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[nigel bickle]

Or just get those re-lined?

[Guest Hooli]

Loads* left on them. If it's taken this long to get that worn you should have another 20 years in those.

[Snipes]

Would it be Cortina with that 5-stud hub? Maybe p100? Or could they have used different hubs inrelatinon to the brakes?

[DodgeRover]

Asking this one genuinely for a friend, does anybody know of a rolling road down South that has experience reprogramming EPROMs - it's in a fancy 80s Porsche with a Motronics injection system, it's had a lot of engine work done and needs it's parameters changing.

[leanycan]

Anyone figured what causes the bloody irritating glovebox rattle on a k11? we put some foam behind the glovebox which removes the noise but it always comes back.

 

If I can't find a solution here, my last recourse is to get some memory foam which wont stay indented after being compressed for long, and see if that sorts it :/

Could always just tape it up lol. Speaking of K11’s. My air vents would make this awful rattle as if something was stuck in them. Turns out that a wrapper from a chocolate bar had worked its way out of the glovebox and into the fan...

 

 

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[oldcars]

Mine did that, it has so many faults that fix that one always ended up at the bottom of the pile. I did spray some silicone dash spray about a bit and it sorted* it for a wee while.

[xtriple]

Is 4:30 in the afternoon to early to go to bed?

[Wingz123]

Is 4:30 in the afternoon to early to go to bed?

Not if your up again at 10pm that night

[Wingz123]

Asking this one genuinely for a friend, does anybody know of a rolling road down South that has experience reprogramming EPROMs - it's in a fancy 80s Porsche with a Motronics injection system, it's had a lot of engine work done and needs it's parameters changing.

I know a guy in Southampton that reprograms EEPROM’s....did it on my Prius....I can send you his number if you want? Doesn’t hurt to ask the question...

[Guest Hooli]

Is 4:30 in the afternoon to early to go to bed?

Depends if you just got in from last night?

[DodgeRover]

I know a guy in Southampton that reprograms EEPROM’s....did it on my Prius....I can send you his number if you want? Doesn’t hurt to ask the question...

Yes please

[DSdriver]

Because I have too much time to think whilst convalescing I began to wonder if Royal Mail bodyshops have a pogweasel tints chart so that they don't have to respray the whole vehicle after a fender bender. They can just match the amount of fading to the swatch set. Or maybe they do it by the age of the vehicle? I have not seen any post vans with different shades and new bright red panels and I can't believe that the standard of driving has improved since I knew someone who had a contract to do repairs - he was always busy.

I am curious

[Wingz123]

Yes please

Pm’d you

[CrapCarNerd]

This is one thats really bugging me!!... Anyone know of any garage(s) called "Southern Cross Garages LTD" in Market Deeping or Potters Bar? 

 

I presume they're long gone now and must have been Ford dealers. My 1985 Escort mk3 came with these plates on and apparently the Reg is the Peterborough area so, must have originally come from the Market Deeping Garage... cant find anything about it online, even tried .gov business checks!! Ghost garage!!! 

 

 

[Mrcento]

Went out of business around 1991 apparently, opened 1981

 

https://companycheck.co.uk/company/01556635/SOUTHERN-CROSS-GARAGE-MARKET-DEEPING-LIMITED/companies-house-data

[CrapCarNerd]

This is one thats really bugging me!!... Anyone know of any garage(s) called "Southern Cross Garages LTD" in Market Deeping or Potters Bar? 

 

I presume they're long gone now and must have been Ford dealers. My 1985 Escort mk3 came with these plates on and apparently the Reg is the Peterborough area so, must have originally come from the Market Deeping Garage... cant find anything about it online, even tried .gov business checks!! Ghost garage!!! 

 

MKT Deeping Ford.jpg

 

Actully i did just find this on a company check saying it was dissolved... anyway i can figure out the address? 

[TataBobu]

So last year I've bought an used car from UK . Just completed the V5 with the details of the new keeper, and now the thing I have no clue about: if we send the old V5 by post to DVLA, will they send the new one to an address that's outside UK?

