The new news 24 thread

[trigger]

After 3 weeks I've got my first serious interest in the Civic, a petrol head from Holland, he collects unusual cars and is very interested, I've just got of the phone to him and he's asking all the right questions and sounds a very nice chap so fingers crossed.

[dollywobbler]

A shame to see it leave the country, but the classic following in The Netherlands is pretty serious. Good luck!

[trigger]

I had a chap from the Civic club who offered me £2500 a little while back but he wanted to fit an Acclaim engine and remove the vinyl roof, I guess it's better it leaves the country and stays intact than stay over here and lose its originality.

[rml2345]

Volvo failed It's MOT on a borked steering rack, ARB bushes, emissions and several other bits. £425 quids worth. Went in and had a look, and it does add up.

Since it's bloody useful and I'm rubbish at bangernomics I've left it with them to sort it and get another year from the big daft thing.

 

Picked it up yesterday afternoon and it now drives like a new car, so the work done has made a big difference and it's still cheaper than car finance.

[Negative Creep]

I've just put down a deposit on some prime French shite. So, erm, who wants a Celica?

[vulgalour]

well all going well on saturday i traveling to wales via m20 m26 m25 m3 m4 to llandrindod wells

 

Interesting* car collection?

[HMC]

I can haz rusty range rover.

 

92 v8 with an LPG conversion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Havent collected it yet, needs a bit of welding and TLC

 

 

 

[EssDeeWon]

Lovely. Looks like its lost its front lower bit that houses the fog lights? Erm dunno what the correct term is, the lower chin that sits below the front bumper..?

[dollywobbler]

Chin spoiler I guess. One less thing to bash off road. I prefer the non-spoiler look. Looks nice enough. I wonder if I might have liked my Rangie more if it was a V8 auto. Though I still liked it a lot anyway!

[ProgRocker]

Last week the Almera of Doom failed the MOT on a corroded cross member (a weak point on an N16 model). Instead of getting it welded I plumped for a spanking new one for £84. Decided to get the car serviced too (major service).

 

Despite having posted on here saying I wouldn't get the main stealer to do it...I still took it there. However I have to admit the car feels as tight as a drum now. Very impressed.

 

I press the accelerator and it goes forwards without having to think about it for half a second. A bit dangerous at roundabouts. I put it down to turbo lag. Mind the car still suffers with a whistling turbo, which I believe is worn bearings. Might get that looked at when I next get some time off in September.

[stuboy]

Interesting* car collection?

no sadly no chod collecting, moving my son back home from his mums to my house 250miles away

[Lankytim]

I CAN HAZ OWLD ATCO MOWA!

 

Does anybody know anything about these? It's a bit rusty but has nice compression.

[ProgRocker]

Almera now has an MOT certificate until July 22nd 2015 at a well below average 85,625 miles.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Re Range Rover spoiler, they were designed to be removed easily for going off road, in fact the hand book recommends it . As does the L322 and even Mrs N's Gaylander 2 handbook recommends removing the fake bash plate/towing eye cover before attempting any Darien Gap exploits.

[barefoot]

Just a quickie, I'm away to CamperJam in the T2 to spend a joyous weekend of bohemian, hippy fun with like minded*, although probably far wealthier folk than I.

However, the reason for posting; today, I have owned the 944S for exactly 20 years.

Bought with 50,000 miles it has now covered 265,843.

I suspect that although it's a costly bastard to keep running nicely, it actually owes me nothing.

[nacho man]

That's some going, pretty nice place to spend 200k if you ask me.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Last week the Almera of Doom failed the MOT on a corroded cross member (a weak point on an N16 model). Instead of getting it welded I plumped for a spanking new one for £84. Decided to get the car serviced too (major service).

 

Despite having posted on here saying I wouldn't get the main stealer to do it...I still took it there. However I have to admit the car feels as tight as a drum now. Very impressed.

