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

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  • Not that much of a sado.

    I just adapted it to run around the Surrey Hills as opposed to flipping.

    My old bones couldn't take the torture. 😎

  • Looks wicked fun tbh, I’d love to build up something like that.

  • I will say having tried most types of bicycle this is without doubt the most fun.

    Think I only stripped the hub once to replace the selector pin barrel. V low maintenance.

    U have to love the SA hub tho. 😎

  • Meanwhile teh futureh...


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  • From tiles' route after Llangurig, the A470/B4518 to Machynlleth is also lovely (and will make you wish you were on a bike).

  • Looks like a pita job, but it's not an engine out job. It's an electric pump.

  • Yeah the electric pump on the Mrs’ F10 shit the bed 250 miles after we bought it. Been 12k of trouble free motoring since if that makes you feel any better!

  • I was given a little Kia Rio to drive up to Noosa and back today, part of the highway was shut so I had to do some country two lane blacktop stuff, it was really fun!

    Until I checked the work car app and found I had over four hundred instances of harsh accelerating and braking... Whooooops!!! 🤭

  • = avoiding wildlife, your honour.

  • What is happening here and how do I remediate?

    It's on the spoiler, so probably plastic not metal underneath. Astra VXR 55 plate.

    Also, I want to buy a basic satnav. Need I look further than a £65 Garmin?


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  • A Kia Rio with harsh acceleration? The app must have very low tolerance for what is acceptable.

    I think I know the roads you have taken, the hinterland up there can be really beautiful but it sounds like you were otherwise distracted!

  • The clearcoat is separating from the basecoat on your spolier. Very common on older cars, especially on plastic parts.
    You've got two options. You have a car which is probably quite often crashed, so you may find a good one in the right colour in a breakers yard, or you can get it resprayed.

    As for satnav, Waze and a phone holder is better than any satnav unit.

  • Honestly using google maps on a smartphone is almost always better due to live traffic updates.

    Although makes sense if you’re regularly somewhere without signal (although you can download map areas onto your phone with google maps).

  • You have a car which is probably quite often crashed

    Too right!

    I think I will find the screen too small on my phone, but easy enough to get a holder and test it out for a while.

  • Tracking/alignment work on an old C-Max in South London. Where go?

  • Had our Honda done at Dee bee tyres In Colliers Wood.

  • Have I just totally missed all the stuff about petrol changing from e5 to e10?

    Seems like quite a significant change considering how little it has been advertised.

  • Due to Covid and perfect storm stuff I’ve had my old UK registered Volvo V70 petrol stood on my drive in France for over a year.
    I wasn’t sure when I’d get back to it , but didn’t think it’d warrant battery removal.So battery wouldn’t take a charge at all(48 hrs on trickle)
    So … I put a substitute battery in and it started first turn , I’d left the handbrake off so it just drove like I’d left it a week ( well up the road and back ) but now it’s out of MOT , no insurance and it’s scorned and I’m not sure what to do with it , I’d like to french register it because with the towbar out here its more useful but I read you now need to be domiciled here to register .I’m not sure that’s true but can’t face all the french paperwork to find out .
    It’s only 100k odd miles and is probably too nice to scrap in France , even that is a paperwork fest .
    I am loathed to scrap her tbh


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  • Saw an absolutely mint mini here yesterday , french reg , it must live in a garage mostly


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  • How much do you want and where are you in France?

  • Thanks for the interest .
    I’ve had a pm too, it wasn’t really a for sale advert , more of a ‘what to do ?’, and amazed at it starting first time .
    Im a big Volvo fan , it seems whenever you need to work on it , any 19 year old nuts look like new , even the aircon kicked in on full pelt.
    But if registering here in France is a non starter ie too expensive or not possible due to non dom, I’ll re post or pm you .
    Im in A very sunny Brittany btw .

  • It's illegal/impossible to register a car in France if you're non-resident. It always was but when the system was to go in person to the prefecture with a sheaf of bills and paperwork people with holiday homes got away with it. Now it's all through ANTS it's not possible to do that.
    If it works I'd insure it (in UK) and drive it back to the UK to a pre-booked MoT and get it UK legal again, or sell to a Brit over here.

    Or you could claim residency and use a 3rd party (I can recommend one) to register it through ANTS, but you would need to pay import duty and VAT unless you can prove it was here before the end of 2020. And if you can prove that you may get done for not registering it within 6 months of it arriving.

  • Great info thanks , great sting in tail too.
    It was in France from July 2020 and Covid is my only excuse , all irrelevant as I’m domiciled in UK.
    Im aware of the drive to MOT rule , I’m not sure if it covers a drive to London or nearest to ferry , probably Plymouth .
    So that’s the dilemma … ferry , tax , insure , MOT a car I only actually need in France ( towbar.. slipway 800metres away)
    It used to be we would fill it up to come over , but our boys 19,24,25 never come in the car at the same time and we no longer lug so much kit with us .
    I’ve actually already replaced it in the UK with an EV which I pick up next week .
    There lies another challenge, Brittany doesn’t seem to be that far along with charging stations .
    Im sure i can make it work though , and it’ll only get better .
    I spoke to a canny guy who brings over two cars on the ferry, he attaches an A frame to the smaller one in the ferry queue car park and then only pays for a trailer , takes theA frame off immediately after getting off the ferry .. his wife then drives the spare

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