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[skattrd]

Ok, so if the Euro tanks it who's off for some euro chod?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/824129495.htm?ca=7_s

 

Take a look at that motherfucker!!!! Its 1500€ but still, it looks like a flippin brand spanker and CHECK THAT COLOUR ONE TIME!!!

[Ghosty]

I've convinced Old Man to go and look at a Lexus IS200 in Sheffield provided it's still there next week.

 

Ad's gone from Auto Trader: possible 'oh cock' moment. 

 

Square one...

[trigger]

I went to a show yesterday, it rained and everyone left early but before they left I took these on my mobile as I forgot my camera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bobthebeard]

Have finally had a bit of time to have another look at the Mercury Sable to attempt to get to the bottom of the speedometer/transmission issue. Couldn't understand why the 'check engine' light wasn't illuminated..... Oh.... Found out that both the bulb and bulb holder had been removed! That explains why the light didn't, err, light up then! (Not suggesting for a second that Eddy either knew this or did this by the way!) Not that it matters in regard to the problem. I bought it knowing full well that it had the problem.... The EML not being lit matters not, just wondered why it wasn't.

Anyway, one thing of possible interest is that if the car is started from cold, the shift lever moved back and forth through the full range, and then driven, the speedometer works instantly. But then stops again until the car is warm. Maybe a mile or so...

Sort of progress maybe? Am currently suspecting the transmission range sensor as being partly to blame.... Possibly.....maybe.... Although how and why the transmission range sensor can affect the speedometer is as yet unclear.

Still loving the car btw. A nice project and a lovely introduction to American cars. Always fancied one! 😄

[catsinthewelder]

We have progress here of sorts,  the Cherry is back in one piece and booked for an MOT at 11am tomorrow.   It turns out that filling the gearbox by removing the speedo cable and pouring the correct amount into the top is not the clever idea I thought it was as half of it came out of the driveshaft holes.

 

The Disco seems to have moved from a bit broken to very broken and now won't make it to the kids school and back without getting hot and gulping mayo everywhere.  I'm now getting quotes to get someone else to fix it as my shite fixing mojo is low and I frankly CBA.

 

The T2 sold on ebay on Saturday night and the winning bidder turned up with a trailer on Sunday afternoon.  Then left without it as it was more work than he was expecting.  I spent a day exchanging messages with the next bidder and am now waiting on the third.  Current asking is £2250 if anyone knows someone daft enough to buy it.  Happy to take a part ex if it's over 20 years old, working and MOT'ed.

[wuvvum]

Well the problem with the Spacy turned out to be the vacuum pipe from the inlet to the fuel tap that had come off, so that was about a 30 second fix.  The stand is going to be a bit more complicated though - it's too broken to just weld back together without some new metal to reinforce things, so it's going to take some thinking about.  For now I've just removed it completely to make the bike moveable - I'll just have to find something to prop it up against if I need to park it.

[rml2345]

Ok, so if the Euro tanks it who's off for some euro chod?

 

Leave it a week after the Euro tanks and you could probably get that LHD dream motor for a couple of motorway sandwiches.

[Bucketeer]

I'm only one border from Greece and have never been so if someone wants something looking at it would give a good excuse to visit.

 

Also tea, biscuits, sympathy and accommodation available for shiters on a Greece mission.

[Bobthebeard]

Whilst admiring a 1989 LWB landrover that belongs to a friend I noticed that the registration number on the rear was different to the one on the front! Two letters were transposed. As in TWD on the front, TDW on the rear. He has owned it for nine years, never noticed and it has passed all the MOT's like that. Nor has ANPR ever pinged up a stop. Amazing. (Well, to me anyway!) It seems that the front plate is actually correct.

[forddeliveryboy]

Which leads me to wonder, how effective are automatic anprs? Is there a dyslexia bug a programmer has let loose in the system? Or has he just driven it on back roads?

[Bobthebeard]

Which leads me to wonder, how effective are automatic anprs? Id there a dyslexia bug a programmer has let loose in the system? Or has he just driven it on back roads?

He drives it all over the place towing a trailer for his mini digger business. I assume the plate on the trailer is actually correct though, thus avoiding ANPR triggers. Even so, he drives it without a trailer at times. Nine years though....

[hairnet]

sounds like he llives where there arent any

[Bobthebeard]

sounds like he llives where there arent any

Preston... Must be quite a few!

[Bobthebeard]

If he's been driving it into central London every day, I'm surprised.

If he's been driving it like a good boy out in the sticks for 9 years... not that surprised. Even less so if the trailer reg matches the correct reg.

 

What vehicle does the incorrect reg come back as on askmid?

