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[trigger]

It's this.

 

 

It's a bit more over £1000 but it's gorgeous, sadly though it has no mot so I can't drive it back although I'm sure he'd mot it if I asked him, Shiply prices seem to range from £600 to £3000! and to be honest I haven't got the spare money as the Acclaim took most of my toy kitty and it's not even worth £700 now!

 

If it was in the UK i'd be all over it like bird shit on a freshly polished car, Oh well, we can all dream can't we!

[Junkman]

They advertise transporting cars over from Ireland for 200 quid on Ebay.

Makes sense, since most transporters return empty from there, so they just try to get the odd return load.

[Bobthebeard]

The 'Donate' button thingy at the bottom of the page...

Donate to who, whom or what?

Obviously I have missed something!

If its a donation to Dave, or to keep the Autoshite forum alive then I am well up for it of course..... If its a donation to a church or political party it can FRO obviously.

[Craig the Princess]

The 'Donate' button thingy at the bottom of the page...

Donate to who, whom or what?

Obviously I have missed something!

If its a donation to Dave, or to keep the Autoshite forum alive then I am well up for it of course..... If its a donation to a church or political party it can FRO obviously.

It is to Dave

http://autoshite.com/topic/15348-sorry-about-thisupgrade/

[Bobthebeard]

It is to Davehttp://autoshite.com/topic/15348-sorry-about-thisupgrade/

Ahh! Thanks. Missed that.

A worthy cause then. Will do my bit!

[Bobthebeard]

The (aftermarket) immobiliser on my 944 has started to play up. As in failed completely! It is the type that needs the key to be touched onto a 'receiver' under the steering column. Has been fine up until this morning, but isn't now. Tried both 'chipped' keys and the original fob but no joy. Seems to be the type that only immobilises the starter motor.

Suspect the system was fitted sometime in the 1990's, a Cobra alarm. The alarm has never worked in the two or so years that I have owned the car, but the immobiliser has been faultless up until this morning.

Can these things be removed or bypassed fairly easily? Need to use the car tomorrow and it is blocking in the other two useable cars.

Ta!

[Asimo]

It's this.

 

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If it was in the UK i'd be all over it like bird shit on a freshly polished car, Oh well, we can all dream can't we!

 

It is in the UK and it is UK registered.

 

Question: if a vehicle has no mot, can it be driven on trade pates?

[Asimo]

What did people do all day at work before the internet?

[Bobthebeard]

What did people do all day at work before the internet?

Errrr...... Work?

[Mr Livered]

Don't be so silly.

[Bobthebeard]

Don't be so silly.

When I worked* the night shift at Lucas back in the early 90's we used to work on our cars in the warehouse loading bay. No internet to distract us back then....

[Bobthebeard]

The (aftermarket) immobiliser on my 944 has started to play up. As in failed completely! It is the type that needs the key to be touched onto a 'receiver' under the steering column. Has been fine up until this morning, but isn't now. Tried both 'chipped' keys and the original fob but no joy. Seems to be the type that only immobilises the starter motor.

Suspect the system was fitted sometime in the 1990's, a Cobra alarm. The alarm has never worked in the two or so years that I have owned the car, but the immobiliser has been faultless up until this morning.

Can these things be removed or bypassed fairly easily? Need to use the car tomorrow and it is blocking in the other two useable cars.

Ta!

Anyway..... Back to this.....

Anyone?

[saucedoctor]

@ Trig - I assume you mean that the car is resident in ROI, but still on it's NI plates, having never received an ROI reg no?

 

This happens a fair bit, as importing cars into ROI is a pain in the cock, and LOTS of money is involved. Chances are that Onion still has a UK logbook, and the new owner is just "minding it for his mate from Crossmaglen" (or similar).

 

As a side note - that's an Armagh-registered car. There absolutely WILL be 25 litres of laundered red diesel and a case of knockoff Smirnoff in the boot.

