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

A lot of people don't like the JDM side of street tuning.

I guess Rauh Welt is on the edge of acceptable wheel camber...

This
That's 38 years motoring for £5100 of purchase price :) the joys of buying old shitters in the motor trade and keeping them going. :D

Is excellent
Probably had the most fun per £ spent and possibly the greenest way to run a car .. bangernomics

Amazing. I bet ‘married man’ kicked in at the C3!

Good to see another Scimitar in here!

How did you limit yourself? Getting to know people in parts departments meant that lots of trade ins and MOT failures trade ins came to us.

I used to be really into these but I think as I've gotten older the appeal has dulled a bit... I'm definitely happy they exist though and as far as excessive design goes I'm way more in favour of this than the more vulgar European stuff like Kahn or Hamann...

@Fixedwheelnut e30 pictures please!

Have this.

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So nice

Flat battery woes in my 2010 320d. Not driven it for 3+ weeks but have been foolishly opening doors to clean and get kids stuff out quite often so assume I’ve just drained the battery.

Tried to jump start with a neighbours car this morning but didn’t work and just clicked with the drained battery warning sometimes popping up.

Am going to borrow a trickle charger and hopefully that’ll work. How long do I need to charge it before attempting to start the car?

And if that doesn’t work I’m in for an expensive time as I let my breakdown cover has expired! Whoops

Have you got a multi meter?

Finally got around to using the GTechniq C4 permanent trim restorer on the tired looking bits of plastic on my Suby... Gotta say, it's done a brilliant job... Some areas were really sun damaged and grey, almost white in places, and now they're good as new... Recommended!

@ElephantBreathlynx Nope, I do not have one unfortunately.

Compare: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_KOAxJDBDq/

Ah that would have been handy to check the voltage of the battery and see when the battery is charged when trickle charging. Don't suppose you are near wood green as I can drop one round to you. Help diagnose the battery.

Thanks @ElephantBreathlynx - I’m about 5 miles from Loch Lomond, Scotland so we’re a few miles apart 🙂.

I’ve got it trickle charging at 4amps - I’ll give it till about 8pm to see if I’ve got anything. Cheers!

Had something similar (aftermarket alarm/not driving the car) and think I ended up leaving a trickle charge on overnight and some. The times on pg.3 of the below might help/were what I used:

https://accumate.co.uk/accuMate_instructions.pdf

Looks nice! Is this the car you mentioned previously?

Managed to get it started and took it for a drive via Halford’s and picked up my own trickle charger - I’ll put it on for a full day tomorrow and hopefully sort it.

Yep, that's the one. I decided to take a leap of faith and have it delivered without viewing.

Can anyone suggest a paintless dent removal company that services East London? The Clio has it's fair share of parking dents on the drivers side and it really lets it down.

some good braaaap + sutututu today..

Looks like some kind of Toyota dash? GT4?

bingo! st185 gt4

Rad. Was it a Rallye drive day or your car? Also, sad that I recognise Toyota indicator stalks.

Don't remember who mentioned Urchfab when I requested advices on resoration or car shows similar to hombuilt by jeff or binky or retropower, I binged it over the last couple of weekends and it is absolutely stunning!!