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[MrDuke]

(Just to be totally clear, yes, that is the top of my bonnet. Plastered over my windscreen. I really wish it was a weird-coloured fog instead.)

[yes oui si]

11 hours ago, stuboy said:

easy clean

The bricks? 

Nah, fuck that. They get a spray of watered down yoghurt every other month to help them grow more shit on them. 

[beko1987]

39 minutes ago, MrDuke said:

(Just to be totally clear, yes, that is the top of my bonnet. Plastered over my windscreen. I really wish it was a weird-coloured fog instead.)

Shit that gives it some context... 

Changed your pants yet? 

[stuboy]

It didn't rain for 45mins so I nipped out and fitted some flaps to the fronts, god I'm getting too stiff to get on the floor...

[MrDuke]

36 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Shit that gives it some context... 

Changed your pants yet? 

Nah, they're brown anyway. 10 minutes of deep breaths and a very strong coffee and I was good to go.

Lucky* it happened when it did, another mile would have seen me in the outside lane of the M-way going considerably quicker.

Also fortunate that I managed to force it shut again, with some violence. As long as it stays closed until I get home tonight...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

4 hours ago, MrDuke said:

View on my way to work this morning:

Good job I was only doing 50.

I liken your modern fangled wipers to the spawn of Satan. 

[chancer]

The 307cc made a friend today. First one ive seen in the same colour

[wuvvum]

Work have kindly given us a bonus extra day of holiday to take in December.  I thought it'd be rude not to take advantage and treat myself to a cheeky collection mission. 

Stage one: one of Greater Anglia's surprisingly uncomfortable new trains. 

[egg]

https://not2grand.com/collections/newest-products/products/mgf-straight-outta-coolant-hoodie

Lols hoodie from not 2 grand

[Cord Fourteener]

3 hours ago, MrDuke said:

(Just to be totally clear, yes, that is the top of my bonnet. Plastered over my windscreen. I really wish it was a weird-coloured fog instead.)

Yes I didn't get that, I though it was a weird pea souper or something!

Phew, it could have been worse.

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

I'm getting too stiff to get on the floor...

Try lying on your back. 

[wuvvum]

That London achieved.  Now the scary bit - cycling to the next station.  Only Liverpool St to London Bridge thankfully. 

[wuvvum]

Train 2 of 2.

[Bren]

It's back. It needed rockers, crank pulley aux belt pulley and new poly belt. While it was stripped I had a timing belt kit fitted including water pump. All genuine GM parts.

The total cost came in at just under £900. I am happy with this - the car is a known quantity - I could sell it in 12 months time and still get my money back. To have just the timing belt and water pump replaced would have cost around £350.

Besides if we had carried on using my BMW as the sole means of transport the world would have ran out of crude.

[egg]

Ages ago, I remember @Joey spudsaying a set of low level caravan ramps can be useful for certain jobs. So, I got myself a set for Xmas.

Because I work* in the road, I think they are more comfortable to use than a jack and stands because they don't pose much of a risk to anyone else. There's a few jobs that can be made easier from rust proofing and cleaning to minor bodywork and mechanical tasks. I know one is slightly overbalanced here, so I need to work on positioning.

[HMC]

@egg @Joey spud That’s a great idea, as a fellow road based fettler I think I’ll get a set.

[Stanky]

Top tip, if you put the two passenger side wheels on the kerb and the 2 ramps on the 2 drivers side wheels you can get the whole car, level, 4" off the road and slide under from any angle.

[wuvvum]

Collectioned. 

[Bren]

I was behind a new discovery - the one that looks like a farmhouse loaf with wheels.

It's personal plate hid it's age but it emitted more smoke than a siberian nickel plant. The smoke was blue.

I would rather walk than have a modern LR.

[yes oui si]

2 hours ago, egg said:

Ages ago, I remember @Joey spudsaying a set of low level caravan ramps can be useful for certain jobs. So, I got myself a set for Xmas.

Because I work* in the road, I think they are more comfortable to use than a jack and stands because they don't pose much of a risk to anyone else. There's a few jobs that can be made easier from rust proofing and cleaning to minor bodywork and mechanical tasks. I know one is slightly overbalanced here, so I need to work on positioning.

Good plan. Gets a car high enough to get an actual jack under...

[Angrydicky]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

That'll be a long, long drive home. Chodspeed!

[richardmorris]

Bit of a surprise as I was leaving work today - no pics as it was dark, but there were two silver birch Aston Martin DB5s on a transporter with the same number plate. BMT614L. Film props? They weren’t replicas I’m sure.

[stuboy]

17 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Try lying on your back. 

i have to plan ahead

[Lord Sterling]

I've owned both the Peugeot 406 and 407. I never (bothered to) realise that it spanned the cars of my favourite films:

I think Christmas will see a Taxi film fest here. It might kock a tad of enthusiasm for my own 407 as right now, I wouldn't mind purchasing a 'TAXI MARSEILLE' sign for it. Can't find one though. 

[busmansholiday]

5 hours ago, egg said:

Ages ago, I remember @Joey spudsaying a set of low level caravan ramps can be useful for certain jobs. So, I got myself a set for Xmas.

Because I work* in the road, I think they are more comfortable to use than a jack and stands because they don't pose much of a risk to anyone else. There's a few jobs that can be made easier from rust proofing and cleaning to minor bodywork and mechanical tasks. I know one is slightly overbalanced here, so I need to work on positioning.

You can get a couple of different sizes of these plastic ramps. Those are the low ones, there's a bigger version that are surprisingly strong as I use them with my motorhome which is just under 3.5 tons (plated at 4.3 tonnes) and are dead useful for oil changes etc as well as the design use of leveling the van.

[wuvvum]

And home.

That was indeed a long ass drive.   Kent is a bloody long way from NE Norfolk when you're in a 75bhp 3.5-tonne Iveco.  It drove OK though for what it is - temp gauge sat steady, no warning lights were on and it hummed along happily at 56 with the lorries, although it did slow down a bit on some of the steeper hills.

It does need a bit of loving though.  It has a few electrical gremlins (stop sniggering up there in Chester) - main beam doesn't work, I think it's the switch as the flash function works, and the indicators flash a couple of times and then stay on - I think that's an issue with the trailer electrics, and will easily be fixed by fitting an electronic flasher unit.  It also has a blow in the exhaust, so it gets a bit noisy when one floors it (which one does quite often in one of these)

Other than that it's not bad for what in the current climate is a pretty cheap van.  And it has over 10 months' test left so should last me a while.

[barefoot]

10 hours ago, stuboy said:

It didn't rain for 45mins so I nipped out and fitted some flaps to the fronts, god I'm getting too stiff to get on the floor...

You are Paddy Hopkirk AICMFP.

[stuboy]

11 hours ago, barefoot said:

AICMFP

??

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Bit of a surprise as I was leaving work today - no pics as it was dark, but there were two silver birch Aston Martin DB5s on a transporter with the same number plate. BMT614L. Film props? They weren’t replicas I’m sure.

That’ll be a £6,600,000 load, then,

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-martin-db5-goldfinger-continuation-makes-public-debut

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2 minutes ago, stuboy said:

??

And I Claim My Five Pounds.

It stems from a very old newspaper competition  where a mystery man would go to a seaside town with a copy of the paper in his pocket and if you identified him you won a fiver.

You had to say You are Lobby Ludd ( I think) and I claim my five pounds.