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[purplebargeken]

The Toledo looks to be French Blue.

[captain_70s]

Overall it just needs a minor spruce up, interior cleaning up and then I can enjoy sub £1k 70's motoring for a bit.

 

You got THAT for under a grand?!?! Fuck my fucking life...

[trigger]

The exact same thing happened to a work mates A4 in the works car park last year. Thank god it was only at low speed, I think it's the potholes that cause it.

 

 

[Skizzer]

Ouch, glad that wasn't any worse Lord S.

 

Bloggage of a Renault 16 nature. http://wp.me/p1jtbd-z1

 

I'm a bit annoyed with myself. I was having such a jolly time that I pretty much failed to get nice photos of most of the cars I drove.

 

FAME AT LAST!  

 

If you ever want it back for photography or video review purposes, or just to drive around in for a bit, then let me know - I'd be glad of the excuse to drive up there again.

[Skizzer]

JohnK - Toledo - looks fabulous, especially for that money.  Big win.

[Junkman]

I thought German cars are soooo good and never break?

[twosmoke300]

Ha ha ha

[ruffgeezer]

Up to my arms in a dirty, smokey, dieseasal tonight;

 

Horse pooh and oil flavour:

 

 

 

Not this one, but one the same, grey smoke aplenty when starting or revved.

 

The air filter is a matt of straw and dust, the fuel filter is full of rusty red sediment as is the guts of the lift pump. I'm hoping that a drain of the fuel tank and replacing the above will improve the situation.

[dollywobbler]

Went for a lovely drive this evening - just a few miles to collect a bootful of tip-fodder from Skoda_Norman - who is sadly moving away from these parts. Sure you want to go? 

[beko1987]

Well, this happened this morning on the way to work:

 

 

 

It did a "Beko1987 Citroen ZX" on me. Thankfully it happened at low speed as I was going around the roundabout. I went all the way around to avoid a line of traffic that was taking the same road I was heading which was first exit, as I went around the rouandabout I hear a massive CLUNK and the car dropping slightly, I then came to a halt. But as I was still in the middle of the roundabout I accelerated towards the nearest exit and pulled up onto a pavement to avoid being in the way.

 

Upon inspection the the balljoint had given away which now explains why the car felt so wallowy in the last few weeks. Whenever I turned the steering wheel there was never any positive feel in straightening the wheel and it would randomly wander and it got worse.

 

The Merc has been recovered to my mates garage, I have asked him to change the balljoints and arms on both sides, the P/S fluid will also get changed.

 

This also means I'll be on the search for a new wing, it's not noticeably damaged but it has taken out a chunk out where there was rust bubbles. I'll need to try and contact the chap who sold me the diesel wing as I stand a better chance of matching paintwork up. this will also be on top of a new bonnet and hinges as they were wrecked by carelessness.

 

Sigh...

ouch! Thats something that used to worry me in the zx before i changed the balljoints! Good job you werent making progress!

[Ghosty]

I think that happened to Old Man, that or something similar...

[The Moog]

Struggling to get comfy in the 95. Bottom of clutch feels miles away. If I put the seat close enough then hurts right leg.

 

Going to have to have a play with all the levers

[MarvinsMom]

that toledo is such a looker, i am very jealous!

[stuboy]

my mate asked me too tidy up a spare alloy he picked up for his missus shitreon piccashole

sander just took too long..so whipped out my favourite tool..

then got the sander back out..

some primer

paint

lacquer

in sun..

and next to the other wheels

[strangeangel]

on what and are you cheating with van to kent

 

pics niaow!!!

 

No, no vans involved & it's 270 miles to the Chunnel from here!

 

Just me and my 29YO Honda, we even made it home without recourse to the AA

 

[forddeliveryboy]

Lord Sterling, this happened to my mate with the diesel coupe, on a roundabout at 20-ish. Amazingly, his wing survived with only a tiny crease. Plod who arrived said be grateful traffic plod wasn't anywhere near!  Somewhere there's a pic of a German who had this happen at hundreds of kilos an hour - he survived, just.

