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[AlabamaShrimp]

It was coldish last night and the Frontera was making a squeaking noise like a mouse. I've though about trying to find it but then thought sod it I'll just ignore it

[egg]

I thought the mondeo rear wiper was ineffectual, now I realise it is 3 inches too short *insert gag here*

[rantingYoof]

I thought the mondeo rear wiper was ineffectual, now I realise it is 3 inches too short *insert gag here*

 

You won't need your gag reflex if it's too short.

[HMC]

7pm West Devon yesterday evening...

Italianjob family ( with a 5 month old and a 2 yr old aboard) set out for northern Germany. The aim, to drive overnight and (hopefully) complete the trip without too much/ protesting /bother from the passengers.

 

7am Northern Germany and it basically worked! I last slept properly yesterday morning so after a cold German beer i'm off to bed!

[MarvinsMom]

after yesterdays wind, sleet and snow, this morning i got up to sunshine just about burning out my retiners.

 

so off to the FiL's, where after been fortified with a roast dinner, we set to work on Marvin, and the wetness in floor.

 

1/2 and hour or so, and this is what we found, this will have been the 5th or 6th time i've had the interior out of this car, so we have gotten it down to a fine art.

there is some surface rust in the floor, so it may look worse than what it really is. at some point i'm thinking of blasting it over with some etch primer, and blow some colour over it.

 

i had thought the water was getting in around the door seals, or even round the windcreen seal, as that is not in the first flush of youth. but no, it looks like its getting in around the blower motor on the top of the bulk head

 

urrgh, squelchy.......

 

with all the carpet out on the patio drying in the sun, i attacked the brake servo with the gold paint

 

before putting it all back together, without the soggy sound deadening. a silly thing to do? well i want to take the car off on drive it day next sunday, so there would be no guarantee that i would get the car back together before then,

 

but what if (when?) it rains....

 

tadaaaaar, what i should have done at the end of last year, silly billy....

 

longer term though i am going to have to take the blower motor off, it will give me chance to change the burn't out speed resistor, as i've got no low speed, just high. the only difference been the amount of noise the motor makes!

 

i've got a spare motor and resistor, and this

 

but that is a job for another day!

 

funny how some better weather can lift your mood, cos yesterday i was in a proper fugg with myself and the world at large, but been able to get on with something, well i'm a happy bunny now (even if i gotta go to work tomorrow).....

[wuvvum]

Indeed, I also managed to get a few bits done today thanks to the rather more clement weather than yesterday.  I'd had another bash at bodging up the suspension gaiter on the CX ('cos the only one I can find for sale at the moment is over 60€ plus postage, and I ain't paying that for a bit of rubber), and touch wood it appears to have stemmed the flow of LHM to the outside world (for now at least).  So I topped the level up and took the old crate for a drive (first time it's moved in over a month), then I Kurusted the tailgate lip where the number plate lights sit (which for some reason I'd missed before).  It's going to need a skim of filler at some point, but that isn't top of the priority list at the moment.  I also had a scrabble around in the car and found the original service book (last serviced in 1998, apparently...) and a small bottle of touch-up paint - which has gone rather gloopy but which has at least given me the paint code (it's not the original colour - the car was originally pearl grey) so I can go hunting - the tailgate's going to need some paint and the nearside door mirror also needs a respray.

 

Next job was to repair the driver's door handle on the Transit, as it was getting annoying having to get in the passenger door every time.  Turned out the handle had been repaired before - the little plastic tab which operates the lever for the catch had broken off, and been replaced with a screw - somehow the catch lever had got itself onto the wrong side of the screw so the handle wasn't doing anything useful.  I moved the catch lever back where it should be, and the handle now moved it, but not enough to open the door.  So I removed the link rod from the handle and screwed the adjustment in as far as it'd go, then reattached it - I now have an opening door, woohoo.  I also scraped a load of mud out from inside the arches - I don't want the poor old thing to rot away any faster than it already is.  I slapped on some Kurust whilst I had it out too.

 

I removed the driver's door mirror from the Saab, as the base plate thing has lost its paint and spoils the look of the car a bit.  It was a bit of a fiddle to get off without removing the driver's door card, but I wanted to avoid doing that as I rarely have a lot of luck with modern door cards.  I was going to satin black the base, but then I realised I'd run out of satin black spray paint, and I wasn't about to brush paint the thing as I'm useless with a brush and it'd end up looking even worse than it already does.  By then it was 4pm and the shops were shut, so I stuck the mirror back on using just the two easiest-to-access bolts, so it should be a 2-minute job to get it off next weekend.

 

The other job on my list was to take a multimeter to the Carina and see if I can find out what's draining the battery - but it turned out I was too late and the battery was already drained.  So I took it off and stuck it on charge, and took the Rover of Doom for its monthly run round the block instead (don't want the old girl to seize up).  Except I got a bit carried away and ended up going for a 5-mile drive round the local back lanes.  It's still pulling well - I don't know which would win in a straight race with the Saab, with its 150bhp CDTi engine and 6-speed 'box, but I reckon it'd be a close thing.  I do love the Rover - I'm trying to decide whether I should get it back on the road ahead of the Renault 6 when I eventually get a bit of spare cash to spend on fleet improvements.  The Renner has been waiting a lot longer, so fairness would dictate that it should get done first.  I think in the end it'll depend on finances - the Rover needs a lot less doing to it than the 6.  In fact with some tyres, a couple of bulbs and some secondhand ZR side skirts to hide the holes in the outer sills, I reckon it'd scrape an MOT, but I'd rather do it properly...

