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[iainrcz]

I received the discs and pads I ordered, hopefully get them done before back to work next year.

Probably not though.

Pagid pads and Blueprint discs, nothing fancy.

[brownnova]

Spent 7 of the past 24 hours inside a 22 year old Swede... 

A bit high mileage and feeling a bit baggy, but the Saab performed its pre Christmas run down to the folks and back perfectly. 

[somewhatfoolish]

9 hours ago, richardmorris said:

What's caused that?

At a guess, exploding clutch pressure plate for 200 points; fracture due to crappy steel quality/flaw in steel exacerbated by vibration, flappy bit becomes progressively loose and flappy, eventually skelps the nose of the starter housing and in a mutually destructive embrace everything falls off and gets spun around like the spin cycle from hell.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Sitting waiting for diesel Borat to have n/s dampers and ball joint replaced, plus MoT retest.

[Floatylight]

What the heck is going on with Tapatalk & Gumtree ads

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

14 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

What the heck is going on with Tapatalk & Gumtree ads

 

....and that's why I don't use Tapatalk. 

[Eyersey1234]

National Express taster for January confirmed and I'm on a couple of courses that week too. Looking forward to it. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....and we have a test pass at last.

Two dampers, one ball joint and a brake switch later.....

[HillmanImp]

Should've been out working on cars today but have spent the whole day playing Wreckfest on the PS4.

Haven't even left the house.

 

[SiC]

11 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Should've been out working on cars today but have spent the whole day playing Wreckfest on the PS4.

Haven't even left the house.

 

I'm vegetating at the moment, when I know I should be outside working on the Dolomite. Just 100% knackered right now. 

[somewhatfoolish]

6 hours ago, Floatylight said:

What the heck is going on with Tapatalk & Gumtree ads

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The vendor is vending something other than socks?

[Pat Earrings]

The Golf passed the MOT today so chuffed as it's a years ticket for the new shiter to enjoy. Also saw @Lord Sterling E39 looking rather sad and languishing in the yard there too. 

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

I'm vegetating at the moment, when I know I should be outside working on the Dolomite. Just 100% knackered right now. 

I made the pornservatory into a games room yesterday. All the consoles are in there with the Scalextric so I'll probably be in there until the novelty wears off. 

I'm enjoying some time off from work though. 

Incidentally there's a guy I was racing against called OP_OMEGA_V8 which I assumed was nothing to do with Vauxhalls but I've looked and theres a whole section on Wiki about prototype V8 Omegas. So its been educational too. 

[Lord Sterling]

17 minutes ago, sims00 said:

The Golf passed the MOT today so chuffed as it's a years ticket for the new shiter to enjoy. Also saw @Lord Sterling E39 looking rather sad and languishing in the yard there too. 

E46. He'll get around to it one day..... I'm not massively bothered about it at the moment. The Vectra is going in soon too.

[Pat Earrings]

23 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

E46. He'll get around to it one day..... I'm not massively bothered about it at the moment. The Vectra is going in soon too.

Ah yeah lol I should know, I've had 2!

[Amishtat]

Merry Christmas ladies & gentlemen (there are other customers, they're just outside smoking) 

[wuvvum]

Down in Somerset for the festivities.  Drove down in the 75 in the end - ran faultlessly as always.  There wasn't even much traffic.  Now full of food and alcohol, and it's not even properly the big day yet. 

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. 

[HillmanImp]

Bin collection day is different this week and I forgot so Meg has been temporarily downgraded to the recycling bin until I get to the tip. 

[xtriple]

I have cooked. This is a major life event as it is something I do, rarely. Christmas and the dogs birthdays (I buy them steak for birthdays) and that's it.  I did the lot: Turkey, stuffing, parsnips, roasties, yorkshires and even... sprouts! It took me just over an hour to cook, twenty minutes to dish up the dogs Christmas dinner and then mine, by which time it was bloody cold! Still, it took them an age to eat (and what a bloody mess they made doing it!) and so I got to eat a meal in peace. This in itself is such a rare event it's worthy of comment.

