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[eddyramrod]

It's either an Arna or a Cherry with some kind of body kit...

[scaryoldcortina]

having remebered that the board crops the RHS off all pictures I used "view image"

 

It's an Arna (or at least it has arna SL wheels on it)

[eddyramrod]

eddy - I confidently predict that a cavalier engine will ALMOST bolt into the daewoo. I'd recommend a V8 instead.

 

Thanks for that; however over here we have rules about transplanting, all designed to make life more and more difficult of course. V8 is off the shopping list I'm afraid. You didn't see the raft of paperwork just because my Granada has a replacement engine, and that's to original spec!

[trigger]

it's an Arna (or at least it has arna SL wheels on it)

 

That's answered that then!, Thanks!

[Cavcraft]

Is it correct that any MOT station should give you a replacement certificate (at £10 or whatever it is) regardless of whether you had the car tested there or not?

I'm sure someone told me garages cannot refuse to give you a replacement regardless of where the MOT was carried out, and that if they do refuse you can report them to VOSA?

[Pete-M]

Is it correct that any MOT station should give you a replacement certificate (at £10 or whatever it is) regardless of whether you had the car tested there or not?

I'm sure someone told me garages cannot refuse to give you a replacement regardless of where the MOT was carried out, and that if they do refuse you can report them to VOSA?

 

You'll need the old MOT number or the V5C reference number to get it but you should be able to get one at any MOT station.

 

If they're logged on doing another MOT they can't log off to print you a replacement MOT but if you're prepared to wait for anything up to an hour they'll normally sort it out for you. If they won't, they're just being arsey.

 

It's no skin off their nose (other than they're getting £10 for two minutes work instead of £35 for an hour). The tester isn't signing anything to say he tested the car, because he's not done. All he's signing is that he's issued a replacement.

[Cavcraft]

Thanks Pete. I'm going to test that theory this week with a garage I cannot abide. If thye refuse me a duplicate cert I shall take great pleasure in bubbling them to VOSA. I have the car, the keys (obv) and the V5 and will take them all to the testing station and see what happens.

[loserone]

Did you get your cert?

 

Background: friend's workmate bought a car unseen from our favourite auction site. Failed to get it home, as there were some mysterious electrical problems (We think it was missing the pineapple), and eventually got it towed.

 

He's tried to get the ownership changed by sending off the V5C (I think), and those kind folk in Swansea have asked him to fill in a questionaire to verify the vehicles ID. It seems that the reg plate refers to a different make of car entirely, and the V5 refers to a different shape of the same model. I'm not sure what the VINs relate to, we haven't got that far.

 

Anyway, the question I have - how insane is he for shredding his DVLA letters, and stripping the car for parts on the bay? I'm assuming he'd be better off approaching the police with details of the chap he bought it off &c. &c.? (I have already suggested this, but he can be a little naive.)

 

I trust this question properly falls into the category stated in the topic subject.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

not a car-related thing, but there are lots of e-bay experts here. Would you buy this?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HTC-HD7-Black ... 500wt_1156

 

Obviously occasional user only- 3 transactions within the past year. Is it easy to get your money back from Gaypal in case he does a runner?

[Cavcraft]

MOT obtained today from a handy/decent local garage!

[Formula Autos]

Stupid door questions:

 

1) How many cars use 'those' doors (off of the Maxi/Landcrab/3 litre). Some kit cars (Panther?) did, didn't they? And didn't some of BL's overses operations use them?

 

2) Did the Mk 2 Cortina 4 door and estate share the same doors as the Mk 4 Zephyr? They look as if they could be the same, with possibly just a different pressing for the door skin.

 

3) Ditto Morris Minors and the '48 on Oxfords - or was it the same basic styling just scaled up for the Oxford, with no interchangability?

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

5) Do I spend too much time staring at car doors, wondering wistfully where else I may have seen them?

[RoadworkUK]

Can anybody explain the current resurgence in popularity of previous generation Mercedes-Benz V-Class and Vitos?

 

 

This kind? In Cornwall I noticed dozens of the bastards, a lot of which were lowered onto AMG wheels, or other "expensive" rimmage, typically with heavily tinted glass, etc.

 

I know all about Euro Scene and all that bollocks, but has everybody forgotten about these things being unreliable, hideous to drive pieces of shit that rust in front of your very eyes? Or is it all about the irony these days?

 

(...which, incidentally, is how I justify my Rover. I'm, like, making an ironic statement about driving. Or sommat)

[Cavcraft]

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

[scaryoldcortina]

Stupid door questions:

 

1) How many cars use 'those' doors (off of the Maxi/Landcrab/3 litre). Some kit cars (Panther?) did, didn't they? And didn't some of BL's overses operations use them?

 

2) Did the Mk 2 Cortina 4 door and estate share the same doors as the Mk 4 Zephyr? They look as if they could be the same, with possibly just a different pressing for the door skin.

