grogee Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 13 minutes ago, ProgRocker said: I watched a YouTube video to see if I could have replaced the bulb myself (obviously wouldn't have sold the newer issue) and it looks like a faff for someone with normal adult sized hands.. Probably a wheel off jobbie too. I didn't fancy wriggling around on a filthy residential car park. In this day and age of high inflation and soaring costs there ought to be a comeback of 'low tech' new cars that are reasonably DIY-able like the Anglias, Cortinas, Marinas and Hunters of the 1960s and 1970s. Cars with the safety kit you expect and I'd also add in air conditioning but wind up windows but no touchscreens. And the ability to change the bulbs and fuses . I have often fantasised about an 'easy maintenance' car with exposed screws all over the interior instead of stupid hidden clips, loads of room in the engine bay etc. It would be a small low tech petrol engine or electric, halogen lights, terrible aerodynamics with a boxy shape for good access to everything. The 'daytime running lights' would just be the normal sidelights with no stupid LED fairy lights. A/C the only mod con with a range of useful phone holders, nobody needs the tech now because it's all on your phone. Hole in dash with ISO connector for stereo of your choice, 4 big but simple speakers in doors. Steel wheels, high profile tyres, simple torsion beam at the rear, MacPherson struts up front. In my head it would look like the original Transit Connect, there would be a 5-seater or van options. Bumper panels, wheelarches and side rubbing strips all screw on and off without need for any special tools. Yoss, Wibble, Sunny Jim and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Anyone else get the sand rain earlier this week? I thought as its behaving I'd treat it too a wash at work.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 One of my (many) old TTs. Sadly looks like it's ready for the bridge now 😢 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/414218877330551/?ref=facebook_story_share When I had it in 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 3 hours ago, ProgRocker said: Took my i10 into Hyundai this morning for what I thought was a routine replacement of a Daytime Running Light. Turns out that the bulb has melted and so some parts are needed, so it won't be fixed until Tuesday at the earliest. I'll be getting the bus to work for the first few days of next week. Hopefully it will actually get me there on time. 2 hours ago, ProgRocker said: I watched a YouTube video to see if I could have replaced the bulb myself (obviously wouldn't have sold the newer issue) and it looks like a faff for someone with normal adult sized hands.. Probably a wheel off jobbie too. I didn't fancy wriggling around on a filthy residential car park. In this day and age of high inflation and soaring costs there ought to be a comeback of 'low tech' new cars that are reasonably DIY-able like the Anglias, Cortinas, Marinas and Hunters of the 1960s and 1970s. Cars with the safety kit you expect and I'd also add in air conditioning but wind up windows but no touchscreens. And the ability to change the bulbs and fuses . This must be among the few difficult jobs on these. I maintain and fix mine myself and find these very easy to work on. ProgRocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 This just fell down on the 75, it has disintegrated underneath. Arses. AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 16 hours ago, wuvvum said: Just watched the last ever episode of Neighbours. I've not really watched it for over 20 years now and I didn't know who half the people were but was fun seeing all the characters I remember from when I first watched it in the late '80s. And Kylie Minogue still looks amazing for her age. Mind you Harold hadn't really aged at all either despite the actor now being in his mid 80s. Kylie is two months older than me and she looks a damn site better than I do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Today I drove through a village where these giant pencils are used to warn passing traffic that there's a school nearby! Very creative, I think. richardmorris, Vantman, ProgRocker and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 18 minutes ago, D.E said: Today I drove through a village where these giant pencils are used to warn passing traffic that there's a school nearby! Very creative, I think. What is the significance of the lines before and after the pedestrian crossing? The 'horizontal' one with 9 'verticals' of different lengths, I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 1 minute ago, High Jetter said: What is the significance of the lines before and after the pedestrian crossing? The 'horizontal' one with 9 'verticals' of different lengths, I mean. They mark the speed bumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 The coolant reservoir was annoying me in the Cavaliers otherwise very clean engine bay. Very discoloured. Much better CGSB, Rusty_Rocket, dome and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 5 minutes ago, D.E said: They mark the speed bumps. Oh, OK. Road surface looks flat to me, must be due to the angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Popped round to collect some timber and gave missus brother and dad a hand loading up some more stuff from deceased uncles house, bloody compressor was hooge.. to stop more stuff going to there house the brother gave me these axle stands. Anyone identify them? Dyslexic Viking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 1 hour ago, D.E said: Today I drove through a village where these giant pencils are used to warn passing traffic that there's a school nearby! Very creative, I think. Round our way they have creepy fibreglass children. I think the idea is you think they are real, very briefly, but long enough to make you slow down. Some of them once had there faces painted silver and looked like mini cybermen in school uniform. Edit: Like so, D.E, wuvvum, J W Pepper and 2 others 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (@RoverFolkUs will be delighted to know that I...) Finally replaced MAP sensor in the Fabia. Took me long enough. 