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Blimey! --you lot drive a hard bargain! OK £1500 and I'm cutting me own throat [Dibbler]

No. The CloudFlare error was the one that says everything is OK at their end, but the forum server is unreachable. Presumably a temporary glitch in the Matrix, as we're all back now.

Hmmm... I've just tried logging in on my [Android] phone and it worked OK. If you're still unable to login on your phone, you could try clearing your browser's cache [There should be an option for that in Settings somewhere] although I'm not 100% sure that'll fix it as I suspect it's a session...

Speedy Seal kit received yesterday. Cheers Mital. Thanks for an easy transaction and posting it out quickly.

Yep. Same here. Site seemed to be down all day yesterday. I kept getting a Cloudfare error page. Maybe Chris was giving us all a nudge from 'the other side'.

Just in case there's nothing decent for you on the telly tonight, I did a quick walkaround and crawlunder video of the Collie:

There you go then. £1750 for the engine and I'll throw in a good autobox, 4 wheels, a cab an interior --and a rusty chassis to carry it all!

The trouble is; the engines and trannies are bullet proof. But the chassis are tin worm magnets. So finding one with a mint chassis [regardless of the state of the mechanicals] is nigh on impossible.

I hope this isn't infringing the rules. But just to let my fellow Collie forum frequenters know, I've listed mine in the classifieds section. No tax or MOT and chassis/sills need work doing. But engine & tranny are sound. I'm only after £1750 ONO for it. Surely easily worth that, even just as a...

Yeah. It is a bit of a bummer. In spite of everything, I really like the truck. It's like driving a big comfy sofa. I had a lift in my neighbour's newer Mitsubishi L200 and couldn't believe how crude it was, compared to my Collie. None of the 'stuff' it needs doing is hugely major in itself...

Oh. I've still been here. Mostly just lurking though, as my Cruiser was laid up for the winter. I think Ive priced myself out of that market now. I kind of regret selling my T3 Syncro for 'only' £7500, as they're going for stupid money now, in a much worse state than mine was. I'm actually...

Well, the on/off, will he/won't he saga with my Colorado continues: I'd taken the batteries out and left it parked up at the end of our lane since about the end of December, when the MOT ran out --planning to get tore into it when the warmer weather came along. So, yesterday i thought it was...

By coincidence, I just stumbled upon that channel myself a week or so ago. I nearly didn't watch the vid as it looked like one of those annoying "look at my hawt girlfriend, everyone!" ones on YouTube, that masquerade as being about mechanicals or suchlike. After watching a couple of her vids...

A few years ago that price would have had one too many zeroes on it. The world has gone mad!

Yay! --thread archaeology time again. Here are a couple of new ones I've stumbled across recently 1: COLIN FURZE -- I'd never heard of this guy before. He just popped up in my feed one day and I thought he was just another YouTuber. But, apparently he's been on Sky, so is a 'proper' telly...

Another good thing about the comparison sites is that, once you've got all your details stored there, you can quickly get quotes for vehicles you've not bought yet, by just editing the previous quote and putting in the new reg no.. So, when [metaphorically] pressing my nose against the shop...

Phew! --mine was never that much, even when I was living in the centre of Manchester right next to crime-free Moss Side [cough! cough!]. I know the insurance premiums game is all a bit of a random number generator. But the usual ways to squeeze it are: 1: Long No Claims Bonus -- Oddly enough...

It's a browser plugin that puts a flag beside the URL bar to show where a site's server is based:

Not according to my country flags plugin, you're not.... ..unless the war really has escalated and the yanks have occupied Berlin again.

...and, if you try to extend the lifecycle by repairing it yourself, Apple will disable it: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair See also the furore about John Deere tractors in America and the whole 'Right to...

The speed limits were introduced when most cars still had drum brakes all round and ABS was unheard of. In addition, tyre technology has also improved greatly in the intervening years. So, while 70moh might have been considered the limit of safe driving 'back in the day' when the limits were...

Except that you know it'll work out that you pay more than you do at present. These 'fairer systems' always somehow end up with everyone paying a bit more. Although now you get an itemised bill for the privilege. Where would you set the bar? I'm with you all the way with regards the fuckwitts...

Looks like someone in Whitehall has been doing the sums too. This will be er... "interesting" if the try and go ahead with it: https://www.nationalworld.com/lifestyle/cars/all-cars-could-be-fitted-with-black-box-trackers-under-new-tax-plans-3567065 Trouble is; successive British governments...

Oddly enough, this just showed up in my YouTube feed.... Diesel. The green alternative: * Cleaning rubbish from a beach * Recycling waste plastic * Helping indigenous farmers How do you like them apples, Greta?

True. Tony seems to be in the lucky position where he's getting a brand new EV almost for free, while the costs of running one are --I predict-- being kept artificially low to encourage their adoption. After which point --I also predict-- 'the market will be allowed to find its own level' [or...

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the 2nd hand market, as regards the wider adoption of EVs. I've never been able to even nearly afford a new vehicle and most of the motors I've bought have been 10, 20, or more years old. With a bit of luck and some decent maintenance, you can get...

Shhh! --don't give them ideas!

This is also true. Remember how, during the lockdowns, almost everyone was working from home and ... surprise! surprise!... the country didn't implode and almost everyone said how much happier they were, having more quality time with their family. And bosses found that people were just as...

It just struck me the other day that-- what with all these energy price hikes [60% since last year and another 50% apparently on the way] and a lot of people barely able to afford to put the heating on in the depths of winter-- the much vaunted economic benefits of EVs must be starting to pale a...

Ah. Got it. I've only ever tried to start the engine in Neutral Same here. Every time I looked at the dipstick, it just looked like someone had randomly splashed ATF across it. There was no visible demarcation line across, like you get with the oil dipstick. I think in the end I managed it...

Ha! Ha! --I missed that one. I did wonder about the "The level needs to be checked when the atf is warm and with the engine running in park..." bit though. I thought that it wasn't possible to start the engine or have it running while in Park, coz that locks up the transmission & driveshafts...

Cheers all for the encouraging anecdotes. It looks like my worries were misplaced and my thinking the engine smelled a bit hotter than usual, when I pulled up at home, was probably whatever the opposite of 'wishful thinking' is.

I know that's a bit of a "How long is a piece of string?" question. But roughly how much juice is left in the tank after the orange fuel warning light comes on? Mine came on yesterday on the way to collect the missus from work. Only 4 miles there and back, but up lots of steep, narrow, windy...

Ha! Ha! Looks like I'm not the only one, initially confused by his South African accent. I put on one of his vids to watch tonight and put it on mute with the auto-generated subtitles, as the missus was doing some revision....

It got relisted recently and went for a cool 21 grand.... I must say, I think it's an ugly fecker. That chopped off rear end makes the proportions look all wrong [or maybe it's just the weird mobile phone fish-eye effect]. But, with only 3500 miles on the clock and a mint chassis, I'd...

I'll swap you it for mine.

Someone did buy it. Only one bid at the start price of £3150. So may have got a nice deal there... or not, depending on wether they looked underneath or not. In other news, I had someone buttonhole me in a supermarket carpark yesterday, asking if I wanted to sell mine. Second time it's happened...

Well, I haven't got the cash to buy it at the moment anyway. Need to sell my van first... or rape the credit cards. So, letting the 1st auction run out and waiting to see if someone else buys it, or it gets relisted gives me a bit more time to ponder the logistics involved. Strictly Little...