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[wesacosa]

cleaned up ok. a bit of paint fade and swirls and scratches but nothing horrific. A polish should help even more

next up the inside 

[Wibble]

17 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

cleaned up ok. a bit of paint fade and swirls and scratches but nothing horrific. A polish should help even more

next up the inside 

I hope you wore gloves driving that, it looks minging!

[wesacosa]

Just now, Wibble said:

I hope you wore gloves driving that, it looks minging!

I've not done it yet!

[Wibble]

1 minute ago, wesacosa said:

I've not done it yet!

I can see that!😆

[wesacosa]

Just now, Wibble said:

I can see that!😆

ah sorry I misread your message I thought you said gloves when cleaning and not driving 

[BL Bloke]

The Rover passed it's MOT with a few advisories. 😃 

[comfortablynumb]

11 hours ago, Wibble said:

hope you wore gloves driving that, it looks minging

That's nothing, you should see the inside of my cars, or maybe not 🤮

[MrT]

17 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Good day. >1000 miles on waste veg oil and the auld Merc made it to the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart.

Where was the An22 (ASCC/NATO reporting name 'Cock'), together with the Mil8 'Hip' , Mil24 'Hind D' , Aero Commander, what I think is a Kamov Ka25 'Hormone' and a bit of an F15 visible.

[Rustybullethole]

There's always a Maccys chip.

 

[jonathan_dyane]

Note (probably mainly to my future self).

If you have a B5 Passat (or most probably any VAG shit from that era, certainly Golfs and Octavia's) with a deadlocked shut back door you can make a hole in the door as per picture and undo a torx bolt from the lock which will disengage the locking mechanism and allow the door to be opened to replace or repair the lock.

Much less destructive than I feared would be necessary, I even got the door card out without wrecking it

[Spottedlaurel]

After it spent several months at the garage getting a recored radiator and almost full set of new coolant and heater hoses, plus new plugs which made it run much better, for various reasons I haven't used the Laurel very much. Also hasn't helped it being buried under a pile of coats and other stuff which got chucked on top of it when I started work on another room in the house. Slightly ashamed to find it'd only done 200 miles since turning over 100,000 last September.

Finally made time to extract it this morning and put it to 'an car' use, popping into town and collecting eggs on the way home.

[Snake Charmer]

Trip to Poole last night with the missus from Heathrow to look at a Mercedes S204. She took it for a spin round the block and decided it was for her despite being an automatic. This will be replacing her trusty MkIV Golf the grandchildren have outgrown.

Trusting seller let us take it with just a deposit, l was expecting to go back in the week! 🙂

[HMC]

i have bought a £500 city bug

DD tax is 1.70 a month 😂

[wuvvum]

The second set of new (and incredibly thin) HT leads for the Toyota arrived today, and I fitted them after work - the plug leads went on OK with a bit of buggering about, and with a bit of precision* modification involving a screwdriver I was able to connect the two coil leads together and get a connection 'twixt coil and distributor cap.

Somewhat to my surprise it fired up first time and ran fine - it's obviously going to need a more permanent solution for the coil lead but at least it's mobile again.  Remains to be seen whether the intermittent misfire has been cured though...

[EightMegs]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

The second set of new (and incredibly thin) HT leads for the Toyota arrived today, and I fitted them after work - the plug leads went on OK with a bit of buggering about, and with a bit of precision* modification involving a screwdriver I was able to connect the two coil leads together and get a connection 'twixt coil and distributor cap.

Somewhat to my surprise it fired up first time and ran fine - it's obviously going to need a more permanent solution for the coil lead but at least it's mobile again.  Remains to be seen whether the intermittent misfire has been cured though...

I didn't realise the Carina E has the coil mounted on the bulkhead, my Carina II and both of my Starlets had Denso IIA distributors with the coil mounted under the cap, which had an integrated king lead.

[artdjones]

10 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

There's always a Maccys chip.

 

At least it's not diced carrots.

[angle]

On 09/08/2025 at 16:16, angle said:

Shitbox Picasso has managed 900 miles in two days and made it to Italy.

And back. Fair to say it was just a tiny bit slow over the Gotthard pass, but in the last 12 months it's done something like 4000 miles on trips to Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands loaded up like this (with five of us on board)

[stuboy]

4 hours ago, HMC said:

DD tax is 1.70 a month 😂

didnt wanna go all rothchild and pay in 1 lump sum?

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, EightMegs said:

I didn't realise the Carina E has the coil mounted on the bulkhead, my Carina II and both of my Starlets had Denso IIA distributors with the coil mounted under the cap, which had an integrated king lead.

Some Carina Es have that setup as well - depends on the engine / year / what they happened to have on the shelf at the time.

[robt100]

On 21/08/2025 at 20:12, EyesWeldedShut said:

Fake Taxi AMG day today. Thanks @Brigsy for the painting tip.
(painted calipers are like Marmite. My wife likes both.)
Followed by:
Still has a smol vibration - not really through the steering but kind of in the footwell. 
Disc out of kilter, other front wheel needs a balance, propshaft? 
All for another day, for the moment it goes and goes rather well.

Let me know if you solve the vibration. Got the same on the 5 series, changed rear arms and all discs/pads and its still there at 70mph. One rear tyre looks a little feathered on the edge, so going to try new ones of those. Between us we can solve footwell vibrations! 😅