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[Rusty_Rocket]

Bad luck.  I've got to say, your wheels and tyres would last two miles 'round here before the gaping chasms in the road would smash them to sh*t.. 

[Asimo]

Brake pads? Have become a fan of EBC red pads since fitting them to the Subaru a few years ago. They felt a lot better than the OEM pads, they last well, and this is the best bit, none of that creeping rust from the edges of the disc that ruins discs so quickly. Whole swept area stays clean and shiny!

So well worth the extra cost. Would buy again.

[vulgalour]

Rover has been sluggish to start past couple of days.  With the MoT on Tuesday I think it's trying to break itself to fit in with all my other old heaps.

[wuvvum]

Well due to being monumentally f***ed about by the camper hire place, my planned road trip across the US isn't going to happen.  I'm still going, but rather than driving a camper from Chicago to San Francisco and then a Mustang down to LA, I'm going to be bumming about in the Midwest for a week or so in a hire car (Chicago for a couple of days, then up into Michigan, maybe even briefly across into Canada), staying in cheap hotels, then getting a flight to LA, hiring another car, driving out to Vegas, night in Vegas then across for a quick look at the Grand Canyon before driving back for a couple of days in LA. 

 

My two friends who I'm going with are going to visit Chicago with me, then fly to San Francisco and spend the week there before driving down the coast in the Mustang as originally planned, and we'll then meet up in LA for the last couple of days.  It's kind of a shame we're not staying together, but I've had holidays in LA and SF twice already (and driven the coast road once, albeit in a Chrysler Sebring convertible rather than a 'Stang), and I fancy seeing somewhere different.  It's also worked out more expensive this way, but that's life I s'pose, innit.  Plus being a self-centred twat I kind of like being able to do whatever the fuck I want without having to compromise all the time.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've been up the garage tonight and fitted a new CV boot and timing belt on the campervan.

[vulgalour]

I'll second RRsix on the roof up advice.  Get some suitable cleaner/feed for it (vinyl or mohair?) to help it along.  Could well be the roof is tight because it's still effectively brand new, especially if it's spent most of its life with the hardtop on.  Or it could have shrunk like the one on my horrible old Golf floppytop but even that got better with some vinyl cleaner and use.

[dave21478]

Insured the Panda for 108 euros for a year fully comp. Im not sure if I should be happy or not with that. Its not a lot of money for a years insurance by anyones standards, but since its officially a "classic" over 30 years old every classic insurer advertises prices from 26 euros a year assuming its over 30 and you have a modern daily. I guess you have to have an 1876 Horsey Horseless and do less than 8 kilometers a year to get that sort of price.

 

Anyway, its done now, so shut up and stop moaning, Dave.

Except its not done as since its apparently still 1987 here it all has to be done by recorded delivery post, so Feck knows when the cover might actually start. I have sent the signed quote back to them today, they will receive it and send me a cover note and updated contract to sign....no mention of paying has been made yet. I assume they will actually want the money at some point. I will probably have to transfer it by Minitel or something.

[xtriple]

I'll second RRsix on the roof up advice.  Get some suitable cleaner/feed for it (vinyl or mohair?) to help it along.  Could well be the roof is tight because it's still effectively brand new, especially if it's spent most of its life with the hardtop on.  Or it could have shrunk like the one on my horrible old Golf floppytop but even that got better with some vinyl cleaner and use.

It's posh 'mohair'. The creases seem to have come out overnight, which is good, but there's still a gap at the front. So what can you use to soften/rejuvenate mohair?

[nacho man]

I know this is a bit pistonheads.

 

But I am seriously thinking of one of these.

 

 

12 month waiting list though. Talked Mrs T into it as it would be OUR car so she would use it for work and I would thrash it weekends.

 

 

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[richardmorris]

It's posh 'mohair'. The creases seem to have come out overnight, which is good, but there's still a gap at the front. So what can you use to soften/rejuvenate mohair?

