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Dec 26, 2019 15:22:07 GMT
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I've got Enfield garage door bolts on both my up and over garage door and also on the side entry door too. (fitted top and bottom to the side entry door rather than the sides as normal with a up and over). The locking bolts from the enfield door bolts on both my up and over door and on the side door are that long they go well past the door frames and into the structure of the garage.
Also got a garage door defender bolted to the floor for the up and over door.
Don't think I need the garage door defender as well as the door bolts but fitted the garage door defender while I was waiting for the keyed alike sets of Enfield garage door bolts to arrive so I only needed the one key for both sets of the garage door bolts.
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Laters
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Dec 23, 2019 23:54:29 GMT
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Totally agree on the W202 C250td being a superb car. My C250td was my second W202 but also the best by a mile. Fairly easy to get a little extra get up and go too.
Finding a good one is getting harder. I miss mine too & wish I hadn't sold it. I owned it for just over 10 years & purchased it from the guy who bought it new.
I would have a another without much thinking about it if I didn't have my scimitar in the garage.
Of all the cars I have owned I seem to always end up back with either a Mercedes, Honda or a Ford.
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Last Edit: Feb 9, 2021 19:03:26 GMT by Laters
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Dec 13, 2019 20:06:57 GMT
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Unluckiest car for me was a 1989 Fiat Tipo 1.9 turbo diesel DGT. It was a one owner low mileage car that had clearly been looked after by the elderly bloke I bought it from. The idea was to buy a car that wouldn't cost a lot to run and keep it for as long as possible.
On the test drive it drove superbly & the old bloke said he had kept it garaged from new washing every week even if it wasn't used and he even kept a small book in the car that listed every penny he spent on it including every fill up at the fuel station.
Within a few weeks of owning it there was a weird suspension noise on the drivers side and the heater controls started to fail to work correctly. Took it to the local fiat main dealer who was a friend of the family and he knew the car & said how great a car it was for the price I paid. They couldn't find the suspension noise but could help with the heater controls as it was stripped gear. In the short time I had the car I got to know how to change the heater control gears as they failed quite often & after the third time bought a few spare part so could just replace them when they broke.
Suspension noise still couldn't be found even after we pretty much stripped the entire front suspension off the car.
A few weeks later car was parked on the drive on a normal overcast summer day & the windscreen decided it was that time and ended up with a few cracks that went from one side to the other. Had the screen changed & all was good for a few weeks till driving to work one morning the windscreen decided to do the same again with a big crack going all across it.
That was the last straw & I swapped with the family friend who had the fiat main dealer for a Honda Accord aerodeck 3 door he had taken in part exchange earlier that week.
In contrast to the fiat the Accord aerodeck was one of the best cars I have ever owned & it one of the ones I wished I hadn't let go.
The above with the tipo happened in just under 3 months and was the shortest time I have ever kept a car for. It was the first fiat I had ever owned and quite likely the last.
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Dec 13, 2019 19:14:26 GMT
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Just backed this for volume 1
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Chrome paint penLaters
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Nov 10, 2019 21:19:21 GMT
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Just to add I have tried loads of chrome pens over the years & the Molotow Liquid chrome pen is the best I have tried by a margin. Have 3 different sizes sat in my penholder on my desk at the moment. Ideal for adding chrome details. Work quite well on plastic chrome used on cars where the chrome effect has worn off and white is showing through. Sorted a worn Honda steering wheel airbag plastic chrome emblem out for a friend the other day. He was shocked a pen could create such a nice chrome effect.
