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[Eddie Honda]

PM me where you're starting from and going too and I'll give you my Mk1 eyeball /HondaNav route.

[somewhatfoolish]

I thought I'd find somewhere to stop at the airport to work out a route home, navigating into the airport I picked a destination which happened to be Car Park 2 as I thought Car Park 1 would be closer to the terminal, because numbers. It's not 'till you get to the barriers they point out the charges and there was no way back other than reversing back through the one-way system.

My prior experience of driving around an airport was Aberdeen which is a wee bit smaller...

 

Beyond the Clyde Tunnel junction I have no idea what goes where further down the road, the only place I drive to that isn't in the West End is work! I can't stand city/motorway driving so I'm tragically unfamiliar with the area...

The goat-fondling arseweasels who run GLA have taken the shite system that made no fucking sense that was assembled out of stray lumps of concrete in a hurry after those twats rammed the terminal with a Jeep and replaced it with an even shittier system that fucks you for money even if you don't want to stop as the signage is so shite it doesn't tell you which are the chargeable bits and which aren't. Robbing cunts, the lot of them. From now on if I'm picking anyone up or setting down they're getting out at the car hire place, I'm buggered if these thieving bastards are getting any more money other than via the plane ticket.

 

When I was a idle student with loans to waste on cars I was quite adept at whizzing around Glasgow via numerous ratruns, but the advent of cunts' tricks like 24hr bus lanes, closing off roads to create cul-de-sacs, stupid one way systems, bastard gatsos and the passing of 20 years means I stay out of the place if at all possible.

[dollywobbler]

I know, let's start pouring money into another ropey old heap!

 

I was going to start work, but it's really hot, and the tennis is on...

[Spottedlaurel]

A neighbour of mine is restoring this little thing, which has been off the road since the early-mid ‘80s.

 

1967 Hillman Imp Californian by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

1967 Hillman Imp Californian by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

Some of the previous repairs were quite creative.

 

1967 Hillman Imp Californian by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[DodgeRover]

Browsing on mobile is that wicker work and a stuffed otter?

[Bobthebeard]

Browsing on mobile is that wicker work and a stuffed otter?

Possibly. But the top part looks more like a dried warthog head (with wicker work creatively woven around, and through it) to me. Impressive.

[MarvinsMom]

Marvin the metro has, at last been returned from the car whisperer, and it is, it seems MUCH improved.

 

as i've not yet had a chance to drive it, i am having to rely on what Kerry says.

 

its had a new exhaust manifold gasket, new gasket for the carb and a new jet (i think) plus a damn good tune up.

 

it has already been to the shops this afternoon and Kerry is going to take it to work tomorrow, so i will have to wait until the weekend before i can have a drive in it,

[greengartside]

A small update...

 

...the Astra that I bought for £0 has been fixed with a new turbo. I popped by at lunchtime to see how they were doing. Turns out it was in the middle of it's M.o.T which I am pleased to say it sailed through without a single advisory! Not bad for a car that had been left for three years.

 

I then taxed it and put £20 of dizzle in it to dilute the old crappy stuff that was left in the tank. Then I hooned it and I had a stupid grin on my face the whole time.

 

So yeah, ALL VORXORLS R'NT SHIT - FACT.

 

 

Victory bath time!

[Guest Hooli]

If that's a photo of your victory bath, I'm glad photobucket has hidden it!

[greengartside]

If that's a photo of your victory bath, I'm glad photobucket has hidden it!

 

It's not come up with that stupid bandwith thing has it? FFS PHOTOFUCKERS.

 

Here we are..

https://flic.kr/p/WcyvkJ

[stuboy]

Whilst looking for gifs online this turned up, anyones?

[Crusty Sills]

After my Seat Ibiza (Slug as he is known) disgraced himself last week by breaking down in the rain. He won it all back by getting to the garage resting a few days and starting straight up and running perfectly when the mechanic tried. They offered to put the code reader on but said it would be 40 quid and would make no difference. So I got in and drove away not owing them anything. They seemed happy as they were struggling to get through their list of cars to repair.

[Roverageous]

Anyone have any remote idea about the horrible sticky gooey mess I keep finding on my car?

 

Clear, sticky goo that appears in about 1cm ‘blobs’ on my paintwork, can scrape it off with your nail, but trying to get the fucking stuff off your hands is horrendous. It smells menthol / euclyptussy. Seems to appear in hot weather so I’m guessing it’s sap or something from a tree I have yet to identify.

[Crusty Sills]

Whilst car was in the garage, I borrowed a friend's car and have been smoking around in this.

