Bank Holiday bollocks

[Squire_Dawson]

Take an elderly Allegro with a knocking 1100 engine and several prolonged incidents of futile head-scratching, dismantling and swearing, and what does one get? Answer: 99% certainty that No.4 little end has gone. Engine knackered at 38,000 miles. The car was stood for 20 years, so it might not have taken well to being woken up and put back into daily service. Anyhow, the rest has been mainly trouble-free, so I suppose I can't complain. I'm not doing the job yet; I've neither the time nor the inclination at the moment. Fortunately, I won't be needing a car soon so it's coming off the road at the end of the month - I should have mustered up the enthusiasm to tackle it by then. Just got to take it easy now and pray that it will get me to Chumley... Bloody cars, eh? Always something to keep us busy on them!

 

What weekend nonsense have you lot been up to?

 

[Skizzer]

Working, mostly, because some tw4ttish clients f***ed up at the end of last week.  Probably won't get paid for it, either.  At least I can do it from home, so I've been on here from time to time.  I did take Saturday off, and went to the IPC Athletics Championship down the road in the morning (impressive, inspiring) and a pre-season friendly rugby match in the afternoon (good game, crap scoreline).

 

Done zero on the cars, which is annoying.  Need to investigate some noises coming from the NSF brake on the SD1.  It'll have to wait until I'm back from holidays now.

[mercrocker]

Came home early from music festival at Twinwood.   Great weekend, some nice motors and another welcome opportunity to sit in a field, drink beer and sleep in the campervan.   Forecast today was, correctly, shite so came home last night instead of today.   Went to antiques fair instead of doing something useful on the cars but the new shocks for the Oxford turned up late on Thursday so they are one tick on the MOT fail sheet (five more to go....).    T25 back up to mid twenties to the gallon after the recent exhaust so that made the weekend fractionally cheaper.  

[srad34]

Pissing about trying to get my elec seats working in the jag, not trying and unsuccessfully   

[RobT]

Gave the 220 a much needed clean on Saturday, opened the bonnet of the Metro today and looked at the engine. No problems there so shut it again. Went to Halfords this afternoon and bought 5 microfibre cloths for 3 quid. Oh the excitement!

[Cheggers]

Got back from holiday late last night, so spent most of the day sitting on my arse moaning about the weather. Typical Bank Holiday really...

 

 

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[eddyramrod]

I haven't done anything car-related since finishing work on Saturday.  I did tick off a couple of small DIY jobs yesterday, and today I've done my online tax return after we came back from Asda (I didn't even drive there, MrsR did).  Back to work in the morning...

[Shep Shepherd]

As normally is the case on bank holidays, I was at work all day.

[Fat_Pirate]

I've eaten an entire Daim bar cake.

[r.welfare]

Stripped the inner panel off the dented MPV door and tried the suction cup/kick/hammer/inflate something behind it approaches to getting the dents out. Looks better but still needs a new door. Thankfully (amazingly?) there's a choice of five being broken on eBay currently in the right colour.

 

Wobbed up and primed the wheelarch.

 

Found that Halfords have any Mazda aerosol paint shade you like as long as it's Classic Red.

[saucedoctor]

Went to PC World to get a barebones PC for a client, who needed one in a hurry as his system had shat its motherboard. Checked the website, it was in stock, off I went. Except PC World had done an Alderaan - it wasn't there any more! Managed to find it about half a mile away. Place was bunged, hardly any staff, and despite what the website said, no barebones PCs at all.

 

Wee fat dude sales assistant attempted to order it into the store for me (Newtownabbey) and his terminal crashed.

 

I went home and tried to order it myself from their site - website fell over @ payment stage. Have to phone my bank tomorrow to see if the payment went through or not. WANKERS.

 

So I set the client up on one of my laptops with a mounted Windows Image Backup from his crapped PC, and will build him a PC tomorrow from parts from my local independent who was shut today.

[cort16]

PC worlds website is a bag of pish we've given up trying to buy anything of it given numerous balls up .

[saucedoctor]

PC worlds website is a bag of pish we've given up trying to buy anything of it given numerous balls up .

The Argos stock checker is a lying bastard as well.

[dave21478]

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Went to the local car auction Bank Holiday special and saw this go under the hammer for £29000! 1974 RS2000 with 27000 miles showing.