Mainly driven around Lancashire/Lake District/Yorkshire. Will ask him to check askmid though out of interest. I can't remember the first part of the reg so can't do it myself.

[andy18s]

As long as both reg numbers are road legal the ANPR wouldn't give a shit.....

[phil_lihp]

Dropped the 940 in for its MOT this morning, had a chat with Bob the mechanic who does all my cars now and heard myself utter the fateful words 'I can't think of anything it would fail on' - oops.  In all honesty though, although the front tyres are a bit crap but legal (next thing on my list to change) and there's a small leak on a power steering pipe which was an advisory last year so will be again as I haven't done anything about it yet, otherwise it's pretty sorted so fingers crossed.  

 

I've ordered a shiny new heater matrix for it from Latvia of all places for £18 - bit of a gamble admittedly, hopefully it won't turn out to be made of old Fanta cans and silly string.  We'll see.  If it lasts a couple of years I'll be happy, it's got to be better than the current one which looks rather crusty and is providing a small but consistent supply of water for the driver's footwell.

 

I was also pleased with managing to fix the broken clutch pedal pivot on the master cylinder last week by dismantling it properly and superglueing it back together - it's held up for a couple of hundred miles so far, hopefully it'll mean I don't need to faff around changing the master cylinder after all.

[Bobthebeard]

As long as both reg numbers are road legal the ANPR wouldn't give a shit.....

That is true... Hadn't thought of that!

[panhard65]

Changed the auto transmission fluid on the hearse today. The local Vauxhall dealer was so hopeless they didn't even know what the transmission filter was as they told me it didn't have one. I got one from the local transmission rebuilders in the end. I doubt it had ever been changed and the old fluid stinks something awful. Fresh fluid in it now so it is nearly ready for it's first show outing with the classic hearse register a week on Saturday.

[alf892]

and if the vehicle that rear belongs to is parked up off road somewhere some poor sod is wondering why dvla are insisting it must be in use...................

[andy18s]

That's true as well,although if the car was being spotted by the same few camera's sort of regularly then I'm sure a traffic car would have been sat there at some point..

[forddeliveryboy]

This is the trouble letting computers having anything to do with laws.

[Bobthebeard]

and if the vehicle that rear belongs to is parked up off road somewhere some poor sod is wondering why dvla are insisting it must be in use...................

Or someone got a speeding fine etc.... Genuine mistake though. He had just never noticed, as 8 MOT testers didn't either. He is getting a correct plate made up later today apparently.

[Ghosty]

So much for square one...

 

Last night I was browsing cars on eBay just out of interest seeing as that Lexus I mentioned disappeared. 

 

I noticed this ad: 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDI-A4-QUATTRO-SPORT-2-6-MANUAL-RETRO-CLASSIC-4X4-/201373472498?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2ee2cb56f2

 

and showed it to Old Man.

 

Today, we all got in the Bini and went about 7 miles:

 

 

We were met with this:

 

 

 

We've had a good look round and there's a good, honest car under the questionable decals and numberplates (seems the ad photos are a few months old). Needs a good clean and a few trivial bits, but it drives smooth and it's not been messed about or anything. Got the price down to £1150 which is pretty good for 77k - there's a knackered blue one with big wheels and on 150k up for £795 on the bay of E.

 

Collectionage tomorrow, no thread but maybe a pez station shot if I'm lucky.

 

As such, the Civic is for sale.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

!!!!!! Is that what those are worth? Is it a V6 petrol?

[M'coli]

Cavalier, Metro an Pug 205 are no more, scrapped today.

[RobT]

Cavalier, Metro an Pug 205 are no more, scrapped today.

On the plus side, space and money to buy new shite. Wot u looking for?

[Lord Sterling]

Took Merc to garage to get the steering tracked but it turns out that one track-rod end is siezed so will be replaced.

[danthecapriman]

This actually happened yesterday but, I got up early and took the Mercury down the road to a classic car specialists workshop to get some problems sorted. I went early to avoid traffic (the car cuts out every time you take your foot of the gas so traffic can be a nightmare!).

So the drive down was bliss, empty roads, bright sunshine and a brilliant car to drive - lovely!

I got down there nice and early and had about an hour to kill before anyone arrived to give the car to, so I had some fun on the empty roads around the industrial estate.

 

Big engine + shit handling + empty roads = f*****g great fun!!

 

This car really is a great way to piss a load of money up the wall! Just aswell as the bill for the work I'm having done looks like it's going to be eye watering!

[Ghosty]

!!!!!! Is that what those are worth? Is it a V6 petrol?

Yep, 2.6 V6, 150bhp, same as the Audi 80 and 100 IIRC. There's a later 2.8 with 190ish. Neither come up that often.

It goes pretty bloody well.