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[messerschmitt owner]

twenty years ago, I spent £200 getting the wings welded on my Messerschmitt - they went again within a few months and split in the same place. I lived with the split and it has never got worse. I understand the issue but it gives you six months to find a proper decent wing - at the moment I see your car being off the road till it gets the wings sorted and you will miss the entire summer without it.

 

Surely it's better to have them repaired and fitted and accept they're just buying time till you can sort out better replacements.

[trigger]

That's one of the options he gave me, he told me he could bodge them up and set some paint aside for me so i can come back after the summer and get them done again, obviously it will cost me more though!

 

I used to work at the garage who's doing the work when i left school for 4 years and i get on well with him so i know he'll never screw me over.

[messerschmitt owner]

Trigger

 

if he's giving that option - that's the one I'd go for. You can use the car and have the time to save up and find some good wings!

 

Doesn't matter where they are in the country, you know you will get them autoshitelyed up or down the country to you

 

I understand he's being realistic and trying to save you money but you'll lose the fun of driving the car for the summer.

[New POD]

Vulg, if you want I can send a cheque and you can bung me the £ another way (eg cash by recorded delivery)?

 

 

Nobody do internet banking by mobile these days? What is this cash thing ?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

What is a flop on panel? I googled it but only got information about female viagra. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Looks like the Rover of d00m shat another gearbox.

Are there any more modern gearboxes that fit ? People seem to fit 4 speed ZFs out of XJ40s in everything from a Fiat 130 to a Lagonda Rapide. And what about Range Rover/ Discovery boxes, one end would bolt straight on and the transfer box is separate,isn't it?

[derskine]

What is a flop on panel? I googled it but only got information about female viagra. 

 

I think a pattern panel.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Oh, just like a nickname for a shoddy pattern panel so thin it makes Graphene look chunky?  

[Junkman]

Are there any more modern gearboxes that fit ? People seem to fit 4 speed ZFs out of XJ40s in everything from a Fiat 130 to a Lagonda Rapide. And what about Range Rover/ Discovery boxes, one end would bolt straight on and the transfer box is separate,isn't it?

 

Well, if the union of the pipe to the radiator didn't leak, the gearbox would be perfectly fine.

But since it pissed out all the oil, the gearbox is most probably toast.

We'll see tomorrow, but I have little hope.

 

Re. conversion to another box - technically everything is possible. But if the union of the pipe to the radiator leaks, every box will be grilled, no matter how sophisticated it is and where it came from.

[Richard]

Oh, just like a nickname for a shoddy pattern panel so thin it makes Graphene look chunky?  

 

Specifically a nickname for Pop-On panels I think. Pop-On was the biggest pattern panel brand until they went bust about 20 years ago.

[twosmoke300]

And Hadrian. They have gone now too I think

[trigger]

Specifically a nickname for Pop-On panels I think. Pop-On was the biggest pattern panel brand until they went bust about 20 years ago.

 

^ This, It's a cheap pattern panel which never lined up or fitted properly. The trouble with bodging up the old wings for now and sorting them properly in the winter means that I'll have to pay again to get them all painted which i guess will be another £400, seems a waste of money, I might as well do them right the first time.

 

I've been offered a pair of brand new genuine Ford wings for £600 which is daft money but it would get me out of the hole, the only problem is that they are in Manchester and he isn't happy about couriers due to the damage, Manchester is miles away!

[spike60]

I think Hadrian Panels still on the go though I've not dealt with them for years.

[cort16]

They are my mate still gets stuff from them

[messerschmitt owner]

 

I've been offered a pair of brand new genuine Ford wings for £600 which is daft money but it would get me out of the hole, the only problem is that they are in Manchester and he isn't happy about couriers due to the damage, Manchester is miles away!

PM'd

[Richard]

In fairness to Pop-On, their panels were never intended for restoration work, they were made to get hopeless old crocks through another couple of MOTs. They come from the time when Haynes manuals had a section entitled "12:- Application of wob", so ill-fitting pattern panels were actually quite high up the scale.

[fordperv]

I think Hadrian Panels still on the go though I've not dealt with them for years.

Hadrian got bought out by imperial crash repair a couple of years back now, imperial are bastards because they discontinued a lot of the old stuff grrrr

[trigger]

 

The most expensive £600 i've ever spent, I could have bought a decent car for that!

 

BTW Campbell you are a diamond mate!

[cort16]

600 flippin quid!

[ShiteRider]

I dropped it at the garage this morning, because one of the pipes leading to the radiator leaked.

They fixed it and wifey picked it up and drove it until it FTPed in a cloud of smoke due to having pissed the entire oil content of the gearbox onto the A6.

If that box survived, it's a wonder.

That car really is possessed!

[messerschmitt owner]

 

 

The most expensive £600 i've ever spent, I could have bought a decent car for that!

 

BTW Campbell you are a diamond mate!

I did say some one would be able to autoshitely them to London for you!

 

Lucky it was this weekend. Will call him tomorrow to make all the arrangements.

 

Campbell

[philibusmo]

I now own a BMW 325i auto that cost just 50 doubloons more than that pair of wings.

 

More on this event tomorrow because I am knackered.

[trigger]

Thanks yet again Campbell!

 

I now own a BMW 325i auto that cost just 50 doubloons more than that pair of wings.

 

FFS! That doesn't cheer me up at all.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Full credit to you for splashing out and getting it done properly. 

[TagoraSX]

It's official, once funds clear I will be the VERY proud owner of a 1983 Talbot Tagora SX.

[Junkman]

That car really is possessed!

 

Finally someone believes me.

[trigger]

It's official, once funds clear I will be the VERY proud owner of a 1983 Talbot Tagora SX.

 

Yay! Is it a UK car?.

[beko1987]

 

I fixed the broken dash clock in the xm!

[alf892]

Had a bit of a fight with one of the caliper sliders on the driver's side of the Sirion. I really did end up hammering a smaller socket over it, and still had to resort to the impact driver. I don't use it very often, but I'm very glad I own it when it is needed!

 

Of course, the fact that Daihatsu has departed our shores makes getting new slider pins a bit of a challenge. Local motor factors just laughed at me. I think I shall reassemble as best I can and the Sirion will have to be out of use for the time being. Oh well.

 

Didn't that version go on to be a Perodua (?) something or other.............still not a big number of dealers but better?

[Skizzer]

Rover 75 failed to proceed this morning.  Key in ignition, dash lights up, turn key, lights go out again.  Darkness and silence all round.

 

It's prolly just a fuse or something, but it's also due an MOT and another ABS sensor, the rear window is only sealed with gaffer tape and it's overdue a timing belt which, as every schoolboy knows, is a seven hour engine-out job.

 

This will all cost 3-4 times what the car's worth, at a time when I want to reduce the fleet.  I don't want to bridge it, as it is all fixable, but it's pushing its luck.