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[Craig the Princess]

Applejack Allegro = New MoT

 

 

Turquoise = Total fail and years of bodged repairs including riveted repairs to inner sills and the rear floor pan. I fear the crusher awaits (after it's broken for bits).

 

[Angrydicky]

Congratulations on the MOT pass Craig!

 

Shame about the blue one, but I guess you can't save them all, and the Applejack one will benefit from lots of parts I'm sure.

 

Any pictures of the green one? Series 3 Allegros are my favourite!

[Craig the Princess]

Congratulations on the MOT pass Craig!

 

Shame about the blue one, but I guess you can't save them all, and the Applejack one will benefit from lots of parts I'm sure.

 

Any pictures of the green one? Series 3 Allegros are my favourite!

 

I'll take some tonight once I've picked it up from the garage Dicky

[warren t claim]

Mercedes has now passed another MOT!

 

Bonus Superman Megane in the background!

[Craig the Princess]

Congratulations on the MOT pass Craig!

 

Shame about the blue one, but I guess you can't save them all, and the Applejack one will benefit from lots of parts I'm sure.

 

Any pictures of the green one? Series 3 Allegros are my favourite!

 

You asked for it

Sporty steering wheel and a rev counter upgrade

 

And a bonus shot of a friend's car that is here for a bit

[RedSparrow]

Good news on the MOT. That turquoise Allegro looks great - never seen one that colour before, on the net or in real life.

[cobblers]

A bloke I know who paints cars to varying standards for a living in the single garage round the back of his terraced house has quoted me £450 to do a full hit on my T25 which is absolutely bugger all. I was going to paint it myself, but it would need £200 in materials and I'd have to twist my mates arm to let me do it in his workshop when he's quiet which is hard work.

 

He's done me some real nice work but I'm not sure how lucky I'm feeling.

[Craig the Princess]

Good news on the MOT. That turquoise Allegro looks great - never seen one that colour before, on the net or in real life.

 

It does look good, espically after a T-Cut an polish at the weekend. Shame it needs KruJoe amounts of hero welding repairs.

[dollywobbler]

Well, on the plus side - better for it to be broken by enthusiasts who will use the bits than just the whole lot being baled. Or the engine being pinched for a Mini...

[Angrydicky]

Very nice S3 Craig, thanks

 

I think my ideal Allegro spec would be a 2 door Applejack S3 with the cream cloth interior and a 998cc engine with autobox.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Good news on the MOT. That turquoise Allegro looks great - never seen one that colour before, on the net or in real life.

 

It does suit it. It looks a bit like Polynesian Turquoise.

[SambaS]

Good news on the MOT. That turquoise Allegro looks great - never seen one that colour before, on the net or in real life.

 

It does suit it. It looks a bit like Polynesian Turquoise.

 

Polonezian Turquoise???

 

[cms206]

Shame it needs KruJoe amounts of hero welding repairs.

 

I think this is now my new favourite term for a large amount of welding...

[dollywobbler]

Shame it needs KruJoe amounts of hero welding repairs.

 

I think this is now my new favourite term for a large amount of welding...

 

Aye - though I suspect the two Mazzer restos might eclipse it eventually! KruJoe has been pretty darned herioc though. Great stuff.

[Cavcraft]

Had a deal lined up last night which involved exchanging the Merc for something else (modern Ford) and all was going well until potential Merc owner took the oil filler cap off my cap and found a K-sealies embarrassing amount of mayonnaise in there. I'd not looked in ages because the car ran fine. Some rather underpants staining panicking occurred until I got home, did an Internet search and found it's a common condensation problem. So whilst it's a pain in the arse at least it's not an expensive pain in the arse. Could have done without it but there you go!

[cort16]

When I gave my Audi back to the lease company they presented me with a bill for 1230 quids for rectification work. £1230 quid! Okay there was a few teeny scratches here and there and a couple of chips out the alloys but nothing you'd not expect from a car that'd done 40k in two years. I couldn't take that (I like to think I take decent care of my cars) so I sent off a moany faced letter to the finance company. Fair play to them they sent the RAC out to do an independant inspection on it and the report says "The Rac does not agree with the original assessment on all of the points". Bill now reduced to £470 quid. I think that's a result.

[Vin]

Just downloaded this very blurry picture from my phone that I took at the end of last month.

 

Unfortunately I missed the actual 250,000 mile moment, but never the less the Brava has made it

 

[sporty-shite]

I now have a fully functioning info centre! It was just one previous wiring repair behind the clocks that I had to redo.

