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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

its the kind of #crime someone who has been released from #prison after a long stretch but skint and homeless and with 0 support might do in a hope to get sent *back* there (as at least its free food and housing), particularly if they recognised it as a former #Police #car - but there's a potential worse case - the #cars been recognised at some show and its been nicked and lit up out of envy by someone *from the scene* who was a #joyrider BITD (there's some dubious characters on the car scene)

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Peter Nimmo

'The [#UK #driving test agency] says that #bots have been buying up some test slots, external and then reselling them at inflated prices. The agency says a high-speed consultation in May will aim "to improve the booking system and block bots from accessing tests"'.
Tick all boxes where you see a #car?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4v12

A woman smiles in a black dress next to a grey car
BBC News'Booking a driving test is like queuing for Glastonbury tickets'Learner drivers have told the BBC of their desperation amid huge driving test backlogs.
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Daniël Franke :panheart:

They surprisingly installed separated bicycle paths in my street, and also made it so that the driving area of the street is narrower. This made my street, one that has relatively a lot of car traffic, a lot better, and yet, I fucking hate how noisy the traffic is here. Even outside of the honking, just the general background noise is unpleasant.

As @notjustbikes said, cities aren't loud, cars are loud, and Berlin would be so much better if they drastically reduced, at least, the area inside the ringbahn, the amount of cars here. But with the #CDU in charge in the city, that's not going to happen.

#cars#traffic#bicycles
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hanktank61

" DAF automobile"

Dutch small car popular in the ´60 's.
Not very impressing, design, mostly older people driving in it.
Made by DAF, who was/is more into trucks.

But it had the Variomatic-transmission, developed already in the ´50 's .
And : We will never forget an accident in our town, a collision between a small DAF and a large German still popular brand. No casualties.
The DAF could drive away by itself, the large car was total-loss ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variomat

DAF automobile, a Dutch small car popular in the ´60' s in Holland. The first with a revolutionary aotomatic suspension.
#autocade#DAF#Car
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Done. That's the underside, now covered with some "Bitumen" underbody spray that will also protect against small impacts.

This was a leftover can which went on fine and a new can which went on a bit blotchy. Guess you really need to shake it for five minutes. Oh well, blotchy protects all the better! :)

The inside got just normal matt black paint. That looked very nice but somehow the phone forgot to take a picture when I pressed the button 🤷

The same under-engine plate as before, now without rust and freshly sprayed in an underbody protection spray that leaves a coarse, slightly soft finish.
#Car#Repair#Paint
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Trying out that Latvian "Rust-Off" rust converter. Works well, but not as nice as the Flag Paints stuff as it has no black pigment. No black coverage, just conversion. At least it goes on pale green so you can see where you have applied it.

De-rusted the Crossgolf's massive steel under-engine shield, then applied converter and next is paint.

New shield is somewhere around €160-200, so worth restoring. Used ones are just as rusty.

Rusty under-engine shield from a VW Golf 5 Plus Cross. It's a thick steel piece with some black paint left on it, the rest is thick rust from use in a country with heavily salted roads. There's two elaborate air intake slots with triangular recesses. An old hammer is on top of it.
Same shield, although upside down (both sides were about the same level of rustyness). The rust is now hammered, chiseled, ground and brushed off and rust converter has been applied turning any remaining brown spots black. Where there was no rust, the rust converter remains transparent, showing darkened steel. The intake slots have been cleaned up as well as possible, but are a problem spot.
A test of the rust converter paint on an old steel chisel. The bottom half is rusty, the top half is black.
#Car#Automotive#Rust
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