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[stuboy]

Well the mondeo is done.. mot... labour ... complete lower arm... £334 😬😬😬

[Supernaut]

It seems like it's the end of the road for the blue VW Passat estate of several shiters.

My brother bought it from @cort1977 in 2021 for a bargain price. However I remember @Lacquer Peel had it at some point before, plus some others too.

However it's just too rusty to go through an MOT now with our friendly but honest local mechanic.

 

I guess I'll be roped into sourcing an Car.exe somewhere within reasonable distance of the arctic circle, soon.

[IronStar]

Incoming 😄

Apparently, I don’t know how to drive car that’s not lowered anymore as I find them too squirmy.

There goes an idea of buying L322 as well, I’d probably put it in a ditch in a matter of days. 

[Split_Pin]

As cort16 said, driving a L322 is like piloting a bungalow. If you corner too fast, it's so tall that your head leans into the next administrative district.

[stuboy]

Popped over on Sunday so sadly more than 24 hours ago last sunday.. much apologies for sped up music quality..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[IronStar]

Hey Siri, play Deadmau5 - A City in Florida!

Guess who’s back home!

 

 

Oh and, I may have accidentally bought another car whilst picking up mine.

[Schaefft]

2 minutes ago, IronStar said:

Oh and, I may have accidentally bought another car whilst picking up mine.

That's the spirit!

[IronStar]

6 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

That's the spirit!

Same vintage as Florida, yet infinitely more modern! Still, people consider it a rehash of a rehash, and is worth fuckall. I’m paying scrap money. 
Something I wanted for a while, but maybe not with that engine! 

I’ll leave it here so we can play guess the car 🤣

[hairnet]

jaaaaag dizzle 

[IronStar]

7 minutes ago, hairnet said:

jaaaaag dizzle 

Nah

[MorrisItalSLX]

Seamless…

[holbeck]

New test achieved. 

[barefoot]

52 minutes ago, holbeck said:

New test achieved. 

I always feel like there's something wrong with me when I leave my Scirocco for test, and in comparison to everything else on the forecourt, it looks like a fucking scrapper.

[holbeck]

9 minutes ago, barefoot said:

I always feel like there's something wrong with me when I leave my Scirocco for test, and in comparison to everything else on the forecourt, it looks like a fucking scrapper.

Lol, yes. Although the place where I  took it had plenty of shonky motors in for work. 

Maybe we should all get an Audi on tick.

[Joey spud]

Yet another full year has passed with no work being carried out on the Subaru.

So at least the last couple of dry days have seen me jet wash it and the paving followed by a serious 3M green top cut back and Auto Glym polish to seal it.

It came back up surprisingly easily.

I've even cut some fresh sound insulation and refitted the rear mat and bed trim panel.

Hopefully my work shop should soon be empty of furniture/shite from a house move two years ago to allow me the chance to get working on it and back on the road for the first time since 2018.

This kind of stuff needs sorting out.

And I refound my new decal to replace the old faded one.

[Lord Sterling]

Another rare accessory bought for the Jag. I think that I now have enough accessories I want for it. I need to concentrate on the getting the autobox oil and filter changed and the bodywork.

Also added a "Stratstone of Berkeley Street" acrylic sign (its held on with thick clear double sided tape). It's a bit much for some but I like it. My Jag is a Stratstone car but from a (now closed down) Stratstone Jaguar garage in Derby (also, I did straighten it out after I took the pic).

[Lord Sterling]

19 hours ago, IronStar said:

I’ll leave it here so we can play guess the car 🤣

1979 Stutz Bearcat.

[EyesWeldedShut]

"Take the win" is a saying (apparently).

Well, fuck my old boots. Today, for the first time ever, I have managed to get the track rod end, pinch bolts and turnbuckle off a car without breaking anything mechanical or human.
Basted the parts for an hour in a citric acid bath, a soupcon of wire brushing then glazed with a pinch of copper grease. 
Reassembly was (as Mr. Haynes does not put it) a piece of the proverbial. Now for the tracking, huzzah!

What's not the win? Two things:
(1)  Now I have to pay the return postage on the new parts assembly that I bought 'just in case' - I can live with that.
(2) I have to clean the Belfast sink before HRH T'missus gets back on Sunday  

[Rust Collector]

It’s time to finally deal with one of the proverbial cans that I’ve been kicking down the road for a long time now.

Thats all the old car batteries rounded up from my place. I suspect there are more at the farm, so I’ll stop by there tomorrow en route to weigh them in at the scrappy.

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, holbeck said:

New test achieved. 