 

Also due to the fact I have had no fuel guage for the last three months, I have been putting 5 gallons in every 150 miles. Now the gauge is working, I find I have half a tank I didn't know about, too.

 

DOUBLE RESULT!

[Volksy]

SHOCK HORROR!!!!!11!!

 

***Something has gone wrong with the entirly adequate Corolla***

 

After 6 months and about 7000 miles, Horror of Horrors - a dash bulb has gone meaning that only half the rev counter is lit!!!

 

Oh, thumping the dash made it work again. As you were.

[Lankytim]

When I gave my Audi back to the lease company they presented me with a bill for 1230 quids for rectification work. £1230 quid! Okay there was a few teeny scratches here and there and a couple of chips out the alloys but nothing you'd not expect from a car that'd done 40k in two years. I couldn't take that (I like to think I take decent care of my cars) so I sent off a moany faced letter to the finance company. Fair play to them they sent the RAC out to do an independant inspection on it and the report says "The Rac does not agree with the original assessment on all of the points". Bill now reduced to £470 quid. I think that's a result.

 

 

Did a company called JET collect it? I used to do some work for them- they are total bona-fide W A N K E R S .

[dollywobbler]

The BX 'Safari' is on its way! Bit alarmed that the friend who dealt with the collection (not the friend who had the car) has warned me not to cut myself on the 'bodge near the alternator.' Now rather worried that the inner wing may have been cut to allow access to the alternator. Wouldn't surprise me though - it's a pig of a job to change one as I discovered the other day.

 

Speaking of which, the BX Mk1 has its alternator fitted, but no belt. I got sent the wrong one (it's the pump belt - handy to have as a spare) so it's still out of action. Need to investigate some front end clonks as well...

[cort16]

When I gave my Audi back to the lease company they presented me with a bill for 1230 quids for rectification work. £1230 quid! Okay there was a few teeny scratches here and there and a couple of chips out the alloys but nothing you'd not expect from a car that'd done 40k in two years. I couldn't take that (I like to think I take decent care of my cars) so I sent off a moany faced letter to the finance company. Fair play to them they sent the RAC out to do an independant inspection on it and the report says "The Rac does not agree with the original assessment on all of the points". Bill now reduced to £470 quid. I think that's a result.

 

 

Did a company called JET collect it? I used to do some work for them- they are total bona-fide W A N K E R S .

 

Na it was another three lettered auction company.

[cort16]

I was thinking I've not seen luxobarges r us on here for a while. I'm sure I read on here that he was going to stand as a Greek MP or something but that seems so far fetched I'm tending to think I dreamt it.

LUXO WHERE R U?

[cort16]

Hey this this iphone app looks great. You buy a dongle for $40, which you plug into your cars diagnostic socket (i'm guessing obdII) then it bluetooths to your iphone where you can scan for codes, reset lights and stuff via an app.

I was just thinking the other day that if I had a million quid I’d develop this exact thing as with all the MOT malarky going in folk want a nice simple code reader that can self update for new codes and diagnostics via the internet.

 

I think I'm going to buy one to see if it's any good. My 7 series will have plenty of juicy codes for it to get it's teeth into.

 

http://www.lemurmonitors.com/BlueDriver.html

 

[John F]

I was thinking I've not seen luxobarges r us on here for a while. I'm sure I read on here that he was going to stand as a Greek MP or something but that seems so far fetched I'm tending to think I dreamt it.

LUXO WHERE R U?

Nope, he did say he was going to stand as a Greek MP.

[cort16]

Christ have they not got enough problems. Only joking luxo get it up them..

[ashmicro]

Beware! iPhones are VERY prissy about what they will Bluetooth pair with, sometimes they won't even pair with another iPhone!

 

For example, I can't send the photo I took of Helen with my BlackBerry to her iPhone 4S. just not happening. It doesn't like the built-in Bluetooth in her Ka, either.

[cort16]

I've bought one so we'll see what happens. Given their entire device setup is engineered around the iphone specifically you have to presume they've at least tried it*.

[ashmicro]

Hope it works for you. Being the total geek that I am, I'd leave it plugged in permanently, and have live data streaming to the iPhone in a cradle on the dash.

[John F]

Christ have they not got enough problems. Only joking luxo get it up them..

 

I think he plans to hammer a slightly smaller economy over their larger fucked one.