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[oman5]

I have sold the P6 to a better home...ie someone who IS prepared to invest more time and money in it than me..which now leaves a parking space free.

rather worryingly I have found a very nice Ford Crown Vic for sale. I'm trying to decide whether I'd really rather have money in the bank or a stupidly big yank car.  It is in lovely nick though. decisions decisions..

[Asimo]

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[dugong]

Anyone in Peterborough?

Yeah. WOT U WANT?

[The Moog]

Can you spot the old cabin filter?

 

Also trying to sort out HRW in saab. Power is going across it but I think the ground bit is a little bodged. Is this just soldered? Can I heat I with an iron then pull it off? Or are they fixed a different way?

[320touring]

Wooop!

 

POGWEASAL

[AlabamaShrimp]

After wobbling and clanking the exhaust finally came off the frontera yesterday

 

It's just the back bit and a search shows them at about £20 on eBay. Can see it being a git getting the other part off

 

[cort1977]

I have sold the P6 to a better home...ie someone who IS prepared to invest more time and money in it than me..which now leaves a parking space free.

rather worryingly I have found a very nice Ford Crown Vic for sale. I'm trying to decide whether I'd really rather have money in the bank or a stupidly big yank car.  It is in lovely nick though. decisions decisions..

Bought that Crown Vic yet?   How can you say no to a car that has a glow in the dark escape handle in the trunk?

[The Moog]

I think* I have fixed heated element. It pulled off easily enough. Used a dremmel to clean glue and old silver bits off. Carefully sanded the track on the window.

 

Then tinned the connector. With 3 hands I managed to hold it against the window and heat the connector and it held. Sort of. So lobbed on some of the fixit putty job jobbed.

 

Tested with the measurer of sparkle flow, got continuity and power when switched on.

 

No pics though.

[Bren]

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I am doing vic Reeves impressions on seeing this - much rubbing of the thighs.

 

I would fit nudge bars and use it to push audi drivers straight off the queens highway.

[dollywobbler]

I enjoyed our previous long-distance jaunt in the 2CV so much that I'm doing it again tomorrow. This time, Englandcestershire.

 

Was going to take the Rover, but the PAS pump is getting noisier, and the juddery brakes are seriously annoying me. It has also developed a really annoying squeak when going around gentle bends. There are many, many gentle bends between here and England, and many hills too. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've a question about my Angrycraft Warranty; today the Rover Of Zoom failed it's MOT on a brakelight bulb. This was after my careful pre-MOT Romanian car wash ( testers never fail a shiny car- fact*).

It therefore cost me an extra £1.00 for a years MOT- AngryDicky can expect Lankytim's Avatar on his doorstep shortly.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Illeagal Immigrants fail to spot blown brake light bulb shock !

 

Nigel Farage says it's all Fatty Salmond's fault,send 'em back to France to clean Citroens.

[explosive-cabbage]

Today I have finished off building new storage for car parts in the shed.






The amount of space me and Joe have created is just epic - I have thrown onto it all of the car parts and odds and ends out of this shed, and all the parts from a completely stripped 205, and I havn't yet filled half the space!

Most of these boxes are empty, ready to be filled with parts. I can get an endless supply of good strong cardboard fruit boxes from the pub where I work, excellent for jobs like this!

The shelving cost approx £20-£30 in screws and nuts and bolts to build, all the wood was lying around here and/or rescued out of local skips.

I spent a couple hours yesterday knocking up these nifty pull-out trays for nuts and bolts, im well chuffed with the results - a lovely smooth operation and can be left three quarters out when fully loaded so you can root around with two hands!

 

Its nice to have everything tidied up and in good order - I threw away two whole weelie bins of crap - anything and everything you could imagine - Joe has a bad habit of collecting boxes of useless shite like the men from a table football table and squashed plastic tomato boxes, and broken microwaves; whereas I collect usefull things like punctured radiators:



Cutting down these bread crates slightly meant I could stack them up and fill them with butter and ice cream tubs so we could preserve Joe's collection of Various sized furniture castors.




This bench I bought off eBay for £1.04, and added 18mm ply to the top for £23! - which gave a good strong bench top, and used spare ply on the corners to triangulate.



The pillar drill cost about £27 if I remember correctly, and the grinder was £16.
This narrow bench was in light use and has been stregnthened and given an new lease of life.



