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[dugong]

Got the 605 back off the film crew complete with fake cardboard Iraqi numberplates.

Showed the second unit how to start, release the handbrake on (and one wheel peel) an automatic Mercedes W124.

Spoke to Michael Portillo about Citroen GSs on Ipswich harbour front.

Saw wild deer on the way home.

Ate an entire box of Milk Tray.

 

This week has been odd.

[nick]

Got the 605 back off the film crew complete with fake cardboard Iraqi numberplates.

Showed the second unit how to start, release the handbrake on (and one wheel peel) an automatic Mercedes W124.

Spoke to Michael Portillo about Citroen GSs on Ipswich harbour front.

Saw wild deer on the way home.

Ate an entire box of Milk Tray.

 

This week has been odd.

That sounds fairly normal for you.

[Lord Sterling]

Out in the 75 today....

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England's cliched green and pleasant bits, and Dartmoor national park.

One of the things I like about my job is that you get to see a lot of England's clichéd green and pleasant bits.

 

The week before I passed by Stonehenge, then drove through the beautiful Devon valleys on the A303/A30 on my way to Torquay (some of the names made me chortle like 'West Camel' / 'Indian Queens' / 'Minions' etc...) . Last week I drove from Barnsley along the A628 near Holmfirth to Stoke. The A628 route again was a beautiful run. I regret not stopping to take pictures but time was against me.

[spike60]

I used a 16 mm today on the 306 suspension strut , i think bmw are fond of 18mm

16mm and 21mm for BMW suspension as well, having spent most of yesterday doing rear bottom ball joints etc and subframe bushes on a E39 estate. Though the aftermarket parts are a more (usual to me) 17,19 and 22...

[twosmoke300]

About to drive down to my first enduro race in about 4 years . I'm gonna be ruined by the end .

I hoping that my new bike will make it easy but I'm probably dreaming

[richardmorris]

Up in Wrexham for the weekend and just back from a quick drive in the X1/9- sunny but not warm! Down to eccleston ( who put in speed cushions?!) in to Chester ( after the run event thing) back out to the post house roundabout and back down the bypass. First time I've driven it in six months! Unfortunately had the wrong shoes on so didn't go round the twisty mountain roads to Llangollen - not easy to change gear in boots!

[John F]

worldofceri, on 14 May 2016 - 9:17 PM, said:worldofceri, on 14 May 2016 - 9:17 PM, said:

Who uses 16mm bolts for crying out loud?

 

The bottom bolts in Mazda MX-5 rear shocks are 16 mm as well.

[JohnK]

Had a massive fashion fail today.

 

Decided to use the Cortina for a trip out for lunch with the family. It was pointed out to me after I had picked everybody up that I resembled a Ford Cortina door card

 

[omegod]

Working on a 53 plate focus

 

Auxiliary belt idler Pulley is knackered and as soon as I put a socket near the 10mm bolt it rounded,took hardly any effort so i assume they are made from toffee, tried a 10mm irwin bolt remover but it's just rounded it more and won't bite. I'm thinking of cutting/grinding the bolt head off, removing the pulley in the hope that there is thread all the way down the bolt so I can double nut it out. Access is crap due to engine mount and i don't want to start stripping it out if I can help it .

 

Any more suggestions ??

 

Attacked this with my grinder and got it off , new one fitted and to my great delight it needs a new tensioner pulley too , never a dull one but thank fuck for gsf doing 42% off online at the mo

[Supernaut]

I've just made a deal on a car.

 

It's in Preston though, so I'll be getting a flying tube on Saturday to go and collect it.

 

I'M SUPER EXCITED!

[cort16]

My p6 is with eBay now . I got a message from another p6 owners saying they had the same issue and how they got around it using a specific bleeding technique . Yes, I have to sacrifice a goat but it's got to be worth a try right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I might have made the goat bit up

[twosmoke300]

About to drive down to my first enduro race in about 4 years . I'm gonna be ruined by the end .

I hoping that my new bike will make it easy but I'm probably dreaming

Well - not only did I survive I beat my much younger , fitter mate and another who bust his knee ( trying too hard!)

I don't reckon I could have done 3 hours non stop on the Ktm ( I did have to have a piss half way ) and the little honda is a trooper .

Roast at the outlaws later too - what a day !

[17-Coffees]

I decided to add a giffer spec wheel cover to the LexBarge, because I felt the car needed more wood effect. (Despite the thing having 20 trees worth of real wood trim inside) 

 

 

And it's too small to fit on the wheel...waste of £2 that was. 

 

But fear not, it'll be on another car very soon! 

[anonymous user]

Had a massive fashion fail today.

 

Decided to use the Cortina for a trip out for lunch with the family. It was pointed out to me after I had picked everybody up that I resembled a Ford Cortina door card

 

 

Ah, so you must be about 40 or 45 I trust you were also wearing the matching beige cardigan and sensible slip-on shoes

[MarvinsMom]

jaguar has shat itself for the last time today.

 

yesterday  and again this morning, was running fine, as sound as a pound even! was using it this weekend to see if it could be trusted, say, to get me too and from work?

 

get to the FiL's park up, again fine. come back to it 20 minutes later to let them out, start it up, and it sounds like a cement mixer!!

