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May 20, 2023 13:31:14 GMT
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Looks like a few months updates are due. Let's start with S110R. After finally getting nice wheels sorted out, I then elected to try to move it. I just wanted to get it indoors before winter actually, so I was going to drive it over to my storage unit ~10 miles away. For some reason it would start and then cut out again. It could idle but it wouldn't rev at all, and usually died when the throttle was pressed. It was taking a lot of cranking so I eventually had to rig up an auxiliary battery system...  Good Mini. It sat there at ~3k rpm for ages.      Here's a smattering of pictures of the carb on the Skoda as I eventually had to ask online for help and was advised that it was running only on the secondary, and to clear the main jet on the carb. That worked. So off I set. I got it about 2 miles before it started sounding very poorly indeed. I should ahve turned back, but work was only one mile further so I hoped to make it there. Nope, it conked out. I managed to nurse it to a petrol station just a little bit ahead. Here's the smattering of pictures from that session:     The keen eyed will notice that the carb here is full of coolant. Coolant that spurted out when I tried to start it. I walked to work and drove back in another car armed with tools. I took out the plugs and cylinder #3 emptied out about 293.5cc of coolant. Major sigh. So I dried them all off and tinkered some more and actually managed to get it to run enough to make it over to work. From there it was trailered to storage where it awaits a head gasket replacement. Hopefully that's all. But at least it looks pretty now, right? It was dark by the time all that was finished, so you'll have to trust me on that. |
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May 20, 2023 13:47:54 GMT
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I loaned the MG daily to my receptionist over new years while her car was broken/being fixed, and when it came back she said the rear wheel wasn't sitting straight. Well that resulted in me cutting a hole in the rear subframe...  Because of this captive nut, which is a major design flaw on the 75/ZT and holds in the spring perch arm, which is notorious for rotting.  Thankfully I had a very good condition spare. The drivers side will need done soon too... Shortly after that, I noticed a seizing caliper on the front. I parked the MG up for a while as I wanted to do a brake upgrade anyway. The V6 models got good brakes but all other models are known for being inadequately braked. I have a spare V6 car, so, makes sense. In the meantime I started using various work cars. For starters was a 2005 118d in "unwashed for a year" silver. This was great until I found the rear axle was rotten hence why it was a bit wandery under heavy cornering (which happens a lot with me on backroads in £400 cars..). Further to that I lent it to one of my staff for an evening and as he pulled up into the yard, a front spring snapped. Of course it went straight into the tyre as well. I got in a damaged 2008 530d MSport, which I fixed one evening so that I could drive it home. It annoyingly only does 24mpg at the MOST so it was untenable. A p/x deal saw me with a 2007 320d Msport touring, which seemed the perfect daily. And it was fine, other than being butt ugly, until it's fuel system starting acting like a tit. One day it quit and wouldn't move (at work). A couple of days later it started again and I was halfway home before it starting cutting out again and messing around. Got it back and the next day it wouldn't start. So I ended up getting "involved".   So that was an entire Saturday spent stripping at it only to find it was the HPFP sensor, which I didn't have there. I got it recovered to work, where it was messed around with for a full day, to no avail. Later that evening one guy and I stayed on and went through it again. We found bad diesel in the system, but fresh didn't fix it. At the end up I pulled the injectors to see if the bad fuel had damaged them, and they were very sooty and didn't look healthy. I threw another set in, and it fired up. So that was pressed back into service. It lasted, ohh, 3 days? then the EML came back, the stuttering came back, and that actually got worse as I went to go home. I turned around, went to my storage unit, and dumped the E91 outside and fired up the Camaro. The E91 hasn't started again since, and can I be bothered? No, not really, I'm sick of it. And I have a yellow V8 to drive now. |
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May 20, 2023 14:02:56 GMT
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Oh, in the intervening months, I have as well finally fixed that inoperative window regulator in the Regata - I came across a NOS unit on ebay, in Spain, and jumped on it.  for adjustment purposes, I was pleasantly surprised how accurately this cheap set of folding pliers fitted!  So that fitted, the Fiat was water-tight again for the unrelenting but intermittent (the WORST combination) rain we had here, meaning progress was almost zero. Oh, I did tick off the TOP #1 first priority most sought after dream car above all others...! However it is, umm, well, stinky. It has no floor. |
