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[cort16]

I did what you do after getting a years mot on your car and pulled it all to bits. I took the interior out the cortina as it's rattly and bogging. I want to get the carpet cleaned and remove the centre console. It requires about 8 screw to fit it all I found 3, which would explain all the squeaking . There's welding to be done on the passenger side floor. It's not as bad as the drivers side but I think I'm just going to la la la it until next year. I'm getting gas on Monday and I'm dead keen to get the new seats in hence the interior tidy up .

[HMC]

I can't seem to get enough of old fords this year, it's becoming an obsession!! I've got a driveway full of the things and I'm reading about them in my spare time. Can fellow sufferers offer any advice?

[cort16]

Get one that needs a shite load of welding that should put you off for a bit.

[twosmoke300]

He has a ka!

[danthecapriman]

I can't seem to get enough of old fords this year, it's becoming an obsession!! I've got a driveway full of the things and I'm reading about them in my spare time. Can fellow sufferers offer any advice?

Sorry, there's no cure. You must keep buying more.

 

Get one that needs a shite load of welding that should put you off for a bit.

Funnily enough it doesn't! I've tried it and all that happened is I kept buying them and they got bigger and rustier.

[stuboy]

How's the ride on that Mondeo Stuboy? There's not a lot of sidewall there.

hard !!

[The Moog]

Might be worth get chompy blessed or something to rid him of those car breaking demons!

 

Perhaps get CMS to rub his lottery ticket on him to get a positive feedback loop.

[320touring]

Fuckin wordpress just dropped an hour of writing!

[Six-cylinder]

I went to Stowe Gardens today with the Citroen Club, noticed this in the next field belonging to a farm.

 

[Six-cylinder]

The Citroen DS Rally is only 5 miles from home so in spite of the rain I have managed to get 4 of our Citroens to the event today.

 

[catsinthewelder]

We need to see more of that GS,  lots more

[Six-cylinder]

We need to see more of that GS,  lots more

 

I am just learning to trust it and then may venture a bit further away from home.

 

[Six-cylinder]

We need to see more of that GS,  lots more

 

My problem is I like driving my Visa more and aways get over 50 mpg. The Visa did not come to Shitefest because of the bodywork repairs grew to something much larger than planned.

 

[fordperv]

I can't seem to get enough of old fords this year, it's becoming an obsession!! I've got a driveway full of the things and I'm reading about them in my spare time. Can fellow sufferers offer any advice?

You are doomed there is no cure, the next step is spending every free bit of cash and time working on them, if it gets as bad as you becoming an osf nobber local shiters will stage an Intervention

[Lacquer Peel]

 

12 year old 80k cambelt in "not that bad" shock, not sure if the cracking means it's jiggered. The OE VAG tensioner and water pump are serviceable.

[tooSavvy]

Ohhh.. 'Savvy[belt] Sweepstakes' place yrr bets

 

TS

[JohnK]

Currently finding myself looking at Mercedes CLK's of around the 2000 vintage. It's not proving easy.

 

I has settled on the following criteria -

 

- Decent engine (3.2 ideally)

- Leather

- As little rust as possible

 

Unfortunately what I'm finding is that the CLK 320's I look at, which tick the boxes for me are all rusty. The smaller CLK 200 and 230 seem to be in better nick.

 

Does anybody have any experience of the smaller capacity, Kompressor engines? I know nothing about these newfangled Merc's.

 

Am I just buying a massive headache if I do take the plunge?

[320touring]

The kompressors can be tuned by fitting a smaller compressor pully.

 

Thusly:

 

WCPGW?

 

Buy on body condition- mechanicals are the least of your worries

[dollywobbler]

I have started a fresh series of dreadful road tests. First up, Joe's veggie people mover.

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[barrett]

Almost bought this today. Didn't. That's never happened before. Maybe I'm cured?

[anonymous user]

I can only assume it was "that bad" or "how much!", there is no cure, I thought you knew that already

Was that the Bristol Classic Car show auction? 

[barrett]

Bit of both. Went for £650 which is more than we would spend. And yes, it was. I hate car shows.

[Coprolalia]

Going through the service book for the Octavia.

1.8t petrol, 1 owner, 11 years old, 80k, 10 stamps. 20+ receipts. 18 receipts from Halfords.

It's had a new dual mass flywheel at 50k, 3 clutches, 2 alternators, 2 cambelts... The list goes on.

 

I am never taking a car to Halfords.

[twosmoke300]

I'm never buying a vag car !

[nacho man]

Some kind* friendly* soul has keyed my missus Yaris.

 

This is after some G3 buffing action

 

 

I got 95% of it out using my cheapo silverline rotary polisher, using a small waffle pad it did a brill job.

 

 

Is there any other compounds which might take the last scratch out or I am risking it too much??? And will end up hitting the primer.

 

 

I am mega happy now(not when I first saw it, my missus was in tears and I was planning on making some homemade ied's for anyone who got too close) as it looked like it would need both doors painting.

[ruffgeezer]

I cleaned the Berlingo and swapped it onto some more sensible tyres ready to put it on Faceache for sale:

 

 

I think it looks pretty well for it's age & mileage.

 

 

Then today I got a lift over to Bucknall to collect this:

 

 

 

 

It's a 1.4 petrol, it goes ok if a bit of a rattler (hydraulic tappets possibly)

 

 

 

[hairnet]

Almost bought this today. Didn't. That's never happened before. Maybe I'm cured?

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fap fap fap

[vulgalour]

WINDSLAMMER aerofoil and Thule roofrack.  Living the dream.  Now, where can I get a terrible half-rotten wooden trailer with Mini/Somerset wheels to tow behind this?

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

FINEST SCRAPYARD PARTS.  Second-hand glowplug relay bought for £9.99 delivered (new one is £40, I'm chancing a second-hand one will be fine).  Given that the relay was making a clicking noise and you could feel it through the casing when it was playing up I think it's fair to say that's the item that's failed.  Just got to wait until Wednesday for it to arrive so I'll be borrowing Nugget in the meantime.

why? just start the xebra without glowplus- it will start (with a satisfying cloud of clag hopefully )

[Sigmund Fraud]

Bit of both. Went for £650 which is more than we would spend. And yes, it was. I hate car shows.

 

WHAT ? Last time I checked, even the most hanging examples of a 24 were selling for 2-3K euros !