Easter Sunday collection episode.

[Des]

When I've downed my coffee I'm heading out to fetch home some RWD Ford action. It's been a long time since I've bought anything, trying to fit in getting organised to move house with normal life is taking forever, chaos breeding chaos, so fuck it I'm breaking my self imposed ban and what better way than with a Dagenham dustbin. Jesus I'm dumb, no room for, or time to maintain what I already have, how about a donkey Ford to intensify problems. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey have you still got the Rover 25 van?

[HillmanImp]

Are you okay? How big's the coffee?

[Jim Bell]

I think Ive cracked the case sarge.

 

The coffee was laced with LAXATIVES.

[Wingz123]

Capri?

[Wingz123]

Capri?...maybe he broke down...

[Des]

Hey have you still got the Rover 25 van?

 

Yup, still on the fleet, have a new battery for it that I have to pop in whenever I get 5 mins, and I have to tax the little fecker today.

Well that was an epic jaunt, over to Kings Langley and then a good 5 1/2 mile drive home. But not without a pezzy pump pic.

 

 

There's my bruv who kindly dropped me in Kings Langley. Look at the 160K minicab-esque shine on this.

 

 

And a cheeky little bit of brake pedal peeking through the rubber there, but this is what it's all about.

 

 

Lovely bit of tail lift, insurance brokers struggled a bit with its presence, what do they think I'm going to use it for? Picnic table on a hard shoulder or something? Twats. I'm absolutely intent on moving house asap and this should prove most useful, in the meantime it's going to be a huge pain in the arse keeping it, and only a few months MOT so I'll just have to pull my finger out, say tatty bye to the fucking rats that are piling in around me and get gone, and I'll have a nice big white shed wherever I end up. The van drives well for an old donk, as lively as you'd want a luton to be, power steering, dual cupholder and radio cassette give an impression of high end luxury. Bonnet doesn't open, release is missing, opens with a long screwdriver stuffed up the front but I have to figure it out yet, or maybe best I don't, it's upsetting to see what's going on with modern diesels.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....over to Kings Langley and then a good 5 1/2 mile drive home. But not without a pezzy pump pic.

 

 

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That Texaco place looks familiar, next door to that outdoor bath place and the West Coast Main Line behind you.

 

Only a couple of miles from where I was in Sarratt today.

[Cavcraft]

*Watches for raffle numbers.

[Des]

Now earning its keep shock, completed a 250 mile round trip collecting kit from South Brum and offing some toot in Tamworth.

Dropping payload like a boss.

 

 

I was just waiting for the bang as I hit the M1 and took it up to 60 and held it there but nothing other than a bit of wheel balance steering wobble, annoying considering the front tyres are new, the rev counter reading of 3K would imply we have a dogs cock pinion and dinner plate crownwheel in the back axle for crawling gear action, so 60 it is then, plenty enough for a big wobbly box. The thing drives well enough and the brakes are superb, kept me out of trouble a couple of times, old Henry may have been a nasty piece of work and an inspiration for Hitler but he rarely scrimped on the old linings. Like a tart I ordered one of those OBDI plugs with a USB cable, Fords don't use the same usual code reader whatevs so I followed a link to software called Forscan, stuck it on a good for nothing Win10 tablet and actually got it to work with minimal dicking about, thought it a good idea to have a gander at any issues so I'm forewarned, nothing with pas can have a steering wheel wear billiard ball smooth without gathering issues can it?

 

 

Well isn't that something. And I've worked out how to open the bonnet, I'd thought some wanker had removed the pull from inside, it opens with a turn of a screwdriver via where the grill's missing, would have been a key barrel once, I might just treat it to a lock if I have something that fits, and a bit of chicken wire for a grill, maybe even the fancy plastic coated stuff.

[Angrydicky]

You've been spotted over on Flickr, Des old chap!

 

2004 Rover 25 Commerce by Jamie-A, on Flickr

[Des]

Fuck me that pic was taken a while ago, I can't remember when I washed that shit off, I think that was after I'd 'cleverly' waxed the paintwork but not buffed it for extra protection when parked up because of busyness, then left it under that horrible shitty tree to shed its horrible shitty tree dandruff all over it. It's now back in the exact same spot waiting for me to pop in a new battery thats been sitting sulphating itself for a month or so now.

Here's a thing, same cost to tax both those vans, £250, Rover with a little economical 1.4 catted petrol, pretty inoffensive emission-wise, and the Ford, 2.4 Diesel and pumps out the same rancid filth they all do, what's that about then?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Fuck me that pic was taken a while ago, I can't remember when I washed that shit off, I think that was after I'd 'cleverly' waxed the paintwork but not buffed it for extra protection when parked up because of busyness, then left it under that horrible shitty tree to shed its horrible shitty tree dandruff all over it. It's now back in the exact same spot waiting for me to pop in a new battery thats been sitting sulphating itself for a month or so now.

Here's a thing, same cost to tax both those vans, £250, Rover with a little economical 1.4 catted petrol, pretty inoffensive emission-wise, and the Ford, 2.4 Diesel and pumps out the same rancid filth they all do, what's that about then?

That'll change now diesel is the fuel of the devil again in the eyes of Mr revenues

 

Top bombing and being a chassis cab I imagine these are a lot less prone to rot than the vans?

 

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[Des]

Top bombing and being a chassis cab I imagine these are a lot less prone to rot than the vans?

 

 

I like you, you're a glass half full kind of guy.