9 hours ago, Ianb said:

Those pints of shandy will get ya! ;)

Haha! It was great fun really, steak dinner, which was served b the 5th Form (year 11) "slaves" 

Great party too, however the strobe lighting made me feel rather unwell!  

Going to get dad's car in a bit and then a driving lesson after lunch, should be fun!

3 hours ago, chrisroberson99 said:

Haha! It was great fun really, steak dinner, which was served b the 5th Form (year 11) "slaves" 

Great party too, however the strobe lighting made me feel rather unwell!  

Going to get dad's car in a bit and then a driving lesson after lunch, should be fun!

Sounds good!

Dad's new car. 

11 minutes ago, chrisroberson99 said:

Dad's new car. 

Very nice!  And it's rare I say that about a new car...

Haha thanks! It's filthy now though...Was snowing when we picked it up!

Lovely car though, the adaptive cruise control is amazing!

17 minutes ago, chrisroberson99 said:

Haha thanks! It's filthy now though...Was snowing when we picked it up!

Lovely car though, the adaptive cruise control is amazing!

Snowing?  Good grief, it's sunny and mild here.  Isn't it funny how no matter how good a quality finish the paintwork may have, it only takes 5 minutes to get dirty?  Especially annoying when you've just paid quite a lot of money for a professional valet like I did a few months ago.

Indeed! I hope to give it a good wash next weekend. 

Does adaptive cruise control mean it doesn't stay stuck at 90 whilst hanging off the car in fronts rear bumper?....like every other chelsea tractor...

No adaptive cruise means you can set it to one foot away from the car in front regardless of speed...  

Unfortunately not an option on this car, it's exclusively for BMW and Audi drivers. 

I like how downloading a few mods totally changes your enthusiasm towards a game, my Shelby Mustang build arrived yesterday so I put the 2 installments of that together.  

I do like getting some last minute Mother's Day presents from Sainsbury's and getting the Primera on Gumtree (selling it as since buying the 405 it hasn't moved).  Until I pass my test we only need one car, and when I do get my licence I'll find another 405 for my mother, which won't be as easy as she is adamant that it is a GLX or GTX in silver or red and must be a saloon.  Talk about demanding.  However, with my love of 405s I'll happily wait for a suitable model to appear on Gumtree or eBay. 

Knowing my luck, if I let her find a car for herself she'd buy a Vauxhall!  I'd do anything to avoid that.

Sounds good, however I'd be worried about piling the miles on the 405, not that they're not reliable, just that they're so rare now! I'd want to keep it as a weekend car! 

42 minutes ago, chrisroberson99 said:

Sounds good, however I'd be worried about piling the miles on the 405, not that they're not reliable, just that they're so rare now! I'd want to keep it as a weekend car! 

Whilst that is true, I find that cars are much happier doing high, well maintained miles than sitting unused for days on end.  I'll be giving it (and any future 405s) an oil change every 4,000 miles and even though they are getting rare, parts can still be found easily enough if you know where to look and are willing to spend the money, which I obviously am.  The XUD9 engine per se is actually still pretty popular, given that it was also fitted to the 306.

Ah OK,  not too bad then! Good luck.

Actually tbf, Jamie has a point.... Many classic cars end up stuffed because they never get used. Most owners don't have the right conditions and resources to keep a car sitting around 'safely'

On 04/03/2016 at 0:43 AM, Preecematt said:

I don't know how to install them as it's on Steam, I have the extra country mod that you can actually buy off ETS2, same goes for my farming simulator lol.  Gets boring with standard gear, tried installing mods on farming simulator but it didn't work.  I haven't tried with ETS2 yet.  I have 

Theres a few forums you can get them on, its just a case of dragging a folder into the ETS2 folder so it loads it up. The online mod is great one of the best! (No other cars on the road...) but there are hundreds/thousands of people online so the roads are quite busy - good to do long drive with your friends! 

1 hour ago, Ianb said:

 

Actually tbf, Jamie has a point.... Many classic cars end up stuffed because they never get used. Most owners don't have the right conditions and resources to keep a car sitting around 'safely'

Don't sound so surprised!