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Just a wild stab in the dark, but how similar are mk1s and mk2s? mk1 bumper, headlights, grill and bonnet on a mk2? mk1 and mk2 are a totally different bodyshell so a front end transplant would be a big job. Great response, thank you. To me personally, like the Mk1 vs Mk2 Berlingo, personal preference dictates that I like the look of a Mk1 car in Berlingo’s the narrow lights are not as good looking as the newer ones were, but to me that is actually the appeal. The CR-V is similar, the older front end look is preferable to me, but performance etc makes zero difference, reliability like with Prozac is paramount Glad you mentioned auto, petrol here, as the one I missed out on was just that. Doing less than 3000 miles a year in these secondary cars, used when the company Focus cannot (towing and load lugging) means consumption is not that important to me. Regarding off-road use, I think you actually “get it” that this is a sofft-roader rather than rock crawler. I would have either, Mk1 or Mk2 and prefer manual to auto, but also have little brand loyalty. I've had a few hondas over the years but tend to buy whatever suits us best at the time. When looking for our car I was torn between the CR-V or Nissan xtrail. The CR-V won on the grounds of I wasn't so sure of the interior on the xtrail and I preferred the full sized spare wheel on the rear door of the honda. Also means there is a fair sized storage compartment under the boot floor/table. The handbrake on the CR-V does take a little getting used to as its a little different being dash mounted. I was looking for a auto so a manual wasn't a option for me. The autos are all 4 speed in the mk2 crv in the UK where when the CR-V was facelifted in other countries they got the 5 speed automatic. Forgot to mention the rear door on the mk2 is side hinged like the mk1 but is a one piece & opens with the glass where the mk1 glass opens separately. The mk2 rear door also opens separately to the rear door (from the key or a button on the drivers door panel) but in all the time we have owned ours its never been used in anger. We only do about 4000-5000 miles a year in the honda so fuel consumption isn't that much of worry for us either. Some people complain the 2 litre ivtec engine isn't very powerful. It does lack a little torque at low revs but as with all iVTEC/VTEC engines its got to be revved to get the best out of it. I have never found the car to be underpowered & its far from sluggish as some reviewers suggest. I suspect the people who say they are underpowered or sluggish have never driven a vtec and don't realise they do need some revs to come on song. Another thing worth mentioning is the tappet adjustment on the k20 engines found in the mk2 petrol CR-V's are old school manually adjusted tappets not automatic hydraulic tappets so can sound a little tappity when cold. You would be surprised by the amount of people who don't get the whole soft roader thing. A extended family member was a little put aback when they bought a Kuga & we all went to a village fair/festival with parking in the nearby fields. Honda behaved perfectly and drove in and out of the field with no issues. Kuga didnt! I suspect large wheels with low profile tyres and the Kuga being 2wd didnt help.
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Nothing wrong with the mk2 CR-V. We have had ours for 5 years now and its never put a foot wrong. All the mk2 CRV have a table in the boot floor too. The earlier have 15 inch wheels with the later ones having 16 inch wheels. The smaller wheels wont fit onto the later cars as the brakes wont fit in the 15 inch wheels (I have tried). The later high spec cars are also fitted with Hondas stability/traction control which also works really well with the AWD system.
The petrol (ours is a auto) mk2 CR-V likes a drink around town. If you drive it gently you will see low 20's around town with low to mid 30's MPG on a run.
The person who bought ours new ticked a lot of the option boxes & our car has pretty much every extra that was available at the time.
I ended up speaking to her a few months after buying the car and the first thing she asked was if I would sell her it back.
We have used it as a daily for running the family and dogs about. It got repurposed as a van when we got flooded and despite what people say the AWD works really well. Fitted with Michelin cross climate tyres it has gone everywhere we asked it to with no drama or any fears of getting stuck. I wouldn't take it majorly off road but for muddy tracks and wet grass its in its element.
The only other issue we have with ours is what to replace it with when the time comes. Its just so good at doing what we need.
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Yep it is the car Quatermass used to own. He confirmed it in another thread. BTW was it your old scim that was crashed the other night (I added a photo the your old naughty corner thread) It was. A sad end, but quite a cool photograph to end on I thought. I've repaired far worse damaged cars than that in the past. But as Reliantreviver said if insurance are involved its not looking good for the car.
