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  1. Fareham, where the council are far more interested in lining their own pockets than providing any kind of public services. Some of the parking machines do take card payments but the card bit is perma-fucked on any of the seafront ones because (does best surprised face) seawater and fragile electronics don't mix very well. Who'd have thought? So often they have to be fed with gold dubloons instead. this is literally the only positive to the ludicrous handbrake/footbrake arrangement the W203 has (Like your XM IIRC?) is that its so hidden away its all but impossible to get coins stuck in it! Still a stupid design though.
  2. "Yo Stanky, whats up? Fixing more broken shit on your shit car again LOLOLOLOL?" "Yes, now fuck off" My day today was darkened slightly by my youngest not really wanting to go home from the park, and refusing to get in her car seat. The sun was shining and I had nowhere I needed to be, so rather than wrestling her into the seat like a mental, I took it in my stride and let her climb about in the car. Usually when she does this she clambers about, moves the gearstick, pretends to drive, moves the air vents and other things which are a minor annoyance, but not the end of the world so I let her get on with it while I tried to do my best laid-back cool DILF act for the yummy mummies at the park. However, today I came rather unstuck. While I was gazing into the middle distance I hadn't realised she'd discovered the coin tray that I keep a collection of small change in for parking ticket machines which in 2023 STILL DON'T FUCKING ACCEPT CARD PAYMENTS. As all children do, she immediately set about filling the CD slot of the head unit with the fucking things. Mercifully, on starting the car (with her wrangled into her seat eventually) I was able to eject the CD and then turn the head unit off without it making coffee grinder noises however now I had to extract a load of 20p's from the effing thing. Fast forward to 8pm and having removed a billion screws and hidden clips I finally got the head unit out of the dash what a carry on! I liberated 70p in silver coins plus a trolley token from the cd tray. Most of them came out with lots of shaking, but the trolley token was having none of it and required the casing to be partially dismantled before it fell out (and went down the side of the seat, predictably...) Anyway, its all back together now. I lost one torx trim screw in the process, and also found that the ashtray illumination bulb had blown so I'll get a new one of those at some point. Otherwise, its all going swimmingly. The C-Class really is a capable old beast. Sometimes things fall off but it just keeps on motoring. Its cost me really very little over the last 4 years and just does everything I need of it. I took out the plugs the other day to check them over as apparently the M111.951 engine is hard on its plugs. I replaced the iridiums that were in there for some Denso Platinums about 3 years / 25k miles ago so pulled one out to check it over. The gap hasn't really grown, I think I gapped them to 0.8mm when I fitted them but this had grown to about 1mm over that time. I gently pressed the electrodes down to re-gap them to 0.8mm again and I'm proud to say its made bugger all difference. It wasn't bad before, but seemed to have a slightly lumpy idle one day last week. This seems to have gone now, maybe it was just hot? Anyway, they're now back to the correct spec and I don't need to buy new ones so thats that sorted. Oh, I've ordered a new speaker grille for the passenger door to finally replace the one that broke when I was replacing the anti-bounce spring in the passenger door look about 3 years ago.
  3. Thats got 'artisan business opportunity' written all over it. As such, £5303.78 from me
  4. It will fit all manner of sweet and savoury pastry-based delights!
  5. Cracking cars these. We had one for a few years that subsequently passed through ownership with several other shiters. Have you found the secret hot pie storage drawer yet?
  6. £30 #justsayin https://shop.rnib.org.uk/ambutech-folding-aluminium-long-cane-roller-marshmallow-tip-89923?ML196
  7. hahahahaha, I just looked at the ad and I know exactly where that is. Its a shite-heaven thats visible on Google Earth. Very, very rarely something is unfucked enough that it makes it out to the entrance by the main road with a for sale sign on. TBH, much like the Starion I'd sit in that and just make vroom vroom noises. The interior is basically what I imagine even a showroom-fresh TVR to look like, all parts bin shit, mould, gaffer-taped-up bits of hose and wires vomiting forth from everywhere! Based on the mentalness of ebay, there is probabaly £500 of cassette tapes in the glovebox. I wonder how bad the not-fibreglass bits underneath are? Whats the engine, a 2.8 Ford (cologne? Essex?) V6? I could nip up the way and go and ask I suppose...
  8. Look at it from the other end of the telescope. What does £800 get you on gumtree/Facebook marketplace/autotrader? Yeah, exactly... Get it fixed and you've got a good few years of motoring left
  9. Thanks, they were on my radar - noted re price though. I'll have a sniff around because I need to do the pillar covers too so it looks like a bit of a chore of a job all things considered. How much of the interior did you need to remove to do it?
  10. Nice, where did you get the material? Did you recover the existing backing board? Did you use paint-on or spray adhesive? I'd like to do the the headlining in my Mercedes which is going droopy and is a bit marked so looking for recommendations.
