Volvo Estate Project Part 3 - Installing 15mm spacers, brakes paint, and refuelling a C130 Hercules

[@TimBennettUK]

"This could go one of several ways" - and it did, both at the same time! 😆

[@blainejenkins4374]

I need to know as I'm across the pond, why do you switch your number plates when you're in Cornwall!? Sounds like the start of a great story.

[@michaelthomas8981]

Parking fines is my guess.

[@GeoffBuysCars]

@@michaelthomas8981 yeah! It’s a parking joke dating back to my university days...

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Free parking!

[@blainejenkins4374]

Love your channel Geoff. Loving the old Volvos.

[@djtaylorutube]

Because there are scummy parking companies (Parking Eye for example) who "offer" to manage parking, which means slapping up some small or confusing signs. Then when someone parks, ANPR is used to then gain access to the registered keeper details who is assumed to have formed a contract or if not, they should name the person who was driving. Parking on private land is merely contract law and plenty of cases where the former argument was that no contract was formed, until ones particular judge (clearly bribed) found in favour of scummy parking companies and found it reasonable that an overstay of a free minutes of a car park should incur an invoice charge of £100. It's not a fine, only a court can impart a fine so it is a "penalty" i.e. Breach of contact penalty. To avoid scummy parking companies abusing their access to the registration database, they had to agree some new rules, which included said registered keeper being the one subject to penalty if they didn't name the driver. However, no plates, ANPR can't find the registered keeper. That said, deliberate avoidance is also fraud but then the parking companies here are scum at a lower level than pond scum.

[@Lot76CARS]

Geoff, it seems this is the calm before the (sticker) storm. I agree on the number plates, why oh why do the numptys drill them at all??

[@GeoffBuysCars]

I collected the car around 6.30pm and I love it 😅😅

[@SuperFIFTHGEAR]

People drilling new holes into the boot really do annoy me, somebody's even done it on my slightly used V90.

[@JenniferEKirk]

The idiots who first sold my 1996 850S did the same with its rear numberplate. My boot lid is now riddled with rust as a result. I had to rebuild both my front wings. No replacements could be found that were not also rotten so I took them off, cleaned them up and rebuilt with fibreglass and filler before respraying. 850s all suffer rusty front wings.

[@nekite1]

I let someone else do the calipers on my Alfa 159 - cost me £100 for all 4.

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Next time I’ll do that. Never again.

[@850glt]

Just a typical Geoff Buys Cars front wing... Nothing to see here

[@rogermurphy1548]

At 4:34, the very reason I was watching this video was to see him install the wheel spacer. But alas, that part was skipped over 🥴. But hey, we got to see a plane get refueled 😐

[@Anthony-vm1jc]

That coil setup comes with the bolt in bass plate poorly fitted boss just bang some check straps on it 👍✌️

[@kurtseyffert6649]

those wheels standard can't say I've seen any before

[@nicholasdavis657]

Looking forward to seeing it at the show

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Fingers crossed it’ll all be there and finished!

[@clairebroughton3244]

They look 👀 fab well done 🙂

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Thank you!! Collected the car tonight and it’s brilliant, looking forward to revealing it!