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[Ghosty]

I could do nothing of course and wait for the "new" panda due next year, though it'll just be a facelift job

 

Isn't it already a facelift job?

[stuboy]

on sunday i attended a car show at aylesford in kent, 'all ford show'..

 

pictures in link..

 

http://s566.photobucket.com/user/stuartwilliams6841/library/aylesford%202016?sort=3&page=1

[omegod]

Went to pick up something up from a house today, woman says you work on cars don't you, "yup I do...sometimes"...."It's just that my rocker box is leaking oil ( Renault  Smegane) and you can see it on the floor, it's going into the garage to be fixed and is going to cost me £500 as the garage said it's an absolutely massive job". Cue sympathetic smile from me and I leave.

 

I am a sucker with an oversensitive mind but little time ,I'm having massive guilt's that she's going to get ripped royally for a £20 rocker cover gasket. 

 

I haven't the time, don't really know her and really shouldn't get involved but I know I won't sleep tonight,  what to do ???

[mat_the_cat]

Is she fit and are you single?

[alf892]

Went to pick up something up from a house today, woman says you work on cars don't you, "yup I do...sometimes"...."It's just that my rocker box is leaking oil ( Renault  Smegane) and you can see it on the floor, it's going into the garage to be fixed and is going to cost me £500 as the garage said it's an absolutely massive job". Cue sympathetic smile from me and I leave.

 

I am a sucker with an oversensitive mind but little time ,I'm having massive guilt's that she's going to get ripped royally for a £20 rocker cover gasket. 

 

I haven't the time, don't really know her and really shouldn't get involved but I know I won't sleep tonight,  what to do ???

TLDR: So this bird has got a moist box that she wants you to take a look at?

[omegod]

Is she fit and are you single?

 

 I'm not single but she is single as I bought her late husbands car, apparently it's the garage he used and trusted. Fit,,,,not bad at all for her age but let's not go there. Had a google but could only find a clio one on youtube, fiddly with loads of shite to remove but easily doable

[purplebargeken]

Just do it. You know you want to. Deep down you really do want to do it. Think of how grateful she will be. Multiply, multiply grateful. 

 

Late husband eh? 

[fordperv]

Three Rover V8s all wanting an oil change this evening!

 

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I thought you didn't have to change the oil on rover v8s due to oil leaking out of them and constant topping up, meaning the remaining oil stays clean creating an oil cycle or is that one for the bullshit facts thread

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just do it. You know you want to. Deep down you really do want to do it. Think of how grateful she will be. Multiply, multiply grateful. 

 

Late husband eh?

 

Is anyone else picturing PBK rubbing his legs in a Vic Reeves style?

[MarvinsMom]

Is anyone else picturing PBK rubbing his legs in a Vic Reeves style?

[catsinthewelder]

I'm chuffed as the fleet seems to all be working again.  The Discovery has been reasonably well behaved today and the 405 went into the garage for about 3 hours.  He couldn't get the bits so fixed what was there for £20 which was rather better than the £300 that the other garage quoted.  I just need to bleed the system properley (I assumed he would need to so didn't before).

 

Well I spoke too soon there,  When Ms C went to take the kids to school this morning all the electricity had escaped again.  After a jumpstart from the guy next door it limped to the end of the street then stalled when presented with a hill.  I dragged the 405 home tonight and got her to help me bleed the brakes so she can take it in for a retest tomorrow.  Please keep everything crossed that it passes.

 

Tomorrow evening sees me opening the water trap thing under the Discovery's tank WCPGW?  I'll borrow the kids swimming goggles and wear old clothes.

 

[Ghosty]

rimz_yo getting tyres on Friday (part worns because cheap), and hopefully will be fitted on the weekend. Depends if the spigot rings I ordered this evening come on Saturday or not. Probably not as the post's been pretty slow here lately (either that letter of entitlement for disability allowances from Student Finance England has been lost - again).

Old Man's doing one of his office runs on Tuesday (Manchester-Stansted Airport via Woodhead, the M1, A1 and M11) in the freshly slammed_yo A4 - that's going to be an interesting journey for him, regardless of which wheels he's doing the run on. I imagine he'll go for the 16"s somehow to not instantly put 400 miles on his new (part worn) tyres.

[DVee8]

Had a BMW out on a test driver today.

[Supernaut]

Had a text about the OMGa today.

 

"Where is this"

 

No punctuation, nothing. I find it incredibly dodgy / worrying that they ask where it is rather than when they can view it.

Am I being paranoid or does it genuinely sound dodgy to other people here too?

 

I just replied telling them I'm available on Saturday if they want a look. I'm not giving them my address (yet) and the map is on gumtree already.

 

I'm parking it in a super-secret secluded spot round the corner tonight.

[richardmorris]

Heavy frost and v cold this morning so took the merc in to work. Driving through windlesham met another blue M reg w124 coupe coming the other way! We waved- he's obviously a man of taste and distinction.

[trigger]

It seems that things are a-changin at home, My Cortina has been bothering me for a while as i don't use it and after 4 and half years the novelty has worn off and i fancy something else plus i only have dry storage for one car, so last night my dad agreed to buy it off me for £5000 which was a bit of a surprise but he doesn't think anyone else is deserving of it!, He's still got my old Mk1 Cortina which he's keeping too so I'm surprised he wants this one also but there you go.

