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[wesacosa]

Took the XM to Super Touring Power this weekend. Great to get out in it for first time since February 

Some really nice cars both in the pre 2000s car park and part of the official display and race, although not quite as many as last year.  Sadly there was an bad accident in the first of the 4 super touring races which did extensive damage to an ex works 97 ITCC BMW driven by Steve Soper and a 99 BTCC Primera and led to the two other Primeras being withdrawn. A number of other cars broke down too leaving the field very sparse

Some picture highlights 

 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Sunny Jim said:

Doing artist transport at Glastonbury with The Rainbow Girls from California.

 

Good gig? Watched some, Shania Twain miming & Cyndi Lauper were lowlights for us

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, wesacosa said:

Took the XM to Super Touring Power this weekend. Great to get out in it for first time since February 

Some really nice cars both in the pre 2000s car park and part of the official display and race, although not quite as many as last year.  Sadly there was an bad accident in the first of the 4 super touring races which did extensive damage to an ex works 97 ITCC BMW driven by Steve Soper and a 99 BTCC Primera and led to the two other Primeras being withdrawn. A number of other cars broke down too leaving the field very sparse

Some picture highlights 

 

Some class kit there! Sorry to hear about Soper & the Nissans.

[HMC]

^^ looks like a great event, instantly reminds me of 1 man “going for first” which i can remeber watching on grandstand……

 

[wesacosa]

9 minutes ago, HMC said:

^^ looks like a great event, instantly reminds me of 1 man “going for first” which i can remeber watching on grandstand……

 

John Cleland and Steve Soper were both there, John wasn't racing though. They both get on well now and were interviewed on stage together. I think John realises that whilst he lost that championship the interest it gained in the BTCC was a big part of the growth of both the series and his career & bank balance over the next few years 

 

[GeordieInExile]

My Volvo DEC is now with Volvo Diagnostic down in Romford, hopefully to be fixed and cure my pesky dashboard warning light. Cambelt and aux belt done, exhaust welded up to get rid of the slight blow from the sleeve. All being well, by the end of this week I will have a fixed and ready for MOT XC70...

[richardmorris]

[MorrisItalSLX]

14 hours ago, wesacosa said:

@tooSavvy

[tooSavvy]

@MorrisItalSLX... Spanking Spot, marrer 👍😎

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[tooSavvy]

J424LFY was taxed from June...

Was on SORN for some while

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[richardmorris]

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

2cv doh

[The Vicar]

Is there any greater sense of pride than having a “we buy scrap cars” leaflet put on your car? Happened to me today in Rome:

This thing will take me to my grave!

[richardmorris]

 

https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/ch24/lots/r0064-1929-bentley-6litre-sedanca-de-ville-by-hj-mulliner/

 

it was my favourite today.

[mercedade]

16 hours ago, wesacosa said:

Took the XM to Super Touring Power this weekend. Great to get out in it for first time since February 

Some really nice cars both in the pre 2000s car park and part of the official display and race, although not quite as many as last year.  Sadly there was an bad accident in the first of the 4 super touring races which did extensive damage to an ex works 97 ITCC BMW driven by Steve Soper and a 99 BTCC Primera and led to the two other Primeras being withdrawn. A number of other cars broke down too leaving the field very sparse

Some picture highlights 

 

Absolutely Grade A stuff, instantly transporting me back to when I Got Into Cars.

[barefoot]

2 hours ago, The Vicar said:

Is there any greater sense of pride than having a “we buy scrap cars” leaflet put on your car? Happened to me today in Rome:

Well, that's pretty cool, but I got into my Scirocco earlier today and a young woman asked me if it was the same sort of car as was featured in Knight Rider?  - I can just about cope with Back to the Future, but Knight Rider for fuck's sake.

[stuboy]

21 hours ago, stuboy said:

Ongoing micra pre mot failure tommorow of future sister in-laws micra.. 

I looked underneath to see the exhaust has a small blow..lol ..and while sorting out the side light I got the bulb a bit brighter adding extra earth but not mot passable, she had another bulb and same, so we swapped bulb from other side and problem moved over... hmm ok let's look at the bulbs... her boyfriend had brought 24v dual filament bulbs, so some of her light problems were where he'd try to fix it, and I said I'm not touching it where he's been messing... until now... also high brake light bulb was blown, windscreen washers didn't meet the screen, headlamps cloudy, so I cleaned them a bit...so less to write on the mot failure sheet tomorrow.. ha ha ha

Some how it passed an mot...

