Shite at work

[HMC]

This is my view from work over the works car park......

Bit of a mixed bag of shit and shite. Obviously you all know about the tub of a taxi on the far left. Next to that is a kia sorrento with tranmission issues, and that mini is heavier than standard due to the amount of filler in the rear end. The K11 micra constantly needs welding for the MOT and after being reversed into another car,  currently has its rear bumper cable tied in place. The clio has a broken wiper linkage and the Berlingo a bypassed heater matrix for extra misery on the winter commute. The ka is already going crusty at the rear sills/ arches. The stag meanwhile is bubbling up here and there but is at least reliable, whuch is more can be said for whats behind it, which seems to constantly have warning lights on the dash, and frequently goes into limp mode due to DPF issues. Ive lost count of time hilarious people have asked me whats the convertible ive bought to the right of the steps. Whenever something crappy is parked up the immediate assumption is that Matthew has bought another old heap.

 

So whats in your car park at work and what are its shite credentials?

[Rusty Pelican]

I recon you can tell the rate of pay at work by the cars in the staff car park 

We have

R reg Fester thats not been hoovered from new , or washed for that matter , welding every year for the MOT

A MK6 Escrot saloon with tide mark sills , lacquer coming off everywhere and is often in bits lunch hour , welding every year for MOT 

Same bloke also has a MK6 Floppy top with serious gearbox issues that sounds like a skeleton wanking in a filing cabinet not to mention an Amoco Cadiz oil leak and wiring issues , this is also in bits every time it manages to get there .

theres my E30 BMW , unwashed , pogweasel maroon and salt coloured .

A Kia Picarsehole which has just replaced a very rotten R reg Fester with the same skeleton but in the engine .

A silver 51 Mondeo that i know will never get washed as hes never washed a car since i started .

MK 1 Facelift Focus with some issues to start with but these are gradually getting sorted , frilly rear arches on their way though. This replaced a MK5 Escrot flight which did anything but fly , often in bits until he gave up and fragged it .

A pug 206 with an ill fitting bonnet , and finally 

Two cycle in .

We are poor feckers down here

[Six-cylinder]

I used to work for a commercial building design company, the offices were on the same site as the boss’s home and car collection of around 30 cars, these was the high end selection.

 

I work for myself from home now.

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I haven't had a proper job for 20 years son my works carpark a.k.a my drive I'm responsible for all the shite.

 

The most noticeable thing is how small the Stag is, even the Mini doesn't look as out of scale to the others around it. I remember when a Stag was a big luxury coupe, it was all fields round here......."

[JohnK]

I work from home, so my works 'car park' is whatever crap I've got sat outside!

[mercrocker]

I work in a well-paid but blue collar industry.   Therefore the car park is full of unmentionable personal-lease dogshit.   However somebody (I know who) parked their Trabant Kombi next to the Minor the other day which lifted my spirits trudging back to the furthest reaches of the car park after one wet late shift ended.   There is also a Stag daily-user (he has no other car, his 420 Touring having comprehensively shat itself 2 years ago).   .   Over the past few years the company have gone completely over to leasing as well which means all the stuff like the Bedford TK cherry picker and Leyland Lynx tanker went straight to the crusher.   We don't even have any LDV staff buses left now.  

[richardmorris]

I have a cartoon on the notice board at work about the carpark ( from the guardian many years ago). Basically says 1 2 cv is fine as every company needs a sock sniffing eccentric but more than that the business is underpowered and going nowhere fast.

 

Having said that, I'm a higher rate tax payer and cycle in or use the twenty year old Mercedes. My company isn't normal!

[Six-cylinder]

This time a shot of the office car park for the design company this was probably around 1997, mine was the 1975 Mercedes 280CE. I did not get a company car but I had use of one of these pool cars when I needed to go out on business, the C230k manual was new and first choice for the company image and for my boss to prove it was really a pool car. In secret I preferred the days when he needed the C230k himself and made me use the old 280TE. I really liked that old W123 Merc.

 

First reserve was a 1995 Saab turbo convertible run by my boss’s wife, one sunny day we took it to a very proper client and had very sensible business meeting but as we drove off the prim and proper client shouted at us “hair dressersâ€Â, we always had a very comfortable relationship with that client after he had broken the ice like that. 

 

[richardmorris]

I still don't understand why a car changes how you do a job. Any customer shouting something about my car is going to get dropped as a customer. Of course, as said earlier, mine is a weird company. We don't go looking for customers- they come to us.

[Six-cylinder]

I still don't understand why a car changes how you do a job. Any customer shouting something about my car is going to get dropped as a customer. Of course, as said earlier, mine is a weird company. We don't go looking for customers- they come to us.

 

I think many people judge us by what we are seen driving, which of course is wrong.

 

In the Saab case I think it just showed how comfortable the client was doing business  with us and spending a sizable sum of money, that he could tease us.

[Six-cylinder]

I still don't understand why a car changes how you do a job. Any customer shouting something about my car is going to get dropped as a customer. Of course, as said earlier, mine is a weird company. We don't go looking for customers- they come to us.

