Practically Classics Forum

No problem. Rock Auto are worth a look for any general maintenance parts as well. I was surprised to find that a few (brand name) service items for the Xantia were actually cheaper *including shipping* from there than they were from a lot of UK sellers. -- -- -- While I used up most of my day's ener...

Pretty! Hijacking your thread here a bit.. my brother is restoring a y plate 5.3 like yours.. who do you recommend for parts please? All I've generally needed so far are normal service items, so it's mainly just been been British Parts. For anything more involved, Rock Auto over in the US have some...

Had the Jag out for a brief run yesterday. For the first time since I picked the car up, the heater was toasty warm the whole time...so much more pleasant. Looks so much better with decent tyres on the front too. https://i.ibb.co/Jpg6qk3/IMG-20201119-150030.jpg I know a couple of people have asked a...

This morning I was expecting a package to arrive. What I wasn't expecting was a PALLET to arrive. It had this cocooned on top of it (we had to de-pallet it as that was too wide to fit through the door). https://i.ibb.co/RSYFDsb/IMG-20201118-130208.jpg We only nearly died twice getting it up the stai...

Back to battling with the world's most overcomplicated HVAC system in the world's most overcrowded cabin. While I know the system has some issues, I'm reluctant to go doing stuff like pulling blowers and the whole system to bits until I've seen how it behaves with air actually going through the heat...

New tyres really have transformed the car. There's definitely still a bit of a vibration from the back somewhere. First thing I'll probably do is drop back by F1 and get the rear wheels balanced (and check while on the machine that neither of the wheels/tyres is out of round) as it's a cheap, low ef...

So our starting point today... https://i.ibb.co/84jpJKk/IMG-20201112-144901.jpg With enough of the interior reassembled as to make the car reasonably drivable we went off to collect the tyres. Via an Esso fuel station to sample their Supreme+ super unleaded which I learned in the last week or two is...

Funny you should mention the HP 1100, I have two, one in operation and one as a potential spare, it is as you say bulletproof, although it does tend to give paper jams if there's only a small amount of fresh paper in it. This is my only printer, I don't need colour. I remember having that issue wit...

Definitely worth putting the dehumidifier in the car to dry it out. I did my rx7 that had been outside for a few years.the spare wheel was under water... and got a couple of gallon out also got rid of the damp mould smell.. can you borrow one? Sadly not, I'm the one folks borrow stuff like that fro...

Think I may just have found a smoking gun with regards to the slight but annoying damp that seems to be getting into the Xantia (just enough to make the windows instantly steam up whenever it rains). https://i.ibb.co/5MqN7XN/IMG-20201109-133613.jpg Will pull and re-seal that tail light and see if th...