😂 RoverFolkUs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Had a call from a friend asking if i could weld up a 2004 clio door as its just fell off! Seems the top hinge ripped out. Its a 3 door and fuck me the doors heavy, But i cant see anything online about this being common. Not the prettiest but meh. Anyone else heard of this happening? Its a low miles car so maybe an older person pulling them self up by the door? Split_Pin, Spurious and paulplom 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, Andyrew said: fuck me the doors heavy They're massive, typical 3 door, doors like sails. Looks a neat job, handy being able to use the metal glue gun, hope a few beers were acquired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said: (@RoverFolkUs will be delighted to know that I...) Finally replaced MAP sensor in the Fabia. Took me long enough. 😂 Well fuck me. EML on because of new sensor. I canny fuckin win. Wibble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 6 hours ago, Split_Pin said: This just fell down on the 75, it has disintegrated underneath. Arses. Amusingly*, my 75 has just done the exact opposite - the light is still in place but the headlining has come unstuck from around it and fallen down. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ0063 Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 3 years today since I found my old man passed. Don’t want this to come across as a beg for sympathy as I’m very much at peace with it all but it always comes to the front of my mind around now. I just find it easy to talk about on here as almost anonymous, but it’s a release to write it so feel free to ignore, this’ll be a long one and not a very nice story. The old man had a brain aneurysm probably 18-20 years ago now, I remember it vividly - he was a senior sales manager at the time and it was a red hot day, he came home from work and complained of a terrible headache, blaming it on the sun/heat. Kept throwing up etc so his GF at the time took him to the docs who rushed him to Addenbrookes with suspected Meningitis… quickly turned out to be a brain aneurysm which they said would be a 50/50 chance of survival so be prepared. It was a success and he came home a week or so later and we thanked our lucky stars.. little did we know that the dad we took into the hospital never came home. In fact I’d go as far as to say I lost my ‘dad’ back then. For the rest of his life he just went down hill, I believe he was let down by the system - 0 aftercare, no support at all - he was a completely different person. Couldn’t hold down a job for more than a few weeks, didn’t look after himself both in health or hygiene, relationship with his gf dwindled within a year, his house got repossessed, ended up in a rented flat that between my brother and I paying managed to keep him going as what little benefits he got didn’t cover anything. Fast forward to July 2019, I was working at Silverstone Classic.. 4 or 5 nights away. Our routine was that the old man would email me his food shopping list on the Thursday/Friday, I’d then pick it up over the weekend and drop it at his on the Sunday/Monday. After driving home from the show on the Sunday evening I’d planned to have the week off work but it was manic so I worked the Monday. Tuesday morning I said to Amber that id not heard from Dad re his shopping so I emailed him to chase it - this was probably 9am. I didn’t think much of it and popped into town to the bakery, weirdly remember so vividly whilst in the queue I suddenly thought hang on I’ve heard nothing at all from him since before I’d gone away the week before so I best give him a ring. Nothing.. I think I subconsciously knew then.. When I looked back, I’d called his house phone 8 times in 12 mins to no avail. I drove straight to his, he never locked the door so I let myself in and there was post on the floor.. I said out loud I can remember it “he’s fucking dead isn’t he” - legged it up the stairs, no one in the lounge, walked through the kitchen shouting dad? To nothing, opened his bedroom door and he’s laid sideways on his bed - as if he’d sat on the side of the bed then collapsed backwards. It was quite obvious what the outcome was - we’re way past checking for a pulse. Did the standard 999 call, ambulance/police turn up as it’s an unexplained death, Post mortem comes back and I can’t remember the official wording but basically a heart attack and previously undiagnosed heart disease. They put the date as 30th July but said he’d been there probably 3-4 days. He was constantly on his PC so I checked the browsing history and the last entry was about 4:30pm on the Friday - I found him around 12pm on the Tuesday. It’s a weird feeling, I still don’t think to this day I’ve ever really cried. I was very numb and for a long time had terrible flashbacks and nightmares of finding him. That stuck with me for over a year. Finding it ‘easy’ to cope with the loss of a parent I think is the wrong term but because of what happened years ago with the illness, I’d almost had to come to terms with losing my dad many years ago - so I was really coping with the death itself now and the circumstances. Luckily I’ve never had any prior dealings with finding anyone who has passed and I obviously hope to never again but finding my own dad having been passed for some time was fucking horrific and ruined my mental health, anxiety is still a huge issue even 3 years later and I really should have sought some professional help/counselling for probably borderline PTSD but I get by now. Anyway, really sorry to spill all that but thank you for anyone that managed to read it all! RIP old man, 9/11/55 - 30/07/19 