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[vulgalour]

soft top pedal car on top of the shed next to the Acadyane as well.  Nice spottings.

[John F]

John F, on 16 Nov 2014 - 7:06 PM, said:

My bloody Discovery seems to take gleeful pleasure in finding new and inventive ways of pissing out its coolant.

 

Two years ago it blew its head gasket. Then about a year ago it needed a new radiator, which developed into its own mini epic as the supplier sent me a defective item & I was taking the Disco to Austria two days later - new one arrived just in time. This was followed this summer by a leaking P gasket, which took ages to diagnose. Last week its water pump failed. Now it's shat its radiator again.

 

Bastard.

 

Wow.

 

After much searching through a year's worth of receipts and my email inbox, I finally got in touch with the radiator supplier - Budget Radiators (ebay shop). The chap there took my word for the defect being a manufacturing fault (leaking from crimped seam) and is going to send me a new radiator out, free of charge, no quibbles.

 

I was expecting a long & drawn-out battle, with the supplier wanting to see the rad & probably having to forward it to the manufacturer for their comments, leaving me with the Disco off the road for the duration or having to source a rad from somewhere else... I have to say, I'm impressed by Budget Radiators' customer service ethos.

[EssDeeWon]

 Budget Radiators (ebay shop).

 

Well done, but the above would ring alarm bells to me. Hopefully the next one last's longer than a year.

[John F]

EssDeeWon, on 17 Nov 2014 - 1:32 PM, said:

Well done, but the above would ring alarm bells to me. Hopefully the next one last's longer than a year.

 

Hehe yep, although their non-ebay outfit is called Northern Radiators and they have quite a good reputation 

[AlabamaShrimp]

I got my new fiesta radiator from them. Bit expensive but very nice

[DVee8]

Barn find

 

http://www.newsroom24.co.uk/property-with-hidden-treasure/

[dieselassist]

been doing the rounds on t'internet that 'barn find' story for 4 or 5 years; theres no truth to it 'welded shut barn door' - I cant remember the exact 'truth behind the BS story' now, as I wearied of reading about it as it pops up every 2 years agin on t'internet...

[overrun]

Barn find WOW

 

http://www.newsroom24.co.uk/property-with-hidden-treasure/

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/barnfind.asp

[spike60]

I've seen those pics of the barn find cars before on an urban exploration site called 28 days later. They were said to be in basement of a derelict but pretty secure chateau in Belgium. They were on the Alfa forum a couple of years back, the cars and chateau are owned apparently.

[spike60]

They look the same pics as I've seen before and the reg plates look Portuguese more than Belgian. Certainly seem to be more bull than cars wherever they are or were, Umpteen urban legends about them it seems.

[nacho man]

I have just picked this up for the princely some of 1100 quid of a mate of a mate. Seems a nice drive. But was mega books to tax it so it's being done monthly.

 

 

[Bren]

ST 170 - nice but not cheap to run.

[EssDeeWon]

I do like those ST170's in that grey, looks a nice tidy standard example Mr Dant.

 

Like MK4 XR3i's these will become hard to find in a few years.

[tooSavvy]

Slipped over the 'snake pass', Sheffield to Ashton, today. First time.

 

...wet under trees, foggy on t'top, and a fabulous panorama of Manch - in the far distance - but vivid in sunlight, whereas I was in grey overcast.

 

No stopping place so no piccie... but it DID happen

 

Fabulous... 'Sally traffic' always flags up trouble over there... a broken down lorry would just about do it!

 

 

TS

[spike60]

I went over Snake Pass a couple years ago, what I remember most is every few hundred yards there'd be a hole in the dry stone wall and some flowers with a card saying "Daddy".

[Mike D]

My old mk2 mondeo came back tonight, 2 1/2 years after I gave it to my mates dad as his car got nicked and burned out. It's up to 158K on its game of cambelt roulette, good going I reckon! It doesn't really seem much grimmer than when it went away, I might see if it'll chance another test and use it as a work shed next year.

[DSdriver]

Just got back from a weekend in Devon using the XM. It doesn't make an interesting story because there were absolutely no problems other than me spilling coffee all over myself and the drivers seat at dour A303 "services"

Exeter is ace if you suddenly find yourself in need of a haircut on a Sunday, unlike Honiton on a Saturday.

