HMC Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Cord Fourteener, PhilA, mercedade and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: I seem to recall this unsolicited SIM thing is some sort of scam, but I can't remember if it involves infecting your mobile phone.... This is an SD card, not a sim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Scorchio. A contractor's van went up in flames this morning and this is what's left. Props to the local (volunteer) fire service for putting it out this quickly. *I forgot to add the doors were open and there was a puddle of melted tools and boxes. Father and I wonder if one of those tools' batteries went up. louiepj and Cord Fourteener 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 31 minutes ago, Tim_E said: This is an SD card, not a sim. Even more reason not to find out what's in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said: I seem to recall this unsolicited SIM thing is some sort of scam, but I can't remember if it involves infecting your mobile phone.... 2 hours ago, richardmorris said: It may contain images no one would want to see. I’d bin it. 2 hours ago, Spurious said: Out of idle curiousity Out of idle curiousity I'd probably plug it into my old Linux box to see what's on it. Disconnect it from the web. Cant see it doing any harm* if you load it through the terminal with minimal services loaded. *maybe not. Its our neighbour's Hyundai firmware card for their I30 sent to the wrong house. It's worth a few hundred quid apparently! Now safely next door. GrumpiusMaximus, Crackers, richardmorris and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loserone Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 6 hours ago, Yoss said: 208 206. I had similar on my 406. Nowhere here can balance them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddlethumper Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 I must be lucky as I don't have centre holes and there is no vibration so no balancing needed. That's after several changes of tyres. I was somewhat surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo135 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Just brought this up to Edinburgh from Chester-le-street, it’s lovely and even better than described! Thanks @gm loserone, gm, Split_Pin and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 bloody hell, you must have taken the long way home ! pleased to hear you are happy with the mazda, let’s hope the mrs is impressed when she sees her* new toy great to catch up with you again, have fun, gm 320touring, dome, Burnside and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Tim_E said: Its our neighbour's Hyundai firmware card for their I30 sent to the wrong house. It's worth a few hundred quid apparently! Now safely next door. Just as well you didn't just format and use it! I had a big sample of dog food delivered recently, to an unknown person, at one of my business addresses. The recipients phone number was on the label, no response to calls or voicemail. Rang the company, got through on 4th or 5th time, they said they'd investigate, never heard anything. Gave it to a staff member. (Yes, she has a dog!) Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 58 minutes ago, High Jetter said: Just as well you didn't just format and use it! I had a big sample of dog food delivered recently, to an unknown person, at one of my business addresses. The recipients phone number was on the label, no response to calls or voicemail. Rang the company, got through on 4th or 5th time, they said they'd investigate, never heard anything. Gave it to a staff member. (Yes, she has a dog!) A dog's dinner. That happened once when I was a student, looking after a relative's house. One day a box containing four bottles of very fine champagne turned up. The address was correct, but the recipient's name was completely unknown to me.... Cord Fourteener 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 I did 275 miles in the Swift today - more than it's done in total over the last 3 years. It drove absolutely fine, was comfortable enough (although the ride is harsh on bad surfaces) and appears to have done about 49mpg. It sits quite happily at dual carriageway speeds and keeps up with traffic pretty well for what it is, although it's a bit* slower than @davidfowler2000's (rather wonderful) Volvo V70. Cord Fourteener, BorniteIdentity, davidfowler2000 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 10 hours ago, Tim_E said: Apart from the fact that I'd drive any car if I was given it, a 68 plate A class Mercedes is my idea of ultimate polished turd on wheels. Apologies if any of you have one. I’ll be honest... it’s a very nice car! The interior especially is very well thought out. I was impressed. There’s a photo of me and my two brothers about 9 years ago in front of my old Porsche 924. My mum wanted to recreate said photo 9 years on, but in front of the Mercedes... I remarked that surely it would be more amusing to do it in front of the Pontiac (same colour, marks an amusing journey from sports car to people carrier) but she was insistent on the modern car! Subtle digs... all about the subtle digs! Wish I’d come to the FoD instead.... Cord Fourteener, BorniteIdentity and chaseracer 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 8 hours ago, aldo135 said: Just brought this up to Edinburgh from Chester-le-street, it’s lovely and even better than described! Thanks @gm I have just done that run and back as well. aldo135 and Cord Fourteener 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 1 hour ago, brownnova said: Wish I’d come to the FoD instead.... I mean you'd still have been laughed at, but in a much nicer way... Cord Fourteener, chaseracer, wuvvum