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[Lord Sterling]

Off to work Monday evening so I took then opportunity to change the cars places. Due to the poor parking situation around here, I often swap the cars late at night/early morning so no one comes and sweeps into the spaces whilst the cars are out. Both cars are parked at relatively opposite-ish ends of the town (a lot less than a mile from each other).

I thought that waking the Vectra out of it's several-day slumber might have made it quite grumbly. It was anything but. It started and sounded like I'd just parked it up yesterday. The coolant, whilst very low, didn't show up any warnings. The oil was all still there and happy. 

The only issues were I'd left the handbrake on so some light binding was heard which cleared up before it got to it's other space. And the passenger-side front light decided to that it no longer needed to be a light.

GR8.

I hate jobs like this. It's fiddly and as it's a tad cold at night, my nose decided it wanted to run. 

I changed the bulb to discover that the new bulb bluey-white and the other bulb was still orange-tinted. So, I broke out the other bulb and replaced it.

The bulbs weren't as difficult to replace as I thought. Once you understand how the clips work, it's a walk in the park. It took me less than 10 mins to replace both bulbs.

The problem is, you forget the next time they need replacing.

Now I have 2 identical bulbs with identical colours, as it should be.

On the way back I spotted this package of 90s-ness:

The hoarder side of me really wanted to bring this home and save it. I reckon it probably only needed a tad bit of fettling but whilst I have space, the idea of me actually doing anything with this just wasn't realistic. 

[barefoot]

The shadowy figure behind the UK's largest Comb & Paper festival, author of the staggeringly popular 'barefoot chef' column and editor of both Volkswagen Camper & commercial and VWBUS T4&5+ magazines is thrilled to reveal that his second book will be available on 'the Amazons' by the end of this week. 

Amongst more than a millionty tips, you too could learn how to pitch up a campervan; from levelling blocks to relaxing with drinks & amuse bouche in less than seven minutes. Change your approach to camping life for just fifteen quid.

I'll post up a link just as soon as it goes live

[stuboy]

Sunny frive too Gillingham to carry out a driving assessment, have some exciting views from the car park

[Datsuncog]

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Yup, that time of the year already...

Gave the Corolla a Five-Star Luxury Deep Valet before bringing it over to the MOT station.

By which I mean I sprayed the very worst-looking bits with Cillit Bang, rubbed at it with kitchen roll and then scraped the biggest bits of moss off, before chucking the stagnant contents of a watering can over it.

Concours finish, you'll agree.

But will it be enough to please the testers...?

😬

[Split_Pin]

20 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

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Yup, that time of the year already...

Gave the Corolla a Five-Star Luxury Deep Valet before bringing it over to the MOT station.

Definitely didn't*just spray the worst bits with Cillit Bang, rub it with kitchen roll and then scrape the worst of the moss off, before chucking the stagnant contents of a watering can over it.

But will it be enough...?

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[Datsuncog]

Booooooo.

Ah well, a bit of welding on the nearside drop sill's not too bad for a twenty-five year old hack that's received not very much in the way of cossetting...

I'll get onto a lad I know in the morning.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Ah well

Please tell me that sounds like 'Ach well'...and then a brief pause.

[Datsuncog]

4 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Please tell me that sounds like 'Ach well'...and then a brief pause.

We're all pretty much Ulster Scots down the east coast of Norn Iron, so that'd be about right...

Certainly not scunnered about the fail; I had the offside pre-emptively welded up two years ago, so I'm not surprised the nearside could do with the same treatment.

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, barefoot said:

The shadowy figure behind the UK's largest Comb & Paper festival, author of the staggeringly popular 'barefoot chef' column and editor of both Volkswagen Camper & commercial and VWBUS T4&5+ magazines is thrilled to reveal that his second book will be available on 'the Amazons' by the end of this week. 

Amongst more than a millionty tips, you too could learn how to pitch up a campervan; from levelling blocks to relaxing with drinks & amuse bouche in less than seven minutes. Change your approach to camping life for just fifteen quid.

I'll post up a link just as soon as it goes live

Argh! “To Campervan” it’s not a f@cking verb ffs!

Similarly “To bingo” and even worse “to Butlins”

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Please tell me that sounds like 'Ach well'...and then a brief pause.

Datsuncog, earlier. 

 

[comfortablynumb]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Argh! “To Campervan” it’s not a f@cking verb ffs!

