Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[VXL V6]

Its turn is coming soonish. Service, cambelt, aux. belt, rear donut bushes, and some other stuff.... unless I come across a CL500 or Boxster that takes my fancy in the meantime.

you don't want none of that German rubbish
oh wait   

[Nick W]

Its turn is coming soonish. Service, cambelt, aux. belt, rear donut bushes, and some other stuff.... unless I come across a CL500 or Boxster that takes my fancy in the meantime.

you don't want none of that German rubbish
oh wait 

working on either of those will make you think the Omega is a paragon of maintenance friendly engineering and reliability.....

[Doctor Gollum]

Mechanically, the Merc is pretty nice to work on... electrically however...

[Rangie]

Just checked tyre pressures on both of them + all oils screenwash etc not getting much use at present as I am on 12 weeks isolation , so both tucked up away in the garage nice & shiny.

[YZ250]

Found a bloody great split on the inside wall of the front tyre on the big German when carrying out routine checks. Luckily I never drive fast as it could have got messy.   
That's another £200 down the shitter. Local tyre place is closed due to the virus so it can sit on the drive until they re-open, or I find an alternative tyre place. Not in any hurry though as I've got the other German as a spare car if I need to go anywhere. Although in saying that, I don't really need/want to go anywhere during the lockdown.

[dave the builder]

disconnected the batteries off the oldies cars 
as they are grounded anyway 

[YZ250]

I also found out that the Germans like to 'carpet' the underside of their cars from front to back. Each section overlaps the next one for aerodynamics and you can't see shit for all of the covers. It's a sea of carpet covered plastic. You lay underneath and it's like looking at the underside of a Dinky toy.  I even had to buy an adapter for my trolley jack so that it fits in the jacking points, as there is literally nowhere to put the jack pad or axle stands without removing covers.
I get the impression that they're trying to deter the DIY enthusiast.   

[Doctor Gollum]

Started stripping it. Partly out of curiosity, and partly because I can. It's had a complete interior change at some point, which is a surprise... They left a foot square of the original carpet under the centre console.

Not sure if I will replace it with another or simply anything else...

[Raeturbo]

Strip it now you’ve got time, and sell the bits should make a few bob.

[mantaray]

Washed mine for the first time in weeks.

[Doctor Gollum]

Strip it now you’ve got time, and sell the bits should make a few bob.

If the V5 ever arrives...

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Cleaned bird shit off it.....again.

[TheBoy]

Located the Battlebus, and put it on the drive

[Doctor Gollum]

Located the Battlebus, and put it on the drive

That's ominous...

What has it replaced?

[dave the builder]

Located the Battlebus, and put it on the drive

That's ominous...

What has it replaced?

it's so he can look poor when he goes to the food bank to collect beanz 
Harrods can't deliver for 3 weeks