and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo135 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 10 hours ago, gm said: bloody hell, you must have taken the long way home ! pleased to hear you are happy with the mazda, let’s hope the mrs is impressed when she sees her* new toy great to catch up with you again, have fun, gm Aye, made an arse of the petrol situation and had to divert, then got caught in fog. Car went really well though and the initial rage has calmed at home... gm, Tickman and Cord Fourteener 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Chips, anyone? Coprolalia and Cord Fourteener 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Went to a classic car meet earlier. Turned out to be absolutely packed. Unfortunately starting to turn away some nice cars. Shame as it was supposed to be a pre 90s meet but there was a lot of modern cars (think brand new X5,etc) cluttering the car park.https://www.facebook.com/ChewValleyClassicCarMeet Here are some odds and sods photos I took: that I have lazily dumped into this post in no particular order: Shite Ron, Sigmund Fraud, aldo135 and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Adusted my brakes again. There's always one that likes to pull on at speed and get hot. Couple clicks fixed that. Phil Fumbler, Burnside, LightBulbFun and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 4 hours ago, aldo135 said: Aye, made an arse of the petrol situation and had to divert, then got caught in fog. Car went really well though and the initial rage has calmed at home... Did you head back up the A1? The North bound traffic was something else,It must have been 15 miles of tailbacks from Newcastle up,I'm glad I wasn't stuck in it . As we where driving back south. aldo135 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 FFS. Cord Fourteener, Spurious and juular 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 East European Clubs 'knees up' @TESCO Hexham atm. Skoda, Wartburg, Lada, 'oily' 2stk! NSU & Urals bike + sidecar *I'm in having brunch...... #All away now# sdkrc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 I think it's fair to say that this head gasket has seen better days. Eyersey1234, Yoss, Mr Livered and 3 others 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 21 hours ago, Yoss said: I'm not going blind am I? There is no centre cap on this wheel is there? It was a Peugeot (obviously) 208, I think. How do you balance it if there's no hole in the middle? Does anything else have wheels like this? Yes. My Peugeot 407: Some of the other alloys I've seen for the 407 do have a centre cap but some particular alloys don't. Yoss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Even if they have a centre hole, you don't necessarily balance on them. A few Renaults are like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 2 hours ago, wuvvum said: Chips, anyone? Funny, I was just changing the oil on my own Felicia today and the filler cap looks like this. But mine is the VW engine and it always looks like this, often worse and there is condensation steaming out of the exhaust for ages. I often watch Mrs Yoss reverse into the drive and think that really shouldn't be doing that. In winter it's obviously worse. Trouble is most journeys are no more than five miles so it never clears. I've checked it after long journeys and it's always clean. I don't know why it produces so much condensation, is it just mine or is it a general VAG thing? I don't get it with the Favorit or Triumph. I spent about two years worrying that the head gasket was going but I've had it 9 years now and it never gets any better or worse so I've stopped worrying. I still take it for a long run before the MOT though just to stop the steam coming out the exhaust. wuvvum and Cord Fourteener 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigmund Fraud Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Yoss said: I don't know why it produces so much condensation, is it just mine or is it a general VAG thing? It's typical of that generation of small VW OHC engines, and not helped by the poor design of the crankcase breather system. You're absolutely right not to worry about it. Yoss, Coprolalia and Cord Fourteener 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 23 hours ago, Yoss said: I'm not going blind am I? There is no centre cap on this wheel is there? How do you balance it if there's no hole in the middle? Does anything else have wheels like this? Balancing machines have adapters to fit these sort of wheels, Citroen, Renault 5-stud old Beetles etc. As long as the adapter locates the wheel in the same way the car does there is no problem as long as the tyre-fitter can be bothered to find the correct adapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiepj Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Scorchio. A contractor's van went up in flames this morning and this is what's left. Props to the local (volunteer) fire service for putting it out this quickly. *I forgot to add the doors were open and there was a puddle of melted tools and boxes. Father and I wonder if one of those tools' batteries went up.Drove past this yesterday afternoon in Tunbridge Wells while out delivering and did wonder what happened. Also drove past a few prime specimens of chod in Groombridge as well as a few steam/traction engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, louiepj said: Drove past this yesterday afternoon in Tunbridge Wells while out delivering and did wonder what happened. Also drove past a few prime specimens of chod in Groombridge as well as a few steam/traction engines. Ah, did you see the Sierra estate in the village? It's just down the road from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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