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[Dyslexic Viking]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

FFS, why?

Why not?

He got out and got some exercise and probably had fun while doing it.

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Why not?

He got out and got some exercise and probably had fun while doing it.

Maybe somebody that upset him makes up part of the 100kg payload? 
Cunning plan - by the time it melts and Taggart gets called in, he's miles away (plus. no fingerprints.......)

[Split_Pin]

It's just a bit of fun, that's why!

[sdkrc]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

FFS, why?

Kanye West — 'My life is dope and I do dope shit.'

[Back_For_More]

10 hours ago, High Jetter said:

FFS, why?

It is now at the top of the local hill, resting on the smaller snowball ready to wreak havoc upon the Halfords below who refused to swap his 1day out of warranty battery......  He just needs his specially trained labrador to remember the right olace to cock a leg..... 

He's off to establish his Costa Coffee alibi 

Today Halfords - tomorrow the world...... 

[Rust Collector]

4 minutes ago, Back_For_More said:

It is now at the top of the local hill, resting on the smaller snowball ready to wreak havoc upon the Halfords below who refused to swap his 1day out of warranty battery......  He just needs his specially trained labrador to remember the right olace to cock a leg..... 

He's off to establish his Costa Coffee alibi 

Today Halfords - tomorrow the world...... 

I was just about to say, it's only a job half done - it needs rolling down the nearest hill now that it's hit critical mass.

[bunglebus]

FIL's Vitara decided to do a FTP while in traffic after a dual carriageway run. RAC eventually dragged it to mine at about 10pm after it broke down at lunchtime. 

Left the battery charging yesterday then tried it this morning - fired up and ran a bit choppily but sorted itself out as it warmed up.

Seemed to be a lot of water vapour from the exhaust and it smells really odd, took it around the block and all seemed well. Turned it off while I was sorting out something else and now it won't restart, just spins over! Argh 

[beko1987]

I've had an occasional slow crank 3 times in isolated times in the Xsara over the last week or so... It happens if I leave it for weeks at a time which I understand but it did it Sunday after being left overnight in the very_cold and I'd driven 90 miles Saturday... 

Best stash a bit of dough away incase the battery is on the way out, it's now at least 4 years old, possibly older! 

Or it's fine/something else... 🤔🤞

[greengartside]

On 06/11/2023 at 16:36, greengartside said:

MOT booked for December 4th at 10am!

And here is December 4th!

 

Not gonna lie, I was pretty restless sleeping last night. I’ve put a few man hours into this thing and like I’ve said previously, I would be gutted if it didn’t pass. Here it is ready for the off. I did have to do a few last minute jobs such as a missing bulb in the number plate light (the contacts had been busted off, probably when Darren fitted his MEGGER LED’Z and removed them for sale). Also a front indicator bulb that had lost most of its orange-ness. Little things like that might just win the MOT tester over.

Anyway, I drove it to the test station - it drove absolutely wonderfully, not a single rattle or knock anywhere.

Let’s hope it was all worth it….

 

Our survey says….

ONE PASS!!!! I could not believe it!! The MOT guy said it had been looked after and was “a really nice car”. I just looked on in a state of disbelief and shock. One very happy guy with an equally happy Fiesta, WHAT A FUCKING CHAMP.

The fleet together at last! Summer and Winter cars ☺️

Thanks to all of you who’ve liked this little journey blog, she’s good for another 12.

[bunglebus]

Long story short, Vitara needs the head off. Fun times!

[richardmorris]

Dainty French fancy.

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I've had an occasional slow crank 3 times in isolated times in the Xsara over the last week or so... It happens if I leave it for weeks at a time which I understand but it did it Sunday after being left overnight in the very_cold and I'd driven 90 miles Saturday... 

Best stash a bit of dough away incase the battery is on the way out, it's now at least 4 years old, possibly older! 

Or it's fine/something else... 🤔🤞

Sounds like a battery.

[Spottedlaurel]

9 hours ago, beko1987 said:

I've had an occasional slow crank 3 times in isolated times in the Xsara over the last week or so...

Is that rhyming slang?

[Spottedlaurel]

Driveway project completed:

For the last two years, since we extended another bit of the driveway then did various other jobs around the house, this remnant of front garden has been a topsoil stockpile. Due to often having seven cars on the driveway I'd started parking on it but it wasn't great.

On Saturday Master SL and I moved around 3 tonnes of topsoil around to the back garden, first having to hack off the icy crust after a hard frost. And of course I'd compacted the bits I'd been driving over. We now have a pile of soil in the back garden that resembles the burial mound at Sutton Hoo.

Yesterday was rubbish, not the day for mucking about outside, but I made the most of my last day's leave today to dig in the gravel boards, lay membrane and spread most of three bulk bags of stone, and I could finally do this:

The stay to the telegraph pole is a bit of a pain, but if need be I could park these two closer to each edge and squeeze something else in the middle.