Now feel stuffed/sick and may not eat again until the new year. At least Chester seems to be better - was up most of the night with him and finally took him for a walk (a very slow walk!) at 5:30 this morning. When we got home he finally settled and slept thru until about 1:00p.m. and seems much more himself, as can be witnessed by the dinner he has just eaten. I expect he'll be ill again shortly. Though he is currently under the duvet with me ( both on the floor) while Phoebe is asleep on her giant pillow next to me/the heater.

As copious quantities of sprouts have been consumed, I expect this place will stink like a Calcutta Khasi in about an hour...  

[brownnova]

Only had a small beer with dinner rather than the usual wine odyssey... so I popped out for a Christmas Day potter in the Deux Chevaux. Was very pleasant. 

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

I bin collection day is different this week and I forgot so Meg has been temporarily downgraded to the recycling bin until I get to the tip. 

sploot

 

[hairnet]

apart from the gadge on the desk in the hotel the two ladies at brekky this morning

the fella on the till in the garage last night and the polish ladies in the omega estate staying here in aldi yesterday 

ive seen nobody

ahh xmas winnah - peace and quiet and filums ftw

 

[LabRat]

Just back from visiting the parents in Sheffield.  160 mile round trip, quarter of a tank used and the 6 is running like a dream. 

Time for a few beers and me feet up I think.

[Floatylight]

Looks like FIL's Zafira is knackered, broken down and left in a car park, konked out and won't turn over, apparently has been using water and there is non in the header tank, so might be seized.. will go and have a look in the morning..

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[clayts450]

620 on bargy waft duties down to Newmarket and back to see the folks.

Fuck me, that new A14 bypass bit is splendid, and slices a good 15 minutes off the journey.  Google Maps hasn't caught up with the newly opened bit yet, mind, and went snooker loopy as I drove through it., trying to make me crash through a few fences to get back on the new old A14.

Driving back home I had the whole new stretch to myself and what a great drive it is when there's no-one else around - great road surface, some sweeping bends, proper 'watch the  limit point and try to catch it ' driving   Particularly like the bit that runs parallel with a section of the A1.

Drive back was a quality hoon - average speed per Google was 69 mph for the whole journey. Honest, Officer.

Few cans of cider will now be consumed as I settle down to watch the latest Scorsese movie on Netfux

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Floatylight said:

Looks like FIL's Zafira is knackered, broken down and left in a car park, konked out and won't turn over, apparently has been using water and there is non in the header tank, so might be seized.. will go and have a look in the morning..

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as stated in another post  - train to mk and not far is a driveway with more cars on it than arnold shark

show him the money

also zafira deid - woop 

[hairymel]

My sister and partner are moving to Portugal on the new year.

They wanted a van to move there with.

They saw a transit on gumtree they liked and asked my advice.

I pointed out it was massively overpriced had spent 2 years sitting after a huge mot fail on rot, had had another fail the year after again for rot and the last 2 owners had only had it for 4 months each before punting it on.

I searched the ebay for something better near them. Half the milage half the price and twice as nice looking.

Apparently it was 'too cheap and probably broken' so they didn't even go look at it.

They then go ahead and buy the rotten Shitter.  Because the lady selling it 'knew nothing about cars but was very nice.'

Fast forward to Xmas eve and on route to our family gathering they broke down.

The transit and occupants were then deposited off a flatbed outside my parents house, 8 hours later at 6 am. 

Guess who spent their afternoon under a transit while everyone else was shovelling dinner down their throats....

Top bolt on the starter was fcuked and no access, so I had to chisel a hole in the transmission tunnel to remove it.

New starter ordered to collect Friday and hopefully the dmf and ringgear are ok.

Took over 2 hours to get it of so no way am I trying to repair the starter I took off.

Merry xmas?

[Jazoli]

I would have just said 'oh dear that's unlucky hope the garage can sort it before your ferry/tunnel crossing'

[Andyrew]

Starter full of flywheel dust? 

We sell quiet a few starters for transits as it's easier to keep changing a knackered starter then pay out for a new DMF. 

[hairymel]

Starter was surprisingly clean inside.

Not sure what the issue is but the starter was not engaging with the flywheel.

I did spend a lot of time running through the 'told you so' conversation.

If the gearbox needs to come off I will probably tell them find an alternative mug.

Probably