Weird Car’s weird cars! “Quick Catch Up”

[wesacosa]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Nice colour. And non leather is a plus to me.

indeed it is. Looks like Sage green I think in this daylight pictures 

[Schaefft]

Manual inline six (M54B22 in this case) is as trouble free as it'll get in the facelift E39. Make sure the radiator/tank has been replaced at least once already, if not it's about a decade overdue! Jacking points/sills would be the only other issue that could really cause you trouble in this one. The rest is just normal wear & tear. I still have my parts car although not all that much would be of use in yours.

 

Edit: Looks like it still needs the airbag recall carried out! Get in touch with your local BMW dealer, they'll give you free stuff!

[Weird Car]

5 hours ago, Schaefft said:

Edit: Looks like it still needs the airbag recall carried out! Get in touch with your local BMW dealer, they'll give you free stuff

This was actually done just last week  

[Weird Car]

Spent the Easter weekend up in Yorkshire house hunting with @Jessi

we’re certain we’ve found the right place for us and we’re currently in the long and boring paperwork and admin side of things so hopefully things go smoothly 

 

loooooong drive and big garage is a plus 

 

 

the house itself is very lovely too and  I could already feel our job lot of jalopies bringing down the property values 

 

anyway, the E39 covered not far off 600 miles over the weekend absolutely amazingly and I was pleasantly impressed with the 42mpg I was getting, unfortunately because I’m an absolute idiot and the e39s cup holders are for display only I accidentally launched an entire open can of Monster Energy into the passenger seat when I took a corner a bit sharpish on the drive home yesterday and all I had to mop it up was a slightly crumpled McDonalds napkin and a demisting sponge so the wet vac will be coming out when I get a chance 

 

jessi’s bradford special £300 Mégane 

obligatory pez station shot 

[danthecapriman]

I’ve probably (definitely) missed something here… 

I thought you were going to Germania??

Congrats on purchasage of the new gaff though👍

[Weird Car]

1 minute ago, danthecapriman said:

thought you were going to Germania

I am, maybe a bit later than originally planned due to unforeseen recent personal commitments but it’s definitely happening 

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, Weird Car said:

I am, maybe a bit later than originally planned due to unforeseen recent personal commitments but it’s definitely happening 

Got to be better than here! In the meantime, fingers crossed your new place goes smoothly.👍

[Weird Car]

Anyway, back in sunny Hampshire 

a rare instance I get to park my cars together 

Pride of Longbridge next week for the Rover then MOT, I’ve managed to track down a seatbelt so hopefully an advisory free pass this year 

[big_al_granvia]

hope it works out for both of you xx

[bangernomics]

Good to read your for sale threads will be considerably more convenient for me.

You know you will need some more weird cars when you relocate.

[Weird Car]

8 minutes ago, bangernomics said:

You know you will need some more weird cars when you relocate

Already one collection in the planning stage😏

[Weird Car]

Right, time for a catch up 

 

on 12 of April the Rover and I ventured from Portsmouth to the flower farm meet 

 

I won’t post many pictures about that as I posted most when it happened in its own thread

 

this also happened to be its last big trip whist I still lived down south 

 

Moving on to the 25th

 

the Great Daim left the carpark and the fleet and headed off for a new life in Stoke on Trent with @Lankytim

I must admit I was a little sad it didn’t work out with me but I’m glad it’s still in the fold

 

come the 28th I loaded the E39 up with as many of my belongings as I could and rolled wheels for Yorkshire

 

new house reached 

 

Just a week later we took @Jessis Mégane back to Portsmouth to grab the Rover and the rest of my stuff 

 

At my parents house and we found one full CityRover 

 

practical wagon yo

 

 

2 days later it’s MOT expired so I popped into our new garage until I had the time to sort it 

 

Jessi and I finally managed to arrange a date with Tim to collect the Princess 

The 9th of may quickly came about and that meant new car day

 

I had to get the Polaroid out and get a “period correct” photo 

we originally took the offer of the Princess as a fun weekend car to drive around the dales but as I was following Jessi home in the BMW it’s alternator died so with the Rover out of MOT, BMW not charging and the Mégane deciding it wanted to lose its NSR shock bolt on the way back up from Portsmouth

we were kind of forced to use the Princess as a daily

and to give it some credit it really does make a great classic daily 

Noice Jaaag spotted 

furniture shopping

 

furniture taking homing

local motor factor chain of dreams

it’s not all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows though, it’s got an intermittent electrical issue that we’ve traced to a dodgy fuse box, it’ll get fixed soon 

unfortunately the 2200 twin carb isn’t the most fuel efficient especially for a 2 hour round trip to work crawling through Bradford traffic and back so after fitting the new drivers seatbelt I managed to track down at POL, I stuck the Rover in for MOT at a local Kwik Fit 

fuck…

Though not horrible for a Kwik Fit MOT

 

both sides done because it was £12 for the pair

that’s better 

local Beetle spotted 

the Rover has now been the faithful daily since its pass and was used today to collect this mower 

Twas a local find for £25 

And honestly didn’t do too bad of a job with the front garden 

photo of me taken from the front room window by Jessi as they hid from the hard work 😆

so fleet update as of 26th of May

Princess = on road currently 

Rover = on road currently

BMW E39 = in the garage awaiting Alternator “may be for sale soon we’ll see”

Mégane = off road awaiting us to be bothered to fix the shock “maybe when it’s not so hot” 🥵 

I think @Jessi wanted to start a thread of their own documenting the Mégane, Princess, C Class and A Class when those 2 eventually get recovered here as well “though space is already proving a bit tighter than we’d hoped” it’d be nice to have a few other cars to spread the mileage out a bit 

 

 

[SiC]

If the alternator isn't making horrible noises, often you can just replace the regulator on the back. Just remember to disconnect the battery first. Tbh removing the alternator is not a hard job on an M54 engine. 

[SilverMachine]

23 hours ago, Weird Car said:

i missed the princesse's arrival, i do like a good plughole badged cheese! looks like a canny gaff too- garage looks a decent size too but that could be the illusion of the rover! 

[Weird Car]

1 hour ago, SilverMachine said:

garage looks a decent size too but that could be the illusion of the rover! 

It’s pretty big, fits the 5 series happily enough 

 

[Matty]

My god @Weird Car is that Princess as good as it looks? Cos it looks mint. And in a perfect colour for one of them too 👌

[High Jetter]

7 minutes ago, Matty said:

My god @Weird Car is that Princess as good as it looks? Cos it looks mint. And in a perfect colour for one of them too 👌

Sandglow? Perfick colour

[danthecapriman]

Interior on the Princess looks very inviting. Looks like a cracking car.

Glad stuff’s going well for you ooop north 😄

[eddyramrod]

Princess interiors are lush.  I've had two - neither in Sandglow! - and thought they were exceedingly comfortable.

[Weird Car]

8 hours ago, Matty said:

My god @Weird Car is that Princess as good as it looks? Cos it looks mint. And in a perfect colour for one of them too 👌

Not mint by a long way, photos flatter it somewhat but overall it’s not bad at all

 

 

[Tommyboy12]

Ooof. Let me know if that Princess goes up fur sail. I love me some BL tat.

[Weird Car]

52 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Ooof. Let me know if that Princess goes up fur sail. I love me some BL tat.

I was waiting for you to stick the VDP back up so I could get the princess a stable mate, I was gutted when you sold it 🤣