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  1. yohan

    E10 Fuel

    My little 02 plate suzuki ignis actually started getting slightly better mpg after putting e10 in. I heard in the past that supermarket fuel wasnt as well refined as the likes of bp or shell stations so I wonder if the extra ethanol has improved the fuel at my local asda…
  2. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/947549555802078?ref=category_feed&referral_code=undefined&referral_story_type=listing&tracking={"qid"%3A"-7221304296418227636"%2C"mf_story_key"%3A"4307261312665491"%2C"commerce_rank_obj"%3A"{\"target_id\"%3A4307261312665491%2C\"target_type\"%3A0%2C\"primary_position\"%3A11%2C\"ranking_signature\"%3A4913091567536832512%2C\"commerce_channel\"%3A504%2C\"value\"%3A5.0110935723813e-5}"} Perfect autoshite colour scheme! Just a few holes in the floor to fill before wafting through the ulez zones with it!
  3. Was it the same graphic designer that was involved in this
  4. Ah yes I used them for the first time last week for another customer. Part was in stock, infact they showed having 40 of them. Order confirmed, and then dispatched exactly 7 days later (yesterday)… so still waiting for it to be delivered.
  5. You are right in that he needs help, but I think in more ways then just running a business, since he cant even work a ruler when I ask him to measure the diameter of a hole, so that I dont have to drive half an hour there and half an hour back to determine which version of a part fits his strimmer. Since Im only a mobile mechanic and not a dealer, I had pointed out where and what to buy. But he has neither got the money (living in a sink estate) nor even heard of such lofty brands as john deere or husqvarna…
  6. Shouldnt really talk about my customers but… this one deserves a mention. I have visited him twice to service and repair his mower which he had bought second hand and it is of a cheap B&Q own brand variety. Not so bad if its just used every other weekend, but no, he uses it everyday to earn a living. He then asks me to repair his 4 month old strimmer of same brand and origin. I then point out that the parts he needs are only available through a warranty claim which I as an independant mechanic am not allowed to do (rant within rant). So anyway, next appointment is arranged to repair something else on his mower, parts are ordered and visit arranged in one weeks time. Then in the meantime I start getting phonecalls from him 2 to 3 times a day every day including late evenings and weekends. His strimmer is broken again but still usable and he has found a second hand obscure chinese branded one locally to buy, should he buy it he asks? No I tell him because the brand has disappeared and parts are an arse to find, so lets just fix the other one when I come for the mower. .. OK… Next day… the strimmer is cutting out… wait until tuesday when our appointment is I tell him… 2 hours later… it doesnt start anymore, seems to be siezed… right make a warranty claim… 1 hour later… B&Q wont accept it anymore so he just went and bought the one I told him not to… next day…can I come and fix the new one… yes on tuesday… ok… monday evening 7pm… A customer just booked him to cut grass tomorrow morning can I reschedule the appointment… Sorry fully booked until my holidays and I dont come back until mid august… „ok I‘ll wait until then“…
  7. yohan