The eBay seller of the £16 bench grinder was an old engineer who was clearing out his shed as he was moving house - I got chatting and it turns out he had been messed about by eBay buyers - so I made some offers on things - I got a small sturdy workbench and a 2 ton trolley jack together for £10, a brand new bosch angle grinder for £15, a large filing cabinet for £7 and he gave me a 10 ton bottle jack, a squirty oil can, and some overalls for free!

All sorts of extra storage has been created out of dead space!

 

Happy Days! Now I am properly organised for a winter of chod-bothering!

[twosmoke300]

Thats brilliant . Good feeling isnt it . With all that space I reckon its time to scour ebay for a cheap old 2 or 4 post ramp

[loserone]

Very envious of that space.

 

Hoping we can afford to build a garage next year (assuming I can get another job before mine is 'best-shored' again(!) in March/January (TUPE dependent).

 

Trying to figure out how to use a space thats three garages long, but only one and a half wide.

[brickwall]

Looks absolutely fantastic - plenty of elbow room. Defo needs posts...

[trigger]

Yeah, so you remember all the praise I was singing about my Merc...

 

 

Bloody thing. All pack up and ready for a weekend at Goodwood, got as far as Colchester (about 25 miles) and noticed that the brakes were blinding on and that it was shuddering when I released them. Stopped of at my dad's, took the wheel off to find the O/S/F caliper was locked on. It was only replaced for mot so it's new, I released the nipple and it started to move again so we think the brake hose has collapsed inside, cock.

 

This was at 5pm and after a manic shop around calling at Euro Car Parts and seeing RoadworkUK at the local Mercedes dealers and still not being able to find one I had to call it quits and limp the car back home with a red hot brake caliper and take my modern Focus instead. Gutted.

 

In other news my Civic's feature has come out today.

 

[Pillock]

YOUR Civic? That feature says otherwise....

[trigger]

Ha! Well technically it's Hannahs as I already had the Cortina on the insurance and need to take out a new policy but I do all the work and drive it the most! The Mercedes is in Hannahs name too!

[maxpower]

i see vauxhall are bringing out a budget city car.... called the viva.... wonder if they stumbled upon the name on here

[lisbon_road]

Seems possible to me!

[vulgalour]

We all know what it'll be though.

[Noel Tidybeard]

^^^ yes i believe it will be quite agile

[oman5]

Bought that Crown Vic yet?   How can you say no to a car that has a glow in the dark escape handle in the trunk?

No...I'm gonna leave it for now. As per usual something non-car related that needs money spending has come up. Maybe in a few months.

[rml2345]

i see vauxhall are bringing out a budget city car.... called the viva.... wonder if they stumbled upon the name on here

To be called Karl in the rest of Europe. Shame really as I was looking forward to the Vauxhall Susan and the Vauxhall Jeanette to join Adam and Karl in the lineup.

[Cavcraft]

I want a Vauxhall Jeanette too, so when I inevitably ring the RAC I can say it sounds a bit Krankie.

[phil_lihp]

I am mildly astonished - I put the 323 on a local Facebook 'cars under £1000' group yesterday afternoon, came home in the evening to find a message from someone asking if they could come and see it, gave them my number, they rang to get my address and turned up within 20 minutes.  They spent a good half hour going over it, the headlights packed up due to a broken wire much to my dismay...and then they offered me £50 less than my asking price, so I'm perfectly happy with that.  They're supposed to be back tomorrow afternoon to pay up and collect it.  Amazing.  Never used Facebook for selling cars before and assumed I'd get a torrent of idiocy but it was totally painless.  Biggest pain was rushing out in the semi-darkness to prise my good stereo out of it and put the original one back in before they turned up.

 

Also, he rocked up in a scruffy Alfa 166 2.5 V6 which apparently has its problems and likes a drink (surprise!) but he loves it to bits.  I've never seen one close up, it's a big beast and a bit odd looking but it certainly stands out.  It's having a full respray next week in the original Alfa red with a black roof, not my taste but it should look smart enough.  He's clearly into his bodywork as he's planning to straighten out the Mazda's dents and creases and wasn't bothered by them much.

[Lukas]

After I almost found fishes in the boot of my Leone, I started to find the leak. It was the left taillight, so I fixed it. All that easy.

 

[Asimo]

No...I'm gonna leave it for now. As per usual something non-car related that needs money spending has come up. Maybe in a few months.

 

Keep your eyes on the prize. Comfy!

[STUNO]

After I almost found fishes in the boot of my Leone, I started to find the leak. It was the left taillight, so I fixed it. All that easy.

 

 

 

But surely that will leak even more ?