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Googled it - Professional Fighters League. Fair play, Wibble. That's pretty impressive

I can only think i climate involves taking a Propeller to the side of the Head 

Getting there now with how I want it.

Regulars to the thread will remember my hatred of my garage door. It’s never worked properly despite many repair attempts. Here it is, flaccid on one side. 

 

Having bumped my head once too often, I decided it was about time I fixed the problem once and for all. 
This is typical of me; put a problem off for ages and then finally fix it for good - wishing I’d done so years ago. 





Fixed!
 

Fed up with crappy spanner on the grinder so grabbed the grinder and old imperial socket and make a dangerous addition...lol

Everybody knows you're supposed to buy a car cheap, spend far too much on it making it lovely, and then sell it at a preferably quite significant loss.  It's still more fun and less expensive than finance.  If you've got an endless supply of 10mm sockets, all the better.

Yeah so the weather is hot and I called into a shop on the way home to buy a cold drink.I present the counter staff with a Scottish  £20 and the lady behind the counter says "sorry, can't accept that" (we are in Cambridgeshire,England) . I told her it is legal tender but she still refused saying her boss won't accept it. There is a post office at the side of her which I pointed out."it's a different till" she says. She agreed the post office is open so I asked if I buy a stamp from the post office with the Scottish note will that be okay. "the boss won't accept it" I pointed out he is not the boss of post office counters and has no say in the matter. I need to speak to him about this error of his judgement. All I get is a first name and he comes in on Friday mornings.
After dropping a car off when I got home I get the number of post office counters complaints but they are closed.Oh well, that's a job for the morning then
 
 
Bugger, just thought.I should have put the drink back and got a can of Irn bru instead. Then it would have been deemed racist.

It’s been a stressful day.
 
 

Ever wished you could tow a caravan and boat behind your mini van whilst transporting an elderly gentleman and two women with unfeasibly tall hair? 
Not possible i hear you cry!
Fear not, step right this way sir!
https://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=937

I thought that was just the newer models too - but I've an 07 plate 5.7 and it's also got the 'fuel saver mode'

(it's super effective!)
 

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Excellent. I can use this to convince my dad to trade in his 3.0d XF (which does fewer miles than that per year) and get an LS600h instead. 

I'm not even joking.
 
I've had a lot of nice conversations with people about the Lexus, often when I turn up for a site visit, and similar to you, the first remark is 'Ooof, I bet that drinks petrol!' 

My response now tends to be 'Yeah, it can be thirsty but it's not as bad as you would expect.' If they push me I show them my tank average, which is nearly always 25-26mpg, and this is often a pretty perfect combined mix of urban/motorway/rural driving. 

They then tend to say their generic petrol saloon/hatchback doesn't do much more than that, and I feel SMUG LIKE A BASTARD.

But I wholly agree that MPGs are worth significantly less than the smile that a V8 burble/roar/growl puts on your face. The noise in the Lexus is very muted, but there are serious plans afoot to try and get Mason II sounding similar, if not rortier, to Mason I. I just need to find a photograph of Mason's underside so I can show this to an exhaust fabricator and go 'PLZ COPY'.

Without wanting to give away too many details about my financial situation, halving the price of a £10M car isn't really going to help me all that much.

Had my mate over the workshop today and he recently lost both his grand parents. Other family members have been scavaging the house and flogging anything worth a few quid and pocketing the money.
 
He just wanted bits that he could remember them by. He found his grandads old tool box that he had made when he was an apprentice and used for most of his working life. It had been put in rubbish pile.
 
So my mate took it, and today at the workshop he nipped over it with some scotch bright to get all the loose rust and some of the flaking paint, we found a can of Matt laquer in the cupboard. A few coats later and it looked great. Kept its patina and history,
 
It's now in his work van.

"It was love. There were sparks!"

I have 45 days until retirement.

unless the counters broken, Autoshites 2000th member is someone called bastard 
 

Sometimes think we should have a separate thread for background ebay shite. This is todays winner.
 

 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/range-rover-classic-1991-3-9-v8-Auto/223450208579?hash=item3406ab9943:g:qCEAAOSwfhNcjQ-N

Looks like Stuboy has had his wicked way with it

Exploder dropped off for an MOT this morning. Eep
 
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I'm over a hundred quid short as we stand, but I'm sure Exiledtatgatherer and Flat4alfa are gentlemen to be trusted so I'd say yes, this is on for draw tonight.

No need to apologise, disappointment is what we're all here for.

Christ, I just watched Arrival and its got me all emotional. I've not been this upset after watching something since Silent Running when I was a nipper, if we exclude that time I watched the A Team on a massive comedown and B.A. helped out those kids.

I actually had a reasonable amount of success on the fettling front over the weekend.  As well as getting the Buick running again, I also managed to get two of the 75's locking wheel nuts off.  I discovered, quite by accident, that by sliding a 20mm socket with a long extension bar over the head of the bolt and batting it back and forth in a certain way with a large hammer it will cause the bolt head (the bit with the key pattern in it and the slippery chrome plating) to become detached from the rest of the bolt (the two halves fit together with splines).  Then with the aid of the aforesaid large hammer, a 19mm bolt extractor socket thingy can be twatted over the remaining bit of bolt which can then be wound out.
 
So I took the front wheel off to see if I could see what is causing the rattling.  It actually all looks fairly newish under there - nothing is particularly rusty, and the wishbone bushes look brand new.  I still suspect it's the drop link, but they look a bit of a twat to do so I'm going to leave it until MOT man confirms my suspicions as I don't fancy tackling the job if it's not strictly necessary.  The drop link that's on there looks fairly recent and all the boots are intact, but cheapo drop links often don't last too long, and it is a bastard heavy car.
 
I was half expecting the front pads to be down to almost nowt as well, given the aforesaid lardiness and the fact that it has very little in the way of engine braking, but there's still a good 6mm on them so they'll last for a while yet. 
 
Then I took the back wheel off and swapped the wheels front to rear, as the back tyre had a lot better tread so putting it on the front would give me better traction in the wet.  Took the car up the road and it's pulling to the left, which it's never done before.  Get home, shine a torch at the (rather scuffed) sidewalls and find that the tyres are different sizes front to rear (fronts are 205/60, rears are 215/60), so my cunning plan hasn't really worked and I'm going to have to swap them back.  And buy a tyre.
 
Also, the Y10's speedo has decided to go haywire again, so it's obviously one of those intermittent faults which I'm just going to have to live with.  Fortunately it's quite easy to unplug the speedo when it does go mental, and with these fancy new telephones with GPS receivers it's easy enough to keep track of one's speed, especially now I've got the fag lighter working again and can keep said telephone charged up.