Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 10]
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W00DY said:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-MERCEDES-190E-AUTO-...
Looks lovely although I suspect the reserve will be quite high.
Worth putting on my watch list.
defblade said:
You really don't need the capitals and exclamation mark; every single person with an E39 knows already 
In fact, I was going to mention it when you said about the polishing the plastic and poor lumens output the other day, but then I thought, "no, it's Derin, he will know about and have checked that."
At least it's a cheap job that should only need doing once. I didn't find it took so long at all once I'd got the front covers off, but they were a sod - SWMBO wouldn't let me bake them loose
I really hadn't expected all 4 were snapped (nor did I check by trying to adjust them prior to embarking upon opening them (which would have been the obvious starting point in hindsight) because all I'd really noticed was a tiny bit of 'bounce' from one light whilst driving over cobbles. That was what made me suspicious. In fact, I was going to mention it when you said about the polishing the plastic and poor lumens output the other day, but then I thought, "no, it's Derin, he will know about and have checked that." At least it's a cheap job that should only need doing once. I didn't find it took so long at all once I'd got the front covers off, but they were a sod - SWMBO wouldn't let me bake them loose
As, you say though it should have been expected now that I can see what the originals are made out of.
Yes, it's a cheap job to do(only £5.75) and the worst and lengthy part was indeed getting the covers off. I did it with a gun.
Having never done it before though I was convinced that at some stage, knowing my luck, I was going to snap some piece of crucial plastic somewhere rendering the whole exercise a mistake.
W00DY said:
Quite possibly the worst colour for re-sale purposes...! No affiliation or anything but I just bought one of these small Li-Ion battery booster things. This one to be precise
https://www.amazon.co.uk/18000mAh-Current-Waterpro...
It's one of the bigger ones they sell, as I wanted to use it to start my V12 XJS. I was a bit cynical about their bold claims, and I'd wasted £90 or so a few years ago on an old school booster from Halfords that weighed a ton and struggled to turn over my Mini.
Well bloody hell it turned the engine over faster than the old battery ever did and it started almost instantly. I hadn't even bothered charging it. In the interests of science I did this three times in a row and it started perfectly. It can sit in it's little carry case in the boot and come in the house to get charged once a quarter from now on. I highly recommend one to anybody with, oh I don't know, a predilection for collecting a lot of crap old cars that often don't want to start.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/18000mAh-Current-Waterpro...
It's one of the bigger ones they sell, as I wanted to use it to start my V12 XJS. I was a bit cynical about their bold claims, and I'd wasted £90 or so a few years ago on an old school booster from Halfords that weighed a ton and struggled to turn over my Mini.
Well bloody hell it turned the engine over faster than the old battery ever did and it started almost instantly. I hadn't even bothered charging it. In the interests of science I did this three times in a row and it started perfectly. It can sit in it's little carry case in the boot and come in the house to get charged once a quarter from now on. I highly recommend one to anybody with, oh I don't know, a predilection for collecting a lot of crap old cars that often don't want to start.
dme123 said:
No affiliation or anything but I just bought one of these small Li-Ion battery booster things. This one to be precise
https://www.amazon.co.uk/18000mAh-Current-Waterpro...
It's one of the bigger ones they sell, as I wanted to use it to start my V12 XJS. I was a bit cynical about their bold claims, and I'd wasted £90 or so a few years ago on an old school booster from Halfords that weighed a ton and struggled to turn over my Mini.
Well bloody hell it turned the engine over faster than the old battery ever did and it started almost instantly. I hadn't even bothered charging it. In the interests of science I did this three times in a row and it started perfectly. It can sit in it's little carry case in the boot and come in the house to get charged once a quarter from now on. I highly recommend one to anybody with, oh I don't know, a predilection for collecting a lot of crap old cars that often don't want to start.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/18000mAh-Current-Waterpro...
It's one of the bigger ones they sell, as I wanted to use it to start my V12 XJS. I was a bit cynical about their bold claims, and I'd wasted £90 or so a few years ago on an old school booster from Halfords that weighed a ton and struggled to turn over my Mini.
Well bloody hell it turned the engine over faster than the old battery ever did and it started almost instantly. I hadn't even bothered charging it. In the interests of science I did this three times in a row and it started perfectly. It can sit in it's little carry case in the boot and come in the house to get charged once a quarter from now on. I highly recommend one to anybody with, oh I don't know, a predilection for collecting a lot of crap old cars that often don't want to start.
dme123 said:
No affiliation or anything but I just bought one of these small Li-Ion battery booster things. This one to be precise
https://www.amazon.co.uk/18000mAh-Current-Waterpro...
It's one of the bigger ones they sell, as I wanted to use it to start my V12 XJS. I was a bit cynical about their bold claims, and I'd wasted £90 or so a few years ago on an old school booster from Halfords that weighed a ton and struggled to turn over my Mini.