 

I'm not sure what to do with the money at the moment, I want to go out and buy something else but it would have to live outside as the Dolomite is in the garage and i'm not ready to sell that yet, I guess the sensible thing would be to put the money back in the savings, making sure i don't waste it, and wait until I'm ready to sell the Dolomite and then use the money from both to buy something really nice but the way car prices are going at the moment I'll be lucky to even get a Mk4 Escort L for under £5000 by the end of the year!

 

I'm a bit muffed by all that at the moment, the prices people are asking for cars is just fucking disgusting, how a Mk1 Orion 1.6 Ghia can ever be worth over £4k or a tatty Mk2 Granada 2.8i Ghia be worth nearly £7k I'll never know, all it's doing is pricing us genuine enthusiasts out of the scene.

 

I'm also thinking about selling the Audi back on again soon too, I've not really gelled to it much and that blowing exhaust manifold gasket is really upsetting my OCD, perhaps I should use a bit of the Cortina money to buy something i do like as a daily instead?. Anyway that's enough of my waffle for now! 

[cort16]

If your dad has it at least you can still go for a drive in it.

I know what you mean about the price of cars stuff seems to be going for silly money, which is why I went through a period of XJR's CL500's etc.

The amount of car you get for the money is amazing when there's no scene tax.

[purplebargeken]

I think you'd like an Amazon. Easily buyable in that price range and below.

[trigger]

Dad having it is the best outcome, It will be very well looked after and kept in the dry.

 

Funnily enough Ken a Amazon is very much high on the list!, again they seem to be getting expensive now too, I'd like a 122 with the 2.0 twin carb or even a 123 GT but £5k doesn't go far.

[Cleon-Fonte]

Tonight has ended with the Autoshite bike Xantia parked outside the house where my BX would usually be...

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

Intriguing...

 

Today, I put yet more miles on the XM (just 80 or so) and then had a passenger ride in the back of a K11 Micra to attend a talk about the Riversimple Rasa. 

 

Tomorrow, we go caravanning. Already, the number plate I stuck to the caravan is trying to fall off.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Earlier tonight:

 

[dollywobbler]

Caption: British Summer Time.

[xtriple]

Caption: British Summer Time.

Hold on Captain eager, it's only spring... still time for it to get much worse!

[michael t]

Fiesta 2-0 dogs, I've been ridiculously unlucky recently. Two dog strikes within 2 months. First one I was doing the speed limit (30MPH) and came across the brow of a hill and hit a black Labrador who was sitting in the middle of the road at 7 ish in the evening. Practically pitch black on an unlit country road. Knocked at the owners house and gave them the fright of their lives, dog was escorted off to the vets and hasn't been seen since. Gave me and the girlfriend a bloody good fright as I thought it was a child Id hit. Crack in the bumper and a load of missing paint was the injury to the Fiesta....

 

...and then yesterday evening about 5 ish I hit another bugger, he ran out from behind a wall straight into my path, I slammed the brakes and hit its arse and it ran off into a field. Another crack in the bumper and more damaged paint was the result + more shock and quite a lot of anger. Why don't people Keep their dogs behind gates? Don't let them wander onto the public highway!! Could have caused a serious accident. 

[tooSavvy]

^^ hit a pheasant & eat it = Illegal*

 

.... see one hit, stop, take home & eat = Roadkill.

 

*out of season.

 

TS

[xtriple]

Spent an hour (honestly, a full 60 fucking minutes!) on hold waiting for an 'advisor' to be available to talk to me about my car insurance. All I needed to do was change the reg number so I could go and get my plates fitted. When I finally got through, it was to the wrong department! I don't rant at people very often so was polite and whinged and the chap got me transferred to the correct department where a very nice lady sorted it in seconds. To say 'sorry' they waived the admin fee of £26.

 

So went and got the plates fitted and was bragging about how swapping relays had cured its 'non starting' episodes. Left there (after Chester had pee'd on a new Continental!)  and went and bought fuel and of course, the bastard wouldn't fucking start!!!!!

 

I could happily set fire to the fucker some days. I mean the car, but Chester had better watch his step as well!

[panhard65]

I had an FTP in the Rolls today. Not really the cars fault as it was the first time I have driven it for nearly 2 months. I had forgotten to switch off the battery isolator so had to jump start it. All was going well and I had it running for about 3/4 of an hour before I stopped for fuel and the bugger wouldn't re-start. It is now sitting on charge trying to bring the 6 month old battery back to life.

[For Fiats Sake]

Isn't it already a facelift job?

No, the mk4 replaced the mk3, bigger all round in 2012 so due a "refresh", interior is hamstrung by not having a dash fitted sat nav like the rest of the FIAT range and the Blue and me phone/usb connection isn't the best either.

 

Seen some meaningless "mule" shots on the net so it's due.

 

I couldn't be arsed to wait so chopping in the non 4x4 for this properly all wheel drive purple people eater

 

[captain_70s]

Saw my first classic car in the wild of 2016.

 

 

Minted Anglia on trailer. Car show in the next town over on Sunday, the "Buckie Summer Show", last year it snowed. Don't have a car to take this year though, sucks.

 

Also, bank account looking decent, might be out of the old overdraft all month for the first time since before Christmas, might refurb the 1300's starter motor and shove it at the MOT station and see how depressing the news can get.