It will be up for sale soon. I'll get details up.

[cobblers]

After my Seat Ibiza (Slug as he is known) disgraced himself last week by breaking down in the rain. He won it all back by getting to the garage resting a few days and starting straight up and running perfectly when the mechanic tried. They offered to put the code reader on but said it would be 40 quid and would make no difference. So I got in and drove away not owing them anything. They seemed happy as they were struggling to get through their list of cars to repair.

Buy a code reader yourself for £8 off ebay and check it yourself!

[Guest Hooli]

Anyone have any remote idea about the horrible sticky gooey mess I keep finding on my car?

 

Clear, sticky goo that appears in about 1cm ‘blobs’ on my paintwork, can scrape it off with your nail, but trying to get the fucking stuff off your hands is horrendous. It smells menthol / euclyptussy. Seems to appear in hot weather so I’m guessing it’s sap or something from a tree I have yet to identify.

 

Parking near a bukkake party?

[Crusty Sills]

Koala spunk?

[alcyonecorporation]

Koala spunk?

 

 

Iguana scrotum

[loserone]

RECTUM

[Richard]

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[purplebargeken]

New exhaust fitted to the Golf yesterday, sounds ace. Much better result than my second endoscopy outcome yesterday.

[taxi paul]

My pineappled hallway is still a challenge. I bought some better quality paint and painted a test patch over my cracked original paintings. No difference. So today I am going out to but wallpaper. Pain in the backside of a job involving ladders and boards. Three weeks till the kids break up from school. Needs to be done before then .

[Kiltox]

Can't you just sand the walls?

[taxi paul]

I could sand all the walls . But it would take just has long to paper it. So I am sort of picking the easier option. Sanding would work but I don't fancy cleaning up the dust for months.

[Guest Hooli]

Will paper stick to the wall or just the pealing paint?

[Ghosty]

On Tuesday I parked the Rover outside some friends' house in south Manchester. They live in a terrace and I put it outside the house next door, couldn't park it outside theirs as someone had put an A4 convertible there (none of theirs as far as I'm aware, they're all students). While I was inside one of them comes in and says 'your mirror was hanging off, I've stuck it back on for you'. Eh? They don't do that...

Turns out while the car was outside the driver's mirror glass had fallen out somehow and was hanging on by the heater element wires, and it now refused to reseat (I replaced it a few months ago). Wasn't me because I took a picture of the car before I went in because it looked nice there.

I had to hold it in place with sticky tape to make it usable.

I haven't used the car since Tuesday and I've been informed that the mirror glass is cracked now. Eh?

I can't be fucked with one of those adhesive glasses you just slap over the broken one because it's a heated powered mirror and I actually want to be able to make use of that, it seems like I'd have to bodge the broken glass on th the mirror with silicone or something as well because it refuses to mount. A NOS mirror glass is as much as a used mirror so I'll probably just try and find a mirror that isn't colour coded.

[Kiltox]

I could sand all the walls . But it would take just has long to paper it. So I am sort of picking the easier option. Sanding would work but I don't fancy cleaning up the dust for months.

What about more silk paint?

[Supernaut]

RECTUM

[Ghosty]

The mirror wasn't cracked, Old Man in idiocy shocker* had misdiagnosed the sellotape on the glass as a crack. How I'm not sure.

The old mirror motor was fucked and full of sillycunt, and wouldn't hold the mirror glass at all so I lopped it off and soldered a spare one on that was in my shed, off an old mirror that came from chompy_rover or Vulg's 414. Inexplicably I had three passenger mirrors in the shed but no driver's ones - luckily the motors aren't handed. Saves disassembling the whole mirror, too. Bunged it all back together and it's fine now. I'm off out for a bit later so I'll see if it falls off again.

[Ghosty]

Also - it turns out we have a local DIY scrapyard. Old Man wanted to pull a radiator fan motor off any old VAG shite in there, went down, then came back to tell me it was DIY, so I went off with him.

 

Above the Octavia he was working on was this:

 

 

Mitsubishi GTO It had 'do not touch' in paint pen on the driver's window.

 

The place was mainly full of VAG shite, early Binis, Fords and small shit European cars but there were a few interesting things here and there - two early Discoveries in red, a phase 3(?) 306 cabriolet, couple of 25s and 75s (one on Serpents), the above GTO, that was about it I think. There was an Insignia taxi too, wonder what failed for that to end up in there.

 

Someone nearby opened the door on a Mk4 Golf and the alarm went off