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40,348 · June 23, 2018

Quick question. If I cancel my insurance and don't reinsure a car for 2-3 months, does my NCD disappear?

9,581 · June 23, 2018

Quick question. If I cancel my insurance and don't reinsure a car for 2-3 months, does my NCD disappear?

No, you should be OK with a gap of up to 2 years.

40,348 · June 23, 2018

Happy days. Hopefully I'll find another car during that time!

1,699 · June 23, 2018

Never fitted an exhaust before so please bear with me...

I've bought a two piece exhaust system cheap from ebay.

The back box connects to the long middle section with a metal gasket between two flanges held in place with three bolts. Pretty sure I can sort that.

The front section seems to be friction fitted to the cat pipe and then just clamped into place using a u bracket?

As far as I can tell I just need to separate the cat/front pipe join then pop off all the hangers and the rusty old exhaust should just fall to the ground?

I've got ramps, a couple of axle stands, new hangers/gaskets/nuts and bolts.

What are the odds of me and my Halfords 'Your toddlers first toolkit' being able to complete this job without any major fuckups?

All advice/tips/warnings gratefully received.

fitting it easy

getting the old one off may well need cutting disc /hack saw /grinder /hammer and chisel

7,916 · June 23, 2018

No, you should be OK with a gap of up to 2 years.

Unless it's a classic policy, they neither recognise nor award NCB so it disappears after 2 years with a classic policy. Some insurers do recognise if you've had one though.

27,997 · June 23, 2018

No, you should be OK with a gap of up to 2 years.

Which reminds me it's now 25 months since I insured a car

8,916 · June 23, 2018

Unless it's a classic policy, they neither recognise nor award NCB so it disappears after 2 years with a classic policy.

Ask the insurer to park it with them so it go stale? That way it doesn't disappear.

June 23, 2018

^^ That's worked for me several times. Some companies call it lodging the NCD but it's the same thing.

23,314 · June 23, 2018

Anyone had any experiences with these old russian outfits?

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I've had an itch for one of these for a while, got a horrible feeling i'll have to scratch it and it will be crap!

Remember that these cannot be registered now if the chair is on the right. There are a few legal right hand chair outfits, but they will have been registered years ago.

I have a friend who ran one from new in the '70s. Lots of mods later and he was happy with it. Little things like capitalist exhaust valves, wheel bearings and brake linings were required.

22,734 · June 24, 2018

Does anyone know of a manufacturer who makes oblong pressed metal number plates? I've got some 12 3/4 x 6 1/18" surrounds which I'd like to fill with import sized plate. They're a bit of a weird size - I'm pretty sure they're from the Yoo ESS of Eh originally...

40,348 · June 24, 2018

Has anyone had any trouble insuring a Cat N damaged car? Not bothered about the write off values moreover the extra cost of the premiums.

1,699 · June 24, 2018

anyone local to me cb9 suffolk/cambs border got a snap on ethos diag machine ? struggling to scan my polo and apparently the snap on works

its ye olde 2x2 connector ...12 +/- and a k line ...l line connected to nowt

62,101 · June 24, 2018

So I jacked the Rover 45 up this afternoon and took the wheel off to investigate the feasibility of changing the trailing arm bush. I discovered, somewhat to my chagrin, that the bush itself wasn't actually as fucked as I had expected - the issue lies elsewhere:

Aye, that'll be why that side was clonking over bumps then. The trailing arm is held on in enough other places that I don't foresee the imminent demise of any members of religious orders or smoll felines, but it definitely won't pass an MOT like that.

My question is, how the feck do you go about repairing it? As far as I can see it's a closed box section, so how do you get in there to reattach the captive nut or whatever it is the bolt screws into?

12,190 · June 24, 2018

Attach the captive nut to the repair section before you weld it in?

7,916 · June 24, 2018

My Z3 has a set of 17" OZ rims that came with it but currently aren't on it. The rear Continentals are 255 45 17 and down to the wear bars. Nearly all the tyres advertised in that size are winter, run flat or Mercedes specific. How are the Merc ones different? Will it make a toss of difference?

62,101 · June 24, 2018

Attach the captive nut to the repair section before you weld it in?

Aye, but how do I even get in there to weld it? It's not very clear from the photo but where the captive nut would have attached is way up inside that box section, to which there appears to be no other access. Short of completely chopping out the section and either fabricating another or cutting a good one out of a scrap 45 (both of which are way beyond my capabilities). Unless I cheat and just weld a plate across the bottom of the section with a captive nut welded to that, and find a shortarse little bolt to go through and bin off all the spacers etc. Or just weld the new bush on rather than bolting it - is there anything that says it has to be bolted on?

17,451 · June 24, 2018

My Rover 45 are rotten

Definitely weld the nut to the repair section first. Only alternative is to do the repair and then put a rivnut or a clinch nut in, but I wouldn't.

Edit: just seen what you mean. Is the original arrangement on a short length of tube? If so, you could replicate that.

2,279 · June 25, 2018

Have you looked at the other side? Is it actually recessed or has it been punched in through weakness/fail.....

Flat bit with captive.... up in recess - weld

Other bits at angle to replicate(ish) recess - butt up to flat already in.....

total ball ache but could* be done.

Don't envy you that one though....

