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3 minutes ago, Sheefag said:

It's been picked up and flung out of a helicopter above the Amazon otherwise known as, 'Kumbaya'ed'.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Or

The Who, if you will. 

 

 

Ffs.

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3 hours ago, treehugger said:

Because he chose to go. He could just stick to car threads. 

Exactly.

It's shame those who are the reverse of that have chosen to stay though.  When trouble boots off on here it's pretty much a nailed on cert that a tiny handful of people will have more input into that than they ever seemed to bother with about actual Autoshite content.

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Oh dear.

Anyway.

I'm in the process of acquiring another car, of the XUD powered variety. This means it'd be really rather helpful to get the bright red lunchbox out of the way.

Any interest in a C2 GT with no MOT and an ABS fault? It's a fun little car but I have too much else going on to sort it well enough for it to be palatable to the average car buyer. Gr9 4 track project etc.

I'll do a proper force ale thread once I've cleared it out and got some photos.

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13 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Anyway, news.

North Norfolk is still seriously snowy - it's amazing how just a few miles up the road has had orders of magnitude more snow than where I am, and because it's powdery stuff and it's been quite breezy, in places it has drifted onto the road several feet deep.

In other news, the Iveco is seriously fucking shit in the snow.

The new flasher relay I ordered turned up, but although the terminals are in the right places they're all the wrong way round so it doesn't work.  It seems Iveco decided to use a different pin layout to literally everyone else, and the correct relays are almost impossible to find.  The original relay is working again now after I took it apart and wiggled bits around, so I'm hoping it'll last a bit longer.

We've Norfolking snow whatsover here in Cornwall. Just rain and wind.

I finally managed to get the Lambretta UK registered after three frustrating attempts with the DooVLA. I've since had to source fixings for the license plate holder and the plate itself. When imported last year, it still had it's Italian plate fitted, which had to be sent back to the equivalent of the Italian DVLA. Shame really as it had worn the plate for six decades. 

Anyway, thanks @Minimad5 and another helpful fella, I was gifted the stainless fixings to replace the original seized ones which I had to hack off. 60 years young and I'm the first UK owner! I ended up using Tippers to manufacture the plate. They are only a mile down the road and despite recent negative stories about their quality and attitude towards customers I thought I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. They're also the only company I could find who produce plates using the exact typeset and sizing as would have originally been used on vehicles in the 60s. I can't fault their work - they predrilled the holes for me using my template prior to painting, and left the corners as virtually square edges rather than rounded which seems to be more the standard with them. There was no extra charge either. 

Anyway, pleased with the result. Next job, clean the rust out of the tank. I've drained the treacle from it in the meantime. I guess I really ought to start a thread on it for a good job...

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Sorry to see this here.... I've not been around long enough to recall the previous issue.

Few forums I've been on seem to be able to nail moderation well. Those that do a bit more to enforce the rules always end up rather bland, which is fine if they are just going to be more of a technical resource for owners, but does little to encourage growth or new interesting content. On the other hand I've left a couple of otherwise decent places that had no moderation and just ended up being overly aggressive shouting grounds for some apparently truly horrible individuals keen to be 'top dog'.

I've never been a mod and wouldn't want to be either!

Maybe the rules could just be simplified a bit:

 

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1 hour ago, Cavcraft said:

That Lambretta is just perfect.

Thanks. It's a bit of a scruffbag in original paint. I love it though. After years of owning restored series 3 on the whole, I've completely changed my outlook and have sacked off shiny slimline for chubby fatbird showing six decades of life on her paint. Having said that, the old girl was last on the road in 1971, so the slumber period was pretty lengthy. 

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34 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Thanks. It's a bit of a scruffbag in original paint. I love it though. After years of owning restored series 3 on the whole, I've completely changed my outlook and have sacked off shiny slimline for chubby fatbird showing six decades of life on her paint. Having said that, the old girl was last on the rode in 1971, so the slumber period was pretty lengthy. 

The thing with scooters is that there must be more either cosmetically perfect or fake patinad ones than just rough ones. 

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I took eva up the m40 yesterday and it's white! She wondered what it was. We're a few hedgerows that we're thick with splashed ice from puddles was quite pretty, I had no one behind me so we could crawl last and look

My car actually looks very clean compared to others as I've not really been out this winter. It's growing green stuff though... 

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I needed a 501a bulb for the Daewoo indicator today, so I popped into a local high street motorspares place rather than defaulting to ecp/eBay. Nice chap in there, had the bulbs I needed on the shelf, I also bought a nice 1/4" ratchet and some silicone tube for bleeding brakes.

