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[twosmoke300]

Mr lobster is right too ! I've always thought that those little 99 a month cars are the only ones that make sense on finance . You are paying for reliable economical transport and nowt else .

A 3 grand car is a noose around your neck in my opinion . Your in too deep if a major failure occurs .

[dollywobbler]

I'm off to a Vintage Sports Car Club trial near Knighton today. Free entry. I probably should have mentioned it earlier but might be a bit of a laugh watching rickety old tin being hurled up muddy hills.

[dollywobbler]

Postcode is LD7 1NL and the action kicks off from half twelve.

[dave21478]

A while back I dug an old set of 12" mini steel wheels out of the scrap pile at the farm for use on the Metro.

 

Yesterday I blezzed them with the knotwheel and painted them up. They came out looking rather smart, I reckon.

 

I also did the standard Metro wheeltrims. They were kerbed and scraped up quite badly. I repaired the cracks by "plastic welding" using an old screwdriver heated up with a blowtorch to melt the cracks back together. I then sanded them down and sprayed them gloss white as they were originally.

 

 

In other news, bloody rodents are playing havoc in the garage. Every time I open a cupboard I find they have eaten stuff and shat everywhere.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Due to total fleet fail, I'm in urgent need of a daily driver... I shall therefore be spending the weekend resurrecting my hideous Lupo, which I rescued from the frag machine six months ago and which has been sitting in a field untouched since then... Expect a long, anti-VW rant later today !

 

Well, it actually hasn't been bad so far... The knackered gearbox is out and I'll hopefully be bolting a replacement gearbox on today. This is out of a Polo 1.4 and has the completely wrong ratios, but I've always* wanted a VW with the equivalent of a 4+E box. Mmm, performance* !

 

Once the thing drives again it will need four legal tyres, an oil change and then it should be ready* for daily use.

 

Pictures of a scruffy, multi-coloured, odd-wheeled pineapple mobile on the hard shoulder of the M27 coming soon...

[purplebargeken]

These are special French rodents who have been assigned especially to harass the english person. They sneer at traps and so on. 

 

They can be encouraged to go and find another victim by the use of garlic and camembert as bribes. Maybe. 

[purplebargeken]

Siggy, get a bloody variomatic on the road man!

[Sigmund Fraud]

Siggy, get a bloody variomatic on the road man!

 

Ena is almost* ready.... Unfortunately it will be no good for my 100 mile commute, especially at 30MPG

[tooSavvy]

I just purkased a 'filteur olio' for MrSavvy, off Amazon, £5 delivered... for a fiat & other $hite.

Will meld well with 4L of fully-syn got @ Homebase.

 

 

TS

[Lord Sterling]

Was browsing eBay when I happend upon a Mk2 Rover 825 SLi at a scrapyard in Birmingham. The reg seemed familar but I couldn't place it:

 

 

Now I'm sure I've seen the car somewhere in Birmingham, however when I stuck the reg into Google I found that the car had previously appeared in an episode of 'Midsomer Murders' (and yes I know, that 'Bergerac' bloke who appears in it had a KV6 Sterling in early episodes)

 

 

I've made enquiries about it. It is a lot nicer body-wise than mine.

[purplebargeken]

Do not tell them about the TV connection as that will inflate the price!

[greengartside]

Indeed it would - I was going through a similar dilemma the other week when a Mk5 Fiesta Zetec-S appeared on evilbay which had appeared on TG back in 2001. Didn't tell the seller as the price would have increased - no doubt about it...

 

In other news, my little Zetec-S is going superbly still. Managed to get 180 miles on £20-ish of fuel so I am over the moon with it!

Not so over the moon when I discovered the gearbox is coated in gear oil. Now I was aware that it's had a new clutch recently so I presumed it was something to do with that. Browsed the forums and they all pointed to a possible gearbox breather issue where the breather unit is mistakenly fitted the wrong way round (the breather unit has an arrow marked on the top to aid installation) - this should face the front of the car. Mine was facing the back. Took it out and turned it 180 degrees so the arrow faces the front of the car. Will see if any more oil leaks out now. Hopefully that's solved it.

[EssDeeWon]

Do not tell them about the TV connection as that will inflate the price!

 

Yes this!!

 

Mention Midsomer connection to the scrapyard and this will be up for ££££££££££££££££££££££££££ before you know it.

 

WOW L@@K FAMOUZ ROVER TV BBC ITV SKY SIMON COWELL FOR SAIL

[richardmorris]

Just been to the annual 2cv duck race in Farnham. No pics of cars but plenty of weirdos spending Sunday morning running up and down river banks.

 

Mine is the drink responsibly team duck flying the Welsh flag and Jolly Roger.

[Bear]

So. Honda use two retaining screws on their discs.

 

I didn't know that. But I'm going to say the absolute belting I gave it yesterday loosened it.

