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It's doubly irrelevant for me as I am sadly not allowed within 500 yards of either of their houses anymore, in fact I'm probably breaking part of the court order even quoting a post about their boobs.

I had a 100bhp mini and never had any gearbox problems, on account of it never managing to cover enough miles between engine rebuilds to stress the gearbox

"💀☠💀 Never double cross a man who owns a vectra b and was born in november and is married to a sassy woman called irene and has a border terrier and used to be a plater-fabricator and learned life at the university of school of hard nocks 💀☠💀"

Hey, at least they were kind enough to block something like youtube so when you call up to turn the content filter off you have plausible deniability.

It's in the old scargills shop next to the thai restaurant on your way out to matlock bath: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1369071,-1.5560835,3a,59.4y,63.41h,89.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suHCHxvBw6sIFfYTLI6JStw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Three quid in a bookshop in Matlock if ya fancy it, I gave it a miss because I if pushed, I identify as a racing man

Oh and the tyreweld kit in the boot went out of date in 2013 or something, and on my first service (at 1200 miles/2 months old because I was a fucking dipshit) they tried to sell me a new one for £97

If it's as mint as it looks that's a very reasonable price IMO!!

I bought a brand new Abarth 500 in 2016 and it came with three tyres dated 2016 (and they were all brand new with the lines round em still etc) and one wheel with kerb marks coloured in with black pen and a part worn 2013 dated tyre.

it goes up like fuck, I save the stuff from the filter for lighting the fire. The slightest bit of flame and the whole thing is alight in seconds.

Yup, it's the first time in a long time that I've paid someone to work on a vehicle and been satisfied that I couldn't have done it better myself. Edit: and this isn't me bragging I'm an uber skilled master craftsman, it's just that every time I pay for work, someone makes a bollocks of it!

A few months ago had an Iveco main dealer bring me £11,000 worth of ECUs for repair from a new unregistered truck that someone had jump started the wrong way round 🤐

And I recall a bloke I know buying a new spaceship civic 15? years ago and the black paint was absolutely abysmal, it looked like hammerite!

A credit to Dans work, all I needed to do was pump some sikaflex into the seams and give the areas a couple of coats of high build primer, plus the thinnest smear of filler in a couple of places to cover some grinding digs! I've painted it up with some custom mixed aerosols, and it's invisible other than the lack of stone chips, I'm really pleased! With that job done, I stripped the T6 and lined it out inside all nice: It's a lot better for it! Doesn't have the articulation of the t25 though (same spot in the t25 has the rear wheel barely lifted at all) And I fitted the wheel spacers with the correct wheel bolts (the wheels were supplied with r12 bolts not r14 and the seller doesn't understand / won't admit that there is a difference..)

A lot of people say "oh they make them to break just after the warranty ends" and I don't entirely believe this for a lot of products/appliances - as we get better at designing and simulating stuff it's simply inevitable that things will be cheaper and last just long enough to not really annoy the customer, in order to reduce the material cost. However, I am 100% convinced they they are making tumble dryers with many weak points like this entirely on purpose, they really want them to fail early on and in a relatively safe but annoying way

Stunners!!! I can't remember what car they were on, but I had a set of them and they were absolutely fucking deadly. They were the cheapest 195/50/15 tyre around at the time which was standard 15" hot hatch size

My mate bought a renault 5 turbo in november the early 00s, it was painted in that weird flip/pearlescent white which was the fashion at the time. Advertised in the Ad-Mag - We turned up for a look round it on saturday afternoon, and the seller had it parked it tight against the wall of his house blocked in with another car on the drive - "fuckin ell my wife has gone out and took her car keys, sorry lads - tell you what, have a good look round it now, she'll be back in an hour and you can take it for a run" he seemed genuine enough and it was a tight driveway which would explain why the car was parked like it was. Car looked reasonably good, started up fine, idled and revved up OK etc, we buggered off to get some food and stuff and waited for the bloke to call us when his wife got back from work. A couple of hours passed so my mate rang up to ask what the crack was "she's missed her bus, I'll ring you when she gets here" About half an hour, (just as the sun was setting!) he rang us and we went back over, the other car off the drive was gone and no sign of a wife. The car drove and seemed alright so my mate handed over his £2600 or whatever and I followed him home. The next morning when he saw the car in the light we realised exactly what had gone on - The entire passenger side of the car was completely the wrong shade of white, you couldn't tell at night but in the daytime it looked a complete mess - it was patchy and blotchy where someone had tried "blending" the incorrect type of flip paint in and the only solution was a full respray. So he took it in to a backstreet garage for a blow over in white and the bloke took the doors and bumpers off, painted it in primer and then disappeared off the face of the earth and so did the car.

I saw a smart car with the entire roof made of various colours of duct tape. Despite the appearance of the surroundings, it is in regular daily use.

A friend of mine used to work at a place just off the M18, and their work carpark would often get used by lorries to park overnight. They have two big biffa bins, one for cardboard and the other general waste - generally kept inside but they were really crammed with deliveries one week so they got left outside. A few weeks later they got an email from the waste company surcharging them £35(ish?) because the cardboard waste was contaminated, and they sent some pictures to prove - a half full cardboard bin had a bag of macds waste and some beer cans on top, presumably a couple of lorry drivers chucked bags of rubbish in the cardboard bin. He sent them back CCTV videos of every waste collection for 6 months prior, showing every week both bins are collected at the same time and tipped into the same bloody truck!

Since we moved house in October, our bins have been taken maybe 7 or 8 times. It's either covid, industrial action, snow or "no reason". I've just about given up bothering. Bottles go in the bottle bank at the pub next door, and I chuck the (tiny) wheelie bin in the back of the pickup every couple of weeks and tip the contents into the biffa bin at work.

Well it worked didn't it? you didn't ask her for any money.

yes the gold weld is braze. Grind it all off as it'll make a right mess if you try and weld over it!

You really are a glutton for punishment! I was scrolling down pictures and saw a rusty hole in a blue panel and thought it was my own thread 😄 That's a point - Do you know what paint colour this is? I looks exactly like VW medium blue to me.

Spent all day lining out my van. When I started, I wasn't that happy with the carpet - I got "easy liner" which is a bit more stretchy than the usual stuff I use, but it's thin and a lot less durable. I should have just not bothered. 6 hours later, I had the job 70% done when I stood back and realised it looked totally shit. The carpet is so thin it looks patchy and lumpy. Ripped the whole lot off and hoked it in the skip, and now I have loads of spray glue and fluff residue to deal with before I even get back to square one. I don't have much spare time and it really bugs me to have wasted so much of it.

He charges £40ph and he's been on it most of the week, just shy of £1200. I sold my caddy last week which has taken the sting out of it, but realistically, that's what you've got to charge for skilled work like this in order to make it viable as a decent living.