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32 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Yaris now has death wobble. CV probably trashed (been finding time to replace it), a wheel nut has gone and another stud has bent. Wheels fucked. 
 

arrrrrrrgh

That's a fairly brutal escalation from "handbrake did a weird thing"

Commiserations 

I won't get bored of saying it if you won't get bored of writing it up:  great work.

On 15/04/2024 at 10:09, grogee said:

It could be warped head (even though it was freshly skimmed), bad valve sealing or yet another bad gasket. Either way the cylinder compressions are all sub-par so I'm going to revert back to old head for the sake of having a running car. 

When I banana-ed my T-series head due to water pump fail, the face was skimmed flat, but the valve guides were as crossed eyed as a wheezing pug.

Didn't know this until I refitted it post-skim and had shite compression on the middle two cylinders

EDIT: will freely admit the picture wasn't as smooth or rich as the plasma, but it did only take me a week or so to get used to it.

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

I have an old LG plasma TV.  Rarely watch it but it is excellent image quality.  Mostly used for music DVDs so the sound piped through a stereo that cost a lot more than the TV.

I didn't know what I was looking for, just a replacement TV and was shown the difference between LED and plasma TVs.  The choice was easy.

Keeps the room warm too  

I used to have a fabulous Panasonic plasma - weighed 3 metric fucktonnes and heated the living room.

I managed to get a good deal on a Samsung QLED (their 'better than LED but not quite OLED' offering) last year after working out that once I'd taken up their £150 cashback for my old TV, 12 months 0% finance, and a banging offer through my Perks at Work, the TV would pay for itself in under three years of energy bill savings.

Between this and the 240, @juular maintains two of the finest threads on AS at the moment.

I've known people to just roughly cut a gasket out of some 3mm ish neoprene sheeting.

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Today I have to say goodbye to my Dad.

I already miss not being able to show him my latest car purchase.

We didn't order a car to transport us to the Crematorium as I felt the 75 was a perfectly fitting vehicle. It was also the last car he took a ride in.

I have made sure that April is a packed month with 2 holidays and a new car to be attending to.

That's a beautiful photo.

Exactly the kind of thing you and your family will take the time to remember today.

If this was just a bit of a summer fling for a road car, I'd be just doing the fronts and driving around the rest.

But because you're planning on track days (the same reason I got my 'now too nice to track day' R53) I'd be looking at the doing the refresh you've got planned out. Apart from anything else, the cost of parts is dwarfed by the expense of recovering a car from the Armco because you a clipped a kerb and some ancient rubber wiggled itself free.

Same goes for rattling chains...

Great to see you back updating Phil, hope all has been well

Top quality thread - you're making serious progress and dealing with some migraine-inducing issues with mega grace.

My desk chair is getting more comfortable just looking at that waftobarge. Love it.

https://allevents.in/lytham st annes/lytham-car-show-2024-sponsored-by-auto-expert-lytham/200026217876755

WHEN IS IT? Fathers Day, Sunday 16th June 2024 - 9am-4pm

WHERE IS IT? Lytham Green - Opposite the Clifton Arms Hotel. FY8 5QJ

I've been the last couple of years and enjoyed the mix - supercars to keep a 9 year old happy, and plenty of BL tat for me, mixed in with some Max Power Focii, and some random JDM. Usually a 300/400 cars on show (the website says 600 which seems mad)

Free entry too, but they do suggest a donation to the cancer charity it's run on behalf of - to which I say 'fair enough' and donate generously.

Great work on the pass, lovely car

19 hours ago, Peter C said:

My wife has suggested a 50/50 water and vinegar mix to get the dirt off.

The YouTube youth swear by dry-ice blasting. I'm not sure of its merits beyond "dicking around with cool equipment" but there you go.

As an aside, I occasionally get duplicate pages showing - the final two pages of a thread are identical. Assuming it's some kind of database/reconciliation issue? (I know nothing about websites).

I thought I was imagining it for a while so didn't say anything, but it's definitely happened a few times now, most recently on the New24 thread.

Yeah, they're not exactly hiding it, but also choosing the wording as carefully as they can to mean you can miss the second stage is the option of donating to the hosting site, rather than the charity. Like 'chipping in' on that fucking petition site.

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

But wrong

The best kind of sex

16 hours ago, Sheefag said:

They've got form apparently:-

https://www.reviews.co.uk/company-reviews/store/servicing-stop

https://forum.rac.co.uk/threads/15767-Servicing-stop-is-a-scam!!!!!!!!!

https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/servicingstop.co.uk

 

Me, 8 years ago

EDIT: seemingly when punctuation characters were being given out as loss leaders

Three HG replacements is getting close to @DavidB "change the gearbox on a Smart car three times" levels of rage.

Good fucking luck, man

4 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Bulbs don't solve the problem really.  I do want to move the sidelights and indicators up into the headlights themselves if I can, LED units can do this, but they're all so fugly, except in the US where you have actual choice but those are all LHD so no good for me.

 

Also, my adblocker/virus scanner does not like the site of the company FD is using so I'm suspicious.

Might be barking up the wrong tree, but I think @gm had a bit of experiment with LED lights on the Exo. 

Great work, really looking forward to seeing up and running

14 hours ago, fairkens said:

I'm struggling to find the words to describe just how unimpressed I would be if someone I was interviewing referred to a notebook throughout an interview. 

Basic interview technique to remind yourself of your career highlights and lowlights beforehand.

Baffling attitude - but horses for courses innit? I'm not going to take a job in a place that treats an interview as a deliberately hostile encounter.

And the times when I'm sat on the other side of the table, I'm hoping that every candidate I interview gives the best possible account of themselves. If they employ successful strategies to get there, gives me the information I need and gives a good account of themselves, what's the issue? 

If they sit there reading drone-like and not engaging with the panel, they've not used their preparation appropriately.

If they bluster in, give vague, unstructured answers and replace competence with confidence, I'll come to the same conclusion.

On 16/02/2024 at 12:36, Rust Collector said:

I was chatting to my Dad last night, he's been in the NHS all his working life and was a senior manager for some time. His advice was to stick post-it notes round the side of my laptop screen with short notes based around the answers I'm expecting to have to provide. 'Just make sure they can't see them on the webcam' 😂

I turn up to every interview, in person or online, with a (professional, smart looking) notepad in which I've written out 10-12 examples of Things Wot I've Done, laid out in bullet points, one scenario per page. Each page is headed with at least 3 cues (eg 'time management' or 'resolving conflict') it could be relevant to.

When I'm asked the 'could you give me an example of a time when you've managed a challenging situation?' I then explain that I'm just going to see which of these examples best fits the question and then answer. When I'm done flicking through, I always ask them to repeat the question before giving my anecdote.

Interviews aren't a memory test, they're an opportunity to demonstrate you have the skills they need and I would never have an issue with someone giving themselves the best chance of giving a good answer. Twenty years of reasonably senior public sector roles (including NHS) and the only feedback I've ever had about the notepad from interview panels was "that's a really nice idea".

Jesus Christ that's some lucky outcome.