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[horriblemercedes]

22 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Snap! 

Love mine.. Only got as a stop gap 18m and 25k miles ago...

Those are the best kind of cars. Three years ago, I was about to start a new job which meant a 150 mile per day round trip, so I bought a BMW 320d estate on here to use until I moved closer to the job. I moved a while ago but the BMW stays. Just passed MOT again on 268k miles. I think it'll stay until it is time for the bridge 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

My old MGB GT

Were you tempted?

[wuvvum]

6 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Were you tempted?

Not really.  I rarely buy back a car I've previously owned.  Plus I already have too many projects on the go. 

[wuvvum]

The North Sea at Walcott at 10:30pm this evening. 

[High Jetter]

Nice. The shepherds will be pleased.

[davehedgehog31]

Not been active on here for quite a while, despite some car movements there's not been anything particularly happening with them other than using and enjoying. My posting tailed off around October last year, so an update of comings and goings since then.

In October I sadly inherited a car, a 2018 Kia Cee'd Estate in 1.6 diesel flavour. It's a really good AN CAR, really just about the perfect form factor for a car as far as I'm concerned, big enough to do 99% of everything you could ever need, but compact enough to never be a pain to park etc. Other than slightly disappointing fuel economy compared to some similar cars I've owned, it's been great. It has been pretty much appropriated in the style of the British Museum by Miss Hedgehog on account of it's featherweight steering and general presentable modern-ness.

Once it had been fully commandeered, it meant her C30 was for the chop, it exited to @gm, a painless transaction as always after only a short period dealing with the finest minds of the West of Scotland on Gumtree.

Another exit was the GSA, I had bought this project with the best of intentions, but found my time and motivation sorely lacking, as I was in a "too many cars" situation it was decided to move it on.

Having not learned my lesson, in late March I picked up this very cheap, low mileage Kia Cee'd with a brief MOT fail list. I quickly set to work on it and a mere three months later it still sits in bits under my car port, should really get the finger out.

In another incoming, I bought this Peugeot RCZ 2.0 HDi from @Jazoli of this parish, a top seller. Other than a wheel balance it has simply been used and enjoyed. I'd always fancied one of these and when his well looked after example with the diesel engine came up my jimmies were suitably rustled. This was very much a heart over head decision, but it has actually turned out to be a very sound and actually reasonably sensible purchase. It's comfy, fun on the twisties and economical to run. It was bizarrely cheap for me to insure too. Cracking car and my son absolutely loves it, christening it the "race car". It's definitely one of those cars you can't help but look back at, it's an amazing design. 

Have had a boomerang moment with my old Kangoo, having sold it to @Jim Bell several months previous my dad decided he was after a small van and he bought it from him. It recently shat it's power steering pump and my dad not being particularly mechanically minded and fancying something a bit newer replaced it and bequeathed the Kangoo back to me. It has AC and as a consequence has some god-awful electro-mechanical power steering setup hidden down behind the front bumper. Pumps are ££££.

The two non-movers on the fleet have been the Lexus and Skoda. The Fabia has been kind of replaced by the Kia, but I can't bring myself to part with it as it's such a well sorted little thing, even the AC is ice cold. Lexus continues to do as it does, 40mpg in total serenity with tons of performance on tap and a cracking stereo, I don't see it going anywhere for a long, long time.

As it stands a six car household is at least one too many. The grey Kia was really meant as a flip so I just need to get that finished off and some degree of equilibrium can be restored. Finding it quite hard to motivate myself to finish a car I don't particularly want to drive at the end of it though, cars are definitely a hobby for me rather than a profit making exercise which is just as well!

 

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Nice. The shepherds will be pleased.

Red sky at night, sheep on fire 🔥 

[Supernaut]

Good to see you back @davehedgehog31

[egg]

Sprayster have a clearance sale on - just picked up some useful* odds and ends including a spray can of Mondeo Rimini Blue and some white grease.

Good for mini-shite painters who use rattle cans too.

https://www.sprayster.com/product-tag/clearance/

 

[High Jetter]

I'm pretty sure my van has OMGHGF as it's overheating and over-pressurizing after only a few miles. Have dropped the coolant and re-filled a few times, going to give it another go now. Are the £12 testers on ebay worth it for a second opinion? Anyone got a cheepie van for sale or loan while I get this sorted?

