Chod van OMG epic retrieval,WARNING, may contain Northerness. OMG!!! MOT FAILURE! DOOM! HORROR!!!

[Des]

What are wabs? Anyway, MELTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!! RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIFE!!!!!!!!!

Rover spent most of today in and around misery arse London, stopped half a mile from home to get milk and a quick nose in a charity shop, on continuing home the fucker of a charge light stays on, but it's wierd, switching from bright to dim about twice a second, never seen that before, then noticed when I stopped behind someone that the headlamps are behaving the same, and there's a similar but just perceptible feel in the way the engine pulls. I guess it's something like the alternator voltage reg playing up, or a connection causing it to act the maggot, but this is modern shit so probably a great big dong of a computer somewhere that woke up thinking he's Napoleon.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey I'm chuffed to see this little thing is still out there doing some 'commerce'

[UltraWomble]

 

 

I have one of those tables kept under a worktop in my clinic - its exactly the right height for me to rest my left leg on whilst surfing Autoshite from my swively chair on night shifts....

[dugong]

At least you found a use for BR1AN the insurance robot. Annoying little twat. 

[HillmanImp]

What are wabs? 

 

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wabs

[Uncle Jimmy]

I'm feeling down now coz I've never been 'tannoyed' whilst filling up at a petrol station.

[overrun]

At least you found a use for BR1AN the insurance robot. Annoying little twat.

 

:@

 

Can you do a better burnout?

[New POD]

I like tat collection thread-I like it. If I go any distance on a train I always go first class because I'm a snob.

 

 

Sometimes it's cheaper.  Check out the advance Virgin Trains ticket from HemelHempstead leaving at 12:48 on a Friday afternoon, to Runcorn. 3 trains required. 1st is cheaper by £24 and lunch and alcoholic beverage is thrown in free, between Milton Keynes and Crewe, and IF you are lucky one of the 3 trains will be late, and you'll be able to claim half the fare back (They don't give you cash, just a voucher to use next time)

[Des]

Little van's rinsed another MOT, so to reward I fitted the new brakes bought for it almost a year ago to cure a bit of brake judder wibbly wobbly.

 

 

Quite a good car to work on for a modern, sensible layout, see that donkey universal spanner, it's got a swivelling four headed socket spanner yoke each end, the kind of clumsy rubbish that's only good for adjusting a plough, well that and a screwdriver were all I needed to swap discs and pads. Easy peasy, spanner rating = piece of piss.

Hadn't quite froze my bollocks off so I moved to the next important repair.

 

 

 

 

If indeed. This Rover's becoming philosophic.

Timepiece is playing up, pulled asunder a couple of times to press home the LCD terminals but my endeavours effectuate only a brief cure, so I grabs a cheap little clock module from Amazon and some phone packaging from the bin to cut a mounting from.

 

 

 

  

And a marriage of components performed by a hot snot gun.

 

 

 

Oh yes.

 

 

 

Then while clearing up my crap I found the Halfords spanners I couldn't find earlier, which is ironic as I bought them to allow for the times I can't find the cocking spanner I'm looking for, I then had an idea and hinged the bastards inside the garage door, so they can live in that bit of wasted space, I then got caught up in the moment and hung a Lidl socket set off it, life be getting organised.

 

 

 

Then I baled out the flooded spare wheel well, the paint was lifting and the metal was at that turned black stage which pre-empts rotted out to fuck next week, so batted, wire brushed, rust converted and splashed on some Lidl metal paint, bit of investigation showed the O/S lamp gasket leaky, made of identical foam as the Poundland yoga mats I've gathered, so easy to chop out some replacements. 

 

[vulgalour]

It's nice when an (almost) annual thread bump is just "car is fine, I did some servicing".

[oldcars]

Nice little van never seen one before. Its seems all rovers leak into the boot.

[Junkman]

Mine leaks into the driver's footwell.

[Jim Bell]

I think I got the one that doesn't leak. Sorry everyone.

[Junkman]

Something is wrong with yours. You should investigate this.

[Des]

Well I found I've a puddle behind the drivers seat as well, not home and dry just yet, left a dehumidifier running on the passenger seat which dried it up nicely only I didn't push the water tank in quite right so it merely moved the puddle to the passenger side and soggyed up the squab. I think the cause of the leak was the door seal, very loose where it pushes onto the door aperture seam so pinched it up and stuffed it back. Then made some nice lamp gaskets.

 

 

But look, I've gone and cut out a pair of righthand ones. I can't cut up any more of the yoga mat, barely enough room to embrace my inner Chakra as it is, fuck this shit, off to the bridge fucking car.

[anonymous user]

I think I got the one that doesn't leak. Sorry everyone.

more likely is that it does leak in, but you have missed the other hole(s) where it leaks back out again

[Ghosty]

Um... couldn't you just turn the RH piece over = an LH? Car has to be symmetrical surely?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Flippin LOL

[Des]

Um... couldn't you just turn the RH piece over = an LH? Car has to be symmetrical surely?

 

Thanks pal, you've saved a little Rover being filled with rubbish and dumped wheel-less up some country lane near a picturesque village.

I think I've gone and made an enormous improvement, to the power of eleventy big numbers squared, there was something a bit off that I couldn't put my finger on and then it struck me like a wet kipper in the mush, fucking wanker spec clear indicators, I shall fire off a snotty letter to Rover, meanwhile I fucked some amber paint over them.

 

 

So much better.

[sloth]

ORNAG INDEEKAYTURS IZ FER WINNAHSZ.

[Des]

Update on the water leaks, front puddle cured by the doorseal clenching, I did the hosepipe and crawl into the boot to check the lamps had sealed, and found two minor leaks from blanking plugs on the rear corners low down, metal here just starting to go.

 

 

Some more Lidl sploodge, this particular vintage has a pleasingly thick consistency. 

 

 

That's nicer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fatharris]

Lovely motor!

 

Get those plastic roof gutter trims out and clean the gutters properly, I've had to bodge MrsH's Rover in that area because a few places had rotted through and there was an inch of water in the footwell.

 

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