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[loserone]

K11c looks like it's a goner.

 

Bonnet popped open last week cracking the screen. The top of the frame is bent so needs bodywork before a windscreen can be fitted.

 

Even with 12 months test, I reckon that's terminal. Anyone want a broken micra?

[Guest Hooli]

The navy's new carrier is leaking. 200 litres an hour entering the ship.

 

The captain should be a former SD1 owner.

 

It's traditional. By the time Hermes was sold to India the entire bottom deck was full of concrete to control leaks.

[SiC]

The navy's new carrier is leaking. 200 litres an hour entering the ship.

 

The captain should be a former SD1 owner.

Given the size of the ship, 200l p/h is a drop in the ocean. I bet a full compliment of crew will be flushing more shit down the toilet per hour than that. Average bath is 80 litres, so it's basically 2.5 baths leaking in every hour. Given our bath tap can pretty much fill a bath in 15 minutes, its basically like leaving your bath tap on ... in a massive warehouse. I suspect the leak looks like a dribble out of the seal.

 

Really shouldn't even be a news item. In fact it shouldn't have leaked out to the media.

[adw1977]

Exactly. I could spit on the floor and say the room is flooded, proportionally it would be about the same.

[tommotech]

The problem was found during sea trials, which is basically the snagging process - or predelivery inspection in our terms.

 

The bilge pumps are working though so no problem, as said non-news.

[dollywobbler]

I think I might make another effort to move the Honda on in the New Year. It has served me well, but I'm not sure it deserves to make it to two years on the fleet. Also, I can't buy anything else until something goes, and there's nowt else in the firing line.

[SiC]

Honda

 

Boringly reliable

[chodweaver]

Flush with the success of a presentation I did today at work that seemed to go ok, I find I have agreed to do a neighbour a favour tomorrow by putting a new clutch in his 06 picasso, on my drive, with his assistance, as from the sound of it, the release bearing is now in bits bouncing around inside the bell housing.

 

I wish I had an engine crane or a transmission jack rather than two jacks and some blocks of wood. And perhaps more time in which to do this rather than one day. And it not be winter.

 

wcpgw...

 

If I need to unload tomorrow after this debacle has started, I may be entertaining you with pics showing how nasty this particular hdi has got, and possibly the extent of my ineptitude.

[Skizzer]

200l p/h is a drop in the ocean.

AIRCRAFT CARRIER LEAK “CAUSES DROP IN SEA LEVEL” SAY EXPERTS

 

© BBC News, Daily Mail etc

[BavarianRetro]

SNP GOVERNMENT'S FREE PRESCRIPTIONS AND TUITION FEES CAUSE AIRCRAFT CARRIER BUILT IN JOCKLAND TO LEAK - "DROP IN SEA LEVEL EXPECTED” SAY EXPERTS

 

© BBC Reporting Scotland, Scottish Daily Mail etc

[MarvinsMom]

crabbing?

 

normally i would say a bent axle or a bent body, or a combination of the two.

 

given that it was a W202 c-class i would also suggest that it could be that the back axle is no longer attached to the body, what with them been propper rotters and all.

[Christine]

That surplus 1.2 welding wire FOAD had.... Was that supposed to have gone around the propshaft on the aircraft carrier   ??     

[Ghosty]

Hankering for a Senator A at the moment...

[adw1977]

Warning - boring modern car content

 

My Volvo has indicators in the mirrors, the type where you're supposed to take the car to the Volvo dealer just to change a bulb!

A bit of Googling revealed the secret to getting the mirror apart without wrecking it, the problem was clear enough - the bulb had fallen out of it's rather crappy rubber holder:

 

 

Getting the loose bulb out of the sealed light unit through this hole proved impossible.

 

 

So my quality* fix was to put another bulb in the holder and leave the old one to rattle around in there.

 

 

I'm calling that job jobbed.

 

 

 

[tooSavvy]

Moar Orangieness 4 Win

 

TS

[primeradoner]

K11c looks like it's a goner.

 

Bonnet popped open last week cracking the screen. The top of the frame is bent so needs bodywork before a windscreen can be fitted.

 

Even with 12 months test, I reckon that's terminal. Anyone want a broken micra?

Where are you?

[loserone]

Durham

[xtriple]

Went to the garage to check the cars, lifted the cover on the Bentley and the front passenger side is soaking! Not sure if it's condensation or rain getting in through the roof (of the garage) and leaking through the cover. Whatever, not happy. Will have to go and get the old lass out so she dries off.

