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[xtriple]

The big green bogey is no longer residing outside my gaff but living in splendour in a lovely carport in 'millionaires row'! She looks very happy there with a Mercedes for company...

 

My friend Heather saw the Bentley today for the first time and twigged why I was asking about garages and offered the use of her carport. Not perfect (but then what is?)  but certainly better than being outside in the rain with every chance one of the jealous neighbours will do it some harm.

 

Carport is closed on three sides and as safe as safe can be. Long may it continue...

 

Also, as soon as the current tenant sods off, I'm having his flat: she lives in a gorgeous house with a huge self contained flat on the side and the current giy is never there and uses it to store push bikes!

[anonymous user]

Is the pushbike storing tenant our very own Cavcraft I wonder?

[Jerzy Woking]

Kitted up for my 60 mile ride into work. Back in the house within five minutes because of these:

 

 

 

Fuckstix.

[stuboy]

mate looking at my brakes just sent me these pics... i said went bang and got hot

[xtriple]

The storage lasted one night and it got evicted. Too tight for space and she's right to be fair. It's now in a chaps garage having its oil changed 'cos it is smoking like a bitch on start up and sometimes on the over-run.

 

Oh dear....

[panhard65]

Nice looking Bentley 8 going through Exeter car auctions tomorrow. I have been told the reserve is 2k. I might have to persuade my dad that it is time we had 2 great big thirsty heaps in the garage

[cort16]

Xtriple if it's smoking you should have some come back if you bought it from a dealer .

[EssDeeWon]

New programme on tonight at 7.30 called wheels steals and deals.

 

Its on ITV for 30 minutes (so a 20 minute programme) but it might be worth a look...

[Bear]

The storage lasted one night and it got evicted. Too tight for space and she's right to be fair. It's now in a chaps garage having its oil changed 'cos it is smoking like a bitch on start up and sometimes on the over-run.

 

Oh dear....

 

Arse. Overrun would make me ponder turbo walruses. Sorry, seals. I always imagine a Bentley to above mere seals.

 

Dealer sale, yes, so you should be able to get it sorted?

[Matt]

Not an interesting car but the Swift has now hit one decade of MOT's without failing. This was it's first with more than one advisory though, wheel bearing and exhaust which is annoying as the exhaust was new last year. Might be getting another one next week...

[purplebargeken]

Yep, get the dealers to sort as they have an obligation to do so. Mind you if they fucked you about over a mark on the paint/small ding.......

[Bren]

Back to the doctors again.

 

Another spirometry test. More steroids and salbutamol.

 

And rather ominously, I was told to go back to my GP to arrage a "trace." (ECG).

 

It's playing on my mind a bit now.

[vulgalour]

Seems to be a day for it parking today.  Followed an Audi into the car park and saw the car swing towards a parking spot.  No way was it going to clear the Mondeo in the adjacent bay, I thought, and watched as said Audi plowed into the back corner of the Mondeo hard enough to move it about a foot.  Audi driver straightened up in the bay, got out and was utterly mortified at what they'd just done exclaiming 'I don't know why I did that!'.

 

No, I don't know why you did it either!  Driver did have the good grace to hang around for the other driver, they had taken quite a lot of paint off both cars.  The Mondeo looked to have been walloped a few times in its life so perhaps it was just an invisible car.  No photographs because I'm not a complete monster and the driver showed a significant degree of remorse at their actions.

[Matt]

Today the Swift celebrated it's tenth MOT pass in a row by sticking a brake on of it's own accord and stranding me in the middle of nowhere.

 

*headdesk*

[wuvvum]

Just been for a spin in the red Rover.  Temp gauge is holding rock steady at just under half, the heater is blowing hot and no odd gurgling noises from the cooling system.  The light coating of mayo that was on the oil cap last night has also disappeared.

 

I have no clue.

[Bear]

Condensation?

[oldcars]

Just been for a spin in the red Rover.  Temp gauge is holding rock steady at just under half, the heater is blowing hot and no odd gurgling noises from the cooling system.  The light coating of mayo that was on the oil cap last night has also disappeared.

