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[somewhatfoolish]

Fairly topical in the news at the moment.. how bad is the sno up north, really? Is it "Daily Fail travel chaos" or "actually quite bad"? I have to drive up to Edinburger on Monday, most likely with a trailer on tow... is this a bad idea?

As you're going to be M-way all the way, as long as it doesn't snow much you'll be fine; despite the UK press' insistence that we're shit at dealing with snow the highways agency(or rather their contractors) have the job pretty well taped unless it's white-out conditions.

[fordperv]

Had to change the rear bumper on fil fps dacia duster earlier, he reversed around a van parked peed up in his cul de sac at 5am on the way to work a week ago, he hit a wall opposite puncturing the bumper skin, what a lovely job changing it was, I also took the time to fit some reverse sensors at the same time as he is useless at reversing (his words), the only downfall of the whole job was when i was fitting the display to the dashboard some clever person put a couple of wires under where I was drilling for the wire to go through (which you couldn't see as the heater box is in the way) any normal person would put them along the bulkhead but no not French designers they sandwich them against the dash skin, so then I had to take the centre console and steering column out and dismantle the dash trim just so I could take the dash out so I could repair the damaged wires, the only saving grace is its a very neat installation that im very happy with so it was worth the extra fuss

 

This is where I mounted them to try and make them as invisible as possible because I hate how parking sensors look

 

 

They are usually on the painted section which is blooming ugly they stand out like erect nipples on a chilly day

[clayts450]

Off to see a man about a dog

 

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[wuvvum]

I got excited there for a minute as that's the Stansted train, was hoping for an international collection mission, then spotted it's going t'other way.

[Justin Case]

The Mazda 6 passed its mot first time yesterday, so another 12 months of trouble free motoring Not even any signs of rot :). Now that it is 11 years old is it automatically promoted from Modern Shite to Full Fat Shite?

[Rave]

It looks like the airbags deployed. So if the police really want to know they can pull the last few seconds of crash data off the airbag computer to find out what speed they really were going.

 

All occupants out of car and walking, so unless they want to claim for whiplash off their own insurance I doubt the police will be that interested. It was actually an RSQ3; I didn't know those even existed TBH, but that's got to be a 40 grand car.

 

When I left for the afternoon an hour later I found that it was slightly worse than it looked, as the Fiesta had been shunted into a Mk1 Focus and put a big dent in the back of that too. The focus is owned by...the same chap who owns the Fez! I think he wanted rid anyway, a couple of months ago I found him outside trying to start it with a flat battery, offered him a jump, but he said he only wanted to shuffle it across the road to get it out of the way. So maybe he's actually pleased...

 

When I returned home yesterday evening all three cars were gone!

[SiC]

Almost. List price starts at £45k for the RS Q3. So probably £50k once you've ticked a handful of boxes. About £600 p/m on the all important tick.

[danthecapriman]

Almost. List price starts at £45k for the RS Q3. So probably £50k once you've ticked a handful of boxes. About £600 p/m on the all important tick.

Fuck me! Some people have got way too much money and way too little taste.

[SiC]

Fuck me! Some people have got way too much money and way too little taste.

And in 5 years it'll most likely depreciate more than you've spent on your Capri in total.

[danthecapriman]

And in 5 years it'll most likely depreciate more than you've spent on your Capri in total.

No comment!!

[catsinthewelder]

I got excited there for a minute as that's the Stansted train, was hoping for an international collection mission, then spotted it's going t'other way.

 

I don't expect it will be a direct train to here.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after discovering that garlic pepper goes alright with this:

 

[Bren]

New pollen filter for the passat. It was hanging. £7 and five minutes to fit.

Also gave the scuttle a bit of a clean - it was'nt full of water and drained normally.

[clayts450]

Yoinks....

 

 

From Snowy Shropshire to Sunny Nottingham via the Moon. Lovely to meet up with Tom again - sound geezer.

 

Off to search eBay for gypsy caravan tat to glue to the outside.

[Angrydicky]

Fuck me! Some people have got way too much money and way too little taste.

Lol! With you there, brother.

[MikeR]

the Nissin shite box has passed another Mot , and has done a whole 3K miles in a year !!!!

[Cavcraft]

Word:

 

Price of scrap is 'dropping quickly and will plummet very soon'

 

 

[Bren]

^^ more reason for you to be saving dead vauxhalls Billy.

[fordperv]

And in 5 years it'll most likely depreciate more than you've spent on your Capri in total.

And the capri will still look miles better than a bloated euro box and be rising in value so Dan's on a double win

[holbeck]

I ended up in a blokes wondrous big shed yesterday.

 

 

 

More about what I was doing here 

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/26291-railshite/page-26?do=findComment&comment=1405606

 

[Cavcraft]

[richardmorris]

Lol! With you there, brother.

 

Someone outside work arrived yesterday afternoon to collect their new mclaren. Bright yellow ( the car not the trump alike). He was late fifties, balding, and had a grey ponytail. Wife/ girlfriend perhaps a generation younger.

[dollywobbler]

Someone outside work arrived yesterday afternoon to collect their new mclaren. Bright yellow ( the car not the trump alike). He was late fifties, balding, and had a grey ponytail. Wife/ girlfriend perhaps a generation younger.

 

Are we meant to mock that? I say fair play. He could choose a lot worse than a McLaren.

[Guest Hooli]

The money for a macca & what sounds like a fit other half, can't knock that for success.

[spike60]

When I paid my ex a wodge never to darken my door again I didn't think she would still be breaking my cars 22 years later....

I do some work on her car as she was very good to my dad in his last years, we both run old BMW 530d's though hers has a parasitic battery drain, ok if used regularly but flattens in about 4 days. As she's off all week we swapped cars on Thursday so I could have systematic look at hers and see if I could figure it out. About 8 at night I call asking if the exhaust was ok on mine, saying there'd been a bang followed by a noise and burning smell, the car was now  stopped on the seafront about a mile from where I live. I went to find she'd failed to notice the dragster stance, - it was bottomed at front. After I limped it home this what I found.....

 

 

 

 

Good work, I've never seen one quite like that and ECP don't have any springs within 50 miles so they can't sell many!

[Guest Hooli]

If you're gonna snap a spring that's how to do it.

[spike60]

If you're gonna snap a spring that's how to do it.

What, someone else's? 

[fordperv]

That's a good effort right there

[MarvinsMom]

been busy today in spite of it been cold.

 

for the first time in about 4 years, the black mini has seen the outside world, as it has moved from one unit to another on a trailer

 

that n/s/f tyre doesn't hold air that well (its the spare, and it needs sandblasting and painting), so to make it easier to move we blew some more air into it, once we could get to the battery on my car

 

and we're off!

 

right, now we've arrived, let get unloaded

 

once we cleaned off the paintwork, we'll have a look what has come with it

 

where to start...... its filthy, so giving it all a wipe is as good a place to start as anywhere

 

before and after

 

at least the headlamps (sort of) work

 

the radio may have a pair big turny knobs, but we don't hold with these new fangled cassettes, so this has gotta go

 

with all the crud off of the car, we can see what i bought

 

as far as i can see, this is the one bit of welding on the whole car, the front of the n/s sill has had a tickle at some point, and its a 43 year old mini!!!

 

so now it have a look inside the brake drums, put that brand new alternator on it, see if it runs, sort out the n/s seat belt, put it all back together, get it tested, use and enjoy.

 

it all sounds so very easy!

 

oh dear, what have i done..........

[320touring]

That's a lovely little thing:)