[trigger]

The chap selling it has had it since 1991, he's in Newby which is NI, it's too expensive for me though so I've bailed out.

[Asimo]

The (aftermarket) immobiliser on my 944 has started to play up.

Ta!

I had the same problem from time to time in my Renault GTA. The immobiliser was very random and eventually I removed it. It wasn't difficult, just time consuming. I guess as with any aftermarket kit, the ease or difficulty will be down to the original quality of the installation. If you are OK at car electrics give it a go.

 

The last thing any old car needs is an extra gadget to stop it working.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I guess as with any aftermarket kit, the ease or difficulty will be down to the original quality of the installation. 

 

Oh Lord I want to remove the alarm from the Mini and get a fancy new one fitted. Unfortunately the current one was installed by loading a Gatling gun with Scotch Locks and firing it at the loom. 

[cobblers]

Aftermarket immobilisers are generally dead easy to bypass. Find the "box" and it'll probabaly have a load of black wires coming out of it. Some will T into +12v, Ground, Ignition feed etc. Then there will be one or two "immobiliser" circuits which will be cut in line with the starter motor feed etc (IE they route the feed out of the car wiring loom, up into the immobiliser where it's switched by a relay, then back out to the component)

 

Get a wiring diagram for the car (HBOL will do) and work out what colour the starter feed is. Follow the wires from the immobiliser box and work out where it is spliced (good practice when fitting them is to have the two joins a few feet apart, and hide them deep inside the dashboard so it isn't so obvious to a thief, but most installers are lazy)

Rejoin the original feed, confirm the car starts and then disconnect the rest of the immobiliser and throw it in a river.

 

I've bypassed immobilisers in minutes - the last one was a super mega full closure thing that the P/O of the car had paid £1500 to get fitted!

[saucedoctor]

I bought a Meriva 1.6 Easytronic at auction in the summer. 2008, 14k miles, pale met. blue. Sold it no probs, and for a tidy profit.

3 weeks ago I bought another, in similar nick, 30k miles, 2008, 1.6 manual. Nary a sniff. It's dark met. green. Leaving the time of year to one side, could the colour be putting folks off?

[twosmoke300]

If I were trying to persuade the Missis to partake in some Christmas bum love, is brandy butter the lubricant of choice?

[DeeJay]

WD40

[twosmoke300]

Far too thin for warm temp operation. Ep90 may be ok for extreme pressure too

[barefoot]

If I were trying to persuade the Missis to partake in some Christmas bum love, is brandy butter the lubricant of choice?

That's what she likes when I shag her.

[twosmoke300]

Boom boom!

[willswitchengage]

If I were trying to persuade the Missis to partake in some Christmas bum love, is brandy butter the lubricant of choice?

 

[wackywacerwill]

I'm picking up a car tomorrow with a tow bar and it got me thinking...

 

Is it illegal to double A frame? 

[KruJoe]

Probably very.

I'd like to see the pictures though. Executing an emergency stop with that Autoshite road-train would be a sphincter twitcher!

[M'coli]

Didn't Bollox sell some chod to an eastern-European who turned up A-framing something, produced another A-frame from the boot, connected it up and drove off in an A-frame roadtrain?

[mercrocker]

My best trailing fun* was picking up my mate in his broken-down Mirafiori.  Towed it dandy with my Pontiac, even though the Fiat was still hooked  up to a trailer with 2 Husqvarnas on it.   Toot! Toot!

[Mr Lobster]

I need to repair the door seals on my SEAT, the standard method seems to be using either the proper sticky backed foam stuff at ££££s per roll or water resistant silicone sealant which seals between the door itself and the metal carrier which holds all the speakers etc.

 

Question, would Tiger seal do a sufficiently good job at keeping it dry inside?

[Station]

Do a search for 'cling film' and 'silicone sealant' and possibly 'MR2'.

It's a miraculously simple way of sealing up a car without having to keep the door closed.