Bullitt

who was paying for the pre-purch? if it wasn't you, and was your prospective purchaser - it's fair enough, mate. their contract is with the purchaser, the one engaging and paying for their services. were you expecting a freebie?

If you paid for a house valuation, you'd be pretty pissed if they then gifted the information you'd paid for, to the vendor.

It was them that paid for it. I have purchased a number of other cars in similar circumstances where I have paid for either an AA check or a mechanic and in every case the inspector has provided it to the owner when they picked up the car and I then got it off them.

I wasn't expecting a freebie as the prepurchase inspection has very little value to me as a seller other than to confirm what the prospective purchaser suggests. It would be easy for the buyer to claim everything was wrong with the car and I needed to halve my price in order for them to still buy it. While I have a reasonable knowledge of my own car it would be easy for a mechanic to find something I wasn't aware of but it would be just as easy for the buyer to claim something that was completely false.

There is no advantage in the garage withholding the report from me and it has subsequently cost them several thousand dollars of my business,

I had a big argument with Page European a few years ago when I dropped my BMW in for a pre-purchase inspection and they refused to tell me anything about it. I've been actively avoiding them and trying to convince others to do the same ever since.

I go to Powerhaus on Tinakori Road. Theyre pricey but theyre the only people Ive found who can actually work on my Peugeot (apparently 106's have different diagnostic plugs to bigger Pugs and every mechanic thinks they can work on them till they try).

Just failed a wof on a chip in the windscreen the same garage has previously commented on but never failed me on before. Wil see if Smith & Smith manages to break the windscreen when they try to fix it tomorrow like they did the last time they tried to fix an old chip for me.

Leave early and I miss out on being in the photos except the burnout one

Good to catch up with a few familiar faces. Will try make some future meets.

Won't be able to stay long but will try make a brief appearance.

You are thinking of earlier Magnettes, they go for more and are quite sought after.

ZA/ZB look a lot like the 4/44 but still have B series engines. The Mk 3 and 4 are the Farina styled ones.

Im not sure there would be much similar between a 4/44 and a ZA

the 4/44 technically is a MG as it uses the early MG XPAG motor, whereas the Magnette had the Austin B series..

Pretty much. The 4/44 used an XPAW engine which is pretty close to the XPAG used in the MG T series midgets (excluding the TA and TF 1500) and Y Type sedan/tourer but not identical. Plenty of 4/44's have been destroyed to keep T series on the road.

Will likely be there.

Not too worried about F5000 tbh. They make an incredible noise but have seen them many times and you generally get closer racing in the lesser categories

I had mine supplied/installed by Ashley Audio

http://www.ashleyaudio.co.nz/

Can't say they will be cheaper or dearer than any other place but Iain is a good guy and did a good job.

Do cyclecars have to have 4 wheels? Seems like itd be a good category to build a morgan 3 wheeler type arrangement.

This was always the one that appealed to me

a big difference can be requiring a cert and not requiring a cert

Both would require a cert, difference is with a Kent you have a greater chance of getting away with it.

From the side the skirts look better level IMO. I might change my opinion depending on what they look like at the back though.

New mirror is sitting in bits waiting to go to be painted.

Had it out yesterday after work for the first time in 3 weeks. Only did about 20 miles but it was all on interesting roads and good fun.

I knew mine was higher but I hadn't got to the detail of why that was. Is on the list to sort once my house costs abate somewhat.

The metal is ok, its just broken the plastic lugs, you can place it back on the car and it looks fine but it wont mount properly without glueing it back together which seems more hassle than its worth.

Yeah I knew its off a metro, I already have a new one on its way.

I did lightly bump it enough that it was pointing at the ground by the rear wheel when I was putting in the battery but Ill likely do that hundreds of times over the coming years and it should stand up to more than that. I suspect your right its had a bigger bump in the past.

What battery did you replace it with by the way? Another Odyssey or something like a Bosch battery for the application?

Its badged as a Repco one but who makes it I'm not sure. Repco has about three different ranges of batteries and this was the top one in the appropriate size. $191 worth. Will think about something abit more premium next time but for now itll likely use itself up sitting in the garage so decided against wasting another Odyssey like Stanley appears to have.

Refresh it over winter?

Oh fuck me I LOLed (no offence meant).

So did I

Fitted personalised plates. I've had these for a long time now so some people who have known me a long time might remember them, though theyve never been on a oldschool style car as all the ones Ive owned had black plates.

Next issue is the Passengers door mirror decided to part company with the car on Sunday.

I could fix it but theyre pretty cheap so I'll just buy a new one. Either way itd have to be repainted as you can see the scratches in the photo from where it bounced down the road.

Fitted a new battery and replaced the tyre weld as its something like 8 years old and I didnt trust it to work(they dont have a spare tyre).

Such a pain to get to the battery, its about a foot lower than the opening for it with no spare space on any side of it to get your hands around it to lift it or get it past the cables. Had to take the radiator trim surround and windscreen washer motor cover off just to get the battery out. All appears to be working well now though.

Refresh it over winter?

ROFL

I don't have any photos with the HID's on. They'd probably over expose anyway

Workshop manual would definately be helpful. No idea what usend it is, assuming its something like imageshack for documents?

Its now been over three years since I've owned an interesting car as Ive been saving for a house/garage/more expensive car but as of yesterday I managed to tick off the final one on that list. Not Old School but people on here may be interested anyway.

Its a 2000 Lotus Elise with only 16,000 miles on it. It came into NZ in 2004 with only 4,000 miles on it so its extremely tidy. It also has a hardtop including its proper bag so it can be hung on the wall. Its pretty much standard other than a K&N, VVC Plenum, short shifter, HID lights (which I'll likely bin) and a diffuser. It had personalised plates on it which the owner has kept so itll be getting the ones I already have on it in the next few weeks.

As you can probably imagine my mortgage is looking abit sicker now that it was last week so I dont have too many immediate plans for it. People keep telling me i'll want to modify it which will probably happen...but not this year.

Saw this yesterday, coming towards me on Owhiro bay road. Looks good. Can't remember the last time I saw a Trump wagon let one one with that presence.

Real wheels break too. When I bought my Honda it came with Mugen RNR's with a mark on the lip of one where itd previously been kerbed...all was fine for about a year till one day the tyre went flat. Turned out one of the spokes had cracked where it joined the rim. I'm sure a knock off wheel could have suffered the same failure but decent wheels are often pretty light which all else equal (which I know its not) surely doesn't help

On a related note Ive just bought a couple of single garages. Theyre both standard width and abit longer than standard (one is 6.5m one is 8 ). They both have power to them to run a garage door opener but no other power points or lights.

What is a good level of lights/powerpoints to install? People on here seem to be mentioning flurecent tubes over normal bulbs? How many etc?

Is that the SQUIRT or whatever the plate is light blue 1600?

I have a smaller version of my p/plate. I could do it because its only got 5 letters so I got it transferred to a motorbike. Its still recorded as a bike one, if I switched it back to a car (its currently on my bookshelf) I have no idea whether I could use the bike plate legally.

Theory is if they start advertising it too early people will start applying the new rule before 25 March.

The way I see it itll work fine...for the 50% of people who ever reach their destination, the rest will be stuck forever waiting to turn right.

Hi Barry

Id imagine a few people here could potentially be interested.

Two things I can't see on your site. What area is the facility located in and whats the approximite cost?