AndyIggs, chaseracer, RoverFolkUs and 41 others 44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 13 minutes ago, JJ0063 said: Luckily I’ve never had any prior dealings with finding anyone who has passed Nor me, but some years after my Dad died, aged 60, his older brother told me he had an aneurism that could trigger at any time. Some years later he was found dead, by a friend. We were never that close, and 70 miles apart, but it did affect me. It's not too late to seek help. JJ0063 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 10 minutes ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said: So, the K11 of unreliability is reliable. Shocker I know. The issue is basically the wires going to the IACV and TPS which when touched in ANY manner will go to random values and insane. It's not the connectors, it's the damn loom itself, and I cannot find a single broken wire, I even wrapped each wire individually. How I got it running was removing the air box. When hot it would sink down due to expansion and get close to the wires, so removed that and run it minus a air cleaner and wham, reliable for the past month or so, just do not even fucking BREATH on those wires. We plan to get rid once MOT runs out in January, it needs a LOT of work really, 121k miles and it shows, likely be WBAC when it happens, will see if I cba to part some of the choice bits out before hand though. Likely choice is either a W203 1.8, Corolla, or MK IV Golf. I'll PM you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMcD Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 @JJ0063 I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your dad. You should be proud of what you did for him - looking after him when he fell on hard times with his condition. If only this world had a few more selfless good folk like yourself. As said by @High Jetter It's never to late to get some help if you want it man. JJ0063, Jenson Velcro and Sunny Jim 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 8 hours ago, High Jetter said: What is the significance of the lines before and after the pedestrian crossing? The 'horizontal' one with 9 'verticals' of different lengths, I mean. It’s a graph of how many kids have been run over while drivers look at the giant pencils. Dan29 and Rust Collector 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Pick of the day Phwoarrrrr Lacquer Peel, w00dy, brownnova and 13 others 13 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Personal favorite reg plate obscurification RoverFolkUs, J W Pepper, grogee and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 20 hours ago, grogee said: I have often fantasised about an 'easy maintenance' car with exposed screws all over the interior instead of stupid hidden clips, loads of room in the engine bay etc. It would be a small low tech petrol engine or electric, halogen lights, terrible aerodynamics with a boxy shape for good access to everything. The 'daytime running lights' would just be the normal sidelights with no stupid LED fairy lights. A/C the only mod con with a range of useful phone holders, nobody needs the tech now because it's all on your phone. Hole in dash with ISO connector for stereo of your choice, 4 big but simple speakers in doors. Steel wheels, high profile tyres, simple torsion beam at the rear, MacPherson struts up front. In my head it would look like the original Transit Connect, there would be a 5-seater or van options. Bumper panels, wheelarches and side rubbing strips all screw on and off without need for any special tools. So a 107/aygo/c1 then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 15 hours ago, stuboy said: Popped round to collect some timber and gave missus brother and dad a hand loading up some more stuff from deceased uncles house, bloody compressor was hooge.. to stop more stuff going to there house the brother gave me these axle stands. Anyone identify them? I had an identical set, bought in the local Halfords back in the mid 80s. I think they were branded by one of the big accessory firms. Stadium, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 39 minutes ago, paulplom said: So a 107/aygo/c1 then? Being small, the Cayg07 doesn't afford good access to many things. But I am a fan of small and basic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scdan4 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 10 hours ago, JJ0063 said: 3 years today since I found my old man passed. it always comes to the front of my mind around now. I just find it easy to talk about on here as almost anonymous, The old man had a brain aneurysm probably 18-20 years ago now, I remember it vividly For the rest of his life he just went down hill, I believe he was let down by the system - 0 aftercare, no support at all - he was a completely different person. It was quite obvious what the outcome was I was very numb and for a long time had terrible flashbacks and nightmares of finding him. That stuck with me for over a year. I’d almost had to come to terms with losing my dad many years ago - but finding my own dad having been passed for some time was fucking horrific and ruined my mental health, anxiety is still a huge issue even 3 years later and I really should have sought some professional help/counselling for probably borderline PTSD RIP old man, 9/11/55 - 30/07/19 That all sounds very stressful and traumatic to experience. Ring cruse. This is exactly what they exist for. https://www.cruse.org.uk/ Good luck. Sunny Jim, JJ0063, GrumpiusMaximus and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Replacement rear courtesy lamps for the 75 are completely unavailable it seems. Genius* solution: I replicated the shape of the broken lugs with 2 nails using my vice as a shaper and glued them on. Now setting in place, hopefully that works, even somewhat! Lacquer Peel, Popsicle, dome and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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