MoT is up on the LS400 in a couple of weeks. With the Carina E doing its thing so well, and little desire to take it out on grotty winter roads, it may end up sitting here for a month or two.

[Ghosty]

The new Civic is a gem. The rear arches have a skim of wob, and the bumpers sag slightly, but that's it. And it's to be expected. It's been impeccably maintained with the service book going up to the last oil change at 57k, the owner managing to get it to 58k before dying. It wants for nothing, all the servicing has been done including a cambelt and water pump at 51k, it was wearing four Continental tyres (bit low on tread so I've chucked my spare alloys and Rainsports on) , etc. The last, and only previous keeper change of the car was in 2012, however it was kept in the same garage/carport in central York since at least 2008 until the owner's passing some time recently, as evidenced here. The only other keeper has an address at the bottom of Bromley Common so I can only assume they were related.
It's impeccably clean inside and only needs a quick polish on  the outside. It drives fantasically for a bleed of the brakes.

Absolute steal really. I don't want to sell the Cav though... so I won't, I've got a plan for that .It can stay as a load lugger/tent/people carrier etc. I want to drive it to Cornwall before I'm done with it.

[MJK 24]

Well this looks legit….

 

[stuboy]

54 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

Well this looks legit….

 

i saw that too, and thought who stood back and said yeah looks safe......

[richardmorris]

40 minutes ago, stuboy said:

i saw that too, and thought who stood back and said yeah looks safe......

Possibly people who may or may not travel.

[Bren]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

i saw that too, and thought who stood back and said yeah looks safe......

Toyota looks rotten.

Squash the lot.

[High Jetter]

The one on the recovery...well, isn't quite...

[cort1977]

15 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

Well this looks legit….

 

All extremely dodgy for a 21 mile tow obviously but what are the rules for a quick tow with a rope, say 300m off a roundabout to the nearest layby?  Are there any?  3500kg is the towing weight with a braked trailer, does that apply for a rope tow?

A friend once towed a coach with a Maestro AA van but that was then.

[SiC]

10 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

All extremely dodgy for a 21 mile tow obviously but what are the rules for a quick tow with a rope, say 300m off a roundabout to the nearest layby?  Are there any?  3500kg is the towing weight with a braked trailer, does that apply for a rope tow?

A friend once towed a coach with a Maestro AA van but that was then.

I think that's possibly why they did the thinking emoji. Afaik for emergency recovery to get something to a safe place, using something to pull above it's towing weight is okay (within reason). But I guess short distances would be okay but not longer. The acceptable distance would be something that I guess a court would have to decide if it came to it?

[Rust Collector]

In an ideal world common sense would apply and you wouldn't need to think too hard about regulations, using a smaller vehicle to move a much larger vehicle a short distance carefully so that it's out of danger and in a safe place for onwards recovery by a suitable vehicle would be alright, and using your 4x4 to tow an HGV with another HGV on the back of it to avoid paying for the appropriate method of longer distance recovery wouldn't be... But yet here we are 😅

[Asimo]

This reminds me of when Dad towed his brother's (seized up) VW van with his Vincent motorcycle. Clutch gave up in the end but they got it off the motorway.

[Split_Pin]

50 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

In my home town there is a statue of a legend who once towed a coach with a Maestro AA van.

 

[Floatylight]

24 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

 

A schoolmates Dad was the mechanic for a local coach company, used to tow 53 seater coaches to a place of safety & off the motorway with a Sierra 2.3d estate, it snapped in half in the end, what with towing and having most of a snap of cabinet in the back... his boss tried to replace it with a MK2 Cav 1.6d estate #nodice...

[bigfella2]

I'm surprised and disappointed at the same time that no one has posted the vid of the Clio with a dolly pulling a Renault traffic. Hilarious and frightening simultaneously.

 

[SiC]

22 minutes ago, bigfella2 said:

I'm surprised and disappointed at the same time that no one has posted the vid of the Clio with a dolly pulling a Renault traffic. Hilarious and frightening simultaneously.

 

I think the people videoing that chap are/were on here. 

[Floatylight]

49 minutes ago, bigfella2 said:

I'm surprised and disappointed at the same time that no one has posted the vid of the Clio with a dolly pulling a Renault traffic. Hilarious and frightening simultaneously.

 

Or this classic  

 

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, cort1977 said:

All extremely dodgy for a 21 mile tow obviously but what are the rules for a quick tow with a rope, say 300m off a roundabout to the nearest layby?  Are there any?  3500kg is the towing weight with a braked trailer, does that apply for a rope tow?

A friend once towed a coach with a Maestro AA van but that was then.

Well the highways agency won’t tow something 50 yards with their big 4x4s. They’d rather wait for a tow truck while a 10 mile tail back builds up on the M6.