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[vulgalour]

Is that a Rover 800 (and I use this term quite loosely) pick-up?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

A coconut for Mr Vulgalour !

But not just a pickup, one based on a hearse or limo, by the look of it . No problem for this coach builder deciding what back window to use, just bend a sheet of random metal to fit*.

[JohnK]

Looks like FOAD has been busy!

[Anglevan]

Spike- - - kept it really simple, on the form I just stated I wanted to trace the history.

I've done this with most of my cars and have always had a response with no kick back.

Just my l300 van to do.

[drum]

The diagnostics fuse?

P38s have one.

Doesn't seem to have one according to my interweb search.

 

I tried an ecu reset sequence but that hasn't switched it off. I'll borrow someone else's code reader.

[BavarianRetro]

Spike- - - kept it really simple, on the form I just stated I wanted to trace the history.

I've done this with most of my cars and have always had a response with no kick back.

Just my l300 van to do.

I think if you are the registered keeper, it is a service they offer, but if you have no recorded interest in the vehicle, you have to justify your request for information.

[oldcars]

I visited a scrappy I'd not been to before (saw an ad on gumtree that he was breaking a couple of mx5s) didn't buy any parts but had a good mooch around and a chat with the guy in the office - nice bloke, turns out he lives round the corner from me

 

anyway, pics :

 

plenty o' rovers

 

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not much fun here

 

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surprisingly tough microcar

 

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as it had this perched on its roof

 

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a few more gems from what can only be described as the 'interesting corner'

 

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location : Bonnybridge, Scotland

Need to pop along there, need a few 75 bits.

[oldcars]

This rarity has turned up for auction.

 

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Unfortunately it isn't running right and seems to have had a hard life.

 

Reserve is £500. I could do with a few bits for my own but not sure it'll break into that money especially given the shell is worth about £20. Are those wheels sought after at all?

 

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Is the plate apt?

[lincolndanny]

*****HOT NEWS ACTION******

 

SAXO IN RUSTY BOOT FLOOR SHOCKER!!!!!!!

 

 

Ballsacks

[spike60]

I think if you are the registered keeper, it is a service they offer, but if you have no recorded interest in the vehicle, you have to justify your request for information.

Should be nae bother then, it's mine.

[Eddie Honda]

*****HOT NEWS ACTION******

 

SAXO IN RUSTY BOOT FLOOR SHOCKER!!!!!!!

 

Ballsacks

 

Offt

 

I can feel your  pain. Been there, done that, go the shite triple-skinned water trap T-shirt.

 

DSCF5758.JPG by E Honda, on Flickr

 

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2013-02-02_19-17-27_904.jpg by E Honda, on Flickr

 

 

Is it my imagination or does the driver's side always get it worse?

 

I really, really, really, should finish that car...

[lincolndanny]

This'll be the 3rd one Ive welded up now to be fair Eddie. As you say, really bad moisture trap. Left it at this stage before packing away for the day.

 

 

Hopefully glue some repair plates in tomorrow.

[beko1987]

Just leave it like that, built in drain hole!

[spike60]

A couple of days after I posted pics of a dented ferry we have moored at work there was another more chilling accident on the dock road this afternoon. A wagon coming in has struck the trailer of a another wagon parked under the bridge, sending it into the bridge support on the central reservation hard enough to completely tear the cab off. I was told the driver got out unaided, I hope so.

[Christine]

Drivers side often rots more coz puddles tend to wash of any mud under the arches.. on the near side .

Drivers doors suffer too, from cars going the opposite way lobbing up grit  as they pass, and  sand blasting the paint off .

[R9UKE]

Have the opportunity of ticking a very big want off my list quite cheaply. Not strictly shite but the Nissan Murano was designed for the Americans and only came with the lively 3.5 V6, big squishy seats and a Bose stereo. I love them.

 

This one is very hesitant with acceleration and this has very little drive (reaches about 10 MPH). Fault code is P0749. Here's a YouTube clip. Anyone had experience of these?

 

[Eddie Honda]

Drivers side often rots more coz puddles tend to wash of any mud under the arches.. on the near side .

Drivers doors suffer too, from cars going the opposite way lobbing up grit  as they pass, and  sand blasting the paint off .

