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[Lacquer Peel]

7 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Polo 6N?

Close but no, I'm pretty sure you owned a similar vehicle to the indicator donor. 

[ProgRocker]

12 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Am I the only one trying to identify the model of car the indicator came from 🤔

Looks like a mark 2 SEAT Ibiza indicator lense on @Lacquer Peel 's car. I owned one during the 2000s. A whole mark2 Ibiza not the sole indicator lense!

It might have come off a Cordoba. Or one of those Polo estate / saloon that used the same body panels as the Ibiza.

[Lacquer Peel]

It's off my friend's SEAT Inca van that has a buggered engine. The Merc uses bullet style connectors so we were able to fit it without disturbing the original wiring. 

I lost the indicator somewhere between Nethy Bridge and Dufftown, couldn't find it anywhere. 

[Yoss]

Just come back from the dog walk where I found this. How do you even manage to do this? 

[davehedgehog31]

Bit of a fleet update, there's been one out and one in. 

With a heavy heart I moved the XM on, in reality it was seeing pretty minimal use and I fancied a change which will become apparent. I really enjoyed owning it and I had planned to keep it longer, it was a cracking car and a credit to Wes's ownership. I like to think I improved it a little with some other bits and pieces of work that I done, no reason it won't live on for many years yet. The main frustration was obviously parts availability, keeping one going nowadays is definitely a labour of love. They say "never meet your heroes" but the XM didn't disappoint and I'm glad I managed to own and drive one without meeting financial or mental ruin.

So I set about filling my now empty lockup, this time with another car I've wanted to own for a long time. As a kid I was a serial magazine botherer, I would get a subscription to Auto Express for my Christmas every year and read them cover to cover every week. When the first generation Porsche Boxster was launched the contemporary reviews raved about it and it came to be lauded as the car that saved Porsche, since then I've always fancied owning one but things have never quite lined up. When @straightSix listed his 2002 2.7 Boxster for sale on here a plan was set in place and I headed down to pick it up on Thursday last week.

It's amazing how easy a 6am start is when there's a Porsche at the far end of it, the train down was pretty easy. A 340 mile mid-week slog from Redditch to Ayrshire isn't the drive to bond with any car, and a Porsche Boxster is never the car for this drive, but we got home eventually after several big tailbacks, roadworks and closures, it was more of a journey to be endured than enjoyed. Fair to say I've had a few more fun drives since then and I'm really enjoying the car. I gave it a pretty thorough wash inside and out and it has come up great.

In other fleet news, the big Lexus went for MOT yesterday and duly passed. I've not been covering huge miles in this car, it done 5k in the last year with about half of this being down to two holiday trips and has done 17k miles since I got it in February 2023. It has been faultlessly reliable and other than a couple of hundred quid on brakes when I got it and a replacement 12v battery it has needed not a thing other than routine servicing. It's a tremendous car, at nearly 130k on entirely original suspension you would have absolutely no idea. There was an advisory for a diff leak that I'll need to look at it and I may look into some way of installing Android Auto, although it doesn't look easy. With the MG 5 largely replacing it I should really sell it on, but 40mpg, supreme comfort and the fact it goes like the absolute hammers of fuck all keep it on fleet.

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

Just come back from the dog walk where I found this. How do you even manage to do this? 

I've seen a car misjudge a roundabout at around 20-30mph-ish, catching the kerb and flipping like that. It was a Golf MK3 so not a modern like that. Hit it fast enough and at the right angle, it'll create an upwards movement which if steering the same direction, it'll flip. Especially if someone panics and makes it worse. 

I suspect it probably was the raised kerb of the bus stop which they hit. 

[Yoss]

13 minutes ago, SiC said:

I've seen a car misjudge a roundabout at around 20-30mph-ish, catching the kerb and flipping like that. It was a Golf MK3 so not a modern like that. Hit it fast enough and at the right angle, it'll create an upwards movement which if steering the same direction, it'll flip. Especially if someone panics and makes it worse. 

I suspect it probably was the raised kerb of the bus stop which they hit. 

Could be. It was hard to tell even which direction it came from. They cleared it up quick enough. I went out less than an hour later and there was no sign of it. 

[SiC]

5 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Could be. It was hard to tell even which direction it came from. They cleared it up quick enough. I went out less than an hour later and there was no sign of it. 

It possibly spun on its roof.

[Yoss]

7 minutes ago, SiC said:

It possibly spun on its roof.

It certainly parked itself very neatly. 

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Bit of a fleet update, there's been one out and one in. 

With a heavy heart I moved the XM on, in reality it was seeing pretty minimal use and I fancied a change which will become apparent. I really enjoyed owning it and I had planned to keep it longer, it was a cracking car and a credit to Wes's ownership. I like to think I improved it a little with some other bits and pieces of work that I done, no reason it won't live on for many years yet. The main frustration was obviously parts availability, keeping one going nowadays is definitely a labour of love. They say "never meet your heroes" but the XM didn't disappoint and I'm glad I managed to own and drive one without meeting financial or mental ruin.

So I set about filling my now empty lockup, this time with another car I've wanted to own for a long time. As a kid I was a serial magazine botherer, I would get a subscription to Auto Express for my Christmas every year and read them cover to cover every week. When the first generation Porsche Boxster was launched the contemporary reviews raved about it and it came to be lauded as the car that saved Porsche, since then I've always fancied owning one but things have never quite lined up. When @straightSix listed his 2002 2.7 Boxster for sale on here a plan was set in place and I headed down to pick it up on Thursday last week.

It's amazing how easy a 6am start is when there's a Porsche at the far end of it, the train down was pretty easy. A 340 mile mid-week slog from Redditch to Ayrshire isn't the drive to bond with any car, and a Porsche Boxster is never the car for this drive, but we got home eventually after several big tailbacks, roadworks and closures, it was more of a journey to be endured than enjoyed. Fair to say I've had a few more fun drives since then and I'm really enjoying the car. I gave it a pretty thorough wash inside and out and it has come up great.

In other fleet news, the big Lexus went for MOT yesterday and duly passed. I've not been covering huge miles in this car, it done 5k in the last year with about half of this being down to two holiday trips and has done 17k miles since I got it in February 2023. It has been faultlessly reliable and other than a couple of hundred quid on brakes when I got it and a replacement 12v battery it has needed not a thing other than routine servicing. It's a tremendous car, at nearly 130k on entirely original suspension you would have absolutely no idea. There was an advisory for a diff leak that I'll need to look at it and I may look into some way of installing Android Auto, although it doesn't look easy. With the MG 5 largely replacing it I should really sell it on, but 40mpg, supreme comfort and the fact it goes like the absolute hammers of fuck all keep it on fleet.

The excellence of this update is not lost on me.