Aside from having to have impeccable storage conditions, the fact is that why would you spend the money buying and maintaining a car just to look at it sitting in a garage?  Get the undercarriage and bodywork rust-proofed, regularly maintain the engine and drive the thing!!

2 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

Don't sound so surprised!

Aside from having to have impeccable storage conditions, the fact is that why would you spend the money buying and maintaining a car just to look at it sitting in a garage?  Get the undercarriage and bodywork rust-proofed, regularly maintain the engine and drive the thing!!

 

Hahaha, not surprised, just had a flashback to someone I was talking to about that sort of thing.

I know of a shed not far from the outlaws that contains about £3 million worth of cars at a complete guess...it must be more actually, considering there are about 20 cars in there and one of them alone is worth £800k. Also know where they keep the key to the shed too! ;)

But they're kept as assets more than anything. Rather than having money sitting in the bank getting no interest, they invest it in a classic car and leave it in a shed.... All tidy and covered and dry, but just sitting there... 

But then we're talking about a different world of people - probably more money than sense..

I do like completing the first ramp (eventually!) and have kept the inclination to 8.9° like I wanted and planned, but had to make it 1300mm after an unfortunate episode with a knot

So, that's two platforms and one ramp made now  Commenced the final ramp, just as the sun set but managed to get some of the cross members cut.  Given that I only had an hour or so, per day to build it's sibling: I expect it too, will take a week to complete.

Wessex Water attended to the spontaneous overnight road fountain that we all woke up to, with incredible haste for a utility company.  They arrived around mid-day, dug up the road, bypassed the breach, replaced the old broken pipe, filled in the hole and then re-tarmaced, just after Brandy had returned from her Sunday afternoon stroll with my neighbour.  Which was about 3:30pm. 

We all thought, we'd be waterless whilst they repaired for at least a day.  But their bypass, meant they didn't need to cut off the rest of the road's water supply, so I'd filled all my buckets. kettles and pans in vain.

On 05/03/2016 at 9:13 AM, chrisroberson99 said:

Going to get dad's car in a bit and then a driving lesson after lunch, should be fun!

Chris did you have your driving lesson in your Dad's new car then? Or did I read that wrong

 

3 hours ago, Ianb said:

 

Hahaha, not surprised, just had a flashback to someone I was talking to about that sort of thing.

I know of a shed not far from the outlaws that contains about £3 million worth of cars at a complete guess...it must be more actually, considering there are about 20 cars in there and one of them alone is worth £800k. Also know where they keep the key to the shed too! ;)

But they're kept as assets more than anything. Rather than having money sitting in the bank getting no interest, they invest it in a classic car and leave it in a shed.... All tidy and covered and dry, but just sitting there... 

But then we're talking about a different world of people - probably more money than sense..

Talking of more money than sense, sort of.  If I won the lottery/Euromillions, or just had a truck load of money, my dream is to buy an air hangar and fill it full of cars I want(from all era's & marques) all parked diagonally about a doors length apart and all nice & shiny & polished.  Obviously they'd get driven as I'm a car nut.  But it's just a dream I've always had

Buy the right car and keep it in proper storage and it'll appreciate far more than the interest you get at the bank...  Sounds pretty sensible to me!

I also like my clean "1970's kitchen trim" free look to my Mk2 Focus tailgate. 

Earlier, I removed the odd plastic fake metal trim, that a previous owner of the Mk2 Focus, thought to stick on the tailgate swage line.  It looked like the trims kitchen units had in the late 1970's: quite why anyone thought it enhanced the car is a mystery.

@GMX Haha no unfortunately! I had an orange Peugeot 208 instead. 

It appears Spring has arrived, this morning's stroll with Brandy was almost balmy, the deceptively cold NNE wind is no longer here, the sun is out and the clouds are absent from the sky.  Even the forecasted frost with accompanying overnight ice warning didn't happen.

It's currently 15°C on the garage wall thermometer, in the shade