Zelandeth Sulanast

Personally, the Trabant any day of the week - but I know I'm likely in the minority! There's a simple joy to having a tiny simple car which can be used to it's full potential rather than a giant barge that I don't need 85% of most of the time.

Still can't believe how much attention the car got that afternoon. Have never spoken to so many people at any event - I'd pretty much lost my voice by the time we wrapped up! Glad it made so many people smile though, this car always seems to wherever it goes.

Tempered glass can be very bad tempered. We had a shelf on a TV stand randomly explode one afternoon for no readily explicable reason.

Think it must have been about five years before I stopped finding random bits of glass from it.

Didn't know the dog could move that fast!

Communism meets capitalism. What better car to take to Costco than the Trabant?

Yes I know I also have a huge Volvo estate, don't bring logic into this...

Quite a few round here plainly not enjoying the weather - one at the coach way here smelled very warm and had clearly barfed out a huge amount of rusty water when parked up.

Life's far too serious, so to lighten the mood, here's a picture of a Bentley parked next to a Trabant.

Not a combination you're likely to stumble across too often.

I haven't used Windows as my "daily driver" since 2007 and regularly forget how irritating little stuff like this is. Yes I'm sure third party programs can do it, but by the time I've had to faff around finding them it's kind of defeated the point of what I see as a standard convenience feature.

Random thing which is annoying me today.

Why in Windows can I not customise system keyboard shortcuts? I do not have a Windows key not media shortcut keys. I do however have a whole bunch of function keys which spend 99.9% of the time doing nothing. Just let me use them!

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency: We saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 year old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records

YOU DID WHAT?

Also Volvo. God help me if I ever need to get to it on my V70 D5...I can't even *see* it, much less work on it!

Granted, I'll still take that over the Corsa I had where the oil filter was deeply buried down the back of the engine - I need to get to that more often!

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After far too long parked under a tree next to my driveway waiting for me to get a replacement engine installed, my Trabant is back on the road.

Now I just need to scrub off 9 months of tree gunk...Won't that be fun.

Looks like the Trabant will be back in action soon. New engine is mostly built up now. Just need to time the ignition side, fit the clutch then it should be ready to go back in the car.

It is indeed. Used to be in there pretty regularly, mainly because they had a good variety of vinyl records which were pretty cheap. So bargains on electrical stuff too. Shame the stock seemed to thin out massively a year or two ago.

Hey folks! We know you like numbers and we have some big ones for you!

We are thrilled to announce that we raised £16,000 this year for our charity, Sunny Harbour Cat & Kitten Rescue.

Not big enough? How about this? This brings Scotiacon's total ever raised to over £100,000!

Thank you everyone!

Yep! Hoping to cover more miles this year. Feel bad she barely saw daylight last year.

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Yep. This was my example. Fitted by a garage, date code on the hose less than a year old. Supposedly correctly rated according to the markings, it had just turned to mush.

That was a good "Wait, what's that hissing noise?" moment. Especially as I'd been on the A5 five minutes before.

There is SO much absolutely dire fuel hose out there these days that ethanol rapidly turns to powder or goo. I exclusively get mine from here these days. Not the cheapest, but it's proper Cohline stuff that will actually last.

www.glencoeltd.co.uk/cohline-fuel...

Yep, they are evil. I finally ran out of patience with consumer grade tat five years or so back and bought a second hand enterprise grade one from before HP's quality went down the pan. Best £150 I've ever spent on computer hardware I reckon. When I need it, It Just Works.

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I am officially in the market for a replacement engine for my Trabant. Or if it's cheap enough, a good core to rebuild. This one has damage to basically everything aside from the external components.

Anyone in the UK got one available they'd be willing to part with?

The 26bhp ball of buzzing fury in my Trabant 601.

I don't think the pit is the cause of our issue, more likely the result of a hot spot when the gasket failed/was failing. After the head was cleaned the sealing surfaces all look fine. If we have further issues or problems with pinking I'll replace the head as well.

Well I think I can pretty comprehensively say that I have found the cause of the loss of compression on cylinder number 1.

Just waiting for a new pair of head gaskets (I'll do both cylinders while I'm in here anyway) to turn up then we should be back up and running.