[Parky]

I changed the pads on Mrs P's 500 today. Was surprisingly straightforward once I worked out where the calliper retaining bolts were, and that they were a 10mm hex fitting. First side two hours (!!), second side 20 minutes. Was delighted to see the garage had smothered copper grease on the hub following my moan about being charged for wheel removal at the second service only to find the wheels were siezed on a week later......

 

Had genuine Fiat parts to go back on, made a change as usually i have some no brand replacements to fit and they never quite sit properly if you know what I mean.

 

Bolted up, brakes seem softer but I will assume it's because the pads need to bed in to the disc. Pads today seem to all be chamfered, sure there is a good reason but theoretically means pads have maybe 10 to 20percent less surface area when new. I don't remember them being like that years ago

 

Either way another £100 or so saved.

[twosmoke300]

So. Honda use two retaining screws on their discs.

 

I didn't know that. But I'm going to say the absolute belting I gave it yesterday loosened it.

Two screws , same number as eyes in your head ? 😄

[Ghosty]

On the theme of red Rovers in the media, I've just been to a little car show in Glossop (same old cars every year zzz). There was an L-reg Nightfire Vitesse that had been used in an Autocar test.

[Bear]

Two screws , same number as eyes in your head ?

 

Ha, only one of them works remotely usefully!

 

The second one was revealed when a lump of rust fell off. Then on the other side, two of the screws had stripped heads. Bought an extractor set a while ago, so used it, success. Normally I'd just be yelling and swearing a lot at it and eventually drilling the head off the screw.

[dollywobbler]

Well, that was awesome. What would you do with a 102-year old, 9-litre Mercedes? I had a lovely day.

https://twitter.com/dollywobbler/status/653245286710702080

 

The day started well when I followed this lovely 'Ripple' 2CV into the car park. Owner wasn't very chatty though. Note Dyane in picnic mode.

[skattrd]

112 Ian

[dollywobbler]

I never was any good with numbers...

[Bren]

Was browsing eBay when I happend upon a Mk2 Rover 825 SLi at a scrapyard in Birmingham. The reg seemed familar but I couldn't place it:

Now I'm sure I've seen the car somewhere in Birmingham, however when I stuck the reg into Google I found that the car had previously appeared in an episode of 'Midsomer Murders' (and yes I know, that 'Bergerac' bloke who appears in it had a KV6 Sterling in early episodes)

I've made enquiries about it. It is a lot nicer body-wise than mine.

Soon to be photographed in front of a white background.

[The Moog]

Missus moog tried the merc today and I am not sure it is a success. She admitted she prefers the power and gear changes to her civic. Also said it wasn't as big as she thought it would be.

 

Overall it is a maybe. Going to think about it over the next few days before she makes a decision.

[barrett]

Looks like you were standing in the exact spot I was last year. The Welsh is a great event but it's a long way to go from down here

[catsinthewelder]

I saw your post and ummed and arred but was good and fitted a kichen rather than watching cars that were only half an hour away.

 

Next year I will have spare time to enjoy myself.

[captain_70s]

Any interest in buying a slightly shonky Dolly 1850HL? Need to rid myself of it in order to fund my newly aquired decade old Honda unfortunately...

 

No MOT and it'll need trailered but I'd rather it wasn't scrapped, bangered or parted out...

 

I'm also in no mood to deal with eBay/Gumtree mongs. I'd end up knocking somebody out with a torque wrench...

[xtriple]

Just had Kyles car back with the new bumper on and sprayed. It looks shit! Doesn;t fit and is so low it hits on a matchbox! He is very disappointed and the lads that did it aren't happy either as it was a nightmare to get it to fit even that badly!

 

Paid for it and the Bentleys paintwork (again before the Bentleys finished!) and they charged me £1600! Basically they have sprayed the whole bottom of the car, both bumpers and still have to fit the parking sensors, paint them and a few other bits.

 

It's all getting rather expensive but if it is good when it's done, I'll get over  the cost!

[Noel Tidybeard]

Was browsing eBay when I happend upon a Mk2 Rover 825 SLi at a scrapyard in Birmingham. The reg seemed familar but I couldn't place it:

 

 

Now I'm sure I've seen the car somewhere in Birmingham, however when I stuck the reg into Google I found that the car had previously appeared in an episode of 'Midsomer Murders' (and yes I know, that 'Bergerac' bloke who appears in it had a KV6 Sterling in early episodes)

 

 

I've made enquiries about it. It is a lot nicer body-wise than mine.

if you need to go visit this i are able to transport you betwixt tysely/spring road/ hall green/acocks green stations and slade if required

[Slappy]

Fiesta did this today.

 

Could put it up with New Everyday Ford tax, just* a genuine* 63 miles....

 

 

I do enjoy it, and don't really want to move it on unless I really have to. You know what I'll probably store it at my Dads and screw the part-ex value or whatevs as and when I do get something else. Heading towards 50k in my ownership now!