Amishtat Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 16 hours ago, SiC said: Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 Can't be Mégane as that's a girl's name... 😁 Landfill Eyersey1234 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 27 minutes ago, LabRat said: A mate of mine has described the mg6 as the perfect storm- chinesium parts, assembled by pissed off Brummies! Bumpers, badges - and maybe some lights. That was the extent of the Longbridge contribution to the 'assembly process'. Wilko220 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I've got an interview to become a driver mentor at work, waiting to hear when it is. BorniteIdentity, Craig the Princess, Stevebrookman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickman Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 hour ago, reb said: 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. Wise choice, liked for it bursting on test and not on you after. Eyersey1234 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 A brake pipe letting go on one of my vans gave the tester a brown-trouser moment a few years back. Am grateful it happened on the rollers, not the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Car Mechanics Magazine had a Rover 820i as a project car in the mid 90s and they took it for an MOT to have a power steering pipe burst on test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 21 hours ago, barefoot said: Please don't, cars shouldn't even be gendered. I blame fucking Walt Disney. My car is. It's called Steven, but after a female cat. Yes, I had a girl cat called Steven. Sometimes it's called rattly little shit. Steven. The cat, not car. Rusty_Rocket, Twiggy and crad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 17 hours ago, stuboy said: any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x? Carmen Monty Scone. As in Karmen Ghia, Monty, (Don the scon) Mondeo. SconX . For short Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 14 hours ago, MrDuke said: Madeleine? Too soon? Very. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Call me old fashioned, but I tend to just call cars by the name they've already been given. Every single member of my family refers to Mini as "Bessie" which is what my Nan called it. I do not. We did have a bit of fun talking about a name for the Sierra but then "Sierra" or "That old shitheap" still seems to be favoured. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 34 minutes ago, iainrcz said: My car is. It's called Steven, 1, Am I even still on the right forum? 2, You spell Stephen with a PH BorniteIdentity, The Moog, Tickman and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, barefoot said: 1, Am I even still on the right forum? 2, You spell Stephen with a PH 1 yes. 2 well yes, but not always. 3. The only car we ever named was a mini 850 called bonker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1, Am I even still on the right forum? 2, You spell Stephen with a PHShe wasn't posh enough for a PH.Sent from my VFD 710 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRat Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 This also happened earlier Wether it makes it to 60000 or ends up heading back to China to become a fridge very much depends on parts availability in the next year or so. GrumpiusMaximus and Craig the Princess 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 My Volvo used to be called Mavis because it was P422 MVS, then I put my wanker plate on it, so now it's Mavisnotmavis. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 hour ago, iainrcz said: My car is. It's called Steven, but after a female cat. Yes, I had a girl cat called Steven. Sometimes it's called rattly little shit. Steven. The cat, not car. Is that like a boy called Sue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said: Is that like a boy called Sue? And Lindsey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and all other inanimate objects in my life don't have names. wuvvum, DVee8, BorniteIdentity and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiepj Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Just replaced both rear dampers on a friends 14 plate W204 c180 as one was causing a noise sounding like a failing anti-roll bar link rod. Mercedes wanted £183 each for rear dampers but local motorfactors got us both Meyle HD ones with top mounts for £170. An hour a side and a cup of tea later and wafting silence is resumed.Oh and its left hand drive. Stevebrookman, Vince70, Jim Bell and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, Soundwave said: My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and all other inanimate objects in my life don't have names. You'll be one of them there normal folk then. I often think it would be nice to be normal, but I think I'd miss the voices in my head.. I'd definitely not miss not being able to concentrate for shit for more than a minute and half though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 47 minutes ago, Soundwave said: My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and most other inanimate objects in my life don't have names, but my armchair is called Gerald catsinthewelder, Soundwave and Eyersey1234 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 That's Lord Gerald Comfybuttocks IV to you! Eyersey1234, anonymous user and catsinthewelder 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince70 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I had an interesting drive in the E36 Ti for its MOT today as haven’t used it for about a year as I stopped to get some petrol and a guy at the pumps said your car is on fire (a little smoke) but luckily what he meant was my front NSF brake was binding on. I slammed my foot on the brakes and went on my way merrily to the MOT station about 25 miles away and it was fine afterwards and told the garage and all was good. The car even went straight through without an advisory which I wasn’t expecting after sitting for about a year and the brakes are working great so that will teach me not to dump my car up the side of the house for a year. dome, Lacquer Peel, BorniteIdentity and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 My 9000 is called Bjorn, when we bought a second 9000 it was scaled Bjornadette.... and when the 900 came along it was called Christian... as in Bjorn again Christian... wuvvum, dome, vulgalour and 11 others 2 9 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevebrookman Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Drivers electric windows been playing up for around 6 years on the Sierra so i thought I'd better swap the motor/mechanism over. Took a couple of hours and lots of swearing-but now works! Stanky, Lacquer Peel, BorniteIdentity and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 6 hours ago, LabRat said: This also happened earlier Wether it makes it to 60000 or ends up heading back to China to become a fridge very much depends on parts availability in the next year or so. I love the gear shift diagram in the middle of the milometers. LabRat and Stevebrookman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 All my cars end up with names, usually stupid ones, sometimes inherited. Even the Maestro has a name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I have to say that if I ever have another Princess it's going to be hard to resist calling it Craig. Stanky, LightBulbFun, Wilko220 and 8 others 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I've got a set of pads to fit tomorrow. The man that owns the car set off downhill to go to the shops and found he had no brakes. Some pumping got it to stop and he found that the pad lining had come away from the backplate and disintegrated. The car has been sat round most of the time since March, so maybe that accounts for it. I did a Corolla last month where just one pad had become crumbly and had to be replaced, but that car had only done 1300 miles in 18 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMotor Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 7 hours ago, barefoot said: 2, You spell Stephen with a PH The random shit you remember... GeorgeB, Dick Longbridge, OM646 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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