 

I always wonder whenever I see an approaching 124 if it's being run on a budget, especially when in a little car! England's roads aren't what they used to be, etc...  Glad it wasn't any worse.

[Slappy]

Rescued a team mate who broke herself playing sports by driving her back home, any other cars have what amounts to a button for a clutch like the Mazda 2 (07-64) does?!

[cort16]

I've seen a few  older Merc's over the year with a prolapsed ball joint. More than any other car I can remember seeing it happening on.

I had a wishbone snap on my Passat. That was fun.

[JohnK]

The 190's suffer the same problem. It's recommended as the first thing to change when you buy one if there's no evidence of it being done.

[twosmoke300]

Germans in poor (dangerous ) design shocker !!

 

How about designing a balljoint that is pushed together by the weight of the car so its fail-safe

[worldofceri]

Well, this happened this morning on the way to work:

 

FUUCK!

[purplebargeken]

The Toledo rear light issues will likely be down to the following:

 

i. Dirty connections

 

ii. Poor earth

 

iii. Loose connections

 

iv. Knackered bulbs.

 

Triumph electrics are usually one or two of the above.

[Noel Tidybeard]

The Toledo rear light issues will likely be down to the following:

 

i. Lucas connections

 

ii. Lucas earth

 

iii. Lucas connections

 

iv. Lucas bulbs.

 

Triumph electrics are usually one or two of the above.

FIFY

[vulgalour]

Clutch kit in my watch list available.  Money in the bank.  New clutch coming for the Princess, something it's wanted for THREE YEARS.

[purplebargeken]

I apologise for being less than technically accurate lol ^^

[richardmorris]

Just back from a long weekend in France in the x1/9. 835 miles in four days with no problems apart from a tremendous thunderstorm making the car dirty and parking under an incontinent albatross at the hotel. Oh and I picked up a chip in the windscreen on the way back courtesy of some plank in an audi who cut straight in front of me on the autoroute. Main bugbear was it also being Le Mans weekend so lots of flash harrys in their be-stickered bmws and porsches driving like lunatics.

 

Oh and plus luggage, the little fiat also managed three dozen bottles of wine and a bargain 40 bottle case of kanterbrau!

 

Hotel had a buick park avenue and c6 (plus C5 ) in the carpark the first night!

 

Only other car photos are the fiat surveying Omaha beach and a bright mehari.

[Asimo]

Tesla! Here in the Shire! I had no idea that they made saloons or sold outside of California.

Couldn't resist posing the Honda with it.

 

 

 

It has been there for a few months now* and I had ignored it because I thought it was one of those new-generation Maseratis or Jaguars.  No sign of a charging point so I wonder where it fills up. 

 

edit - *and I have seen it moving!

[anonymous user]

It has been there for a few months now and I had ignored it because I thought it was one of those new-generation Maseratis or Jaguars.  No sign of a charging point so I wonder where it fills up. 

I think you have answered your question before you asked it

[Coprolalia]

Tesla! Here in the Shire! I had no idea that they made saloons or sold outside of California.

Couldn't resist posing the Honda with it.

 

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It has been there for a few months now and I had ignored it because I thought it was one of those new-generation Maseratis or Jaguars.  No sign of a charging point so I wonder where it fills up. 

 

 

 

 

Oooh a Model S. A mate who works in the city is on the waiting list for one.

Some of them don't have charging points, they do some sort of wireless charging by parking over a charging mat you put on the ground of your garage. Others have them hidden behind the passenger side lights like this...

 

 

They've got a mass market one called the Model 3 coming out soon. Looks like this:

May be the only car I'd consider buying new. £25,000 with a range of 200 miles, lifetime warranty on the battery so if it ever fails it gets replaced no quibbles. They've also got some supercharger thing which means you can top up the battery in 20 minutes if it runs dry.

[Coprolalia]

I think the Model S was the safest car NCAP ever tested too. It's an absolute tank with a titanium under tray.

 

Tesla vs concrete block