Well bloody hell it turned the engine over faster than the old battery ever did and it started almost instantly. I hadn't even bothered charging it. In the interests of science I did this three times in a row and it started perfectly. It can sit in it's little carry case in the boot and come in the house to get charged once a quarter from now on. I highly recommend one to anybody with, oh I don't know, a predilection for collecting a lot of crap old cars that often don't want to start.
^ +1, those things are astonishing. Bought a super-cheapo £39.99 one in the slender hope of starting up my E31 without the fun derived from two enfeebled batteries and no off-street parking. Fired it up from dead first time, then again and again in the weeks ahead. Remarkable. (I've since replaced the batteries, avoiding Derin's near-death alarums but encountering a pool of fizzing rust under the one whose drain pipe had fallen off.) https://www.amazon.co.uk/18000mAh-Current-Waterpro...
It's one of the bigger ones they sell, as I wanted to use it to start my V12 XJS. I was a bit cynical about their bold claims, and I'd wasted £90 or so a few years ago on an old school booster from Halfords that weighed a ton and struggled to turn over my Mini.
Well bloody hell it turned the engine over faster than the old battery ever did and it started almost instantly. I hadn't even bothered charging it. In the interests of science I did this three times in a row and it started perfectly. It can sit in it's little carry case in the boot and come in the house to get charged once a quarter from now on. I highly recommend one to anybody with, oh I don't know, a predilection for collecting a lot of crap old cars that often don't want to start.
This is mine - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00S64X8BK/ref...
JF87 said:
^ +1, those things are astonishing. Bought a super-cheapo £39.99 one in the slender hope of starting up my E31 without the fun derived from two enfeebled batteries and no off-street parking. Fired it up from dead first time, then again and again in the weeks ahead. Remarkable. (I've since replaced the batteries, avoiding Derin's near-death alarums but encountering a pool of fizzing rust under the one whose drain pipe had fallen off.)
This is mine - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00S64X8BK/ref...
I thought of getting one of those, and I have a feeling it probably would turn over my XJS as the sThis is mine - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00S64X8BK/ref...
tty battery that was in there could only muster 330CCA and that managed it. For £40 I'd consider it an essential. W00DY said:
You do have a knack for finding them. Is that a bottle top remover on the glove box door?derin100 said:
I really hadn't expected all 4 were snapped (nor did I check by trying to adjust them prior to embarking upon opening them (which would have been the obvious starting point in hindsight) because all I'd really noticed was a tiny bit of 'bounce' from one light whilst driving over cobbles. That was what made me suspicious.
2 ways you (well, the next person to buy an E39 can spot this problem:The lights fail to take their little bow on start up.
You can open the bonnet and wiggle the backs of the lights around almost as if there's nothing holding them in place.... oh.
In the meantime, I've been car hunting and wanted to show off my purchase to the thread as I was certainly looking for a 1-5k (well, up to £5999, anyway) barge. Unfortunately, I've blown the budget fairly well, and I'm not 100% it's a barge either...
W00DY said:
Wish I'd seen that earlier.I'd have happily paid 99p for it
Perhaps even a whole quid.
Speaking of below budget barges, this caught my attention last night, warts and all...
http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/193417/1995...
For £300 and 15mins from me I'm tempted, however I know how it would go, I'd have sunk 2k into it within a week.
http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/193417/1995...
For £300 and 15mins from me I'm tempted, however I know how it would go, I'd have sunk 2k into it within a week.
cat220 said:
Speaking of below budget barges, this caught my attention last night, warts and all...
http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/193417/1995...
For £300 and 15mins from me I'm tempted, however I know how it would go, I'd have sunk 2k into it within a week.
Buy it and just ruin your life already , it gives us joy watching people suffer on Pistonheads http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/193417/1995...
For £300 and 15mins from me I'm tempted, however I know how it would go, I'd have sunk 2k into it within a week.
Could be posted in many different threads...but it's pitched squarely in the £1-5k bracket. So one can't really argue with that?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
sleepera6 said:
cat220 said:
Speaking of below budget barges, this caught my attention last night, warts and all...
http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/193417/1995...
For £300 and 15mins from me I'm tempted, however I know how it would go, I'd have sunk 2k into it within a week.
Buy it and just ruin your life already , it gives us joy watching people suffer on Pistonheads http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/193417/1995...
For £300 and 15mins from me I'm tempted, however I know how it would go, I'd have sunk 2k into it within a week.
derin100 said:
Could be posted in many different threads...but it's pitched squarely in the £1-5k bracket. So one can't really argue with that?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
Lovely interior (not). http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
Please please please don't look, once seen cannot be unseen. derin100 said:
Could be posted in many different threads...but it's pitched squarely in the £1-5k bracket. So one can't really argue with that?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
Should this be on the council thread ?http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
derin100 said:
Could be posted in many different threads...but it's pitched squarely in the £1-5k bracket. So one can't really argue with that?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
nice grouting
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmw-e34-4-4-manual-v8-on...
nice grouting
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