The new news 24 thread

[trigger]

It's a second hand one of a old car, it's rusty and the wiper is totally shagged! You would thought a big company like the that would be embarrassed to send it out! I'm tempted to post the photos and complain on their Facebook page but i think that's shit stirring a bit.

[Guest Hooli]

That's OEM quality that is!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(shite to send such shit out though)

[Junkman]

German quality vs. British building standards*  1 - 0.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/volkswagen-golf-r-sports-car-crashes-through-wall-family-living-room-father-seriously-injured-york-a7927351.html

[cobblers]

It's a second hand one of a old car, it's rusty and the wiper is totally shagged! You would thought a big company like the that would be embarrassed to send it out! I'm tempted to post the photos and complain on their Facebook page but i think that's shit stirring a bit.

They wouldn't have sent it out on purpose trigger, they've dropped a bollock one way or another but for old scrap like that to end up on stock someone has tricked them one way or another. Was it in a box? Like I say, I reckon someone has just returned their old shit wrapped up as "unused part bought incorrectly" and some low level minimum wage dispatch lad hasn't noticed and banged it straight in the post to you.

[plasticvandan]

Pneumants / Barums.

 

Fookin' scary....even compared to a worn-out Conti Hi-Tour.

As a long time MZ enthusiast,I've had my fair share of pnogrips! I've settled on mitas lately.

[SiC]

German quality vs. British building standards* 1 - 0.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/volkswagen-golf-r-sports-car-crashes-through-wall-family-living-room-father-seriously-injured-york-a7927351.html

You say that, but I see the building still standing. I'd call that a draw.

[trigger]

I think your correct Mr Cobblers, it just had a Rimmers bag wrapped around the middle with the part number stuck to It, it's a old Unipart one though.

[DodgeRover]

German quality vs. British building standards* 1 - 0.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/volkswagen-golf-r-sports-car-crashes-through-wall-family-living-room-father-seriously-injured-york-a7927351.html

The bloody things done a regen while sat there looking at the soot stain on the wall above..

[SiC]

Spaceship Civic is off for an MOT tomorrow. Will be the 5th in my ownership. Also means that in 10 days time, it will be 10 years old! I guess that starts to make it eligible as Shite?

 

That's of course if it actually passes...

 

I did check the front tyres and the inner edges look just legal, so I've bunged in my slightly more legal winter wheels just in case. It's going to need 2 tyres (~£85 each), oil+filter, fuel filter, air filter and brake fluid doing at least. Then anything else required for MOT. Going to cost least £500 this month.

[Ghosty]

Rover's tax direct debit didn't cancel, DVLA tried to charge me again even though I've sent off the V5 and got the notification slip through.

Luckily I was absolutely brassic and only got paid this evening so the payment bounced. I've gone into my bank account and manually cancelled.

[SiC]

Value of classic cars and fine art plunges as photographs soar

 

Interesting. It won't directly affect us right now, but these things tend to have a knock-on effect lower down in the market, as the ripples spread.

[dollywobbler]

Some time ago, we were discussing wipers, and I mentioned the double-blade adaptor that was actually a thing in the 1980s - it stupidly allows you to fit two wiper blades to each arm, for no tangible benefit and lots of extra load for the wiper system. Most of you assumed I'd gone mad and made it up, but the car in the latest Roadkill actually has this ridiculous crap fitted to it!

[SiC]

Spaceship Civic is off for an MOT tomorrow. Will be the 5th in my ownership. Also means that in 10 days time, it will be 10 years old! I guess that starts to make it eligible as Shite?

 

That's of course if it actually passes...

 

I did check the front tyres and the inner edges look just legal, so I've bunged in my slightly more legal winter wheels just in case. It's going to need 2 tyres (~£85 each), oil+filter, fuel filter, air filter and brake fluid doing at least. Then anything else required for MOT. Going to cost least £500 this month.

I don't know what I was worrying about.

 

Date tested: 5 September 2017

Mileage: 140,283 miles

Result: PASS

Expiry date: 14 September 2018

Advisory notice item(s):

• Nearside Front Tyre worn close to the legal limit (4.1.E.1)
• Offside Front Tyre worn close to the legal limit (4.1.E.1)

In 5 1/2 years of ownership and ~60k (avg. 11k per annum) its required a clutch (no DMF as fine), front shock absorber and radio (it has integrated satnav - £60 off eBay for s/h). Back to going to never talking about said car on here, as it just gets it job done without fuss or attention apart from the odd service item.

 

Because Honda.

[Supernaut]

Some time ago, we were discussing wipers, and I mentioned the double-blade adaptor that was actually a thing in the 1980s - it stupidly allows you to fit two wiper blades to each arm, for no tangible benefit and lots of extra load for the wiper system. Most of you assumed I'd gone mad and made it up, but the car in the latest Roadkill actually has this ridiculous crap fitted to it!

