HMC Motors- Mystery machine

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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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You might. My restoring days are over once I've finally got my MG back on the road, I'm too old and creaky now :D
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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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At least you don't have to worry about them scratching it.
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Re: HMC Rotten green bogey- or my Mercedes Vito

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HMC wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 11:36 am Whilst lowering local property values by its very existence on the street, it also developed a LOUD Exhaust note, mainly due to the system snapping shortly after the fannymold.....

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No doubt an engineers mind would assess shortcomings in how the system was mounted contributing to a stress fracture, but being a Luddite I bodged it up....

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It’s much quieter, for now at least. It was starting to give me max power flashbacks, what with the paint colour and blaring exhaust, if not the vehicle itself.
Exhaust on my V6 Sharan is gradually falling to bits, I’m a lazy bastard of late and I’m just driving around the misfire and hitting recirc when I stop at junctions so I don’t top myself on the fumes.

Should probably investigate it but I just cba of late. Weird how I was bothered about the Galaxy but asbthisbthing is newer and arguably more fucked, I can’t summon the tinker genie.
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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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Some post about fabricating box sections or grinding in their valves. Me, I’m more about overlooking things that need skill, and papering over the cracks/putting pointless stickers on a clapped out piece of shit instead. Soz
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Did you deliberately park it in front of Chic Interiors so that they could admire the inside?
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Re: HMC Motors- Mystery machine

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Are those turds ok mechanically? A matter his looking for a cheap van - £1500 touch. Transits are all fucked and rotten with diesel pump and injector issues. Trafics are far better to drive and don't rust, but turbo/gearbox woes. Sprinter just too big, even a shortie.
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Re: HMC Motors- Mystery machine

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As far as this one goes the om611 seems totally indestructible, the gearbox is a bit worn but it seems punchy, economic and low Maintenance; if only the same could be said of the bodywork.
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Re: HMC Motors- Mystery machine

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I had one new in 2001 as a works van, it seemed like an exocet missile after my turbo less Transit. It was pretty good wagon except for the fragile mirrors that were not transit tough in London. The discs brakes were not upto much - many of the fleet had lock ups and buckled/flat spotted wheels from full lock slides in a straight line. Ventilation system was crap mind, steamed up from new.
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Re: HMC Motors- Max power flashbacks?

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chadders wrote: Fri May 17, 2019 12:08 pm Now that's the sort of thing Ideal for moving house and fucking off the new neighbours.


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