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[stuboy]

Well been too see the rav4... drivers door dent worse in real life.. and as advised underneath not the best see pics... I said thanks for your time..lol

[stuboy]

I'm now the owner the owner of this cr-v ... needs brake pads as bit travel in pedal but does stop.

 

Now time too bugger about removing my private of the galaxy too move it on..

[Sunny Jim]

Looks like we're in for good weather for next weekend's Northern Twixfest/Shitefest

 

[alcyonecorporation]

Saw the ZX being driven by its new owner in traffic near my house. Was surreal to see it fart past. 

[stuboy]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

I'm now the owner the owner of this cr-v ... needs brake pads as bit travel in pedal but does stop.

 

Now time too bugger about removing my private of the galaxy too move it on..

Not much of a collection but here we went..

 

1. Went and said nah to a rav4

2.ate breakfast , poo count 1..

3.went too the red line too see the FiL and his engines..drank a pint of Pepsi max.

4.drove too chatham too checkout the black honda.. transfer payment, cry, put £20 sorry no pez shot.

5. Time too start the swapping of insurance and tax it...

[Burnside]

Didn't go to Cars in the park today, as raining unfortunately. 

So instead have a pic of some American Iron that I spotted this week.

 

[richardmorris]

16 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Saw the ZX being driven by its new owner in traffic near my house. Was surreal to see it fart past. 

They’re really good cars, good diesel engine and mostly resistant to rust. 

[richardmorris]

15 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Not much of a collection but here we went..

 

1. Went and said nah to a rav4

2.ate breakfast , poo count 1..

3.went too the red line too see the FiL and his engines..drank a pint of Pepsi max.

4.drove too chatham too checkout the black honda.. transfer payment, cry, put £20 sorry no pez shot.

5. Time too start the swapping of insurance and tax it...

That’s one hell of a coffee grinder.

[Schaefft]

9 minutes ago, Burnside said:

Didn't go to Cars in the park today, as raining unfortunately. 

So instead have a pic of some American Iron that I spotted this week.

 

Spotted it's successor today:

 

[alcyonecorporation]

Went to see The Killers with a friend who was in town a few weeks ago. 

[vulgalour]

That Brightside place looks very inviting.

Thunderstorm stopped play today on the Princess.  I was ready to quit when it did though, so no harm there.  I've got the structural interior brace repaired so the sill and inner rear arch are reunited.  I've also got the MASSIVE repair patch tacked in place and spotwelded to the interior brace so structural rigidity has been reinstated.  The scary bit of the job is done now, everything else is just a case of lining bits up and glueing them on with the welder.  Nothing seems to have shifted at all, the doors both open and shut nicely still.  Hopefully it gets easier from here since the most complicated bit is out of the way now.

[comfortablynumb]

54 year old 504 wins rally, and then drives home again 😁

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/geordie-duo-win-rally-beijing-31948930

[Marshall2810]

Dad's got a new old integra thing which he says he can get in and out of. Looks clean enough so hes getting it serviced and a cambelt change done.

He hadn't decided if he'll move the big lexus on yet. 

[loserone]

That is delicious.

[alcyonecorporation]

17 hours ago, richardmorris said:

They’re really good cars, good diesel engine and mostly resistant to rust. 

Yeah, that one was hiding a lot of rot in the axle mounts that none of us caught. Sill turned out not to be an issue: that was heated up and whacked back into shape.  
The tax, alas, remains the tax. 

I've kept in touch over Facebook: he loves it to bits and is after a Volcane to sit alongside it. 

Having owned various examples of both, I still think of the hatches, the 306 is the better car. ZXs look deeply sad sack until at least Volcane spec, and their dorky rear benches don't split/fold flat, though I'll concede that the ZX's interior has more storage space (and has aged better) than the 306's. I used that car to carry a lot of shit and the back seat got on my tits, as clever as it was a piece of engineering. 

I'd probably have a ZX estate over a 306 estate for the ultimate XUD doom car, as you get the more practical dash/cabin with a 'correct' rear seat. 

That guff about them 'turning faster because of the deformable bushes' is also bunk:  the majority of 306s had them, too. ZXs are keener to turn in owing to the angle of their rear arms, set at 0mm as opposed to the (can't remember minus something) setting on 306s. 

[richardmorris]

11 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Yeah, that one was hiding a lot of rot in the axle mounts that none of us caught. Sill turned out not to be an issue: that was heated up and whacked back into shape.  
The tax, alas, remains the tax. 

I've kept in touch over Facebook: he loves it to bits and is after a Volcane to sit alongside it. 

Having owned various examples of both, I still think of the hatches, the 306 is the better car. ZXs look deeply sad sack until at least Volcane spec, and their dorky rear benches don't split/fold flat, though I'll concede that the ZX's interior has more storage space (and has aged better) than the 306's. I used that car to carry a lot of shit and the back seat got on my tits, as clever as it was a piece of engineering. 

