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I was mega annoyed at myself when the AX died. I had gotten hold of some speakers that were worth far more than the car (to be fair most speakers were by this point). When I had it towed to the garage to be read it's last rights, in the emotion at the loss of my first car I completely forgot about removing the speakers. Only remembered a couple of months later when I found the stock ones in a cupboard. My only other speaker related story is more my dads story than mine but I was there so it counts. Sat in a van at services on the way back from some music event my dad had been working at. Group of chavs roll up next to us with music blaring thinking they are all that with their tiny little speakers in the parcel shelf. My dad just cooly, but pointedly opens the rear doors of the van to reveal a speaker of similar dimensions to the door opening, (two filled the whole van). The look on the chavs faces as they realised was pretty funny. Obviously there was no way a transit could power these behemoths but they were pretty impressed and it was quite amusing. They ended up being ok blokes (disagreement on music choice and clothing choice to one side) and we had a bit of a laugh and chat about car stereos etc. Edit: PS loving these stories good to know that lots of people are equally stupid at that age. I find that reassuring

God damn it I'm now slowest on RBR. I can't be having that, I will have to have another go this week sometime if I can. I was considering putting some weight over the back end and trying to lift off oversteer to aim the front end round better.

Well after 50 or so attempts I am down to a 1:40.592 on matterhorn. I know there is more in it as my best sectors together would probably put me in the 39's which is mega frustrating. I think i am done for today though.

Gives a whole new meaning to the term bucket seats doesn't it

:lol:

Nice choice, I think Adam (r111nxx) still has his HR for sale, nice guy, lives in Wakefield area. I have seen his car in the metal too and looks very tidy. It's grey rather than silver or black but may be of interest. How close to the M56 are you based? I will be driving past on sunday on the way over to Wales, if you happen to be not too big a detour and fancied a quick natter about cars/ have a nosey at my HR I am happy to drop by if I'm not running late. Thanks for pointing his Hr out, I'll be sure to check it out. Doing a lot of poking about in showrooms, in this forum (for over 12 months, in secret ), on eBay and autotrader etc etc so I'm getting to know the average prices and what sort of bits I want, there's plenty about so I can afford to be picky to be fair! I'm not sure how far up the M56 you'll go really, depends on what part of Wales you're headed to, but you can get to it from my house in around 10 minutes depending on the traffic about the local shopping centre. Dan. I'm off to Bangor so will join from the M6 heading west until it runs out. Like I say, offer is potentially there if you want it, no pressure just let me know, if you have been noseying around lots anyway then I imagine you have answered a lot of your questions for yourself, particularly as mine isn't modded (don't know what your plans are in that respect).

The thing that's getting me here is does an A4 not have rear seats? Could your passenger not have sat there while you removed the front passenger seat? Still good story

Nice choice, I think Adam (r111nxx) still has his HR for sale, nice guy, lives in Wakefield area. I have seen his car in the metal too and looks very tidy. It's grey rather than silver or black but may be of interest. How close to the M56 are you based? I will be driving past on sunday on the way over to Wales, if you happen to be not too big a detour and fancied a quick natter about cars/ have a nosey at my HR I am happy to drop by if I'm not running late.

Sheffield area code is 0114 (?) Sorry just the way I looked at it on my phone the area code was 0124 for the number advertised and Sheffield being 0114 I thought *maybe* it was a typo. Anyway ad has disappeared and my search for a 350Z continues. Got three lined up to view on Saturday. Ah I see where you are coming from now. I suspect the fact that the ad has disappeared is no bad thing. Good luck with finding a Zed, what sort are you after, what is your budget? Have you checked out the Zeds for sale section of this board?

GLWS. Very upmarket piece of paper with your name on for the sale you got there

Sheffield area code is 0114 (?)

Does have the frost seats though. Pete I think you will find, as per the advert, that they are in fact beige No such thing as beige seats for the zed but I guess we'll never know as the ad has been removed Pete I know there isn't, but whoever posted the ad obviously didn't know that.

