Steve79 fleet - Mileage and Mercurys

[Steve79]

@danthecapriman got Transit Sale money burning a hole in his pocket. 

Get It Bought

[danthecapriman]

It’s not good having a load of cash in your pocket!😆

I think I’d get murdered. Actually killed dead, if I buy anything else anytime soon!

[Steve79]

The trick is to promote the fact that its soo cheap that it will increase in value as time goes on. 

Justification for the cause is to use the transit as an example of speculate to accumulate.

Or do what i do and park it round the corner and just hope the missus doesn't cotton on 😂

 

[eddyramrod]

Oh it's even better than that!  Dan isn't married, doesn't even have a girlfriend, so he's only got himself to please.

[sutty2006]

You utter utter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HERO. 
 

Get yourself a brown cape and some orange winckle pickers to suit. 

[Steve79]

I wouldn’t have bought it but I’d managed to sell something that I’d been given for free that covered the whole cost of the car. 
 

Very pleased with the outcome and less than £90 per year to insure limited miles fully comp with Peter S Taylor

[Steve79]

4 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Oh it's even better than that!  Dan isn't married, doesn't even have a girlfriend, so he's only got himself to please.

No excuses then. Get it bought and save the wear and tear on the Mercury.

You can chastise yourself in private later 😂 

[Eyersey1234]

How's the Mk2 Focus going? I had one the same colour for nearly 3 years, loved that car. 

[Steve79]

Focus is an absolute champ. Only needed a couple of tyres and a headight resecuring for the mot. 

I'll get a claybar on the paint next week to tidy that up a bit and i should be picking up a replacement door and wing as mine are knackered.

I'll also be upgrading the radio and dash panel to the mk2.5 shape and get the sony dab unit fitted or i may go down the xtrons android touch display route.

I also want to check to see if mine already has the additional wiring fitted so i can put cruise control in.

[Eyersey1234]

Glad the Focus is serving you well. Mine did 39k in just under 3 years, I only changed as the clutch was on the way out and the garage I use said to me it might be best to change the car now as it was likely to start being a money pit, though to be fair it had 212k on the clock. 

[Steve79]

The focus continues to do sterling service requiring very little in the way of maintenance to keep it happy.

It's been regularly depositing a small pool of oil on the road which was starting to get a little embarrassing. The exhaust had been also been kicking out grey smoke on full chat and whistling pointing towards knackered boost hoses.

Although bodily its crap, it's been a decent car so treated it to a full service and a set of silicone hoses as the old one were totally shagged.

Boost now full restored and also gained a few mpg's back.

 

[Steve79]

It's 1°C and mothersteve79 and her Smokey charade have been badgered into giving no1 son a lift to isambard kingdon brunels finest to catch a choo choo to the great smoke.

 

God i miss social distancing!

Essential supplies

[Steve79]

Stage one complete

[montytom]

Love a collection thread god speed and all that. 

[Steve79]

Survived the circle line. 

Onwards

 

[Steve79]

Must be a London thing 

[Steve79]

Must have arrived 

[Steve79]

Diz/Pez shot complete

[Steve79]

Made it home in one piece despite the m25's best efforts.

Will update tomorrow morning as its dark. Didn't get back 5mins and I was despatched to collect dinner (or tea as we call in in brizzle)

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

9 hours ago, Steve79 said:

Essential supplies

noco boost plus- you are Randy Shear AICMFP😁

[Cookiesouwest]

26 minutes ago, Steve79 said:

Made it home in one piece despite the m25's best efforts.

Will update tomorrow morning as its dark. Didn't get back 5mins and I was despatched to collect dinner (or tea as we call in in brizzle)

 

Yep.

Breakfast, dinner, tea.

I've met people in my life who look bewildered when the evening meal is referred to as tea.

[wuvvum]

I'm slightly jealous.  Only slightly mind as if I'd bought this I couldn't have purchased my lovely* new Maxus.

[Steve79]

15 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Yep.

Breakfast, dinner, tea.

I've met people in my life who look bewildered when the evening meal is referred to as tea.

I think bristolians call it dinner instead of lunch because that what it was referred to when we at school. School dinners, hence dinner.

[Cookiesouwest]

1 minute ago, Steve79 said:

Yep, they weren't called school dinners for nothing! 😂

And it was quite late in life, when I discovered that in other areas of the UK, people don't say 'Cheers drive' when getting off the bus. Bloody weirdos

 

[SRi05]

5 minutes ago, Cookiesouwest said:

And it was quite late in life, when I discovered that in other areas of the UK, people don't say 'Cheers drive' when getting off the bus. Bloody weirdos

 

 

[catsinthewelder]

10 minutes ago, Cookiesouwest said:

And it was quite late in life, when I discovered that in other areas of the UK, people don't say 'Cheers drive' when getting off the bus. Bloody weirdos

 

That makes it at least as far as Ludlow.

It was always 'tea' when I was a kid in Durham too.

[billy_bunter]

3 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

And it was quite late in life, when I discovered that in other areas of the UK, people don't say 'Cheers drive' when getting off the bus. Bloody weirdos

 

Drives my missus nuts when I say that. 

[Steve79]

Mine too. I still say it to piss her off 😂

[Steve79]

I'll do an update on this tomorrow. 

Needless to say that for the £1k oulay I've found plenty that needs doing.

[Steve79]

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It's been a while since I had a "modern" BMW and I've got mixed feeling about it.

It's got a massive amount of space and in general drives really well plus it's got pretty much FSH.

HOWEVER

The seats (this being the sport model) are VERY firm and not a patch on either my focus or my 21plate transit custom for comfort. It's probably just me but I've got my doubts that my back will still be in one piece after a long journey.

The ring gear lash from thr rear diff is very noticeable at parking speeds or when doing sharp turns. This is mostly to do with the fact it wearing budget tyres all round. The rears are newish but the fronts are right on the limit and perishing. With it being permant 4wd it really should have had them all changed at the same time.

Which leads onto the next point.

There are only really two brands of tyre that can be fitted to X3's becuase of the fine tolerances that the drivetrain was set up for. These being Dunlop SP01 or Pirelli STR's both having BMW's (*) rating which denotes OEM for their xdrive system. These are about £450 all in for a set of four. 

I'm happy to take advice and be proved wrong but there plenty of x3 owner on the net that have solved their driveline jerk by fitting a full set of these tyres.

Other issues are that i'm pretty sure the MAF is fucked as the first two starts of the key when cold result in an immediate stall. 3rd turn with pedal to the floor will start it but only rev to 4k. 

It will only rev to around 4k for about 15mins until its warmed up enough and then its fine.

Last issue is that yesterday it randomly decided not to start on the key. All lights were on but no-one was home. Turning off and on again a few time started the car. Again this looks to be a common issue across the bmw range at that time and can be solved by fitting a new ignition switch.

With the focus going this weekend to a a fellow Shitter I need this to be reliable.

I suppose I could always use the elantra when i get it as my reliable car!

Isn't that the autoshite way 😂