What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fordperv]

It's raining and generally a shitty day so I can't do anything outside, usually this would be a grump but I've been sat watching the wildlife that visits my garden, it's a hive of activity today the various visitors are taking it in turns to visit my feeders which is nice to watch

 

[Ratdat]

Just saw a white Jaguar in my village with the registration number Y 6 MPG  

 

Vehicle make:  JAGUAR

Date of first registration:  28 September 2012

Year of manufacture:  2012

Cylinder capacity (cc):  5000cc

 

[greengartside]

Also I've stumbled across another Mk1, in red - this time it's an estate. It's parked up in a garden about a minute's walk from mine. Pictures to follow!

 

It's slowly been piled high with junk - been there for absolute years....

 

[fordperv]

The rain stopped so I popped to a mates to fit electronic ignition and a new coil to his mk3 cortina, i had a jolly good drive out in it to test it.

[Stanky]

Today, me and a chap I used to work with went to the Hovercraft museum in Lee-on-Solent and ha da facinating afternoon looking at all sorts of modes of obsolete mass- and personal transportation. Well worth the £7 entry fee with loads of knowledgable and enthusiastic volunteers on hand to talk to without having information forced down my throat.

 

Here are some highlights:

 

Gas Turbine Engine

 

Austin 3 litre?

 

Original Portsmouth - IOW hovercraft

 

 

Coupe

 

Windmill

 

Interservice Something-or-other. Nice man told me lots about it.

 

Twinny 2-stroke deathtrap

 

Also gr8 way to kill yourself

 

Suck this VTEC boys. Redline at 20,000 rpm

 

They bought all the sundry gauges from halfords

 

This one runs apparently

 

Shite smiley transit and vectra engine donor for hovercraft (seriously)

 

Scrapheap challenge hovercraft

 

Engine rape a mini for its engine to fit in a Metro City X, then do this with the shell. Win at life

 

For Sale, £5k earth pounds.

 

Very tidy, runs, though handles like a bar of soap apparently.

 

A Reliant Scimitar had one, you know (???)

 

Military one, the floor was awash with diesel for reasons unclear. I still smell of it.

 

Don't make me use the 'very pistol' on you, you'd regret it.

 

Hope its not too pic-heavy, I'd really recommend going as they are being threatened by developers as it occupies some very lucrative real estate on the seafront and its very interesting. Would be worth a visit by the Solent Shiters and can arrange if anyone is interested, plenty of free parking and open 10-4 every saturday this year, instead of practically never as in previous years. I wish I'd gone earlier as I only got 2 hours (its way bigger than I thought) and had to rush past a few things.

 

A shame I didn't get a pic of the Vauxhall Ecotec powered shite-r-craft which is capable of 52 knots (!) apparently.

 

[skattrd]

Today I drove a variomatic Volvo (oops forgot to take pics) Mk1 Espace and an Accord Aerodeck ... Each one made me grin.

[The Moog]

Who needs an espace!

 

[Matt]

Who needs an espace!

 

 

Too bad they've got an absurdly high loading height. How bodged are the parcel shelf strings on yours? Had the joyful task of replacing a rear bulb yet?

[The Moog]

Too bad they've got an absurdly high loading height. How bodged are the parcel shelf strings on yours? Had the joyful task of replacing a rear bulb yet?

Rear bulbs are a doodle. Did the indicator which wasn't too bad.

 

Missing one of the parcel shelf lugs so wobbles all over the place so haven't got the strings attached.

 

Oh and the scanguage doesn't work on it. Got a suspicion that being 1999 it isn't obd2.

[Matt]

Rear bulbs are a doodle. Did the indicator which wasn't too bad.

 

Missing one of the parcel shelf lugs so wobbles all over the place so haven't got the strings attached.

 

Oh and the scanguage doesn't work on it. Got a suspicion that being 1999 it isn't obd2.

 

I guess you're lucky then; I find on mine that the clips that hold the bulb holder to the housing a total pain in the ass. The nearside is way worse for some reason. The parcel shelf on these seem to be woefully inadequate, even the silver one I had with 16k miles only had one of the original strings left and even that was frayed quite badly. The little lug/hinge things always seem to look as though they've come off and have been reattached with way too much glue.

 

In 1996 OBD2 was mandatory for all cars made in the US that were to be sold in the US and likewise in 2001 in the UK. With these being so similar to the Geo Metro (many other names available) it might have translated to EU models by 1999. On my 2002 it's under the dash by the drivers knee. Kneel on the ground with the door open and stick your head under the dash. It's black in a dark space so easier to find that way.