I'd probably have a ZX estate over a 306 estate for the ultimate XUD doom car, as you get the more practical dash/cabin with a 'correct' rear seat. 

That guff about them 'turning faster because of the deformable bushes' is also bunk:  the majority of 306s had them, too. ZXs are keener to turn in owing to the angle of their rear arms, set at 0mm as opposed to the (can't remember minus something) setting on 306s. 

Weren't they marketed as having passive rear steering?

[alcyonecorporation]

Yes, and? 
Doesn't change the fact that 306s still used broadly the same beams, wonder bushes and all, with slight alterations, the key of which was arm angle. 

The way that AS goes on about this you'd think ZXs were winning grands prix. The actual difference is probably fractions of a femtosecond through a bend. 




 

[loserone]

11 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

The way that AS goes on about

Jesus Jon just lay off the crap man

[Markeh]

1 hour ago, Marshall2810 said:

Dad's got a new old integra thing which he says he can get in and out of. Looks clean enough so hes getting it serviced and a cambelt change done.

He hadn't decided if he'll move the big lexus on yet. 

I seem to recall a crime documentary many years back where they were using a fleet of these to smuggle I think gold? across the border via the ferries - turned out they were hiding it beneath various body panels and in the chassis or something - I can't find any trace of this online so I could be talking utter crap but it was definitely this shape of Integra!

[Schaefft]

1 hour ago, Marshall2810 said:

Dad's got a new old integra thing which he says he can get in and out of. Looks clean enough so hes getting it serviced and a cambelt change done.

He hadn't decided if he'll move the big lexus on yet. 

That looks super clean, I'm surprised how many of these have somehow survived (while later Integras are as rare as they come, I guess Honda stopped selling them here?).

[alcyonecorporation]

Please, for the love of god, rustproof that Integra to within an inch of its life. 

 

[Split_Pin]

I've been having a problem with a wet driver's footwell in the A4 recently. The red one had the same issue but clearing the scuttle drain under the battery solved it.

This time though, nothing seemed to work. I tried the above, also completely removing the ECU and wiring junction and re sealing it, checking a hidden drain hole under the hood lid, checking the windscreen pillar drain holes and everything was clear but still the issue persisted. 

The rear footwell wasn't wet so I had initially discounted that. However someone had pointed out that it takes a lot of water under the thick carpet foam insulation before it s noticeable at the surface, a bit like a water table. The front footwells are the lowest point in the car so I then thought maybe the rear footwell was actually wet but it was all running down into the lower front one before it became noticeable. 

I had another prod at the rear foorwell and it is in fact ever so slightly damp right at the sill.

A common point for water ingress is the rear glass window becoming detached from the hood and sure enough, right at the offside lower corner it had - this is looking down from the top:

Some Sikaflex, and I hope I have solved the problem:

I shoved in a big roll of kitchen paper to press the glass upwards.

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Yes, and? 
Doesn't change the fact that 306s still used broadly the same beams, wonder bushes and all, with slight alterations, the key of which was arm angle. 

The way that AS goes on about this you'd think ZXs were winning grands prix. The actual difference is probably fractions of a femtosecond through a bend. 




 

I was only asking, calm down.

[stuboy]

Dvla relieved me of 80 quid to remove private plate off the galaxy and put on retention, cancelled road tax and insurance and await v5 to then put on marketplace spares or repair and await swaps for ps1 and pet kittens 

[JJ0063]

End of the road for Mother JJ’s Corsa C.  She’s owned it since 2009 and it’s been hanging on each year. MOT today, failed on a ball joint and a bulb… she always has it serviced at the same time as the MOT so he took all 4 wheels off to clean up the brakes etc and found the rear beam rotten - hidden when the wheel is on so wasn’t picked up on the MOT. 
 

Mums decided to scrap it as the bill would be more than the cars worth. Emptied it out and taken it to mine where it’ll sit until I get a price from one of the scrappies or banger boys. 

[Boycie]

8 hours ago, Marshall2810 said:

Dad's got a new old integra thing which he says he can get in and out of. Looks clean enough so hes getting it serviced and a cambelt change done.

He hadn't decided if he'll move the big lexus on yet. 

That looks very tidy , as it's 80s jap retro it's only going to go up in value 

[alcyonecorporation]

apologies

i was tired of the vacuum cleaner chebbing me in the head because legs a lordy kept falling on it

find her if you can 

[alcyonecorporation]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I was only asking, calm down.

Sorry, another shit day. 

[loserone]

Hope dismembering a mannequin made you feel better.

 

Actually.  I hope you feel better, and the dismemberment is unrelated.

[alcyonecorporation]

Hey, no, it was good (the end of the day, not the mannequin dismemberment). 

It made space for the vacuum cleaner and because I 'improved' the garage, this made me feel better. 

I had a little bit of money left over from the Leonard brake job savefest, so I shashed £20 of it into the SVX's tank and went for a bit of an drive. 



The Fens can pass for France if you know where to look (and avoid the smells from your phone camera sensor melting down after you asked it to shoot at dusk).