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what about the cirrus ? not really ugly and had some potential ? change the dam ugly front end for some twin rounds and change the bonnet line? it lives near me nowdays

Pulled appart to build SV2 i believe

That's a valid point mate, up to the individual but they could easyly use that as a template and insert thier own addy if they fitted it themselves, 5 of the letters i sent were me as the garage and the customer The way i see it is why get an engeneers report when one is not asked for ? they only ask for a letter confirming the engine size and number, take a good look on the web, even on here there's posts where peeps have sent of V5's for pinto conversion with the cc stated as 1998, which is wrong and that is the whole reason the DVLA want a letter from an expert so the ordenary owner can't feck the records up by getting the details wronge lets face it if the owner of the car can't even get a detail like the cc correct what else can the get wronge? an engine number a few didgits out ? It's the owners duty to have the correct details of thier own car right not the DVLAs but they know people listen to twonks down the pub and are trying to take out that vairiable by insisting an expert does the details (well a mechanic anyhoo) and i have checked with the DVLA as have others, any mechanic who did the job is considerd qualified to produce the letter (see scaryoldcortina on retrorides he also checked with DVLA about the issue and they confirmed to him as well he was able to issue the letters) so in thier eyes any old mechanic will do and i'm certainly any old mechanic

Are these all car based Rob or more "special interest" sites Unfortunatly mate at my time of life i only get wood over cars been married way to long to be interested in "girls" yukky girls have cooties cars have grease

The only site i really get problems with is the Aussie cortina site, that just freezes every now and then, otherwise all the 40 odd forums i use work fine (fingers crossed touches wood) not that sort of wood Fred bloody pervert

la la la la Yep face full here as well in my defence cortinas don't usually come with em, although to make it worse i fitted it !

It's really really easy mate just knock up a letter like the one below on yer PC and send it off with the V5 You hasve allways needed to inform DVLA of any changes to engine number size ect, it's nothing new and it NOT law! just thier rules the DVLA don't / can't make the law but that 's a whole differant matter to be sorted in a court by somone else with more time and money than us feel free to copy it i've used it loads of times on my cars and customers justr rember tpo add you details PS dont listen to scare mongers running about like headless chickens over it , it's no biggy at all An engeneers report has fook all to do with the DVLA the only peeps who can ask for that is your insurance, the DVLA is only interested in ID and who drives what, the most they can ask for is a VIC or vehical identity check, issues regarding the build and safty is down to VOSA, a seperate entity alltogether.

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Give us your log in name and i'll ask the techy chaps to look into it

been on a few ghost hunts, not the crap you see on TV proper ones without the screaming tarts and shit talking Aholes, wankora you reading this you fooking twat the mind is an amazing thing, so powerfull it actually invented boredom

Rear door got a 52 plate in with the same problem, cut back the loom and re-solder it

ebay kits are about £15 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-CORTINA-MK-3 ... 1c16b55009 used em before with no problems

I remember Elvis dieing, i was in the copperlantern hotel in Walton-on-the naze, in the bar watching an elis impersonator 9/11 i missed, i got told about it in the afternoon when i turned up at me yard by the bloke who lived there in a caravan as security err Di dieing i was in clacton, missed it again me mate rang me and told me, like i needed to know really urgent or sumink

sorry but that is bollox as i allready said i've followed tankers from my local shell staion to my local tesco and i asked the driver about it cos this same conversation came up on the transit forum, only differance is in the additives added by the individual retailer each forcourt has it's pumps tested for flow rate accuracy and quality by HM Revenue & Customs, (used to be called weights and measures back in the day) on a bi or monthy basis, just go ask somone who works in a petrol station

Aussie ford hinges open the bonnet wider if that's what your after, or does it need to pop forward as well ?

Nope never had a problem, i only use Tesco or Morrisons mainly cos they get thier fuel from the same refinery as all the big stations BUT they use differant additives. I often see shell tankers filling up me local tescos and morrisons but mainly BP ones. Having said that i run older diesels that are more forgiving of old/stale/watered fuel so that could have an impact as the chances are you got some water from a low tank at the station, the fuel itself is all the same

Hit the brakes while the rollers where still going and it flung him off ?

