The Chat Thread - Here we go again - WC 07/10/24

[HoTWire]

Hey Folks!

Another week, another weekly chat, your place for stuff that may not warrant a full thread or stuff that is just going on right now that you want to share.


On Friday I sat at my computer so long that I absolutely ruined my back, and had a headache for most of the weekend. However it was all in aid of getting : retroridesevents.com updated for the Save The Date for Weekender to go live yesterday evening. 10th and 11th of May at Goodwood, tickets on sale on the 21st October.


This is the week I change over the Club RR stuff to the new Ko-Fi system. I've got an email to send out to all Club RR members about it and various other things happening, some of which is stuff from this year, some exciting things for 2025.


I've got a million other things I want to get done, but I'm attempting to wrangle my ADHD and get things sorted one at a time.

Currently in the real world I'm trying to get a suitable amount of the garage cleared that I can put my car back in it. So every time I go out there (which is often as that is where our fire wood is stored currently) I move one or two things in to a better spot, or in to the bin pile. It has been a surprisingly quick and easy way to turn a monumental job in to something much more manageable.


What you been up to? Seen anything good?


Previous Thread: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/227755/chat-thread-weathers-turned-wc

[b18lou]

My civic got a puncture that i've managed to repair using one of those £5 repair kits from euro car parts with the little self vulcanising strips.


Other than that working overtime to get the money together for a weekender camping ticket.

[adam73bgt]

In New York at the moment, been keeping an eye out for retros, only got a photo of this Geo tracker so far 😅



Seen a couple of cybertrucks in person for the first time, odd looking things

[skinnylew]

Same old crock of rubbish here but hopeful of some movement to rehab and the outside world again soon.
Kept entertained by my YouTube feed, threads on here and virtual car shopping every day

Sadly reality will bite with regards to income (lack of it in any significance) very soon so may have to plan the sale of some of the fleet in the not too distant future ☹️

[ChasR]

I was going to like your post Lew, but there isn't an easy way out of your situation. It's good to see you are staying positive and moving forwards, while keeping the motivation.

What did I do this week?

-Found out my SL needed an expensive central locking pump replacement. As if no one saw that coming!
-Washed the 325d
-Change the brake discs on my dad's MkIV Mondeo for the MOT
-Dropped the Saab in to a mate to get some welding done ; It was quite scary how frilly a crossmember got!
-Went to Bicester Heritage. That deserves a thread on its own
-Took the front bumper off a 2017 Citroen Dispatch, so as to get a friend's key from within the front of it, that he dropped down the back of the slam panel! Doh!

So, not alot really .

[skinnylew]

Oct 7, 2024 21:45:30 GMT ChasR said:

I was going to like your post Lew, but there isn't an easy way out of your situation. It's good to see you are staying positive and moving forwards, while keeping the motivation.

What did I do this week?

-Found out my SL needed an expensive central locking pump replacement. As if no one saw that coming!
-Washed the 325d
-Change the brake discs on my dad's MkIV Mondeo for the MOT
-Dropped the Saab in to a mate to get some welding done ; It was quite scary how frilly a crossmember got!
-Went to Bicester Heritage. That deserves a thread on its own
-Took the front bumper off a 2017 Citroen Dispatch, so as to get a friend's key from within the front of it, that he dropped down the back of the slam panel! Doh!

So, not alot really .

Yeah it is certainly a bum steer life threw at me unexpectedly and has big ramifications for years I suspect.

But.

I am still alive, which could easily not have been the case, and there are far worse cases than mine. It takes things like this to remember the things that people share and post can actually make a difference to people's days, sounds corny I know but I'm really enjoy the free resources that are YouTube and this forum. Whiling away the hours and living life vicariously through others threads (like the Farm one or garage ones) 😄😁

[vulgalour]

I've very slowly started to recover this week. Been passed around the medical services and I'm back where I started for a new round of investigation to find out what's wrong. I did summon the energy to replace the alternator on the Princess so it's not charging at random amounts any more, but I haven't yet summoned the energy to tighten the auxilliary belt so it doesn't screech on start up.

Want to rule out ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since learning my symptoms line up pretty well with that, and am waiting on blood test results. At this rate I'm fully expecting to have recovered by the time they find the right investigation path by which point there will be nothing to find and I'll never know what was wrong.

The other thing that I've had to chase is the new windscreen I ordered for the car just over four months ago from Pilkingtons. I'd had no communication from them at all and since I've been ill for a few weeks I hadn't been able to chase it up myself sooner. Been advised it'll be here mid-October probably and received an apology for the delay. I get that it's a special custom order thing and would take a while, I just hadn't expected it to be quite this long. Not that there's any choice, nobody else carries new windscreens for the Princess as far as I'm aware and I didn't want to fit a second-hand one.

[surprisingskoda]

I've been doing all things house-related as I bring a house that hasn't had any remedial work done to it for a couple of decades up to a live-able standard, while my cars have been steadily dropping like flies. Mini is sold but needs a clutch before it goes, van also needs a clutch, range rover needs an impossible to access pipe replaced, and the E91 I brought out of storage to use is losing coolant and currently dumped at a customers house... so I'm currently sharing out daily duties between two friends cars which I'm supposed to be servicing.

[adam73bgt]

Went to the Newport auto museum in Rhode island today, nicely laid out and the cars were immaculate





















Got into Newport slightly too late to go around the Audrain auto museum as well, but had a peek through the windows, really bad photo but looked like they had some interesting stuff too

[igor]

Was warm and sunny here this morning so I took the opportunity to clean the chimney. Now it's raining again and I've got a fire going.

[misteralz]

Had set aside the whole afternoon to swap out the engine mounts in the 964 for RS versions. Took me 45 minutes and I didn't even need to drop the undertray.

[The Cat Herder]

I actually got to open the bonnet of the wife’s Kia. Nothing wrong, just needed washer fluid. Bought two one gallon jugs, put emptied little over 1 1/2 of them into the tank, so about six liters of screen wash. No wonder I haven’t had to fill it since she got the car last December. Other than that, a little cleanup from Hurricane Milton. Some debris on the lawn, clean out the water softener (the lid came off and it filled up with leaves) and I still need to put the decorative shutters back up. But it’s 28C and pretty humid outside, so that can wait for another day.

[igor]

Sounds like you got off lightly there Cat Herder. What's the rest of the neighbourhood like?

[The Cat Herder]

Oct 13, 2024 20:02:09 GMT igor said:

Sounds like you got off lightly there Cat Herder. What's the rest of the neighbourhood like?

We did skate through this one really. Some street flooding, about a foot outside our house on Thursday morning but it’s drained away, part of the parks fence came down behind my house. Someone in the neighborhood lost a carport, and there were a few trees down. We’re about 60 miles north of the storms track, and well inland so we got off light, didn’t even lose power. Plenty of people had it way worse, even just a few miles away there was major flooding and a couple of main roads washed out.