Cavcraft Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Ignoring weather forecast of rain later, I went to work on my scooter. Brilliant* idea, it was hailing or something on the way back so I never got over 40mph, my eyes stung and I got piss wet through. purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Ignoring weather forecast of rain later, I went to work on my scooter. Brilliant* idea, it was hailing or something on the way back so I never got over 40mph, my eyes stung and I got piss wet through. Open face right? it's invigorating* plus wrap around safety glasses fit well under lids for your eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Today I tried to describe to a friend from that Trumpreich what Autoshite is. He said, oh, you mean loser cars?A quick google image search revealed that he nailed it spot on and we agreed that loser cars are full of win. So we can conclude: British English American English Autoshite Loser Cars Some random results from google images to confirm: vulgalour, danthecapriman, Sigmund Fraud and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 WTF is that first one? it's so bad it's nearly good. Tam and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Izuzu Vehicross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Liked my LDV Cub2.3 diesel which loved the veg once the leak off pipes were replacedWent everywhere at 60 max,empty or loaded to the roofHad to replace the rear crosmember for its last mot with me,then the Mrs sold it to a desperate builder who's Transit had died and needed a van there and thenMade a few quid tooDrove a friend's ldv cub the other day to see what it was like. I'm sure I've never had my foot flat to the carpet in anything as much as that! He said sane though,slow as hell but does same no matter what load Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 What's the funky yellow one? At the moment I'm just assuming it's one of the 4 hundred and 12 billion Mazda 323 versions. loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 What's the funky yellow one? At the moment I'm just assuming it's one of the 4 hundred and 12 billion Mazda 323 versions.Searching Google for image seems to think it's a Renault alpine! I'm sure it's a ford badge on it though. A festiva of done description? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrel2 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 This evening Squirrel2 was passenger in a Dacia Logan driven by a colleague that became the filling in the sandwich in a pile-up on the M4 at Swansea as three of us were travelling home. Hit from the back whilst stopped we were propelled into the back of a pick-up in front.We regularly car share to save travelling costs. Unfortunately our colleague in the back seat suffered neck injuries and we had to wait for an ambulance whilst the fire service assembled their cutting gear before turning the Dacia into a convertible. We are waiting for news of our colleague who is in A&E in Swansea now but the Dacia is definitely dead - fortunately it is a company car.The car that hit us was a BMW 1 Series with personalised plates and the unapologetic driver has been let off with a caution! He was quickly picked up by a mate and was first away from the scene much to the annoyance of my other colleague who was driving and is now without her car! Dead Dacia, however it did drive onto the hard shoulder under its own steam unlike the BMW that hit us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Izuzu VehicrossHow the Yanks do a Frontera..... Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 WTF is that first one? it's so bad it's nearly good. Ipizza Mephisto or some such dumbfuck you could only sell to total oiks. Want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Hope your colleague makes a full recovery, Squirrel2. Hope the BMW driver has a long fall down a short flight of stairs too, the knobjockey. chodweaver, richardmorris, clayts450 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 How the Yanks do a Frontera.....It's RHD. ???? It's just how the Japanese go utterly bonkers on the Mu platform. Has trick suspension and a V6. What's not to love? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Hmmm. ???? is meant to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Ignoring weather forecast of rain later, I went to work on my scooter. Brilliant* idea, it was hailing or something on the way back so I never got over 40mph, my eyes stung and I got piss wet through.i rode work 50mph freezing fog..black ice..made the 8 miles through country lanes , go to work couldnt feel my hands at all. so in my frozen brain i put my hands on the exhaust, next thing seeing stairs, dizzy, vomit, stupidly shock and blood rushing to hands, wasnt a good idea, thankfully i got a flip up helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 the unapologetic driver has been let off with a caution! That is quite surprising. If it is blatantly obvious that the vehicle behind wasn't paying attention and crashed into a stationary vehilcle, that would normally be driving without due care in a heartbeat. I would suggest you recommend to your colleague that they ask the Police why the driver is not being prosecuted. The reason being that if another driver is prosecuted, it makes the insurance claim (and private claim for loss of earnings/excess etc.) much much easier. The moment you mention to the insurers that the other driver was prosecuted, they stop acting like dicks and actually do the job they are paid to do. purplebargeken and Squirrel2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I would suggest you recommend to your colleague that they ask the Police why the driver is not being prosecuted. The reason being that if another driver is prosecuted, it makes the insurance claim (and private claim for loss of earnings/excess etc.) much much easier. The moment you mention to the insurers that the other driver was prosecuted, they stop acting like dicks and actually do the job they are paid to do.If they have been cautioned that is an admission that they committed the offence, won't that be enough for the insurance? Squirrel2 and BorniteIdentity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Certainly worth informing them. If it was a no-blame incident (black ice or a car with no lights on in the dark, for example) and a genuine accident then I imagine they wouldn't have been cautioned. I don't suppose there's the resources available to arrest every driver for every crash they probably caused so they use the caution-and-bring-them-back-later option instead. Let the insurers sort it out because "it's a civil matter, not a criminal one". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Just parked outside the good old Co-op and right in front is one of their delivery wagons. Front all stoved in and water pissing out everywhere with a very unhappy driver sat in the cab. School run Mum got things a 'bit' wrong and smashed straight into the front of it while it was parked in a big old Trooper type thing, She tried to do a runner as well but fortunately, the car decided that enough was enough and expired at the junction. Police in attendance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Why are school run folks so bleedin' mental? Precious cargo must be collected in behemoth, it's safer! That's someone else's car/child/person, RUN EM OVER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Why are school run folks so bleedin' mental? Precious cargo must be collected in behemoth, it's safer! That's someone else's car/child/person, RUN EM OVER.It was a school run mum who pulled out of a side junction directly in front of my bright yellow Dolomite with it's headlights on. I imagine thing would have been worse for me with an engine/gearbox in my lap than her in a massive Ford SUV thing had my leaky brakes not provided a rudimentary ABS system and un-locked the front wheels so I could swerve into the opposite lane to avoid her. catsinthewelder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrel2 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 If they have been cautioned that is an admission that they committed the offence, won't that be enough for the insurance?Yes, apparently that is enough. However things have moved on: My injured colleague was released from hospital late last night but has suffered a whiplash injury and is going to persue an injury claim against the driver who caused the crash whom we suspect was using his ‘phone at the wheel. This claim is because our work mate has been signed off work for a while and will lose financially as a result. Squirrel2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrel2 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 That is quite surprising. If it is blatantly obvious that the vehicle behind wasn't paying attention and crashed into a stationary vehilcle, that would normally be driving without due care in a heartbeat.I would suggest you recommend to your colleague that they ask the Police why the driver is not being prosecuted. The reason being that if another driver is prosecuted, it makes the insurance claim (and private claim for loss of earnings/excess etc.) much much easier. The moment you mention to the insurers that the other driver was prosecuted, they stop acting like dicks and actually do the job they are paid to do.He may get prosecuted yet if our driver is urged to by the insurers dealing with an injury claim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 No defence for school run idiocy but there is NOTHING as distracting as a car full of hyped up 4 & 5 year olds. Not texting, not being drunk, not tiredness, nothing. twosmoke300, catsinthewelder, BorniteIdentity and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 After a week of living with two vastly different car DAB radio adaptors fitted to two vastly different cars, I'm of the opinion that such devices are well worth it if you live in an area with decent DAB reception (I do) and want to eschew the BLOODY AWFUL stations on FM. richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I agree. The only place I loose dab reception is near goodwood on the South Downs and by grasmere in the Lake District- must be the hills. Mind you the fm and MW reception in those places is no better and radio 4only available on LW. Shep Shepherd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Had a rage at technology today. Fitting a towbar, and dedicated fancy 13 pin electrics to a 3 series today, an F30 twin turbo diesel thing. After fitting the bar and drilling and chopping all the daft bits of plastic behind the bumper, I start to fit the electrics. Tap into the brake light wire, and ignition live, mount the little ECU, remove all the trim needed to run wire along the drivers side, over the collumn,along the back of the glovebox and fit CAN-BUS wires into the body control module on the passenngers A post. Wire in the fridge and permanent 12v in, fit all the fuses ,fit all the bumper and gubbins so I can refit the tail lights to test the electrics on the trailer board I had plugged in. Tail lights, check. Stop lights,check.Fog light,and fog light cut off, check. Indicators,check. Reverse lights..... Being an auto it wont go into reverse with the engine not running. Sitting in the car with engine running,I put it in to reverse but no lights on the board. Needed to check the reverse lights on the car but no one else around. Couldn't see any more light in the workshop with the car in reverse, so no help there. Opened the bootlid, where the lights are mounted, started the car back up and went to open the door to try and stand up with my foot on the brake to try and see the lights... can won't go into reverse with the door open... it goes back to park.. Had a thought to start the car, jam the brake pedal down, firmly apply the handbrake and climb out of the window and check that way, but had a mental picture of me being crushed against the wall... Eventually found a mirror, which I duck taped on to the wall... lights were working- it was a dodgy bulb my board.... It used to be so easy.. This, on the other hand, was a pleasure to do.easy hour and a half, including bumper off, electrics,everything. Never thought I'd say that about a Land Rover product.. Supernaut, RayMK, oldcars and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 After a week of living with two vastly different car DAB radio adaptors fitted to two vastly different cars, I'm of the opinion that such devices are well worth it if you live in an area with decent DAB reception (I do) and want to eschew the BLOODY AWFUL stations on FM.Or do what I do Shep and drive in silence. Am I the only person on here who does that? Being in a car on my own is bliss, especially on a long journey. Can't remember the last time I put the radio on, it's all just noise to me. danthecapriman, darkfour, RayMK and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 I've been doing that more and more lately. So much more relaxing, if a bit odd at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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