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[Craig the Princess]

Derek from Renospeed has messaged to let me know the R5 has it's new engine running and a fresh MOT. It's good to go! It needs running in so will have it transported home rather than ringing it's neck on the M20 and undoing the hard work. It'll be my commuting car for the next few weeks.

Perfect excuse to buy one of these

http://item.ebay.com/131050603562

[Alexg]

BASTARD - I just bought a 'running in' sticker and it looks shit now it's arrived with rubbish RAC and AA graphics on it I was going to cut off - that one is much better!

[phil_lihp]

Toyo Proxes CF2s are brilliant, more or less all I buy now. The Volvo had a full set which transformed it and the Jag has a set on the rear now.

[Craig the Princess]

BASTARD - I just bought a 'running in' sticker and it looks shit now it's arrived with rubbish RAC and AA graphics on it I was going to cut off - that one is much better!

I think I saw that one and thought it weird that both AA and RAC logos were used. Still a classy sticker to totally confuse most drivers out there.

[HMC]

My Rover 75 tourer is a fairly early one (1,417 out of 27,407) and being a diesel is one of the earlier lower tune engines (116bhp/260nm) The only difference to the later ones lies in the ecu "map" Handily an mg rover specialist with the right kit and contacts isn't far from me. I paid them and their rover 75 graveyard a visit to be put up to 131bhp/300nm....

Looks like they stack them vertically in the last pic! Insurance company informed and car much more torquey. I also bought a replacement boot floor hatch off one of their scrapers to replace the paint stained and ripped one in my car. So the 75 looks and goes better than ever!

[Honey Badger]

Talking of tyres, the Granada will need a new set before she sets foot on the mainland for her drive-a-thon. The fronts have a couple of small splits in and a rear was an advisory on the MoT, annoying they all have loads of tread left.

Does anyone have any recommendations on tyres? Was looking at Toyo Proxys but never had anything like that before, have no idea what they are like

 

 

 

Hankook Ventus V12 if you like to push on, I've got Bridgestone A001 All season tyres on my coupe they seem to be pretty good.

[Jon]

Don't they have ridiculously low speed limits in NZ with humorless coppers that'll do you for being 2kph over the limit?

 

I received my first ever speeding ticket last year, for doing 118km/h in 100 zone. Admittedly, I had been driving like a twat, testing out the 205's Michelin PS3s in the wet but the officer downgraded it to 115 km/h, which is a lower 20 points/$80 fine (about £40), or the same fine for using a phone whilst driving. From TV show evidence alone, the Aussie cops are far, far more humourless and I have seen their attempts to catch speeding motorists first hand and it's a lot more stealth than NZ's attempts.

 

The maximum speed on open highways is 100km/h which is of course ludicrous on paper but is in fact about right, since actual 2 and 3 lane highways in both islands would probably total less than 5% of total highways, from a pure guess. Plus, they're in areas of high traffic density and the road layouts suit the speed limit; lots of overly short on/off ramps and more severe corners which you wouldn't see on UK motorways. A lot like driving through the Newcastle inner city ring road, I must admit. So, imagine mostly A-road driving but with a sparse population and therefore fewer road users and fewer towns to slow down for and speed limits for HGVs of 90km/h. The overall time taken to go long distances would probably take longer than driving in the UK via motorways but the level of relaxation from maintaining average speeds and (quite often) seeing such nice scenery is much more satisfying. 

 

Anyway, the Commodore passed its WOF (MOT) today, so I took it round to STUNO's straight after passing and filled it up with bits of firewood, since he's moved to a house without a fire.

 

 

There's a carefully-wrapped -in-tarp dining table beneath the pile which has also been returned to me but short of burning that also, I have very little use for it. 

[nacho man]

I swapped my 08 2.2tdci transit for a 57 plate vivaro last week.

 

We had a choice of some new boxer pugs but being brand new the gaffer checks them every week to see if a fly is splattered on your windscreen and give you a rollicking about not looking after it.

 

So far so good.

 

It is lovely on the motorway and is mega quiet compared to the transit. Seems more like a car than a van. The transit was pretty quick being a rwd version with 135/140bhp but it had been a liability lately, a new dmf, a new starter, some relays to cure another starting issue, a rear calliper that stuck on, now it's hunting and dead slow. Plus a shite stereo, and a bent door that leaked water in and whistles like mad when doing 70mph.

 

So I jumped at the chance to get rid and swap for a Vauxhall. After riding as a passenger in them a fair bit they seemed more civilised.

