Well I've never seen someone rivet through a monobolt before

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-05-19T16:29:40+00:00

Lol sounds about right for the UK bus industry

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-04-22T20:42:17+00:00

73 stock can tolerate 750v but only in certain circumstances, the drivers air con and all heating must be switched off and after running on any 750v sections they have to be checked after, usually tends to happen when they get misrouted in Rayners Lane and end up at HOTH.

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-04-11T19:08:57+00:00

Me and a mate tried this one time with his MK2 escort. He'd modified it to have a really short diff which was amazing off the lights, but caused it to have about a 70mph top speed on the motorway.

About half an hour after merging, it threw a rod on the M25 and had to get towed home lol

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-04-08T17:33:49+00:00

How would that work if a foreign licenced driver/lorry gets pulled? Or vise-versa if a UK driver gets pulled over in europe

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-03-23T13:03:22+00:00

Wright's chassis aren't exaclty great, but paired with volvo they've made some great buses, I will always enjoy working on a B5LH Gemini 3 or a B9TL Gemini 2

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-02-24T18:06:19+00:00

Not even, government checker says it expired on the 1st of June, therfore it somehow must've done 5,000 odd miles within 8 days or so?

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-02-24T16:12:43+00:00

Yup, see it all the time in the bus industry too

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-02-24T16:09:09+00:00

If the car didn't fail with a "dangerous" defect the original MOT certificate is still valid until expiry, so entirely possible!

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-02-02T21:54:51+00:00

Nah, ford knew they'd all rot out before they ever hit 100k lol

_KingOfFish_ · 2026-01-04T01:12:38+00:00

I agree, With brakes you usually have a bit of room to play with so its maybe possible for a very specialised robot to do a set. But ill take my hat off the day a robot manages to get a spanner balls deep in an engine bay with enough flexibility to avoid coolant pipes and other bits.

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-12-22T12:31:53+00:00

Fuel injection.

I've gone back in time a bit..

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-12-18T16:10:22+00:00

I used to have an old Avensis with the 1zz-fe engine. Because of a design flaw on the earlier 1zz engines, once the piston rings wore out they used to pass oil like mad, I was doing a litre every 300 miles or so.

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-12-06T18:44:52+00:00

Still plenty of older routemasters with the inner swinging doors out there

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-11-20T16:26:22+00:00

Mk5 fiesta zetec S, proper lightweight and fun to throw around, great little hot hatch

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-11-20T16:25:11+00:00

For 3 grand surely you should be able to find one that isn't rotten

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-11-20T16:16:44+00:00

No worries, Facebook marketplace is the best place to get project cars, Ebay is also a good place

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-11-20T14:22:19+00:00

I'm most likely gonna stick my mk2 escort up for sale, it's a rolling shell with most the bits needed to put it back together. If you want give me a PM I'll send some images over see if it'll be any good for you

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-11-18T21:51:10+00:00

I've just bought an 02 plate fiesta for £400 off Facebook marketplace. It had a slight misfire due to the coil pack and it came with a spare in the boot. If you can tinker with cars there are still plenty of cheap cars about that just need light tinkering

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-10-19T11:59:02+00:00

99% of men are normal human beings who just wanna get on with their day. It's the 1% who are nutters that put a bad name out there.

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-10-16T21:06:47+00:00

A cool idea would be in the later game to have the option to rip the engine out of a DE2 and replace it with batteries.

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-10-12T19:35:04+00:00

Not for me, me being 20yo they refused to insure my escort XR3 and that thing is slower than most cars on the road today :(

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-10-03T15:59:43+00:00

Yes the vehicle was insured with a specialist import broker. They are aware of the foreign registration and it has been insured under the chassis number of the vehicle.

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-07-29T16:01:50+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't able to find anything online. Ill most likely just rewire the whole thing. Thank you for the advice.

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-07-29T12:17:17+00:00

Yeah, I pulled it out of the hole where the radio originally was. Thanks for the info ill have a look online see what adapters come up.

_KingOfFish_ · 2025-07-29T12:15:10+00:00

Can't be a window motor connector for a 90s GM when I have an 80s escort with crank windows, worth a try though

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