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I bought my Scimitar before the MOT exemption came in so had a short MOT for what it was worth. I certainly wouldn't have driven the car with some of the issues it had. Wipers were so slow they might as well not been there. A couple of the brake pipes were very poorly mounted (broken clips and cable ties) plus more than a few other things. (I bought it unseen & went by the sellers information and photos) Would it have passed another MOT we will never know as the issues are being rectified/have been rectified. Before it got to where I was happy to drive it the car became MOT exempt anyway. I wont bother testing it in future for more than a few reasons. As a single example from personal experience, some testers just don't understand some things on older cars & it can be a pain to get a older car through a test. When my usual places old tester moved on the guy who replaced him insisted that there should be less play in the front wheel bearings (taper roller bearings). I ended up making them tight to get a test then adjusting them back to how they should be after the test (before MOT exemption came in). If I was looking for another MOT exempt car it wouldn't bother me as I would be buying on condition rather than anything else. My Scimitar came with a perfectly legal MOT that was clearly not worth the paper it was printed on, as was evident by simply looking at it for the first time from 20 ft away. It had no windscreen wipers. How could it possibly be road legal even if it did have an MOT certificate?. I got it through a legit MOT within the year, then it became MOT exempt just before the next one was due and I didn't bother again. You can't buy an old car purely on the basis that it's passed an MOT. You have to look at it, drive it, and decide that come what may, you want to own it. My point exactly. I used the fact it had a MOT as a guide it should have been ok but I have seen enough cars with over the phone MOT's to know the MOT is just a piece of paper. I have worked in enough places where MOT's were carried out to know that some have more value than others. I wasn't bothered about the issues as I knew there would be some but just goes to show looking at a car and giving it good going over is far more important than a piece of paper. I would have done that with my scimitar but it was too far away for me to go and see it at the time. Plus there wasn't any others about that were not total basket cases. BTW was it your old scim that was crashed the other night (I added a photo the your old naughty corner thread)?
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I bought my carr before the MOT exemption came in so had a short MOT for what it was worth. I certainly wouldn't have driven the car with some of the issues it had. Wipers were so slow they might as well not been there. A couple of the brake pipes were very poorly mounted (broken clips and cable ties) plus more than a few other things. (I bought it unseen & went by the sellers information and photos) Would it have passed another MOT we will never know as the issues are being rectified/have been rectified.
Before it got to where I was happy to drive it the car became MOT exempt anyway. I wont bother testing it in future for more than a few reasons.
As a single example from personal experience, some testers just don't understand some things on older cars & it can be a pain to get a older car through a test. When my usual places old tester moved on the guy who replaced him insisted that there should be less play in the front wheel bearings (taper roller bearings). I ended up making them tight to get a test then adjusting them back to how they should be after the test (before MOT exemption came in).
If I was looking for another MOT exempt car it wouldn't bother me as I would be buying on condition rather than anything else.
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Is that the number plate on the grass to the right? Looks like it to me.
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A friend emailed me this photo that was posted on facebook. Really bad quality photo but the damaged scimitar looks a lot like the one that used to be owned by Quatermass. The guy who took the photo stopped to see if they were all OK and the guy said he had hit a post due to a slippery road. Happened 2/11/19 near EMA airport.
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Oct 20, 2019 14:08:11 GMT
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I've got a couple of the glovebox sized boost packs. Always carry one in the boot of the car. Never needed to use either on my own cars but both have started everything I have asked them too. Both were got on ebay for not a lot.
Last time I used mine was on a neighbours car. Grandson was starting and moving his late grandfathers car out of the garage as the house had sold. Car wouldn't start & they had tried to push it up the slightly sloping drive but failed. He came across and asked if I could help. Got the boost pack out of the boot and he laughed saying it would never start the car. 30 seconds later it was running.
Not sure they would start anything that required lots of cranking but have never let me down.
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Oct 20, 2019 13:46:59 GMT
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Our family runaround is a 06 CRV petrol auto. It was bought as a inbetween car while we found something we really wanted/liked. I read all the reviews on the crv before we bought it and came to the conclusion being a Honda it would be ok but nothing special & wouldn't have any character.
Now here is where it gets a little tricky.
