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[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, Stanky said:

I bet some sad cunt bought all the badges from ebay and spent a frankly unreasonable amount of time rebadging their Corsa C to appear more 'sophisticated' - like the tragic amount of work a local lad has put into rebadging his (1.6 litre) Gen 2 Hyundai Coupe into a Tuscani to impress the laydeez 

Back when I owned redtop Cavs, many owners liked to replace the sparkolator plug cover panel with an Opel branded version. Whilst I didn't dislike the look, I wasn't prepared to pay the 30 odd quid sellers were asking at the time. Looking online now, the cheapest Vauxhall version I can find is >£80 posted. I guess the Opel version fetches even more!

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Back when I owned redtop Cavs, many owners liked to replace the sparkolator plug cover panel with an Opel branded version. Whilst I didn't dislike the look, I wasn't prepared to pay the 30 odd quid sellers were asking at the time. Looking online now, the cheapest Vauxhall version I can find is >£80 posted. I guess the Opel version fetches even more!

I remember it being easy to go on a foreign forum and find someone who wanted to swap. Years ago I knew some Spanish and German guys who wanted all the Vauxhall-branded bits for their Opels

 

I doubt there's any of that enthusiasm for it now.....

[stuboy]

Went to b&q and thought hey hey someone's getting it on with steamed up windows...

 

But no just a clio with a damp problem..

[RoverFolkUs]

47 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Went to b&q and thought hey hey someone's getting it on with steamed up windows...

 

But no just a clio with a damp problem..

It's ended up in Australia somehow too!

[PicantoJon]

In non-Picanto news, had an information session with a local college about a NVQ course for railway engineering. Hopefully a way out of the current dead end job and into some kind of career on the railway, not just for some sexy bright orange hi-viz... 🤣

[bunglebus]

It all looks so peaceful from above

[stuboy]

18 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

It's ended up in Australia somehow too!

drying out..

[SmokinWaffle]

7 hours ago, Stanky said:

I bet some sad cunt bought all the badges from ebay and spent a frankly unreasonable amount of time rebadging their Corsa C to appear more 'sophisticated' - like the tragic amount of work a local lad has put into rebadging his (1.6 litre) Gen 2 Hyundai Coupe into a Tuscani to impress the laydeez 

So aggressive. Let people enjoy things. 

[HMC]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

It all looks so peaceful from above

Wow amazing pics ! London city air port ? I can make out the iconic Battersea power station in the first pic (below the Thames, far left) amongst a lot else! Amazing

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

Went to b&q and thought hey hey someone's getting it on with steamed up windows...

 

But no just a clio with a damp problem..

 

@320touring has that problem when he looks at his

 

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

Wow amazing pics ! London city air port ? I can make out the iconic Battersea power station in the first pic (below the Thames, far left) amongst a lot else! Amazing

I was flying into Heathrow but got a pretty decent view of the city 😁

[Ghosty]

Baws. 

Chassis is bent, it's a goner. 

[320touring]

20 hours ago, hairnet said:

@320touring has that problem when he looks at his

 

Oi, I resemble that remark!

[MiniMinorMk3]

22 hours ago, bunglebus said:

 

Dof, dof, dof, dof. Der, der, der ,der ,der, der, deeerrrr.

[GingerNuttz]

About time !! 

Been chasing peeling paint for 3 weeks, could have hung myself 🤣

 

 

 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

Baws. 

Chassis is bent, it's a goner. 

Ouch! Just a case of not paying attention?

[stuboy]

Crew had a blowout mile from leaving base... which ment I got to go swap ambos and sit at roadside for 3 hours for mobile tyre fitter... the high life of a senior ambulance care assistant..

[3VOM]

On 2/1/2023 at 7:28 PM, stuboy said:

drying out..

Draining out through the sun roof probably.

[richardmorris]

15 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Crew had a blowout mile from leaving base... which ment I got to go swap ambos and sit at roadside for 3 hours for mobile tyre fitter... the high life of a senior ambulance care assistant..

Any reason for it? 

[Ghosty]

52 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Ouch! Just a case of not paying attention?

Yeah, the woman didn't stop for a queue.

[stuboy]

27 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Any reason for it? 

nothing obvious, the tyre dude wasnt that chatty

[LightBulbFun]

3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Baws. 

Chassis is bent, it's a goner. 

fuck thats proper shit! 