It is possible to register the car here with the original V5 and a hand-written contract between the registered keeper and the new owner (which I have), but it would be easier with an V5 in the new owner's name.

[Guest Hooli]

I'm pretty sure you can't register a car with the DVLA outside the UK/Great Britain.

[oldcars]

With regard to silicone spray would GT85 work or are we talking some type of interior cleaner? 

It was a Autosmart dash spray i used. 

[DodgeRover]

So last year I've bought an used car from UK . Just completed the V5 with the details of the new keeper, and now the thing I have no clue about: if we send the old V5 by post to DVLA, will they send the new one to an address that's outside UK?

It is possible to register the car here with the original V5 and a hand-written contract between the registered keeper and the new owner (which I have), but it would be easier with an V5 in the new owner's name.

It should have been declared exported when it left the UK for good. Dvla will absolutely not put a foreign address or po box as the registered keeper. You will usually need the complete V5 to register it wherever it now is but it's nothing to do with the DVLA anymore.

[Wingz123]

So last year I've bought an used car from UK . Just completed the V5 with the details of the new keeper, and now the thing I have no clue about: if we send the old V5 by post to DVLA, will they send the new one to an address that's outside UK?

It is possible to register the car here with the original V5 and a hand-written contract between the registered keeper and the new owner (which I have), but it would be easier with an V5 in the new owner's name.

Which part of africa did it end up in?

[GoGently]

Hello Hello Hello 

 

Can anyone identity this engine & its age also what model MG car it might have come out off.

 

[wuvvum]

CV joints.

 

I have a vague idea how they work in theory, but could do with some practical pointers.  Whilst buggering about swapping wishbones on the Audi I managed to pull the driveshaft out of the CV joint.  I only discovered this when I started it up and put it in gear and it wouldn't move.  The driveshaft wouldn't simply slot back in obvs, that would have been too easy, so I had to peel back the CV boot to see where I needed to go - whereupon I was greeted by a shower of ball bearings.  I've managed to get most of them back in, but there are two which wouldn't go in - or at least they would, but then the centre bit of the joint (with the splines for the driveshaft) wouldn't move.  So the car is now capable of movement again, but the situation is obviously less than ideal.

 

So my questions are twofold:  firstly, what am I doing wrong with regard to the two ball bearings I can't get back in (and also how do I get them back in without all the others falling out again) - I know what it's supposed to look like in theory but with everything covered in grease it's hard to see exactly what's what.  Secondly, I appreciate I need to sort it out before I drive any distance, but will I be able to manoeuvre the car around as it is, or will everything fall out again as soon as I apply more than 2° of lock?

[dozeydustman]

Hello Hello Hello 

 

Can anyone identity this engine & its age also what model MG car it might have come out off.

 

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948cc A-series from a spridget?

[Guest Hooli]

I thought only the 1,275cc had removable tappet covers, but I might be thinking of the A+ series.

[Tamworthbay]

I thought only the 1,275cc had removable tappet covers, but I might be thinking of the A+ series.

Other way around, the 1275 A and A+ didn’t have the removable push rod/ tappet covers to increase strength. Easy way to tell between 998/1098 and 1275s.

[Tamworthbay]

948cc A-series from a spridget?

or a minor, the Morris cover would suggest a minor but could have been changed.

[Guest Hooli]

Other way around, the 1275 A and A+ didn’t have the removable push rod/ tappet covers to increase strength. Easy way to tell between 998/1098 and 1275s.

 

Old age + memory = bugger.

 

Ta for the info.

[Tamworthbay]

Old age + memory = bugger.

 

Ta for the info.

Weirdly it’s a very common misconception/ urban myth. Apparently they lightened the block to make the 1275 faster and to allow easier servicing, which is utter bollocks as it’s the smaller blocks that have them but I must have heard this a couple of dozen times over the years.

[Guest Hooli]

In my case it's just poor memory of running a Metro years ago.