The PMSL Nothing much to report . First fuel since March 29/05/20

[320touring]

Took it along to a tartan tarmac meet this morning..

The 335 was in distinguished company ( but holding its own in the "Admiring Glances" stakes.

[Split_Pin]

Must have missed that this was on.

[DVee8]

I saw a similar touring in Kirkcudbright yesterday.

[320touring]

Time for an update on this:

 

We are now 1500 miles into ownership, at an average of 29.5 mpg over the last 5 tanks.

Totals so far:

Purchase £300

Fuel £322

Service/repairs £0

Business allowance (income) -£44

 

Total £588, or 40p per mile.

 

Took it over the backroads from Kippen today as m80 was fucked. For context, this is a sinewy technical and tight B Road with poor surfaces and sheer drops.

It's no sports car, not even an SUV but I still managed to knock 6 mins off the 41 predicted by google.

Climbing hills was ok, but coming down was fun* trying to stop 2.25t from 60*

[skattrd]

I think we need to have a drag race with this and the cheap jeep.
If I start saving for the fuel to Crail I might have enough saved up by Easter

[320touring]

4 minutes ago, skattrd said:

I think we need to have a drag race with this and the cheap jeep.
If I start saving for the fuel to Crail I might have enough saved up by Easter

No point, I've driven sufficient xj Cherokees with the 4.0 high output 6 to know they are a flying machine.

You're likely 40bhp up, and 500kg down

[skattrd]

Damn, my cunning* plan foiled.

We need to do another Crail bash at some point though.

[320touring]

This was parked round at the sports pavilion near my house yesterday.

 

I went out to it this morning to head to Tartan Tarmac.

Was greeted by this sight:

So now I need to work out what I want to do..

 

Fix it

Sell it

Fix it and sell it.

 

[Matty]

How much test on? Straight join it to replace the (I assume) stolen cat and worry about it later. Bad luck pal

[Jim Bell]

FFS. This is why we can't have anything nice. 

[320touring]

6 minutes ago, Matty said:

How much test on? Straight join it to replace the (I assume) stolen cat and worry about it later. Bad luck pal

MOT til Oct 2020

I'll see what the state of play is later..

3 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

FFS. This is why we can't have anything nice. 

Or MLs..

[sutty2006]

Straight pipe it. 

[hairymel]

Shitty Xmas present that.

Straight pipe.

[hairnet]

straight pipe till mot then decide

light fingered  coonts 

[captain_70s]

Well. That's wank.

I'm assuming a new cat is more than you paid for the car in the first place...

[Spottedlaurel]

Sorry to see that. Also a big issue with Prius and Lexus RX at present.

[somewhatfoolish]

Is this age of vehicle checked with a probe(ooh er) up the pipe? Or would a Happy Dragon No5 Exhaust Manufactury generic catalyst-shaped device work to pull the wool* over the average tester's eyes?

[wuvvum]

It'd be checked with a probe, but the limits are far more relaxed than they would be for a later car.  The similarly-aged Rover 45 I had went straight through the emissions with a missing cat - it still failed, but only because the cat was visibly absent (straight pipe).  If there'd been something on there that looked more cat-shaped it would have passed.

[320touring]

46 minutes ago, hairnet said:

straight pipe till mot then decide

light fingered  coonts 

It'll not see an MOT from me..

38 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Well. That's wank.

I'm assuming a new cat is more than you paid for the car in the first place...

Seems to be between £80-170

 

Lots of second hand ones on eBay...

[Kiltox]

The fuck was it worth stealing for if it’s only £80 to replace?!

[skattrd]

13 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

The fuck was it worth stealing for if it’s only £80 to replace?!

I think the genuine/original parts are worth a bit more.

[Cavcraft]

Horrible, thieving no good rotten bastards, I hope a nasty fait awaits them one day.

 

Straight pipe probs best, would suggest a hollow cat but some prick would probably cut that off too.

[Spurious]

Was common enough in Ireland for a while especially with 4wds with enough ground clearance to just roll under. Scabby fuckers, hope they loose an eye the next time they angle grind a cat out.

[320touring]

Seems I may need a couple of feet of pipe and possibly a way to angle it..

With have more of a look when at unit tomorrow..

[big_al_granvia]

flat4 says pop down to jim dickson's in cumbernauld village, might be able to bend a bit of pipe for you to slide over the ends with some gunk... i know raceworkx in livingston can bend and fabricate anything and their master tech george is a mate... or see steve mccall at burnett motorsport in mollinsburn... piss easy with a pipe bender to fabricate

[Lankytim]

I’ve noticed a few ads popping up on Facebook by people buying cats for cash, there must be loads going missing at the moment. 

[purplebargeken]

Cunts. Utter cunts. 

[Matty]

3 hours ago, Kiltox said:

The fuck was it worth stealing for if it’s only £80 to replace?!

Worth the risk if it's genuine. Genuine ones weigh in nicely because they contain a large amount of the correct high value metal that does the catylitic job (name escapes me). Cheap pattern ones are full of bum fluff and malteasers ?

[Tenmil Socket]

8 minutes ago, Matty said:

Worth the risk if it's genuine. Genuine ones weigh in nicely because they contain a large amount of the correct high value metal that does the catylitic job (name escapes me). Cheap pattern ones are full of bum fluff and malteasers ?

Platinum, palladium and rhodium...

[Matty]

3 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Platinum, palladium and rhodium...

That were it. Tip of me tongue....?