  11. "2.0 pinto with type 9 5 speed gearbox" got to be £1500 in that? I'll go nuts and say double its current price. £1640
  12. After a last minute panic when the EML came on last night as I went to drop it off for an MOT - I'd forgotten to reconnect the air intake temp sensor after fiddling with it the other day, fixed for free thanks to my Delphi code reader! - The Daihatsu is legal for another year I'm pleased with that!
  13. WBAC will give you a grand for this, all day long. They also won't notice the 'bobble' as it gets loaded on the beavertail, nor will the next schmuck who buys it at auction until its too late. There is literally no way you can lose at £400
  14. £4220.20 from me. I mean I'd pay £2000 for it to just sit in it on my drive and make 'brummmmm' noises. Witness the fitness. I bet it's rusty as fuck though, and I'd sit in the seat and immediately it'd collapse through the floor
  15. 10:30 am -"hi Stanky, yeah we need you in Manchester tomorrow. We've told the client you're coming" "FFS people, ok, on my way" Jumped into the mercedes, suit and trousers in the boot, laptop, and booked a hotel. Put 10 gallons of pez in and hit the road. Other than lacking AC, it lapped up 250 miles with zero prep, handling fast motorways, traffic jams and delivering me to my temporary HQ in 4 and a half hours, and showing 46.7 mpg. From a 22 year old, 2.0 NA petrol engine. It just works, it's got some foibles but for a supposedly low point in mercedes engineering, and for a low spec car it just does what it does perfectly. It's fast enough, frugal enough, capacious enough and comfy enough. It's like driving an old slipper. I do admire the optimism of the trip computer, but 43mpg indicated is 38mpg real world, so I think I've tickled 40 to the gallon which isn't half bad, considering.
  16. Sold* at £2200 on the nose, which means @CaptainBoom was fractionally closer than @Justwatching and is tagged for our next unmissable vehicle. I'm surprised it didn't bid higher tbh
  17. All the twos! Two bags, 22 bids and 2 hours to go!
  18. For me, I embrace the Wabi-sabi nature of the cars I drive. I've tried the perfection approach, reasoning that I should maintain the car the way the manufacturer intended - fixing every last thing so that the car drove 'just right' and everything worked. And you know what? I was miserable. On a 15+ year old car there's going to be broken things. There are going to be broken things that are dangerous, and they get fixed. There are broken things which, if left, will break more things. They get fixed too. Then there are broken things which don't actually prevent a car being a means to get from A to B. They sometimes get fixed, if I feel like it, if I have spare time, if it become sufficiently annoying. Then there are broken things which might be eay to fix, but hard to access - like a heater matrix or a set of blend flaps. these get left alone forever because my life is too short, and my background stress levels too high. And I am all the happier for it. Yes my cars are 'shit' and have quirks, sometimes workarounds have workarounds, but I know how to make them function as I want so it doesn't matter what others think, or say. I've never owned a car thats so nice that I feel morally obliged to maintain it cost no object, and even if I did, I doubt I'd enjoy the experience. Like many things in life - Enjoy it for what it is, and what it enables you to do - don't dwell on its shortcomings.
  19. Jesus fucking wept, sorry I chose a car with such a long auction to run on it, it feels like about 8 weeks and we still have over a day to go. Interesting strategy to have it run to 11pm on a monday, but there we go. We're sitting at £1950 with 26 hours to run at time of typing and 21 bids so could be a frenzy of LHM induced bidding on a school night tomorrow.
  20. The Garage Lounge on the corner of Albert Rd and Elm grove is nice for cake and coffee, Tenth hole as @danthecapriman has already said, plenty of decent places to eat along Albert Rd or Palmerston Rd, Southsea Rock Shop on Marmion road is quite good for local arts and crafts stuff - lots of funny local stuff. Go up to Portsdown hill for a pretty decent view of the whole area and a Micks Monster Burger. Southwick brewhouse, just on the other side of the hill is well worth a visit, and the adjoining pub does good food. Wickham, a bit further along has a really nice town square and fancy places to eat. For £25 per person I'll give you a tour of my garage.
  21. Just about completed upgrading from a Kingston SSD to a WD Black NVME drive with a fresh install of Windows on it - its flying along, I've got twice the storage to play with and it feels so fresh! New OS on a new storage device is almost as good as putting on brand new underpants and socks. Got to reinstall all the games and things but I'm dead pleased.
  22. Martin Lewis said that if you email boris.johnson@gov.uk he'll send you a tenner.
  23. Phwoar! Thats a result. Katy was busy again but Les sorted me out with a signed photo this time which I'm pretty pleased with Anyway, continuing the 1980s theme we have developing, I'd like to put this slice of Gallic Greenery forward https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285318159842 6 and a bit days to run, got bids already and appears to have no reserve - which I'm taking to mean its utterly fucked and the seller just wants rid. Its got that look of 'just at the point where everything becomes terminally rusty all at once' and you end up sellig your house, a kidney and a lung to keep it running, because doing so saves* you £55 a year on MOTs (from next year). Over to you guys - wHaTs uR beSt PRiCE m8?
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