Skizzer Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 IMG_4361.MP4 IMG_4361.MP4 I’m shear those sheep puns are woolly unacceptable. Happy news here, the ex- @Vantman Accord now has a fresh MOT after the replacement of a perished CV boot. Paul the Garage says nothing to worry about with this one, which is nice. Here it is being hailed on the other day. Edit: I don’t know what those weird black not-video things are doing at the top of this post. I can’t delete them. We’ll have to live with them. Just North Korean spybot things, probably. stripped fred, dome, somewhatfoolish and 13 others 12 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 58 minutes ago, richardmorris said: More Sunday lunches about today. Here it's all birds. Cardinal in the tree today No idea what this was but it looked menacing as it circled overhead yesterday. Phil Yoss, Skizzer and chadders 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Today I dug the Triumph out for the first time in months. I should be using it more but I'm too lazy to shuffle everything around. Further hampered by the building of my model railway. Not something that ought to get in the way you'd have thought, but the half dozen of you that peruse the miniature railwayshite thread will know I've been having major expansion in my loft. So I set up a temporary workbench with a chopsaw on in front of the Triumph that I could pull in and out but I was too lazy to break it down to get to the Triumph. And then winter came and being a postman means December is a write off because I'm at work for the entire daylight hours. Anyway this is all feeble excuses. I've been giving it a once over the last few days as it's been stood so long. Pumped up the tyres, checked all the levels (clutch fluid was a bit low) and lights. Brake lights weren't working but a wiggle of the switch got those on. One sidelight is very dim but that will be a poor earth, I can sort that out once it is out. So the reshuffle happened this afternoon. Favorit is now in the garage having a rest for a week or so. The reshuffle is quite a convoluted affair, there's also a Felicia out of shot. The drive holds two cars and the garage one but they are line astern so you have to get them all out and put them back in the required order so once it is out it's staying out for a while. Unless it breaks. We've only had the dog since November so he's not been in it before. Check mirrors. Check blind spot. And we're good to go. chodweaver, DeeJay, Rusty_Rocket and 24 others 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 My bargain Rover 620 breezed its first MoT in my ownership. Advisories for perished upper ball joint boots (I’ve looked and they are available separately), and one front tyre worn on the edge. The uneven tyre wear is caused by the tracking being out, the steering wheel is straight but it always wanders to the left if you let go of the steering wheel. I’ll have to get the tracking done. Shame about the tyre as they’re newish matching Goodyears. RobT, GrumpiusMaximus, Tickman and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 15 minutes ago, Angrydicky said: My bargain Rover 620 breezed its first MoT in my ownership. Advisories for perished upper ball joint boots (I’ve looked and they are available separately) TADTS. Been an advisory on mine for years. Superglue worked this year again so the fronts haven't been mentioned in my ownership. Didn't get away with the rears in 2019, mind, so just went the whole hog and replaced the upper arms completely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 minute ago, clayts450 said: TADTS. Been an advisory on mine for years. Superglue worked this year again so the fronts haven't been mentioned in my ownership. Didn't get away with the rears in 2019, mind, so just went the whole hog and replaced the upper arms completely When did they actually become a fail then? I thought the only boots they could fail on were CV and steering rack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 minute ago, Angrydicky said: When did they actually become a fail then? I thought the only boots they could fail on were CV and steering rack! Think we need one of our in-house MoT testers to comment @meggersdog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeB Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Skizzer said: I’m shear those sheep puns are woolly unacceptable. Happy news here, the ex- @Vantman Accord now has a fresh MOT after the replacement of a perished CV boot. Paul the Garage says nothing to worry about with this one, which is nice. Here it is being hailed on the other day. Edit: I don’t know what those weird black not-video things are doing at the top of this post. I can’t delete them. We’ll have to live with them. Just North Korean spybot things, probably. No idea what they were, but I seem to have managed to delete them. Skizzer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 got volunteered by a fellow senior to change a headlamp bulb on a aca's vauxhall meriva, drivers side, you need skinny, long hands... 'oh stuart will take a look for you' thanks luv... somewhatfoolish, rusty998, Amishtat and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggersdog Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Angrydicky said: When did they actually become a fail then? I thought the only boots they could fail on were CV and steering rack! when the inspection manual was revamped in 2018. Any balljoint (steering or suspension) dust cover no longer preventing an ingress of dirt etc is a major fail , severely deteriorated is a minor. Angrydicky and clayts450 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeB Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 16 minutes ago, meggersdog said: when the inspection manual was revamped in 2018. Any balljoint (steering or suspension) dust cover preventing an ingress of dirt etc is a major fail , severely deteriorated is a minor. Bugger. I'll cut some holes in mine before the MOT next week. meggersdog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wuvvum Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in. Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace... DVee8, Vantman, Heidel_Kakao and 3 others 1 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 9 minutes ago, wuvvum said: I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in. Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace... Please don't, cars shouldn't even be gendered. I blame fucking Walt Disney. brandersnatch, richardmorris, The Moog and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 11 minutes ago, barefoot said: I blame fucking Walt Disney. Why did you fuck Walt Disney? Noel Tidybeard, loserone, dome and 9 others 1 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 'cos he anthropomorphised Bambi. loserone, richardmorris and wuvvum 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 hour ago, wuvvum said: I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in. Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace... Meet "Ron" Stevebrookman, Split_Pin, Leyland Worldmaster and 7 others 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 My cars are just named 'the shit one' and 'the other shit one' Leyland Worldmaster, rob88h, Sigmund Fraud and 4 others 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 I snapped this for Lightbulb Fun on the way back from a particularly stimulating Frisbee Session... LightBulbFun, gm, somewhatfoolish and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Ah ! Just wondering how to get hold of an AS Bumper Sticker for Alison? 👍 👍 👍 😎 😎 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Supernaut said: My cars are just named 'the shit one' and 'the other shit one' I used to attend a Writers Group. A bit of educational fun; y'know... Anyway, I'd just bought Alison and I was telling my friends how lovely and engaging Alison is to drive. When I realised that another WG Member was also called Alison. It took some time to explain that Alison isn't named after Alison and that it was all to do with Alliteration; Alison the Almighty Aluminium Audi A2... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Edited February 24, 2021 by Leyland Worldmaster Tidied up a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 That was fate’s way of telling you that cars don’t have genders and shouldn’t have names. Wuv - don’t you dare. drum, The Moog, Leyland Worldmaster and 6 others 4 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 19 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said: I used to attend a Writers Group. A bit of educational fun; y'know... Anyway, I'd just bought Alison and I was telling my friends how lovely and engaging Alison is to drive. When I realised that another WG Member was also called Alison. It took some time to explain that Alison isn't named after Alison and that it was all to do with Alliteration; Alison the Almighty Aluminium Audi A2... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Sounds more like an AA group to me Leyland Worldmaster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N19 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Bluebird electrickery fun continues. Having realised that there are two pumps and they had been swapped over, I removed the faulty one for repair, and promptly covered myself in washer fluid. Mmm antifreeze. It's borked, so another has been ordered up. The brake light was next on the list, and proved to have a bulb sheared off inside the socket. The only solution to which was to cut the cables, remove the whole thing to the bench to extract the remnants and then crimp repair. For info, crimp repairs inside a bluebird boot with v little cable slack aren't fun. It needs a bit more tidying up before I am happy with it. Hopefully by Saturday the new window regulator will have arrived and that plus the washer pump can be fitted. I anticipate the rest of the rear lamps are similarly rusted/seized in position, so will order up some new P21 holders and swap them out. That done it'll only be the reverse light switch to fit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggersdog Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Only one of my cars has a name, sort of. When I hand the keys over to my Peugeot loan car I always say "here, take the ZXR " These are the last three letters of the reg number and I've always called it that. Get some funny looks from those who know. stripped fred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 3 hours ago, wuvvum said: I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in. Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace... I just call mine Bastard, or it's full name Temperamental Bastard when it finds new and inventive ways to break. Leyland Worldmaster, Craig the Princess and GrumpiusMaximus 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 40 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said: I used to attend a Writers Group. A bit of educational fun; y'know... Anyway, I'd just bought Alison and I was telling my friends how lovely and engaging Alison is to drive. When I realised that another WG Member was also called Alison. It took some time to explain that Alison isn't named after Alison and that it was all to do with Alliteration; Alison the Almighty Aluminium Audi A2... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Past tense (and likely reason) noted... 😉 Leyland Worldmaster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty998 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 On 2/20/2021 at 9:02 AM, HMC said: Wow was that recently purchased paint stripper? I got some recently and it seemed a LOT less effective. Presumably it’s now more ecologically friendly. This is what we use at my mates Body shop Paint/pour into panel then cover with plastic sheet and leave until the paint goes crinckley and scrap off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1152 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 4 minutes ago, rusty998 said: This is what we use at my mates Body shop Paint/pour into panel then cover with plastic sheet and leave until the paint goes crinckley and scrap off Yep, that's the stuff that is now supposed to be supplied for professional use under strict conditions because dichloromethane, as it says on the tin. Still freely available to the public in Australia and Panicky Yank land though... and on eBay where not too many questions get asked where it is sold as Synstrip and the like. rusty998 and loserone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Leyland Worldmaster said: I snapped this for Lightbulb Fun on the way back from a particularly stimulating Frisbee Session... blimey thats a find, I could not figure out what it was, so I knew it must be something rare LOL so I asked a friend about it and going by his reaction I think it might be LOL!, we think its a Phosco P156 for those curious, a 1950's low pressure sodium street light for 140W SO/H SOI/H lamps originally although today would run 90W SOX lamps GrumpiusMaximus, somewhatfoolish, Leyland Worldmaster and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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