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[Tam]

More Rover flood warnings!! Prevention scheme in place though 

 

[Ghosty]

I spotted what seemed to be a Sunspot Monogram MG ZR earlier. Looked cracking.

[Guest Hooli]

More Rover flood warnings!! Prevention scheme in place though 

 

 

That'll stop it floating away!

[320touring]

Another grand night out wif the northerners- proper good bants!

 

Good to see the ghostymobile up and running:)

 

Also felt slightly like a Scotoshite sue to Dugongcorps Volvo of much rouge- looked a nice old thing

 

[blackboilersuit]

I can haz lockup  . Signed missives tonight on a quality* lockup that's on my route to/from work every day. Going to use it to store all my boxes of useful* 2-wheel spares so I can keep more bikes at home where they are more secure. At 8ft x 16ft internal dimensions and narrower at the door its unlikely ever to see a car unless the prices of Fiat 126's take a nosedive. Pics will follow when fleet movements take place....... 

[HMC]

Set menu A for 2 plus a (hopefully) leak free 75.......

New boot seal and various bits of leaking trim fixings sealed should hopefully see it right. Fingers crossed!

[Guest Hooli]

That'll look good doing the deliveries.

[alcyonecorporation]

Set menu A for 2 plus a (hopefully) leak free 75.......

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New boot seal and various bits of leaking trim fixings sealed should hopefully see it right. Fingers crossed!

 

To the Chinese in a Cowley Roewe! Oddly appropriate. 

[DodgyBastard]

V70 xc provisionally sold.

[For Fiats Sake]

I'd not been using the Tangoed Fiat as the Direct Debit had failed so untaxed.  Added to that the exhaust was still being a bit loud.  Anyway, having had a stern letter from the DeeVeeHellA I rang them and paid the bloody tax and took the car down to my tyre and exhaust bloke.  Turns out exhaust, manifold and stainless system all good, just the blanked off lambda hole wasn't blanked off anymore.  Luckily he had one and instantly quietened exhaust and boosted engine power.

After a month without the beast I'd forgotten how bloody terrifying it is, hooning around with nearly twice as much horse power as it was designed to have! I've been reacquainted with the joys of 2nd gear wheel spins, excess body roll, rear cart spring suspension, the best seats ever to grace a panda (leather from a Alfa 145) and ridiculous acceleration.

He's sporting a few rust plebs, dings and scratches from his off road adventures but somehow just adds to his character.

It's a pity I won't be able to fit an engine upgrade to the restored panda as the 2wd set up would be even quicker!

[saucedoctor]

Made my first new 9mm reloads today (we got our new deprimer). Beautiful, if I do say so myself. You can't/shouldn't fire lead with a Glock cos it leads up due to the laser cut polygonal barrel. Other people say that's nonsense, but I don't fancy a barrel blowing up in my face. It's the Autoshite way to make your own ammo. I got about 12 BILLION empties after a recent range day at our club. I'll not bore you with the details, but making your own works out at around a quarter of the price of over-the-counter. Prices are going up too. The Purple colour on the projectile is a coating that stops the Glock barrel looking like an EGR valve in a VAGSHITE TDi. Allegedly. Some say it's a myth, mind.

[stripped fred]

Only the second time I've achieved this in a car. The last time was an Audi A4 TDI which I took from 106k over 6 years. It was well looked after and I was very pleased, until something went pop in the engine at 201k. Very disappointing. I then broke it for spares. This time it's my 406 which I've only had for a year or so. Might have to treat it to a cambelt now as it's overdue. It drives really well so I'm hopeful it's going to carry on for a while longer. High mileage cars for the win!

[BorniteIdentity]

Only the second time I've achieved this in a car. The last time was an Audi A4 TDI which I took from 106k over 6 years. It was well looked after and I was very pleased, until something went pop in the engine at 201k. Very disappointing. I then broke it for spares. This time it's my 406 which I've only had for a year or so. Might have to treat it to a cambelt now as it's overdue. It drives really well so I'm hopeful it's going to carry on for a while longer. High mileage cars for the win!

 

Bravo.

 

I can't bloody wait to tick over the Avensis to 200k.  Currently on 198500, so it'll be about a fortnight at the going rate.

 

Gonna have a party.  Cake/Party 7/90s K-Pop.  

[John F]

Made my first new 9mm reloads today (we got our new deprimer). Beautiful, if I do say so myself. You can't/shouldn't fire lead with a Glock cos it leads up due to the laser cut polygonal barrel. Other people say that's nonsense, but I don't fancy a barrel blowing up in my face. It's the Autoshite way to make your own ammo. I got about 12 BILLION empties after a recent range day at our club. I'll not bore you with the details, but making your own works out at around a quarter of the price of over-the-counter. Prices are going up too. The Purple colour on the projectile is a coating that stops the Glock barrel looking like an EGR valve in a VAGSHITE TDi. Allegedly. Some say it's a myth, mind.

 

Meh.

 

Us mainlanders only get to play with black powder handguns.

[mercrocker]

MOT follow-up achieved on 190E today.   New rear discs, pads all round, HB "shoes", pesky pedal pivot that I thought was just a warped disc, new voltage regulator and new OS headlamp lens.   Monkey and two ponies, all in - that's half a bag plus 50 in decimal.   