 

I know there a renna underneath, serviced it the other day and I believe it's the m9r lump. Is that a Renna lump and are they any good?

 

 

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[SiC]

I swapped my 08 2.2tdci transit for a 57 plate vivaro last week.

 

We had a choice of some new boxer pugs but being brand new the gaffer checks them every week to see if a fly is splattered on your windscreen and give you a rollicking about not looking after it.

 

So far so good.

 

It is lovely on the motorway and is mega quiet compared to the transit. Seems more like a car than a van. The transit was pretty quick being a rwd version with 135/140bhp but it had been a liability lately, a new dmf, a new starter, some relays to cure another starting issue, a rear calliper that stuck on, now it's hunting and dead slow. Plus a shite stereo, and a bent door that leaked water in and whistles like mad when doing 70mph.

 

So I jumped at the chance to get rid and swap for a Vauxhall. After riding as a passenger in them a fair bit they seemed more civilised.

 

I know there a renna underneath, serviced it the other day and I believe it's the m9r lump. Is that a Renna lump and are they any good?

 

 

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If M9R, then that's a Nissan derived engine. Proving to be pretty bullet proof in the modern Renaults - especially compared to Renault designed lumps.

[nacho man]

Yeah pretty sure it's a m9r just checked the vin, 88bhp version. Not that slow though really.

 

 

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[oldcars]

Thursday is Corsa day. Won't start a new thread about this, obvs, but for £72 with a metric shit load of MOT it hasn't broken the bank. 1.0 3 pot with a broken camshaft the owner said.

 

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Ideal Gumtree photo when you come to sell.

[oldcars]

My Rover 75 tourer is a fairly early one (1,417 out of 27,407) and being a diesel is one of the earlier lower tune engines (116bhp/260nm) The only difference to the later ones lies in the ecu "map" Handily an mg rover specialist with the right kit and contacts isn't far from me. I paid them and their rover 75 graveyard a visit to be put up to 131bhp/300nm....

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Looks like they stack them vertically in the last pic! Insurance company informed and car much more torquey. I also bought a replacement boot floor hatch off one of their scrapers to replace the paint stained and ripped one in my car. So the 75 looks and goes better than ever!

Can i ask where this is please? I need a piece of chrome trim for my 75.

[Spottedlaurel]

Local Micra news:

 

 

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/witnesses_describe_moment_woman_is_hit_by_car_outside_the_artichoke_pub_in_norwich_1_4542845

 

Can only hope everyone is OK.

[oldcars]

There's also a place that breaks Rovers in Insch if that's any closer.

Tell me more please 

[wuvvum]

Local Micra news:

 

 

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/witnesses_describe_moment_woman_is_hit_by_car_outside_the_artichoke_pub_in_norwich_1_4542845

 

Can only hope everyone is OK.

I passed this on the way into work.  As far as I can make out, old biddy in the Micra failed to stop for a red light, hit another car, a pedestrian and a cyclist before driving into the traffic light.  No serious injuries, apart from the poor K10.

[Keymaster]

A busy day "working from home" so time for stopgap Golf news.

 

The Gatekeeper's lease company have finally confirmed a delivery date for her NHS car, so I now know the Golf is going to be with us until around August, which a timeline that makes me happy to spend a bit more time & money on it.

 

Last weekend saw the fitting of new bump stop and strut mount bushes, mainly because they were in the boot when I bought it. Here are the old ones, some superhero had stuck the old bumpstop back together with tigerseal or something!

 

 

Today I fixed an intermittent front indicator problem properly - it was letting water past a seal & corroded the connectors (previous fix* was just getting out at the lights, tapping the lens & waiting for it to stop working before tapping the lens again)

 

 

Then with the sun out, decided it was time to crack on with tarting the wheels & hubcaps up a bit with some good old Simoniz steel silver.

 

 

 

Before:

 

After:

 

Much better. Next on the to do list is an oil service, but that can wait til next week, I've done enough for now...

[Asimo]

That is an excellent way of masking the tyre!

[r.welfare]

I well remember doing the same wheel rejuvenation on my wife's mk3 Golf before selling it, a decade ago! However I spent ££s on some fancy Tyre Masks. I like the playing card idea and will be employing some when I do a wheel refurb on my dad's Nissan Note, again as part of a pre-sale tart up.

[Supernaut]

At least turn the cards all face down so you can still have game of poker with them afterwards!

