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[Wibble]

We all dread the after 9 o’clock phone call. We just had one. Brother in law has come off his motorbike, on a long weekend trip with friends in Wales. Hit a dear and he’s got broken ribs, collar bone and punctured lung. 
I’ve messaged him asking what hospital he’s in and said I’ll go and get him when he’s discharged. He has no idea where his bike is. Luckily, one of the group was a doctor.

[Ohdearme]

13 minutes ago, Wibble said:

We all dread the after 9 o’clock phone call. We just had one. Brother in law has come off his motorbike, on a long weekend trip with friends in Wales. Hit a dear and he’s got broken ribs, collar bone and punctured lung. 
I’ve messaged him asking what hospital he’s in and said I’ll go and get him when he’s discharged. He has no idea where his bike is. Luckily, one of the group was a doctor.

Sorry to hear this. Hope it works out and good he's sort of ok.

[Ohdearme]

Octavia was dropped off this morning for the front bushes replacing.

Luckily only one bolt of the six snapped so it only cost an extra hours labour drilling out.

That's all defects from the MOT fixed so it's off for a partial retest tomorrow and fingers crossed an all clear awaits.

[High Jetter]

37 minutes ago, Wibble said:

We all dread the after 9 o’clock phone call. We just had one. Brother in law has come off his motorbike, on a long weekend trip with friends in Wales. Hit a dear and he’s got broken ribs, collar bone and punctured lung. 
I’ve messaged him asking what hospital he’s in and said I’ll go and get him when he’s discharged. He has no idea where his bike is. Luckily, one of the group was a doctor.

FFS, you're getting all the luck atm, but it's bad luck.

[Wibble]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

FFS, you're getting all the luck atm, but it's bad luck.

Yep, Dad, Mum, Wife, work, doesn’t seem to stop.

[Split_Pin]

Now then, let's see how 2024s run of luck* continues:

MOT on this at 11am 

Find out whether or not I'm getting made redundant at 10.30am.

Place bets now.

[Split_Pin]

Not being made redundant just yet and not a bad result on the A4:

I knew about the CV joint as it was clicking and I could hear a knock from the TRE frkm time to time.

I'm especially glad they are sympathetic to the terrible* accident* that befell the smoke plate.

[wuvvum]

So far it looks like la météo was a tad pessimistic.  Mild and intermittently sunny in Brussels. 

I dumped the Rover at a park & ride and got the Metro in as the car isn't LEZ compliant, and anyway I hate driving in strange cities. 

[flat4alfa]

Congrats @Hertz on 6k posts

[stuboy]

Ferrari summit being delivered in my way out to another base...

[flat4alfa]

5 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Ferrari summit being delivered in my way out to another base...

The Ferrari Summit was sold over here as the Enzo

[Ohdearme]

Audi due for bottom arm and MOT tomorrow.

just moved it out on the drive to get ready to go down there and, erm.

Fucksticks.

 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Ohdearme said:

Audi due for bottom arm and MOT tomorrow.

just moved it out on the drive to get ready to go down there and, erm.

Fucksticks.

 

Cable ties and gaffa tape to get you to the garage? 

[wuvvum]

Got to love German humour.

[wuvvum]

Old gal's still got it.

This was about 3/4 throttle, it could have gone a bit quicker but it puts out a rather embarrassing cloud of clag when properly floored.  Plus we still have a lot of miles to do and I don't want to kill it.

[MAF260]

Mrs' 5 week old car wiped out by a stupid old cunt completely on the wrong side of the road. Combined impact speed 100mph. She has a fair few injuries, but thankfully nothing major. Car is a total loss and I'm in the middle of dealing with the aftermath 😡

[comfortablynumb]

I'm by no means a BMW fanboi @MAF260, but that looks like it's done a pretty good job of protecting her.

Glad it's not worse 👍

[Split_Pin]

Good grief, that looks horrendous @MAF260, wishing your Mrs a full and speedy recovery.

[danthecapriman]

58 minutes ago, MAF260 said:

Mrs' 5 week old car wiped out by a stupid old cunt completely on the wrong side of the road. Combined impact speed 100mph. She has a fair few injuries, but thankfully nothing major. Car is a total loss and I'm in the middle of dealing with the aftermath 😡

Glad she’s not more seriously injured.

Metal can always be replaced…

[lesapandre]

Morning fleamarket find. 

Matchbox. So beautifully modelled.

 

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Old gal's still got it.

This was about 3/4 throttle

 

[wuvvum]

I'm at the 'Ring.  It's pissing down. 

There is a Ferrari next to me. 

[lesapandre]

Kier has banned fun. Come home immediately - and if you have an 'off' you may bankrupt the NHS and pensioners will have no heating...

Troops are being dispatched to bring all UK nationals home.

Good Luck. Oh that looks fun.

[lesapandre]

20 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

 

115 at 3.5 rpm. Impressive.

[lesapandre]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Cable ties and gaffa tape to get you to the garage? 

Jam a wooden plank between the halfs..  

[Ohdearme]

44 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Jam a wooden plank between the halfs..  

I just grunted and moaned and changed it on the drive myself.

I didn’t fancy it at home in case it snapped and I got stuck but seeing as it snapped and I got stuck I just did it.

Needed some swan neck spanners and some new cutting discs.

It’s still a get me there bodge as I couldn’t get a proper high tensile steel bolt so it’s got one that will do for the half mile drive and they can have it off and fix it proper.

Good few hours work there as one side was having one of it with heat, spray or owt so had to be cut out.

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

Well done man, here's to an MOT pass 🤞

[Lord Sterling]

Having an estate car readily available has come into its own today. I'd embarrassingly had some car parts stored in next doors shed because mother_Sterling didn't like them languishing in the loft. So my Mum's next door neighbour offered me some short term storage, for a few months, that was about 3 years ago....

At some point, the shed started falling down at the back and started leaking water, so after some to-ing and fro-ing, a holiday then getting ill, I decided to finally get the stuff out. I really owe Jim big time for this, but he's more worried about his house situation as sadly his house was sold because his son couldn't keep up the mortgage payments.

Anyway, there wasn't a huge amount to move but enough to almost fill the back of the Vectra. (Forgot to take a pic of it when it was full, schrodinger car boot, half empty or half full whichever way you look at it)

Jag is off for MoT in the next few weeks. Both cars need some anti-corrosion sprayed underneath sooner rather than later.

[Lord Sterling]

6 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

Audi due for bottom arm and MOT tomorrow.

just moved it out on the drive to get ready to go down there and, erm.

Fucksticks.

 

That's annoying but it does show the importance of looking after the underneath of the car as well as the top and mechanicals.

I hate to say this but I'm sure when it happened you must have uttered a something a bit stronger than your username.

[Ohdearme]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Well done man, here's to an MOT pass 🤞

Cheers, I don’t really like such hardcore spannering on the drive but as the kids were at school I had a free run to bang and swear and scream and run off to the shop a few times to get different bits without worrying about an errant young’un finding their way into mischief.