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

I was wondering about this, 17 is pretty big and I'm not very comfortable buying before I see what it's gonna look like... Especially as it's a purely aesthetic decision... I'm gonna go to a big tyre/wheel shed that stocks Sunraysias this weekend to try get a better idea of what's what...

Tap and die sets, do I buy a budget £16 set from screwfix, or should I pay extra for the CK/Teng tools ones - £46, £68 respectively.

Going to have a crack at the Jazz's cat and exhaust replacement tomorrow and reckon there'll be thread chasing needing done.

If you're just chasing threads the cheap ones should be fine. If you're cutting new threads, it's a different story.

i have found the older, worn ones much better for chasing out threads.

Aye, just a backup for chasing threads if needs be. Cheers.

that Galaxie is ace. like the rear light clusters too but love the vertical twins on the front. good spots dude

We've got a Prius in the workshop needing a new cat. It's been 10 months since we fitted the previous one. The same as last time the car was less than a metre from the front door of the house.

Plz don’t tell me dis :(

It’s going to be parked 12m up a muddy driveway from now on anyway. Hopefully that’ll help. It’s out of sight from the street and jacking it on the mud/crap should be enough of a deterrent.

Still. What bastards!

Sorry

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What's your view on deterrents? The things that just clamp round the cat seem like they'd cause the thieves do to more damage. And putting mesh over isn't going to pose much protection.

A pukka cage, or any proper deterrent, makes your car more difficult than the one down the road. So the cost of fitting something outweighs replacing the cat once a year.

Or target hardening, as it is known.

Basically you want them to go elsewhere. Till everyone has one, then....

I need a car panel for a project e.g a small car’s bonnet. Make /model irrelevant. Should I ask a local scrap yard for a free one? Or is eBay the way to go?

Scrap yard, free?

Maybe I should start visiting scrap yards again but last time I went they were likely to release the hounds if you mentioned the word free.

Yeah free and scrap yard.

@ObiWomKenobi Could ask at a car repair place but they will want money as the old panels are taken by a scrapman that usually pays them.

Try a body shop for one they've replaced?

@lynx beat me to it

😂 should have guessed.

Another option would be for them to let me to take an angle grinder to a car that is about to be crushed. Recon that would be possible?

I don't suppose you're anywhere near Reading in the royal county? The bodyshop I work at has a skip full of bonnets and doors. I'm sure I could liberate something.
Alternatively bigger fire stations usually get a donation of scarp cars to practice with "the jaws of life". You might be able to salvage something from them if you ask nicely.

Trumpton do like to like to make convertables.

We had an a2 loved it until the bodge up job the garage did prior to purchase fell apart.

What kind of prick electrical tapes a plastic pipe rather than get a new pipe

E46 has died. I think it’s the driveshaft.

@Señor_Bear - did you not just get this?! Dealer warranty?

6 months ago. But yeah, have warranty. Doubt it will pay out but we will try.

vauxhall astra vxr
car overheated yesterday, steam and dripping out the bottom.

the white resevoir to the right had pink liquid in it, but that all seems to have gone
topped up with this whole bottle yesterday, but now gone again

cant really get underneath it, but it looks like it is still dripping, so would the likely diagnosis be a cracked/loose coolant tube? i want to sound vaguely knowledgeable when speaking to a mechanic.

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Srsly.

This is liek real pcars...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKY4NcZlIFC/?igshid=tz2wyv4ws1ff