The grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That custom dash is pretty neat though. 

[KruJoe]

Here, you forgot this: *

HTH.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Is that his Viva as well? It loos like its got off fairly lightly 

[chaseracer]

Is that his Viva as well? It loos like its got off fairly lightly

 

Yes. It is.

 

 

[daveb47]

Sounds clutch related. likely to be whatever connects the clutch pedal to the release mechanism. I think your is hydraulic.

 

Switch engine off, do gears engage cleanly? I expect that they will. Then engage reverse and try start the engine, does car try to move backwards. obviously make sure nowt is behind and that you have foot on brake pedal etc etc.

 

Chances are that hydraulics has air in it, simple bleed might fix. if it does but air gets back in then slave / master rebuild might be on the cards

 

On A series transverse there was a lever that was pushed by the clutch that was supposed to disengage the clutch. It had a ball on the end that wore away only on one side, it go so far as to take maybe 2mm off the ball before the clutch would no longer disengage correctly.

 

A good one looks like this

 

a borked one would have a slightly shaved ball on the left side of the pic

 

edit to add bollocks beaten by Bollox

hammer a smaller socket over it!!!

 

Yes literally.find an old 1/4 " dirive socket that just fits over pushrod end,reassemble,problem solved.

Or bend arm slightly in  vice.

grease ball before reassembly.

Done this many times on many Bl cars.

Problem solved

[ruffgeezer]

First task at work on Monday? Something nice and light; replace the headgasket on the world's wankiest MGF...

[cms206]

Twice Facebook uploader has shit itself with two photos left to upload out of 303. AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

[dollywobbler]

Be more selective in your editing then! I came back from Shitefest with 447 photos, but less than 200 made it to Faceache.

 

More shots of that hideous 2CV confirm that there's f*ck all of it from 1966. It's a 1980s bodyshell. You can see where he's done a really shit job of filling in the rearmost side windows.

[Station]

I wasn't really sure where to post this but a little part of me just cried, a 81 year old 2CV owner has recently found this mint, 1 owner from new Honda Civic with only 35000 miles on the clock for £250.

 

I'm actually gutted! what's wrong with some of these people!.

 

 

http://thisoldhonda.org/collector_cars.php?ID=5290

 

Thought you'd written 18 then. What a massive tool.

[Mr Livered]

From his website:

 

I have had a great many of these vehicles, which I modified to suit my taste

 

Christ, how many cars has he done that to?!

[purplebargeken]

Feel strangely miserable and down. Attributed to lack of taxi-ness and chronic, seemingly unending back and leg pain. Mostly a lack of taxi though. The Amazon is lovely and all but I miss the taxi. 

 

Arse. Feck, feck, feck.

[RedSparrow]

A combination of this:

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/motoring-news/reliant-robin-named-worst-british-car-of-all-time-8819606.html

 

and constant prattle about the Royal baby have lead me to unsubscribe from the Independent's page.

[Parky]

I just don't seem to be able to stem the tide of money flowing out. If its not four birthdays this month, it's the wife's student loan, four tyres needed for the daily, Christmas not far off, wife's Fiat needs servicing, unexpected tax bill etc etc etc. happens to all of us I know but FFS give me a break will ya!

[Station]

A combination of this:

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/motoring-news/reliant-robin-named-worst-british-car-of-all-time-8819606.html

 

and constant prattle about the Royal baby have lead me to unsubscribe from the Independent's page.

 

 

How old must that survey be?

 

 

 

 

The Reliant Robin has been named the worst British car of all time, according to a new survey.

 

The Austin Maestro and Austin Metro came a close second and third respectively as the worst British cars of all time. 

The research also revealed that the average age of the boy racers is now 35 for men and 34 for women rather than a newly qualified driver. While the top boy racer car was the Ford Escort XR3i.

 

Top boy racer car is the XR3i????!!!!

[Lankytim]

What a sack of ill-informed made up shite.

[dollywobbler]

Lazy, desperate marketing strategy for a TV programme, put together by folk who haven't got a clue about anything it would seem. Strange that the favourite car is probably the one I'd pick as worst.

