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[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after receiving a text from the NHS telling me the lateral flow Covid test taken earlier today has rendered a negative result. 

That's grand. Only one slight problem: the test result is for someone else, with a date of birth over six years before mine.

[N19]

7 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Just after receiving a text from the NHS telling me the lateral flow Covid test taken earlier today has rendered a negative result. 

That's grand. Only one slight problem: the test result is for someone else, with a date of birth over six years before mine.

Lockdown has aged us all prematurely...

[Ghosty]

16 hours ago, brownnova said:

Portsmouth 
Southport
Ellesmere Port
Stockport

Everybody talk about, port music. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

16 hours ago, dome said:

Stripped the Mazda6 (Manta engine donor) down yesterday. 

Japanese cars in Scotland, don't do it kids. This one is from 2008😲

LHS rear lower arm was the reason it was cheap.

How it should look.

General crustiness

Coming soon to a supermarket shelf near you 

Nasty. Weren't you using that MX5 mk3 lump though?

[dome]

4 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Nasty. Weren't you using that MX5 mk3 lump though?

This is a 2.5 version of the same engine so 0.5 better. I need the MX5 gearbox and ancillaries so I can mount it longitudinally in the Manta

[GrumpiusMaximus]

@SiC We found Mortonhampstead a couple of years back when we were going through Dartmoor.  Absolutely brilliant little place - particularly liked the Dormobile with the full family history on the door.  The fact that you have to squeeze down between the cars to look at some of the other cars really does add to the charm.  Need to pop over there next time I visit my parents...

[SiC]

2 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

@SiC We found Mortonhampstead a couple of years back when we were going through Dartmoor.  Absolutely brilliant little place - particularly liked the Dormobile with the full family history on the door.  The fact that you have to squeeze down between the cars to look at some of the other cars really does add to the charm.  Need to pop over there next time I visit my parents...

I've upload some photos of my visit in my Boxster thread. 

[Floatylight]

Sleep well sweet Prince, see you in spring..

[dozeydustman]

C2 has developed an intermittent rattle with engine speed. It’s not a knock so will have to give it a once over tomorrow. Hopefully something simple like the engine plastics vibrating.

Hopefully I can find one of my old laptops to install Win7 on for the Lexia and finally sort out the wiring woes.

[Bear]

Holiday

[wuvvum]

That last photo looks treacherous...  Nice part of the world though Whitby.

[Split_Pin]

Whitby is an ace day put. Best chippy  ever, I thinknits called Robertsons, followed by a bracing walk up to the Abbey.  Before a trip to the puggies!

[richardmorris]

16 minutes ago, RichardK said:

Holiday

Great T-shirt.

[richardmorris]

[SiC]

Fabio the Fabia doesn't work on fan speed 1 and the passenger door is usual VAG where it doesn't know it's not open or closed. Probably could have lived with no fan speed 1 but it bugs me.

So I've invested/wasted more money by buying a fan resistor (£20) and door lock (£20) from Amazon. Paid extra for a Febi fan resistor as I didn't want it to catch fire like some of the cheapy Chinese no names sometimes/often do.


Fan resistor was straight forward. Glove box off with 5 torx screws and removing the clip fit side panel



Fan resistor lives here


Twist and pull up get it out. Then swap over and fiddle to get it back in.



Door lock will come later as VAG bloody well rivet the inner panel in ffs. Bought the rivets but need to check they fit my rivet gun.

[barefoot]

2 hours ago, RichardK said:

Holiday

We used to nip up to Whitby every November for fish n chips. It took four hours each way in Olly - (the Orange T2). We'd leave at about 08:00, get there just as the chippy opened, shove it down our neck, a quick walk on the beach and head home. With luck, we'd be home just as it was getting dark.

The trip at two & a half hours in Gordon (the golden Jaguar) was never quite the same sort of adventure.

 

Ooops, nearly forgot - naming cars is still a sport for utter twats.

[Zelandeth]

Trip away later in the week in the van.

Right...good excuse to fit the new speakers so I can actually tell if the stereo is even turned on above 40mph.

Can I find the speakers?

Well I can find *one* of them...which was in a drawer in the van.  Why the heck did I leave a single speaker in there yet stow the second one away somewhere else?  Part of me is seriously considering just going and buying another pair of 6x9s as I can't be bothered turning the whole house upside down looking for it...

[Stanky]

24 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Trip away later in the week in the van.

Right...good excuse to fit the new speakers so I can actually tell if the stereo is even turned on above 40mph.

Can I find the speakers?

Well I can find *one* of them...which was in a drawer in the van.  Why the heck did I leave a single speaker in there yet stow the second one away somewhere else?  Part of me is seriously considering just going and buying another pair of 6x9s as I can't be bothered turning the whole house upside down looking for it...

Do that, keep the receipt because the nanosecond you arrive home with the new ones, the missing original one will magically reappear right in front of you. You can then waste the petrol taking the new pair of 6x9s back to wherever you bought them from.

 

[puddlethumper]

Bugger! Missed a milestone by 10.

[Dyslexic Viking]

4 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Bugger! Missed a milestone by 10.

 

Is that your old Peugeot van?

[junkyarddog]

19 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Bugger! Missed a milestone by 10.

And still half a tank of diesel 😂

[puddlethumper]

12 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

 

Is that your old Peugeot van?

Sure is.

[puddlethumper]

1 minute ago, junkyarddog said:

And still half a tank of diesel 😂

Veg oil if you don't mind. £1.25 a litre.

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, Stanky said:

Do that, keep the receipt because the nanosecond you arrive home with the new ones, the missing original one will magically reappear right in front of you. You can then waste the petrol taking the new pair of 6x9s back to wherever you bought them from.

 

Nah, it turned up.

Knew it couldn't be that deeply buried as I'd dug them out of deep storage together a year or so back.

Predictably the carpentry involved turned into a total farce after about 30 seconds, but I got there in the end.

[grogee]

5 hours ago, SiC said:

 

(sorry I can't get rid of this quoted bit for some reason)

Mrs Grogee is making noises about a cheap low insurance car for 15yo to be fettled in readiness for learner driving. Thus learning the ways of the spanner before the ways of the driving instructor. 

She has happened across this which (at first glance) looks like ideal territory, and it's being sold by someone we sort of know. Full history apparently, £600. Is there anything we should be wary of? My knowledge of Maruti shite is sketchy.

It needs both bumpers changing but to me that's a fun scrapyard challenge. Or, leave them pre-fucked in readiness for teen abuse.

[grogee]

The other thing is it would make an ideal beater car for taking 7yo to school when it's raining. We normally cycle but sometimes it rains and I have* to drive. 

It's also a pretty funny car in shiting terms, I reckon

[Wibble]

Check insurance group first. I’m looking for a first car for my 17 year old to learn in and Suzuki’s seemed quite high compared to Fabia , Ibiza, polo.

[grogee]

11 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Check insurance group first. I’m looking for a first car for my 17 year old to learn in and Suzuki’s seemed quite high compared to Fabia , Ibiza, polo.

It's 9, but I don't really know what that is relative to 107/Aygo etc. I should probably do some research. 

[Wibble]

50 minutes ago, grogee said:

It's 9, but I don't really know what that is relative to 107/Aygo etc. I should probably do some research. 

Exactly, the others are like 3 or 4 for 1.2. It’s a minefield!

[Cord Fourteener]

12 hours ago, grogee said:

The other thing is it would make an ideal beater car for taking 7yo to school when it's raining. We normally cycle but sometimes it rains and I have* to drive. 

It's also a pretty funny car in shiting terms, I reckon

Looks good to me!