I will go back and use them again in future, didn't realise it was there. I notice he's also an agent for caarparts.co.uk so will try and order service stuff through him too

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5 minutes ago, Spurious said:

It's not weather for driving something older or rust prone.

Oops! Definitely guilty of that.

5 minutes ago, Spurious said:

That said I'm out in the Jimny as it's the only thing I can depend on. 

Indeed, It'll rain tomorrow and some of next week apparently. It'll be good to wash that stuff down the drain and off my car.

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6 hours ago, Floatylight said:

 

I've met and spent time with at least three of the moderators and to me at least they appear to be some of the most considered, courteous,  friendly people I've ever met.  To be honest I've no idea why they would put themselves in the firing line for such vitriol from some around here, I for one certainly would never consider putting myself in the firing line.

As you were...

Forum moderation is as easy or hard as you want to make it. 

As most of you know I'm staff on www.thedarkwob.co.uk, with a strict constitution of only having narrow powers to "work the door" insofar as to approve new members and delete spam. When we elect any new mods, yes we're a functioning democracy, all new staff agree to stick by the constitution and never change anything without the general consent of the members. Nothing's perfect and even we've had personality clashes and the odd flounce but by and large it works well enough. AS and TDW are essentially two cheeks of the same arse with a common membership so I'm not posting this to gain members, after all whoever wants to post on there from here already does and most of the other shiters have a sock account on there just to confirm to themselves that we are the only old car forum approved by The Daily Stormer. 

On the other hand I also used to moderate a Facebook page for bikers wanting to meet up with pillion passengers for rides out. We had over a thousand members and the problems I had to deal with were a nightmare! As you can imagine most of the riders were male and most of the pillys were female. I had to deal with countless reports of sexual harassment and have been forwarded more unsolicited cock pics from ladies unimpressed my a riders "overenthusiastic" chat up routine!

Eleven years ago when I first joined Autoshite there was a nucleus of Cavette (as he was called then), Bollox, Hirst and Pogweasel. All of them were entertaining posters who kept the forum moving along with quality car posts injected with real laugh out loud humour. It's a real shame that only one of them remains here now. I do understand that a forum is essentially an organic and evolving medium that changes to reflect the views of its current membership but maybe our new members should use the search function and read what was posted here between 2010 and 2015 to see what the Autoshite DNA is really like. Even in our unmoderated days things were far from perfect, EccentricRichard, a lad clearly on the autistic spectrum got hounded out. On the other hand mikey the porn star with his Audi R8 with its PU51DRY vanity plate deserved to get the flaming he received. 

Do I agree with what Mr Bollox said in the post that got him put on the naughty step? No! I totally disagreed with what he said but I respect his right to be able to say it without being censored!  We had a long running Scottish Independence thread on the lead up to the 2014 vote north of the border where tempers got frayed and some pretty strong opinions were voiced but at the end of the day nobody fell out over it!

Anyway, enough of my rambling, I'm off to update my taxi thread because as a customer pointed out to me earlier, it is my anniversary back on the taxis. 

 

Hugs and kisses.

Warren T Claim xxx 

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Wow... I’ve only just caught up with all this, and I don’t think there’s much more I can add really.

I took a break from the forum to focus on other stuff before modgate kicked off, so I don’t really have any memory of it, but I do remember that when I came back early last year I did notice that a lot of the frequent posters I could remember were gone. Seeing bollox go is a real shame; his writing style and threads were some of my  favourites and knowing there won’t be any more horse box updates is gutting. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a particularly big contributor to this forum and I still see myself as a bit of newbie, so I don’t have any way of keeping in touch with bollox, nor any of the other members that left while I was gone, whose posts I used to enjoy reading.

I’ve always tried to steer clear of making any political posts. At the end of the day I’m here to look at and talk about old cars, but that doesn’t mean I’m against others having those discussions, even if they differ from my own views or occasionally leak into threads about cars. We’re all adults here, so hopefully we’re all capable of talking about these things and accepting that we can’t always agree on everything. The diversity and range of opinions and interests is what makes this place special, and it seems a shame to lose that.

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In rather a turn around from last week's posts, the Clio is the only one of the fleet that I can currently use! (It had to have a new battery last week)

Stepway - Brake light switch broken, should be sorted on Monday

Moped -  Suffered an FTP last week, haven't got around to that yet, as I've been "promoted" to van driver at work, so I've been bringing the van home.

2cv  - working, (albeit leaking oil quite badly) but stuck behind scaffholding (still) at my parents house.

 

Good job that we can't go anywhere anyway!

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