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Ray White
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 Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 1:18 pm Post subject: How not to do it video. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5ard5LN0I
I wish people would not do this. However, I am not surprised. Few of the many comments made were critical.
My list of "no no's" is extensive but I thought you guys might care to vent your own opinions?. |
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Rick
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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I've not watched that one yet, but watching other videos on YT does make me shake my head sometimes (and I'm no expert, far from it). Like barn finds being extracted from old buildings, dragging a car out with a powerful winch, all four wheels locked and all the tyres flat as a pancake, when a little time spent freeing brakes and at least trying to inflate a few tyres, would make the job so much easier.
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emmerson
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Getting the engine to run does seem to be priority with some "finders", but I don't know why. There will be lots to do before it gets to that stage. By all means see if it will turn over by hand, but please don't run it! |
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Ray White
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| emmerson wrote: | | Getting the engine to run does seem to be priority with some "finders", but I don't know why. There will be lots to do before it gets to that stage. By all means see if it will turn over by hand, but please don't run it! |
My feelings exactly. Obviously, these two are rank amateurs but I would have thought it might have crossed their minds that starting an engine that has been standing for ten years is not a clever thing to do.
If I had been offered this vanishingly rare AS3 in that condition I would have instead on paying at least a token sum just for my own peace of mind and whisked it away to a warm dry garage before they changed their mind! |
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Rick
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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The reg. looks age-related, so either it lost the original due to it dropping off the system when DVLA was set up, or else an owner whizzed it away to make a quick buck or use it as a vanity plate for themselves.
I think I'd have left it in the dry garage while fettling, rather than pushing it outside to get everything under the bonnet soaked. Maybe it was a photography issue, low light etc?
That the points were left so late in the process says quite a bit, IMHO.
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Ray White
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Rick wrote: | The reg. looks age-related, so either it lost the original due to it dropping off the system when DVLA was set up, or else an owner whizzed it away to make a quick buck or use it as a vanity plate for themselves.
I think I'd have left it in the dry garage while fettling, rather than pushing it outside to get everything under the bonnet soaked. Maybe it was a photography issue, low light etc?
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They didn't come properly equipped.
You would have taken a work light with you. |
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colwyn500
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[quote="Ray White"] | emmerson wrote: | | Obviously, these two are rank amateurs |
..  One of them is, and I think he was sort of admitting it. Richard Brunning definitely isn't an amateur. He and his equally talented colleague Nik Blackhurst have a very popular and long-running restoration on YouTube. It won't suit everyone, being a customisation of an original Mini, but I've found it enthralling to see the skill, tenacity and dedication they have shown with the project.
https://youtu.be/7hCPODjJO7s |
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Rick
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[quote="colwyn500"] | Ray White wrote: | | emmerson wrote: | | Obviously, these two are rank amateurs |
.. One of them is, and I think he was sort of admitting it. Richard Brunning definitely isn't an amateur. He and his equally talented colleague Nik Blackhurst have a very popular and long-running restoration on YouTube. It won't suit everyone, being a customisation of an original Mini, but I've found it enthralling to see the skill, tenacity and dedication they have shown with the project.
https://youtu.be/7hCPODjJO7s |
I kind of agree, although the invited Mini guy didn't really seem all that familiar with cars of the A30's age & technology tbh. Pointing out the pretty red light on the dash with the ignition on, for example.
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Ray White
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Come on chaps. These two took 8 hours to check the points!!!!. I could have had that thing running (if I had been stupid enough to even try) with in 10 minutes. It was like a foreign language to them. They didn't even check the oil level...let alone the pressure... and the oil light didn't come on with the ignition. With poor compression indicating sticking valves, just imagine the poor camshaft covered in rust suddenly forced into action, the rings all gummed up and what might come through from the tank doesn't bear thinking about.
Sorry, I thought it was more like Laurel and Hardy...
O.K., I am all at sea with electronics but then I don't try to pretend to know much.  |
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