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Alright we're on page 23 and talking about the events of early '23 and to begin with here is a picture of a familiar engine bay.  You'd be forgiven if you saw an orange engine bay with a 1.2 SOHC iron head motor in it and assumed I was still talking about my S110R - but no, actually, this is an entirely different Skoda. THIS ONE!  I have at long, long, loooong last procured a Super Estelle, and let me tell you how. Because my car finds ALWAYS have a story... 'ping' my phone tells me someone has sent me a message. I'm busy but a little while later I take a look. A friendly purveyor of chod has sent me a link to a facebook ad. I open it up. I gasp. I frantically begin messaging. The seller first, who doesn't respond until the next day. The chod-finder, who tells me a mutually known lover of old British tat was at the seller's yard the day before trying to buy a very rusty Mini, and saw the Skoda there. So I move on to texting him (instead of calling like a grown-up), because, y'know, millenial or whatever. He's quick to respond and says the car is desperately rusty, and sends me a couple of pictures that he took. The seller's single picture in the ad is directly of the side, taken using a C&C Lemonade bottle dug out of the garden as a telephoto lens, and I can't see if it's a plastic bumper model or not. These new photos confirm that it is indeed a plastic bumpered Super Estelle 120LSE with the double headlights and also that it's an original NI registration - something I'd never thought I would find. Eventually the seller responds - the only time they do so - and says the car is for spares only and too rotten to restore. Hah! (well actually he was right). But never responds to me again. Apparently, this was because he had too many people asking too many questions about it (I heard later) and just wanted it gone with minimal fuss. He'd only bought it as part of a joblot, to get hold of several rusty Minis on an old farm, one of which may have been a Mk1 Cooper. Anyway. So I returned to the JLR+M admirer and asked him if he wouldn't mind awfully hitching his trailer on and just going round to this guys yard and wave some cash at him. Which, actually, he did, the very next morning. And because those two had already met, the seller was congenial with him, knowing he'd already seen the rust, the holes, the areas that only paint held together, and the general lack of metal. Having then agreed an even lower price, the car was easily winched on and taken straight up to me, where it was easily rolled back off. Because, funnily, there isn't so much as a hint of a seized brake. Or door latch. For being absolutely rotten, the two most common things for sticking shut, are absolutely fine. So the car rolls around really easy! I was presented with all the original log books, confirming it as an N.I. supplied car, and because of a small mixup on another car deal ages ago, the transporter of said rusty orange heap refused to take any payment from me for all his efforts. And so I became the custodian of a Super Estelle 120LSE. Perenial item #1 on my dream car list. And I didn't even have to lift a finger (just several thumbs when texting of course.) Cool. Or whatever. |
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Alright to wrap up everything else that's happened over the first 5 months of 23, car related anyway... Cadillac needed moved. It's been on axle stands for absolutely ages (years we're talking) and suspension pieces were out.   Much arguing later they were re-installed and the Caddy was rolling again. Well, scuffing. The rear wheels are too wide for the (current) arches. I don't want to start into bodywork on this car right now. It needs some work:  don't...poke...  Argh! And floor:   But to chop out the rear (inner) arches and clearance them for the 11j wheels, as well as likely a lot of arch rolling on the outer skin, is just more than I want to tackle currently. So, I had a long think, then went looking and found, in Latvia or somewhere over there, a set of adapters to go from 5x5" to 5x4.75" which will make my Caddy into Chevy/BMW fit. And I have LOADS of wheels that size with different offsets, so maybe I can have a play and find something that'll fit for now and still look good. In the meantime (SIX WEEKS!) while waiting on those I did the long overdue trans lube change.  Erm, yeah.  Cleaned that up  I really like how GM thought this through as well...  And by the magic of television forum posts, the spacers are now here. Wheel Trials!  No  No  No  Nooo..maybe? Fixed the very annoying broken check strap on the Bini AND sunk several hours into the door latch because the central locking didn't work on the drivers side either. The alarm would set and the other door locked but because the drivers door nub then didn't retract, I managed to open the door and set off the alarm EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. So I changed it.  Now the Mini is better as it also doesn't try to amputate me every time I get out. The Mini is my daily now because the E91 is a dirtbag and broke down too much (see 2 posts up) so between the Mini Cabrio during the week and the Camaro at the weekends I have almost got a functional fleet. But neither are any good as a work car or for carrying anything or in any way useful and I am trying to rebuild a house at the minute so I need a diesel estate in working order... re-enter the MG ZT-T CDTi. Why am I not using it? Well, it made way for the BMW E91 as the MG had an MOT coming up, and a brake caliper started to seize up. Not for the first time - actually the same one that was previously replaced. And ZTs are notoriously under-braked anyway, and I have a spare ZT 190 (that's the early V6) which had mahoosive brakes on them, sooo... Fast forward to May. A very small task (I'm being sarcastic, it took ages) to get the 190 out of the field, wherein it was stuck. After trying to drive it out (noooo) I ended up pulling it out with my little tractor, with whom I am well pleased...  