 

"Cost you what its worth every few months" somebody said when I bought it.   Who cares?

[Supernaut]

Bravo.

 

I can't bloody wait to tick over the Avensis to 200k.  Currently on 198500, so it'll be about a fortnight at the going rate.

 

Gonna have a party.  Cake/Party 7/90s K-Pop.  

 

Well you've simply got to play The Distance.

 

 

 

In other news, we were faffing* with the screensavers on the phones at work. The Service Desk staff all have the proper university logo on their phones now, but I gave myself this during the faffing:

 

 

Perhaps something Scarfolk Council inspired could work too...

 

*Highly technical term for "figuring out how that shit works and getting it to run reliably before deploying it beyond our own office".

[DodgeRover]

You can save* time and money by going straight to implementation and having a PIFU straight afterwards. Obviously the system won't work but you can sort that out afterwards, the important thing is you got it done ahead of schedule...

 

PIFU - post implementation fuck up period

[tooSavvy]

PIFU - post implementation fuck up period

 

... you want acronym wars, eh?

 

PPPPPP... have that!

 

TS

[Supernaut]

... you want acronym wars, eh?

 

PPPPPP... have that!

 

TS

 

Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance

[catsinthewelder]

Nice quiet day today so called by my local garage to ask about buying some parts off a breaker in their yard.  A young lad had just got back with a 307 with a code reader hanging out of the dash.  It was fine so I headed back after work with tools to get the headlight switch and seatbelt reciever out of an Astra that was identical to mine other than being a hatchback.

 

The switch came out easily enough but the seatbelt was trickier.  The lad wandered by and suggested removing the seat which came out with a bit of effort as the bolts were quite rusty.  We looked at the pretensioner mechanism and he told me to just take the whole seat as the car was being bridged soon anyway.  It's rather grotty so I'll have to wash it at work tomorrow then find somewhere warm to leave it but it's a bonus finding one that is the same pattern.

 

Incidentally they have another P reg Astra with a much nicer interior,  would hatchback seats fit in an estate?

 

I should really spend a bit more time fixing the other heaps I own but a dip switch that works properly and a radio that can pick up radio 4 will make the Astra a whole lot better.

[Fat_Pirate]

Well you've simply got to play The Distance.

 

 

 

In other news, we were faffing* with the screensavers on the phones at work. The Service Desk staff all have the proper university logo on their phones now, but I gave myself this during the faffing:

 

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Perhaps something Scarfolk Council inspired could work too...

 

*Highly technical term for "figuring out how that shit works and getting it to run reliably before deploying it beyond our own office".

 

Is that a Mitel 5340?  /rubs thighs

[dollywobbler]

Talking of big mileage, the 2CV went 1000 better than 200,000 today.

[Cavcraft]

My lad wants me to take him to look at a car tomorrow or Saturday. It's a Peugeot 306 n/a diesel. I think I've finally won at parenting.

[beko1987]

We got Eva a bargain new bed from ebay at the weekend, so I put her old full size perfectly fine single on facebook for £15, super local delivery available.

 

Many messages and 3 days later I still had it. One guy seemed offended that I wanted to charge him £150 to deliver it to London (plus I called him a twat).

 

Dropped it off in Aylesbury earlier for £20, going to someones friend who is down on their luck in the YMCA place in Milton Keynes. Thank fuck, it's gone to a good home AND it's out of my car, every time I hit a bump fast there was a loud CRACK which made me worry for a few seconds every time until I realised there was a single bed flatpacked in the back...

[Guest Hooli]

Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance

 

Piss Poor Planning Promotes Piss Poor Performance.

 

Although management in my place don't seem to like this version, it does appear to be the one they try & follow.

[Guest Hooli]

You can save* time and money by going straight to implementation and having a PIFU straight afterwards. Obviously the system won't work but you can sort that out afterwards, the important thing is you got it done ahead of schedule...

 

PIFU - post implementation fuck up period

 

 

Ahh, the NHS.

[Six-cylinder]

Luckily my friend bought this Volvo 240 Torslanda with the sucked smarty look, or it could have been my second purchase of 2017!

 

The good news is I will get to play with it.

[Guest Hooli]

Oh I do like a good 245, great cars to drive. Much better than 700 & 900s to my mind.

[Supernaut]

Is that a Mitel 5340?  /rubs thighs

 

Oooooh yes indeed it is.

 

I deployed a heap of them at the Service Desk, then I had to have one for testing purposes, of course. The worst bit is that I barely use it, for a phone with so many features and buttons, it's almost criminal. It gets a good work-out whenever I have to phone HP's stupid call centres in India and tell them I need new modules / PSUs / chassis for the switches though.

 

We recently bought 500-odd phones from D.C. Thompson, as they're closing their Aberdeen office. Luckily they used Mitel phones, and so do we! Heaps of them were still in unopened boxes, but then the buggers ran through every firmware update in sequence since 2009 when first booted up! Can't complain for the amount of money we saved on the retail price of that many phones (as in, we saved well into 6-figures on that lot).

[reb]

Last night I was following a Volvo S80 with the plate "S80 POO", own up, which one of you lot was it?

 

 

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