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[PhilA]

Fire chief came by so I had a chance to set the lights on his car to the correct patterns.

Flashy flashy flashy!

 

Phil

[Split_Pin]

8 hours ago, Matty said:

Fan rad switch went on both of mine (admitadly 1.8 pez ) worth a shout?

New one is in the boot along with the radiator

[Tadhg Tiogar]

11 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Great view.

I understand why some are pining for the fjords.

[ProgRocker]

One thing I like about my i10 is that I can swirchon the stereo without resorting to putting the key in the ignition. Currently listening to Radio 6 Music. 

However on a humid day like today it would be great if I could put down a few windows without the need for a key in ignition also. 

No pointdoing it now as I have just a few minutes before going back in to work. Enough room to leave the passenger door open.

[Split_Pin]

Good success on the Cavalier this morning.

Radiator came out with a bit of a fight.

One of the 10mm bolts holding on the intercooler was just spinning so had to cut that off. Intercooler looks good, it's now in the boot.

New radiator is correct, a first in many years for me.

Thermostat is different but fits. The original is a twin effort rated at 88c, the replacement is a single item at 85c so I am happy with that and in it went.

The tiny 10mm nuts holding on the waterpump pulley cracked off with no bother whatsoever, dreamy or what.

I might do more this afternoon depending on whether or not my son is up for doing anything.

Advancing thunderstorms may I'll need to keep him in and I'll stay in the garage.

[Bren]

New brake master cylinder for the vec. Genuine TRW part costing £110 english pounds. There were some on ebay for less than half the price but I wasn't willing to risk buying and fitting one to find out it was as much use as the stun guns from Space 1999.

Its pissing down here and I have a weekend of nights to deal with so.it's a job for next week.

[Fumbler]

Micra oil change. Only 2 months late . Not the end of the world considering it's only done 4000 miles this year.

[beko1987]

Just booked my MOT for friday the 13th... I'm sure that's a good omen!

Should probably give her an oil change too (Mr @Fumblers post has reminded me I changed it when I first bough the car in April 2020 and forgot to do the filter as it was)

[wuvvum]

Got a letter in the post today from my landlady saying that my rent is going up from 1st September.  Normally this'd be a grump but it's only the second time it's gone up in the 13 years I've been here and it's still well below the "normal" market rate for round here, which has gone through the fucking roof in the last few years along with everywhere else.

[SiC]

On 8/5/2021 at 2:01 PM, Fabergé Greggs said:

Anyone heard from @purplebargekenrecently? 

Yeah I message him reasonably often and was speaking last night. He's just taking a break from forums at the moment I believe. 

[chadders]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Got a letter in the post today from my landlady saying that my rent is going up from 1st September.  Normally this'd be a grump but it's only the second time it's gone up in the 13 years I've been here and it's still well below the "normal" market rate for round here, which has gone through the fucking roof in the last few years along with everywhere else.

Norwich to London in 90 and the dualling of the A11 have made Norfolk a lot less of a backwater now. Quite a lot of houses around us have apparently sold to people who can work from home a few days a week so it's a bit of a double whammy price wise.

[wuvvum]

I'm in one of the cheaper areas as I'm quite a way from Norwich but not quite on the coast (although I am on the broads), but even so the prices here have been getting sillier since the pandemic.

Still, there's always Yarmouth I suppose...

[chadders]

I wouldn't be surprised to see that improve, the same way as Lowestoft seems to be going. There seems to be money moving in with the wind farm work.

We had a holiday flat in Hunstanton quite a few years ago, bought when the area was pretty run down. It didn't take that many years for the place to turn around although I haven't been back there for a few years now.

[Split_Pin]

And finally, the waterpump.

There was a missing bolt from the PAS pump tensioner and thanks to whoever changed the belts last January, that bolt was stuck right down behind the alternator, helpfully restricting it's movement to slacken the belt. I had to remove the bottom bolts for the alternator and it moved just enough to get the belt off. The bolt is still there.

Pump came off OK although I had to smack the pulley a good few times to get it off. 

The pump had little play but conversely it was a little stiff to turn. Happy I'm changing it out. The replacement one appears to be stuck in the post which is OK for now as I'm working on the Civic tomorrow.

Beer time.

 

[stuboy]

Finished my first aid course level 3, and come out to find some fools have opened there car doors on the mondeo, ok nothing major but its my car, ok its nothing special but wish people would take care .. it'll buff out I believe

[Dyslexic Viking]

7 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I understand why some are pining for the fjords.

