Tadhg Tiogar Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 13 minutes ago, andy18s said: The only I know who stay in Blackpool do so they fancy a change from Prestatyn .....which itself is a slight improvement* on Rhyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 2 hours ago, MondeoBlues said: The Mondeo's gone to the great scrap yard in the sky. Damn, sad times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 A road captain in his distinctive little brown Fiat Panda thingy on a 55 plate ...... as I am passing some parked cars , zooms around a junction and up to the front of my car , waving and pointing at me to "get on my side" as I said "distinctive little brown Fiat Panda thingy on a 55 plate" that I recognised ... who has just shit on his own door step ....... I mean who takes exception to this ... must be a Formby driver ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Just bought this old shitter in Stockton... Sent from my G3121 using Tapatalk loserone, Skizzer, wuvvum and 23 others 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRi05 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 That looks awesome, love the wheels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skattrd Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 That looks a bit posher than your usual Mr_Dodgy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Ooof fantastic buyage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Well done! Looks like it runs. Unlike ours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 A friend has just saved this old girl after 30 years laid up since 1989, hoping it hasn’t seized. Bidding went into 4 figures to see off the hotrod crew though.. it’s in very good hands RobT, beko1987, cort16 and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Yugo news: Collection day is Sunday! Can’t wait!! egg, Craig the Princess, clayts450 and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chancer Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 hour ago, DodgyBastard said: Just bought this old shitter in Stockton... Sent from my G3121 using Tapatalk Ooft! I was just thinking last night how id love to rock a senator for a bit. Calling dibs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 4 hours ago, 17-Coffees said: What is this? This is by far the most fancy motorway services I’ve been to! (Farmhouse, near Gloucester), Not the overpriced WHS and dodgy food court I’m used to... It's the same company as Tebay services 3VOM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I used to leave the bird seed on a shelf in the garage but something was getting at it. I don't know what, I've never seen anything or any droppings, though the garage is hardly airtight. So I moved the birdseed to the top of the garage wall, well over six feet up and guess what? And for context. It's on top of that brick post. The car is covered in discarded seed shells. I still don't know what it is but I'm starting to admire its perseverance and am thinking I should just leave some seeds out for it. It doesn't like fat balls though. egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 5 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: .....which itself is a slight improvement* on Rhyl. Prestatyn used to have the bigger drug problem, these days the whole of north wales is blighted. My parents do “feeding the roofless” in Wrexham, which Is a church organised weekly food bank for the homeless ( they have to be listed on the local shelters and referred). 38 this last weekend, and several were zombies on spice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 hour ago, Yoss said: I used to leave the bird seed on a shelf in the garage but something was getting at it. I don't know what, I've never seen anything or any droppings, though the garage is hardly airtight. So I moved the birdseed to the top of the garage wall, well over six feet up and guess what? And for context. It's on top of that brick post. The car is covered in discarded seed shells. I still don't know what it is but I'm starting to admire its perseverance and am thinking I should just leave some seeds out for it. It doesn't like fat balls though. Any droppings? I’m thinking mice. Rats would be a bigger mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 If you want to stop it, you need to put the seeds in an old biscuit tin or similar. Most rodents won't bother gnawing through a tin but will go through wooden or plastic containers. The plastic bag and being up high is no obstacle at all, your lovely rack of tools is a perfect rodent ladder. I'd vote mice too, they don't always leave droppings where they collect and eat the food. For the sake of your car's wiring and interior, I'd be moving the seeds elsewhere completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 You have a good point. I should check behind the back seat of the car, I had them there in old car of mine when I had a council lock up. Maybe they're coming for a ride with me every time I go out. I'll have to investigate further. Stanky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I keep the bird seed indoors, it has proved to be the only solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 3 hours ago, EssDeeWon said: A friend has just saved this old girl after 30 years laid up since 1989, hoping it hasn’t seized. Bidding went into 4 figures to see off the hotrod crew though.. it’s in very good hands That is an absolute beauty. It's identical to my parent's neighbours example JSX88T which he had in the 1980s, which I always admired as a kid. strangeangel, EssDeeWon and HarmonicCheeseburger 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Atlantis blue, same as my dads 2600 that he had in the 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 8 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: .....which itself is a slight improvement* on Rhyl. As the closest shiter to these locations (only 7 miles from Prestatyn) and someone who spends their working day in Prestatyn every day I concur. Rhyl is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidel_Kakao Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Watching the above video and @dollywobbler makes an appearance at 6:56 demonstrating 2CV body roll. Spurious, LightBulbFun, Floatylight and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 One of my managers got clocked at 80 in a 30 last night. Then when he saw blue lights behind him decided the thing to do was put his foot down on his brand new 1.4 Corsa. It took an impressive amount of distance for them to catch him so I can only assume they weren't really trying very hard. He's been driving for exactly two years and a day, I suspect possibly not for much longer. By the time I'd been driving that long I'd settled comfortably into Volvo ownership, none of this evading police nonsense. I wanted to put this in the grin thread, but it felt a bit cruel even though 80 in a 30 is the sort of thing that absolutely deserves removal of driving rights. dome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 One of my managers got clocked at 80 in a 30 last night. Then when he saw blue lights behind him decided the thing to do was put his foot down on his brand new 1.4 Corsa. It took an impressive amount of distance for them to catch him so I can only assume they weren't really trying very hard. He's been driving for exactly two years and a day, I suspect possibly not for much longer. By the time I'd been driving that long I'd settled comfortably into Volvo ownership, none of this evading police nonsense. I wanted to put this in the grin thread, but it felt a bit cruel even though 80 in a 30 is the sort of thing that absolutely deserves removal of driving rights.Eh yea that's pushing it a bit. I wouldn't be doing that even as a Paramedic on blue lights, that's well out of my comfort zone. And daft. I wonder if that would cross the threshold for dangerous driving; driving far below the standards of a reasonably competent driver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 44 minutes ago, Spurious said: Eh yea that's pushing it a bit. I wouldn't be doing that even as a Paramedic on blue lights, that's well out of my comfort zone. And daft. I wonder if that would cross the threshold for dangerous driving; driving far below the standards of a reasonably competent driver... Going by the second hand information I got last night, it's very likely he'll be getting done for dangerous driving. If he comes out of the other side of this with a licence I'll be very surprised. When he first passed his test he had a habit of sitting about a foot off the back of me when we were leaving town after a shift because he thought it was funny. I thought he'd got better since then, but obviously not. He's meant to be working tonight, I wonder how he's going to get in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Behold the magnificence of the fleet this morning. the xm started with the “ stop! Low coolant” false alarm first thing, so I took the connector off and gave it a scrape and it’s been fine since. The rest of the day 8.30 am until now, has been in front of a computer inputting six months income and expenditure into quickbooks. Press a button to calculate the quarterly vat repayment and amazingly it almost tallies with my excel spreadsheet! Six-cylinder, Ohdearme, Split_Pin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 1 hour ago, reb said: Going by the second hand information I got last night, it's very likely he'll be getting done for dangerous driving. If he comes out of the other side of this with a licence I'll be very surprised. When he first passed his test he had a habit of sitting about a foot off the back of me when we were leaving town after a shift because he thought it was funny. I thought he'd got better since then, but obviously not. He's meant to be working tonight, I wonder how he's going to get in... I wouldn't be surprised if he came out the other side with his freedom too. Or at least a suspended sentence. HarmonicCheeseburger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 I have arranged to have the valve stem oil seals replaced on the 545. Even though it is a very good price I am lubing up now. stonedagain, puddlethumper, dome and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 As if my day couldn't get it any better.. This thing shat a rear wheelbearing. Luckily about 1.2 miles from home. I walked back and got the GSA + tools. You can tell it's fucked as they usually come off by hand. This is suboptimal All the bearings have escaped and the casing is in two bits. I had a spare disc so swapped that on. Couldn't get the pad carrier to line up properly, and couldn't be arsed fiddling with it whilst lying on the main road, so it got limped home at 20mph. It's sitting outside awaiting the work. Now I need to order parts. It managed 2.5k after a full suspension and brake rebuild before fucking up. A whole 3.5 months. Just lucky it never let go on way to/back from Swansea. wuvvum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 MOT,major service,new tyres and front brakes this morning. Clean pass no advisories,pleased with this. Last year it went to the Nissan main dealer as i was planning in keeping the main dealer service history ,but due to the piss poor service I received. I put it into my mates place.A major service,new pads and the MOT came in at £200 less than last years mainstealers. Here is a photo of the air filter that the main dealer,"changed last year" yeah !! that i was charged for.. egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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