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- Thu May 11, 2017 7:39 pm
- Forum: Useful Tips
- Topic: Micro-blisters !!!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7202
Re: Micro-blisters !!!
regarding car covers... I bought a fairly expensive one (around £120) for my Morris that lives outside (cover is definitely needed as our front garden is canopied by a sycamore tree which drops horrid sticky gum seasonally, and is a haven for collared doves who love flying down and perching on anyth...
- Mon May 01, 2017 7:35 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Speeding offences just changed
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9759
Re: Speeding offences just changed
It is not that people's speedometers are faulty it is just that they are per se inaccurate from model to model and car to car. That is why the statutory allowance of plus or minus 10% was introduced. Of course it matters not what speed your speedometer says you were doing, what matters is what spee...
- Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Morris Minor Security
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2500
Re: Morris Minor Security
I agree Steve and rotor arm is my favourite way of immobilising a car especially as most idiots who steal a car around here are straight out of school (if they ever went) and therefore would never have heard of a rotor arm....... I like the visual deterant effect of something like the gear lever loc...
- Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Morris Minor Security
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2500
Re: Morris Minor Security
I use one of the traditional triangle clamps .. well actually one I had left over from my brief spell as a County Court Enforcement Officer. which is greats for use at home but not very practical when you go out shopping...lol we also box Morris in on the drive with our other car and caravan...........
- Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Morris Minor Security
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2500
Morris Minor Security
Hi Guys no doubt somewhere in the archives this has been asked before but a quick search could not find anything. Call me paranoid but the locks on a Morris are really pathetic presumably because in their day you could leave your back door open all day without worry of theft.. or so my grandmother t...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:58 pm
- Forum: Concours Forum
- Topic: Engine Bay, Again
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6140
Re: Engine Bay, Again
Yes they are the ones I remember having perpetual problems with them on my Austin 1100 and the garage advising me to get them changed this was back in 1977 mind... OK My guide to Concours prep led me to believe that ALL Aluminium should look like Chrome almost ..but then they also suggest that the u...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:21 pm
- Forum: Concours Forum
- Topic: Engine Bay, Again
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6140
Engine Bay, Again
Hi guys just a quickie... I know that Aluminium carburetor parts are usually polished, but what about the other aluminium ancillaries like the windscreen wiper box etc are these polished or , dare I say it....painted aluminium...... and do you finish by lacquering the polished parts? Also should I s...