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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!

This is quite important, I have found Alan Partridges five bedroomed bastard house on google earth many years I've searched manually, no luck at all. Trawling from estate to estate, looking at planning applications for the mid/late 90s, aerial shots, never found fuck all! But here she is! last sold for £1.8 million One day I'll find the one briefly showed that he built.

I'm usually the bloke in a T25 doing 6 car overtakes on my way home from work because the peak district is full of people who daren't go above 40mph. I'm with you on the big coachbuilts that people hire, they're an absolute menace.

Perfectionism is the enemy of satisfaction. I used to strive to make every vehicle perfect, any little ding or dent or rattle would upset me. I'd make myself miserable and never enjoy things. Lately, I think now that I have a couple of "spare" vehicles and I'm a bit more comfortable so that one mechanical failure wouldn't totally bankrupt me, I don't really care, I just use them and service them, make sure they're fundamentally broadly right, at my own pace. Any suspension rattles send me fucking potty though, so I draw the line at those.

I borrowed one of these off my mate last week (And also returned it washed and full of super) Were you given yours back with the brake disks all turned blue with heat and the exhaust box half exploded out of the side or was that just me? 🥵 Cracking cars with a map on, incredibly swift. I didn't find the brakes adequate with a stage 1 tune on it, hence why they were all blue when I gave it back 😅 I'd like to own one, but realistically borrowing one for a few days was enough to get it out of my system for a while

I don't have good in transit cover myself (my van is a transporter not a transit, hohohoho😅) so I can't really deliver stuff. It was a bit last minute. My fault for describing them as "LCD Control panels" rather than just "control panel" really!

Massive big order going out from my company, 53x control units. Months and months of work. Sent them on a pallet, paid £100 extra to get it insured because the total value is £17k. Shitting myself about sending it out because we really can't afford to lose that! Pallet was collected at about 1PM. Two hours later, I get an email Thanks for letting me know Alexandra! Have a lovely day too! It's only a few hours fucking late! So now I've got seventeen flipping grands worth of stuff being ferried across the country without insurance and my arse will be going like a rabbits nose for 24-48 hours.

I wish there was a way to encase that mini in amber and protect it exactly at that state of bedraggledness for eternity, while still being able to use it. It's a thing of beauty.

This was evidently hard enough to blow the side out of the backbox. I might see if he'll sell it me.

It'd start with a kiss from a rose and escalate into something much more frenzied one the lid was off the poppers