120 SWB ? 6 speed auto ? on a 93 ?? if it was a SWB and the chassis has been extended you could have trouble with VOSA there? sounds like it's been downrated from 3500

If only !!... Even with left and right hand treads they still come loose, its such a problem that my boss is contemplating spending £12k on special 'anti loose' wheel nuts. They are torqued every six weeks and rechecked whenever a wheel is removed. what's that on chap ? TBH i've never had a problem with transit sized recovery trucks ect, it's undoing the Bstds that's a pain usually correctly tightening in the first place does the job but i guess on heavyer stuff the side loads can cause a lot of problems ? not really into heavyer trucks TBH i've seen artics with those metal retainers and pointers to keep check on the nuts or is it a vibration problem do you recon ? allways wonderd Yeah, proper heavy stuff, I think its mostly paint or rust related with the added help of sheer weight, side loads and vibrations (they don't get balanced). TBH its not common on cars so there is a good chance it was never torqued correctly. He may have heard the paint thing and just used that to cover his arse. My local tyre shop never torques anything, they just use the windy gun and that does it up tighter than the reccommended setting, perhaps not the correct way but its what they do. When I was at work the other day one of the office bods had a mobile tyre fitter come and fit four tyres. When he finished he fetched the owner of the car from the office and made him watch him torque the wheels and told him he should get them checked in however many miles and made him sign something to say they had been torqued !! One of those rare decent fitters by the sound of it, TBH i windy then breaker bar the fookers, after 25 odd years you get a feel for what is "tight enough" if you don't they fall off learning the hard way is still learning mind you my windy is probably older than me and a wee bit under performing' just like me

Yep pug 2.1 or 2.3 non turbo, slow as a dead horse with it's legs cut off that's why there aint many left, that and 90% were taxi pack and were run into the ground the boot badges used to get pinched all the time to end up on RS2000s

If only !!... Even with left and right hand treads they still come loose, its such a problem that my boss is contemplating spending £12k on special 'anti loose' wheel nuts. They are torqued every six weeks and rechecked whenever a wheel is removed. what's that on chap ? TBH i've never had a problem with transit sized recovery trucks ect, it's undoing the Bstds that's a pain usually correctly tightening in the first place does the job but i guess on heavyer stuff the side loads can cause a lot of problems ? not really into heavyer trucks TBH i've seen artics with those metal retainers and pointers to keep check on the nuts or is it a vibration problem do you recon ? allways wonderd

only on one side except on commercials where they have left and right handed thread studs but even on those the sideways forces can loosen an incorrectly tightend nut.

God it's so fooking simple, beachy head - push = job done, i'll do it FREE s Spent a long time helping out a good friend who'd sufferd at the hands of a tosspot like this, she's still all messed up 23 years later it's not something you want to listen to especialy being a man (cos i feel emmbarressed to be one TBH) but if it helps i can handle it (just) and if he wern't already dead he fooking would have been by now !! And relax,, no can't relax, kill the cnuts end of

As an ex tyre fitter that is slightly true (that paint can stop a wheel nut gripping the wheel) BUT i have had this exact problem before and with correctly tightend wheels the nuts stayed on for days if not weeks, a few miles down the road indicates a numpty on the nutgun, even when wheels have been nut gunned up and not torqued with a breaker bar they will stay on for days and or 10 pluss miles, with a new alloy i allway recomend checking the wheel nuts after 20 mins/ 20 miles just to be safe

Mk1 capri axle isnt a baby atlas its a narrow atlas, later is wide and cortina are even wider still, the baby atlas is the motorsport item and very rare but as allways happens certain parts get nicknames based on the competition parts (like all type E gearboxes that have sat in an escort boot becoming rocket boxes when are mnost deffinatly not and are just cortina boxes) Goes like this baby atlas 48.5 M1 capri 50 Later capri 52 cortina Mk3/4/5 54 standard escort english axles are 48.5 which is why the baby is as well as it was the competition strength replacement for the english, very VERY fooking rare to find one on a standard car in when you do they are 99% on euro spec cars (NOT to be mistaken for the Koln that nearly all euro spec escorts have) the Mk2 cortina axle is wider than an escort, only half inch so