Shep Shepherd Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Been quoted £150 by Footman James to insure The Volvo for another year. Cla$$ic car insurance FTW If only I could get insurance for TV2 at that price... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 2CV just snapped its clutch cable. Simple cars FTW! Changed it in a car park with zero tools. Still needs adjusting up properly, but that's no big job now I'm back home with actual tools! FAIL 1 - not having any tools with me, which would have made life easier. FAIL 2 - not having any hand wipes in the car. Thankfully the garden centre let me use their sink... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Been quoted £150 by Footman James to insure The Volvo for another year. Cla$$ic car insurance FTW If only I could get insurance for TV2 at that price... You tried Chris Knott? They have some kind of steamy bedside relationship with the VOC. Are you a member? I got a £50 disc[o]unt on my rammle by mentioning that. Can you not add TV2 to TV's policy with Footman James? I added the 480 to the Amazon's policy for much cheapness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Only about 6 weeks left on the MOT and tax so probably a good idea to do the latter fairly soon. Nothing else to report except I am a bit bored of it now? Wonder if I can find someone who'll straight swap for something interesting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Bonus time in tomorrow's pay packet and I've a right line up of disgusting old chod vying for my cash. If I can persuade my missus that some cruddy old campervan isn't worth the bother, I'm aiming for a Lambretta, a CLK and a wanky Mk4 Disastra, then lob her some dosh for something called 'furniture' and other such needless shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 XR2 now has new suspension, slightly worried by the areas of rot I found while fitting it though. Always lose a chunk of motivation when this happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Not really shite but I bought a 1999 BMW 316i (102bhp of raw powah) at the Auction last night. This is the first thing I've actually bought at an auction so hopefully it'll not end in a mushroom cloud of steam on the hard shoulder. It's quite a tidy thing though with less than 88k on it and full service history so fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Been quoted £150 by Footman James to insure The Volvo for another year. Cla$$ic car insurance FTW If only I could get insurance for TV2 at that price... You tried Chris Knott? They have some kind of steamy bedside relationship with the VOC. Are you a member? I got a £50 disc[o]unt on my rammle by mentioning that. Can you not add TV2 to TV's policy with Footman James? I added the 480 to the Amazon's policy for much cheapness. I forgot that VOC members* could get cheaper insurance through Chris Knott. I'll give them a poke next week *I've been in the club since I bought The Volvo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Have been out for a hoon in the Scimitar. Bloody hard work! I guess I'm used to ride comfort and light steering. Also annoying that there are so many dawdlers around here - even when you've got the power to overtake, you need a straight bit of road! Still not sure how I feel about the car. The cramped footwell is super-annoying. The heavy steering is not much fun. The booming exhaust gets very tiring. The ride is frankly crap - almost as bad as the Mini. Oh, and it cost £82 to fill the tank. On the world's slowest petrol pump. On the plus side, it looks gorgeous, sounds gorgeous and has almost the perfect amount of power - you can accelerate uphill but you aren't left wishing for higher speed limits because you've reached 60mph in second. The torque is epic - barely need to drop below third, ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KruJoe Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Sounds great fun Ian! Could you put some old underlay or carpet tiles under the floor trim to muffle it a bit? Mr N Creep... would you be talking about possibly moving the MR2 on? Would it a T-Bar and cheap like? Not that it's local to North Yorkshire! SteveO (109landys3) recieved the scabby old wheel covers from my striped Maestro, and they now grace his van: How cute is that? Payment for P+P recieved with thanks, btw Steve! Well, the BX14 new daily has arrived and is lovely. Lots of pictures now in't other thread. Anyone want a boringly capable Impreza Sport? No? Ok, have a picture then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Can you imagine how much that van would be worth if it was a VW?? faded hand written sign writing FTW!1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Mr N Creep... would you be talking about possibly moving the MR2 on? Would it a T-Bar and cheap like? Not that it's local to North Yorkshire! Yeah I fancy something else now. Not really sure what, ideally a marque I've never had before. It's not the t-bar but the sunroof model, so still the extra ventilation minus