Similarly “To bingo” and even worse “to Butlins”

Cinched it? 🤣

[barefoot]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Argh! “To Campervan” it’s not a f@cking verb ffs!

Similarly “To bingo” and even worse “to Butlins”

 

32 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Cinched it? 🤣

All ideas for a better title welcomed, even if they're grammatically wrong. I'm only trying to earn a few quid.

[comfortablynumb]

Think my suggestion might get you in more trouble @barefoot, it's already taken 😄

[chadders]

4 hours ago, barefoot said:

 

All ideas for a better title welcomed, even if they're grammatically wrong. I'm only trying to earn a few quid.

I'd leave it as it is.

It's succinct and you're not answering an 'O' level English paper.

[Royale80]

Carried on with rear ABS replacement on the 75. Sensor stuck- no suprise- so took the hub off and bashed it out. 

Rust cleared up and vactanned.

Put it back together in the week and hope for the best!

[Split_Pin]

51 minutes ago, Royale80 said:

Carried on with rear ABS replacement on the 75. Sensor stuck- no suprise- so took the hub off and bashed it out. 

Rust cleared up and vactanned.

Put it back together in the week and hope for the best!

Nice condition backplate, they are normally rotten by now.

[stuboy]

Firstly BiL is in Paris and spotted a sport R5.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/alpine/a290

 

Secondly I spotted this bmw and thought police training vehicle for pursuit.  ???

[Royale80]

3 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Nice condition backplate, they are normally rotten by now.

This car seems to be in quite good condition body wise- underneath is good. Fingers crossed for mot in a week or so.

[Split_Pin]

Came up nice after a polish and wax. Did all the black trim as well. I quickly did the 75 last year but apart from that I haven't done this in ages. Nice for a lovely spring evening 😊

 

[SiC]

4 hours ago, stuboy said:

Firstly BiL is in Paris and spotted a sport R5.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/alpine/a290

 

Secondly I spotted this bmw and thought police training vehicle for pursuit.  ???

Wouldn't be a police vehicle with that illegal number plate spacing. 

[brownnova]

Sister in law’s family have a farm, she invited the kids up to go up and see lambs.

I was also entertained by things on the farm.

And an incredibly algael Rangey

[Erebus]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Came up nice after a polish and wax. Did all the black trim as well. I quickly did the 75 last year but apart from that I haven't done this in ages. Nice for a lovely spring evening 😊

 

That looks fantastic.  What polish and wax did you use? 

[stuboy]

15 minutes ago, brownnova said:

when you towing it home?

[JJ0063]

Going to view this in the morning for Mrs JJ

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286491127432?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=bVDFNagaRwO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=IaiIXmW2Rkq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

SDI but luckily she’s not a speed demon.

[Split_Pin]

21 minutes ago, Erebus said:

That looks fantastic.  What polish and wax did you use? 

Just good old Autoglym Super Resin for the polish. For the wax I used Fuso99Soft. It really does last for 12 months on the car as well!

[wuvvum]

40 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Sister in law’s family have a farm, she invited the kids up to go up and see lambs.

I was also entertained by things on the farm.

And an incredibly algael Rangey

Can't remember the last time I saw a Bedford TM in the metal [oxide].  Fantastic.

[High Jetter]

43 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Sister in law’s family have a farm

Are you young Macdonald then? 🤣

[Popsicle]

59 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Going to view this in the morning for Mrs JJ

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286491127432?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=bVDFNagaRwO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=IaiIXmW2Rkq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

SDI but luckily she’s not a speed demon.

It says speed limited to 73mph, waste of money doing that on an sdi, they're on about 3.5k revs at 70😂.

Looks a tidy van though JJ, hope its a good un for you.

[wuvvum]

I did think the same actually when I saw that.  Bit like my C Class being limited to 155 - it probably only has about 5mph more to give anyway.  They are decent little vans though those Caddys.

[Wibble]

Some of you may know that I’m on a course at the moment with WBAC. Young lad on the same course was chatting last night and his late Grandad was involved in the design of Concorde. He got a call from his mum today, she’s found original blue prints rolled up in the loft and still sealed and thought she’d drop them into a charity shop. FUCKING NO! I said, get them to auction, but the right auction. He was only asking us older guys last night about Concorde , as he’s never seen it flying.