After it being with us for last 4 and a half years it is a superb car. It drives far better than it should. Is far from the slow underpowered car some of the reviews say & has done everything we have asked of it plus some things we shouldn't have.
Its been used as the family runaround with the kids and dogs, been used as a makeshift van when we were flooded and needed to move stuff around & has been superbly reliable.
When looking for a possible replacement that's where it got really tricky as nothing we looked at ticked all the boxes quite as well as the current crv. Being a 2006 car I know its far from modern but I prefer it to everything we have considered changing it for. About 6 months ago we spent a bit of time going around a few dealers sitting in and test driving a few cars. Some new some nearly new.
The conclusion was just to keep the current crv. Its far from new but does its job & I am not too worried about where I take it or park it as it already has its share of marks and scrapes. Is it better than the newer cars we tested. For us it is but as with everything car related its all a very personal choice.
My wives Peugeot 106 is a quite fun car to drive for a short time but I wouldn't like to drive it for long or to have to do any distance in it. It reminds me of the cars I owned back in the 80's and 90's.
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Oct 19, 2019 19:31:46 GMT
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I was watching that on Ebay but got too many projects at the moment as it is.
Had a Kitten saloon back in the day. Didn't do much to it other than a set of wolfrace slots & a silly backbox. Was quite a fun little car even with the 850cc engine.
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Oct 19, 2019 10:56:55 GMT
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My sticker has arrived Now to get the car running so I can show it off. (the sticker that is )
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Sept 28, 2019 19:40:47 GMT
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As a bit of a follow up post about the garage. Its been up for well over a year now & I thought I would add my findings to the end of this thread so if anyone does a search its not left dangling.
The garage we went with is the lidget Compton but went with the pent mansard roof. Size wise as much as I wanted to go larger it just wasn't possible due to finances & other issues.
Overall inside it is now 5 or 6 inches narrower than the old wooden framed garage but a little longer.
It would have been nice to get it another foot or two wider but the extra costings needed for the extra width it just wasn't possible. The garage is 100% better than the wood garage it replaced.
There were a few issues after it had been built but in fairness to lidget Compton they did resolve all the issues even though it took a couple of visits and a extra roof truss to stop the roof panels sagging where the roof truss spacing was messed up at install.
So far zero issues with condensation & moisture. It can be a little cold when its cold outside but my small heater soon resolves that.
The lighting was done with LED strips on every roof truss and smaller led strips mounted low down on the wall. The lighting is well over the top & the low down mounted strips make it so much brighter when a car is in the garage. The inside of the panels were all painted white (lets see how long that stays white) with the floor being done grey. That helps make it look bigger and brighter than the old garage ever could.
I did end up putting a better door seal on the bottom of the main door as there was quite a gap at the bottom. I've ended up putting several locks/bolts on both the main door and the side door to improve security plus its now wired into the home alarm system properly unlike the old garage that just had a internal pir sensor.
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Your routine ?Laters
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Sept 28, 2019 19:15:45 GMT
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Any time I can grab a hour or so is a good time. Not possible for me to plan any time ahead with family/dogs/life getting in the way most of the time.
I used to be able to plan ahead but recent events has meant that any spare time is usually spoken for before I get chance.
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Sept 27, 2019 16:03:24 GMT
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Got my membership number & reporting for duty.
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edited to add email came through with no issues at all.
Straight to inbox. No junk mail issues for me using gmail.
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Aug 28, 2019 22:40:20 GMT
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Yeah I did think that, and did you see the driver who jumped onto the seesaw bridge? Either a setup or the guy needs a van to carry his ba**s around, they must be the size of oil drums!! Yes that was the Japanese Drifter Atsushi Taniguchi that did the jump on the leveller. From the rest of his driving he has some skills & enjoys his car. There were a couple of noteable other moments. When Fielding Shredder had his off & all of a sudden when they go head to head for a bonus place his car is very battered but driving again. When the German drifters car was modified with the water & they all seemed surprised. Did they not realise how much damage water can do?
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