    LED bothering

    I recently bought those driving glasses that make every car look like they have those old french yellow headlights. Why? Because my eyes physically hurt from the intensity of modern lights and Im only 33 years old.
  8. Had a similar incident when I borrowed my brothers old merc and the throttle pedal stuck whilst driving through Aberdeen shity centre. Redlining and coming sideways out of a junction wasnt planned...
  9. Replacing the porous fuel tank and noticing that the rear suspension arm next to it had daylight shining through it... When I started taking it off to replace it, half of it fell off as I undid the first of the 2 bolts holding the rear axle to it. I had bought the car a week earlier and driven alot with it before noticing these minor details...
  10. I have had hydraulic brakes empty themselves twice in my life, both times I was going downhill... But luckily both times were empty country roads within a mile from home so it wasnt as scary as it could have been. I would say looking up between short bursts of welding and seeing the entire bulkhead of a landrover engulfed in flames was my biggest crap in the pants moment.
  11. Yesterday my business insurer phoned to remind me about my upcoming renewal. I explained I was changing the way I worked and would be doing more work on site and less at my workshop. I was told that was fine and then the proposal came through with a special endorsement saying I wouldnt be covered for working away from my premises, well thats a bit pointless then! Then today I ran out of welding gas, rang up my local welding equipment supplier who said they stopped selling gas because of their insurance. tremendous, a 2 hour round trip this afternoon to return my empty bottle to the next nearest SGS agent and look for a new supplier. I should better check if my car insurance actually covers me for driving my car on a road...
  12. I'm up for having one too now that father jack passed his MOT and will live on a bit longer!
  13. I had a nice one where someone sent a message and offered a 3rd of the asking price. I told him that I can get the same amount he offered from a scrap yard, to which he replied asking which scrap yard he could expect to see my car in. At that point I simply laughed and told him his comeback was excellent which made him happy as well. He didnt buy the car but at least it was one of the very few conversations that didnt end in frustration.
  14. Ordered a new sump for my ignis over a week ago from poland since it was £70 with postage as opposed to £140 for a new one in the uk or £90 for a rusty second hand one. It has now sat for a week in a UPS warehouse in poland „due to a brexit related disruption“ despite having cleared customs at the beginning of the week... wouldnt have been so bad if the MOT wasnt booked for tomorrow...
  15. They need a grey miserable soviet city to film their latest movie in. Yep Aberdeen will do. Some fantastic cars are driving around the town just now. https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/tetris-aberdeen-filming/
  16. Not been on here for a while but I thought I would share the annoying new scottish low emissions zone scheme. So next year, 4 of the scottish cities will have a low emissions zone. This includes Aberdeen which I visit at least once a week which often feels like once a week too many but anyway... There is a grant available from the government for those within a certain radius of the zone, which gives you £2000 to scrap your non compliant car and buy one thats compliant. So since the deadline for applying for the grant is the end of next month... I made an enquiry. To be eligible, Are you within 20 kilometres of the city centre? yes but only just. Are you on benefits? yes since I have children and a low income. Does your car fail to meet the minimum euro emissions rating? Yes its only euro 3. Have you owned the vehicle for more then 12 months? Oh for goodness sake! They then offered an alternative option which is an interest free loan for buying a new or used electric car... but it has to be from a dealer... OK fair enough all this stops potential fraud abuse, but I cant afford a car that will let me into Aberdeen (what a terrible shame...) and I cant make my partner go instead because her 6 year old Dacia wont be allowed in either.
  17. I remember reading a haynes manual for a motorbike where I needed to fix the electrics. The chapter on electrical systems started by saying „you probably wont have a multimeter so you should take it to a specialist workshop.“ REALLY!!! in a REPAIR manual!!
  18. Sad to hear that. I still remember how kind he was to my Yaris when you and I happened to be at that garage at the same time. I can thoroughly reccommend the council test centre in stonehaven. First of all its the only truly independant test centre in the area since it doesnt have a garage attached so theres no conflict of interest. Secondly and more importantly, it just has the same 2 old guys all the time and they have been really helpfull to me over the years, from using exhaust paste to stop the exhaust leaking on a nissan to tuning the carburettor on my lada so both would pass the emissions test.
  19. When I was 18, I had an old bmw with near bald summer tyres and ended up overtaking an astra and various other FWD cars going up hills as they were slowing down and getting stuck in the snow and despite going past them pretty much sideways, I knew I had to keep my momentum going or else I would get stuck too. I only once got stuck but to be fair the bumper was acting as a snow plow at that point. My younger brother had been given a clapped out old rusty merc on its last legs as his first car at the same time and we got some ancient colways which we put on and it conquered all the steep hills and drifting snow that we could find.
  20. Exactly the same as here just outside Aberdeen. I did get a bit of a surprise to see some lightning at 4am though.
  21. Good grief! That is an incredible effort and perserverance! May the light at the end of the tunnel shine on you both soon!
  22. yohan

    Crap jobs.

    My Partner bought a book for me to write her my to-do list. First page was filled very quickly, ticking the things off however... well im almost there with the first lot...
  23. Strangely, and another reason I bought it, is that its surpringly solid underneath. Im guessing the elderly former owner living 20 miles inland from aberdeen didnt venture much to the sea.
  24. I have proudly bought a car well suited to father jack. no not that one... just something with a suitable number plate: My intention today was to simply have a look at it since it was one of the seldom good cars in my price range. Then when the shoes in the rear drum of my corolla decided to collapse on the way there... the decision was more or less made. ps. Toyota Corolla for sale. Coming soon to an AS shite for sale site near you...
  25. Yes, I go to the local council now who run an MOT station at their workshop in the town near us. They dont repair cars for customers so they are not interested in generating extra work. Also when I took my Lada there last year, the old guy doing the test even tuned the carb on the emissions tester for me!
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