Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Thanks for the write-up NH - must have felt a bit "what I did on my holidays" but it was a great read.

Sorry about the air-con fault - very embarrassed about that, it's booked in to have the whole in-cabin section of the system stripped out and the fault found.

I've also requested the (much) thicker IPD rear ARB be put on at the same time.

Tyre wise the largest you can go with these cars (with rolled arches) is 235/40/17, for which I'd need those BBS rims.

Cruise control - this is a funny system, it's vacuum operated, and as it's a cable-throttle it works by moving the pedal up and down.

If you turn the cruise on using the slider on the stalk nothing will happen - likely the car will start to slow. What you have to do is hold the switch on the end of the stalk in the "All ahead full!" position until the throttle opens without you pressing it down - that means that you've just moved the cruise speed past whatever speed you were doing.

You can now use "Flank speed!"/"Reverse engines!" commands to fine tune the speed.

Any pressure on the brake or accelerator pedal cancels cruise, and you need to re-enable it by sliding the switch to off, then on again.

I use it infrequently but it is fun in an old school way.

Nice MG for sale, green, good runner, bits of trim occasionally fall off, only one set of keys. Currently garaged in Brixton, looking for quick sale, must go in the next two weeks. Any reasonable offer considered. No dibs, cash is king.

I'll swap it for an oz of hash?

Ha. Cautious lady owner...

See I remember the cruise working last time I borrowed it and it being a funny system to get it going but I just couldn't get it going this time. It was probably for the best as I might have fallen asleep on a couple of the longer motorway stretches.

Please don't feel bad about the aircon, stuff happens, I was just insanely glad that you let me borrow it for such a great trip. I'm very used to roadside maintenance and diagnosis and I'm really not the type to just give up and abandon a trip due to a small issue.

For example on this trip to the Highlands the list of things that were fixed on the roadside or in car parks on different cars:

Brake pad replacement
Bleeding brake fluid
Supercharger belt tensioner (this was an extremely lucky catch)
Bumper re-attached
Loose and broken undertray re-secured
Front splitter re-attached

And a split manifold was diagnosed and ignored

Any pics?

Here's one...

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Noddy and Big Ears...

Nice.

Ah, midget. Or very big people.

I've got a similar one from Knockhill with my mate in the passenger seat

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bentley bentayga, anyone?

It'll do very well in the Middle East.

Just had to clear up by dinner from the keyboard. That is ransid. Its like a tata and a jinsin motors winging winds unwanted lovechild

It looks like a Chinese copy already.

Urgh. Money can buy taste and happiness but not if you drive one of those.

They're not meant for people with taste.

Porsche is back from HP motorsport, with a new alternator. Hopefully this means no more running out of electricity. They claim to have fixed my dodgy front boot release too.
We shall see...

Doesn't your reader show the voltage that the alternator is throwing out?

Anyone want to try a bluetooth ELM327 on their car. Connects to the bluetooth on an android, and windows phone but doesn't read codes. So want to check if its the car.

Yes. I got 13.6. They got 12.4. Clearly it was a bit variable.

Glorious race liveried early 911 burbling infront of me round RP this am. Almost worth half a lap full of race fuel in my lungs. 😀

Jesus wept. The roof line!