Dollywobbler's Consolidated Tat Thread

[maxxo]

the MK3 mondeo has the best air con i have ever experienced in any car

i've found the mondeo to be much more comfortable than the vectra with very nice seats

but yes the diesels are quite terrible, always see them with huge clouds of black smoke coming out the back

[Noel Tidybeard]

i mustard mitt me and my mate did used to snigger like children at the boost dumping quite loudly for a standard car with his 2.2 tdci st estate

it just seemed a bit meh and old fashioned inside but then i have had a spaceship since 2011 so most things do!

[MJK 24]

New unit looks superb!  Very jealous!

[Soundwave]

New unit looks massive. Room to expand the fleet even further, perhaps..? ?

[dollywobbler]

Unit here.

 

Thanks folks. It isn't quite as massive as it looks - I reckon six cars and a bit of space to tinker, which makes it slightly better than the old one. Much better lighting though, and better ventilation. Last place basically had none, apart from a gap beneath the doors that allowed water and leaf litter to blow in...

[MJK 24]

The slats on the side will let plenty of air in and out.  Ideal for storing anything elderly made from steel in the winter months.  

[Talbot]

If you need to weatherproof it a little more than it is at the moment, that sort of vertical slatted boarding is very easy to convert into Yorkshire boarding, which barely restricts the airflow from what it is currently, but stops 99+% of the rain getting in.  Remarkably effective.

[egg]

I just hope you get water and leccy in - to make it a proper year round bolt-hole!

[dollywobbler]

Electricity should certainly be in before my 'official' move-in date of 1st Sept. Water hopefully not long after, but I do at least have access to an outside tap. That'll do. There is also access to an actual toilet.

GSA moved in today.

Wasn't planning on it, but given how bloody horrific the weather has got, I thought it might be prudent. Sure enough, on start up this morning, water began pouring over my feet, so I think keeping this one under cover for a while might not be a bad move. Yes, that is a bean bag. I seem to have inherited a 'gaming chair' which offers surprising comfort.

[Talbot]

3 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

water began pouring over my feet

At least you know with complete confidence that it's not a coolant leak.

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Talbot said:

At least you know with complete confidence that it's not a coolant leak.

given the recent heatwave and it being a black car, id not be surprised if the windscreen washer fluid bottle boiled over LOL

[Remspoor]

Don't get too comfy those tyres have to be gone from the rank. That ain't gonner be easy for the previous occupier. You may need to do more shuffling to give them space.

Is not going to be a bit cold during the winter with those open sides?

[dollywobbler]

People seem convinced I'm going to freeze to death, but the old garage of many a video would readily drop below 10 degrees during the winter and I notably didn't die. Ventilation is a good thing!

I'm a fair few hundred feet closer to sea level now so that should improve matters too.

Cars are not settled in, regarding the tyre rack. Electrician due at some point. 

[Andyrew]

As long as it keeps ( most ) of the rain out .

Looks nice and light aswell! 

[mitsisigma01]

10 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

on start up this morning, water began pouring over my feet

Were you sitting in the car at the time? 

[St.Jude]

10 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

People seem convinced I'm going to freeze to death, but the old garage of many a video would readily drop below 10 degrees during the winter and I notably didn't die. Ventilation is a good thing!

I'm a fair few hundred feet closer to sea level now so that should improve matters too.

Cars are not settled in, regarding the tyre rack. Electrician due at some point. 

10 degrees?

Thats T-shirt and shorts weather. This is my island in the sun etc

[dollywobbler]

Yesterday, WorldofCeri almost transported my cars for me. FPB7 was actually at the helm as Ceri was having one of those holiday things.

Fox drove over, while the Sana and Matiz got trailered. Took all day somehow, but we got there in the end.

Looks pretty crowded at the barn now!

The eagle-eyed may notice that the 2CV looks unusually wet, and the wipers a bit odd. That's because this happened this morning.

Linkage jammed due to wear. Something I knew it was likely to do. However, you can usually flick it back into place and carry on. Not today! Jammed entirely. I had the foresight to pull the wires off the back of the switch as soon as it happened, so it didn't try causing a fire or blowing a fuse. Took the passenger arm off and drove back with that being held out through the window to occasionally wipe. A job for another day. I may have a complete spare linkage ready to go. The original is in similarly knackered condition...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Unlucky. I guess if you had more time and help, you could have crafted a British Leyland quality ghetto solution?

 

[egg]

26 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

Looks pretty crowded at the barn now!

yes it is, and that's before the addition of all your personal effects? I guess you can create more tinkering space by keeping another one at home on rotation - so you only have 5 'in store'?

[dollywobbler]

3 hours ago, egg said:

yes it is, and that's before the addition of all your personal effects? I guess you can create more tinkering space by keeping another one at home on rotation - so you only have 5 'in store'?

That's the plan, and indeed, the GSA is back home. But I may yet be adding to the fleet before the year is out...

[MJK 24]

41 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

That's the plan, and indeed, the GSA is back home. But I may yet be adding to the fleet before the year is out...

Intriguing!!

[N19]

Can you get something small in front of the GSA, to give some more space elsewhere in the unit for whichever car needs a job doing that requires a reasonable amount of space? Though that might lead to lots of shuffling. 

 

As for the door, could use it as a backboard for mounting stuff to - tools/shelves/whiteboard or whatnot. 

 

Serious envy though, no chance of getting anything like that inside the M25! 

[dollywobbler]

I'll have a shuffle today. Hiring a van over the weekend (£50 cheaper to have it four days than three!) to move all of my utter crap over. Pretty concerned about whether it's all going to fit...

[colino]

Having had sales yards much too small  for the stock, you should measure up the place properly and try the different permutations of cars on a piece of paper.  Much easier than lugging cars about and less of a face palm when you realise you now have to move three to get one out.  I'd guess from the pictures that after you get rid of that door and the manger, racking down the left hand side for storage with your tools/work area at the front might work and even consider the smaller stuff at the back going in diagonally.

Most important thing.  As you are doing a move, now is the time to realise 50% of your stuff needs selling/binning and you'll be astonished how much clutter you had.

[Remspoor]

A brave Miss HN appeared today. No pressure, world film debut, first drive in many years in a model of car which she had not driven.

[dozeydustman]

I thought Miss HubNut did rather well, as did the nutlets.

[dollywobbler]

11 hours ago, colino said:

Having had sales yards much too small  for the stock, you should measure up the place properly and try the different permutations of cars on a piece of paper.  Much easier than lugging cars about and less of a face palm when you realise you now have to move three to get one out.  I'd guess from the pictures that after you get rid of that door and the manger, racking down the left hand side for storage with your tools/work area at the front might work and even consider the smaller stuff at the back going in diagonally.

Most important thing.  As you are doing a move, now is the time to realise 50% of your stuff needs selling/binning and you'll be astonished how much clutter you had.

Useful info. Cheers. I certainly do need to reduce the amount of crap I have! I must have a proper clearout. I've got old magazines, parts for cars I no longer own, entirely ruined engines and a lot more garage equipment than I'll ever use. Getting rid of stuff is never as easy as you hope though. Especially when getting into an actual tip is such a pain.

[MorrisItalSLX]

I just watched your mailbag video from a couple of weeks ago and was very pleased to see you got that Yellow Pages sticker. It’s a reference to this advert (and associated campaign) that ran in the early 90s.

Would it be possible to get a scan of the sticker? I’d love to get some reproduced for my cars.

[dollywobbler]

Phew. Another van load of crap collected today. Space is going to be tight! I need to get rid of a lot of crap. Like BX headlamp lenses. I have three of them. Why?!

[Remspoor]

nutlets ? That has to stick.