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Dunston Comprehensive school, gateshead 1960.
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Station Road, Fulwell, Sunderland.
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- PicantoJon and Lacquer Peel
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South Shields Keppel Street
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Sunderland 73
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There's been a few nice looking Corollas on eBay and Marketplace recently so I'm going Toyota.
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3 minutes ago, Stanky said:
Please provide urgent update on car mats situation!
Edit - TBF that boot liner is giving me a bit of a semi, so sculpt, many stain resists...
Mate.
I ordered mats online before I set off and they're STILL in the post.
It's got my shit itching having a car with 0% mats in.
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It actually drives great.
It runs straight, brakes straight, rides really well, has no suspension conks, and is generally a fun enough and economic way to scoot about. Once cleaned, the interior is tidy and undamaged. It's a happy little thing and I'm really pleased with it.
It needs a few jobs but once done I think it'll be a very good little car.
Fiat Pa-cma-nda.
- Sunny Jim, aldo135, Lacquer Peel and 15 others
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Well the front two tyres were worn on the edges, which was an mot advisory and the rears weren't holding air so I decided to go completely off-script in Autoshite terms and signed up for FOUR MATCHING BRAND NEW TYRES FROM A MAJOR HIGH STREET CHAIN.
It was booked in at 17:00 on a Friday.
FORESHADDOWING.
I collected it, checked nothing and drove home.
When I got most of the way home I thought I'd better stop and check the wheel nuts were actually tight. They were, but I noticed that there was no valves on the tyres. Well, there were valves, but they were trapped behind the wheel trims, which are the type that bold on with the wheel bolts.
GR8.
The wheel trims were not fitted correctly because they'd put a balance weight where the trim clip has to engage if you want the cut out for the valve to be where the valve is.
But it was 1700 o clock on a Friday so theyd just rotated the trims 45 degrees, trapped the valves and rattlegunned the nuts to 19000 newton meters, hi fived each other and gone to the pub.
Me:
Tyres are good though.
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- PicantoJon, CGSB, Eyersey1234 and 23 others
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- Coprolalia, Lacquer Peel, PicantoJon and 12 others
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At Berwick, which was the next available fuel stop, I checked all the tyres. Rears were down to 20psi ish. So they're leaking.
Right.
Pez shot.
I'm sure it'll be grand if I stop a couple more times on the way home. I'd made it 80 miles and it was about the same to go. A couple of stops and gas ups should be fine.
- Coprolalia, AndyW201, privatewire and 4 others
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I had no compressor and better yet, an inspection of the interior revealed that there was no 12v outlet. It's so base that it doesn't have one. WELL GR8.
Me creeping around asking strangers if they have a compressor, and if they could park their car REALLY CLOSE to mine so that they could plug it into their own car so that I could pump my tyre up.
The first 20 or 30 people/families that I asked just looked at me like I planned to murder them using this complex ruse as a ridiculous introduction and scurried away to make their pisses.
Eventually a kind man in a Golf agreed.
The worst rear tyre was on 5psi and the other wasn't much better. I pumped them up to 33psi and headed for Berwick.
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- Lacquer Peel, N Dentressangle, Tickman and 5 others
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- Dyslexic Viking, Coprolalia, CGSB and 7 others
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Had a nice catch up with the Juulars and Laquerpeel then decided to hit the road.
@MrsJuular mentioned that she thought one of the tyres looked a bit soft so I safety checked the front two by kicking them before I got in. I didn't waste time by checking the back two. They don't even steer. Would have wasted precious seconds.
FORESHADOWING
me doing Geordie yoga to try and get my bones and muscles onside before I fold my self into this tiny car.
Then I checked absolutely nothing else and hit the road.
- Lacquer Peel, N Dentressangle, Dave_Q and 5 others
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Chod North East. Spotting through time.
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Ravensworth Road, Gateshead 1980s