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[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Still a lot easier than some moderns where you have to take the bumper off.  Or my 75 and Z4 where you have to bugger about through a flap in the inner arch.

I just take the bumper off my 75 for most things

#taboo

[chadders]

Thanks.  No wonder they're noisy if they're at 6,000 feet.

[grogee]

1 hour ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Fortunately, this hits further north so I won't notice it too much. But it is bad, it has been very windy for several days up north and cars have been blown away, seriously, and this is going to get even worse.

Slå ned lukene @Dyslexic Viking

[Ghosty]

My dad and his colleague have tasked me with four vehicle sales to broker. 

- an Elgrand - 2010 onward shape 

- two 2012 Suzuki WagonR Stingrays (kei cars)

-a 2010 M-B S350D L on 140k. 

 

All auto, all imports aside the Merc. 

Anyone on here looking for anything like that? Competitive prices. 

[SiC]

25 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

2010 M-B S350D L on 140k.

@Schaefft @cort16

[Schaefft]

31 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

My dad and his colleague have tasked me with four vehicle sales to broker. 

- an Elgrand - 2010 onward shape 

- two 2012 Suzuki WagonR Stingrays (kei cars)

-a 2010 M-B S350D L on 140k. 

 

All auto, all imports aside the Merc. 

Anyone on here looking for anything like that? Competitive prices. 

S-Class possibly, but as always it needs to stand out from anything else for sale (by price usually).

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

right now there's an Atlas buzzing Scarborough

That might be the one that flew over mine earlier, judging by the track.

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I see that even the military give Grimsby a wide berth.

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I just take the bumper off my 75 for most things

#taboo

I've heard that if you sell an Audi A8 you MUST DECLARE that the front bumper is to be removed should you need to replace a headlight bulb, or anything else 🤣

[RoverFolkUs]

7 hours ago, crad said:

changed a headlight bulb on my dad's mk4 mondeo this morning. why oh why do you have to remove the fucking thing to change a poxy bulb.

15 seconds to pop it out, perfect access, no skin removed from knuckles. Bloody brilliant design idea IMO, I don't get the problem?

Yes it would be nice to just get behind without taking anything apart but that is very rare on any modern due to how crammed everything has to be. Pretty sure it's bumper corner off and headlight out even on a Hyundai i10 to do one of the bulbs..

[richardmorris]

19 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I think each of those beautiful and delicate wing mirrors cost more than my car(s).

Proof that it’s not all glamour round work, we had an email from the management agents this afternoon asking about a car that hasn’t moved for a while. 

It has been reported that there is a vehicle that looks like it hasn’t moved in months, with both windows slightly open and has flat tyres.

 

If this is your vehicle, please can you remove this soonest. The vehicle reg is 'CN06 OX

Ford KA in purple that was out of mot in jan 2021. I can’t remember seeing it, so must be round the corner of the main hanger.

[artdjones]

15 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

15 seconds to pop it out, perfect access, no skin removed from knuckles. Bloody brilliant design idea IMO, I don't get the problem?

Yes it would be nice to just get behind without taking anything apart but that is very rare on any modern due to how crammed everything has to be. Pretty sure it's bumper corner off and headlight out even on a Hyundai i10 to do one of the bulbs..

The Mk 3  Mégane is good. You pull out a strip of metal which secures the back of the light, and is also a 10mm spanner. You use it to undo the two screws on the top front of the lamp. Then the whole assembly slides forward far enough to change bulbs easily.

[crad]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

15 seconds to pop it out, perfect access, no skin removed from knuckles. Bloody brilliant design idea IMO, I don't get the problem?

Yes it would be nice to just get behind without taking anything apart but that is very rare on any modern due to how crammed everything has to be. Pretty sure it's bumper corner off and headlight out even on a Hyundai i10 to do one of the bulbs..

if you're skilled maybe, not when you're cackhanded like (and that corner is a bit out of whack because he hit a deer)

[Metal Guru]

53 minutes ago, artdjones said:

The Mk 3  Mégane is good. You pull out a strip of metal which secures the back of the light, and is also a 10mm spanner. You use it to undo the two screws on the top front of the lamp. Then the whole assembly slides forward far enough to change bulbs easily.

Wasn’t one Megane notorious for having to remove the inner wing and more to change a bulb involving about 3 hours labour?

[artdjones]

49 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Wasn’t one Megane notorious for having to remove the inner wing and more to change a bulb involving about 3 hours labour?

I don't know about other Meganes but the Modus needed the front bumper taking off. In the end I got it down to about half an hour.

[Mrcento]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Wasn’t one Megane notorious for having to remove the inner wing and more to change a bulb involving about 3 hours labour?

A lot of Renaults of that era were.

I was in a service department (Trying to get a safety recall sorted) and there was an old guy that had a Laguna i think it was, collecting his car.

He'd taken it in for 2 bulbs, total cost was £191 For 2 fucking bulbs and the labour.

Mate had the arse Megane, which was the one that was a PITA for the same reasons. but found it was comically easy to rip the front end apart, Was basically 2 bolts and you could just brute force the whole front bumper off in under 30 seconds. You could then do the bulbs from under the crash structure rather than removing all the guards and going in through the wheel arch.

