cobblers

A mate of mine bought a 106 XSi, again "spares" because it failed the MOT on emissions. He paid £100 off some random 50+ year old woman who knew nowt about it and had bought it off a bloke up the road a couple of years prior. It wasn't the best shell, but it had tidy Sparco Cromadora wheels, an original BTB exhaust and 4 branch manifold, mega top end DLS speakers and Bilstein b16 dampers. Probably £1500+ worth of parts at the time! He prebooked an MOT, drove 50 miles to it where I think it actually passed straight through because the previous MOT place had put it through a cat test and it never came with one.

Hmm, I can see how you'd just go "yeah, generic sporty wheels". If I ended up with a set I'd probably stick em on for £100 because they're not my bag either!

gwan then what wheels are they? 😬

Wankers. At work I watched DPD drive up, hold his phone out of the window of the van and take a picture of our front door, then speed off. then a few seconds later "We missed you"

There's a bloke who does signwriting and stuff across the way from my old unit. He was bloody useless - Never more than a week went by without us seeing something parked outside with a spelling mistake or some other really obvious cockup. He sent out calendars to everyone on the estate, only he just changed "2019" to "2020" and none of the days lined up with the dates. You'd think after ten years in the business he'd get someone to proof read things for him!!

My wife pretty much said the same. "I know it was a 30 limit because I drive down that road every day. I was going 36 because there's absolutely no good reason for that stretch of road to be a 30 limit, especially not at 6am on a sunday" what she was doing couldn't be called dangerous or irresponsible by anyone reasonable. It's a road with good visibility, few hazards and in most cases would be a 40 limit. There have been no incidents on it for many years. 36mph really is an absolute crawling pace down there. Then they trot out the laughable stopping distance stuff: "Oh, but going that extra 6mph over the limit means that instead of stopping just before the child, you'll hit them at 35.997mph" using figures that were presumably tested using a hastily road-converted British rail class 45.

Another one is this "RoHS" stuff, requiring the use of lead free solder in all electronics manufacture. I can understand it in cheap throwaway consumer shit, but on industrial stuff it's an absolute joke. Lead free solder is less ductile, cracks easily, needs more aggressive flux and hotter temperatures to work with. So instead of an ECU lasting the whole life of the truck (10-15 years), but having a couple of grams of lead in it, they might only last 3 or 4 years, so you're making the same part three times. Quite often, serviceable trucks (and cars) are scrapped because of a faulty ECU, which would almost certainly have been avoided if leaded solder had been used in it's manufacture. You're scrapping an entire vehicle many years prematurely, for the sake of saving a few grams of lead. I shouldn't complain too much because I earn a living repairing these ECUs, but it's really short sighted.

I listened in on my wifes course. I wanted to jump through the internet and strangle most of the other participants. Tutor wasn't much better. Stuck in a virtual room full of dull but angry people with an axe to grind. Just take the points, it's cheaper. Save the course for later.

I've fished 35 year old, 200,000 mile ball joints out of the scrap bin in order to rob the gaiters off them to repair the "premium OEM" ball joints I'd replaced them with less than a year prior!

NOS rubber from decades ago will almost certainly give better service than rubber made last week. There has been a major change in the quality of rubber in the last 15 years and it is ALL absolutely terrible now. A year out of the bag and it's crumbling away.

I've had that with new stock more times than is reasonable. Three times! Always Peugeot 106.

These wankers again!!!!! I was *cycling* to work on Saturday morning, I stay mostly on tracks and trails but there was one stretch through Hassop where I was on road. The whole bunch of about 20 of them decided to overtake me while we were going round a sharp left hand bend. The pack of them cut the corner and forced me up the fucking kerb, I very nearly copped for it! Now I'm sure it probably "wasn't that close" from their perspective, but I don't spend every weekend riding in tightly packed groups with other bikes so when I've got a pair of handlebars less than a foot away from mine at 25mph, it's pretty jarring!

Yeah, they all rust. Sadly my low mileage, we'll looked after 2017 4 motion is bubbling at the front of the sills! Ffs!

The absolute SHIT state of almost every "restored" VW T25 I've ever seen is unreal. They're all total dogs, I'd much rather buy a rotten one than a shiny one. The only difference is £5000 and about 18 months parked outside. I look back at some of the work I did on my panel van and cringe a little bit, but it's a fucking damn sight better than the wobbed up shite that people are asking £15+k for nowadays. A woman on one of the facebook groups was bellyaching that she'd jet washed her t25 and some paint had flaked off after she'd had it "fully restored at great cost by a professional" 8 months prior. She'd gone back to the bloke who "restored it" and he'd fobbed her off as you'd expect. Turns out this "full restoration" took a week and cost her £1350. There were some photos of it being painted in a filthy barn with old beach towels used to mask off the tyres etc. Very clearly painted straight over rust and flaky paint, muck in all the door shuts etc etc. Nobody wants to pay what a proper restoration would cost. I'd never buy something that someone had restored themselves unless there was a 9 million photo scrapbook of the job included. The closest I got was buying a Mini that a copper had restored. Engine span a bearing on the way home. Alternator didn't do anything because it wasn't wired right. Brake calipers were loose. Both front bucket seats held in on bits of timber. Shiny paint on the outside but rusty holes in the floor still.

Have you got a copy of your prescription? you can get a decent pair of specs for 1/3rd of the price of an opticians if you buy online. There's usually a model number printed on one of the arms if you want exactly the same as you already have. That's what I usually do when I ruin a pair.

Oh man don't get me started!!!!!!!!!! 10 metres of string? Fuck bending down to pick it up, we've got a dyson for that!!! Cotton buds? Hair pins? an entire broken pint glass? HAVE AT IT

My wife would buy a £1000 hoover just to use it til it's completely full, carry on using it til all the pipes are blocked solid and then say "dave this new hoover is rubbish"

Best thing I've ever bought is this bike. This is my commute home from work:!!!! Had it not much more than a week and already done 240 miles! I'm happier, more fit and I'm exploring places that I'd never otherwise get to. I know it's flipping cheating having a motor on it, but perfection is the enemy of success. It's a compromise but it still means I'm getting shitloads more exercise than I otherwise would - I set off home from work last night at 5pm feeling a bit lethargic, couldn't really be arsed. As soon as I'd got half a mile down the road I'd perked right up and ended up doing 29 miles all over the place! And best of all I didn't pay any tax on the bastard because of HMRCs incredibly generous cycle to work thingy

Strewth! Is it all as sore as that or has just the front end been left in brine for 15 years

I can't believe I spent 36 years of my life before I bought a track saw. I didn't even know they existed. They're fucking amazing

Went over to our old house today to clear the last few bits out and cut the grass as it's hopefully gone next week. It's been empty about 7 or 8 months, the grass is pretty long. Nextdoors filthy fucking awful cat has been using the small lawn as it's personal litter tray, there's a massive pile of stinking turds on one corner. Horrible septic animals. If I was to let my dog wander across and shit on their lawn, I'd be the bad guy!

It's physically impossible to eat just one bourbon.

House prices rocketed when they closed the school for the deaf after noise the complaints

Maybe I'm guilty of trying to find the tasty bit of a dogshit sandwich, but at least you are 100% nailed on sure that it's fucked and won't waste money and time trying to fix it to have it bite your arse!

I found it about 15 seconds ago and the only people I know who might even slightly care are on here. I've not heard of realstreets, I'll stick it on there tomorrow if it's not already been found!