 

Off course it works the other way as well, we had a supplier who had a 10 year old Citroen CX Safari in daily use because he liked it and even bought his SM round to show us once. He immediately passed pre qualification  as one of our suppliers!

[dollywobbler]

I work here now, though I've done voluntary work for them for ages, hence the outdated shot of my car. I miss that car!

 

This was yesterday morning. The RX8 seems to be an occasional garage runaround. Another one lives over the road!

[chaseracer]

I work from home, so my works 'car park' is whatever crap I've got sat outside!

 

Same here, but now the 300E's home and the 205's on the garden it looks a bit like brookjm's pic... 

[HillmanImp]

Then:

 

 

Now:

 

[barrett]

[chaseracer]

I think many people judge us by what we are seen driving, which of course is wrong.

 

The Blingo, which no longer possesses a straight panel, shouts FUK WIV ME AT UR PERIL M8 - which can be quite useful in my line of work.  What they think when I roll up in a white 205 has not yet been confirmed.

[dollywobbler]

Ami 6 WANT. Very much. Yes please.

[catsinthewelder]

I'm the only person at work who owns a car and I've been cycling in this week.  The boss uses whatever car is spare (currently an Alto) and the other two can't drive.

 

The carpark was fairly interesting on Tuesday with a unique 4x4 Sprinter with 40 metre telescopic pole attachment,  a 1972 Land Rover 109 and an elderley Lexus 300 in attendance

[meshking]

I still don't understand why a car changes how you do a job. Any customer shouting something about my car is going to get dropped as a customer. Of course, as said earlier, mine is a weird company. We don't go looking for customers- they come to us.

Funny,you've described my company. Except I know you don't work here because there is only one 2cv in the car park and that's mine!

[Hendry]

My work car park consists of lots of new shit being a car rental depot but staff cars are:

 

- 59 plate Clio 1.2 Dynamique (mine)

- 11 plate Audi A4 Avant 2.0 CR TDi SE Technik 170 bhp, my supervisors, and its not a lease, he bought it outright.

- 03 plate Jewish Racing Gold Chrysler PT Cruiser 2.0 petrol "Limited" owned buy the other office guy from new and only done about 25K miles.

- 64 plate Merc A180 CDi, base model, owned by one of the drivers, well actually PCPd as he's a gimp who thinks he's better than everyone else.

- 07 plate VW Golf 1.9 TDI S, owned by another of the drivers

- 53 plate Ford Ka 1.3 base and not far off the crusher,its rotten, has a coolant leak, and EML and airbag lights on.

- 06 plate Ford Fiesta 1.4 TDCi Van, another of the drivers recently got this as a swap for his 06 plate Passat 1.9 TDi plus £700 cash his way.

- 59 plate Honda Jazz 1.4 EX, this thing is loaded with kit for a supermini, cruise, climate, electric folding mirrors, panoramic roof etc

- 60 plate Nissan Note 1.4 N-Tec with the worst oil leak I've ever seen.

 

The other driver hasn't got a car, so aye a mix of white, shit and everything in between.

[plasticvandan]

my 88 Polo breadvan, and my bosses 66 split screen camper. no one else works here :-)

[seth]

Once upon a time, many years ago etc.

 

 

That K11 Micra is probably brand new.

[jonny69]

600 people work here and I work in science, so the car park is chock full of some of the most hanging sorry junk you've ever come across. Combination of poorly paid scientists, eccentricity, no personal needs to 'fit in' with anyone, make do and mend culture and general couldn't give a damn what 'people' think. I've been meaning to start this thread for ages and do a walkaround in the car park. Cheers brookjm!

 

Some 120 of the workforce cycle in to work as well, so you can imagine what the bike sheds look like.

[PiperCub]

Off course it works the other way as well, we had a supplier who had a 10 year old Citroen CX Safari in daily use because he liked it and even bought his SM round to show us once. He immediately passed pre qualification  as one of our suppliers!

 

One of the places I worked regularly for in th 90's had an MD who was one of the two original owners of the company (before he sold it), he was a great bloke for a suit, he liked us engineers as we helped him out in some of his crazy ventures usually related with fireworks or pyrotechnics (ie: blowing shit up). He had similarly good taste in cars, he had a CX Safari when I joined, had previously owned a DS Safari before that and had an XM estate when I finally left - top choices I think you'll agree.

 

 

My works car park is a huge barren wasteland of boring-ass new stuff, probably the vast majority on those awful stupid lease it for a fortune but never own it type deals (mugs). Little of any interest aside from my stuff and one colleague (who owns an old Elise and a Caterham) and another who has an old Celica (it's his son's car) plus a nice condition C/B MGB GT which to be fair is used all year round.

 

I enjoy parking my old 406TD next to all the new Audi's etc. I love the way some look at it in horror as if their nice car is going to catch something from my hack!!!

[cms206]

Our yard just now...

 

and inside the workshop...