[Brodders]

Somehow, unexpectedly, I ended the day owning a Rover 45 Diesel. Some lovely old giffer waddled into work and asked if we buy cars. Strange really as the majority of the forecourt is 18 month old BMW 3 and 5 Series models and he's trying to flog us a 15 year old L Series chugger. He obviously spotted my V6 CLASS among the efficient dynamics and realised I knew the score. It booked at sod all, but he was determined to be rid of it, so rather than let him sell it for peanuts to some 2nd gen pikey trader I thought I'd buy it for a fair price and run it for a bit. Turns out though that what I'll have to pay in insurance monthly is about the same I pay in company car tax on a 2015 Ford Focus so WHATS THE POINT!?

 

So before I punt this sucker on eBay I'll offer it on here for a sensible shitter price. I'll type out an ad tomorrow, but if anyone wants a 93k 2001 Expression S Saloon with heated cow, big alloys and sensible MOT - brace yourself.

Have you got any more details or pictures, I (and probably a few others on here) may be interested.

[Kiltox]

Still haven't shifted this fucking Corsa and the car I really wanted to buy is now on eBay so will no doubt go before it does

[Kiltox]

Saw playing cards in Sports Direct for 75p if anyone needs a cheap source

[Asimo]

Just checking over the surplus Civic before trying to flog it. 

 

Bollocks  

 

How did that happen in 3224 miles  ?

 

Oh  

 

[vulgalour]

BASTARD - I just bought a 'running in' sticker and it looks shit now it's arrived with rubbish RAC and AA graphics on it I was going to cut off - that one is much better!

 

Me too!  I've bought one of the CtP suggested ones anyway because it's more betterer.

[DeeJay]

 

New VW scene mod innit.

[Alexg]

Have you got any more details or pictures, I (and probably a few others on here) may be interested.

 

Now has it's own post chap

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/24640-lesser-grenaded-class-fore-sayal-future-classic-honda-engine-lk-etc/

[xtriple]

I finally got around to changing the top trim on the top of the door. Don't know its proper name but it wipes the rain away when you put the window up and down.... desperately important stuff....

 

I ordered it from Mazda in a fit of 'it won't be much, so just get it in for me' it turned up and was sixty odd quid! The old one only has a rusty bit on the ends, at that price it could have stayed... Also today went and got the screw for the door handle that some arse had wrecked and a load of clips to hold the wheel arch liner in.

 

So, make a start, drill out the old screw, take door trim off, notice it doesn't fit properly because there are HUGE speakers at the front of the door in the place the standard ones should have been, I count that as a win. So on with taking the window out, no sweat, take old trim off, put new trim on, easy peasy Japanesey! But, could I get the window to bolt back into the electric motor?

 

Could I fuck!

 

it's had a new window mech at some point in the recent past and it's a fake thing that doesn't fit properly. One of things I intended to sort while in there was why the window was sooooooooooo slow.... 'cos it doesn't fit properly and was mega tight on one side. Handy new drill to the rescue...

 

Window now whizzs up and down with the speed of light.

 

As a bonus, all the inside of the door has been rustproofed (when it was imported) as well as all underneath, mega clean inside and all drains clear. Only problem now is: I can;t really see the difference this £60 bit of trim has made!

[SiC]

The several mx5s we've owned never have wiped the window clean. Infact thinking about it, the Hondas I've owned haven't either. Maybe it's a jap thing that they don't do it?

 

BTW mx5parts.co.uk if you've not found it already.

[vulgalour]

Because it has only cost me £11.50, I have decided to put the theory of a Concerto rear end on a 400 into practice.  Well, a single rear light at least.  In theory, with the lights and trim and some modification to the wiring you should be able to fit Concerto rear lights to an R8 but having never seen it done in practice I'd like to know for definite.  Plus I think the Concerto rear end looks better so I'm really hoping this works.

[egg]

Watched Wheeler Dealers - where they were doing a Volvo PV544, a car I know little about. What got me was - China kept the brakes standard (drums) by upgrading the shoes - all about the originality, and then stuck a massive ugly period aftermarket air conditioning system in. Weird.

 

Ordered one new rubber window weatherstrip for the Mondeo from Ford (£27  ) I can't bear to order the 3 I need at once. Secondhand ones are almost pointless though.

 

Next week the blue machine should go in for new cambelt kit + water pump (+ new coolant, natch) + get the oil leak (rocker cover, I hope) sorted. Going to be the biggest bill yet, so my Fusion will be up for sale here in a week or two to fund it. Madness.