[brickwall]

Aye, there are way worse cars than the Robin. Most people carriers for instance.

[Pillock]

I'd like to see what made the Maestro one of the worst, but the Mini one of the best. Unless they were handing out points for "not being able to find a comfortable driving position" and "whiny at any speed".

 

Average age of a boy racer? WTF? Where do they come up with this utter tripe?

[Station]

I hate to point this out, as it feels like banging one's head against the wall but Stevehill6 makes this observation in the comments.

 

 

 

 

Austin Allegro has to be up there, and the Marina. And the Austin Princess, Austin Maxi, Austin Montego and Austin Ambassador... I'm starting to see why Rover went bust.

 

I remember two rep mobile executive type neighbours who both had new Montegos and raved about them, probably because they were new. My dad's Ambassador felt like every other white product that is identically comparible to today's cars (but without plastic chrome trim on the interior). They were cars of the era, and in twenty years time we'll have the same about Renault's gearboxes, etc etc. Why don't people make this out with steel or coal industry that went under in the same period of time?

[Cavcraft]

Also didn't Rover go busy yonks after those models were last sold new?

[RedSparrow]

Totally. Judging 70s - 80s cars by today's standards because LOLTOPGEAR.

[Lankytim]

I'd wager that many of these "surveys" are done by people who have never been near, yet alone driven an Allegro or Ambassador, or a Robin for that matter.

[Cavcraft]

I think probably every newspaper in Britain has trotted similar rubbish out. It seems a few times a year there's a report that says only one Allegro is left and that driving a Cortina Mk4 gave you asthma, or some such fucking bollocks. It's bone idle journalism at it's very worse.

[dollywobbler]

To be fair to the newspaper, it's Wheeler Dealers that have put out this 'story.' They've just done the lazy and mildly tweaked a press released to create a news* story*. It will have been carefully* put together than a team of clever* graduates who once watched Only Fools and Horses.

[RedSparrow]

Just looked at the gallery (didn't bother before). They have a picture of a VP Princess when I think they meant to have a BL Princess and a new mini where they were meant to have an original one. Qual.

[vulgalour]

National newspaper in OMG OLD CARS IZ SHIT shocker.

[cobblers]

I read this website (http://www.derelictlondon.com/) a bit for years, I like that kind of shit and get get to appreciate the shitty old architecture of london without actually having to visit the godforsaken place.

 

Anyway the other day I thought "fuck it, I'll buy this guys book, it's only £6 and it'll buy him a drink and give me something to read while eating my rustlers burger on my lunch". I don't really ever buy books anymore cos they constantly  disappoint me as being a proper shit equivalent to the internet if you want to learn owt, and I have absolutely no time for reading stories.

 

So the book turns up, first page I open it to is a picture of a mk2 cortina and a mini abandoned in some old garage type thing. Reasonable picture (but I recognise it off his website) with a quote about how the "MK4  cortina is very rare, only a handful left" and "people are now just dumping cars because scrap metal values are so low that they have to pay to dispose of them legally" 

 

Flick through a few more pages and the whole book is just pictures off his website that I've already seen with similarly rubbish quotes on the opposite page. Book in bin.

[wackywacerwill]

AUTOSHITIST ADMITS OLD VAN IZ SHIT SHOCKER.

 

Started running like a sack on the way home from work tonight. Looking under the bonnet revealed that it was too dark to be fixed this evening though hand down the back of the seat unearthed enough change for a can of san miguel. Limped it home but had to pass up the chance of 3 boilers for scrap and a £40 removal job  Need to get it fixed by the weekend (with no time to do so) as it's on caravan towing duties. Double fucksticks  

[ruffgeezer]

To be honest, after all that, I'm not even sure the MGF's headgasket had gone!

 

 

Ho hum...

[vulgalour]

@ruff:  is that... there's no head gasket at all.  Is that right?  That can't be right.  What sort of numpty wouldn't put a headgasket in there.