R1152 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 On 20/02/2021 at 09:02, 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. More "less injurious to your health" - dichloromethane is not good in enclosed spaces especially. rusty998 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 23 minutes ago, LabRat said: I just call mine Bastard, or it's full name Temperamental Bastard when it finds new and inventive ways to break. The Fiat, The Merc and The 2CV are my fleet names. It’s a car not a sentient being ( although the ex C5 was particularly bloody minded). I agree with @barefootabout anthropomorphism. barefoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Maybe it's just a thing with non-scientific types, Rich... 🤔😃 richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x? Craig the Princess 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 In my case it was numerous awkward and hard to get parts breaking in short order (£650 for a front suspension lower arm, key dock failing at £190+ coding at the local mg dealership, lower engine mount failing and now NLA as the supplier in China has ceased manufacturing) The wife's ssangyong is just known as the Tivoli. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 10 minutes ago, stuboy said: any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x? The Mondeo, FFS. Angrydicky, BorniteIdentity, chodweaver and 5 others 4 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig the Princess Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 13 minutes ago, stuboy said: any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x? Ford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 22 hours ago, stuboy said: 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... And you never thought to train as a gynocologist? Twiggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 20 minutes ago, stuboy said: any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x? Tnettenba. Ghosty, dozeydustman, GrumpiusMaximus and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 Can't be Mégane as that's a girl's name... 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1152 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Just now, SiC said: Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 Miriam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 11 hours ago, anonymous user said: And you never thought to train as a gynocologist? god no, never wanted to do potholing Twiggy, The Moog, djim and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Megane is also the Japanese for eyeglass apparently 🧐 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megane#:~:text=From Wikipedia%2C the free encyclopedia,in Nagasaki%2C Nagasaki%2C Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 6 minutes ago, SiC said: Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 Can't be Mégane as that's a girl's name... 😁 Millison Manfred Manlove...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red5 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 On 2/22/2021 at 10:36 PM, MarvinsMom said: finally got the Rover home after having the alternator, belts and thermostat replaced. it had been at George's in town for the last fortnight getting that done. it would have been sooner, had York Road Motorfactors sent the right alternator belt first time, and not sent the wrong one twice before managing to send the right part. all those jobs are a proper pain on a diesel 75, requiring both o/s engine mounts to be removed and the engine manipulated one way to get to the alternator, and then back to get at the thermostat, and back again to get at the belt tensioners. luckily only one of the 4 bolts holding the stat on broke, George did get the remains of it drilled and tapped, before getting it all back together. the car runs mint, and the flickering on the lights, something the car has done for all of the 5 and a half years that i have owned it, is no more! though seeing the temperature gauge sit at the 9 o'clock position is alarming, i dunno when it last did that, no seriously i don't remember when it last did that. it must have been sometime ago. obviously this isn't cheap, with the bill been more than frankly the cart is worth, what is a 20 year old Rover 75 worth, with 205,000 miles on the clock? bugger all realistically, though as George said, its in pretty good nick, all told And, its a good old bus, its never let us down, and even when its broke, it hasn't left me or Kerry stranded, its not too bad on the derv, its a nice place to sit and i like it both to drive and look at, it is the perfect work horse. plus i feel i got off lightly, in the yard next to it was a 16 plate Renault Scenic, the owners of which will be left with a £3-4k bill! that has suffered some sort of electrical melt down, they have apparently been driving it for sometime with a bust ignition switch, so busted that when George took the cowl off it all fell to bits (£500-odd to buy, exchange, except this one won't be,cos its in bits) and a new steering rack (Renault don't stock them, its getting a 2nd hand one) which is out of a scrapped 17plate one with a borked engine. you gotta love the DCi engine, still shit after all these years..... well this had been in the breakers for a couple of days, and the carcass was already well picked over!! next over Georges pit is another 75, this one too wanting a new thermostat. Wilco-Motorsave in town had tried to change it, they have snapped 3 of the bolts, and mutilated the 4th one before declaring to the owner that the car is now scrap, no wonder then that both Kerry and myself are both very particular about who looks at our cars!! Renault 5 thermostat in top hose. Job jobbed. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 37 minutes ago, SiC said: Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 Can't be Mégane as that's a girl's name... 😁 shitbox? you piece of crap? turdburg? now what (the fuck is wrong?) shit off you bastard? Amishtat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 hour ago, stuboy said: any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x? Convoy? GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmjbn1 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 On 2/23/2021 at 7:02 PM, brownnova said: Auf Wiedersehen! After nearly six years in my ownership (a new record) I sold the MX5 today... the rust was too much for me to tackle. Sorry to hear that. After losing too many 2cvs to rust over the years and my dad's MX5 being dragged away for parts last year, I can't bear to part with my own MX5. Instead it has been happily rotting away in the garage for a couple of years. Really need to tackle the usual spots to see if it can be revived. On balance, whilst I do love the MX5, I'd prefer to have kept a 2cv going. I miss mine terribly. Just doesn't feel right being without one. So I think you did the right thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 hour ago, SiC said: Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 Can't be Mégane as that's a girl's name... 😁 Useless bitch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OM646 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 5 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... My W203 is just "the Benz" The Aldi has a bunch of names, like "piece of shite", it really depends on which unobtainium part decides to break, or which stupid design decision turns a 10 minute job into a 1 hour one Shite Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Expensive parts collecting. dome, Split_Pin, BorniteIdentity and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 New brakes? You seem to have parked on the kerb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 2 hours ago, red5 said: Renault 5 thermostat in top hose. Job jobbed. This. Replacement thermostats are notorious for failing again very quickly. All of my 75 diesels had/have this mod and it works fine. I think it's about a tenner from DMGRS. Mally and red5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 2 hours ago, SiC said: Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 Madeleine? Too soon? Amishtat, Supernaut, dave j and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 27 minutes ago, Jim Bell said: Expensive parts collecting. New box of gears? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 11 minutes ago, SiC said: New box of gears? Not yet. But may be on the cards in the long run. SiC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Came out of work to the alarm going bells across the meadows and this... So that faint clunk I heard from the passenger door this morning will be the regulator snapping then... Looks like another wallet lightening session on AliExpress is in order. 😶 All moderns are, etc Jim Bell and Fumbler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 The Volvo was all set to only fail on bulbs, then it burst a hose during the brake test. Slightly scary stuff that. I'm chosing to take the course of action where I hand over a wad of cash in exchange for this being rectified, it's on the whole much less stressful I find. louiepj, loserone, Stevebrookman and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 hour ago, LabRat said: Came out of work to the alarm going bells across the meadows and this... So that faint clunk I heard from the passenger door this morning will be the regulator snapping then... Looks like another wallet lightening session on AliExpress is in order. 😶 All moderns are, etc Put a broom pole in the door? A common 00's Renault/VAG fix! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 minute ago, SiC said: Put a broom pole in the door? A common 00's Renault/VAG fix! It might yet come to that. If I can work out how the bloody door card comes off without destroying it. A mate of mine has described the mg6 as the perfect storm- chinesium parts, assembled by pissed off Brummies! crad, BorniteIdentity and GrumpiusMaximus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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