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[spike60]

Whereabouts are you? I'm sure Krujoe would be happy to take it off your hands. Might take two trips, mind.

It is one 1000 litre container weighing approx 1000kg, in Teesside. I'll see if I can find out more next week.

[DVee8]

Shit, that's not a good thing. It's barely a fortnight since I checked and it was fine, also wasn't leaking at MoT. Has it sprung a big leak?

 

PS, did you check it hot with the engine running?

There is some fluid under the car, the engine had been running but  stopped so not up to temp,so not hot,nothing on the dipstick.

Do you want to come and have a look?

[scaryoldcortina]

yeah, can do. Tomorrow sometime?

[DVee8]

yeah, can do. Tomorrow sometime?

I'm at work til 2,00 i'll be it by 2.20

[scaryoldcortina]

Fairy nuff, see you half two ish then.

[anonymous user]

Is this likely to work or burst into flames

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Battery-Charging-System-Digital-Tester-Load-Drop-Van-Auto-Voltage-100Amp-12V-/262305282267?

Definitely yes.

[gordonbennet]

Sorned the Merc around October time, the bloody numbers on the registration document don't compute so had to send it by post.

 

Well i want to retax it now and obviously the piggin numbers still don't compute, so it'll be post office on Monday, so the question is lads do i still need to take insurance cert or just the MOT test as well as regn document.

Also seeing as the reference numbers don't compute how do i apply for another regn doc, or will the post office auto request one for me.

 

Sorry for really stupid questions but since it all went digi i haven't needed to faff about like this for a while and i usually managed to bollox summat up every time i taxed a car at the PO.

 

Thanks.

[Pillock]

 

Did Peugeot Talbot have anything to do with importing Protons in the early 90s or did someone just forget to change the credits? The one we watched before had a 106 as the star prize...

[tinribs]

I'd say the latter. Nobody reads them anyway so I'd imagine they'd hope nobody'd notice. I was a bit of a fan of PCBH before my balls dropped and the amount of mistakes in the credits were unreal.

[Cavcraft]

Why does eBay randomly sort of slow my computer down? It doesn't do it all the time, usually just a few times a year at most. Now it's doing that incredibly annoying thing of playing adverts with sound when you click on listings. Is there a way to avoid this (besides just not using eBay for a while) or something?

[Guest Hooli]

I've never seen it do that, but then I do have ad-blocker installed on firefox.

[gordonbennet]

I've never seen it do that, but then I do have ad-blocker installed on firefox.

same here, plus ghostery to zap the trackers, of which there would be three watching this very page if it wasn't for the ghost, all google shit as usual.

[TDB_Inc]

uBlock origin FTW

[LC Torana]

Does anyone know what ATF can be used in my daimler V8 250 1968(G)?

 

Castrol TQF or "Type F" - or equivalent.

[BorniteIdentity]

When you weld in a new piece to a car's floor pan, is it

 

A) Weaker than new

Stronger than new

C) About the same.

 

Just interested like.

[tooSavvy]

When you weld in a new piece to a car's floor pan, is it

A] Weaker than new

B] Stronger than new

C] About the same.

Just interested like.

C. >> unless = poor weld/prep or thinner. Also it can be structural/deforming = too thick/poor copy of form.

 

Seem to recall if a car is 'well bent' & jigged straight again it has the 'memory' in the shell.

 

 

TS

[sierraman]

Weaker I'd have said.

 

At some point last night someone's attempted to steal the number plate from our car. They must have got disturbed as they only got halfway through taking it off. Just say they got the plate and went through a series of speed cameras, how would I prove my innocence?

[andy18s]

You'd have reported the theft to the police,and unless they have an identical car and facial features then it "should" be easy enough to stay out of the nick...

[dave21478]

When you weld in a new piece to a car's floor pan, is it

 

A) Weaker than new

Stronger than new

C) About the same.

 

Just interested like.

