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[Lacquer Peel]

Their summer tyres are woeful.

[chaseracer]

Assuming the trip counter is accurate (the speedo over reads), the Volvo does high 20s MPG on a run.

Good enough - though there’s probably a little room for improvement if I clean out the inlet again remove the fan entirely like the SCTSH do.

 

FTFY 

[Jim Bell]

Bumped into these dudes today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its a Junior. True Autoshite.

[Kiltox]

Duster taxi spotted in Stirling - licensing requirements must be minimal...

 

[hairnet]

Anyone that sent to the cov thing

 

I can trump that

 

150 meters from here is this

 

That's as close I can get as they're unlikely to be open tomorrow and i fly back well before they'd be open

 

What's the blue car??

[Inspector Morose]

Wartburg 312 camping.

[hairnet]

Duster taxi spotted in Stirling - licensing requirements must be minimal...

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Do Bolton twice a day all week

 

They still plate MK1 avensis ffs

[hairnet]

Wartburg 312 camping.

Is it don't see a tent

[plasticvandan]

Had a great day out with the MZ at Red October

[tooSavvy]

SWMBO managed (self checkout) to exit a major supermarket with a Tag on some leggings [no.. Beeper didn't go off..??]

 

She discovers this at home, later, and gave me the "we're going back" look

 

Oh.no.no.no.no... Says I..

 

Quick bit of pincer action/vice jaw gripping had said 'device' in bin.. + time & fuelly saved.

 

No Policeman Was Coshed in the liberation of this Garment

 

 

TS

[Jams]

On holiday in Rhodes atm

 

We are in the sticks as I’m to tight to pay for a decent hotel!

Hired a car tho! Little new Suzuki alto! 3cyl

Definitely future shite!

[catsinthewelder]

They are GR8 little motors

 

Remember the van with no engine that I was trying to sell 6 months ago?

 

I spotted it this morning half a mile from home outside the council house of a chap who makes shonky campervans.

[tooSavvy]

BBC news stream, thismorning...

 

To think, I've lived all these years and never watched 'the Reed Dance'.

 

I need to spend more time on UToob....

 

 

TS

[Keymaster]

I'm in Tokyo.

 

Knocked this up thisavo. It's curry, cheese, sweetcorn, pig, onion flavour.

 

 

Sent from my SM-A500FU using Tapatalk

[Ghosty]

I had that with a memory stick once. The alarm did go off when we left but nobody came, so I just kept going. A bit of percussion had the tag off non-destructively.

Couple of strong magnets also works.

[tooSavvy]

I guessed that the thing they use to remove the tags would be a magnet but the picture I had in my head of how it must work suggested, correctly, that tapping it while pulling the tag would have the same effect.

 

As far as I could surmise*... having decapitated the 'JCB Starter Button' bit... it is a spring/tinplate jaw and several ball bearings.

 

SPRING.. went poinggg

 

BALLS.. disappeared to the 4 Winds

 

TinJaw.. whangged into the bin, with the rest of it all.

 

* not scientific test / of value to miscreants.. sozz 

 

 

TS

[tommotech]

I had a call from my eldest yesterday evening, his 207 decided to get a smoking habit and start misfiring too. Called down to Gloucester this morning, it does indeed have a misfire code so I fitted the spare coil pack and some new plugs - misfire fixed!

 

Test drive sent the temp gauge climbing into the red, oh balls. Coolant rose inside the bottle and pissed out.

Let it cool down and refilled and bled the system, ran it up but all the signs of OMGHGF are there.

 

That’ll be next weekend written off then......

 

Anyone had misfire cause OMGHGF? Or have I been unlucky to get two problems at once?

[M'coli]

The HGF probably brought to light the shonky coil pack and sparkplug.

[xtriple]

Went to fill the Mazda up with fuel (a rare event in itself and therefore 'newsworthy' )and when I popped the fuel cover, it was full of water. I mean FULL as in above the petrol filler car (it's on the top of the passenger side rear wing). Using my thinking thing wot I keep in my 'ead, I decided the drain hole was blocked. Problem was I had nothing long and flexible and thin enough to unblock it and nor did the (very unhelpful) garage staff.

 

For the briefest of moments, my thinking thing fired into life and moments later, the oil dipstick was pressed into use and worked better as a drain unblocker than it ever has as an oil level indication device!

[richardmorris]

Probably a spider made a home in the drain!

[gm]

the radio aerial is ideal for clearing various mx5 drains (unless you have one of those posh electric ones) (an electric aerial, not an electric mx5 - which would be shite)

[xtriple]

Yes, electric aerial. Mine is a very posh MX5 I'll have you know! It's got leather and Air con (which works!) and parking sensors and all sorts. It also usually has two dogs in it, I was asked today if Chester has a driving licence.

 

Hell, he hasn't even got a dog licence!

[beko1987]

Anyone in huddersfield able to collect and post a hoover for a good friend of mine if I put him in touch with you? Costs covered etc

[hairnet]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41627240

 

should be backdated to at least 15 years

 

thats when it shoulda happened

[Guest Hooli]

Went to fill the Mazda up with fuel (a rare event in itself and therefore 'newsworthy' )and when I popped the fuel cover, it was full of water. I mean FULL as in above the petrol filler car (it's on the top of the passenger side rear wing). Using my thinking thing wot I keep in my 'ead, I decided the drain hole was blocked. Problem was I had nothing long and flexible and thin enough to unblock it and nor did the (very unhelpful) garage staff.

 

For the briefest of moments, my thinking thing fired into life and moments later, the oil dipstick was pressed into use and worked better as a drain unblocker than it ever has as an oil level indication device!

 

My old XJ40 always did that too.

[puddlethumper]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41627240

 

should be backdated to at least 15 years

 

thats when it shoulda happened

Should also be stronger against phone use. 6 month ban and a weeks earnings is what I say.

[Stanky]

I was asked today if Chester has a driving licence.

 

[Guest Hooli]

That's brilliant!

[phil_lihp]

On my way out of Portsmouth after a weekend visiting friends, I pulled in to a petrol station to top up and saw a young guy standing forlornly next to his mk1 MX5, bonnet up and a large cloud of steam belching out from the engine along with a trail of coolant working its way out from under the car.  I stopped to see if he needed help, turned out a coolant pipe under the engine had developed a small hole and was slowly ejecting all of the rather grim-looking coolant.  He was waiting for it to cool down before patching it up to get home, he had quite a sizeable toolkit in the boot and there wasn't anything else I could really do to help, he had it under control. 

 

He seemed very chilled and pragmatic about the whole thing, no-one else had offered him any help and he was happy to chat about the car.  Turns out it was a rust-free K-reg Eunos import with over 300,000 kms on the clock, looked pretty tidy and he'd recently put a set of proper original wheels on it which had been freshly painted.  He was keen to recommend that I get one and I have considered it before now.  I felt bad leaving him there although he was capable of sorting it, I could only apologise for being useless.

 

That makes nearly 800 miles in the 420 now, hasn't put a foot wrong and a pile of service goodies is winging its way to me for a fixing session next weekend.  It now sports a working wiper motor and a non-broken N/S rear door handle as well.

[Guest]

Came home from work this afternoon to find this:

 

 

 Looks like the wheel's pushed back a bit as well..No note, nobody saw or heard anything .Panda was parked in front and got scraped as well. Fuckstix. Have told insurance and cops, but dunno what happens next- Polo was going for it's MOT on Tuesday,after I've got it all prepped, just clicked over 70k.