[The Moog]

 

 

In 1996 OBD2 was mandatory for all cars made in the US that were to be sold in the US and likewise in 2001 in the UK. With these being so similar to the Geo Metro (many other names available) it might have translated to EU models by 1999. On my 2002 it's under the dash by the drivers knee. Kneel on the ground with the door open and stick your head under the dash. It's black in a dark space so easier to find that way.

Got the connector but it won't talk to scan gauge.

[Matt]

Got the connector but it won't talk to scan gauge.

 

Did you follow the instructions exactly and what exactly is it doing? If it's got the connector I don't see any reason for it not to work as it's a standardised system. Contact the help team, they were great with me when I had a bad motherboard.

 

http://www.scangauge.com/support/

[Pillock]

Some manufacturers were putting the connector in but speaking their own language down it until they had to conform.

Mk3 Golfs from about 1994 had the connector next to the ashtray, but they weren't OBD.

[andy18s]

Barbara Cartland dog?

 

http://www.wimp.com/dogpiano/

[Richard]

There are loads of cars that use that connector for their own system.

[fordperv]

That dog is awesome and I dare say more tuneful than the manufactured crap in the charts

[The Moog]

Looking online it has obd2 connector but doesn't.

 

They put it in to comply with USA but didn't wire it in. Bumhats. Probably same as v40

[bub2006]

We've all been there I think at some point. Buy a car and realise you haven't seen another in a long while then while driving you see loads. I honestly can't say in the miles I've covered so far in the Volvo have I seen another early shape 440. Seen facelifted ones but can count them on one hand. Still see a fair few 200 and 700 series knocking about too. Not such a grin though when scrapyards haven't had one in for years!

[doobietoo]

Following a day working on the PPEs suspension I have woken up this morning with a useless left arm, a back that wont work properly and legs that feel like someone has beaten them with a stick. normally this would be a post for the Grumpy thread but I had so much fun fixing the car and the sense of achievement in doing something that would have cost £100s if a garage had done it that I am happy to put up with the after effects.

[Cavcraft]

Bought an old bike from a very nice local eBay gent a good while back. He messaged me this morning to ask if I wanted a 'few old bike bits for nothing' and was kind enough to bring them round...

[Cavcraft]

On top of that (stupid computer/phone playing up hence separate post, sorry) the Fiesta went to a local lad and I cleaned the Laguna, which has come up a treat after cleaning all the shit from behind the exterior rubber bits.

[andrew e]

Cavcraft sell that wooden box of shite as a "Hipster gift set" for max-winnage.

[Cheggers]

That's the funniest thing I've seen in ages...brilliant!!

[Frogchod]

Just lobbed the engine back in the van after changing clutch ,headgasket and cam belt and I didn't have to tow it back from

its first test drive

Used man maths to buy an engine lifter too

For those ingnoring squeeling clutch release bearings pics show what can happen....

[Pillock]

 

I did another savvyselfie

[andy18s]

Cavcraft sell that wooden box of shite as a "Hipster gift set" for max-winnage.

Spent part of yesterday at 1 of those 2 weekly auction house sales

2 Young beardy types went toe to toe over a wooden Players cigarette crate,and an old cardboard box also from Players fags

They got into 3 figures before 1 backed down.......

 

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[anonymous user]

Spent part of yesterday at 1 of those 2 weekly auction house sales

2 Young beardy types went toe to toe over a wooden Players cigarette crate,and an old cardboard box also from Players fags

They got into 3 figures before 1 backed down.......

 

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I need people like that when I start sorting out and selling some of my collected rubbish

[hairnet]

Cavcraft sell that wooden box of shite as a "Hipster gift set" for max-winnage.

round his way - someone would build house with that

[hairnet]

due to paperwork issues with the panda

 

couldnt go get without fear of 5-0 rapage in the cells/inthe showers/down the stairs in the back of the van

 

had to tell mammy why the civic was gone and why there wasnt another car in the driveway

 

told what sort - she went mad

 

she has calmed down tho

 

but hey ive saved 400 a year running cost AND shes not paid for it why apeshit over a newer car

 

which shed only rag down the side of the gate/have someone drive into it and then we'd cry

 

and also not laid out ££ if.when they tell her to stop driving and im stuck with 4-5k of car i wouldnt drive and have to sell

 

all she said was 3-4 year old and not white - hey its 6 years old and not white - whats not to like

 

i offered the visa but she chicken

[vulgalour]

Rover's wobbly wheel has been fixed and it cost nothing to do.  Turns out it was the lower strut bolt that wasn't loose, but had a manky enough thread that it wasn't tight enough and had started to work itself loose.  I bothered to take some short video to show just how wobbly it had become.  Was quite an irritating fault to find but one that I'm very glad I did, there's every chance that my drive to Maidstone and back (about 600 miles) would have seen the bolt come out and I don't even want to think about that happening at motorway speeds.