 

I have no clue.

I know the answer, i started to fix the omghgf on the Rialto last night, this in turn has fixed a Rover. Its how it works.

[rml2345]

Airlock in the cooling system maybe?

[andy18s]

Just spotted on faceache.

Looking for offers over scrap value....

[trigger]

It's already gone by the looks of it.

[andy18s]

Didn't think it would take too long to get snapped up tbh

[Richard]

I had one of those once, I still have the scars.

[richardmorris]

I'm in France at the moment on holiday. It's a struggle sometimes but one has to put up with draft leffe.

 

But car is now filthy after it rained and local farmers had been driving tractors about. I also did 60 miles on a hired mountain bike today (decathlon rockrider thing) on the local reclaimed railway between guise and hirson. Didn't see a single other person in five hours!

[Vin]

Tonight 9pm on BBC4 - Timeshift     http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06csy8c

 

"The Engine that powers the world"

 

The surprising story of the hidden powerhouse behind the globalised world - the diesel engine, a 19th-century invention that has become indispensable to the 21st century. It's a turtle versus hare tale in which the diesel engine races the petrol engine in a competition to replace ageing steam technology - a race eventually won hands down by diesel.

Splendidly, car enthusiast presenter Mark Evans gets excitedly hands on with some of the many applications of Mr Diesel's - yes, there was one - original creation, from vintage submarines and tractors to locomotive trains and container ships. You'll never feel the same about that humble old diesel family car again.

[stripped fred]

Very impressed with my £2 a pop wiper blades from wilko's. Not sure how long they will last but at that price I'm not too bothered. They work well. Recommended +++

[RobT]

Thanks for the tip. I change blades every six months (assuming I keep the car that long) so will give Wilko ones a go.

[Jazoli]

Borrowed the wife's astra to go to Huddersfield today, 200 mile round trip doing about 85mph for the most of it and got this

 

 

I was quite impressed as all vauxhalls are shite apparently

[Lacquer Peel]

I've been helping* my friend get his Yaris MoT test ready, a garage had it up on a ramp and refused to MoT it because the fuel filler neck was "dangerous". I can see why now... The vapour pipe disintegrated when I touched it.

 

 

The replacement was a plastic one from a 2004 model off eBay, is the original metal because it's a Japan built car?

I thought all Mk1 Yarises sold in Europe were made in France for some reason.

[Pillock]

 

 

Borrowed the wife's astra to go to Huddersfield today, 200 mile round trip doing about 85mph for the most of it and got this

 

I was quite impressed as all vauxhalls are shite apparently

I'm guessing a diesel, by the redline?

Mine is about 10% optimistic, it regularly gets 56mpg on the computer but filling up hovers around 51-52mpg. Actually seems better at 80 than 70 when conducting trials on my own personal motorway.

[alf892]

Brother in law's Daimler 250 spluttered to a stop the other day. Running fine and then begun to misfire which rapidly worsened until it couldn't pull itself along. It happened near a classic car specialist so they collected it for diagnosis. On collection it started and rang fine.

 

Yesterday they rang with diagnosis..........piston/ ring wear causing crankcase compression......one of the effects of which was to cause oil to be forced into the tubes around the plug thereby drowning the plug. Compression test carried out showing lowish compression on 3 pots. Bloke reckoned it didn't hold compression on the low ones as well.........

 

I fetch up today for a look at it and the fella immediately seems to take me for a twat..........I arrived in a bini and was in work attire of shirt and tie.........so I understand why.

 

I thought I would play the part and let him give me his spiel and then quizzed him a bit on his diagnosis.........probing the poorly reasoned bits. I happily admit to enjoying his discomfort as he realised I may not be a complete twat.

 

I was a mechanic for a long time.........and was a tinkerer pre teenage so I'm well able to spot a bullshitter from a good distance. I also quite enjoy discussing possibilities for any faults with like minded people.

 

I don't think he was too surprised when I asked him to just reassemble and we will see how it goes. If he hadn't dived in so deep and so quick he could have had a lucrative new customer.