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[Bren]

SD1 has just fired up with the fiesta battery. A whiff of easy start helped a little.

 

Now I need to sort the dripping top hose and find out why the fuel level sender has died - methinks a broken wire.

[dollywobbler]

I took the BX to a local Citroen specialist to see about doing some jobs to get it through an MoT. Turns out it needs quite a bit more than I'd imagined...

 

We can rebuild him!

 

Oh dear. Wazzup? Is the pressure regulator still leaking?  

[derskine]

Removed Pedal box, carb, coil, interior trims, steering column, servo + master cyl and rear lights tonight from the red 340.

Going to be weighed in tomorrow, good riddance, it genuinely does reek of piss inside.

[wuvvum]

On the way into work today I ended up behind a Maserati Ghibli.  A new one.  I wasn't aware such a thing existed, but assume it's a replacement for the Quattroporte.  It looked to be only a few months old, but was making a nasty grinding noise from the nearside front wheel.  Plus ça change...

 

In other news, the Rover of Doom seems to have developed an oil leak, which appears to be coming from the vicinity of the turbo.  Arseflaps.

[Jim Bergerac]

On the way into work today I ended up behind a Maserati Ghibli.  A new one.  I wasn't aware such a thing existed, but assume it's a replacement for the Quattroporte.  It looked to be only a few months old, but was making a nasty grinding noise from the nearside front wheel.  Plus ça change...

 

It's meant to fit in below the Quattroporte. A sort of Maserati alternative to high spec BMW 5-Series.

 

Cast Iron future shite.

[CreepingJesus]

All this tyre pressure talk,i have just gone to check mine and yes all down from 32psi 3 tyre's at around 20 and 1 down to 10 psi.

 

Could it be the cold weather?

Quite probably. The constant cycle of freezing, and being run up to temp doesn't help them. They settle back down in the end, usually about March.

[explosive-cabbage]

 

Read more of the Lada Samara weld-a-thon here...

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/8827-lada-samara-let-the-weld-a-thon-begin-again/page-14?do=findComment&comment=671774

[dugong]

HArDCORE

[stuboy]

come to conclusion that works new pug 2008 crossover 'eco' mode is bonkers

[Geep]

Daughter phoned to say her Matiz lost drive/made a horrible noise when she turned in to junction. She got it towed back and put on drive but before I drove 100 miles to sort it, I said try and find out what it is or what exactly happened. A friend of hers had a look today and she sent me this pic.

 

 

 

 

Thoughts of broken CV joint/gearbox and laying on cold wet ground for a few hours now eliminated.

 

Chap she knows will do it for her today. Final report later tonight but fingers crossed all will be well.

 

*Why does it always upload pics in landscape?

[Asimo]

^^^ Needs a ratchet strap, that.

[alf892]

its only a matiz........cable ties will do shirley?

[Wackeldackel]

At work today, the smug smarmy S class merc driving property developer/doctor's husband mentioned in my spotted thread passed by to look at some work being done on their latest acquisition, a former pub/hotel in a little village. Me being nosey I chanced my arm and engaged him in conversion about his Mercedes and I wheedled my way inside the former function room of this former pub to be greeted with the following;

 

 

 

 

 

 

The red one is a 1954 Volvo 444, there's a Porsche 924 and 928 in there too, the early W126 S class mercedes I previously photographed and just for good measure a special edition smart car. Special edition how I'm not sure.

 

Was going to put this in the grumpy thread, grump being I wasn't allowed to lift the covers and see anything properly.

 

edited due to general fat fingeredness and stupid photo bucket WANKER¥£&&TOSSRAG$@^bollocks, and also because TABLET.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Dull

 

 

Shiny

 

 

Was attacked with a buffer. Looks good but really needs painting

 

[fordperv]

Good old Ford fade to pink, looks nice with a polish

[barrett]

Oh dear. Wazzup? Is the pressure regulator still leaking?

Citroen man's guess is that it is the flow valve (is that what it's called) that is leaking and dripping over the regulator.. It'll all be cleaned up to check, if it's the regulator then it should be an easy fix. The coupling on the steering has gone, loads of play and a frightening tendency to veer off course. Both front uprights (dunno what you call them in BX terms) are leaking and have gone off-centre from the hubs. And various other things.

Good news is that a thorough poke around underneath didn't reveal any rot, and after a blat up the bypass he declared the engine and box to be sweet (but we all knew that).

 

I don't suppose any of the previous owners on here know if/when the cambelt was last done?

