I finally fitted new number plates - yahoo! Required a drill and one screwdriver, even I can't make a gash up of that... can I?

You doubting bastards, of course I did!

All autumn and winter I will be rescuing toads or frogs from outside my gaff. No idea where they come from but I put them back near a pond wetland area. I hope that's what they like? I spent all day ruing the weather as it was pissing down and I wanted to fit new number plates. I didn't because I re...

Hooli wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 3:54 pm Actual welding requires talent or money. I have neither currently so I'm bodging it to keep it watertight until I do.

I don't know why but I always had the impression you were a man of substance?

If I can weld, anybody can! Believe it or not, I can weld with a MIG, or gas and even stick if pushed. It's actually quite easy, just getting your bollocks warmed up enough to have a crack at it is the hard part.

That mess is now undersealed. Rear brakes rebuild & I've found another hole in the floor where a bung has moved & allowed it's hole to rot. I've ignored it for now as I've run out of rust convertor. I really do need to spend some time laid under this with a wire brush, rust convertor & ...

I had an S3 exactly the same as yours (Cranberry with doeskin leather) and it was also a 'B' reg Sovereign with the nice alloys. it was a bloody good car and one of the most reliable Jaguars I have so far owned. It did scare the shit out of me once though: started it from cold as usual and within ab...

Changed the air filters on the Merc, nice easy job and did lots of needed cleaning under the bonnet, it was all dusty which I like to see when I buy a car - no leaks! Also checked all the levels which were fine :) The air filters were about due but not horrible which bodes well. Then I did the polle...

chadders wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:30 pm Out of interest what did you use to spray it as virtually everything I've used has clogged up quickly?

Do you mean the Waxoyl? I just used the spray cans that it comes in. Warmed it first and then shaken until my wanking arm was ready to fall off!

And now I have done the Waxoyling. Not sure if this new tin is better or I have just shaken it properly for once but it's come out like... er, wax! Sprayed where I wanted it to go and stayed there. Most unlike my usual efforts with Waxoyl as it usually goes everywhere but where I want the damn stuff...

I have, this very morning, been out and sanded down my wheel arches! Okay, that sounds a tad dramatic when what I actually did was sand down about an inch of inner wheel arch where I had noticed incipient rust when I waxoyled the arches. It is where Mercs start to rust so better to catch it early? T...