Colin Lindsay

...but... re the original post... try repairing something like THIS with a bottle of gunk or whatever. Potholes are back in the news so keep at least one spare handy. Anyway it makes a great storage space for tools, gloves, cloths, and all sorts of assorted service parts for Club runs.

WOW!! A HOME BREWERY!! (Aw Hell.. just read Chris' post after I posted this... he beat me to it!)

LIDL have a blast gun with two tubs of grit and assorted nozzles for around a tenner; the nozzles help you recirculate the grit so less mess or waste. I've been very impressed with the one I bought. Have a look at the post I put in the 'Tools' Section for some idea of what it's like. The nozzles may get right into those sections and clean them out to bare metal.

That is absolutely amazing; well done and welcome.

Isn't that a production-line reference number; same as the ones they used to stamp on the chassis front outrigger?

None foreigner... if that's the Queen's English. We do our best but you guys keep trying to get rid of us!

These days they call that a Slushie! Kids drink them....

Good point and very true. Our cars are tougher than we think, sometimes. Quote of the week? "I don't want to take my car as the bluetooth isn't working..." Don't ask who said that to me, then borrowed my car...

If it gets too high you'll find yourself in a layby somewhere, waiting on recovery....

In any case I didn't complete the order, so will have cost myself a few pounds more whenever I do go to order one... (in case you're wondering it was a tan hood bag for a TR7...)

Good point! Maybe just over-enthusiastic cleaning? As has been posted new pedal boots and a little bit of sealant will cure most of it, but it will find its' way in anywhere at all if given the chance.

Must be a really big Christmas tree?

Looking good!

Nice Herald - but how come the mirrors jump about in the photos? I presume you've added the bonnet ones since owning it? (which look much nicer!)

...but you can beat an egg.

On the Herald, as you're looking at the connection now in the photo, left is blue and white, top is blue and red, right is earth / black. If working on it from behind then black is on left, red and blue on top and blue and white to the right.

It must bolt into the holes for the hood frame on the B-post; I can't think of anything else in that area that the bolts will go into.

I've worked out how to stop that horrible onion-based organic screenwash from making you cry. I don't form any emotional attachment with it.

That's true to some extent Mike but as Johny says, how often would we really use one? I've had the diff out of the GT6 twice in the same amount of years. Once I fit the diff to the Herald chassis, it's staying there for as long as I can make it. If the car is on its' wheels you only have to raise it six inches or so to get it into the chassis mount, and a jack with a good cup-shaped rubber pad works for me. You can't beat the old 'lying on your back, diff held in with knees, trying to bend yourself double to get the bolts in place' routine....

I love Scotland, but then I love England too, the wild bits or the olde-worlde parts like York or Lincoln; in fact anywhere I go to stay where I feel like a guest and the hotels and restaurants etc look after me. For that reason I like Europe too, and love meeting visitors to my own place, but the whole thing isn't about the people, it's the politics, which involves a disproportionate few.

Never knew that. Given enough time and a failed Brexit the EU will no doubt make it compulsory, although they'll probably make trunnions illegal too. We do a lot of sitting round and talking too but that's only on club nights. The other 29-odd days of the month are for garages.

Never knew there was a rule. I usually do it once a year pre-show season, if I have a car on the road, to expel air or moisture that may have built up whilst off-road, and usually more often as things like rear axles fall off the car. Our club - hence the term 'in OUR club' meaning the local area - has a few yearly garage days where we do trunnion oiling, fluid changes, greasing etc. so it 's usually every year - two at most - for local members. The TR I bought in September won't go near the road without at the very least new hoses, pads and shoes and a fluid change. I can't really blame a PO if the car won't stop for me...

Or the quality of the instrument ie how accurate it is. I agree with Mjit, that in our club cars we change brake fluid quite often, and even with an unknown ie a new purchase I'll change the fluid as one of the first maintenance jobs. With moderns it's a different story; I've never done a complete change in my Mundano, although when I replaced the brake discs earlier in the year I bled the fronts. I'd guess, as Doug states, that modern fluid is nowhere near as long lasting as the older stuff, which is strange given that very very few drivers touch their own cars these days, or even suspect they might have to change the fluid periodically I don't think I'll need to buy one of the testers, although if you could use it as a taser by reversing the battery I'd buy one for the cat.

Switch contacts would be my first port of call, if the hazards are working well then it's not an earth at the light unit end otherwise they'd both be affected so: what's different / unconnected between the two circuits (assuming they use the same flasher unit?) will be the fault, and I'd start by cleaning the switch itself; a good cleaning with something like Servisol to get years of grime and dust out of the contacts may work wonders. Next port of call will be any connectors along the circuit, and then the state of the wiring itself.

I read that completely wrong and thought it said "this is to use in local night clubs or whatever"... thought it could maybe check if your drink's been spiked. Interesting bit of kit though.