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

Epic

Recently brought back from the dead a large battery from an old merc diesel. Been sat for 3 years with no use on it and not charged. £200 for a new one! so cleaned it out, baking soda solution the old acid, gentle hose piped it for an hour, then loaded with epsom salt solution (magnesium sulphate?) and charged back up, did a few high current runs during that charge.
Works alright! Starts and runs, checks out on a battery tester /load machine as "low capacity /replace soon" which is much better than utterly dead/won't take a charge like it was before.

That is gloriously bonkers. Bonnet scoop is a bit rough, but other than that it's mighty fine.

It is quite difficult to buy battery acid in the UK, have revived older batteries by replacing the electrolyte.

But good luck.

Drove the outback today, reminded just how great the H6 engine is, for something 18 years old!

Super duper urgent. Anyone got a hydraulic press in London? Or where I can get a wheel bearing pressed out and in…by tomorrow…

Never mind. Got there in the end. Out bearing race removed.

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Anyone got a spare £30k?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325203466413?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=bOAzS0epR-2&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=6a2B2kxPQ2e&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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Why? The P6 was an odd car and wonder how they have widen the track front and rear on that one.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325197511436?hash=item4bb7483b0c:g:UZEAAOSwuxtih8zC
is better IMO.

Somebody spent 7 years and more than £2million putting a Maybach interior into a Merceded 600 Grosser. But they hardly used it. It has 1200 km on the clock. It's been for sale for a couple of years
https://www.mechatronik.de/en/verkauf/vehicles-on-offer/mb-w100-600-maybach-en/
https://manofmany.com/rides/cars/cruise-dictator-style-with-the-1975-mercedes-benz-600-pullman-maybach

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Wrong country buddy.

Boring question but what are the best options for boot of my xc60 to keep shopping bags from falling over?

If you just have a carpet floor to the boot (no rubber mat etc), then something like this is the cheapest way to sort it out...

I've got one of those boot covers you recommended :D - they wont work on the rubber mat?

If the floor is made of carpet covered boards then these are great, I have the VW/Mercedes branded versions which I used when I had the E Class, makes stopping stuff running around in a big boot straightforwards, and don't need any mounts in the boot floor.

Ha. Afraid not. If you've got a rubber boot mat you could think about sticking or screwing some organiser things to it.

The ones I linked to are velcro bottomed.

Does your boot have hooks or tie downs on the sides?

The Superb came with hammock-esque nets that clip on to the side of the boot and are really good at holding items that might otherwise slide or roll around the boot. Probably not big enough to hold more than a weeks shopping across the two of them, but depends on how much you buy at a time.

Other option if you have those clips on the side is a bungee cord that separates the boot into two halves (front and back or left and right would both work). Ensuring the shopping is in some bigger bags that can't cross the bungee "threshold" would work.
Just seen that Dammit suggested a similar thing that but using a more rigid solution.

Last option that's common is if you have tie downs on the floor of the boot, a big luggage net that covers all or most of the boot floor. Your shopping goes under the net which is made of stretchy cord so it's trapped in place and can't move about unless you're doing some "spirited" driving.

Not endorsing this particular site, but they sell a variety of luggage net solutions:

https://www.caraccessoriesplus.co.uk/categories/all/all/luggage-nets

Just to add some sort of validity to my suggestion, the concept of luggage nets have been around for a long time, and both the "hammock" style and the floor mounted ones have been used a lot in rallying for many years to transport helmet and other small luggage between stages when driving on the road.

Get your shopping delivered :)

we put a bungee cord through the handles of the bags and connect this to a hook on each side of the boot, a bit like a washing line but the bags aren't suspended, just stopped from falling over.

Bit rushed so not the best pictures but love the roof on this Toyota parked around the corner from us. The interior is pretty wack too.

Having now googled it - the doors go up to open. Dihedral apparently.

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Copied by one Gordon Murray for his project with TAG-McLaren.

It is a sera, you can see the badge on the B post. All JDM imports.

Amazingly odd optional extras like a fax machine or a funny air con system. Braking the door glass can mean the car is un economical to repair as spares are second hand only and thin on the ground.