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[EssDeeWon]

Early Launch Car (June 99' R75 Connie V6) has popped up on fleabay. I don't really have the money or the room for it......

 

So im just watching it, and will defiantly maybe not be bidding 

[Craig the Princess]

Soon Merc is hooked up to Girls Focus and it bursts into life. Job jobbed.

Is that a euphemism?

[vulgalour]

Okay, I don't think Xantia estates are rare any more.  Here's another one spotted today locally while getting a lift for art supplies.

 

 

 

 

I can only conclude BXs aren't rare either because there's two of those locally up here too.  The only conclusions I can draw is that Stockton-on-Tees is a time and space anomaly, people never throw anything away up here or all the statistics you read about old cars are lies.

[Mr Livered]

I can only conclude BXs aren't rare either because there's two of those locally up here too.  The only conclusions I can draw is that Stockton-on-Tees is a time and space anomaly, people never throw anything away up here or all the statistics you read about old cars are lies.

Well I dunno because I had never heard of Stockton-on-Tees, so I looked it up. Seems that this town was the birthplace of the friction match - which proves that it's the sort of place where anything is possible.

[dollywobbler]

Got the headlamp alignment checked on the XM to see if that solves the mystery of why folk keep flashing me (I say keep, generally two or three on a 100-mile journey). The passenger side was a touch low, the driver's side was spot on. Mystery unsolved then. The sunroof is letting in more rain than ever, but the rain never stops long enough for me to try and do something about it. There's also a definite knock from the front end. Hoping for a spell of decent weather this weekend so I can give it a good going over (and get the winter tyres on) but there's also the NEC. Can't fit everything in!

[The Moog]

4 secondhand courtesy switches fitted to the civic, which now has got its headlight buzzer back. Vital as means I wont get called out to a flat battery due to Missus Moog leaving lights on.

 

Also fitted 2nd wiper stalk which has fixed the non wiping. I didn't realise that civics and Rover 400s were related.

 

Things left are to fix the water drip by the heater matrix (think it is blocked drains, regas AC, fit radio by soeting out a good ground,change oil, change ht leads, distributor cap and rotor arm.

 

Then need to think about reversing sensors plus seeing if I can fit remote central locking.

 

Aside from the lack of power I think Missus Moog likes the car.

[coalnotdole]

The man who bought my spare scimitar GT came to collect it today... It's gone of to Cornwall for restoration. There's now one less fibreglass car in my life! Funds will go directly into the straight 6 to fund the respray / carbs.

 

It was this onehttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1967-Reliant-Scimitar-GT-Coupe-Project-barnfind-se4-ogle-restoration-ford-v6-/231370948252?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item35dec87e9cin case anyone was wondering.

[dollywobbler]

4 secondhand courtesy switches fitted to the civic, which now has got its headlight buzzer back. Vital as means I wont get called out to a flat battery due to Missus Moog leaving lights on.

 

Also fitted 2nd wiper stalk which has fixed the non wiping. I didn't realise that civics and Rover 400s were related.

 

Things left are to fix the water drip by the heater matrix (think it is blocked drains, regas AC, fit radio by soeting out a good ground,change oil, change ht leads, distributor cap and rotor arm.

 

Then need to think about reversing sensors plus seeing if I can fit remote central locking.

 

Aside from the lack of power I think Missus Moog likes the car.

 

Instead of reversing sensors, what about trying to get a reversing lens for the rear window? Not sure they're entirely suited to the angle of the Rover's rear window, but you can get ones with adjustable angles. Sod technology - I still prefer to see what I'm about to hit!

[The Moog]

Not sure missus Moog would use it. Got a spare set sitting in garage so shouldn't take too long to do.

[DS20]

Put an Acoustic Parking Device (towbar) on the car. Reverse until you hear the bang, then stop.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've just arrived at Heathrow, it's absolutely pissing down and traffic is it's usual nightmare. On coming off the M4 there are 3 lanes of traffic going into the Heathrow Spur Road , the middle one is blocked, all I could see at first was a cloud of steam.....you've probably guessed where this is going.

Yes, a lovely looking 04 plate BRG Rover 200 was doing its party piece, expect to hear about this on traffic reports any time soon.

Edited to add;

Sorry meant 25, oh and forgot to put OMGHGF !!! To piss off whoever it is that says not too.

[twosmoke300]

Moog , why are you changing the ht leads etc ? Honda OE stuff is really good quality and rarely gives trouble . Valve clearances being tight is the cause of most running problems on Honda's . Normally shows up in cutting out at junctions on warm up.

[Honey Badger]

Moog , why are you changing the ht leads etc ? Honda OE stuff is really good quality and rarely gives trouble . Valve clearances being tight is the cause of most running problems on Honda's . Normally shows up in cutting out at junctions on warm up.

Aye, I'll back this up my Accord V6 is still on its original leads after 130k and 15 years with no trouble, aftermarket parts are nowhere near as good as the original Honda/Denso bits.