It was only the other day I was looking at it in the picture you put up of the other one you helped collect for a friend and thinking it was a nice car (and had to me a nice registration mark LOL, Surrey registered FTW)

it it is interesting to see how its gotten bent out of shape (ahead of the rear wheel) but not even rear hatch glass has popped

 

but regardless of all that I hope you have come out of it intact at least?! and I hope insurance pays out a suitably healthy amount at least!

[RoverFolkUs]

I was perusing a customer's MOT history earlier, and noticed this which I found amusing:

So they clearly swapped the tyres front to rear in the hope the tester wouldn't notice 2 days later 😂

[Rust Collector]

Tonight we had a driveway reshuffle.

The SLK was in front of the garage, but I need an extra space in the courtyard so it’s moved onto the slope that leads to the garden. I always enjoy* moving it by hand… The Audi now moves under its own power so that’s something.

And yes, the need for an extra space means more incoming chod.

[cobblers]

16 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I was perusing a customer's MOT history earlier, and noticed this which I found amusing:

So they clearly swapped the tyres front to rear in the hope the tester wouldn't notice 2 days later 😂

I know a bus company that runs 14 little old merc buses. The air pressure / abs warning on those is on an LCD screen in the instrument cluster, but the clusters are NLA and if the LCD goes, they're not repairable.

They have one good dash that they keep in a locked cupboard which gets fitted for the MOT and then immediately removed.. They even rent this good dash out to another local operator,

I don't know what they'll do when the LCD finally gives up on the cherished MOT dash, presumably just scrap the buses and shut up shop!😅

[Rust Collector]

5 minutes ago, cobblers said:

I know a bus company that runs 14 little old merc buses. The air pressure / abs warning on those is on an LCD screen in the instrument cluster, but the clusters are NLA and if the LCD goes, they're not repairable.

They have one good dash that they keep in a locked cupboard which gets fitted for the MOT and then immediately removed.. They even rent this good dash out to another local operator,

I don't know what they'll do when the LCD finally gives up on the cherished MOT dash, presumably just scrap the buses and shut up shop!😅

Sounds like when that one finally goes pop, it's time to drill a hole in the dash of each bus and fit a suitable warning lamp connected to one of those 12v pulse modules 😅 

[brownnova]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

I know a bus company that runs 14 little old merc buses. The air pressure / abs warning on those is on an LCD screen in the instrument cluster, but the clusters are NLA and if the LCD goes, they're not repairable.

They have one good dash that they keep in a locked cupboard which gets fitted for the MOT and then immediately removed.. They even rent this good dash out to another local operator,

I don't know what they'll do when the LCD finally gives up on the cherished MOT dash, presumably just scrap the buses and shut up shop!😅

When I ran two Saab 9000s I absolutely never swapped headlights and relays between cars to ensure an MoT pass… that would be very irresponsible… 

[cobblers]

2 minutes ago, brownnova said:

When I ran two Saab 9000s I absolutely never swapped headlights and relays between cars to ensure an MoT pass… that would be very irresponsible… 

A truly smart man would have left the headlights where they are and just swapped the number plates

[N19]

55 minutes ago, cobblers said:

A truly smart man would have left the headlights where they are and just swapped the number plates

There is a story about a bus company who would do exactly this with a number of 'identical' vehicles, the number plates and fleet numbers would be swopped around so the 'good' bus was being MoTd several times per year. Supposedly this was found out when a tester who was a bus spotter noticed that each vehicle had subtle differences, or something like that. Whether true or not I know not.

[LightBulbFun]

5 hours ago, cobblers said:

I know a bus company that runs 14 little old merc buses. The air pressure / abs warning on those is on an LCD screen in the instrument cluster, but the clusters are NLA and if the LCD goes, they're not repairable.

They have one good dash that they keep in a locked cupboard which gets fitted for the MOT and then immediately removed.. They even rent this good dash out to another local operator,

I don't know what they'll do when the LCD finally gives up on the cherished MOT dash, presumably just scrap the buses and shut up shop!😅

17 minutes ago, N19 said:

There is a story about a bus company who would do exactly this with a number of 'identical' vehicles, the number plates and fleet numbers would be swopped around so the 'good' bus was being MoTd several times per year. Supposedly this was found out when a tester who was a bus spotter noticed that each vehicle had subtle differences, or something like that. Whether true or not I know not.

I think @busmansholidayhas a few stories just like that which he could tell!  the one your referring to I think only got busted because they stuck the plates on a bus of a similar type but different length!