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[robinmasters]

Drove this round Lydden Hill today. Much funz.

 

[MarvinsMom]

what a fruitless, and cold friggin' couple of dayd dickin' about with that shitbox mini......

 

we have pulled the car back to bits in an attempt* to get the side lights working. they didn't work before, and they still don't.

 

had the grill off, the headlamps and connectors off, and even putted the switch to bits. i didn't do that, kerry did, but even so we till need another switch. ffs.

 

then decided that we should have a go at connecting the brakes back up, after kerry cut through the old brake flexi's. and they are rusted up solid too, with kerry now rounding off one of the brake pipe unions.

 

finally i've had a go at loosing off the track rod ends, and they won't budge either, so, all told we've gotten as far as we can with that little turd, and can do no more. its going to have to be shipped off someplace to finish cos we cannot do anthing else to it.

 

joy.

 

hatefull little turd. i wish i'd never seen the rancid little fucker i'd never ever bought the fuckin' little shit box.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Well, who knows how it will lay, very unusual to get snow in Herne Bay, but we'll see. My 7 year old has never seen snow.

 

If you hear shouting coming from nearish Ashford, it's me trying to get up the ungritted drive, on to the ungritted road...

[Shep Shepherd]

Drove The Volvo to work this evening, which was the first time it had been driven since it ran out of electricity last week.

 

 

 

No problems at all 

 

The car sounds great after I removed the loose exhaust heat shield and seems to go better after all the attention I have given it over the past week, with more to come in the near future. It seems that in the case of The Volvo at least, holistic car maintenance works

[stillOrange]

I better get my arse out of bed. I have a car to collect.

[spike60]

Off anywhere nice?

[dollywobbler]

My arse is out of bed, for the 2CV is going to be covering another 250 odd miles today. Birthday gathering for the club in Leamington Spa. It's below zero, with one heck of a headwind. Should be fun...

[stillOrange]

Off anywhere nice?

Derbyshire so not too far away. Just a new daily I need.

[bub2006]

Where abouts Mr orange? My neck of the woods if needed a collection from train station!

[stillOrange]

I must say I haven’t asked Sir Bo11ox, but I’m assuming he will pick me up from train station.

 

Thank you for the offer nevertheless. Much appreciated.

[Royale80]

Just returned from Skiing holiday in Bulgaria with my 15 year old son-wife didn't want to go. I haven't skied in 23 years-but as they say "it's just like riding a bike". Only fell over twice. Problem was my son is a very good skier and kept trying to get me on more and more deadly runs-but I survived!

 

As previously mentioned-I took the old Sierra to Stansted which is 200 miles away. Cruises effortlessly and did a shade over 38mpg-so not bad at all.

 

Here I am-and the slopes are a lot steeper than the pictures show!

 

 

 

[richardmorris]

Well just back from Walton bridge car meeting. Didn’t stop as car park full at 8.45! Quite a mix of cars from the drive through I did.

[danthecapriman]

Please can you ask about the RD for me, my DX was a massive disappointment and I would like to be re disappointed!

I’ll ask him next time I see him.

[stillOrange]

It is mine!

 

[xtriple]

Just been and got the battery out of the dollop again to charge, it goes flat in a few weeks if left on the car, even with the battery cut off turned, er, off. It is a useless piece of shit as so many things on the car stay 'live' (alarm, seat memories, radio etc) that it may as well not be there. But, if you don't turn it off, it goes flat inside a week!

 

Mazda service and MOT tomorrow, actually nervous! Not worried about an MOT in years but.... I am quite skint and if anything fails, I will be too poor to fix it. Then tax and insurance is due as well. Woe is me, times is hard!

 

[Timewaster]

Fucks sake man get that Bentley flogged.

 

It must bring you more pain than pleasure.

[clayts450]

Gotcha, ya bugger

 

 

Yup, after a lot of swearing, dismantling, contortionism, more swearing (and I swear to god some made up cuss words) and a mashed up terminal block which would not free itself, and some swearing, this little magic box of tricks is heading off to Brighton for some electro-wizardy by a Pektron SCU expert, hopefully to restore my horn to on/off operation rather than full on never turn off mode. Am getting the relays swapped out, plus a new fob too.

 

Thankfully the PTSD is now operational again, so will be my commuter wagon for the week

[twosmoke300]

Thanks, seems to be the driver one which is giving me the most issues. Will give it a go tomorrow, should have some isopropyl around for cleaning CPU's.

Make sure the blades are flip flopping correctly when the arms change direction . As mentioned before twist the arms to make sure they are doing this

[twosmoke300]

If the arms twisted tho the blade won't flip flop no matter how new

[320touring]

Interesting situation with this..

 

Brake disk has fractured and failed. Locked the wheel up.

 

Rear disc is the bearing in hub type, and the wheel mounts to the disc..

 

RAC man concerned that if the disk fails further then the wheel comes off.

 

Issue is according to his system, he was not allowed to tow from the rear.

 

Truck is 30mins away.

 

[Skizzer]

Eek, that’s a nasty thing to happen.

[ruffgeezer]

How the fuck's that happened?

[320touring]

How the fuck's that happened?

Initial thought looking at the disk in the dark is that there's been a failure in the disk (part of the crack looks rusted), and caliper has stuck on, causing it to heat up and fail.

 

Fuck knows..

[dollywobbler]

If we haven't got an 'impressive fails' thread, I guess we need one.

[wuvvum]

It's now snowing outside.  At the moment it's light powdery stuff which isn't heavy enough to lay properly and is just being blown around by the wind - let's hope it stays that way, if it gets heavier the commute to work in the morning could be fun*.  It's been years since we've had proper snow here so everyone will have forgotten what little they knew about driving in the snow, and it'll be the usual heady combination of old farts and timid housewives crawling along at 8mph on a dead straight road. and bellends in X5s and M-Classes doing 60 because they're too stupid to realise that having 4 wheel drive doesn't help you stop in the snow.

 

Got very little fettling done this weekend because too bloody cold, but I did manage to bodge together the broken driver's side door mirror on the Perodua (some cunt had karate kicked it off) with a combination of large quantities of superglue and big cable ties threaded through strategically drilled holes.  Ideally I would have liked to put a bolt through as well but due to the design that wasn't possible.  I've done 40 miles with it so far and it's not fallen off yet, so that's good.  It would have been easier to buy a replacement, but I couldn't find one on eBay at a sensible price, and a Daihatsu Sirion mirror isn't interchangeable despite being essentially the same car, as the Myvi has its side repeater in the mirror where the Sirion has it in the wing.  Unfortunately having to join the wires back together has meant that I've only been able to reconnect the side repeater, not the electric mirror adjustment, as there wasn't room for five sets of connectors behind the mirror assembly - I think I can live with having to adjust the mirror manually though.

[cms206]

Today started well

 

Had a message about 20 minutes ago, I'm very sorry to say that Hendry of this parish took his own life yesterday evening at the age of 30.

 

Some of his more recent struggles were documented on here, none of which were good - I can only hope he is now at peace.

 

I did have the pleasure of meeting him a few times and a nicer bloke you could not hope to meet.

 

All of you - it is never as bad as you think. PLEASE talk to someone if you're having a time of it, it will help.

 

R.I.P. Greg.

 

 

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[Mr_Bo11ox]

Holy shit

[beko1987]

Fuck me, poor guy

[Brodders]

Fuck that is terrible. I can't really think of anything else to say.

[stillOrange]

Terrible news...