 

But this Pug rot starts from the inside...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Have the opportunity of ticking a very big want off my list quite cheaply. Not strictly shite but the Nissan Murano was designed for the Americans and only came with the lively 3.5 V6, big squishy seats and a Bose stereo. I love them.

This one is very hesitant with acceleration and this has very little drive (reaches about 10 MPH). Fault code is P0749. Here's a YouTube clip. Anyone had experience of these?

http://youtu.be/rZ-eBI0pK3I

I think Cheggers has got one of these, aren't they Variomatics or summat?

[John F]

The Autoshite Wikipedia page has been deleted...

[R9UKE]

Indeed, CVT. I'm finding it hard to believe its gearbox related though when it is reluctant to rev in Park.

[xtriple]

I  now have a full compliment of pinstripes! Bloke just turned up, pitch dark, blowing a gale and with the aid of an extension lead and angle poise lamp, job jobbed!

 

He was saying that Mike (the painter, or Mr fucking unreliable to those that know him!) only contacted him today to say the car was back, and was in a panic to get it done tonight. It is a perfect job - size, thickness and most importantly, colour! It's a sort of faded red/orange colour and not standard at all, but he's matched it spot-on.

 

Really nice bloke and gave me a spare stripe just in case....

[beko1987]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201512059241206

 

Having naughty thoughts about swapping the zx with this, just the ropey mot history that puts me off, and the current lack of said mot...

[320touring]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201512059241206

 

Having naughty thoughts about swapping the zx with this, just the ropey mot history that puts me off, and the current lack of said mot...

swap for taxi instead?

[beko1987]

I'd like my next car to not need new fuel lines though, and not be 500 miles away from home. I'm just not as hardcore or rich as you to travel the length of the country buying cars.

 

Plus, the guy selling it is the guy who we bought a mates CRV off, and he commented on the zx saying he could sell the engine for £150 all day long. It's just all the suspension work, really really good tyres, minty interior and my attachment to it that is stopping me, but the pending needing of rear brakes, exhaust and engine bay leaks that sway me for a potential swap...

 

I should start a whole new thread about the pro's and cons of laguna 1's and clutter up the main board with yet another pointless thread...

[cort16]

I've been on the look out for a mid-life-crisis mobile and spotted that central car auctions in Glasgow had a 2.5 Z4 up for auction today.

I skived off work early only to find the flipping thing had already gone through the block. I enquired and found it didn't sell and they said what would buy it. I'd done the trade valuation already and their price was favourable so after a bit of faffing someone found it in the car park and took me to it,

 

It looked really tidy on the outside until I unlocked and the drivers door wouldn't open. I opened it from the inside,closed it and it wouldn't open so that's that burst. Not a deal breaker.

As a private buyer I then worked out the fee's would be 325 quid! With the door fix + fee's + general risk of buying a 13 year old car from the auction it kind of negated any saving I'd get from buying one privately that I could have a proper poke around with. I went home. I hadn't even brought enough money for chips.

[320touring]

central have always charged like wounded rhinos..

[320touring]

I'd like my next car to not need new fuel lines though, and not be 500 miles away from home. I'm just not as hardcore or rich as you to travel the length of the country buying cars.

 

Plus, the guy selling it is the guy who we bought a mates CRV off, and he commented on the zx saying he could sell the engine for £150 all day long. It's just all the suspension work, really really good tyres, minty interior and my attachment to it that is stopping me, but the pending needing of rear brakes, exhaust and engine bay leaks that sway me for a potential swap...

 

I should start a whole new thread about the pro's and cons of laguna 1's and clutter up the main board with yet another pointless thread...

you're nae fun:)

 

seriously though, the zx you have is in "better the devil you know" territory now due to all the work.

 

I'd keep the zx.

[beko1987]

That's the big BIG thought in my head. A weekend worth of spending next year will have it sorted bar the wing which can GTF as far as I care

[spike60]

I said earlier there'd been an ugly accident on our dock road, it seem it was right and the driver is ok. Must be quite some ride when the cab leaves the wagon at speed with you still in it.

 

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/amazingly-lorry-driver-walked-away-10576545

[MarvinsMom]

bloody hell fire....

 

there is a guy who NEEDS to buy a lottery ticket this weekend.