Talbot

Different MOT tester maybe?  I've had cars that have absolutely fine headlamp alignment, which have passed for years then suddenly fail on too low/high/left/backwards.  Adjust them so they pass, and they're so short they're dangerous.  Adjust back up to something sensible, and then pass next year again.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Next few days... HAH!  I'm ever the optimist of my own organisation.  But I did leave it the month I suggested, so.... some kind of accuracy?
Soooooo, where were we?  Ah yes.  £139.03 in the kitty, and then some costs.  Some significantly improved costs, but costs nevertheless:
September:  £113.76   (better)
October: £58.30 (that's more like it!!)
November: £66.46
Which means the account is now (£99.49) in the red, which is a massive improvement over where I'd got it to in August, which was almost (£300) in the red.  It's also clear now that (useage depending) our costs have been roughly halved over where we were.  This is all very good news for the future of the forum.
I'm aware that the C-word is looming, so lets do this now before it gets any closer:
 
As per before, the fundraiser can be found here:
https://ko-fi.com/autoshite
Unfortunately, despite KoFi being superbly easy to use, when it transfers balance to Paypal, it's considered a business transaction, so some fees are lost.  On the back of that, if anyone wishes to make a "friends and family" paypal payment directly into the Autoshite Paypal account, (IE bypassing KoFi's fees) that would be most welcomed.  The email address to make a payment to is
autoshitehosting@fastandfurryous.co.uk
For anyone making a payment by anything other than paypal, or indeed would prefer not to use friends&family to make the payment that is no issue at all and payments through KoFi are very welcome indeed.  Sending direct by Paypal friends&family is absolutely optional.  But is also welcomed to avoid fees.
I will, as before, leave this open for a while, to allow everyone who uses the forum to see this and contribute if they wish.  I expect this raizer will cover us well into the new year.
The explanation for the weird email address on page 1.
Many thanks to all contributors, large, small or anything in between.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Next door neighbor's car failed it's mot for £1000 of welding according to the garage 😑

A grand for a bit of box section, robbing bastards 😂

Fuckit.
Unloading the dishwasher and I manage to drop a wine glass on the counter, and it just fucking exploded in razor sharp shards of glass all over the kitchen, so I'm stood there barefoot surrounded by glass like the shittest tribute to John McClane in Die Hard.  Managed to get away from it without shredding myself, started clearing up and vacuuming the 8.46 billion shards of glass up, at which point a string of lamps we have up in the lounge (open plan) comes off their sticky pads, falls down and knocks a clock off the wall.  Said clock falls to the floor and the 300mm diameter glass front.. you guessed it, explodes into another 5 billion shards, all over the entire room.
Taken me an hour to be confident I've cleared up all the glass.  It was absolutely sodding everywhere.  Bits on almost every surface of both rooms.  Fucks sakes!
I'd suggest I need a glass of wine after that, but I broke my favourite glass.
Bollocks.

Vast* donation sent by PP. 

Next few days... HAH!  I'm ever the optimist of my own organisation.  But I did leave it the month I suggested, so.... some kind of accuracy?
Soooooo, where were we?  Ah yes.  £139.03 in the kitty, and then some costs.  Some significantly improved costs, but costs nevertheless:
September:  £113.76   (better)
October: £58.30 (that's more like it!!)
November: £66.46
Which means the account is now (£99.49) in the red, which is a massive improvement over where I'd got it to in August, which was almost (£300) in the red.  It's also clear now that (useage depending) our costs have been roughly halved over where we were.  This is all very good news for the future of the forum.
I'm aware that the C-word is looming, so lets do this now before it gets any closer:
 
As per before, the fundraiser can be found here:
https://ko-fi.com/autoshite
Unfortunately, despite KoFi being superbly easy to use, when it transfers balance to Paypal, it's considered a business transaction, so some fees are lost.  On the back of that, if anyone wishes to make a "friends and family" paypal payment directly into the Autoshite Paypal account, (IE bypassing KoFi's fees) that would be most welcomed.  The email address to make a payment to is
autoshitehosting@fastandfurryous.co.uk
For anyone making a payment by anything other than paypal, or indeed would prefer not to use friends&family to make the payment that is no issue at all and payments through KoFi are very welcome indeed.  Sending direct by Paypal friends&family is absolutely optional.  But is also welcomed to avoid fees.
I will, as before, leave this open for a while, to allow everyone who uses the forum to see this and contribute if they wish.  I expect this raizer will cover us well into the new year.
The explanation for the weird email address on page 1.
Many thanks to all contributors, large, small or anything in between.

Small contribution sent as a thanks for helping to keep me sane*

Next few days... HAH!  I'm ever the optimist of my own organisation.  But I did leave it the month I suggested, so.... some kind of accuracy?
Soooooo, where were we?  Ah yes.  £139.03 in the kitty, and then some costs.  Some significantly improved costs, but costs nevertheless:
September:  £113.76   (better)
October: £58.30 (that's more like it!!)
November: £66.46
Which means the account is now (£99.49) in the red, which is a massive improvement over where I'd got it to in August, which was almost (£300) in the red.  It's also clear now that (useage depending) our costs have been roughly halved over where we were.  This is all very good news for the future of the forum.
I'm aware that the C-word is looming, so lets do this now before it gets any closer:
 
As per before, the fundraiser can be found here:
https://ko-fi.com/autoshite
Unfortunately, despite KoFi being superbly easy to use, when it transfers balance to Paypal, it's considered a business transaction, so some fees are lost.  On the back of that, if anyone wishes to make a "friends and family" paypal payment directly into the Autoshite Paypal account, (IE bypassing KoFi's fees) that would be most welcomed.  The email address to make a payment to is
autoshitehosting@fastandfurryous.co.uk
For anyone making a payment by anything other than paypal, or indeed would prefer not to use friends&family to make the payment that is no issue at all and payments through KoFi are very welcome indeed.  Sending direct by Paypal friends&family is absolutely optional.  But is also welcomed to avoid fees.
I will, as before, leave this open for a while, to allow everyone who uses the forum to see this and contribute if they wish.  I expect this raizer will cover us well into the new year.
The explanation for the weird email address on page 1.
Many thanks to all contributors, large, small or anything in between.

It was an ASDF reference...
Ironically, your reference was funnier!

Reading this thread feels like:
Work.  More work.  Welding.  Stuff.  Mechanical things.  Cosmetic things.  More work.
Suddenly,
Volvo.

Different MOT tester maybe?  I've had cars that have absolutely fine headlamp alignment, which have passed for years then suddenly fail on too low/high/left/backwards.  Adjust them so they pass, and they're so short they're dangerous.  Adjust back up to something sensible, and then pass next year again.

Reading this thread feels like:
Work.  More work.  Welding.  Stuff.  Mechanical things.  Cosmetic things.  More work.
Suddenly,
Volvo.

Surely the correct solution to this issue is to purchase another car, which you will tell yourself will be the reliable car that just works while you fix everything else.
... which quickly becomes another project car, as it "just needs ..."
 

I pinched this out of a Focus I had earlier in the year that I fixed the heater for. 

Shitters Choice accessory Award winner: It’s pants and only exists for those who can’t fix their car.
I was worried I’d set the Leader on fire using this, but I think I generate the same heat as this thing just yawning on my way to work in the mornings. 

Reading this thread feels like:
Work.  More work.  Welding.  Stuff.  Mechanical things.  Cosmetic things.  More work.
Suddenly,
Volvo.