Shitting in the shallow end. *Arse friends Electric*

[Jim Bell]

Big thanks to @Tickman @davehedgehog31 and @sdkrc for combining for what might have been a three or four way?! vehicle swap/collection/delivery mission. 

I never cease to be gobsmacked by the kindness and willingness to get shit done that Autoshite folk display. 

[Jim Bell]

A look round the car then. It has more brown and green then in previous years, but these colours come to us all eventually. 

Brown. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green. 

Nice bit of moss. 

 

 

 

Decals still hanging in there. 

 

 

 

Interior. 

 

Console. 

 

Cracked dash. 

[Jim Bell]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sdkrc]

I set off at ~530am this morning and had the roof down for 140 odd miles. Was glorious. Morning sunshine, supercharged whistling and almost no dobbers on the motorway.

The journey very nearly turned into a 4 legger with 3 cars collected but it didn't quite pan out right. 

30mins of my journey was looking for the button for the fuel cap and driving home for some WiFi so I could Google it. 

[Jim Bell]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had a good run round in the damp today. 

It's a fun thing to drive, and very cool but getting into it after the Rexton really emphasises the lack of space in the SLK for someone my size. 

Not sure whatll happen long term. 

[Jim Bell]

1 minute ago, sdkrc said:

 

30mins of my journey was looking for the button for the fuel cap and driving home for some WiFi so I could Google it. 

Spoilers, you just press the back of the cap door. 

[sdkrc]

2 randoms please

[Tickman]

6 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Not sure whatll happen long term. 

We all know...

[Jim Bell]

18 minutes ago, Tickman said:

We all know...

 

 

 

I'll put you down for number 13. 

[Tickman]

42 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

 

This bit was in place but broken until one day when I opened the window and it vanished off the face of the earth!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Is this automotive ping pong? 

[greengartside]

[Jim Bell]

2 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Is this automotive ping pong? 

 

[Bear]

So the rear arches - when I bought it in 2012 on the blue forum there were some gentle blebs and the seller did them before delivering it to me.

That repair has held up well, I think! Perhaps it could be done again still. Shame the sill ends have succumbed 😕 Those wings have hung on precisely six years longer than the point where I'd started planning to buy genuine new replacements (£360 each at the time).

Dashboard is like ??. But that's not a hard part to source and replace... Also did it not have factory mats before?

[Barry Cade]

Yay , another SLK back. I'm sitting in a Travelodge in Towcester.. realised today what Sally Traffic was going on about when she mentioned Toaster..   

 

7 hours down in my SLK on the way to the Black Forest, 2nd tank just brimmed, working out at just over 36mpg, sitting all the way down the M6 with cruise on 80. Nothing to report.

[Jim Bell]

9 hours ago, RichardK said:

😕Also did it not have factory mats before?

It did have when it left, but not when it returned. I put some in to protect the clean carpets originally but they've disappeared over time. New ones in now though. 

[Jim Bell]

*supercharger noises*

 

 

[garbaldy]

Love the over exaggerated head wobble 😄

Sounds good while on the guzzle though.

[Jim Bell]

39 minutes ago, garbaldy said:

Love the over exaggerated head wobble 😄

Sounds good while on the guzzle though.

That's the car pulling Mach3. I was hanging on for dear life. 

[mercedade]

@Jim Bell Have you achieved true internet fame?!

 

[Jim Bell]

22 minutes ago, mercedade said:

@Jim Bell Have you achieved true internet fame?!

 

Nah man, I just stole the pics from the internet. Nothing you read in my thread is actually real. 

[SRi05]

16 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

Nah man, I just stole the pics from the internet. Nothing you read in my thread is actually real. 

 

[sdkrc]

As is now widely known, @Jim Bell uses a team of North Korean writers for his collection threads. Here are some photos of the teams at work.

The team do take some artistic licence but the collections are always real, the poo counts are real and the dogs always exist. 

Greetings from Pyongyang 

[Jim Bell]

Well. Not much of interest has been going down in groovetown. The yellow SLK went off to @garellikatia and the Rexton has continued to be a great bunch of car. 

 

 

Because I'm planning on keeping it for a wee while, I have endeavoured to make some small improvements. 

 

The sad demise of Cobra in the UK has made it impossible to code new alarm/immobiliser fobs without the pin code for the system, which I don't have. With only one key/fob for the car, I foresaw a terrible day when the fob battery would go flat leaving me stranded double parked outside a massage parlour, when I'd just stopped to ask directions to the local church so I decided that it's probably best to pull the immobiliser out. 

Knowing nothing about electrons or diodes, I asked @cobblers for some advice. He said "just do it yourself, cut some wires and stuff, get stuck in, what's the worst that could happen?"

I immediately ignored this and hounded several local specialists till an accredited professional agreed to do it. 

CAR SECURIT. 

 

Out you come you little twot. 

[garbaldy]

Have you been to the doctors lately as I think you might have something wrong with you 🤔 

That's got to be record for the length of time you've kept that samyungdung.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

By removing the cobra, you've made your Ssangyong Renton vulnerable to theft and potential joyriding slightly lighter and therefore sportier. 

[Jim Bell]

It really is a class thing. Shit, but it has so much character. 

 

The OEM alloys that were on it were frankly shit. They were peeling, unpleasing to the eye and a bit damaged from when the rear discs exploded at speed in the past. The front hub selectors dictate that even though the pcd is common, the centre bore is massive which really limits wheel choice. I fucking hate alloys almost as much as I hate immobilisers and sunroofs so kept my eyes open for some steel wheels. 

 

WAITING

 

I sourced some steels and had the best new road tyres swapped on. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

3 minutes ago, garbaldy said:

Have you been to the doctors lately as I think you might have something wrong with you 🤔 

That's got to be record for the length of time you've kept that samyungdung.

I have been to the doctor's recently  and he gave me some cream and told me to stop picking it. 

[Jim Bell]

I must say I'm rather happy with the steels. The wheel wobble between 50 and 57 has gone and sexy looks have been improved tenfold. Maybe eleven. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

 

I love you Ssangyong Rexton.