 

think there is a problem with timing chains/tensioners cos the noise (a horrible deathly, metallic rattle) is coming from the front to the engine so fuck it, other half will call U-pull-it or Piggots and get them to come at take it away!!

 

this fleet reduction thing, it easy.....

[fatharris]

 

Long minibus ride today for 12 days of adventurous activities in Rockland. The map is wrong, we're going near Ullapool so it's even further up.

 

Stuck in traffic at Birmingham, joy.

 

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[fatharris]

Oh, and I did have a fully charged spare battery for my phone, but it turns out I've left it on the fucjing mantelpiece, arses!

 

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[stuboy]

Some one localish to me was offering hgf diesel mk2 mondeo, i asked him if he would sell me the wheels and he agreed, so popped up to collect them on the a20 was getting small thudding noises from the front wheels, got home and seems both fronts had obtained some bulges.. thankfully i just bought the black 5 spokes to replace the knackererd 18's... and i decided to pump up the tyres and give the old girl a bath.

[vulgalour]

I was a little bit confused for a minute there, it wasn't clear straightaway that there were two people and I was trying to figure out how you kept your nails in such great shape while wearing those work gloves.  I think you might need more stickers too, there's some car that's still black

[hairymel]

Angyl -  stuboy has carefully (and obviously successfully) crafted his image to attract teh ladiez.

 

i am trawling ebay for bumper packs of stickers right now

[spike60]

I changed the left rear subframe bushes, bottom ball joint, ARB link and top arms on the 530d Touring now it has sunk down to my ownership. i feel we had the best out of the ball joint and bush. If you look closely you can spot the difference between the new and old ball joints in the 1st pic  . Alarmingly these passed MOT a month ago.

 

 

 

Unsurprisingly it had a serious amount of -ve camber and thudded like a bastard over the bumps. At least this sort of work gives noticable results, not like fitting a chewy cambelt. Only the other side to look forward to now!

[richardmorris]

Just driven back from north wales. Lots of nice old lorrys about near Telford: must have been a meeting somewhere.

 

Stopped for fuel at tern hill and worked out that the merc had done 31.3mpg up on the Friday, despite what seemed like endless stop start queues.

[dollywobbler]

I'm 200 miles into the 350-mile drive home, now installed in Bradford. The XJS (not mine in case you missed it) is running well, though town driving today has seen the MPG drop back down to 23. I very, very nearly had it up to 25 today.

 

Anyway, it's been an incredible weekend of old shite. Fantastic day with RatDat yesterday, and today involved many good things I can't yet tell you about, including this.

 

Only got to drive it around a car park, due to lack of legals. Just 15,000 miles on the clock! Tomorrow, off to see the 2CV get chopped to bits, then home.

[Supernaut]

 

Long minibus ride today for 12 days of adventurous activities in Rockland. The map is wrong, we're going near Ullapool so it's even further up.

 

Stuck in traffic at Birmingham, joy.

 

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Yeah, as we discussed on facebook earlier, I put your actual route into google maps and it's more like 13 hours, if you're in a car and not a clapped out minibus.

 

Chodpseed.

 

Even I consider Ullapool fucking miles away from where I am!

[dollywobbler]

It's going to take me a month to get over this trip. It has just been packed full of too much win. And contrasts. Like my mate's SM-engined DS, which sadly blew a head gasket.

[andrew e]

Heavy oil powered Fiesta appears for my eldest to learn to drive in:

 

[richardmorris]

I was a little bit confused for a minute there, it wasn't clear straightaway that there were two people and I was trying to figure out how you kept your nails in such great shape while wearing those work gloves.  I think you might need more stickers too, there's some car that's still black

Yes, I was flicking though the photos and was imagining Barbara, the taxi driver from the league of gentleman too!

[Richard]

I've spent the weekend up north too, though not as far north and from a much closer starting point.

 

 

This was at a caravan site where I slept in my Avenger Estate for ten nights in 1990.

 

A couple of miles further on the road ended at an abandoned chairlift. I saw an exhaust peeking out of the drive cabinet so I had to have a look and see what it was.

 

 

 

Cologne? That sticker says 2.8 HC. I'm not sure what the engine was for, there was a huge electric motor underneath it.

 

After a quick look at the funicular railway it was time to head down to Aviemore for afternoon tea on a steam train.

 

 

Best described as "functional", which is fine by me.

 

This unfortunate looking specimen was in the car park when we got back.

 

 

Today we went somewhere I've not been since 1992 to see if anything had changed.

 

 

 

 

 

Incidentally, I've always had a sneaking suspicion that that's the Renault 5 in the famous caravan video. It's the kind of thing my cousin would do and he did live in a caravan before he moved into the boat.

 

After that it was time to check out a garden of shite that Lacquer Peel tipped me off about.

 

 

The shite was all gone and somebody was living in the house. It was worth it for the caravan though.

 

Back to Aviemore where I spotted this tidy early 850.

 

 

[richardmorris]

It's going to take me a month to get over this trip. It has just been packed full of too much win. And contrasts. Like my mate's SM-engined DS, which sadly blew a head gasket.

 

Oh dear. Poor ed.

overheated or just failed?

[Kiltox]

Hopefully shifting this lovely* machine tomorrow and if I do, I'm going to be buying something really fucking stupid..... More stupid than a Scenic II auto