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[Ohdearme]

Still on a high after my emergency Audi spannering.

Just a simple case of driving down to my pre booked MOT…

More fucksticks.

 

MOT not till 3:30 (my clock is wrong in car so we’re talking hours not minutes) so any prayers of solidarity offered to the God of Turny-Off-And-On-Again are gratefully accepted…

🤣

Meantime have some ‘90’s austerity style dash and dial porn. Yes, oil temp is broken.

 

[Split_Pin]

My B7 cab still has the triple centre vents as a nod to this design

Good luck with the MOT!

[artdjones]

14 hours ago, hairnet said:

 

but the last pic should take away any doubt no?

UK police are too busy checking mean tweets to deal with physical crimes. However, his insurance company may make it impossible for him to carry on driving, by loading the premiums at renewal. That will be a big claim, what with a replacement new car, (It doesn't matter what criteria they say you qualify under, a car that's just a few weeks old will have to be replaced with new), a courtesy car, also multiple personal injuries, and replacement of his car. It could cost well into six figures.

[BorniteIdentity]

1 hour ago, Supernaut said:

Older folks' driving does worry me.

My parents are in their 70s, my dad grips the wheel like it's a white knuckle ride and seems to constantly forget what gear he's in. Meanwhile I followed my mum once and struggled to keep up! At least they both seem capable of staying on the correct side of the road.

Unlike the pickup yesterday. I was driving towards them down a straight bit of road in the SLK with my headlights on. They just sat right in the centre of the road then swerved almost at the last second. I turned the inside of the SLK blue calling the stupid inattentive auld fucker all sorts of names...

My lovely old Mum is 74. She’d barely been able to mumble the words “I don’t enjoy driv…” before I had the keys out of her hands and the car on the A14 slip road. 

Her father had a heart attack at the wheel. Fortunately he just left the road and smashed through a fence, but it could have been horrific. 

[comfortablynumb]

4 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

My lovely old Mum is 74. She’d barely been able to mumble the words “I don’t enjoy driv…” before I had the keys out of her hands and the car on the A14 slip road. 

Her father had a heart attack at the wheel. Fortunately he just left the road and smashed through a fence, but it could have been horrific. 

My mum stopped driving quite a while ago, bad legs. My dad did worry me, sometimes he was brilliant, sometimes he scared the crap out of me. When I brought it up, I got the 'I'm fine' speech.

However it must have had the desired effect, he was an IAM member, and went and did a driving assessment, which he passed with flying colours, after which I didn't really have an argument.

When he got really ill, I refused to let him drive at all, took the car keys and brought them up to ours for Christmas.

I always used to say to him, ' isn't it better for people to say why did you stop driving, than why didn't you?'

[reb]

It was invoice day today.

There's still part of me that doesn't quite believe it's as simple as "do thing I enjoy" then "send invoice" followed by "receive money within 10 minutes"

Got some premium bonds and a pizza.

[Ohdearme]

7 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

Still on a high after my emergency Audi spannering.

Just a simple case of driving down to my pre booked MOT…

More fucksticks.

 

MOT not till 3:30 (my clock is wrong in car so we’re talking hours not minutes) so any prayers of solidarity offered to the God of Turny-Off-And-On-Again are gratefully accepted…

🤣

Meantime have some ‘90’s austerity style dash and dial porn. Yes, oil temp is broken.

 

Update - Pass, jolly nice garage jubilee clipped up the exhaust as the rubbers didn’t pass the waggle test intact.

 

[comfortablynumb]

Your doughnuts are a bit overcooked @Ohdearme🤣

[stuboy]

Spotted on the book of face... peugeout looks like normally did... plenty of shite

[Split_Pin]

15 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Spotted on the book of face... peugeout looks like normally did... plenty of shite

Now on BBC 2 it's the first episode of the dystopian drama "Gonny hoover up yer scrap Mister".

[horriblemercedes]

22 hours ago, MAF260 said:

His claims include not remembering anything; he didn't see her (bright blue with LED lights) car and thought he'd hit the grass bank and that a muntjac deer ran out in front of him. I mentioned to the Police that it was odd he failed to remember or see anything, but was able to identify the breed of mostly nocturnal deer that allegedly ran out in front of him. It is, of course, total bollocks - he rounded a right hand bend completely on the wrong side of the road, it wasn't a brief moment of error. The Police have told me that there isn't enough evidence and so are not intending to prosecute him. You couldn't make this up.

Some years ago, an elderly driver drove straight out of a side road without stopping and into the side of my car, pushing it onto the wrong side. Luckily it was fairly low speed. 

 

I stopped and got out of the car, only to see him driving away. As far as I know, nothing happened to him in that case. I reported it to police for my insurance claim. 

 

I'm mainly posting to say that that time I was insured with Admiral too and they were excellent with sorting it out. It was a long time ago though and since then, they've never given me a sensible quote but had always been competitive before that. So maybe prepare to swap at renewal time. 

[comfortablynumb]

A while ago a mate was stuck in traffic outside Watford football ground,. A few cars ahead, there was a police car, stuck in the same queue.

An old duffer, pulling out from a side road, you know the type, 8 million rpm, but no clutch.

His foot must have slipped off the pedal.

He howled across the road, and smacked straight into the side of the police car.

My mate says the resigned look on the polices face as they retrieved their hats, and stepped out of the passenger side of their car will stay with him forever.

He had to pull over, he was laughing so much he couldn't drive.

[wuvvum]

19 hours ago, Popsicle said:

I think I might have set the slowest lap back in the early 90's in a 1.6d D reg Orion.

Like you I still had great fun doing it though.

