Eunos Chump

Social distancing, honest. 

Have had Mrs Maimboy's CLK up for sale outside the house, as we get a fair bit of foot traffic now. Had a few folks having a look around it, dunno how I'd actually sort a test drive though... but that could be academic anyway, 'cos I've discovered my tatty CLK has holes in the inner wheelarch and won't see another MOT without welding.  Given the other faults it has, I'm probably going to sack it off and maybe keep this one instead.  Or try to get through the winter in an Alfa GTV.

Used a Holts headlamp restoration kit for these, it worked pretty well but basically it's some 800/1000/1500/3000 grit wet''n'dry paper, some fluid which I'm sure is T-Cut, and some polish which looks and smells suspiciously like ordinary furniture polish.  Rotary polishing mop is good though. Finally refurbished the silver CLK alloys, saved £200 doing it myself but it was extremely laborious.  That car is being prepped for sale, it looks bloody good after many hours of cleaning and scrubbing of the interior.  Pale grey interior + dogs = nope  sorting the rusty panel on the VFR too.  I'm even tackling the oil leak on my CLK - it's the rocker cover gasket, easy enough just never been arsed. 

This was a year ago yesterday; can't believe I've just SORN'd it until further notice. Berlingo was sold to a nice chap from Autoshite, went a day before the lockdown started.  Have given the 147 it's first proper clean, was hoping to sell that too but it'll have to wait now.  This would be a good chance to replace the cambelt, but it would mean getting the parts delivered via mail and that's hardly essential, is it? This is SORN'd too, along with the silver CLK.  I'm keeping the other road-legal, so I can at least have the roof down on my weekly visit to the grim, Soviet-era Sainsburys.

£500 to you, I reckon that's top value but it's not getting a lot of interest on Autoshite.  I decided to see how much it would cost Monkeyboy to insure as his first car - £1522!

CR-V bought today!  Got fed up looking at battered examples at dealers who were asking top money, so instead bought a really clean one from a private seller for 2/3rds of the price.  It's not this actual car, but identical. This is the 4th car in 5 months, and I'm not even trying.  I've really upped my shite game and some kind of award must be due?

 Small sportyish car is here, after a swapover in a remote Midlands truck stop.  Ride up there was very comfy in the Vel Satis, but the threat of breakdown was never far away. It is really quite small, almost Mini size.  Firm ride but not unacceptable, certainly better than a Cooper S.  Gearchange is comedy-bad, like a spoon in a bucket of gravel. Airbag light on, rear tyres are toast, fairly mucky.  17" wheels with tiny brakes.  This is the 1.6 Twinspark, only 120 BHP but it's very eager.  Gearing is quite low, turning over at 4000 RPM at 80mph.  Apart from the gearchange, it feels pretty tight and rattle-free.  And here is the cause of the gear issues, this shaft seizes and the plastic bushes wear out.  It's taken me about 6 sessions to remove this due to awkward access and my bad back stopping progress.