The 'E' Type Forum

Goodbye…

Hey James,

If you need any Citroen SM advice or help, just ask. Mine is a 73 bleu d‘orient.

Carsten

I also bought from SNG and it always was a pleasure. When you think about a german branch, contact me :-) Regarding the Citroen SM, well, I had 17 of these beasts and am keeping one for 23 yrs now. You have to join the club, best to join the French club, together with Cyril Sars in the Netherlands i...

Subject says it. I used a complete rubber kit iirc from SNG or ebay, bought it maybe 8 years ago ? and the doors never shut properly. I heard there are thinner rubbers ? which may solve this issue ? My doors have a „rail“ on top - what goes there, some kind of rubber lip strip ? I could not fit anyt...

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…. And yes, thats Felix unloading it…

Carsten

Hey Simon, I bought it back in 2008, and thought I‘d do it in 3-4 years. Its now been 14 years, and it‘ll be 15 in the end… Those pesky Citroens I did before never took longer then maybe 3 years, because when you bought them for the same amount of dough, you did get an actual car and not a pile‘o‘ru...

It came out rather well… just look at it, Pete… I still remember the morning I stopped at your place, to buy the chassis / tub, you opened the door, it was maybe 8 am ? and a bird dropped a huge spot on my Merc, and you looked at it happening and said „welcome to England“… https://up.picr.de/4421922...

Morning, Next problem ? There‘s a nationwide strike of railway workers ? Will they work on friday / 19.8. so that Felix could get back to Angus‘ place were the Merc is now ? Felix said he checked the route on his phone and walking is 12:30 hours, plus they‘re possibly slower with the luggage to pull...

Hi Pete, Yes, in too many small places. Plus we had the problem that it was absolutely impossible to match the paint, even with modern scanners and computers. It never was perfectly right, closest was a mitsubishi paint from the 80s, but just. Plus there was the useless antenna hole in the front plu...

It is getting close…

Carsten

Problem now is that UK parking apps doe not accept the „ö“ character in our german numberplate Felix said / so I sent Angus a PM.

Carsten

Morning guys, Yesterday evening he said he‘d put the car on one of the places I searched for him, pay it via an app ?, go into London and stay there for 5 days. I also asked the Imp community, they had some ideas like paid public parking places- I think this is where he got the idea from - hope it a...

Hey guys, My son, 19, is approaching London, coming from Bristol. He wants to stay a few days in London, but our Merc is too old to get into the congestion zone. I tried years ago and it was hell‘ o‘ expensive. So, the plan is to find a place for them to stay for maybe two days, then leave the car t...

Update / bags found in hangar outside airport/ to sum it up, we lost around 5 days… but they seem to be there, will go there today and fetch them.

Carsten

Warning for Ryanair / flights to Edinburgh Hi everyone, Ryanair lost all of our luggage on the flight to EDI. Along with at least 40 other passengers of the same flight (we created a whatsapp group)- it's all gone, no one knows where it is. Total chaos reigns on site in EDI, 100s of suitcases are st...

Current status is maybe 5-10.000 bags in disorder at the airport, waiting for them to sort them in heaps per flight and calling us to come over. We managed to buy some food plus toothbrush etc, but Susanne could not stand the stuff sold in the major clothing stores so we skipped that for now at leas...

I found a lost adapter under the bed trying to manipulate a german charger in a brit socket. So we have one now, but had you seen the mess at the airport… 100s of bags in heaps, some having 2 weeks old tags, 700 clueless people, unwilling police, no service no officials no nothing. I am so angry and...

Help needed urgent in Edinburgh- Hey guys, we flew to Scotland today with Ryanair, and they lost our baggage / there are hundreds of bags all over the place, unfriendly police who know nothing… its a mess. We are now in an appartment at Royal Mile, for this and the next night, and main problem is to...

Maybe a 2+2 might solve some of the „problems“… :-)

Carsten

Grease nipples, anyone ?

Carsten