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Shiny new MOT on the BMW 530d 

Well a few advisories, so not that shiny really, but a pass is a pass! 

Well, the MOT is new and shiny, even if the car perhaps isn't in some areas - always a good feeling


Much concern with the advisories?

Nothing I wasn't aware of, a couple of chips in the windscreen (but not in the field of vision), rear tyres wearing on the inner edge, slight play in the front ball joints and 'steering arms deformed but serviceable' which is my seized and knackered front track rods. 

I was going to get a new set of tyres for winter, went get to it aligned as I knew the rears were scrubbing on the edges, but they couldn't shift the front track rods. Took it to my local garage and they couldn't shift them either and then couldn't fit me in to fit new ones for a couple of weeks, but I was going away, so it's turned into a bit of a saga! 

Yes, lots of older people use Saga when they go away.

Is it true they do good deals Uncle STEMO?

They don't do deals to North Yorkshire, and that's as far as I get these days 

Shiny new MOT on the BMW 530d 

Well a few advisories, so not that shiny really, but a pass is a pass! 

Well, the MOT is new and shiny, even if the car perhaps isn't in some areas - always a good feeling


Much concern with the advisories?

Nothing I wasn't aware of, a couple of chips in the windscreen (but not in the field of vision), rear tyres wearing on the inner edge, slight play in the front ball joints and 'steering arms deformed but serviceable' which is my seized and knackered front track rods. 

I was going to get a new set of tyres for winter, went get to it aligned as I knew the rears were scrubbing on the edges, but they couldn't shift the front track rods. Took it to my local garage and they couldn't shift them either and then couldn't fit me in to fit new ones for a couple of weeks, but I was going away, so it's turned into a bit of a saga! 

Yes, lots of older people use Saga when they go away.

Is it true they do good deals Uncle STEMO?

Nothing a strip of gaffer tape wont put right. 

Stirrers from McDongals and some spray foam will soon see it sorted

Sadly not satisfactorily, the nose is in a bad way, as not only is it crumpled, but its obviously had a chat with the prop during the incident....   ...which helps explain the prop damage.

Normally, I'd have superglued all that foam back together "enough" to continue and chuck it back in the air, but a) I didn't take any glue with me, b) there isn't enough solid EPO left in the nose - its crumpled badly, not obvious in photo.

As we say in the flying community when and EPO plane has a big one, snow everywhere.


I could probably repair it to an extent on the workbench but the nose would remain fragile, but the entire airframe is only £50, it's not worth the effort.  All the electronics, servos, motors etc have survived.

The idiot that hit the drivers door of the RRS this morning whilst I was parked in Morrisons, made an almighty noise & I expected to see my door caved in, but no hardly a mark couldn't believe it, the front of his 17 reg Vauxhall hadn't fared so well though lots of cracked plastic, he was very apologetic . Told him I wasn't bothered about a tiny bit of his gold paint on my door ( it's gone now magic of Tcut)

Avis

Doing a bit of a road trip for my 48 hours in Portland as positioning afforded me the luxury of not working to get there. Car pre-booked, a Camry because they're comfy and economical but big enough to take a whack or two. Touch less pick up, so find my name on the screen and go to the allocated bay...

Greeted by a Honda Minivan

To their credit, they did swiftly offer a Grand Cherokee for no charge. Which was nice.

Nothing a strip of gaffer tape wont put right. 

Stirrers from McDongals and some spray foam will soon see it sorted

A mate of mine is doing an EV conversion on an old Morris Minor based post office van.

The one I saw the other week was a green Morris Minor van, with the blue smoke, so not electric!

Nice to hear that some have survived in any form, even though, if they were like my A40, they should be a pile of rust by now

Battery fires smoke like a chimney 

Shiny new MOT on the BMW 530d 

Well a few advisories, so not that shiny really, but a pass is a pass! 

Well, the MOT is new and shiny, even if the car perhaps isn't in some areas - always a good feeling


Much concern with the advisories?

Nothing I wasn't aware of, a couple of chips in the windscreen (but not in the field of vision), rear tyres wearing on the inner edge, slight play in the front ball joints and 'steering arms deformed but serviceable' which is my seized and knackered front track rods. 

I was going to get a new set of tyres for winter, went get to it aligned as I knew the rears were scrubbing on the edges, but they couldn't shift the front track rods. Took it to my local garage and they couldn't shift them either and then couldn't fit me in to fit new ones for a couple of weeks, but I was going away, so it's turned into a bit of a saga! 

Yes, lots of older people use Saga when they go away.

I've decided it was time for more electricity for it.

Actually, my first van at British Smellycom was a Morris with an A series.

What memories!

None of them good when it came to that piece of shit rotbox.