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My other daily, with a touch of the Mike Brewers about it ;)
- Thread starter Djw John
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Clio 172 Cup
+20 awesome points for that! cheers for the link, ill give it a bash.
No worries mate, took me a couple of attempts to get it good but anything was better than nothing!
DC2 TypeR / E36 328i
Love threads like these 
Good turn around mate
Had a play with the night panel button yet?
Good turn around mateHad a play with the night panel button yet?
Cheers mate, yeah have done, just a wee gimmick, dunno if anyone uses it all the time!
Took a quick pic of the beading last night with the flash on!
And went bought new plates, with the fittings it came to £14
Before
Side by side
And the new one fitted
And yes it was getting quite dark! But I persevered!
The front wasn't so bad but it wouldn't match and it would bug me, even though I'll be selling it soon
And I've yet to find a car that doesn't look better without a front plate
And finally, in basically pitch black conditions I got the front one on
Better pics to follow tomorrow, which will probably be the for sale pics
Cheers
John
And went bought new plates, with the fittings it came to £14
Before
Side by side
And the new one fitted
And yes it was getting quite dark! But I persevered!
The front wasn't so bad but it wouldn't match and it would bug me, even though I'll be selling it soon
And I've yet to find a car that doesn't look better without a front plate
And finally, in basically pitch black conditions I got the front one on
Better pics to follow tomorrow, which will probably be the for sale pics
Cheers
John
Saab is sold to my dad! Taking his rover in part ex but that'll be up for sale asap
Last pics for now, parked outside work so a terrible location!
Ill put some rover pics in here when I get it later on
John
to my dad! Taking his rover in part ex but that'll be up for sale asapLast pics for now, parked outside work so a terrible location!
Ill put some rover pics in here when I get it later on
John
Lol nice one mate, did you make a small profit, brewer style?
You planning on doing the same with the Rover?
You planning on doing the same with the Rover?
Yeah I'd really started to like it actually, swapped it for the rover today and it's some come down!
Last 2 pics of the Saab, just interior ones
And now for the rover. Sigh.
Dont need to get so many parts for this but gonna see when it last had an oil change etc and may or may not do all that jazz.
Last 2 pics of the Saab, just interior ones
And now for the rover. Sigh.
Dont need to get so many parts for this but gonna see when it last had an oil change etc and may or may not do all that jazz.
Lol I see it as a warning! Used to have an e21 323 and a mk2 , now it's all gone wrong!
Ha yeah a bit but at the same I'm glad to have finished it off! Poor car is going back to a life of hell!
So I cleaned out the rover fail16 today. Figured if I was using it till it sold I didn't want to catch anything from it!
Firstly I filled one of those charity bags that come through the door with the rubbish
And then cleaned the glass and plastics. Whilst doing this I noticed the glue that had held on a confederate flag when he got it was still there. At least the badge wasn't!
Its lifted a bit of the varnish of the genuine plastic walnut but am I f**k replacing that!
So then cracked out the Hoover, ag shampoo and the stiff brush and got cracking, slowly and without motivation, knowing the best I'd end with was grey velour, grey plastic and plastic wood
Turned it into
And
When I got it yesterday my dad told me to not hang about getting home, why's that I asked? Because neither headlight bulb works!! For actual f***s sake. So that's a fiver been put into it, hopefully won't be much more!
Was thinking of putting it up between £450-£500 thoughts?
Cheers
John
Firstly I filled one of those charity bags that come through the door with the rubbish
And then cleaned the glass and plastics. Whilst doing this I noticed the glue that had held on a confederate flag when he got it was still there. At least the badge wasn't!
Its lifted a bit of the varnish of the genuine plastic walnut but am I f**k replacing that!
So then cracked out the Hoover, ag shampoo and the stiff brush and got cracking, slowly and without motivation, knowing the best I'd end with was grey velour, grey plastic and plastic wood
Turned it into
And
When I got it yesterday my dad told me to not hang about getting home, why's that I asked? Because neither headlight bulb works!! For actual f***s sake. So that's a fiver been put into it, hopefully won't be much more!
Was thinking of putting it up between £450-£500 thoughts?
Cheers
John
Thankfully it was still light enough to get away with sidelights!
MOT till start of May, tax till end of june and 75k. Getting another mot shouldnt be much of a hassle I think so could up it to 12 months but then it is another £50 away.
MOT till start of May, tax till end of june and 75k. Getting another mot shouldnt be much of a hassle I think so could up it to 12 months but then it is another £50 away.
Yeah fair point. The saab grew on me and I think would've sold quite easily but this? This thing?! Needs to be someone who just doesnt care about cars. And its a decent example of one, why anyone bought one new is beyond me!
And again it would seem
I'll leave it till the rover is gone since that's the new daily. Not for long though!
Rover sold today no more wheeling and dealing for me. For now.
no more wheeling and dealing for me. For now.
Aye, kept me busy and the 2 cars pay for my timing belt change and a bit so I'm happy with that!!
So after 18 months my Dad managed to comprehensively kill it.
He ran it out of diesel at least 3 times, drove around with under-inflated bald tyres until they popped, the space saver must've done thousands of miles and the oil only got topped up if I had it for some reason.
What really did it though is that he doesn't slow down for speedbumps. This eventually caused one of steering rack mounts to fail. Well when I say fail I mean fucked the bulkhead. So there was 90 degrees of steering wheel movement when driving. That was interesting for sure. He still drove it around like that for a bit which annoyed me but then he got pulled over. Mostly because the rear plate had fallen off on a hot day and he threw it in the boot. He was very lucky that he only got done for the tax disc not being on display. He could easily have had 3-6 points for his tyres.
Anyway it really wasn't worth fixing so it was time for it to go
He ran it out of diesel at least 3 times, drove around with under-inflated bald tyres until they popped, the space saver must've done thousands of miles and the oil only got topped up if I had it for some reason.
What really did it though is that he doesn't slow down for speedbumps. This eventually caused one of steering rack mounts to fail. Well when I say fail I mean fucked the bulkhead. So there was 90 degrees of steering wheel movement when driving. That was interesting for sure. He still drove it around like that for a bit which annoyed me but then he got pulled over. Mostly because the rear plate had fallen off on a hot day and he threw it in the boot. He was very lucky that he only got done for the tax disc not being on display. He could easily have had 3-6 points for his tyres.
Anyway it really wasn't worth fixing so it was time for it to go
BTW that massive battery- tenner for scrap, told you it was huge!
