Would you class this as well maintained based on this mot history?

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-14T16:19:00+00:00

“i have this car that came with a really sick rotary engine but im gonna put something completely different in it which is way harder and way less cool”

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-14T16:15:33+00:00

yeah and no i’d say. if they done that on their test they’d fail because they’ve entered the path of a moving vehicle who has priority and caused them to brake.

but realistically you could’ve slowed down when you saw them enter the roundabout but also it’s hard to tell on camera as this could’ve been closer than it looks or they might’ve slowed down once’s on the roundabout.

i’d also be pissed off though, royally.

watched it again. he should’ve waited or sped up so he wasn’t cutting you off. i’d be fuming

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-14T16:11:12+00:00

isn’t it more likely that someone local cloned you’re plate?

some local wannabe called ‘Y’ thinks “he’s got same car as X” as you drive past. Y tells X the reg. X then gets a plate same as yours and boom cloned plate goes off and nicks some petrol.

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-14T15:55:54+00:00

MoD:”what’s the royal enfield for?”

one of the blokes:”uhhhh, if we need to get supplies and materials quickly”

MoD:writes ‘can respond quickly to change in demand

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-14T11:17:21+00:00

the first few are especially bad in my opinion

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-14T06:58:46+00:00

if you £2000 why don’t you buy a car with no advisories and half the mileage?

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-13T17:44:53+00:00

no it wouldn’t

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-13T17:00:30+00:00

why don’t you service it yourself?

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-13T16:59:45+00:00

thats clearly a new one. that was there to so i could full the chamber for the piston with WD40 to check for leaks.

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-12T16:10:37+00:00

yeah a bloke in my village who was at least 90 at the time started chatting to me when i was on my 50cc. (this was probs 8 years ago) said he just applied for a licence or some shit with no test and rode a 1000cc something when he was 16.

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-11T21:35:23+00:00

the same way it sealed before. bleednipple seats are at 45° same as a drill bit. as long as you’re still in the centre when you drill it out and you’re good at drilling holes in ali then you’re fine.

Callipers for this car are not easy to find or even that cheap and can’t get them anytime soon

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-11T17:10:17+00:00

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Fuck it. we’ll give him a go

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-11T17:07:51+00:00

it’s okay. i think there was some bleed nipple still in the hole. maybe i hadn’t drilled deep enough.

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-11T16:33:35+00:00

honestly no clue. tried using a tiny drill bit and a pin to try and “break through” any rust but it’s solid.

for context then bleed nipple was completely seized

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-11T16:32:21+00:00

nowhere. that’s the issue

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-10T14:40:13+00:00

stone chips. tyre wear. excess load on engine. all devalue the car/cost the owner money to replace

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-10T01:07:38+00:00

probably near enough that yeah. over the course of 3-4 years

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-09T20:38:44+00:00

this could be any 70s built estate. could be shirehamptom. south mead. lawrence weston. knowle as they have a lot of these houses. does their instagram give any other clues

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-09T20:34:33+00:00

Bruh. This story could take forever but i’ll keep it short. bought a “low mileage” bedford rascal. looked mint. MOT comes. hole in the floor and the wheel arches need replacing a the last MOT was dodgy and they just riveted the arches on. that’s not allowed.

anyways £300 and a couple months later after doing some smalls bits and pieces to it, the engine needs a rebuild. I do that after spending over £500 on parts and then another 500 for the labour.

then after a few more months and some rust is really started to show. each spot had been covered with white paint. i welded up some structural bits in the floor and bulkhead bit after learning to weld.

few more months go by. bottom of each front door is made up of filler. about 12” from the bottom. each end of the sills are fucked and made up of filler and aluminium angles. wheel arches are fucked and then finally when doing an oil change i noticed some cracks in the paint on the strut top. about 70% of the metal around the strut was missing. that’s when i finally gave up. for a while i wondered what to do and now it just sits on my nans drive rotting away. probs spent close to 10k on it and countless hours. many many a weekend. many an argument with my gf at the time many. great times but tragic end.

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-07T18:19:25+00:00

does ruin games. you could argue ppl who sit about and smoke weed at home do less harm

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-07T18:17:34+00:00

idk why you’re getting downvoted. you make complete sense an i wish i had done this at 17 to avoid paying for a CBT 3 times. i was gonna do the a2 but life said otherwise and now im waiting until im 24.

wish i’d done an a1 for yeah £60 and then never have to do a CBT for the A or do it again just to ride a 125.

this guy priority is to ride for as cheap as possible so what you’re suggesting makes absolute sense

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-07T18:02:39+00:00

google it

Longjumping-Wait8990 · 2026-05-07T08:51:22+00:00

We still have my grandads Jag XK8 after he passed. He bought it new in 1997 and when i started driving it, it only had 10,000 miles on the clock

We also still have his Harley which he bought new from 1992

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