 

 

It's probably just cold. Once the temperature rises it'll probably soften and become more flexible.

 

Alternatively...

 

http://www.mx5parts.co.uk/genuine-mazda-mohair-hood-cleaning-care-p-1802.html

 

[Cleon-Fonte]

To continue my theme of buying a car then spending most of the purchase price fixing it within the first few months, I've had the head gasket on the BX fixed and get it back today. Now just the tyres, the brakes, the accumulator sphere and the rusty A-pillar to sort.

[John F]

Alrighty... after about 6 years of occasional spannering, welding and electrical guesswork interspersed with massive chunks of CBA, my 50-year old 'stealth WIP' Land Rover Series 2a 109 will be presented to the MOT tester in T minus one hour and 28 minutes.

 

WCPGW?

[dollywobbler]

Sun = fun.

 

Nice to be back out in the Dyane again, though the heads are still leaking. Once I get the 2CV out of the way (later today), I'll have another look at the Dyane.

 

Had great fun chasing a Hyundai ix35 over the Elan Valley mountain road earlier. He really was trying to get away, but he didn't manage it. Other than up hills. I caught up again down the other side!

[gdhaydock]

Alrighty... after about 6 years of occasional spannering, welding and electrical guesswork interspersed with massive chunks of CBA, my 50-year old 'stealth WIP' Land Rover Series 2a 109 will be presented to the MOT tester in T minus one hour and 28 minutes.

 

WCPGW?

 

Hope it passes, then you can sell it and I can flog my current  driveway ornament to Miss_F   

[omegod]

Father in law bought the wrong battery for my 306 from the local factors for £40, I took it back today and was informed the right one was £76.99 , after recovering from the shock  I asked kindly for a refund as it was £42 at GSF, give me a minute he says , comes back and says I can have it for £40, very grateful I was but whats the fuckin mark up on them if can just drop it £36 and still be happy?  

[John F]

gdhaydock, on 11 Mar 2016 - 3:13 PM, said:gdhaydock, on 11 Mar 2016 - 3:13 PM, said:

Hope it passes, then you can sell it and I can flog my current  driveway ornament to Miss_F  

 

 

It's only gone and passed...!

 

And what's more, the only advisory was the traditional Land Rover "oil leak"...!

 

EDIT: now taxed for free, because HISTORRICK VECLE

[gdhaydock]

 

It's only gone and passed...!

 

And what's more, the only advisory was the traditional Land Rover "oil leak"...!

 

EDIT: now taxed for free, because HISTORRICK VECLE

 

 

No "for sale" thread yet?

[richardmorris]

Sun = fun.

 

Nice to be back out in the Dyane again, though the heads are still leaking. Once I get the 2CV out of the way (later today), I'll have another look at the Dyane.

 

Had great fun chasing a Hyundai ix35 over the Elan Valley mountain road earlier. He really was trying to get away, but he didn't manage it. Other than up hills. I caught up again down the other side!

 

Are you sure it's the heads and not the exhaust manifold? Mine was a pain to reseat and in the end a friend and I filed them to match the heads as one port had eroded a fair bit on the manifold itself so there wasn't enough metal squeezing the gasket- and this was with ecas' superdooper thick gaskets. Perfect now!

[John F]

gdhaydock, on 11 Mar 2016 - 4:44 PM, said:

No "for sale" thread yet?

 

No, I've still got some jobs to do on it before it's ready for sale. Besides, MOT'd examples fetch the sort of money that would buy three or four cars on here normally, lol.

 

Here's a couple of pics of it in all its 'OLLI' finery (one of the jobs I have to do is remove the ludicrous sticker from the windscreen)

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I just saw a 1992 K plate Reliant Scimitar, were they still selling those turds when I was in the 6th form FFS??? Princess 👸 Anne etc.

[vulgalour]

John F:  replace it with a Buddhist Landrover sticker.  Many lives, live them all.