the leaks. MOT is out on the 5th May though and I don't know how long my current job will last Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldofceri Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Bidding just ended on The Scenic on Ebay. £581.28. Not too shabby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formula Autos Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I liberated my Ford Cougar from its lock-up recently. Both a good and a bad thing. I say I liberated it, it was actually done by the garage I use regularly. Push had come to shove - it needed an MOT. Thing was, it had a dead battery. Tried the jump start pack. No joy. Winter had comprehensively Donald Ducked the battery. This meant the car hadn't moved in months. It had started to go mouldy inside as well, and whiffed a bit. All I succeeded in doing was blowing the tyres up. So off to plead with the garage then. Not only did they recover the thing, but fettled the battery back to health with a trickle charge. With a fresh MOT on the passenger seat (no advisories, the only thing needed being a de-gunging of the washer jets and lines) they even dropped it off outside my house. The charge for all this? The standard MOT charge of (from memory) £54 or so. When I paid up I did offer to pay for at least an hour's labour they must have spent getting the thing going and getting it to their garage, but my friendly mechanic said it was OK - if they hadn't recovered it, they wouldn't have been able to do the MOT anyhow. He even threw in a free air freshener to deal with the mouldy smell. Top man! All was not well though. Bouyed by my car being seemingly indestructable, I decided it deserved a valet. The mould in the interior was soon dealt with, so I moved to the outside. A patch of what looked like seagull crap on the back wing wouldn't come off. Undetterred, I took it to the car wash, and purchased a hot wash. Then the aerial wouldn't come off for me. Still, the car wash code was valid for seven days, so I drove off and doused the join between aerial and aerial base in penetrating oil. No joy with that until a few more doses of penetrating oil and a couple of days later. So off to the car wash again. Bird crap still there after the wash and, by now, it was shiny. Mmmm. Is it actually bird crap? Whatever it is, I better be careful about removing it. I'll use something mild like a clay bar. Several hours of elbow grease later, it was clear that whatever this stuff was, it wasn't shifting easily. In fact, it seems to have pulled the paint 'up' a bit in some places, meaning I'd polished through to the base coat. Three small areas of white base coat were now taunting me. I'd just Donald Ducked the finish on this panel. I drove over to the lock-up and had a look around. There was a patch of this 'bird crap' on the floor, exactly where the back wing of the car would normally be. Looking up, I saw a spit like trail of beige goo hanging about an inch and a half from a join in the roof sheets. Seems like it was some form of resin from the roof, and not bird crap. By the looks of it the person who owns the next garage has 'helpfully' resined the joins in my roof with some stuff they've put on their own roof. I guess it becomes fluid again when it gets hot in the sun. Arse! So, onto teh interweb for a car cover and solar battery charger then (I can hang up the solar panel up by a gap betwixt roof and wall at the back of the garage, or even chance putting it on the roof). No mains power in this lock-up, so hopefully this charger will keep a trickle of power going into the battery while the car is laid up. Found both easily on Amazon, delivered for under £20. Now, for the paintwork problem. A local bodyshop (recommended by my mechanic friend) weighed it up, and gave me an estimate of £200 for sorting it properly. This would also involve sorting out a slight dent in the wing too, so the car will be far better when it's all done. Still, £200! All because someone decided to put some unknown stuff on my lock-up's roof without asking. I was a bit pissed off. Still, at least I've a working Cougar again. For all its faults (chief of which is to look like a sports car and then fail to deliver on this promise) it makes a glorious noise. The V6 sounding not unlike Alfa's equivalent at full chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scruff Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 the first tank full reached 500 miles!! The tragic state of my bank balance meant I was driving it like a granny but I'm well chuffed with it. I should be getting on with my Land Rover but the summer is nearly here and it's more fun getting the steam engines ready so I've been doing that today. I must get the LR radiator re-cored this week though; any recommendations in the Peterborough/Stamford/Wellingborough areas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 240 miles in the 2CV today, completely off motorways, so feels more like 400. Seriously - there's barely a straight section of road between here at Warwick! Still, an average of 40mph on single-carriageway roads is not to be sniffed at, and that was with being stuck behind people for most of the journey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I would appear to have bought an LDV Convoy. Fucking w00t!!1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Ex - Royal Mail spec for the win/lose? Requires more information.