 

3) Ditto Morris Minors and the '48 on Oxfords - or was it the same basic styling just scaled up for the Oxford, with no interchangability?

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

5) Do I spend too much time staring at car doors, wondering wistfully where else I may have seen them?

 

1) I don't know. Maybe/

2) No, absolutely not. I have both cars in the yard at the moment and the zeph is almost 50% bigger all round!

3) just styling. However, A40 somersets and A70 herefords share the same doors.

4) I don't think so.. could be wrong.

5) No, absolutely not. You would love my Ginetta G26

[CIH]

Stupid door questions:

 

1) How many cars use 'those' doors (off of the Maxi/Landcrab/3 litre). Some kit cars (Panther?) did, didn't they? And didn't some of BL's overses operations use them?

 

2) Did the Mk 2 Cortina 4 door and estate share the same doors as the Mk 4 Zephyr? They look as if they could be the same, with possibly just a different pressing for the door skin.

 

3) Ditto Morris Minors and the '48 on Oxfords - or was it the same basic styling just scaled up for the Oxford, with no interchangability?

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

5) Do I spend too much time staring at car doors, wondering wistfully where else I may have seen them?

 

1) I don't know. Maybe/

2) No, absolutely not. I have both cars in the yard at the moment and the zeph is almost 50% bigger all round!

3) just styling. However, A40 somersets and A70 herefords share the same doors.

4) I don't think so.. could be wrong.

5) No, absolutely not. You would love my Ginetta G26

 

mk2 fiesta...POW!

[TimothyClaypole]

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

 

They look cheaper than the equivalent T4 so the peasants who can't afford a T4 that's done 164K and is rusty but is lowered and fitted with some unsuitable wheels

have started looking for cheaper alternatives.

[dollywobbler]

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

 

They look cheaper than the equivalent T4 so the peasants who can't afford a T4 that's done 164K and is rusty but is lowered and fitted with some unsuitable wheels

have started looking for cheaper alternatives.

 

I think the V-Class/Vito look bloody excellent compared to what followed as well...

[CIH]

I hate modern Mercedes. Horrible, spiteful, nasty, contrived, cheap pieces of shit that literally fall to pieces when they have to come apart (often).

 

Tell you what it's a bloody brave person who owns a Mercedes Vito and lives within 70 miles of sea air.

 

They look cheaper than the equivalent T4 so the peasants who can't afford a T4 that's done 164K and is rusty but is lowered and fitted with some unsuitable wheels

have started looking for cheaper alternatives.

 

I think the V-Class/Vito look bloody excellent compared to what followed as well...

 

I did a brief stint in insurance and people where inputting V-Class as Vitos. Turns-out Vs are a really high insurance group and they were masivily under-quoted. True story.

[eddyramrod]

Mercedes Vito ... look cheaper than the equivalent T4

 

Der Fuhrer's People's Car racing ahead of Mercedes on price?????? The world is indeed topsy-turvy...

 

I used to drive a Vito. It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be (that's fulsome praise, coming from me!) but it was replaced by a Fiat Scudo, superior in every way.

[Tayne]

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

Peugeot did it with 504 and 604 doors, I think.

 

And Alfa Romeo used the doors from the Alfetta (or some other model) on the Alfa 6.

 

Also, should you be a Chinese car manufacturer (and crispy dog roaster) its ok to steal the doors from european manufacturers.

Great Wall / Fiat Panda being one example.

[Tayne]

Vauxhall Insignias.

 

We have three at work, none of which are mine as I don't have a company car.

Two are on 09 plates and one os a 59. Two (or three) suffered DPF issues that were cured by a software update.

The second oldest had some engine management sensor issue last week but should be back in the morning.

 

The oldest (2.5 years and nearly 30k miles) shat its coolant on the dual carriegway last week and received a new "exhaust gas intercooler".

What the fuck is that?

Exhaust gasses need to be hot for DPFs and cat converters.

I don't understand it but apparently the VX service drone said "we've replaced [looks at sheet] the exhaust gas intercooler".

The chap who drives this one was as baffled as I am.

 

The same car also has a squeaky driver's seat. Every bump in the road sets it off but VX don't think its an issue as the the warranty after one year doesn't cover "seat covers and trim".

Anyone care to comment...

[Guest Len H]

 

4) Were any 'foreign' makes as stingy as BMC/BL, using doors over and over again on different models?

 

Most of the 'Type 4' platform cars have the same doors, apart from the Alfa Romeo 164.

[Albert Ross]

It's a water heater style device just above the gearbox flange. Made of brittle plastic.... I have three under my bench off high mile sub three year old cars with no warranty..... just in case we need a buggered one.

[barefoot]

Tax dodge question;

 

I'm doing a London to Brighton run at the end of the month in my T2

Down to London on Friday the 30th

London to Brighton on Saturday the 1st

& back home on Sunday the 2nd.