I watched that episode a couple of weeks back and never noticed the wipers. I was more interested in the lovely V8 noises.

[M'coli]

...and the wee red Pug106 has passed its MOT! Thanks to KruJoe/explosive-cabbage/bub2006 for the axle donation from the bubbered Saxo.

[Junkman]

Some time ago, we were discussing wipers, and I mentioned the double-blade adaptor that was actually a thing in the 1980s - it stupidly allows you to fit two wiper blades to each arm, for no tangible benefit and lots of extra load for the wiper system. Most of you assumed I'd gone mad and made it up, but the car in the latest Roadkill actually has this ridiculous crap fitted to it!

 

 

I never doubted you for a nanosecond, clearly remembering that the tribe of mildly retarded ballcap sideways mooks fitted that clobber to their

Golf Country Fire and Ices and Corsa Steffi Spezials. Incidentally the same chumps permanently carried a complete windsurfing kit on the roof - in Munich.

Britain might have escaped that contemporary fad, though.

 

You forgot to mention that the system also had the benefit* of doubling your wiper blade budget.

[egg]

Parts for my Mondy rebuild* have come from Sweden, Las Vegas, Sittingbourne and Germany in the search for 'best value' and now somewhere very remote, Caithness!

 

Dunnets the Ford dealer very helpful, call the guy up, he finds the part while I hold on, within the hour a price including postage down south, paid and will be dispatched tomorrow. Why can't all Ford dealers be like this??

[fordperv]

It's luck of the draw egg, bristol Street stoke parts department is very good especially 1 woman in particular who works on the phone, she emails screenshots over to you while your on the phone to make sure when there's a couple of options on the same part and chases around the older stuff without fuss, there used to be one nugget who couldn't be arsed who worked there years back though you know the type "sorry mate we got rid of that catalogue years back" but I've not heard his voice for a good while so he must've gone

[Wack]

Rover's tax direct debit didn't cancel, DVLA tried to charge me again even though I've sent off the V5 and got the notification slip through.

Luckily I was absolutely brassic and only got paid this evening so the payment bounced. I've gone into my bank account and manually cancelled.

 

I bought a golf 1.2, taxed it for a year, couldn't stand driving it for more than 6 weeks sold it and cashed the tax in , they refunded me 4 months , it's supposed to be a foolproof automated system so I rang them but was told I had to write to them on ye olde paper to get my money back, so their cockup cost me a phone call, a letter ,a stamp and time

[SiC]

My local garage say that the Ford dealer is about the only dealer around Bristol that keeps a decent stock of parts on the shelf. The rest all only order in on demand to keep parts on the shelf to the minimum.

[loserone]

L1_jne has a snotty cold and can't breathe lying down. I haz solution.

[meshking]

L1_jne has a snotty cold and can't breathe lying down. I haz solution.

IMG_20170905_214308782.jpg

Beer definitely helps them sleep, but I'd definitely recommend getting a calpol plugin - works a treat on everyone in our house.

 

Sent from my SGP621 using Tapatalk

[Guest Hooli]

L1_jne has a snotty cold and can't breathe lying down. I haz solution.

IMG_20170905_214308782.jpg

 

Laying on an old tramp works for most toddlers I'm told.

[Fat_Pirate]

I went to the Science Museum yesterday.  If you visit, don't be tempted to go near the Mondeo-on-the-roof else you'll witness a traumatic video showing the vivisection of a 1987 MG Metro in targa red.

[andy18s]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

[320touring]

Behold a Vidya of Bo'ness Revival from the other day

 

[johngarty]

They say you learn something new every day.

Apparently up until as recently as 1970 you had to have radio (broadcasting receiving equipment) license for the home (you could get a combo if you had a TV).

But if you were uppity and posh and had a fitted radio in your car then you had to have another license at the same cost.

But the nice chaps at the GPO let you off if you just used a portable.

http://www.radiolicence.org.uk/licencecarradios.html

[vulgalour]

Finally got the correct catalytic converter for the Rover.  I've spent ages trying to get the right one.  As with other parts, I haven't been able to rely on the automated listings most companies use because for some reason my registration and trim level bring up different options to what's actually fitted to the car.

 

The only other thing I'm after is a PAS pump as I reckon mine is at the very least in the need of a rebuild.  Every now and then the steering goes a little heavier, not as bad as it got in the BX, but certainly the same sort of feeling.  There is a strong temptation to retrofit a manual steering rack, I'm just not sure how involved that will be or how compatible it all is to a PAS equipped car.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

How about an electric jobbie from the Corsa (is it?) - they seem to be quite a popular installation among the updating folk.........

[vulgalour]

I'm not really a PAS fan, as it happens.  It's one of those things like air conditioning; most of the time it's just a little luxury I don't really want or need.