The new news 24 thread

63,128 · Saturday at 13:13

3 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

I did wonder if you still had the Carina E. Best colour ever.

Heh, that must have been a time I managed to get on the booking app at 18:00:01 to bag one of the spaces right outside the door!

Yeah, the Carina E is my grandad's old car so that won't be going anywhere.

9,813 · Saturday at 14:04

Andover storage spotted,nothing to do with me though..

21,018 · Saturday at 14:09

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Saw one on the road today in mail collection mode. Not leccy, unlike the ones @Yoss has got at work now, and has the Pug front end:

Yes we have some 74 plate ones of those. And they have nice big badges on the back so you can see which of the Stellantis sub brands pretended to make them.

These electric ones are unmarked on the rear.

They are also noticeably shorter than our diesel versions. You can see the difference on both sides of the rear wheel arch. You would have thought the long wheelbase platform would have been better for electric to squeeze more battery in.

Also our diesels are proper red vans and not grey vans in a red wrap.

19,851 · Saturday at 14:14

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

2cv doh

9,076 · Saturday at 14:33

23 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Yes we have some 74 plate ones of those. And they have nice big badges on the back so you can see which of the Stellantis sub brands pretended to make them.

These electric ones are unmarked on the rear.

They are also noticeably shorter than our diesel versions. You can see the difference on both sides of the rear wheel arch. You would have thought the long wheelbase platform would have been better for electric to squeeze more battery in.

Also our diesels are proper red vans and not grey vans in a red wrap.

That second pic looks like you sneaked off the shot, upskirt style, while the driver was taking a slash or something.

21,018 · Saturday at 14:56

22 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

That second pic looks like you sneaked off the shot, upskirt style, while the driver was taking a slash or something.

I mean it wasn't my van but I was trying to emphasise how grey it was.

17,103 · Saturday at 18:13

9 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said:

@Lacquer Peel hopefully you're all sorted and back on your way?

32,165 · Saturday at 18:15

1 minute ago, dome said:

@Lacquer Peel hopefully you're all sorted and back on your way?

He's dodging Germans

17,103 · Saturday at 18:27

11 minutes ago, loserone said:

He's dodging Germans

In my head he's like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape but more successful

20,154 · Saturday at 19:48

1 hour ago, dome said:

@Lacquer Peel hopefully you're all sorted and back on your way?

Aye, the big Merc loves* steep uphills.

Slovenia is something else

6,096 · Saturday at 20:01

12 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Aye, the big Merc loves* steep uphills.

Slovenia is something else

A lovely country with very nice people.

13,924 · Saturday at 20:22

When the fb mechanic pages laugh at people having tiny tools....lol. well this my 2nd set.. here the small but mighty tool is needed to replace securing pins on patient stretchers.

20,154 · Saturday at 20:40

17 minutes ago, stuboy said:

When the fb mechanic pages laugh at people having tiny tools....lol. well this my 2nd set.. here the small but mighty tool is needed to replace securing pins on patient stretchers.

It's not the size, it's what you do with it, I keep hearing this.

17,103 · Saturday at 21:12

1 hour ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Aye, the big Merc loves* steep uphills.

Slovenia is something else

Looks amazing, enjoy!

63,128 · Saturday at 22:23

2 hours ago, chadders said:

A lovely country with very nice people.

And Melania Trump.

63,128 · Saturday at 22:51

I was out in the drive earlier working on the Rover 75 (fitting a new brake pad wear sensor in a (successful) attempt to get rid of the annoying warning light that had been on for the last year or so), and a bloke I'd never met before stopped and asked me if I wanted a new front spring FOC.

He told me that he had a 75 a few years back and bought a spring to replace a broken one, but then realised what a twat of a job it was and just bought a complete secondhand strut instead. (Story checks out, thought I.) The spring has been cluttering up his shed ever since so he was happy to find a good home for it. I love old cars sometimes.

15,831 · Saturday at 23:00

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

When the fb mechanic pages laugh at people having tiny tools....lol. well this my 2nd set.. here the small but mighty tool is needed to replace securing pins on patient stretchers.

Are your patients too short?🤣

14,831 · 2025-08-24T10:57:18Z

seems Dacia have gone full AS spec on the Spring

34,031 · 2025-08-24T14:43:42Z

Roffle win RC Crawler from @Dick Cheeseburger now up and running.

Softer springs and a few more suspension adjustment and its good to go.

I'm going RC bashing on Thursday with one of the other basketball dads. The council have left a large pile of gravel and dirt in a nearby car park. Hopefully the new spring is will have arrived then.

44,590 · 2025-08-24T15:21:38Z

Because I'm an idiot, I threw a load of money at my £300 Vel Satis V6 to make it cosmetically better. It was this clean for under 24hrs...

Then I drove it to the Sussex/Surrey/Kent area for various reasons. It is dusty there.

Even worse, the gearbox started misbehaving just like the V6 turbo diesel I owned earlier in the year. Plus the rear suspension sounds like boulders in a barrel rolling down a hill. So that's standard Vel Satis then.

It's the usual problem of it going into neutral, which was so shit an idea that Volvo disabled that feature when they in used the same gearbox. Then it thinks back into Drive, eventually by which time you're now shitting yourself at a junction because it won't move, so you floor it and now it neutral drops into gear and wheelspins away, quickly caught by the traction control which now cuts power so it looks like you're a new learner driver who hasn't sussed the clutch yet.

This has steadily got worse on the drive home today to the point it went into full meltdown limp mode in Bracknell, which is not somewhere I wanted to get stuck. Pulled over, rebooted, drive back to Wales with no further issues apart from a few scary junctions.

So I'm doing the sensible thing and offering it up for a loss in the For Sale section if anyone is interested. You HAVE to try one, just to see if they're as bad as everyone says. You do NOT have to try two of them. That's just stupid.

Oh and the cruise control packed up on the way home too. I wondered if a long trip was a good idea in this car. It wasn't. The air con is also kaput. It has a week of MOT left.

15,831 · 2025-08-24T16:05:30Z

43 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

You HAVE to try one

No. Not with my recent luck*. 🤣

22,920 · 2025-08-24T16:22:02Z

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Roffle win RC Crawler from @Dick Cheeseburger now up and running.

Softer springs and a few more suspension adjustment and its good to go.

I'm going RC bashing on Thursday with one of the other basketball dads. The council have left a large pile of gravel and dirt in a nearby car park. Hopefully the new spring is will have arrived then.

Excellent news!

3,899 · 2025-08-24T16:23:55Z

Went to a Classic car show at Kirkcudbright today.

Was gonna take a load of photos.

This was all I took.

Fucks sake. 🤦

If I had to give an excuse. It was humid as all hell and spent more time chatting to folk.

4,954 · 2025-08-24T16:34:38Z

9 minutes ago, JMotor said:

Went to a Classic car show at Kirkcudbright today.

Was gonna take a load of photos.

This was all I took.

Fucks sake. 🤦

If I had to give an excuse. It was humid as all hell and spent more time chatting to folk.

I was there as well.

10,229 · 2025-08-24T17:20:47Z

Oops, Mods I meant to post this in the New News 24 Thread can one of you move it please? @brownnova @Mrs6C @NorthernMonkey thanks!

(Done…NM)

Went to a lovely little show over in Amlwch on Ynys Mon today. Great variety and it seemed like most of the cars were local (many sporting local dealer plates).