It was tough enough getting the brakes off with fairly rusty bolts and not much space to get at them  And after all that... it turns out that some tube has replaced the front brakes on this 190 with the standard small ones!  The black discs are some new 190 ones I ordered a while back for my "good" 190 which needs a bit of love too. It needs brakes, some suspension bits refreshed, and a full paintjob. So in the meantime the new discs can go on the blue ZTT. So my donor brakes are too small. Well, the rears are at least correct, and had been replaced with new calipers previously so they are very fresh. The front calipers, well they are BMW 330d ones turned upside down, so actually right now I have some of those "in stock". The carriers are not the same though, I tried...  BMW 330 carriers do NOT fit! So I asked on the MG FB pages and got a set of carriers ordered. Once they are here, I can build up a set of 190 brakes on my diesel tourer, and will have a reliable daily chugger again that maybe, this time, will actually be able to stop! (Genuinely the brakes on these things are quite poor and with a heavy diesel estate that's driven fast, often loaded up or with a trailer on, the brake upgrade is a necessity.) And then the penny dropped. I won't be able to fit my 16" winter wheels over the big brakes, so now I need to put the 18"s back on. So I also need four 18" tyres for the "cheap" parts-hauler. Sigh. |
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...And so I became the custodian of a Super Estelle 120LSE. Perenial item #1 on my dream car list.  I mean no disrespect, this just came to mind, partly because my dream cars have all been priced into the stratosphere. Congratulations! |
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Oct 14, 2023 14:22:04 GMT
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So I asked on the MG FB pages and got a set of carriers ordered. Once they are here, I can build up a set of 190 brakes on my diesel tourer, and will have a reliable daily chugger again that maybe, this time, will actually be able to stop! Well it turned out that Tom Force, a well known specialist in mG circles, was very happy to take my money but not send anything. Thankfully I was able to successfully claim my money back but that soured things especially as the admin of that particular MG group decided to cover for him. So the MG remains small-braked.  It had also been down on power and very smoky for a while. It would not rev past 3k while under load, but was fine when sitting still. I pulled the manifold off (again), having already put a set of injectors into it a few months ago, because to change the MAP sensor, it is a manifold-off job. When I got in there, expecting it to be blocked with soot, it was absolutely fine. So it was all bolted back together without the new MAP sensor, and as I refitted parts, I noticed this:  Yeah that would do it! Fitted one from one of the spares cars and it immediately was 75% better. It's still not perfect, there is still the smallest bit of hesitation in it. That was there before but it feels more noticeable now. I don't know what it is but it feels exactly like sticking turbo vanes. They've been checked numerous times but I may just get to the point of doing a hybrid turbo swap in it. Also it needed a small patch on the sill for MOT - first time this 2004 car has needed any welding! So that was the MG sorted. Other than put two new tyres on the rear... and then one went flat, so it's rocking about on one of the 18" wheels I'd taken off last year - the only one of those which was still holding air. Classy look. Next job on this carousel was the Camaro. What a nightmare. Some plank had repaired the ally inlet manifold with some chemical metal in the past and it one day decided to just launch itself out and a big gap opened up, sending a stream of rust coloured coolant all over the engine bay.  State of this. It's a nice easy job. The carb has to come off. Lots of plugs and a wiring harness to move out of the way. All the coolant hoses of course. And the distributor...  I did not fancy a timing job, so lots of careful marking before that happened. Of course marking it on the inlet mani was pointless, so it was marking reference points on the car body etc to make sure it went back exactly as it was. Which left the job of the manifold itself...  What a pig. Loads of difficult to access, very stuck bolts. Should have been 9/16ths but some were not, so a variety of 12-14mm sockets and spanners were also employed. I had a choice to make. An in-situ repair to the manifold had been thought about for 15 seconds, but if it was already cracked and corroded, who knew how bad it was internally - and how long that would last anyway? So a replacement - either a good original, or maybe an upgrade? Upgrade ones were more expensive as all new, and there were some choices of performance types, but after dilly-dallying for a bit, a used Edelbrock Performer came up on ebay and I snagged that. |