[dollywobbler]

I've a feeling Minimad had one put on it. I didn't, which suggested it must have been done fairly soon before I bought it.

[derskine]

Hopefully get 340 sorted tonight, need to take starter off and fit a new screw and some loctite to the solenoid, one appears to have disappeared, causing the solenoid to flap about and cause non starting and some strange noises.

Problem is I need to get the car into the unit and it's parked 40m away, the starter is pretty much off so it'll need to be bump started - fun.

[cort16]

I recon I'm going to have to sell the CL500 in the new year. Hopefully I can latch onto some new year YOLO I want a v8 spirit and shift it. It's not that I don't like it or don't want to keep. If it fitted in my lockup it'd be a different story but because Harry Fuckknuckle here didn't consider that before bidding on it it's now sitting on my drive where it's

 

A: A pain in the hole to get off the drive because it's in front of my Juke and I have to fuck about swapping them around if I want to use it.

B: My Mrs can't get the pram with cort16 JNR down the drive because there's a sodding great CL500 sitting clogging it up.

C: My Juke's weak arsed handbrake is barely clinging on sitting behind the Merc on my steep drive and I fear it's going to let go and run someone over or launch itself into the garden across the street if I keep doing it.

 

If I had a car that'd go in my lockup then on the days I wanted to use it I could drive the Juke down to the lockup, take car out, put Juke in and be on my merry way.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I recon I'm going to have to sell the CL500 in the new year.

 

The AS-approved solution would be to sell the Juke and replace it with yet another financially devastating old(ish) Merc ! Perhaps an W210 E55 estate, for maximum family-friendliness ?

[cort16]

The CL500 and Juke are quite similar in the fact that when you mention you own them people say "oh god, you didn't buy one of them did you" but for different reasons.

[DVee8]

Spent the afternoon washing and polishing the modern for our long weekend up in Volvoshire.

Heading up to Dalbeattie

 

Any SVM from around there?

I checked the tyre pressures,all down 5-10psi.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yo Cort, have you still got that green Cortina? Whats going on with it?

[oman5]

Mrs Oman said "would you like some bits for the allegro for christmas? just tell me what you need"

 

God I love her so much

[vulgalour]

Today I helped mahandle an Italian's shaft** and poked a Princess.  Then I started work on restoring a (pedal) train and now I'm sat with a glass of mulled wine and some steak.  I feel that today I am winning.

 

 

 

 

**Alfa Romeo Prop

[cort16]

Yo Cort, have you still got that green Cortina? Whats going on with it?

 

Yip still got it. It's MOT ran out in June and I found the driver side floor was all chewy when I started poking around with it.  This happened just as CortJNR arrived so I've been working on it an hour here and there. I recon I've done the welding (even with my jamming welders best efforts to fuck me up) but it needs discs, pads, front springs, a rear wheel bearing and by the looks of it some brake pipes. I've got all the stuff for it sitting in my lockup but decided just to leave it in there until the weather gets a bit better. I've got ZERO interest in fucking around with it just now so I'll maybe get a day on it at Christmas then farm the rest out in the new year. 

[beko1987]

I recon I'm going to have to sell the CL500 in the new year. Hopefully I can latch onto some new year YOLO I want a v8 spirit and shift it. It's not that I don't like it or don't want to keep. If it fitted in my lockup it'd be a different story but because Harry Fuckknuckle here didn't consider that before bidding on it it's now sitting on my drive where it's

 

A: A pain in the hole to get off the drive because it's in front of my Juke and I have to fuck about swapping them around if I want to use it.

B: My Mrs can't get the pram with cort16 JNR down the drive because there's a sodding great CL500 sitting clogging it up.

C: My Juke's weak arsed handbrake is barely clinging on sitting behind the Merc on my steep drive and I fear it's going to let go and run someone over or launch itself into the garden across the street if I keep doing it.

 

If I had a car that'd go in my lockup then on the days I wanted to use it I could drive the Juke down to the lockup, take car out, put Juke in and be on my merry way.

Can you not leave a modern in gear?

[cort16]

Yes I do leave it in gear but the drive is REALLY steep.  I can't think it'll be good for the car to sit with all it's weight sitting in gear.

[drum]

Discovered my aldi is shite in the snow tonight. Might have to invest in those snow sock things to avoid being stuck at the bottom of a gentle incline this winter.

[skattrd]

Discovered my aldi is shite in the snow tonight. Might have to invest in those snow sock things to avoid being stuck at the bottom of a gentle incline this winter.

 

Snow tyres?