If I am honest, this is not a fjord but a lake. Fyresvatn lake in Fyresdal.

[GingerNuttz]

Bought a new welder last week and Fed Ex decided to sent it half way around the country in the wrong direction so it came today after giving them hell on the phone yesterday. 

Got one of them fancy synergic welders but the synergic program in it is poor so it'll be staying on manual mode. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

35 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

If I am honest, this is not a fjord but a lake. Fyresvatn lake in Fyresdal.

I've only ever come into Norway via a cruise ship which was probably a bit too big for a lake.....

[Dyslexic Viking]

12 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I've only ever come into Norway via a cruise ship which was probably a bit too big for a lake.....

That lake is 25 kilometers long so a cruise ship would fit the problem would just be to get it there.

[High Jetter]

But, Squire, you were espied, and visioned on this parchment. {Grovel, bow, etc}

[sdkrc]

Drove to Swindon in the Insight. Hands down the best car of all time.

Set off at 3am from Glasgow and thrashed the living shite out of it for 66mpgs and 360 odd miles with no stops. In the office at 10am and on the piss at 5pm.

Had to make the return leg today in less of a rush. 91mpg over 360miles, used 3/8ths of a tank and took 10hrs because of constant traffic and roadworks. 

 

Spotted an 08 plate rover 75.

 

And then there was this absolute hero. Torrential rain for 10mins before this video.

[wuvvum]

Took the Merc for a run up to a mate's this evening - about 12 miles away along a mixture of B roads, villages and single track lanes.  Now I've figured out how to work the trip computer I thought I'd check the consumption on the way back.

It's no Insight but that's not too bad for a car that's bigger than some London flats - it's about the same as the 75 does on the same run.  Anything over 40mpg is fine with me.

I've been playing with some more of the electrics and so far the only thing I've found that doesn't work (apart from the central locking which I already knew about) is the folding rear headrests.  There is a solenoidesque clunk from under the parcel shelf when I press the button, but the headrests don't move so I suspect they may be seized.  It makes it harder to see out the back but it has parking sensors so meh.  Haven't tried the seat heaters yet though.  Auto lights and wipers work but the dipped headlights are just as shit as every other Xenon headlight I've experienced. 

Only other issue is that I have hitherto failed to track down the locking wheel nut key, so I may have to fork out for a replacement one of those.

[Jamie]

My mate just sent me this, the jammy bastard 

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Squire_Dawson said:

I killed two birds with one stone, as it were. Approximately 550 miles covered in Allegro t'other day, down and up the Kingdom, a most successful raid. Keeping up with and exceeding modern traffic, a steady 60-70 and over 40 to the gallon. Not bad for a 46 year old Aggro eh? The only downside was the imbecilic clots on the radio none of whom I wanted to hear, and Classic FM doesn't always do it. Ah well, I made it there and back in safety.
 

Just tune it to radio 3 and relax. 

[Agila]

5 minutes ago, Jamie said:

My mate just sent me this, the jammy bastard 

Bloody hell. No MOT for 11 years. Only two on the database 3 years apart and less than 1k miles apart.

And for a grand.

Obviously it would need to be recommissioned a bit but what a find. That's the sort of shite we dream of.

I wonder what the back story is on this and how your mate found it. I'd assume to was a friend of a friend has one in a barn type chat.

Well bought (obviously). Even shagged rusty shitheaps are near a grand!

[DVee8]

While in Glasgow my car door was damaged. The only place it could have happened was the hotel car, no note on my windscreen, and nothing mentioned to reception.

We spoke to the duty manager, who told us we had to wait till the next day to speak to the facility manager and the general manager. This we did, they both looked at the damage to the car. They asked us to report it to the police, the facility manager said he would look at the cctv and if anything can be seen they will drop it onto a thumbnail and give it to the police.

Yesterday the F/M rang MrsV8 to tell her in the 3.5 hours from parking the car and heading out and returning to find the damage. 1 car parked next to mine. On the cctv the car can be seen to move when hit by the door, the owner looks at my car then moves their car to another space, they return to their car a hour later. Have another look at mine and drive off.

The F/M say over the time there were around 30 empty spaces around my car. Also on cctv they have me walking towards my car 15 seconds after the person that did this pulled out of the "new" parking place and left the car park.

The hotel have all the info of the driver and will pass it onto the police,who rang yesterday morning. They will be going to the hotel to collect the thumbnail drive, they will review the cctv and contact the owner. They explained that the owner could own up apologise and hopefully pay for the damage or deny it then it could go to court for criminal damage.

Fuck, all of this could have very easily been avoided.