Any idea what that ?flywheel is off?

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

It’s time to finally deal with one of the proverbial cans that I’ve been kicking down the road for a long time now.

Thats all the old car batteries rounded up from my place. I suspect there are more at the farm, so I’ll stop by there tomorrow en route to weigh them in at the scrappy.

If you're heading for Ripleys, they are on 30 day payout. Newhaven may be swifter

[Schaefft]

19 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

It’s time to finally deal with one of the proverbial cans that I’ve been kicking down the road for a long time now.

Thats all the old car batteries rounded up from my place. I suspect there are more at the farm, so I’ll stop by there tomorrow en route to weigh them in at the scrappy.

That's a decent chunk of money there!

[Schaefft]

I just finished reading CAR, a book about the development of the 3rd generation ('96) Ford Taurus. Even if you can't relate to the car or Fords in general it's an incredible book about corporate politics, the daily struggle in a huge company like Ford and the challenges of following up on a huge previous success (the first generation Taurus).

It's a pretty sobering book really. Hundreds if not thousands of people committed their life to the company and product, developing the best car they possibly could only to never be recognized for their achievements by either their superiors, colleagues, journalists or the public. It's as much about the personal experiences from concept to dealerships as it is about developing a car. It's a genuinely tough work environment.

Knowing that they actually built a high quality car that went beyond what the public wanted makes me want to own a Taurus now.

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

I just finished reading CAR, a book about the development of the 3rd generation ('96) Ford Taurus. Even if you can't relate to the car or Fords in general it's an incredible book about corporate politics, the daily struggle in a huge company like Ford and the challenges of following up on a huge previous success (the first generation Taurus).

It's a pretty sobering book really. Hundreds if not thousands of people committed their life to the company and product, developing the best car they possibly could only to never be recognized for their achievements by either their superiors, colleagues, journalists or the public. It's as much about the personal experiences from concept to dealerships as it is about developing a car. It's a genuinely tough work environment.

Knowing that they actually built a high quality car that went beyond what the public wanted makes me want to own a Taurus now.

Taurus or Taunus?

[Rust Collector]

38 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

If you're heading for Ripleys, they are on 30 day payout. Newhaven may be swifter

Thanks mate, I was indeed heading for EMR down in Newhaven, as they’re pretty easy to deal with in my past experiences.

22 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

That's a decent chunk of money there!

I think I missed the boat on the better prices, I understand they scrap for about 20-30p per kilo presently. I’ll be happy if I get about £50 or thereabouts as it’ll offset the brake shoes I bought recently for the trailer.

[Schaefft]

4 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Taurus or Taunus?

Taurus, the best selling car in America etc.

[Christine]

30 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

Thanks mate, I was indeed heading for EMR down in Newhaven, as they’re pretty easy to deal with in my past experiences.

I think I missed the boat on the better prices, I understand they scrap for about 20-30p per kilo presently. I’ll be happy if I get about £50 or thereabouts as it’ll offset the brake shoes I bought recently for the trailer.

Between  4.50 - 6.50  a battery     a&a metals tunbridge wells , paid by bacs there and then .

[holbeck]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Any idea what that ?flywheel is off?

None,  looks like some sort of chain  sprocket to me. 

The garage is in rural Devon,  so agricultural equipment is in the remit of what they'll do 

[Rust Collector]

I found a few more batteries up at the farm this morning, two of them were massive Merc OEM ones which was handy:

Turns out I had 330 kilos of car batteries casually knocking about, as you do:

 

£92 back into the car parts fund is better than a kick in the bollocks, and hopefully I’ll trip over less now that all those batteries are gone.

[RayMK]

14 hours ago, Schaefft said:

I just finished reading CAR, a book about the development of the 3rd generation ('96) Ford Taurus. Even if you can't relate to the car or Fords in general it's an incredible book about corporate politics, the daily struggle in a huge company like Ford and the challenges of following up on a huge previous success (the first generation Taurus).

It's a pretty sobering book really. Hundreds if not thousands of people committed their life to the company and product, developing the best car they possibly could only to never be recognized for their achievements by either their superiors, colleagues, journalists or the public. It's as much about the personal experiences from concept to dealerships as it is about developing a car. It's a genuinely tough work environment.

Knowing that they actually built a high quality car that went beyond what the public wanted makes me want to own a Taurus now.

Was there any mention of the Taurus and the hire car market?  In the 90s and early 2000s I visited the USA frequently but never saw a Taurus or indeed any other Ford in the hire car parking lots.  I always had GM or Chrysler products or occasionally a Toyota (Camry).