[fatharris]

So, I've got a friend deployed over Christmas and he drives an Insignia diesel. He'd mentioned that the car had been going into limp mode occasionally. As it was used for short journeys, I deduced it was probably the DPF that needed clearing out. Today, I had a 500-ish mile drive planned, so I booked a days insurance, and went round to his Mrs last night to pick up the keys.

 

5 miles into my temporary ownership of a modern on the drive back home, the inevitable happened.

 

Expansion tank empty and temperature gauge in the red.

 

He's away till February, so it gives me some time to look over it for him, but how bloody typical is that? Luckily, the Omega has picked up the slack.

 

There's a phrase that's normally uttered here, but it's slipped my mind. Something about Vauxhall's and brown smelly stuff.

[Supernaut]

Especially Insignias!

[anonymous user]

Still can't find how to switch off the invisibility cloak on the Land Rover. I'm now getting to the point that the next time someone cuts me up I may just run into them as it's wearing my brakes out.

[danthecapriman]

Still can't find how to switch off the invisibility cloak on the Land Rover. I'm now getting to the point that the next time someone cuts me up I may just run into them as it's wearing my brakes out.

I get the same in my work van, it's a huge bright blue fully liveried up Sprinter yet people just seem to drive around like your not even there.

Some twat this afternoon came down the sliproad on the A3 to join, nothing around me so I courteously pull into the outside lane to allow them to join. Fucker then thanks me for this by joining the A3, driving straight over the inside lane into the outside lane then slows right down to 50mph right in front of me! Why!?

I think it's the time of year tbh. It's always like it to a degree, but Xmas seems to really bring out the idiots, and brings out the inner 'impatient cunt' in many others.

[5speedracer]

Speaking of styling, I've been seeing a lot less Kia Sportfridges about since the new model came out.

 

Good.

Too much ambition from Kia with size and price. You're a budget brand Kia, know your place!

 

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[puddlethumper]

Yesterday about 2pm I had what I can only describe as a happening. Sitting at lights at the worst junction around. West Midlanders will probably know Burnt Tree.

In right hand lane of two turning right, two left lanes straight on and left. Next to me a dark blue 4 door hatch thing.

Suddenly the back door, next to me, starts to open. Guy in front passenger seat jumps out and runs round and tries to push the door shut. Bloke in back then tries to get out of the other side. Guy legs it round the other side. Driver then gets out to hold back door on his side.

Bloke in back heaves himself towards the steering wheel and presses the horn.

Its then i see the handcuffs and he's looking straight at me pleadingly, I think, or desperation, probably.

Driver, presumed cop, then starts squirting something from a small can, presume pepper spray, through the half open drivers window. Inside man dropped his head down to avoid it in his face and most ended up on his woolly hat. 

Then he managed to get into the drivers seat and drive off, first gear with the handbrake on, difficult to release with cuffs on, screeching off with two presumed, plain clothed, cops running after him. Did grin a bit. Couldn't see which way he went because of vehicles in the way.

Shuffled forward to wait for next green and 4 cop cars seemed to arrive out of nowhere, never one when you need em eh?

 Traffic light entertainment at its best.

                                                                THE END

[puddlethumper]

Never would a situation suit the Benny Hill song more.

Or Keystone Kops tunes.

[tooSavvy]

Or Keystone Kops tunes.

.... Needs moar railway lines (caught in track) m8

 

TS

[stuboy]

Future father in law has had is concrete in preparation so he can build a wooden frame with a clear roof so he can work on his kit cars and on his normal cars.

 

And of course maybe I could pop along with my car and utilise the dry working area

[holbeck]

 

Southern shiters may be aware of the 3 Rover P4's of East Grinstead. 

 

I've known their owner for over 30 years, however I got the sad news today that he had passed away.

 

The three cars at the house have possibly already gone.

 

Tantalisingly, I heard from a mutual friend that there are actually another 3 Rovers secreted in lock up's across the South East. 

 

Trouble is, no-one (amongst his friends) knows where they are!

 

[DodgeRover]

^^^^ sorry to hear that they were a bit of a landmark.

[Ghosty]

Too much ambition from Kia with size and price. You're a budget brand Kia, know your place!

 

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Not to mention the new Sportfridge being even more ungainly than what it replaced. 

Frankly I hope they keep it up so people stop buying them.