Surely that's just a good argument to upgrade

Haha nice, my mum ruined my dads old 5 series when it overheated. She called him up said it's overheating etc etc, he said just stick some water in it to get it home. Unfortunately instead of supplying the radiator with a nice bottle of natures finest it was the oil filler cap that had it's thirst quenched. Needless to say it didn't make it home and we had one unhappy fella in the house for a while. They are still together but she isn't even allowed to touch her own car now save for driving it and putting fuel in it (she manages the correct fuel it would seem, hope I am not jinxing this, I will report back if I get a call saying shes put diesel in instead of petrol, I know there are mechanisms in place to prevent this but the lack of mechanical sympathy or interest in cars leads me to believe that she is capable of anything).

When the ECU on my AX went, before I knew it was the ECU, I tried to bump start it while rolling down a hill. Problem was of course it wouldn't have started in a month of Sundays the state it was in. There i was rolling down a hill towards the a6 trying to get it to start. Ended up being stopped in the middle of the road on said hill, not being able to move, had to get my dad to go down and stop the traffic so I could roll straight over and down the other side to manoeuvre it into a sensible parking place again til it could be towed.

Damn sight cheaper fix than a new gearbox when you're young, stupid and blown all your money on a sportscar you can't afford to run! Haha. Can't argue with that mate. This is brilliant, love the ingenuity here. Enjoying reading all of these, keep 'em coming.

Does have the frost seats though. Pete I think you will find, as per the advert, that they are in fact beige

Love the Cortina fix, not sure that having to push a car constitutes a fix though Nice I met an armed response unit once who came to take down my dad. He used to manufacture and sell explosives for the entertainment industry, films, live shows and the like. We were doing a promo vid of some new products at a local stock car circuit with things like helicopter gun fire and big fireball explosive effects. God knows what nearby residents thought was going on but an armed response unit dutifully turned up. Were a nice bunch of lads in the end once it was cleared up what was actually going on (police had been notified beforehand etc) and hung around to watch us filming. Although they looked hard all suited and booted with their firearms they turned into little girls when some of the really big effects were being set off, 20 ft fireball explosion where you can feel the soundwave hit followed by all the heat had them sh**ting their pants and covering their ears.

OK, who is going to call the grammar police? See above post again

Nice LingLong tyres on the back too

Apart from the obvious the first thing I noticed was they misspelled frost leather

Well colour me embarrassed, I was thinking that was a phenomenal coincidence and what a small world it was. I will chalk this up to it being a long few weeks and try not to be such a gullible weany in future. Unfortunately the story that followed my reply was true. They still haven't let me forget it. (and still have a saxo)

Not sure if this is a joke, (tone very hard to gauge in online comments). If true story makes me wonder how many Saxos had a linkage rod go. Also not entirely sure how a linkage rod going would induce a crash as you can just roll until a safe place to stop. Terrible things those Saxos, lift off oversteer was a nightmare, particularly in the wet. I hated mine, still the worst car I have ever driven. When I first met my partners parents I had just bought a Mondeo to replace the Saxo with. I sat there during dinner, after they had made a comment about how well looked after my Mondeo looked, and said something along the lines of "yeah much better than the sh**ty saxo that I had before, that thing was awful". Turned out they had one, and her sister had one too. Ooops Edited since BulletMagnet threatened to call the grammar police. (Nark)

Haha brilliant

Another thread got me reminiscing about my first car which I fixed after a break in using bits from the local scrappy. It also prompted my memory on some fairly dodgy budget motoring in the first couple of years of my driving life. So I was wondering whether anyone had some interesting dodgy fixes for things that they had done in the past. I will set the ball rolling with one of mine: My second car was a Citroen Saxo (1.0 not VTS/VTR). It was bought out of necessity from a local garage when I had my AX towed there with what turned out to be a packed up ECU and I had no way to get home. Anyway at circa 130k miles a gear linkage rod decided it didn't want to play ball any more and would periodically disconnect itself. Not a huge issue, as with the ground clearance under the saxo, whenever it happened I would roll to the side of the road and could reach under and reattach in a few seconds and I would be on my way again for a few days. Not having much spare cash at the time, and getting sick of lying on the floor every couple of hundred miles I decided to fashion myself a new gear linkage purely out of cable ties. Lots looped together nice and tight with the two ends just tried around the appropriate other pieces, drove around like that for another few thousand miles no problem until I sold the car back to the garage I bought it from. I was thoroughly amazed that my cable tie linkage rod worked with no issues whatsoever and cost me pence as a fix. So what stories have others got to share in this same vein?