The Dark Wob

mercrocker wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:29 pm What a factory does works in a flow-production cost-conscious large scale operation. If we are paying for skilled labour at a more artisan level then yes, find a better way! This includes finding out how water ingress occurs and stopping that happening again, or at least routing acceptable ingress a different way.

Despite living in coastal conditions (the natural habitat of a leisure vehicle wherever it happens to actually reside) none of the work I had done on my van 9 years ago has needed doing again, except for the sliding door which the last bodyshop did on a cheap basis because I had run out of money having other stuff done.....It might have gone a couple more years but would only have got worse. I won't have the money in a couple of years which is why all this is getting done now.

Modern campers don't appeal to me at all so I am quite happy to pump money into the Volkswagen and keep hold it for a few more years. I am not interested in the VW scene but the inflated value of old vans makes it very difficult to justify replacing it with another. Unfortunately the scene tax has spread to other makes of van, too.....

captain_70s wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:07 am

SiC wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:51 am I look at some of the more modern cars on AS that live up in Scotland and how utterly rusty to fuck they are. Even stuff like wings and doors have gone crusty after 12-15yrs, let alone suspension parts. Yet the exact same models down here seem to have a fraction of the rust.

Friends don't let friends buy Scottish cars... There is a reason the we repatriate Volvos from warmer climates.

Having said that my Dolly 1850 was a London car and that was rotten under the underseal. Spending a decade in Frinton-On-Sea likely didn't help.

64A60 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:38 pm Hope to investigate the non-operational Fuel Gauge over the weekend.

xtriple wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:44 am Hopefully, get new tyres... and wheels BIG wheels and tyres. I am sad and a big kid not to mention, a chav!



Told you not to mention that!

chadders wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 3:12 pm You should run an invacar, only 3 tyres and the size of Polo mints.

Hooli wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 3:09 pm

xtriple wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:44 am Hopefully, get new tyres... and wheels BIG wheels and tyres. I am sad and a big kid not to mention, a chav!



Told you not to mention that!

I've been pricing tyres today. 255/40ZR18 isn't cheap unless you go for no-name budget crap that I'd rather not fit.