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[xtriple]

I had a lovely black Capri 3 litre (with a 351 V8 in it    ) hit by a bin lorry while parked, it did ery similar damage but didn't actually rip the metal. Best of luck finding the bludger that did it.

 

I have been fettlin' the Vauxhall (I have always thought if you borrow something you should look after it as well, if not better, than your own) and stuck 2 litres of water in the washers, a bit of oil (half a litre?) in it and covered the back seats with multiple blankets and tucked them in well so the mutts won't damage the seat. Also polished off all the cat paw prints (cat had white paint on its paws when it decided to stroll across the front of the car!) and washed it. Looks okay... ish.

[wuvvum]

Sorry to see that mess made of the Volvo.

 

 

That's what I was thinking. These Dhollandia tailifts are good for a gouge at a certain height because of tail-swing. (Other things hanging off the rear corners of HGV trailers are available)

 

 

If an artic is turning either way, the opposite rear disappears from the mirrors immediately

 

 

And if the driver just makes glancing contact, they won't feel a thing and they won't hear a thing 50ft ahead with Hard Rawk FM turned up to 11.

That's furry muff, but surely a reasonably competent HGV driver should know how far out his rear overhang is going to swing on a tight turn, and leave an appropriate distance between his wagon and parked cars?

[Kiltox]

That's furry muff, but surely a reasonably competent HGV driver should know how far out his rear overhang is going to swing on a tight turn, and leave an appropriate distance between his wagon and parked cars?

You’d think so

 

[SiC]

You’d think so

 

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Looking at that now, I certainly agree that its entirely plausible on what has caused the damage to your van in its previous life.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

That's furry muff, but surely a reasonably competent HGV driver should know how far out his rear overhang is going to swing on a tight turn, and leave an appropriate distance between his wagon and parked cars?

I'll just highlight the bit where you said "reasonably competent"

 

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[Parky]

Don’t forget it is local Election Day! Get your “x”s in the boxes everyone...

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'm currently sat in County Hall opening the postal votes. Very slow going...

[panhard65]

Picked up a new toy this morning but have been too busy to do much to it yet.

[Kiltox]

Looking at that now, I certainly agree that its entirely plausible on what has caused the damage to your van in its previous life.

Could also have been nutter white van wanker squeezing past a truck of course

[Shep Shepherd]

The Volvo's new LED headlight bulbs arrived today:

 

 

Now, to find the time to fit them

[dave21478]

The Volvo's new LED headlight bulbs arrived today:

 

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Now, to find the time to fit them

 

I would be super-interested to see a before/after photo taken at night showing how they light up the road or a building or something.

[cobblers]

I would be super-interested to see a before/after photo taken at night showing how they light up the road or peoples satellite dishes, bedroom windows, people reading the newspaper on the top deck of a bus etc etc

[ruffgeezer]

We seem to at last have turned a corner with the insurance companies due to pay for my volvo.

 

Only the insured are STILL withholding their statement and the insurer will not pay out without it.

 

The fucking cunts. Over 5 months now.

[somewhatfoolish]

ihe reactors used on a submarine are much smaller, the reactor for a submarine are actually the size of a wheelie bin, which makes you think...

 

atomic reactors were also fitted to ice breakers and, experimentally even in an areoplane.

 

for some reason the americans fitted a reactor into the bomb bay of a retired B36 Peacemaker, cannot remember if it ever flew though....

 

the floating reactors that the russians have built for use in the artic are to provide heat and power to an oil production platform. the alternative is that they burn oil or gas instead.

 

i personally have no problem with thing like that.

The unfortunately named 'Fireball' Aircraft Reactor Experiment(ARE) was quite successful as far as it went, over 1MW thermal was produced from a reactor the size of a space hopper. It was fitted in an aircraft and flown but was not run in the air. Kennedy cancelled the programme once it became clear than missiles were available immediately and much cheaper than nuclear powered bombers that might become available.

 

Molten salt reactors running at atmospheric pressure are far more intrinsically safe than PWRs as there is no stored energy in pressure vessels waiting to be released and they can be designed to have a negative thermal coefficent.

[320touring]

Met davehedgehog31 tonight to collect a tool cab he was selling. Thoroughly nice young chap - would buy from again:)

[Eddie Honda]

And you didnae grab the arrows set while you were at it?

 

 

[davehedgehog31]

Met davehedgehog31 tonight to collect a tool cab he was selling. Thoroughly nice young chap - would buy from again:)

Cheers Sir, good to meet you too! Hope the box serves you well.

[Guest Hooli]

That's furry muff, but surely a reasonably competent HGV driver should know how far out his rear overhang is going to swing on a tight turn, and leave an appropriate distance between his wagon and parked cars?

 

You're trained to use your mirrors & monitor it, the same as bus drivers are.

 

I considered it a skill to judge it that well I could take the mirror off the car parked in the bus stop with out collecting paint....

[madrat]

We seem to at last have turned a corner with the insurance companies due to pay for my volvo.