 

 

'kin hell.

 

Thats just set me off on one of my introspective "what if..." thought spirals, remembering my Grandpas cars including two tidy-ish sporty mkI escorts that we literally pushed off a cliff into the sea because that was the normal thing to do with unwanted cars back then on the Island we lived on. They were just cruddy old Fords back then and you literally couldnt even give them away. That could have been a decent contribution to my retirement fund today but they are now little streaks of ferrous oxide somewhere in the Atlantic now.

[Wilko220]

Earlier in the BH weekend I drove 400 comfortable and trouble-free miles in the Xantia.

 

Today, I had a whole free day when I might feasibly have actually got the Humber running again but - due to a combination of spousal bullying and the fact it has been pissing it down for the entire day - I ended up doing several hours of DIY and a trip to the supermarket instead.

[Ghosty]

Found that Halfords have any Mazda aerosol paint shade you like as long as it's Classic Red.

 

"What do you mean it's not an MX5?"

[robinmasters]

Done nearly 900 miles in the Xantia over the last few days and nothing has fallen off (yet). Failed to diagnose the wiper problem, and mis-diagnosed the ABS problem.

[chaseracer]

Very little, because I'm knackered and it's been raining a lot.  On the positive side, this means the cars have been washed.

[Mr Lobster]

Hardly anything. Tidied the garage, washed the fleet and thats about it. Did have a wander to the Scarecrow Festival though which was nice and managed to have a pint and a nice slice of cake so a win all things considered.

[Squire_Dawson]

'kin hell.

 

Thats just set me off on one of my introspective "what if..." thought spirals, remembering my Grandpas cars including two tidy-ish sporty mkI escorts that we literally pushed off a cliff into the sea because that was the normal thing to do with unwanted cars back then on the Island we lived on. They were just cruddy old Fords back then and you literally couldn't even give them away. That could have been a decent contribution to my retirement fund today but they are now little streaks of ferrous oxide somewhere in the Atlantic now.

 

Aye, one of my old customers told me how he'd take Lotus Cortinas to the scrappy and get ten bob each. The fact that they're now expensive crap cars doesn't make them any less crap.

[seth]

Yesterday I was mostly driving a 46 year old car (+ family, luggage, bicycles and trailer tent) home from Holland.

[purplebargeken]

Work...... shite as per usual but at least no-one could phone in and hassle us. Just watching the road fill up with water. 

 

Just had an R Whites Lemonade ice lolly. I live the dream. 

[garbaldy]

Decided to collect Ebay purchase number one and wished I had waited till next weekend, due to some crappy Leeds festival shite wasted half the day,

massive bank holiday traffic jams turned a simple journey into a nightmare   glad I decided to trailer the old gal rather than trade plate it.  

[Inspector Morose]

Washed and cleaned this

 

 

 

ready for setting off on week two of the exhibition tour for Barr Construction.

 

Then changed the oil on the BX.

 

Now bed as I'm up at 4:30 to start ( A construction site in Stourport then a drive to Chester ready for Wednesday)

[cort16]

Welded up a bit more cortina until I ran out of wire. I've pretty much made up all the replacement panels so just need to glue it in. I've not looked at the other side yet....

[jakebullet]

Lots of drilling holes in things for work in my leaky tin shack in the rain. Glad I took yesterday off instead.

[overrun]

Jetskiing. Which combined some awesome wave jumping in the ocean and pissing off rowers in the river.

As well as racing my mate.

 

[Micrashed]

Bank Holiday Monday Fun by Micrashed, on Flickr

Fuckin' love Bank Holidays me.

[daverapid]

I welded up the blowing exhaust on the Shed [my Alfa engined Skoda Estelle] and repaired my Honda Izy lawn mower, replaced the starter cord, changed the oil and sharpened the blade.

[trigger]

Hmmm... Well my sister and her boyfriend came up from Cornwall Saturday night for the Street Rod Nationals here in Ipswich which was excellent as always, I took my my Cortina along, sorry for my sister trying to get in the action...

 

 

Then today as it was raining we went to the Ipswich transport museum for their annual "ride a fire engine" day, It was a tad busy.

 

 

But I did get to have a ride on this old Dennis which was great fun, No synchromesh or power steering, back when men were real men and you'd be fucked before you even started putting out the fire.