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Oct 16, 2023 20:19:34 GMT
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A short glamping break 300 miles away beckoned and I could only think of one car suitable for that kind of trip. So with the inlet manifold and new gaskets arrived, I started putting things together again. I got the carb on. I got the dizzy back into place. All the wiring threaded back into place, all the hoses - until it came to the thermostat housing. A piece of chrome tat, it would not for the life of me seal to the mani. I tried a variety of sealants and glues and anything else I could think of. Look how happy the Camaro is to be getting fixed...  At one point I was cleaning off the mating surface of the thermostat housing (yet) again and I though, this feels very ergonomic. I looked at it funny, then put it on my flat workbench... and noticed it was MASSIVELY bowed. So yeah as I said, some absolute tat.  With no time to spare mucking about, I absolutely lathered the thing in instant gasket and pressed it on. Amazingly this time it held tight and no coolant came spilling out. But then I noticed there was no way to get the temp sensor in. As standard it's quite far away but on this Edelbrock, its right next to the stat housing, and sits right underneath where the hoses meets it. I've no pictures of this faff really as it was dark and I was in get-it-done mode, but after more mucking about and looking for bolts with the right thread pitch (no chance!), I extended the wiring for the temp sensor, and ran it to the side of one of the heads where there is another factory position for it, as, of course, the SBC was used in thirteen billion different models. After that I took a spare coolant hose connector that had very fortunately come with the used edelbrock, and after taking a deep breath, sliced it apart. It was the only thing the right diameter and thread to fit the now vacant temp sensor hole.  And then I plugged it with the welder  So now I had myself a "core plug" so to speak.  I could have made it prettier but I was just happy all the coolant was staying inside the engine. Well, actually, one of the welds was slightly porous so the next morning I had to take it all apart again, re-weld it, and re-seal the t-stat housing again...  Finally, good? Erm, one day to go, and I'll just re-fit the instruments I took apart last month to investigate why they are acting so funny...  Yes, that is at 2500rpm while the car is switched off. When it's idling, it shows 7000rpm. And then the temp sensor absolutely died, so that was pointless. So, sort of together, I filled the boot of the 'maro with tools and spares and set off for home with the excitement and dread of a 300 mile trip the next morning. How far do you think I got? Yes, that's right. 3 miles. The brakes seized. It took me an hour to free off the front right caliper, whereupon I took it back to work and got into the Mini Cabrio. |
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Oct 16, 2023 20:32:39 GMT
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On the way back from that trip, the Mini starting spluttering at various different rev intervals, and so it got parked at work, and I went back to the one reliable ever-present car I have at the moment:  A while ago I found a set of Style 216 motorsport wheels from an E90 320si and popped them on to the E46 and I have done nothing else to it except the odd bit of servicing. So of course being ultra reliable and decent to drive means I've got bored of it and put it up for sale. (actually I'm trying to thin out, and while it's not quite surplus, it is one car that might actually sell) What is not selling is my Alfa 156 V6 wagon. It's been languishing for too long and it was time to see what state it was really in.   Eugh! This was a rust free car up until recently so this was shocking. But that definitely put it into project realm and I knocked it up for sale just above frag territory and hopefully that will go. I had a look under the Impreza too and it's not quite so bad but needs other things and I have reluctantly put it up for sale too - will see how that goes. The white Skoda Felicia I had hoped to maybe one day do something with was consigned to the "get rid" pile and the easiest way to do that was dump it on a trailer and weigh it in. Yeah, life sucks when you don't have anywhere near enough time or resources to devote to cars you like!! So what to drive? Well the E46 is still on the go. I got PX'd an X5  But then my uncles car broke down, so he has the X5. I had a look around and alighted on the MG estate again. Right, we'll get that sorted and through an MOT! One patch welded up, tyres changed, all the junk inside it moved to another car for now, and a nice easy... fail..! That is inconvenient! Oh well, how important are brake pipes anyway? It'll have to do for now..! |
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Oct 21, 2023 14:53:29 GMT