[HMC]

Taken just now from my living room….

 

[auntiemaryscanary]

58 minutes ago, HMC said:

Taken just now from my living room….

 

Wirksworth is Derbyshire. Might not on be on time for the quarry shift in the morning!

[egg]

I was being a bus wanker yesterday and saw this in Margate while being talked at by a fellow traveller. Not sure if it's a proper old skool factor or not? Seems more wheels and audio. As Herne Bay has lost both of ours in the last decade, always keen to see an indie clinging on to life.

[gm]

quick, run down and chuck some tarmac in that pothole !

[ruffgeezer]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I'm pretty sure my van has OMGHGF as it's overheating and over-pressurizing after only a few miles. Have dropped the coolant and re-filled a few times, going to give it another go now. Are the £12 testers on ebay worth it for a second opinion? Anyone got a cheepie van for sale or loan while I get this sorted?

Nope, I can't remember who I was talking to, but they had a customer use one of those and diagnosed a faulty hesdgasket - when tested with a more expensive bit of kit it passed.   They then used the cheap kit on a few other cars in the workshop they all failed too.

[egg]

The i10 got scraped back in September 2022, at the time I just rubbed the offending car's paint off and left it, as it's plastic. Woman owned up, I said give me £20 for paint and we'll forget about it. And to her credit she did.

Today is so nice I just chucked some high build primer on, painted it and clear coated. Quick and dirty job - it's not a Mondeo after all! There's a couple of drips, but it doesn't matter - the rest of the bumpers are a state too!

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, HMC said:

Taken just now from my living room….

 

Don't think I've ever seen a tracked steamroller before!

[HMC]

Just now, wuvvum said:

Don't think I've ever seen a tracked steamroller before!

oh yeah, i didn’t realise. I noticed the L plate  more!

[wuvvum]

Or is that a drive chain driving twin rear "axles"?  Difficult to tell.

[HMC]

2 hours ago, gm said:

quick, run down and chuck some tarmac in that pothole !

Thats quite a topic round here. People have been aerosoling penises around larger ones in the belief it encourages their repair.

[High Jetter]

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

Or is that a drive chain driving twin rear "axles"?  Difficult to tell.

The last pic shows a roller so yes, I reckon one rear axle drives the other by chain(s)

 

[egg]

We need to go back to horses, all this modern heavy steam tech causing damage to our roads.....

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

Nope, I can't remember who I was talking to, but they had a customer use one of those and diagnosed a faulty hesdgasket - when tested with a more expensive bit of kit it passed.   They then used the cheap kit on a few other cars in the workshop they all failed too.

Thanks, I had a feeling that might be the consensus.

[JJ0063]

Just grabbed another trailer off marketplace for £60, electrics don’t work - luckily I had my board and a load of cable ties! 

This trailer is tiny and an arse to reverse as can’t even see it in the mirrors!

[Mally]

Always unhitch to reverse if you can't see it. I've damaged a few cars by forgetting it was on.

[richardmorris]

Driving back down the a 34 from oxford there were a couple of droop snout firenzas going north.

[vulgalour]

One more job application rejection letter to add to the pile.

Tomorrow's job interview will probably lead to the same, I'm not deluding myself on that score.  Feedback is always that I interviewed well but there was a more suitable candidate, whatever that actually means.  Just love being second-best all the time, it's a great feeling.

I feel like the LDV Cub of employees.

[mintwth]

The joys of a Megane RS225......this week I have mostly been replacing the washer motor and the driver's window temic.

Someone had clearly been inside the driver's door before. Most of the clips on the back of the door card are snapped or mangled and two of the four attachment screws were rattling around in the bottom of the door instead of being screwed in. Wondered why that door sometimes rattled. 

Also discovered from a trip to the scrappy that it's far easier to get to the temic on a Scenic. 

[lesapandre]

Out and about in France today - enjoy some spots on a French Sunday. First good weather without rain this month.

[High Jetter]

Love that 304