 

I press the accelerator and it goes forwards without having to think about it for half a second. A bit dangerous at roundabouts. I put it down to turbo lag. Mind the car still suffers with a whistling turbo, which I believe is worn bearings. Might get that looked at when I next get some time off in September.

 

Did the main dealer fit the cross member? That must be pretty rare for them to have to get the Mig out and start welding up underbody rot. Can I ask how much they charged to do it? Have you had a look to see if they have made a nice job of it?

[scruff]

Nice RR JM

[Lankytim]

The shite mower runs beautifully! After years of inaction I stuck some fresh pez in, opened the fuel tank valve and it started on the 3rd or 4th pull. Amazing!

 

I can't get it to move though, operating the clutch levers results in zero movement from the blades or the roller. Can I take it the clutch is fried? The blades are pretty stiff mind you...

[Shep Shepherd]

Fitted new front brake discs and pads to The Wentworth this afternoon, as the existing ones were totally shot.

 

 

A straightforward job, despite the prevailing hot weather

 

 

[beko1987]

Nothing looks nicer than shiny discs I think!

[320touring]

Nothing looks nicer than shiny discs I think!

Heat cycled blue discs, accompanied by the gentle tick of a cooling exhaust.

 

A job well done.

 

 

 

 

 

In other news my e30 decided not to start today. Bro coming over with my tools shortly so I can swear a bit and hit some stuff.

[Shep Shepherd]

Nothing looks nicer than shiny discs I think!

 

Pity they never stay shiny, though!

[overrun]

I CAN HAZ OWLD ATCO MOWA!

 

Does anybody know anything about these? It's a bit rusty but has nice compression.

 

PM jikovron. He's your (busy) man.

[vulgalour]

Do you want/need repair panels for your Princess that are virtually impossible to find to cure all your common rot problem areas?  Can you travel to Barnoldswick?  Then I have the eBay chap for you.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/phoenix4autos

 

They have such wonders as door skins, complete rear quarter panel, front wings... all at the usual prices.  I am disappointed I haven't the funds to purchase ANY of them.

 

 

 

 

[derskine]

Drove to see the nisFOAD allegro today in the 18.

Anyone ever experienced not one, but both windscreen wiper blades flying off on a very rainy motorway?

Not a pleasant experience!

[cort16]

I went to this this Avantime this morning. The seller wasn't there, which is sometimes good as they're not trying to distract you as you look around.

 

It's a 2.0T manual with half leather. It's got a years mot, timing belt done about 20,000 miles ago. It's in very nice shape on the outside and it looks well cared for but the inside's not quite a nice.

Everthing works but the drivers seat is stained and split. I also don't think the aircon is working.

When I started it up from cold there was a pretty healthy puff of blue smoke, which I'm guessing it's valve stem oil seals or likely turbo seals. It runs fine though and there's no smoke when its running but I couldn't take it out for a spin to see what it's like underload. It does have the feeling of a car thats been well polished but not driven too much. The front subframe and wishbones looked pretty rusty but it's got a fresh ticket. I dunno if this is a soft spot on these or not?

 

I do like it but it's up at nearly 1600 quid already and I'm not sure if I want to go much more than  2 grand.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

I finally got round to replacing the fan switch of my MX5, which I had managed to break during a crescendo of hamfistedness.

 

I topped up the coolant, started her up and was mortified to hear a nasty top end knock !!! Considering that the car had recently eaten its cambelt, I started having visions of bent valves etc. So I did what every Autoshitter would do : I got in and took her out for a all-or-nothing, flat-out Italian tuneup.

 

To my great surprise, this worked excellently and she's now running like the proverbial well-oiled sewing machine !

[Rocket88]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    not unusual with stuff that's been stood for a while..........oil drains from hydraulic tappets, hence the castanets when you first start up

[nacho man]

My 306 dizzler failed it's mot this morn, but only on a ball joint and a wheel bearing, and only 1 advisorie for a chip in the screen. It's a bit of a grump but prob about 30 in parts she will be right as rain for another years motoring.