[The Moog]

Only reason is that garage where got timing checked mentioned leads looked ropey. They are Bougicord so not sure if they are org or not. If it saves me money I am happy

 

No issues with car, just trying to do preventative service it so it doesn't go bang on Missus Moog. Been sitting in leaky warehouse for a few months so wanted to be a 100% sure

[stuboy]

nowt much we at work have finally got replacement vehicle for our aging knackered partner..

 

2008 crossover

quite funky.. its an eHDI 

 

out with the old in with the new..

[andy18s]

Put an Acoustic Parking Device (towbar) on the car. Reverse until you hear the bang, then stop.

Having had someone use 1 of these to reverse into our Outlander and smacking a nice hole in the front bumper,whilst cracking both the main radiator and the aircon cooler,I wouldn't recommend it myself...

[Angrydicky]

What's a bloated brand new car got to do with autoshite?

[ruffgeezer]

Aging knackered partner? Talk to me!

[dollywobbler]

Our own Alex G gets quoted on the Beeb. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-30049739

[hairnet]

modern peugeot - bwhahahahahahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[dave21478]

Another day, another litre and a half of DOT4 pissed across the garage floor trying to get some life from the Land Rover clutch.

 

I am mentally preparing myself to have to drop the bloody powertrain again and change the slave cylinder. Will deffo get OE parts if it comes to that and if I ever meet Mr Borg or Mr Beck, clutch manufacturers, one of them is likely to get a slave cylinder hammered up their japs eye.

[Skizzer]

The Rover's reluctance to start seems to be down to the battery:  it was fine the other day after I'd given it a full charge, but now once again it doesn't want to know.  

 

Fair enough, says me, it's only an old boggo battery in there, I'll get a nice fresh heavy duty one with lots of CCAs.  Eventually I find one the right dimensions, 680 amps, marvellous - even a reasonably competitive price at Halfrauds so I don't have to wait for it to be delivered.  Wahey!

 

Picked it up, brought it home, dropped it in - fugging terminals are the wrong way round.  Bollocks.

[stuboy]

Aging knackered partner? Talk to me!

being scrapped next week i believe...

[stuboy]

modern peugeot - bwhahahahahahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

shhh it may hear you and breakdown

[cort16]

I saw a Merc C220 cdi tonight with black death around the injectors. What a weird thing, it's shiny and looks oil or something but is rock solid. In this case the middle two injectors are completely covered with the stuff and totally obscurred. It reminded me of the stuff the held Han Solo in in Star Wars.

 

It reminded me all (modern) diezelz are shite

[vulgalour]

Fuel prices are tumbling.  Not too long ago it was easily £1.32 per litre for Unleaded... not much before that I saw it at £1.49.9 at a motorway service station!  Now it's regularly witnessed down at £1.20 per litre for the same fuel.  This is superb, but I see absolutely no panic buying while the fuel is so cheap.

 

Diesel prices are in yo-yo freefall or something, up and down by several pence each day at some garages it seems.

 

Veg remains nice and stable and cheap.

 

 

So by the time I'm driving a petrol car again you can rest assured prices will have soared back up again.

[Shep Shepherd]

Booked The Wentworth in at my local garage* to have its cambelt and auxiliary drive belts changed next week as I have no idea when they were last changed and I intend to drive the car to the Netherlands at the end of the month; the prospect of having any of the extant belts break while I'm on the mainland doesn't fill me with joy...

 

 

 

 

*I know that the Volvo 'red block' is one of the easiest engines to change a cambelt on, but I don't have enough confidence in my mechanical ability to do the job myself...

[EssDeeWon]

All this Children in need stuff is great but how about Shite in need? One night a year people give generously to save old British cars and pay for essential welding and new head gaskets?

[Lord Sterling]

Well, lost my job today, not surprised really, my manager was a pretty moody sort who seemed to quietly reject some things that by law I'm entitled to do. I wont go into details about it as I can't be arsed to spark another bloody debate. Never mind, not bothered, I was told by the last place that some of the people there were rather "cliquey" and acted like they had a chip on thier shoulders. My work was good, no complaints. There loss, there are better jobs and nicer places to work.

 

In much better news I finally got the Merc taxed, 14 days after I was supposed to do so. I'll be interested to see if the DVLA will crash my door through for monies owed.

 

I've bought a set of spheres for it, plus a wing in the right colour, some spare yet-to-be cut keys, the right handbook + wallet for it but I'm still having trouble finding floor mats that aren't stupidly priced. I've got some Merc ones but they for a later car, front fit Ok-ish but the rear ones are too small.

 

Merc is booked in for MOT and possibly MOT work, I know it needs those spheres fitting, some brake pads and possibky some welding done.

[wuvvum]

dollywobbler, on 14 Nov 2014 - 1:02 PM, said:

Our own Alex G gets quoted on the Beeb. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-30049739

I have to say I don't normally "get" Twitter or its users, but when a man's profile pic shows a C5 being loaded into the back of an Allegro estate, I'm prepared to make an exception...