4,804 · June 25, 2018

Chairs on the wrong side for me. I'd turn it over on the first right hand bend.

I have exactly zero outfit experience, so learning on a lhd should make little difference to me. And it will all add to the quirkiness I guess.

Remember that these cannot be registered now if the chair is on the right. There are a few legal right hand chair outfits, but they will have been registered years ago.
I have a friend who ran one from new in the '70s. Lots of mods later and he was happy with it. Little things like capitalist exhaust valves, wheel bearings and brake linings were required.

Hmmm, I hate to be that guy but....

I rang the dvla this morning to see what the score is.

If it is old enough to be mot exempt then that includes the registering process, no mot needed at all.

They don’t care about which side the chair is, it would be historic, foreign and as made. Lhd is fine.

Newer stuff is apparently an entirely different kettle of fish.

All of which made me happy.

My reading into them has revealed you can upgrade the brakes with moggy 1000 linings and bits. Stock must be very poor, never heard of moggy brakes being considered an upgrade before!

23,314 · June 25, 2018

Don't weld the bush to the repair.

The pin would get hot enough to break the bond between the pin and the rubber and then you'd have a fucked bush, welded in place.

23,314 · June 25, 2018

Good news about right hand sidecars. It always seemed anomalous and unfair for the rules and laws to be concerned about LHD outfits but not LHD cars or trucks etc.

8,916 · June 25, 2018

Lhd is fine.

It is fine pre-1st Aug 1981. The legality comes under Section 93, Construction and Use regs 1986.

It says "first registered". I think they take that date as when it was first ever registered, rather than when first registered in the UK.

8,140 · June 25, 2018

Following on from my questions about what diesel commuter to plump for, I've found a car I like the look of, it's in Coventry and I've agreed a price with the chap selling it on behalf of his parents. All seems above board, but I have a slight concern. It's a long way to go and I just want to make sure everything is in place first.

He doesn't have the original logbook, he does however have a photocopy of it. I don't think there's anything fishy about it given the rest of it checks out. Will I be able to tax it before driving it up the road? I think I would need the new keeper supplement from the V5C to do it online, over the phone or even in a post office.

Also, given I won't be filling in the new keepers slip on the day, I'll need to apply for the logbook. For those who have bought a car without the logbook, is a written receipt of sale about the best I can do?

It does show as being taxed until December. I'm looking at Saturday (30th June) to collect it and I don't fancy paying a full months tax for around 12 hours of driving... Given I won't have completed the V5C to transfer ownership, will I be OK to just insure and drive up the road?

19,798 · June 25, 2018

You can do a digital transfer so logbooks are a bit pointless except for the number.

If you have internet access you can transfer ownership on the day together, so no need to send off for a new one.

Obviously up to you about tax. Personally I would just leave it, but someone (Mr Boll) got done for one day out of tax.

8,140 · June 25, 2018

You can do a digital transfer so logbooks are a bit pointless except for the number.

If you have internet access you can transfer ownership on the day together, so no need to send off for a new one.

Obviously up to you about tax. Personally I would just leave it, but someone (Mr Boll) got done for one day out of tax.

Cheers Moog, I didn't know about the digital transfer service. As long as he has that reference number on the photocopy that should work fine and save me the 25 bucks for replacement V5.

34,691 · June 25, 2018

Is the photocopy V5 in his name / definitely the most recent?

If it’s not, you’ll end up having to apply for one because the transfer of ownership won’t work.

1,564 · June 25, 2018

Any legal eagles about ?

I will be back in England at the weekend for a fortnight. Usually I just hire a car (may still do that) on my Yank lisence, but a buddy of mine has a spare car I can use if we can figure the insurance. They point blank refuse my American driving lisence an will only insure with a British (European) one. Now, I see two problems with this:

Firstly I'm a resident of America, not Britain or Europe and I'm led to believe I need to be at least a resident of Europe for my British lisence to be valid for use in England.

Second, the address on my lisence is our old address, the house we were at before we bought the one we presently own (in England rented out), not that it matters because we don't live there anyway, we live in America..............Sis says I can use her address and change my lisence to that, but I'm still not a resident of the UK so lisence invalid for use or not ?????????

Help muchly appreciated, Thanks.

12,026 · June 25, 2018

Pretty sure you can have a UK license without being a resident.

12,575 · June 25, 2018

Any legal eagles about ?

I will be back in England at the weekend for a fortnight. Usually I just hire a car (may still do that) on my Yank lisence, but a buddy of mine has a spare car I can use if we can figure the insurance. They point blank refuse my American driving lisence an will only insure with a British (European) one. Now, I see two problems with this:

Firstly I'm a resident of America, not Britain or Europe and I'm led to believe I need to be at least a resident of Europe for my British lisence to be valid for use in England.

Second, the address on my lisence is our old address, the house we were at before we bought the one we presently own (in England rented out), not that it matters because we don't live there anyway, we live in America..............Sis says I can use her address and change my lisence to that, but I'm still not a resident of the UK so lisence invalid for use or not ?????????

Help muchly appreciated, Thanks.

An international driving permit (issued by AAA) should do, no?

https://www.aaa.com/vacation/idpf.html

1.3k · June 25, 2018

Just had the renewal through from RAC (robbing bxstards). Meerkats bring up AutoAid at £100 cheaper. Are AutoAid any good?

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