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I do second line IT support and I can't wait to get out either. Every day seems to last a week, it is so mind numbingly boring.

Absolute radio is always on in the office in some form (80s/90s etc) and it's ok, but fuck me, the adverts... I don't know how I haven't lost it. The urge to smash the radio to smithereens by 10am is almost overwhelming.

 

Sometimes I have to go and work elsewhere to get away, unfortunately the only other place seems to have "What about us" by Pink on a loop.

 

Some adverts I can tune out but the Vivaro and Corsa ones where some annoying know it all answers questions are absolutely doing my tits in.

The Honda oil change sounds exactly like my attempts at car maintenance, only with less swearing and throwing tools around.

I've never owned a diesel, is there some reason it would end up all over the handle of the pump? Can't ever remember getting petrol onto the pump or my hands.

I had a V reg K11 Micra in late 2006. The car was *just* 7 years old, the equivalent of having an 11 plate nowadays so it shouldn't have been shite... but what a POS it was!

 

It had already failed an MOT on brake pipes and excessive chassis corrosion at the front, it only lasted another MOT with me with welding needed to an area close to a rear seatbelt and to a suspension mount. The front crossmember was like Weetabix and pretty much gone on the road facing bit.

 

It drove weirdly, like there was a huge dead spot dead centre on the steering wheel and it would swing left or right by about ten degrees without changing course. Think that was related to the shock absorbers because I got it fixed.

 

It was absolutely boggo spec, basically a radio and PAS. 5 door and no cental locking, so passengers would leave at least one door unlocked all the time. No one nicked it though, sadly.

 

For some reason it popped brake bulbs on an almost daily basis and the front headlights would go all cyclops until you pulled up and pushed the connections back on.

 

Not really the car's fault, but it had had a tap up the bum and the painted tailgate had gone half Vauxhall pink, there was a swimming pool in the boot too.

 

By 67k miles the gearbox was absolutely shagged... first and second almost impossible to select and it whined like hell above about 20 MPH. I paid the then boyfriend of an aunty who worked in a scrapyard to supply and fit a second hand 'box, he claimed he did the work but the replacement gearbox had suspiciously identical issues to the one that came out... turned out he was the compulsive liar about not just that, the bastard.

 

I was a skint just out of time apprentice, so that was the death knell for the Micra and it was part exed against a Rover 45 which after breaking down and having HGF in the first fortnight, went on to serve me well.

 

I part exed it in 2008, amazingly it lasted another 5 years and to 114k+!

 

I do like a K11 though, they are enjoyable little things to drive. My Mother's W reg mk2 Punto felt like something designed ten years later (which it almost was), but wasn't anywhere near as fun to drive.

Are these basically the same as the ZS 180?

I recently found out that these are a nightmare to get onto the real Rover T4 diagnostic machine.  The T4 will go into the four cylinder cars alright but it just will not connect with the V6 ZS.

It has made it quite difficult to reverse engineer some of the diagnostic features onto our diagnostic tool, but we got there in the end 

IIRC the V6s used Siemens injection/ECU rather than MEMS or the Pektrons so might need a later version of a T4 or something else entirely?

Erm did I get the housing crisis thread canned?

 

Apologies if so... I can't find it now but haven't had a PM saying I've said owt wrong...

Artificial sweeteners give me unreal headaches too. They will turn out to be terrible for you/carcinogenic etc in a few years time no doubt.

Email them the minute you have finished buying that they do not under any circumstances have permission for a continuous payment authority on your card. And save the email. They're all twats who think they just have carte blanche on your money.

They might just be a non car person and don't realise what it's worth? I love adeux cheveux but to most folk they'll just be awful cars. Or am I being too trusting?

Fugly and gopping inside when new IMO, now they're just mostly knackered and fugly.

 

Can't say I'd be bothered if the last one got weighed in.

They both have come out looking like a pair of bells.

 

Amazing how wound up some folk get over kicking a bit of leather around a field.

I use to know a girl who worked in one of the charity shops, I can’t remember precisely which one but it was one of the main ones. She used to delight in telling anyone who cared to listen how all the decent stuff that was brought in got distributed between the staff and all the left over shit nobody wanted got put out for sale

 

Yeah i’m sure they’re not all bad, let’s not pretend they’re all paragons of virtue either

I worked with some useless fuckers over the years in the charity shop, (mostly forced there or they'd lose their dole money, we'd waste time training them then they'd never come back) but I never saw anything like that happen.

 

We'd sometimes buy the stock, but it was at the going rate and after it went out on the shelves.

I never got paid for hanky panky when I volunteered in an Oxfam shop, must have been doing it wrong

45

Saloon

V6

High spec

Coronet alloys

I need a cold shower.

Thanks, I usually manage to desipher Savvy but didn't have a Scooby Doo here.

LSD at a minimum,I reckon.

What about the switch in the Mini which just illuminated the (!) Lamp, bet there's no other car like that.

Great!

Some sort of old Morris, minor?

Incandescent bulbs are still trivially easy to buy in shops, despite the"ban".

Luckyland Happy Gallops are gonna take some beating on the comedy scale.

Quite fancy this, but I already gave a KIA that does about 30 miles a month at piss poor MPG.

RIP Hendry. I hope you're at peace now, you will be a big miss.

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Are there no proper mechanics here?

Isn't he a fan of Johnny Hates Jazz? If only I could "Turn Back the Clock", etc