[ruffgeezer]

I've done a lot of diy this weekend, I haven't collected the trailer like I'd hoped to have done and I have for some inexplicable reason bought some more tools, so I think some sort of tool raffle/tombola/pick a square game will be in action come shitefest time.

[Ghosty]

Old Man found some Bilstein rear shocks for the A4 on eBay, offered for them and it got accepted. 

Think they're for a 2WD car though...

[dome]

I is in Iceland

 

Not the shop.

 

Spotted an old Volvo 240 already. Will get pics but its fucking cold out and I have beer here in my room...

[fordperv]

Works for another place too

 

 

I is in Scotland

 

Spotted an old Volvo 240 already. Will get pics but its fucking cold out and I have beer here in my room...

[fordperv]

Spotted a nice tree yesterday evening so pulled up to take a picture

 

[Bobthebeard]

38 quid on an undertray........... flame him with real internet fire!!!!!!!

I know I know.....

Bear with me though. Normally I wouldn't have bothered, but Chompy advised that once when he was driving (possibly quite quickly) through a puddle with the undertray missing it had scooshed the water up under the bonnet and blown the engine management fuse or something equally 'Not Good'.

Hence the spendage.

[Lankytim]

Over the weekend I had a bit of an organise in my garage. I dug out a poorly 1098 Minor engine that allegedly had a rattley bottom end but a mintola unleaded head fitted, However on taking the head and sump off it looks in really good ocondition, nice and clean inside, no obvious slop in the big ends, no lip in the bores, aftermarket updated crank seal and the crank has bits drilled out or ground away, is this balancing?

 

The front pulley bolt is loose, so maybe th is was the rattle the PO heard?

[Six-cylinder]

This is for real and only yesterday!

 

BUT I was on a train between Reading and Slough.

[Guest Hooli]

Over the weekend I had a bit of an organise in my garage. I dug out a poorly 1098 Minor engine that allegedly had a rattley bottom end but a mintola unleaded head fitted, However on taking the head and sump off it looks in really good ocondition, nice and clean inside, no obvious slop in the big ends, no lip in the bores, aftermarket updated crank seal and the crank has bits drilled out or ground away, is this balancing?

 

The front pulley bolt is loose, so maybe th is was the rattle the PO heard?

 

Sounds like balancing.

[Tetleysmooth]

I had last week off work.

I had planned to smarten my V70 up a bit and generally shower a bit of love on it.

I was going to have a butchers at a couple of other cars too.

Put Mrs Tet's Pajero of doom in for the mot on Tuesday. Did it pass? Of course it bloody never.

Exhaust blow at the manifold, couple of bulbs, and a cv boot had come off. In between getting parts, weather and having to do other stuff, I finally managed to get it re-tested this morning.

Done nothing to my V70. Bloody, bloody Mitsubishi.

Back at work tomorrow.

[nacho man]

Got in the missus car yesterday.

 

"It might need some fuel"

 

She said as I went out the door.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bobthebeard]

A sunny day occured yesterday. I opened the garage and was tempted to start work on the Oldsmobile. Work commenced!

[cms206]

406 hiccup'd and made a funny noise. My arse collapsed. Frantically checked dials and warning lights. Temperature gauge bang on 90.

 

It was the fan cutting in.

 

Twat.

[mrbenn]

Got in the missus car yesterday.

 

"It might need some fuel"

 

She said as I went out the door.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I hope you left it and took your own instead

[Cavcraft]

Farewell old mate, we had some fun and adventures.   

 

 

 

*That's not my Vectra, sadly.

[anonymous user]

can't find a specific cptc thread so it's here

 

this is sitting in the storage yard, it appears to have been sitting for some time. Sorry for the shit photograph, I'm practising taking photographs for ebay.

[Kiltox]

Just turned down a free car. Feels strange.

[omegod]

Scirocco sold, nice couple drove down from Perth, fucker of a drive but they seemed really happy with it  

[dollywobbler]

Just turned down a free car. Feels strange.

 

I'm feeling a bit strange myself. Three cars have very much tempted me in recent days and with the Dyane gone, I can afford* them too. Yet somehow I have managed not to buy any of them. 

 

* man maths may apply

[barrett]

can't find a specific cptc thread so it's here

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this is sitting in the storage yard, it appears to have been sitting for some time. Sorry for the shit photograph, I'm practising taking photographs for ebay.

I may just be seeing what I want to see, but I reckon that's a Rochdale GT, no?

 

Cam you go and have a nose around next time, as it's me?

[Sigmund Fraud]

can't find a specific cptc thread so it's here

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this is sitting in the storage yard, it appears to have been sitting for some time. Sorry for the shit photograph, I'm practising taking photographs for ebay.

 

Berkeley ?

[Cheggers]

I reckon it's a caravan of some kind...oh, hang on...the white one??

[anonymous user]

Sadly it's not a Rochdale, or anything really interesting. It is on three wheels, but not a Berkley that is because it has a wheel missing.

 

It appears to be a Cobra replica, it is wearing a hard-top under the tarp and looks to have been sitting there for quite some time. There are quite a few cars dotted around looking quite sad, including an MGF with some "home repaired" bodywork and a flat-tyred Focus drop-top, some of the caravans also look not to have moved for years, but at under ten pounds a week I suppose it's sometimes easy to just leave things there and hope to get around to them at some point.

[stuboy]

Drove from kent to sunny feltham in london to collect ebay purchase from work