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I had a look around and alighted on the MG estate again. Right, we'll get that sorted and through an MOT! One patch welded up, tyres changed, all the junk inside it moved to another car for now, and a nice easy... fail..! That is inconvenient! Oh well, how important are brake pipes anyway? It'll have to do for now..! So the MG brake pipe fail was quickly resolved. The MOT tester had said they were "absolutely stinking", but 15 minutes up on the lift with a bit of sandpaper had them looking like new. They weren't even pitted or corroded, they just had some flaky underseal on them. Rubbed that back, got a re-test, and sent it through. I drove it straight over to my uncle and gave him that, taking back the rumbly X5. So, you would think I could just drive around in the X5 for a while, right? NO! I got one point five days use out of it before a rear suspension airbag let go and it slowly sank to the floor! OK, what to do with that? Fix it? No, it is tatty and not worth my time. I am being extremely ruthless at the minute with cars and I am being very precious about my spare time. I am not going to waste it fixing some rubbish while my "nice" cars do not get any attention and I haven't attempted or finished a restoration for several years. So the X5 got abandoned in the garden. For about an hour, and then a great situation arose. The black Discovery that had a FTP (failure to proceed) 18 months ago was also abandoned in the garden and looking pretty untidy with 2 flat wheels. Someone rang up needing a propshaft so I let them take the one off that, and having carved out an afternoon with a mate to do some car shifting at work, I got him to come over to the house with his TDV8 RRS and drag the D2 out of the garden. It came out surprisingly easy, but then was too heavy to winch on to his trailer. So... the X5 got rammed (in reverse) into the back of the D2 (I mean gently squeezed lol) and I oushed the D2 onto the trailer so it could be carted off to a more suitable location where there are big forklifts, so it can be taken apart. The 4 Discovery's I have are all essentially breakers now and have been coming apart reasonably well but I haven't been able to sell any heavy mechanicals yet as they aren't in the right places for disassembly... until now. So the question returned, of what to drive! and I went back to the one reliable ever-present car I have at the moment I said this about the E46 coupe. I took the Style 216 wheels off it to advertise it, and put some MV3s on it (the standard 18" Msport wheel) and one of them waited until I was 15 miles away from work to then go flat overnight. No spare wheel or air line there. Bah! Next option was to drive an E34 I had bought (for the 4th time) in work. But that was rotten and terrible to drive in the rain, which of course it decided to do. We'd had a couple of fairly dry-ish weeks, but the one day I took the E34, it lashed torrentially, so that was miserable. Any other options? I started looking for a car to buy but that seemed really stupid. Oh, why am I, I pondered, considering spending £3k for another runabout, instead of investing an hour or two into the Mini that is sitting right outside my door at work? I hadn't touched it since the long drive it got a couple of weeks back: On the way back from that trip, the Mini starting spluttering at various different rev intervals, and so it got parked at work So I did the easy option and threw another set of plug leads at it. The plugs all looked good - a couple slightly oily, but not anything like what a Mini can look like, and off I went. The leads didn't solve it, and I noticed that the car felt sluggish in general, and low on power. A good investigation revealed a uniform ~150psi/~10bar compression, clean, good plugs, and nothing out of place. However the airbox didn't look right and for some reason the lid wasn't screwed down. My next move was to see if the throttle body was dirty and jammed so that seemed the ideal time to rip all out and that's what I did. In doing so, I found, on the underside of the intake hose, that it looked complete but was actually really badly cracked. Like really badly:  So, I wonder, could that explain why it runs fine at idle, but struggles under load (when there would be a vacuum pressure causing it to open up those gaps..? What do you guys think? The vacuum line to the throttle body was also replaced, and the TB cleaned up (it was slightly dirty inside but nothing concerning). |
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dikkehemaworst
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Feb 20, 2024 22:16:33 GMT
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Feb 24, 2024 20:02:17 GMT
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Sure. Let's start with this: It was tight enough, time wise and space wise, but here we are, all moved...  So yes the eagle-eyed (or bleary-eyed) among you will recognise that as the same yard that the first few pages of this thread depict. A decade has passed but I am back. Back in the old family home. Now it wasn't supposed to be quite like this. This has taken up ALL of my mental capacity. Due to... "circumstances"... I have to vacate this house and land, and that also means forgetting about over a year of renovation work. I don't have many photos from the past wintery months. So just some words. In November I got REALLY sick of not having a decent car to enjoy, and I bought another Impreza. A really nice, clean, rust free 2000 Turbo 2000 in Mica Blue. I enjoyed all the boost on the way home until the fuel line popped off going up a steep hill in Gloucestershire on the way home - in the pitch black. When I got back from that weekend jaunt to England, my mate asked me if I was interested in: and having carved out an afternoon with a mate to do some car shifting at work, I got him to come over to the