I'm sorry but that doesn't work out.  I've done some calculations and if you'd set off round the Ring in the early 90s in an Orion 1.6D and kept your foot hard to the floor, you'd just about be reaching the Karussel now.

[Popsicle]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I'm sorry but that doesn't work out.  I've done some calculations and if you'd set off round the Ring in the early 90s in an Orion 1.6D and kept your foot hard to the floor, you'd just about be reaching the Karussel now.

🤣 Oh it was painfully slow, we used to stop at the Ring on the way to Hungary as its pretty much half way, done it a few times over the years and the slowest laps would have been the old diesel Orion or an early Nissan Navara diesel.

The most fun was a toss up between a 2.0 Cortina a mate had with some trick camshaft that he 'claimed' was bored out to a 2.2 and would go off the end of speedo* or my Sierra XR4x4 that decided to blow a hole in the Y piece of the exhaust at about 130* and give me heart failure.

* I would have loved it if mobile phones and satnavs existed back then to see how fast we were truly going, looking back I'm sure it was nowhere near the indicated speeds!

[Split_Pin]

Another fraught day yesterday.

I couldnt remove my wife's vanity plate online from the red A4 as it had spent more than 6 months untaxed at some point in the past. That would likely be early 2022 when it was doing the rounds with a seized engine. So I had to post everything off to them.

The garage were finishing the MOT but completely unbeknownst to me, the DVLA had updated their records between the car failing and it being ready to pass. I only knew because I checked online.

Anyway, they phoned me to say they couldnt pass it with the old plates on as it no longer matches the DVLA. Luckily I had the original plates in my garage but I was in my office in Edinburgh. Phoned my wife and asked if she wouldn't mind getting the plates and handing them into the garage. Where's the key? Fuck, in my pocket. Cue some frantic searching for a spare, some keys were tried and thankfully one fitted and she was in.

My wife then went down to the garage, handed in the plates and waited for them to finish. Payment made, keys acquired and I swung by last night to collect it. So another year's MOT. Oh and the vibration when accelerating is gone, it must have been the track rod end!

I've said it before but I'm ranking this car as one of my Top Buys in recent years (and I owe my wife lunch at the weekend)

[andy18s]

AutoShite Eastern European Headquarters?

[wuvvum]

I'm in Strasbourg at the moment.  It's quite picturesque. 

I had to park in Germany and get the tram as the Rover isn't allowed into Strasbourg being a Euro 3 diesel - even the Park & Rides on the French side are within the LEZ, which seems a bit daft.

I parked two spaces down from this beauty, which is presumably parked there for similar reasons. 

[HillmanImp]

Drove into work today as my cycling gear was still in the washbin. 

Whats that I see in the distance? 

It would seem that Swedish bricks are the car of choice for the go getter modern day executive.

Need to close the deal? Lets make them lightheaded first with exhaust fumes.

Are they trying to get away? Slow them down with oil patches so you can catch them up.

Or alternatively it might just be someone there to clean the bogs. 

[reb]

4 hours ago, andy18s said:

AutoShite Eastern European Headquarters?

My dream home for less than the cost of a 1 bed flat in a rough area. Magic.

[stuboy]

Collegue had this delivered today as her partner is going too be a hgv mechanic... I always thought hilka were cheap crap.. am I wrong? Or is it a great starter kit for him?

[comfortablynumb]

The hilka stuff I've had seems to be both ends of the spectrum, @stuboy, some of it would withstand a nuclear blast, others have given up under a hard stare.

I guess only time will tell.

Probably better than getting into Hock with the snap on van....

[Stinkwheel]

17 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Collegue had this delivered today as her partner is going too be a hgv mechanic... I always thought hilka were cheap crap.. am I wrong? Or is it a great starter kit for him?

Its not a bad starter kit, i mean it could be worse.

Obviously the starter kit the company i work for supplies is much better, but <shrug>

[richardmorris]

Is that a C15 Visa?

[barefoot]

Remember I scraped my van along the side of another motorhome whilst queuing up to check in at a campsite?

TWAT!

Well, that was the second of September and after just 3 phone calls, I've got the go-ahead today to have it repaired at my bodyshop of choice. Apparently with older vehicles they like to settle in cash - in case the quantity of work escalates - so the woman said that she'd send me £1,300 now & when the work was complete I should send her another invoice for the VAT - £260. I pointed out that my XS was £250 and asked if she'd split the odd tenner & send me five quid, but she laughed and sent me £1,310 instead. I'll give Chris a ring in a moment...

[lesapandre]

Saarf Londiin this wet afternoon.

[lesapandre]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Is that a C15 Visa?

Yes - but it's a Romahome or in their case a Rollahome.

"That's a funny place to camp m8"

Usually pretty stable - maybe they had something in the back they shouldn't.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, stuboy said:

Collegue had this delivered today as her partner is going too be a hgv mechanic... I always thought hilka were cheap crap.. am I wrong? Or is it a great starter kit for him?

My Dad had a Hilka 1/2" socket set, which I inherited 34 years ago. Still use some of it occasionally, really good quality. Like everything, probably not as good these days - so not much help to you, just re-kindled a memory of the tin box the set was laid out in.

[wuvvum]

View from my hotel room this morning. 

Nice to be back in the Alps again, shame about the weather as I would have liked to go for a walk, but hey ho.

[Rustybullethole]

Get togged up and do it anyway no? Nice place to be. 

[SiC]

50 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

View from my hotel room this morning. 

Nice to be back in the Alps again, shame about the weather as I would have liked to go for a walk, but hey ho.

Skin is water resistant!