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chevettehs, on 11 Jan 2015 - 1:36 PM, said:

 

As I am in the process of building a new rally car I'm doing the bare minimum to keep the old pink one in tip top condition.

 

So I've carried out some major structural repairs this morning which should keep things ticking over nicely.

 

Hopefully no one will try to remove it as that's load bearing tank tape.

 

Before, shoddy German metalwork

 

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After, German engineering enhanced by British Craftsmanship

 

 

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I've already had an email from BMW asking for the sign back.

 

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You can hardly see the join.

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I can do a nice job occasionally though, done about 30 odd of my old wheels.

 

Old wheels from 1993 off my old Audi 100. Crappy photo but in my defence it's pitch black in the barn at this time of night,

 

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Mk2 Escort RS Alloys, still need to do the insides of the spokes but not sure whether to stick with the original black or do something else as I'm painting the car black. 

 

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Passatt alloys, circa 2000 or so. 

 

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They look the bollocks them mate.  Those Audi 100s were great cars as well

 

I scrapped my 100 about 3 or 4 years ago. I bought it in 2000 when 70,000 or so on the clock, had 290,000 on it when I scrapped it and I drove the bugger in. The mileage showing was low as I did the clutch on about 230,000 (which was still the original clutch) and snapped the clip which holds the sensor in place so I estimate it did around 50,000 on top of that. It spent half of it's life with a rally car and trailer on the back and loaded to the gunnels with parts and tools and broke down once in the 13 or 14 years I had it. Did the oil and filter at half the schedule because it grafted so much and it just kept on going. It was a 2.3 5 cylinder estate, proper old mans car and I bought it when I was 20, had loads of other stuff come and go but I didn't part with it. Took my until last year before I found something I was happy enough to keep as a replacement for it when I got the A6 I have now. Wish I'd never scrapped it.

 

I'm going to run some of the old off road tyres from the rally car on the 100 wheels as winter wheels for the A6. The Escort wheels obviously for the Mk1 and Mk2 (I have about 30 Escort wheels alone) and probably sell the Passat ones unless they look better on the A6 than my current ones. 

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I broke my office chair a couple of days ago because I'm obviously so strong, so ordered a new one. It turned up today, without instructions on the assembly. I managed, and am now sat in complete comfort. I even found a scrap of wood I sanded down and screwed between two of the 5 legs to give myself a little foot rest.

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I broke my office chair a couple of days ago because I'm obviously so strong, so ordered a new one. It turned up today, without instructions on the assembly. I managed, and am now sat in complete comfort. I even found a scrap of wood I sanded down and screwed between two of the 5 legs to give myself a little foot rest.

5 legs?

Are you boasting?

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He'll kill me but I couldnt resist...

 

I have a set of fairy lights that illuminate my greenhouse. Well, the lights stop working and he's checked the electrics and the fuse in the plug to no avail and returns with the sad news that it looks like the fuse light has gone and thats probably the end of the lights. Never mind, we'd had them a while. So, he's left them in a heap and I go to move them to clean the floor (proper modern couple us) and then I notice, attached to the cable is a little plastic bad containing a replacement bulb. And I've just fixed the lights. This won't end well...

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