[wuvvum]

This almost went in the grin thread.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30083726

[catsinthewelder]

Today has been a day of punctures,  the oldest van at work ( a 13 plate Boxer with 52k) was looking somewhat lopsided this morning with a nail in it's offside rear so we wazzed some air in and dropped it off at the tyrefitters.  Then this evening I'd just settled down when my old boss phoned saying he was stuck with a flat on the Suzuki pickup 10 miles north of here.  I went out with the Cherry, a crap torch and the jack from an old LDV and we soon had him on his way.  That was a bit of a win as I'm a contractor for them now so was told to put 3 hours down for getting him out of the shit.

 

I'm not sure why but since I started at the van hire this is the 4th light commercial I've been offered money to fix (not including the stuff at work),  nobody has asked me to fix a car.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Just thought I'm really looking forward to going to college tomorrow. Not to do any work but I get to drive the fiesta a long way* there but slow and fast but short on the way home.

 

Really been enjoying driving it lately. Much better then the 10 minute trips to work it got before and the longer runs has made it drive proper nice

[Largactil]

The Bini departed today for life with a new owner... My sole transport is now the LNA 

 

 

The question is; to fake-Serck or not to fake-Serck the plates?

 

[richardmorris]

Just found the acadiane place on google maps. It has a 2CV to keep it company

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@49.911143,3.895205,3a,75y,101.69h,77.35t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sv1BDB8aUtaSvI8aCB9yQUQ!2e0

[DSdriver]

Is the sudden haircut thing an expression down your way, or do you just not look in the mirror too often?

 

Also, how did the parrot cope with the weekend?

I last went to the barbers when on holiday in August. I hadn't noticed how long and scruffy my hair was getting, being a normally scruffy person anyway, but once I became aware it started to annoy me intensely. Most of the barbers in Tonbridge are pretty rubbish so try and get it cut when we are away. The simple solution would be to go away more often.

Parrot enjoyed himself enormously, he spent a lot of time playing under a chest of drawers in our room giggling and muttering to himself. At 9pm went straight to sleep whereas he usually behaves like a small child at "bed time".

He seems to enjoy going out in cars, but this is the first time he has been in the XM which doesn't have such a low window line as the Safari so I put his cage on a mini-pallet to raise it up a bit so he could see out. When we are getting ready we just put his travel cage down next to his big cage and he goes straight in. Whenever possible we leave the cage door open for him to come and go as he pleases so he regards it more as a gymnasium/sleeping/eating place than a cage/prison.

I think his "homing" sense still works because he got excited when we got a mile or two from home

[fordperv]

I miss my parrot, she was a yellow fronted amazon with a huge personality, DSdriver is that your parrot in your avatar?

[hairnet]

LOLPARROT

[DSdriver]

I miss my parrot, she was a yellow fronted amazon with a huge personality, DSdriver is that your parrot in your avatar?

 

Yes, that's him. As you may have gathered I am not really cool about caged animals and birds so life is a constant battle trying to stop him from chewing through sofas and cables and unwrapping customers orders that are ready to post.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Dragged this beauty out of the unit this morning, and drove her to work :

 

 

Found a parking space right next to the bosses new Jag XKR and felt like a proper WINNER for having the nicer* of the two British* cars

[Skizzer]

I think your parrot needs his own thread.  Parrots rock.

 

 

Edit:  This isn't a sarcastic way of saying 'get him out of the News 24 Thread', he's welcome anywhere as far as I'm concerned

[fordperv]

I feel the same about cages, her cage was always open when she was with us so she could pretty much do what she wanted, she passed 2 years ago, she came to us as a rescue because a complete bastard had smacked her out of the air and broke her wing and kept her cooped up in a small round cage, which she obviously held onto the side of all the time so she could never stand up tall, mrs fp's aunt saw her in this state and removed her from the evil woman and trusted her to us. This aside she was the most loving bird who I used to take outside when working on my car she couldn't fly so she used to sit watching, she picked up chuntering and also a car winding over and refusing to start, she also loved my dogs. I'm starting to waffle now, you'll have to pop a picture up of him.

[DSdriver]

Ah, we need a shameless cars and birds thread.