house with his TDV8 RRS and drag the D2 out of the garden. Yes I had been looking for a few months longingly at Range Rover Sports. I was unwilling to chance one as they are frightfully unreliable, but one from a mate who had been using it daily for a while, which had already had the turbos and gearbox changed, which was a good price, which had a full year MOT (after he had the sills welded up!) ... that was more palatable. So I had to wait a couple of weeks for him to sort his replacement daily car out, but I ended up with a black Range Rover with heated black leather and this became the perfect winter daily car for me, and also extremely useful as I ended up buying out another car dismantler in November/December, and had a huge amount of cars to shift. So the Range Rover is still my daily car at the end of February, despite the 21mpg (ouch!). The Impreza ran out of MOT because I concentrated on buying a rust free one, even with only 1 month of MOT left. And my backup car is the red E46 coupe, which is still working 100% and never needs anything except servicing. It has been advertised for sale but nobody has come to see it, and I am OK with that. So that's it. Nothing has progressed with any of the other cars. The Camaro has been waiting on the front brakes to be rebuilt since October (still slowly ongoing) and then it will be put into storage maybe, or used. But everything right now is concentrating on moving. My big dilemma is: do I downsize my cars? And if I do - which ones do I let go? The biggest projects are some of the Skodas - and the most valuable are also the Skodas, surprisingly! The S110R and the Cabrio in particular - but they also some of my favourites. But, when you need a house, and the housing market is very strong, and you are self employed and can't get a mortgage, when you are pressed into a corner - what gives first? |
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dikkehemaworst
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Feb 25, 2024 12:23:39 GMT
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For me cars, sad but true.
I've sold all my cars to fund our pub.
No loans to be had , as a self employed , so i finance everything myself, and spent it within a circle of other self employed people , with a lot of " I owe you's.
A stable place to live in is more important than a hobby.
Weird maybe, but when all my cars were gone, it also lifted a weight off my shoulders.
I have my dauphine left, my worksvan, my '85 merc e200 as a daily for the missus and a seicento as a ... dunno exactly, but it was cheap on facebook marketplace, and i love it.
Sorry for your 'circumstances'
really hate them in my life
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dikkehemaworst
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May 19, 2024 12:09:57 GMT
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Sept 17, 2024 11:07:40 GMT
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when you are pressed into a corner - what gives first? Cars, of course. One day I parked the red E46 coupe at work and immediately lost the key. Months later, it still hasn't been found. That was April, just before it's MOT ran up. So I elected to call time on it - not that there was anything wrong with it at all, but there HAS to be a purge. That purge kept going all summer. The overhaul of the Iveco work truck was sidelined then dropped - we will cope without it as well. The Cadillac was moved into long term storage. There's a high probability it will not come back out of there in one piece. The Camaro is STILL on a lift at work - brakes rebuilt but much rust discovered. Thanks to some previous "repairs" done during it's time in England it is now a long term project and has been living in my work workshop for way, way too long. The Impreza joined it on the lift for some rust repairs - not serious as far as Imprezas go, but still, best get in there early. Also awaiting the new suspension I bought for it to replace the absolute junk coilovers it was afflicted with when I purchased. In the meantime I drove the Range Rover Sport despite lots of issues with it popping up now and again, because Range Rover. In May, bought a Skoda Yeti for my mum to replace the aging BMW X3, and spent a few weeks getting the Yeti "just so" for her. Swapped over with her before summer, then I drove the X3 for a week or so. Then I gave that to a lady I know so she would stop towing her horsebox with an old Mondeo. Also then dailied another BMW E91 320d Msport, in blue this time, which had previously had an ECU repair and then one day just refused to start for me. Two days later it worked again, for one day, then stopped again. I decided to not spend any time worrying about that and have since scrapped it too. The Ducato van has been going great and flew through an MOT but just this week the clutch has went, knocking that out of action. And lastly the Mini Cabrio is still on the go although it was part of the cull and was up for sale. It's spoken for now and will go to a new owner in a few weeks. I bought one new car, which I don't ahve any good photos of yet. And I sold one of the cars on my "list". I've had to rethink and rethink my wishlist of cars and whittle it down,and whittle down what I can keep of my current fleet, and it's not a pretty sight as I really get ruthless with what I can keep and cannot. So the Fiat had to go.  |
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