t even sit straight! 

[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, brownnova said:

I think the Saab 9000 must have hit classic status… 

Usually I can take it to shows or run around in it and it’s roundly ignored. But lately people want to talk about it in car parks, several of my new colleagues have been interested in it, at shows I’ve been told it’s the most unusual thing there, and today a café proprietor hosting a classic car morning bustled past us as we entered saying (along the lines of) “I’ll be back to serve you shortly, but I need to go and take a photo of that Saab” 

I mean, all that attention and the headlight wipers don’t even sit straight! 

Do they move? The ones on my merc didn’t when I got it, so took one apart, cleaned and oiled everything snd plugged it back in. Then it didn’t stop bloody moving or spraying screenwash. So I pulled the plug and set the arms to a reasonable park position and passed the problem to @Six-cylinder 9 years later.

[reb]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Do they move? The ones on my merc didn’t when I got it, so took one apart, cleaned and oiled everything snd plugged it back in. Then it didn’t stop bloody moving or spraying screenwash. So I pulled the plug and set the arms to a reasonable park position and passed the problem to @Six-cylinder 9 years later.

I managed to get the headlight wipers on my second volvo working perfectly, then a big fucker of a deer jumped into its path and it fucked the passenger side one. It fucked the headlight too, but at least I had a spare for that! The other two I've had had had them totally removed.

[richardmorris]

Just now, reb said:

I managed to get the headlight wipers on my second volvo working perfectly, then a big fucker of a deer jumped into its path and it fucked the passenger side one. It fucked the headlight too, but at least I had a spare for that! The other two I've had had had them totally removed.

Deers just knackered both front doors. Headlamp wipers are fun to demonstrate but I’ve never felt the need for them here. And certainly not for £100 a side second hand parts.

[reb]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Deers just knackered both front doors. Headlamp wipers are fun to demonstrate but I’ve never felt the need for them here. And certainly not for £100 a side second hand parts.

I used to do over 100 miles a day 6 days a week, including in salt season, I found they did an ok job of prolonging the time between needing to clean the headlights with glass cleaner by at least 20 seconds.

[Ghosty]

Changed the oil and filter on the Cav. Herth&Buss filter came out so someone has done it semi-recently - while there's no history there's plenty of evidence the car's been cared for. Oil was black though. The car runs significantly better for an oil change, never felt such a difference before. I've spent a few hundred quid on service parts for it, after which it'll be pretty much ready for winter.

[reb]

1 minute ago, Ghosty said:

Changed the oil and filter on the Cav. Herth&Buss filter came out so someone has done it semi-recently - while there's no history there's plenty of evidence the car's been cared for. Oil was black though. The car runs significantly better for an oil change, never felt such a difference before. I've spent a few hundred quid on service parts for it, after which it'll be pretty much ready for winter.

One random please

[wuvvum]

On 9/29/2023 at 6:19 PM, wuvvum said:

I'm at Lake Windermere. 

It's nice up here.  Just a shame it took eight and a half bastarding hours to get here.  I really hate driving long distances in this country  

The drive home was rather less painful - Tebay services to home in 4h55m.  Driving through the night is definitely the way to go.

Got a few odd bits done today.  I ordered a set of generic clocks for the Chinese 125, they arrived while I was away so I attempted a fit today - they're going to need some brackets making up to fit them properly but they're on there for now, the cables are plugged into their respective dials and I have speed and revs - no idea how accurate a £16 set of Chinese clocks is going to be mind.

I attempted to get the cambelt cover off the Maxus to do a belt inspection, following the recent chat about cambelt roulette on the modern forum, but one of the (7mm!) bolts holding the cover on snapped off, the second wasn't going to move with a spanner and I can't get a socket on it without removing the battery tray, which has the ECU and fuse box attached to it, and the third is way back in the engine bay and awkward to get to.  So I'm going to have to continue playing cambelt roulette I think.

When Mrs6C drove the Volvo a couple of weeks ago I noticed a bit of a whine from the transmission in neutral and when manoeuvring.  So I thought I'd better check the ATF level.  I took the car for a 5-mile drive to get the gearbox up to temp, as suggested by the HBOL, then returned home and checked the dipstick, which was bone dry.  Whoops.  I found a litre of Ford Type F fluid at the back of the shed (purchased years ago from Roys of Wroxham for the princely sum of 99p, reduced to clear), so I tipped that in - hopefully that'll make it happier.

Only other "urgent" job was to refit the front splitter on the Ampera - it had grounded out a few too many times over the Hardknott and pulled out of its slots.  A couple of plastic clips from my big eBay bag of cheap Chinese trim clips fixed it back into place.

