Car D.I.Y.

[Gunk]

Back in the 70s it was a Saturday morning ritual for all the guys to get out on the drive ways with a mug of tea and a Haynes manual. Sadly, those days are gone. I have Kia Picanto with 240, 000km on the clock and doesnt go wrong.

I’m still that man 👍

 

[steveindenmark]

I’m still that man 👍

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Yes. Me too


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[Gunk]

I love that 🥰

 

[Pale Rider]

Sadly, those days are gone.

Happily, those days are gone.

 

[Drago]

They were the good old days. Everyone smoked, perverts had yet to be outed, Bruce and Anthea on a saturday night, Watneys Party 7.

 

[Smudge]

Apart from checking levels, i dont do any work on my car.
I service my motorcycles myself.... because it's easy to do and the cost of motorcycle servicing is an absolute rip off.

 

[Gunk]

They were the good old days. Everyone smoked, perverts had yet to be outed, Bruce and Anthea on a saturday night, Watneys Party 7.

Cherry bomb silencer on your Mk 1 1300 Escort.

 

[Drago]

8 track in the Allegro blasting out Status Quo, the pungent smell of Brut 33...happy times.

 

[Pale Rider]

8 track in the Allegro

You must have had the Vanden Plas version.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Still figuring out how new car stuff works, sorting driving position.. that's proving to be quite sufficient in my car DIY duties.

Also the nice valeting man has put something really fekin horrible on the windscreen..goes white when wiping rain.. I'll have to get that off as it's proving to be very stubborn

 

[Levo-Lon]

You must have had the Vanden Plas version.

It would have doubled its value

 

[Drago]

You must have had the Vanden Plas version.

HL. Twin carbs, doncherkmow?

Through a combination of terrible BL "engineering" and youthful exubersnce it ate 3 engines in a year. I'd used up so many 1750 units that they were becoming scarce locally, so I contemplated fitting a 1500, but it went when I joined the army and bought a Gixxer 11 to get me about.

 

[Adam4868]

You must have had the Vanden Plas version.

With the velour interior and squarish steering wheel....I had one for a few weeks once as a teenager.Dad lent it me.

 

[gbb]

Theres still scope for old style mechanics on cars. A normal service should hold no fear for most able people, I just did my DILs front discs and pads on her 207 a month or so ago, piece of cake. First brake work I have done in decades, I cant remember the last time I did them on my cars , maybe 30 years ago, I'm very light on brakes.

 

[gbb]

I had an Allegro 1750 HL, it had a crunch sometime that required you to continuously hold the steering wheel to stop it hauling itself off the road , must have had a bent steering component...amazing really, you just wouldn't do it now but I suppose needs must when you are young, stupid and skint .
It was a good car otherwise, never had any other problems with it, pokey as well.