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- Wed May 15, 2024 1:09 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
While the Trabant generally runs fine, she's always been a bit grumpy when dropping to idle after working hard for any period of time. The idle has always been a little low anyway, but with the slightly warmer weather arriving this has brought it down to a 50/50 chance of stalling for a minute or so...
- Wed May 08, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
Been very little going on lately. Life has been busy leaving little time for car things. A bit of numeric symmetry arrived today. https://i.ibb.co/MsdPP42/IMG-20240507-160251.jpg We ended up switching to a different brand of oil with the last tank of fuel on the Trabant, and it definitely doesn't li...
- Mon May 06, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
Quite simply, life has been busy of late and I've had very little opportunity to mess around with car related things over the last couple.of weeks. Aside from a little bit of investigation of the HVAC system having become a bit noisy on the Partner (it's a bit short on gas I'd say based on the head ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
We suffered a major technical failure today. Okay that might be overselling it a bit. We lost a tail light bulb. https://i.ibb.co/CbRt6c8/IMG-20240416-162311.jpg Though admittedly on plenty of modern cars that is a pretty major headache! Takes much more than the five minutes and a flat blade screwdr...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:32 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
The date on the front page will be accepted, it was for my Matra, however if it was built in 1984 then it will not be eligible for free tax until 1st April 2025. Thanks for the clarification. It's always going to be a bit of a struggle I think around here - when I got the Cavalier a couple of years...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
It has now been renewed I believe. A couple of things struck me since my last post, firstly DVLA must know when the car was built, otherwise it would be on a Q plate. Secondly, Glass's Check Book doesn't cover vehicle which were not officially imported into the UK. I've got the 76-85 book and Traba...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
Happy Birthday mate! Good updates, keep 'em coming. :D Thanks! -- -- -- In spite of my having picked it up basically as a bit of fun, not really expecting to do a huge amount with it, the Trabant as of yesterday has formally clicked over a thousand miles since it arrived with me at just before Chri...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:29 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
The show was a bit of a mixed bag. Few interesting cars there, but a bit of a modern and modified leaning for my personal tastes for the most part. Was still fun though, and good to catch up with a couple of folks. We also managed to make a Volvo 480 look like a big car. https://i.ibb.co/P6FQdMq/IMG...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:29 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
There's a local classic car gathering tomorrow (Sunday 31st) afternoon at the Beefeater opposite the XScape in Central MK tomorrow from 1500. My intention is to be there in something. Most likely the Trabant as the Rover is still covered in moss to an embarrassing extent to be seen in public beyond ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
Few little bits and pieces done this afternoon, but nothing particularly ground breaking. The Trabant has never been particularly fond of idling smoothly (even by two stroke standards), but it was definitely better after changing the blown head gasket. Today I had the thought of using an IR thermome...