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Long wheelbase, low roof, no side door (wtf?), walking distance from home, not much munny. Peugeot engined apparently too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Convoy of win by the sounds of it. Didn't like 'em with the Tranny unit. Just made it feel like a really shit Transit. The simple, no-thrills Peugeot engine is spot on for an LDV. On the subject of the Cougar, that resin stuff sounds well crap. With the aerial, can you push it down flat against the body? Used to do this all the time with my 306 in automatic car washes and never had an issue. That had seized and was never coming off. I always used to stop both front and rear wipers in the upmost position (took some co-ordination to get front and rear both vertical!) as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KruJoe Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LDV-CONVOY-3-5t-L ... 3f08754c26Looks VALU @ £256, Pogmeister. Includes previous victims' personal effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Out of the Frying PanAnd into the FireI can Haz nu Bus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LDV-CONVOY-3-5t-L ... 3f08754c26Looks VALU @ £256, Pogmeister. Includes previous victims' personal effects. Pog is a bargainologist! Tommorow at work, when listening to ken Bruce I shall sing along with the quiz #POG POG Master# in his honor. It will be ok, they all think I'm a bit odd anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I would appear to have bought an LDV Convoy. Fucking w00t!!1! GR8 4 IMPORTING WINE/FAGS/IMAGRANTS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Twin Electrics - GR9 for towing caravans (slowly) - and WTF is that weird micro-septic tank affair in the back? Policewomans tie too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Well done Pog! Another "parts section" bargain. Is there some secret to finding these or did you look through all 36,000 listings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I bid on that Convoy the first time it was on - it made £300 that time around. I didn't spot that he'd relisted it. Fugging bargain at £256 - only £6 more than I bid for it, and it would have cost me another £50 to get it home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Yo Pog! Hope you're gonna play this while driving it around, this song makes me LOL my bollocks off every time I hear it (not very often, fortunately). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWO_AIh8drk Its such an utterly shite song!!! You can't lose with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Had a nice productive automotive day today in between garden centre/toilet plumbing/circumcision. First up was another look under the back of the Herald. Tightening loose diff/UJ bolts in the week did not eliminate a knocking noise. I disconnected the prop and its UJ felt fine but there did seem to be a bit of unwanted play in the diff. I've kind of been waiting for it to grenade itself as the front and one of the side seals have not been very good at their job since the Mazda engine went in so I have kind of assumed there not to be much oil inside. I put some gear oil in - not as much as I thought it might need - so it will no doubt spread itself over one side of the floorpan again soon. But then with handbrake on and wiggling the input flange for the last time I discovered quite a lot of play in the pass side driveshaft UJ. That'll be the knocking then. Will get one ordered this week with some other parts I've been meaning to get. I hate pulling driveshafts off the Herald though. Always a struggle with the leaf spring and involves having to bleed the entire braking system too as you have to disconnect the flexi from the hardline. While under the back, bits of previously repaired chassis got seen to with a wire brush and some Dinitrol. I'm normally rubbish at trying to prevent cars from rusting so this made me feel good, though also left me covered in sticky black overspray. Then this afternoon I took the drivers seat out of the Hillman to see if the NOS Rapier rubber diaphragm I'd bought would be a direct replacement. It wasn't unfortunately but I did manage to improve matters by pushing wires and hooks into their correct relative positions. So some sort of success there I suppose. Until it rips itself totally in half... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TagoraSX Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I've just bought a Fiat 130 Coupe, collecting it in a couple of weeks. I am well pleased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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