 

I will be legal,

 

My friend wishes to sorn his vehicle after the event & wonders if the few days of leeway

that you're given on tax renewal will enable him to get away with simply not re-taxing

until he gets home & then sorning it?

Or will he be horribly punished?

[ChinaTom]

Sorry about this - this will be the millioth question with the same basic subject, but I guess we all have our own circumstances.

 

Sold the BMW on Ebay 2 weeks ago for a BIN of £400 as I needed shot before I came back to Asia this time. Ad clearly stated an intermittent stalling issue, and an oil leak on start-up - I tried to demonstrate both these issues to the buyer when he came to collect, but as luck determines, I couldn't get the oil to leak, and the damn thing didn't stall once. I clearly stated in the ad that there were some niggles to sort with the car. He walked around the car and despite me trying to point out little dings and trim issues, he wasn't really interested and wanted to leave with the car. Signed a receipt that said "sold as seen", and he was short £20, so I let him off it. So, he burned off up the Turnpike (he did state he liked to drive cars quickly) and I fought back a tear as I said my final goodbye to a car that has been a good friend to me for the last few years.

 

After a few hours he called me to say it had caught fire in a town centre car-park, and the fire brigade needed to put it out. But he had driven it away from the scene which kind of made me think that it was not a serious car fire at all!!! He then said it had overheated and thought the water pump had failed. I replied that the FSH with the car would show I had just replaced the rad, but had not had any probs with the pump, and could be of no further help to him; but gave him the number of the Kwik-fit branch that had recently done nigh on £2k's worth of work to the car (thought I would be keeping it for another year until the company car came along).

 

Then nothing until just now when he has texted me with a figure of £483 that he had had to spend on the car to sort the overheating, and a tow charge; and is complaining that the car stalls sometimes. He wants some kind of financial settlement.

 

I am thinking about doing one of the following and need the wide spectrum of advice that you all offer:

 

1. Ignore the chap and figure that he spent £380 on a car he had promised to give me £400 for; with an honest ad, and confirming of the issues before he handed me the money, and he signed a receipt that said "sold as seen". Just ignore him and live with the first negative feedback blemish on my otherwise perfect Ebay track record. Don't care about that as I usually only buy stuff anyway.

 

2. Call the chap back and explain that I am still waiting to see evidence of the fire brigade incident in Chapelfield car-park and written diagnosis of the faults he is moaning about to see whether they were sufficiently explained in the ad. Try and politely explain I relinquished all responsibility for the vehicle as soon as he signed the receipt and parted with his cash. Ignore any further communications

 

3. Get rid of these unjustified guilty feelings, act all nice and understanding (which is pretty much the way I am), get his paypal account and give him some cash to shut him up and make him happy.

 

I am in Bangkok at the moment and will be away from UK for a few weeks, so can't really do much else.

 

I like 1 or 3. What do you lot think?

[barefoot]

send him a photocopy of the 'sold as seen' receipt & forget about the chancer

[jonathan_dyane]

...he has texted me with a figure of £483 that he had had to spend on the car to sort the overheating, and a tow charge; and is complaining that the car stalls sometimes. He wants some kind of financial settlement....What do you lot think?

 

I'd text back 'Fuck off'. Seriously.

[ChinaTom]

Thanks - I knew this all along, just needed some moral support. Bloody crazy attitude I have to this. I have no nerves whatsoever discussing a risky 600 million dollar investment with the Alfie and Pepe Fanjul (not strictly true, I shook like a leaf all the way through), but go all queazy and panicky when thinking about a £380 Ebay transaction. I think I'll just ignore it.

[tonedepear]

send him a photocopy of the 'sold as seen' receipt & forget about the chancer

 

+1

 

He paid under £400 for a reasonably recent BMW and he expected it to be a brand new car with a full warranty. Prick.

[supermellowman]

I wouldn't pay anything. Deal with him through ebay. Send a message along the lines you started with -

 

....Ad clearly stated an intermittent stalling issue, and an oil leak on start-up - I tried to demonstrate both these issues to the buyer when he came to collect, but as luck determines, I couldn't get the oil to leak, and the damn thing didn't stall once. I clearly stated in the ad that there were some niggles to sort with the car. He walked around the car and despite me trying to point out little dings and trim issues, he wasn't really interested and wanted to leave with the car. Signed a receipt that said "sold as seen", and he was short £20, so I let him off it.

 

The rest is up to him. Sounds like a chancer. If your ebay listing described the car accurately you've nothing to feel bad about so why pay him anything. You're already down the £20 he was short of on the deal as well as your ebay fees. If he feels aggrieved tell him to pursue it through ebay. You probably won't hear from him again and if he does raise a dispute stick to your guns as outlined above. The car was as described and he had ample opportunity to examine it before concluding the deal.