 

Weaker, IMO, but it all depends.....if its just a flat plate, then less important but if there are stiffening shapes pressed into the original, then your replacement is likely to be weaker because you will (assuming you are like me) have had to beat the fuck out of the patch with a hammer and a bit of old railway line as an anvil and random bits of pipe and shit like that as formers, rather than a single punch in a press as the original would have been done.

 

Also, the heat cycle of welding fundamentally alters the granular structure of the metal; In reality though, its not really enough to make a real-world difference unless you are doing real bird-shit welding.

 

However in my endless punishment job, I have noticed that welded repairs to mower decks and stuff that gets a lot of vibration tend to crack and tear next to the weld after a few years.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

What's a traction engine worth?

That Co-op ad. with the steam engine driving giffer was just on and one of my kids said ; " Don't know why the family are unhappy, they can just sell it, how much is it worth?"

They were shocked that I didn't have a clue, or at least make something up.

£10,000, £100,000 ? I've no idea.

[bub2006]

My ex Mrs dad and grandad had one a piece and apparently worth between 1-200 thousand. Don't know how true it was though. Depends on model I suppose.

[DodgeRover]

Depends on what it is really, 50-200k sounds the aprox range unless it's a showmans

[AMC Rebel]

Arrghh Number plates (again) I can get a pair of pre-2001 plates, but they won't have the BS number (or anything else) on 'em.  Did pre-2001 plates have to have the BS number - and will a picky MOT tester fail mine if they aren't there?

 

Considering all the shitarse illegal plates I see every day I am not really worried, but I don't want to waste time and cash, and I certainly can't be arsed changing before/after MOT - ideally I'd just like what was fitted originally.

[The Moog]

Will a 1.8 mk1 Ford focus ECU be a plug and play to 1.6? 

[scaryoldcortina]

Arrghh Number plates (again) I can get a pair of pre-2001 plates, but they won't have the BS number (or anything else) on 'em.  Did pre-2001 plates have to have the BS number - and will a picky MOT tester fail mine if they aren't there?

 

Considering all the shitarse illegal plates I see every day I am not really worried, but I don't want to waste time and cash, and I certainly can't be arsed changing before/after MOT - ideally I'd just like what was fitted originally.

 

BS number not checked - Plates must be correctly sized and situated, not have a printed background, have the correct spacing and border and be in the correct font. The dealer name bit on the bottom of modern plates isn't checked either.

[sierraman]

Will a 1.8 mk1 Ford focus ECU be a plug and play to 1.6?

No. I've a 1.6 ECU, key and central locking module if you need one though.

[AMC Rebel]

Thanks soc

[meggersdog]

On 01/02/2016 at around 6.30 pm some cretin rammed my parked car with such force he wrote it off.The next day I contacted my insurance broker who sent a form for me to fill in and asked for photos to be sent to their assessors.In the meantime they sorted a hire car.They said like for like so another 4x4 I wasn't fussed as long as it had a towbar.Two days after the hire car arrived the assessors confirmed my car was a write off.I asked for salvage then heard nothing.Two weeks later the other insurance assessor asked for more detailed photos to which I obliged then heard nothing.Almost two months later I was paid out. The hire charge at £148.00 per day was almost up to £10k and the other insurers are refusing to pay.

It is going to court but the other insurance company want to know if I was able to pay the hire charges even though they were the ones dragging their heels.I told the solicitors I drive a twenty year old Land Rover, what do you think ? The solicitor said they would want to see bank statements to proove I couldn't pay the hire charges.Surely this isn't right ? I am the innocent party in all this yet just because I have been frugal and have saved up to cover a shortfall on my endowment mortgage and have money in the bank I am being penalised.

I have told the solicitor all these different letters I have received over a non fault claim are really stressing me out.

Can an insurance company demand to see bank statements ?

[sierraman]

That's why it's rarely worth claiming on anything over 10 years old.

[meggersdog]

helpful.

 

1800 quid a year on business insurance but don't bother claiming.Yeah thank's