In the meantime my car is getting repaired today.

[Jamie]

5 minutes ago, Agila said:

Bloody hell. No MOT for 11 years. Only two on the database 3 years apart and less than 1k miles apart.

And for a grand.

Obviously it would need to be recommissioned a bit but what a find. That's the sort of shite we dream of.

I wonder what the back story is on this and how your mate found it. I'd assume to was a friend of a friend has one in a barn type chat.

Well bought (obviously). Even shagged rusty shitheaps are near a grand!

Yeah it's been sat in a barn for 10 years and hasn't moved. He's got to get it up from Cheltenham mind 

 

It was a relatives who died, said it needs a sill and rear subframe looks a bit crusty 

 

 

[New POD]

17 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Got a letter in the post today from my landlady saying that my rent is going up from 1st September.  Normally this'd be a grump but it's only the second time it's gone up in the 13 years I've been here and it's still well below the "normal" market rate for round here, which has gone through the fucking roof in the last few years along with everywhere else.

I'm not sure how long it will be before I put my tenants rent up. They moved in in Sept 2019, and the rent was lower than an agent would charge, but they have kept paying through the pandemic, and are nice people. Currently, what they are paying would get them a shit hole in Beruit about 2 miles away, but it their area wouldn't  get them a 2 bed flat, and there are only 2 three bed semis for rent in the area below £1000. 

One is £850, and is smaller in a less desirable area, and the other is smaller and £950 in a more desirable street.  

They are paying £675, when the going rate 2 years ago was £725 to £750. 

I'm sure they can afford more, but, I'm inclined to wait, as so far nobody has stayed 3 years. But really we should put it up to £750, but if they stay longer than that. If they leave, the rent will go up to £900. After I replace the carpet in a bedroom, and get new kitchen cupboard doors and worktops. (The layout is perfect) 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/L23.html

[gm]

1 hour ago, DVee8 said:

While in Glasgow my car door was damaged. The only place it could have happened was the hotel car, no note on my windscreen, and nothing mentioned to reception.

We spoke to the duty manager, who told us we had to wait till the next day to speak to the facility manager and the general manager. This we did, they both looked at the damage to the car. They asked us to report it to the police, the facility manager said he would look at the cctv and if anything can be seen they will drop it onto a thumbnail and give it to the police.

Yesterday the F/M rang MrsV8 to tell her in the 3.5 hours from parking the car and heading out and returning to find the damage. 1 car parked next to mine. On the cctv the car can be seen to move when hit by the door, the owner looks at my car then moves their car to another space, they return to their car a hour later. Have another look at mine and drive off.

The F/M say over the time there were around 30 empty spaces around my car. Also on cctv they have me walking towards my car 15 seconds after the person that did this pulled out of the "new" parking place and left the car park.

The hotel have all the info of the driver and will pass it onto the police,who rang yesterday morning. They will be going to the hotel to collect the thumbnail drive, they will review the cctv and contact the owner. They explained that the owner could own up apologise and hopefully pay for the damage or deny it then it could go to court for criminal damage.

Fuck all of this could have very easily been avoided.

In the meantime my car is getting repaired today.

That sucks but a good response from the hotel at least 

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, DVee8 said:

While in Glasgow my car door was damaged. The only place it could have happened was the hotel car, no note on my windscreen, and nothing mentioned to reception.

We spoke to the duty manager, who told us we had to wait till the next day to speak to the facility manager and the general manager. This we did, they both looked at the damage to the car. They asked us to report it to the police, the facility manager said he would look at the cctv and if anything can be seen they will drop it onto a thumbnail and give it to the police.

Yesterday the F/M rang MrsV8 to tell her in the 3.5 hours from parking the car and heading out and returning to find the damage. 1 car parked next to mine. On the cctv the car can be seen to move when hit by the door, the owner looks at my car then moves their car to another space, they return to their car a hour later. Have another look at mine and drive off.

The F/M say over the time there were around 30 empty spaces around my car. Also on cctv they have me walking towards my car 15 seconds after the person that did this pulled out of the "new" parking place and left the car park.

The hotel have all the info of the driver and will pass it onto the police,who rang yesterday morning. They will be going to the hotel to collect the thumbnail drive, they will review the cctv and contact the owner. They explained that the owner could own up apologise and hopefully pay for the damage or deny it then it could go to court for criminal damage.

Fuck all of this could have very easily been avoided.

In the meantime my car is getting repaired today.

Liked only for actually catching the bastard that damaged your car. I hope they get nailed for it, even if they don't cough up.