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

2cv 100 quid tonite m9

[stuboy]

This was near work and sounded awesome

[puddlethumper]

Drove the rig from Worcester down to Weymouth this afternoon and the number of drivers who don't seem to know how to use a slip road coming onto a motorway. One bloke in a Merc drove alongside me on the slip road till it ran out and he had to brake to get behind me. I couldn't move into the middle lane because no room and I'll be honest I wasn't going to brake for him as there was shit loads of room in front of me. All he had to do was put his foot down a bit. Then he came round in lane 2 and started shaking his fist at me. Ffs, wanker signal for you, ya tosser. People don't seem to realise the concept of a slip road is to SLIP INTO THE FUCKIN TRAFFIC. There was a couple of others who slipped in alright. 5ft from my front bumper and about the same distance to the car that had joined in front of them who was about the same distance from the arse end of a truck.

[wuvvum]

On 29/06/2024 at 23:02, RoverFolkUs said:

A DTI guage would be a better way of investing £30 into diagnosing the issue, that way you'll have it available for future brake judder concerns, rather than a useless single brake disc

https://www.amazon.co.uk/indicator-gauge-magnetic-stand-TE107TE108/dp/B01HR4E1A6/ref=asc_df_B01HR4E1A6/

Well it's a good job I didn't buy that single brake disc because it would indeed have been useless - turns out my car has the sport package and as such the front discs are 345mm rather than 330.

Oddly the larger discs are significantly cheaper on Autodoc than the smaller ones, so I'm going to order a pair in.

[Snake Charmer]

34 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Well it's a good job I didn't buy that single brake disc because it would indeed have been useless - turns out my car has the sport package and as such the front discs are 345mm rather than 330.

Oddly the larger discs are significantly cheaper on Autodoc than the smaller ones, so I'm going to order a pair in.

What Mercedes are those discs for? I was looking at an ML55 today and wondering if the discs and calipers would fit a W211.

[wuvvum]

They're for a W203 C Class but they also fit certain models of the CLK and SLK.  Some M Class variants do use 345mm discs but those appear to have a different offset.

[Rust Collector]

After all of the struggles with this thing as of late, it was quite pleasant to finally be able to use it for my commute to work!

The ride is currently a bit harsh though, so my future looks like it will involve some time and money spent changing spheres.

[egg]

From Instagram. Not an Corsa, imported from down under!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UnjA9I911/

[Wibble]

15 minutes ago, egg said:

From Instagram. Not an Corsa, imported from down under!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UnjA9I911/

Must have had room left in the shipping container and just thought, fucking lob that on as well. Otherwise why the fuck would you pay to import that??!

[grogee]

On 30/06/2024 at 20:51, Sunny Jim said:

Doing artist transport at Glastonbury with The Rainbow Girls from California.

 

How was the site this year Jim, loads of mud or not too bad? 

[Sunny Jim]

It's dust not mud on my boots and the buggy! That's two dry ones in a row. I drive the buggy round backstage production routes and the site is vast. The crowds are something else though, overwhelming for a solitary bloke from North Wales! I'll maybe write up a review of the acts I saw in the Live Music thread 

[vulgalour]

Tonight I learned, purely out of a moment of curiosity, that I could have avoided all the nonsense of booking train tickets months in advance and tolerating train travel by simply hiring a car.  Having done the journey I'm not sure the train really was any less stressful than driving, it certainly wasn't cheaper!  For the next trek down south I reckon I'll be hiring a car, just something small and basic with zero upgrades.  I could take my own car, I just don't trust it yet for long distance work, there's lots of little bits of deffered maintenance I need to attend to first.

It's also an apparently affordable option for when I need to go anywhere and be discreet, something that is completely impossible with my current mode of transport.

[High Jetter]

39 minutes ago, Sunny Jim said:

I'll maybe write up a review of the acts I saw in the Live Music thread 

A report from Our Man On Location would be great, even if it's dry land.