The Dark Wob

The SR 125 has gone thank fuck. I had to get a new Chinese shitty carb in the end as I just couldn't get it to run properly on the original one. It'd sort of run on the old one if you set the mixture screw roughly a quarter turn out but then still wouldn't idle properly. I cleared it as best as I could, adjusted the float, replaced an o ring, basically wasted hours fucking around with it but had to admit defeat in the end

The V50 now seems to have settled down at 48mpg with normal tatting around here and has loads more power when warmed up, a trailer full of oak on the back of it yesterday wasn't a problem in the slightest. It has however paid me back for hoovering it out. I shut the drivers side passenger door yesterday and the drivers door mirror glass fell out and smashed on the floor FFS

Someone's scrubbed up the rear corner of the V50 again, cunts I think the rear wheels are starting to lean in properly so may well be about time to cut my losses? I may buy some of that Servisol I linked to the other day and see if I can get the airbag light to go off beforehand?

I was parked next to a scruffy 530d estate the other day on an 02 plate. I remember my kit car days when they first came out, they go surprisingly well for what they are in a straight line at least?

Any major pitfalls with them if I find a snotter?

Not much of a find because I knew where it was Battery off and charged as it was totally flat, it wasn't the best anyway but hoping it's not totally fucked. I think I'll get it on the road at the start of next month and run it for the rest of the summer?

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/2020s- ... ugeot-405/

"2020's 12th Best-Selling D Saloon Car Was...The Peugeot 405" More popular than the new 508

I was just reading a period autocar & motor feature on the 405 last night. Amazing that Peugeot could make such good cars then utter shite.

I love the look of the new replacement. Striking. 408?

Looks a nice barn.

AutoshiteBoy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:51 am I was just reading a period autocar & motor feature on the 405 last night. Amazing that Peugeot could make such good cars then utter shite.

Indeed, they really lost their way afterwards. Passengers I've had that couldn't give a shit about what vehicle gets them from A to B have remarked on the fact they can't believe how comfortable it is to waft about in for such an old car.

Hooli wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:56 am Looks a nice barn.

You really aren't sold on them are you mate

It is a good barn as it happens, wish it was fucking mine, I'd have filled it with all sorts of shit if it was. It's 300 quid a year instead of paying the tax and the roulette of parking it on the local public car park.
The bloke who owns it never stops, he's just put yet another pole barn/shed up. The telegraph poles he's used are so over the top it's funny, a tractor would just bounce off them.

I just don't get french stuff, it never seems well designed or very good at what it does to me.

Hooli wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:14 am I just don't get french stuff, it never seems well designed or very good at what it does to me.

Well, as much as I like you in other ways, you're a fucking philistine. But hey, I don't understand the appeal of old British motorbikes, so I guess we're even.

I've never experienced a better combination of handling and comfort than in a 1990s Peugeot. Both my 306s were utterly brilliant to drive, and a mate at uni had a 405 DT of some description. It was pale green with a purple velour interior. Utterly mad, but supremely comfortable.

Then just about every single Peugeot ending in 7 was a complete bucket of unredeemable shit, and UGLY too.