[wuvvum]

18 hours ago, New POD said:

Careful on the edges of the roads. I destroyed a 3 week old rainsport by gashing the sidewall with a rock at the side of the road.  on the 1 in 5 section. 

Just out of shot to the left of the photo is a Mercedes A-Class which had done exactly that.

[New POD]

7 hours ago, reb said:

I used to do over 100 miles a day 6 days a week, including in salt season, I found they did an ok job of prolonging the time between needing to clean the headlights with glass cleaner by at least 20 seconds.

They only come into their own when it snows. 

[Metal Guru]

13 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

It must be a highly trained job. 

Takes 2. The one who’s learnt numbers and the one who’s learnt letters. They work alternate Sundays , never on together.

[barefoot]

12 hours ago, reb said:

The other two I've had had had them totally removed.

Award for the most extensive use of the word 'had' in living memory.

[Lankytim]

Clearing out under the stairs and found this old Dell laptop, I vaguely remember using it for diagnostic software ages ago. Booted up and went online but turned itself off after 5 mins and now won’t do anything. Might just sling it out. 

[SiC]

7 minutes ago, Lankytim said:

Clearing out under the stairs and found this old Dell laptop, I vaguely remember using it for diagnostic software ages ago. Booted up and went online but turned itself off after 5 mins and now won’t do anything. Might just sling it out. 

Those old Latitudes are good for stuff like knock off Mercedes Star diagnostics

[egg]

^ a fools errand perhaps, but I tend to break broken laptops for parts on eBay.

[Markeh]

1 hour ago, Lankytim said:

Clearing out under the stairs and found this old Dell laptop, I vaguely remember using it for diagnostic software ages ago. Booted up and went online but turned itself off after 5 mins and now won’t do anything. Might just sling it out. 

If you can't be arsed with Ebay and it's destined for the bin anyway I'd happily offer you the cost of postage for this - got a couple of working D620s/D630s in that need bits.

[Lankytim]

2 hours ago, Markeh said:

If you can't be arsed with Ebay and it's destined for the bin anyway I'd happily offer you the cost of postage for this - got a couple of working D620s/D630s in that need bits.

Yeah ok. It’ll be the end of the week before I can do anything though.

 

[Markeh]

Just now, Lankytim said:

Yeah ok. It’ll be the end of the week before I can do anything though.

 

No rush as I'm away next week.

[stuboy]

Home from work get changed, thought stuff it try and look at the front brake on the mighty moped.... grr pistons stuck a and signs on rust coulring in the reservoir,  clamp the pistons, clean out reservoir add new fluid, give up, go indoors ... make a brew

[reb]

10 hours ago, barefoot said:

Award for the most extensive use of the word 'had' in living memory.

I think my brain got got got got got stuck in a loop

[Yoss]

On 10/1/2023 at 8:43 PM, reb said:

The other two I've had had had them totally removed.

 

11 hours ago, barefoot said:

Award for the most extensive use of the word 'had' in living memory.

 

And yet it still makes perfect sense. I can't think of another example of using the same word three times in a row legitimately.

[reb]

1 minute ago, Yoss said:

 

 

And yet it still makes perfect sense. I can't think of another example of using the same word three times in a row legitimately.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo

[Yoss]

On 9/30/2023 at 1:44 PM, Dyslexic Viking said:

I have washed the Mercedes today

That is a ridiculously handsome and well proportioned car. I know it has been giving you quite a lot of grief recently but you must still be very pleased with yourself when you just stand back and look at it.

[Yoss]

3 minutes ago, reb said:

Buffalo buffalo buffalo

And that makes sense does it?

[reb]

Just now, Yoss said:

And that makes sense does it?

From an everyday perspective, not in the slightest. But from a grammatical point of view, it's a valid sentence

[Yoss]

18 minutes ago, reb said:

From an everyday perspective, not in the slightest. But from a grammatical point of view, it's a valid sentence

It is a very long time since I learnt any actual grammar so I'll just take your word for it.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Yoss said:

It is a very long time since I learnt any actual grammar so I'll just take your word for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

[Dyslexic Viking]

34 minutes ago, Yoss said:

That is a ridiculously handsome and well proportioned car. I know it has been giving you quite a lot of grief recently but you must still be very pleased with yourself when you just stand back and look at it.

Thanks. And it has given me some challenges, but that's to be expected. And I'm very pleased and i do, it's almost unbelievable to me that I own this, it's such a great car.  And not to brag, but I am very happy with what I have achieved with this in just over a year, and I think I can say that I have saved it, which is very nice.

[Yoss]

14 minutes ago, reb said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Well that just makes think of this lot.

[bunglebus]

Don't know where else to put this, apparently a real thing from an Aldi SQ5 (whatever that is)

Modern cars are shit