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

Looks like a design student’s rendered image

It’s a rendering but it’s from actual PSA design studio

That was cool, they should have made the IDX.

The interior of that pug rendering is very nice though. Need more blue velour in cars.

I very nearly bought a 505 recently that had blue velour... It was super cool.

Renault offered to buy my trophy back

Blasphemy! You can't sell that!

If renault are offering that....

I've had a Citan for a few years, having had increasing size vehicles for years. Check out the insurance prices before going too far with a van purchase. Otherwise the Citan is a great version of the Kangoo.

Land Rover make a great one. My dad had one (mounted on lots of different cars but never a LR) and you could do pull ups on it - really strong. Made of box section steel. integrated lock too

Cheers.

Was that one the bikes sat on or hung from?

Have you looked at the fiorino or the dublo? Dublo are cheap too.

the spindle on one of the front wipers seized up and subsequently stripped the wiper motor and fritzed the light switch in the process. just south of 1100 notez to put right.

fuck.

Jesus

most of it's on labour - they have to remove the entire dash just to access the fucked motor.

on the upside, it's the first time i've had to replace anything on it in 3 odd years.

that licks dicks. could be worse.

on the subject of dashboards, look at the new race dash layout (in awesome crackleblack!):

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Looking good. Anti-glare dash pad for the top?

I’m absolutely in love with the sound of my exhaust system, even if it’s already attracted some unwanted attention from the cops.

I’m sort of coming to terms with the fact that my quest for more power might lead me to a JDM STI as it’s a far cheaper way of getting an engine with forged internals and a 6 speed box...

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Leather top and a little foam crash pad

Looks nice!

That’s not my car, btw

Are any of you dudes near Falkirk?

I managed to get a few days at home over the past weekend so managed to make a bit of progress on the Polo.

Having sill stands has become really useful being able to get the car half a metre off the floor. I spent most of the weekend under the car stripping underseal off it and brushing out any surface rust and treating it with bilt hamber.

I also got chance mock up the seat, shifter, handbrake(s) and pedal box properly for the first time. The type of pedal box i went with was a bit of a gamble but it looks like it's going to work really well with my seat position

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I'd noticed the lack of that excellent green colour

I'm quite close. 50 minutes away. How come?

I might need your help with a part. Dude will deliver locally but not post.

Ok. Let me know.

My step Dad works in Stirling so he could meet him if needed.

Has anyone bought a compressor recently?

I need something compact just to run a my shot blaster periodically, and maybe a spray gun for spot priming areas that have been blasted.

Shot blaster needs 3.5CFM which i think means the minimum compressor spec should be 3.5x1.2 so 4.2CFM. Most i've seen are 9.6CFM, 2.5hp with various sized tanks