 

Only the insured are STILL withholding their statement and the insurer will not pay out without it.

 

The fucking cunts. Over 5 months now.

Try the insurance ombudsman.

[anonymous user]

Try the insurance ombudsman.

Or court, assuming that you have legal cover on your insurance (I had to do that when a B & Q truck wrote off my parked Volvo Amazon - they settled the day before the court case)

[egg]

Chassis 001 Sierra Cossie is up for auction...selling at what might turn out to be the top of the market might not be such a bad idea..

 

it's not a bASe though, is it?

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-5688245/The-Ford-Sierra-Cosworth-RS500-chassis-001-going-sold-auction-May.html

 

[Guest Hooli]

The RS500 was always my ultimate Sierra, utterly mental money these days though.

[Arthur Foxhake]

I fitted electric windows from a scrapper to my transit yesterday.

7.5 hours. Yes. 7.5.

I assumed, wrongly, that all the looms would be the same.

Not so. A fair amount of wires had to be cut from the doner van and offerings of skin and blood had them both working perfectly after some masterful* wiring.

First transit I've ever owned with electric windows.

 

Now when i drop off the labourer and he leaves the window open, I can close it without taking off my seatbelt, raising the armrest and leaning over to do it manually.

Refitting seatbelt and armrest is the reversal of...

[dollywobbler]

I fitted electric windows from a scrapper to my transit yesterday.

7.5 hours. Yes. 7.5.

I assumed, wrongly, that all the looms would be the same.

Not so. A fair amount of wires had to be cut from the doner van and offerings of skin and blood had them both working perfectly after some masterful* wiring.

First transit I've ever owned with electric windows.

 

Now when i drop off the labourer and he leaves the window open, I can close it without taking off my seatbelt, raising the armrest and leaning over to do it manually.

Refitting seatbelt and armrest is the reversal of...

 

You could have just told him to close the window...

[Jams]

So I've decided to move the mrs modern Leon on! Sacked it on gumtree and I'm already regretting it!

 

Had two texts so far with 1000 on! Just fuck off!!!!!

[twosmoke300]

Well that didn’t go to plan - was looking for a practical diesel estate car but I’ve just bought a metallic baby blue mx5 ! Perm anyone ?

[New POD]

it was on a telly program filmed on board HMS Turbulant....

 

they weren't allowed anywhere else on the boat other than the C-in-C, galley and crew quarters, but it was mentioned when talking about the reactor compartment (which they were not allowed into)

 

Try as big as a very fucking big thing that won't fit on the back of a lorry, with out an extra 12 axles and a wide load sign and a convoy of very armed Military Police and 2 yes 2 break down trucks big enough to remove the QE2 from the M5.   

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Car hire future shite. Booked a class A car from enterprise, expecting aygo or similar. Ended up with this subtle little wagon:

 

Being totally honest it wasn't a bad car at all. Handles very well, steering is lovely when in helmsman mode on B roads and I actually enjoyed piloting it. Gear change is lovely too.

 

Every other one I passed was being driven by a teenage girl so I kinda felt like I'd borrowed my daughters car, as a full size bald man it's not a good look.

 

Once I discovered you can do wizardry to connect your phone to the stereo I had shatnav with all my preloaded routes from my Google account etc and it all worked very well

 

 

Onto the motorway, I drove from Manchester Airport to Morecombe. Bit out of its depth as a city car, the previously lovely darty handling translated to it not feeling particularly well planted on the motorway. Electric power steering which was lovely before felt a bit inconsistent at speed with a sort of stiff dead spot at straight ahead which got tiring after a while. Also the clutch pedal made an annoying boing noise not unlike a cheap bed spring on return. Also when parked up and looking beyond the bits of interior you don't make contact with you can see the lovely soft touch bits don't extend very far and much normal vauxhall plastickness is evident. Annnd the wee lcd screen between the dials is mega naff and cheap. They've made a bit of effort on the dials themselves which makes this look more naff than it would normally

 

 

 

Collected my 11yr old daughter who thought it was the best car of ever. Mostly because yellow is her favourite colour so thanks enterprise for many dad points scored.

 

Overall not my sort of car but I was impressed - shows vauxhall can make a perfectly decent interesting small car. I also imagine residuals on these won't be anywhere near a fiat 500 so once daughter reaches 17 a 6yr old one should be fairly easy to procure...

 

Dropped off to enterprise before they opened, took lots of pictures to prove it wasn't on fire when I left it so hopefully I'll not be bummed for my deposit....

 

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[stuboy]

ordered a cheapo step/bumper protector as kids scratching getting in and out the back of the galaxy, cheap china one with not enough double sided tape.

[dollywobbler]

Today, the Starlet and S-MX will form a convoy to go on holiday. S-MX being delivered to its new owner on the way. I say we'll convoy, we argue more when driving in two separate cars (well, afterwards) than when navigating together in one, so I suspect we'll take two entirely separate routes and see who wins.