[purplebargeken]

One Life Fuck It

[Ghosty]

I just saw a 1992 K plate Reliant Scimitar, were they still selling those turds when I was in the 6th form FFS??? Princess Anne etc.

 

Middlebridge! They're bloody rare (less than 100?)

 

That's the actual Princess Anne model.

[vulgalour]

FRIED RICE EAT IT

[xtriple]

Ever since acquiring the Mazda, it has had an annoying rattle coming from the door. I was sort of ignoring it 'cos MX5 and rattles, not exactly unknown to each other..... Today, while once again wiping up the gallons of Waxoyl that are STILL  pouring out of the doors etc, and noticed there's a rubber bugger type thing on the door jamb, it was loose. On the door, there is a corresponding metal bracket. So after a bit of fiddling, the block was in the correct position (half of a mm out and it wouldn't shut or open) and so...

 

After a drive, no rattle.That proper cheered me up - I hate rattles.

[richardmorris]

I like that you've got an mx5- everyone should have a 2 seater sport car. But if I had a Bentley, let alone a turbo Bentley, I'd never drive anything else! Obviously a man of means and taste.

A friend of mine has recently retired to Torquay- ex PA to a university vice chancellor, divorced ( for the twenty years I've known her), ex 2cver etc, etc, no additional pets! Just say the word!

 

( although she did blot her copy book by buying a KA against my recommendations- sold it last year to a local school for welding practice!).

[dollywobbler]

Are you sure it's the heads and not the exhaust manifold? Mine was a pain to reseat and in the end a friend and I filed them to match the heads as one port had eroded a fair bit on the manifold itself so there wasn't enough metal squeezing the gasket- and this was with ecas' superdooper thick gaskets. Perfect now!

 

Pretty sure. Didn't use new gaskets, for reasons of SKINT, but didn't have issues reseating it. In my experience, exhaust leaks from manifold and front heat exchanger joint tend to cause popping on the overrun. Not getting any of that. Am getting fumes on the overrun, so assuming I've got a leak rear of the heat exchangers. The cardboard hoses (nabbed from the 2CV) don't fit very well. 

 

But I'm definitely getting 'head' stink too, which tends to be different to exhaust stink I think. I will investigate, but it may be a while to a week of utter chaos about to happen.

[xtriple]

I like that you've got an mx5- everyone should have a 2 seater sport car. But if I had a Bentley, let alone a turbo Bentley, I'd never drive anything else! Obviously a man of means and taste.

A friend of mine has recently retired to Torquay- ex PA to a university vice chancellor, divorced ( for the twenty years I've known her), ex 2cver etc, etc, no additional pets! Just say the word!

 

( although she did blot her copy book by buying a KA against my recommendations- sold it last year to a local school for welding practice!).

Age, mileage, owners, history ? Details are needed man! Has she got long, blonde hair, legs that go for ever, and a figure that would make a gay man straight? If the answer to all the above is:'YES' the I am her dream man. Old, crippled, demented, poor with an unhealthy passion for expensive cars and stupid dogs! Daddy hole plain, tomorrow at 2:00 - tell her to bring a flask!

 

                                  and dog treats.....

[andrew e]

I know this is a bit pistonheads.

But I am seriously thinking of one of these.

12 month waiting list though. Talked Mrs T into it as it would be OUR car so she would use it for work and I would thrash it weekends.

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Chap I work with has a different quandary: He stuck a deposit down last year, he's due delivery shortly but he has been offered a several thousand pound lump for his place in the que, his misses has told him to take it!

[Christine]

Age, mileage, owners, history ? Details are needed man! Has she got long, blonde hair, legs that go for ever, and a figure that would make a gay man straight? If the answer to all the above is:'YES' the I am her dream man. Old, crippled, demented, poor with an unhealthy passion for expensive cars and stupid dogs! Daddy hole plain, tomorrow at 2:00 - tell her to bring a flask!

 

                                  and dog treats.....

One life.. live it ,( but not spent fixing Land Rovers) , buy an MX5 and Bentley!