will a M30 fit in a.....

Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:58 pm

02' plate clio.....in the boot

only transport i have and i gota move it today or i dont get it

its a 3 door and the woman is happy for me to rip the rear seats out....can i make it fit in there?
no gbox etc and suppose could drain it and remove the sump.....any ideas?

Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:07 pm

mine went in an old pug 205 ok, along with loads of tools and an engine hoist

there's loads of room with seats down

Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:13 pm

f*cking hell, I thought fitting an m20 with gearbox, engine lift, prop, exhaust etc into the back of my tourer was impressive.... its not huge, but its not a 205!

Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:14 pm

why thank you, if you done it then so can i.hopfuly ill get home safe, crazy young woman driver that thinks sleeping policemen are 'little bouncey jumps'.....
how much does an M30 weigh again lol bournemouth to milton keynes.....

Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:32 pm

lol, cue a photo, hold on...

loads of room

sat worryingly low at the back though

Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:43 pm

Looks like theres more room in there than there was in the tourer

Mine didnt drop an inch when I put the engine in... but its sat on the stops already so thats probably why lol.

Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:46 pm

would sit a lot better minus the engine hoist no doubt

Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:05 pm

Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:34 pm

I carried about 400kg of computers* from Luton to Newport, South Wales in the back of my old 205 with the rear seats folded. Damn, but that car sat low

Also, a complete Honda C90 engine home from Bristol in one pannier of my K750S - I would have loved to have been pulled over whilst carrying that - "It's a spare, officer"

*6 Sun Enterprise 4000s, for those who know what they are.

Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:34 am

Scrotty wrote:02' plate clio.....in the boot
only transport i have and i gota move it today or i dont get it
its a 3 door and the woman is happy for me to rip the rear seats out....can i make it fit in there?
no gbox etc and suppose could drain it and remove the sump.....any ideas?

For a minute there I thought you were building some rear engined monster! DOH!

Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:13 pm

I got about 800 copies of the Yellow Pages in a 1.1 FIAT Uno. I only had to drive about 3 miles but that was far enough.

I'm glad I didn't have to do any heavy braking.

Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:03 pm

tim-ix wrote:I got about 800 copies of the Yellow Pages in a 1.1 FIAT Uno. I only had to drive about 3 miles but that was far enough.

I'm glad I didn't have to do any heavy braking.

I put 2500 into the back of my 308 Merc van some years ago,go me sums a bit wrong,needed crawler gear to get going and could barely move the steering wheel.
Axle limit was 3500kg,YP's weighed 4250kg

Same as you though,anly had to drive a few miles thankfully!

If you had 800,and based on the weight of the ones I carried which was 1.7kg per book,you managed 1360kg's,poor Uno

Impressive

Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:22 pm

I had about 1500 thomson directories in the back of a mk1 golf 1.6 once. Was an interesting drive home

Then I piled them up in the living room, made a little house out of them, and never got round to delivering them.... ho hum. It was a cool house though! (I was 21 at the time... I still havent grown up)

Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:03 pm

If you had 800,and based on the weight of the ones I carried which was 1.7kg per book,you managed 1360kg's,poor Uno Impressive

I'd never worked out how much it was. I had my brother in the passenger seat too and he's 12 stone. That car was indestructible. I carried everything I owned to university and back in it too and managed to hit 104mph downhill on the M5 flat-out in 4th gear while loaded to the gunwales and on 135/70r13's. (I was 21 at the time and thought I was indestructible too).

At least my brother and I delivered the books, well, most of them anyway.

Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:20 pm

I'm doing the thomson again this year... wonder how many i can fit in the back of the tourer.... and what kind of structure I can make out of them....

Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:28 pm

simian wrote:I'm doing the thomson again this year... wonder how many i can fit in the back of the tourer.... and what kind of structure I can make out of them....

is there money in this then?
always interested in quick earners

Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:33 pm

not great money but a bit on the side. I'm stuck at home with the kids while the wife works (she earns more than I would) so a bit of delivery in my own time earns me some beer money.

0800 0831134

leave your name, number and postcode. This ones for the bt phone book iirc.

Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:19 pm

just realised you need the local reference number...

go onto www.pdcuk.co.uk and they have info.

Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:59 pm

Daz if your going to do these deliveries,avoid at all cost anything rural,it's just a pain in the arse and really not worth the effort.

Towns and estates are the best,can really knock them out and earn a fairly decent amount of cash if your not lazy! LOL

Also,what I did that made a big difference was to borrow a paper round newspaper trolley (sack trucks or something similar would be just as good),could fit about 20 YP's or about 30 BT's on it and do whole streets without pissing about with armfuls and getting in and out of your car,worked out much quicker.

At best I earned about Ã‚£100 per day doing towns and working about 9 hours.

With ref to you burning some books Simian,I burned the remainder of my YP's,there was about 40 of them and they kept burning for 3 days!

Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:07 pm

I never burnt them!

They came and collected them from me about two weeks after I was supposed to deliver them... the man with the van was most impressed with my little phonebook house.

Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:35 pm

simian wrote:

I never burnt them!

Don't where I got that from!

Half asleep!

Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:48 pm

lol, easy to do, i've done similar many times.