[New POD]

14 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Been a lot of military plane movements around here recently.  On Monday a pair of F-35s came over the house so low that I could almost see the whites of the pilots' eyes.  Then just now an Airbus A400 came howling over on its left wingtip at no more than a couple of hundred feet.  Obviously stepping up preparations for WW3.

BAE Systems are looking desperately for 3500 Engineers.   Most of them at the Salamsbury or Wharton.  Every recruitment agency I've ever dealt with has sent me an email this week, There's a double page advert in The Engineer. 

[chadders]

It appears that the workshare for Tempest is 70% agreed and it will be headquartered in the UK. They're streaking ahead of the Franco German Spanish FCAS where, apparently, the first two are at loggerheads over major issues like technology transfer and workshare.

Just as an aside I went to Warton many years ago to see them about an aeronautical engineering sandwich course degree.

[Dyslexic Viking]

20 hours ago, dome said:

@Dyslexic Viking looks like things are getting exciting weather wise up your way. Hope you're ready for this🫣

Things went well here but there was strong wind this morning and together with snowfall it was almost a blizzard so the driving conditions when I was driving to town early morning today in the dark were not good.

Things didn't go so well up north 

 

Many are without electricity and many roofs were torn off and wind speed of 54.4 ms was measured, I am not intelligent enough to convert that to kmh or mph.

[chadders]

Google is your friend:

54.4 meters per second equals195.84 kilometers per hour

https://convertoctopus.com/54-4-meters-per-second-to-kilometers-per-hour

[Metal Guru]

53 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Things went well here but there was strong wind this morning and together with snowfall it was almost a blizzard so the driving conditions when I was driving to town early morning today in the dark were not good.

Things didn't go so well up north 

 

Many are without electricity and many roofs were torn off and wind speed of 54.4 ms was measured, I am not intelligent enough to convert that to kmh or mph.

As an everyday rough calculation 1 m/s is approx 2 mph. 

[Lankytim]

The Fusion has been parked up for 2 years or so, it’s  been a “spare” car but was never needed. I decided to get it MOTd and either sell or keep it for myself as it’s sat there basically rotting away. It’s been in the family since it was a few years old so it will be a bit of a wrench to get rid of it. 
 

After a quick wash and check of tyre pressures it was delivered to the MOT garage.  The test showed up front brakes, to be expected I guess. The bulb was slightly annoying as I swear it all all working the evening before! I had the bits needed at at home so an hour of tinker time and a retest was scheduled and pass issued. Result! It’ll probably end up parked up for another two years. We’ll see what happens.. it’s at least ready to use.  

Can anyone  identify the reason for the slight mark on the lower wishbone? Only level 10 or above shiters will recognise it’s origins. 

[artdjones]

I was parked having a coffee this morning when a friend with a 2005 Audi A4 1.9PD rang to ask about whether timing tools are really necessary on that engine, as the water pump had failed. I informed him they  most certainly were, and told him that a mutual friend had them. I called by to see what was up later and helped him take the front end off the car. When we took the cover off the water pump had half an inch of play and the belt teeth had worn or been stripped away down to 1mm long, with the whole area full of shredded bits. We timed it up with a kit he had already bought and miraculously it sprang into life and ran fine. I think it had been within a second of disaster, because he had tried to start it up this morning before phoning me and it alreadyhad slipped enough to be a non starter.

[Rod/b]

Started to hear a slight knock from the front end of the F150 the other day, and thought i’d ask the garage to have a look when they service it. Fast forward to today. Up at 6am and 180 mile round trip to Dubai and back, then dropped the truck at the garage. “Probably a drop link or something” I confidently predict. 
 

Not quite. Seems the other excellent* insurance approved garage that fixed* the truck after a slight mishap last year forgot* to torque up the lower arms when they fitted them. 
 

 

[MikeR]

electrictrickery and Shitehalls ?

come on ,it will have electric steering and they cant even get that right ..

Vauxhall reboots one of its worst ever cars as an affordable electric SUV (msn.com)

 

[MJK 24]

After a very very protracted search, I appear to have found the holy grail (in old VW circles) of a decent AAZ engine!

Hoping to have it in the Scirocco, soon!

 

[EspenO]

Ladies and gentlemen, the most norwegian news story ever:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/floating-sauna-rescues-motorists-whose-tesla-plunged-into-oslo-fjord

[Ghosty]

Cav gone to an excited young lad from Fife, on a mad collection mission with some mates that also involved picking a CL500 up from Norwich!

[beko1987]

7 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Cav gone to an excited young lad from Fife, on a mad collection mission with some mates that also involved picking a CL500 up from Norwich!

Was Angus McFife his name? 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

My wife's line manager owns a 40000 mile S-reg Citroen Xsara MK1 that she bought from her neighbour about 4 years ago when he gave up driving. I think it was about £300 or something. 

The car has never been washed inside or out, her husband won't go near it and it's just passed another MOT needing only a bit of welding to the exhaust.

That made my day.