AV(W)AS

[Cavcraft]

Today, in sort of chronological order.

 

DERV, M8

That looks a nice trailer, mind if I borrow it?

[Cavcraft]

Passenger aided photograph as we stopped with engine off

Last down here a few days ago, with no trailer. Life was so much simpler in them days

 

[Cavcraft]

Are we nearly there yet?

 

[loserone]

Oh man this reveal is bugging me already 

[Cavcraft]

So...

 

 

[cobblers]

Wow, I flipping love these. Wouldn't have you pegged as someone who'd buy one of these but I'm glad you did.

Is it fucked?

[Matty]

You don't buy much normal stuff dya 😄

[barefoot]

Who nailed the fucking back lights on at 90 degrees?

[High Jetter]

Fastest golf buggy on the green!

[timolloyd]

That looks like an amazing buy. Disappointed you aren’t driving it home!

[Cavcraft]

42 minutes ago, cobblers said:

 Wouldn't have you pegged

Well, that's a relief.

[sporty-shite]

Impressed. Very very impressed.  

[Cavcraft]

43 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Wow, I flipping love these. Wouldn't have you pegged as someone who'd buy one of these but I'm glad you did.

Is it fucked?

Erm...

 

4 minutes ago, timolloyd said:

That looks like an amazing buy. Disappointed you aren’t driving it home!

Thanks. Would have loved to, but it doesn't drive, the brakes don't work, and it doesn't actually even start. 

 

My VW mate's been for a look and we're going to try his spare starter motor, as hopefully it's just that. The drive home would have been ace, it came from near a mountain bike centre in N. Wales. Not an experienced tower and had a hill start to contend with right from the off, bit of scrabbling and off it went.  Had planned to come back through town but decided to give the clutch a break, and used the by-pass instead. Stuck to a steady 50 and it was fine.

 

*Obvs, like, the photographs are all staged and the Range Rover towed it

 

Supposedly, it drove into the barn about 8 months ago, so we could be lucky. It's miss-firing or down on compression on the 3rd cylinder, my mate says they're common for this as something about that pot being behind the oil cooler(?) which restricts air flow. V5 (the proper, old fashioned variety) says it's a 1.3, though he says it's a 1.6 'probably from a camper' due to something about the engine code.

The radio never came on all the time we fiddled with the car the other day, not today. Until I pushed it into the garage, connected the battery and Abba's 'Waterloo' came blaring out of it. Happy days. Until two minutes later it stopped working again!

[Sigmund Fraud]

Excellent work, and welcome to the Autoshite KITCAR MASSIV !

[Back_For_More]

1 of my biggest regrets was 'growing up' and selling mine back in 2003..... I loved every single moment out in it. No weather gear on mine (does yours have it?) but loads of laughs and just getting on with it. 

They are marmite to own and drive - you'll find out instantly once you get it running. 

Good luck getting it sorted.... 

 

[camryv6]

57 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Who nailed the fucking back lights on at 90 degrees?

More to the point, what are you going to call it ?

[DVee8]

[SiC]

Are you getting the matching model for it?

 

 

[w00dy]

People who say motoring is no fun, need to drive one of these. A brilliant buy.

 

Those rear seats look fucking terrifying.

[outlaw118]

1 hour ago, w00dy said:

The whole thing looks fucking terrifying.

FTFY.

Billy, you da man. And a fucking lunatic. 

I want a go in it OBVS M9.

[sporty-shite]

I feel you'd be much more comfortable in an SLK.  I just so happen to know someone who may be able to help you............

[outlaw118]

20 minutes ago, sporty-shite said:

I feel you'd be much more comfortable in an SLK.  I just so happen to know someone who may be able to help you............

Is this the campaign "Sporteh sells another car to Outlaw" part 3? 😆

No room at the inn at this point SOZ M9

[rusty_vw_man]

My measure of whether I have succeeded in life is if I ever have the space/time/money to get one of these. I am well jealous!! 

[sporty-shite]

1 hour ago, outlaw118 said:

Is this the campaign "Sporteh sells another car to Outlaw" part 3? 😆

No room at the inn at this point SOZ M9

It was more the "Sporteh persuades Chester based Vauxhall bothererthat he'd rather have an SLK than a buggy"

However, if you feel the need, Bob, you're more than welcome 😁

[Dave_Q]

Ooh an opportunity to buy an SLK on the beige forum, that only comes but thrice a month

[Asimo]

22 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

It's miss-firing or down on compression on the 3rd cylinder, my mate says they're common for this as something about that pot being behind the oil cooler(?) which restricts air flow.

The exhaust valve in that cylinder does have a very hard life and if you ignore the cylinder 3 low compression for very long, the valve head drops off and smashes the piston etc.

Guess how I know.

Probably only a couple of hours work to fit a new valve to that. Might even be able to do it without taking the engine out in the buggy.

[DavidB]

That's rear passengery, slamingly on brakesely, head-smashingly-on-rollbarly bloody (literally) fantastic!! 😁

[Lacquer Peel]

Nice Peugeot Expert

[Cavcraft]

12 hours ago, Lacquer Peel said:

Nice Peugeot Expert

Bought from these very pages, was originally a stop gap but a keeper now.  Can't praise it highly enough.

[Lacquer Peel]

1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

Bought from these very pages, was originally a stop gap but a keeper now.  Can't praise it highly enough.

I love mine.