Marm's Motors: Entering My Prime Era

[sharley17194]

Any chance i could have the usb item back, it fits my keyboard 🤣

19 minutes ago, Marm Toastsmith said:

Junior Toastsmith noticed the lovely rubber floor mats were fitted the wrong way round and then insisted on removing these gifferic reflective door protectors. Not sure how the AS fold feel but I kind of agree with him. More importantly it’s great if he wants to help with little jobs on the car.

Then while swapping the mats round I found these bits.

 

[Marm Toastsmith]

1 minute ago, sharley17194 said:

Any chance i could have the usb item back, it fits my keyboard 🤣

 

No problem! Send me a PM with your address…

Is it your pound too?

I’m not posting the bag of postcrete that was in the boot.

[grogee]

3 hours ago, Marm Toastsmith said:

Compact disc storage

Saw Gong & Orb in Brizzle last year. 

[ProgRocker]

16 hours ago, Marm Toastsmith said:

Compact disc storage

I have been planning to buy a few Gong CDs. 

[sharley17194]

Thank you Sir, I've messaged

[Marm Toastsmith]

Been playing with radios. The original wiring has been spliced into an ISO harness (original connector still attached) - seems to have been soldered but a bit of a mess of electrical tape...

First thing I did was to check another DAB radio. No signal. Oh well. Played with a few units and settled on this Sony that I bought from @AnnoyingPentium ages ago. It sounds pretty decent and looks just right for the car IMO,

Earlier I took Mrs T's Volvo to the garage as it had developed an oil leak. I hadn't bothered to have a look - she pays and the guy is an old-school Volvo specialist so I leave it all to him - turns out it was a dodgy sump washer following the last service he did. He sorted it free of charge, fitting an aluminium washer. Good guy.

While I was there we had a look under the bonnet of the Primera - lots of signs of new bits and recent TLC, but he also pointed out some very dodgy battery wiring which I need to remedy. Note unsecured, uninsulated, live cable to loosely mounted fuse box, and also damage near clamp. Would be good to know what this looked like originally!

Overall, Dave the mechanic was quite impressed and encouraged me to clean the engine bay and bring it to the next local meet/show at Trago Mills... I need to be a bit careful as I'm not really a believer in being too precious about old cars, but the Primera is so nice that I almost feel guilty using it.

Took the opportunity to get a shot of the Volvo and the Primera in the wild together. Quite proud of our 2 low mileage 1998 motors... the Toyota is from 97 so not far off either... We've got an N, a P, and an R reg in the family!

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 minutes ago, Marm Toastsmith said:

Played with a few units and settled on this Sony that I bought from @AnnoyingPentium ages ago. It sounds pretty decent and looks just right for the car IMO,

This was a good unit! Especially with a CD changer on it as well. Period to 97/98 anyway IIRC. Glad it's seeing use.

[MrGTI6]

They go really well together!

[Marm Toastsmith]

22 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

This was a good unit! Especially with a CD changer on it as well. Period to 97/98 anyway IIRC. Glad it's seeing use.

Unfortunately the Unilink connector for CD changer is broken - I actually have a suitable CD changer to go with it.

I also have these 2 internally similar units, tested them earlier... the silver one has a tape loading issue, and the XR-C33R has a strange issue where it briefly loads the tape when you connect it to power, but other than that it doesn't seem to want to power up. I wonder if I'm missing something here.

This is the changer that I've got, but I don't think I have a cable for it...

I like the idea that one day I might swap the Unilink connector out of one of the non-working decks. Realistically I'll probably never get round to it!

[AnnoyingPentium]

9 hours ago, Marm Toastsmith said:

Unfortunately the Unilink connector for CD changer is broken - I actually have a suitable CD changer to go with it.

I forgot about that. Somewhere here is a CD changer cable with most of that connector still in it... 🤣