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[Jim Bell]

 

Expensive parts collecting. 

[High Jetter]

New brakes? You seem to have parked on the kerb.

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, red5 said:

Renault 5 thermostat in top hose. Job jobbed.

This. Replacement thermostats are notorious for failing again very quickly. All of my 75 diesels had/have this mod and it works fine. I think it's about a tenner from DMGRS.

[MrDuke]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔

Madeleine?

 

Too soon?

[SiC]

27 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

 

Expensive parts collecting. 

New box of gears?

[Jim Bell]

11 minutes ago, SiC said:

New box of gears?

Not yet. But may be on the cards in the long run. 

[LabRat]

Came out of work to the alarm going bells across the meadows and this...

 

So that faint clunk I heard from the passenger door this morning will be the regulator snapping then... Looks like another wallet lightening session on AliExpress is in order. 😶

All moderns are, etc

[reb]

The Volvo was all set to only fail on bulbs, then it burst a hose during the brake test. Slightly scary stuff that.

I'm chosing to take the course of action where I hand over a wad of cash in exchange for this being rectified, it's on the whole much less stressful I find.

[SiC]

1 hour ago, LabRat said:

Came out of work to the alarm going bells across the meadows and this...

 

So that faint clunk I heard from the passenger door this morning will be the regulator snapping then... Looks like another wallet lightening session on AliExpress is in order. 😶

All moderns are, etc

Put a broom pole in the door?

A common 00's Renault/VAG fix!

[LabRat]

1 minute ago, SiC said:

Put a broom pole in the door?

A common 00's Renault/VAG fix!

It might yet come to that. If I can work out how the bloody door card comes off without destroying it.

A mate of mine has described the mg6 as the perfect storm- chinesium parts, assembled by pissed off Brummies!

[Amishtat]

16 hours ago, SiC said:

Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 

Can't be Mégane as that's a girl's name... 😁

Landfill

[chaseracer]

27 minutes ago, LabRat said:

A mate of mine has described the mg6 as the perfect storm- chinesium parts, assembled by pissed off Brummies!

Bumpers, badges - and maybe some lights.  That was the extent of the Longbridge contribution to the 'assembly process'.  

[Eyersey1234]

I've got an interview to become a driver mentor at work, waiting to hear when it is. 

[Tickman]

1 hour ago, reb said:

The Volvo was all set to only fail on bulbs, then it burst a hose during the brake test. Slightly scary stuff that.

I'm chosing to take the course of action where I hand over a wad of cash in exchange for this being rectified, it's on the whole much less stressful I find.

Wise choice, liked for it bursting on test and not on you after.

[High Jetter]

A brake pipe letting go on one of my vans gave the tester a brown-trouser moment a few years back. Am grateful it happened on the rollers, not the road.

[Eyersey1234]

Car Mechanics Magazine had a Rover 820i as a project car in the mid 90s and they took it for an MOT to have a power steering pipe burst on test

[iainrcz]

21 hours ago, barefoot said:

Please don't, cars shouldn't even be gendered. I blame fucking Walt Disney.

My car is. It's called Steven, but after a female cat. Yes, I had a girl cat called Steven.

Sometimes it's called rattly little shit.

Steven.

The cat, not car.

[New POD]

17 hours ago, stuboy said:

any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x?

Carmen Monty Scone.

As in Karmen Ghia, Monty, (Don the scon) Mondeo.

SconX . For short

[New POD]

14 hours ago, MrDuke said:

Madeleine?

 

Too soon?

Very. 

[BorniteIdentity]

Call me old fashioned, but I tend to just call cars by the name they've already been given.  Every single member of my family refers to Mini as "Bessie" which is what my Nan called it.  I do not.

We did have a bit of fun talking about a name for the Sierra but then "Sierra" or "That old shitheap" still seems to be favoured.

 

[barefoot]

34 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

My car is. It's called Steven, 

1, Am I even still on the right forum?

2, You spell Stephen with a PH

[New POD]

5 minutes ago, barefoot said:

1, Am I even still on the right forum?

2, You spell Stephen with a PH

1 yes.

2 well yes, but not always.

3. The only car we ever named was a mini 850 called bonker. 

[iainrcz]

1, Am I even still on the right forum?
2, You spell Stephen with a PH

She wasn't posh enough for a PH.

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[LabRat]

This also happened earlier

Wether it makes it to 60000 or ends up heading back to China to become a fridge very much depends on parts availability in the next year or so.

[reb]

My Volvo used to be called Mavis because it was P422 MVS, then I put my wanker plate on it, so now it's Mavisnotmavis.

[Eyersey1234]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

My car is. It's called Steven, but after a female cat. Yes, I had a girl cat called Steven.

Sometimes it's called rattly little shit.

Steven.

The cat, not car.

Is that like a boy called Sue? 

[iainrcz]

4 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Is that like a boy called Sue? 

And Lindsey.

[Soundwave]

My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and all other inanimate objects in my life don't have names.

[louiepj]

Just replaced both rear dampers on a friends 14 plate W204 c180 as one was causing a noise sounding like a failing anti-roll bar link rod.
Mercedes wanted £183 each for rear dampers but local motorfactors got us both Meyle HD ones with top mounts for £170.
An hour a side and a cup of tea later and wafting silence is resumed.
Oh and its left hand drive.

[iainrcz]

9 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and all other inanimate objects in my life don't have names.

You'll be one of them there normal folk then.

I often think it would be nice to be normal, but I think I'd miss the voices in my head..

I'd definitely not miss not being able to concentrate for shit for more than a minute and half though.