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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 23 May 2024, 15:54:03 »Some pop rivets and a tube of Tiger seal should put it right.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315373895676?
Had Trumptons been playing with jaws of life again 🤣
Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
Some pop rivets and a tube of Tiger seal should put it right.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315373895676?
Went to look at and bought a temporary car pending fixing the S Class properly.
Working MK1 facelift Bini Cooper with almost 6 months MoT.
Needs a few bits addressing, but actually drives quite well for what it is.
Sought after classic Vauxhall due on 9th June.Less than the road tax on the
The Mexican coupe due on 15th June.
I'm hoping I can insure the pair for less than £500 if I shop around.classic Vauxhallancient sigmund
Roughly £730 for the Signum when taken in 12 monthly payments, and £600 due for second year road tax for the Bavarian.....If memory serves the first year was around £1400.
Thank goodness for our resident storeman
The Insignificant engine is a pita as the filter is at the back right-hand corner of the engine and officially requires a special funnel to get the oil to drain cleanly when the filter is removed... It's almost a subframe out job*. Sucking the oil out doesn't correct the stupid design.,,
It's not quite that bad, but the filter cap is buried in the depths of Narnia.
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Changing the oil+filter is interesting, if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough, .....
you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer
I thought that wishbones that had the harder polly bushes fitted had a tendency to crack