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[bub2006]

Definitely a grump. Shit seats,roof line too low,piss poor visibility, horrible driving position, stupid gear lever on the column,stupid stereo. If the qashqai is going to be longer than two days it's going to be exchanged as I can't deal with driving that.

[Guest Hooli]

Definitely a grump. Shit seats,roof line too low,piss poor visibility, horrible driving position, stupid gear lever on the column,stupid stereo. If the qashqai is going to be longer than two days it's going to be exchanged as I can't deal with driving that.

 

My boss has one and I was amazed how awful they are inside.

[bub2006]

Premium brand my left bollock. It can get in the sea

[michael t]

Love that Trim in the bin shot. Amazing

[Liggle]

Returned a crank sensor today to Euro Car Parts, the sensor was completely wrong. I thought to myself "typical euro car parts" but it turns out the sensor had been purchased by a garage, returned to ECP and the garage had just put a random sensor in the box to get a refund. Happens all the time apparently! Free sensor for the garage, doesn't help with my cynicism towards garages though. 

[RobT]

Love that Trim in the bin shot. Amazing

 

That was the third take, so I had one chance left!

[New POD]

Premium brand my left bollock. It can get in the sea

 

Ball-hock ?

 

I told you about my mate who tried to replace the number-plate bulb in his Duster, Was told by the Dacia/Renault/Nissan dealer that they would need to order a new wiring loom for the rear hatch. 

He decided that he'd be okay despite the fact that it's not legal.  Months went by, and he emailed them occasionally to enquire about the loom.  

Getting close to 3 years old and still under warranty, he emailed them arranging a service, an MOT and repair of the number-plate light.

Looking on the MOT checker he saw that it had passed, so he went to pick it up.  "show me the light working" -----oh we haven't done that because we can't get the part. 

There was a discussion about fraudulent MOT's and the fact that he'd been driving a car that wasn't legal on the road for some months, and eventually they provided him with a Galaxy - for 8 months. From a major international hire car company at who knows what cost. 

At about 6 months they suggested that they could replace the wires with some others, but my mate refused (I think he would have been fine with that if they'd just done that at the start). No you have to fit the part number that you've had on order. 

Eventually he gets it back, gets it valeted and flogs it privately. Says the money he got for it was less than the cost of the galaxy they rented him. 

 

Anyway, moral of the story, is that it might take some while, so if you ain't happy with the loan car, speak up, now. Whilst it's being fixed at least you are not putting miles on your own car. 

[New POD]

Returned a crank sensor today to Euro Car Parts, the sensor was completely wrong. I thought to myself "typical euro car parts" but it turns out the sensor had been purchased by a garage, returned to ECP and the garage had just put a random sensor in the box to get a refund. Happens all the time apparently! Free sensor for the garage, doesn't help with my cynicism towards garages though. 

 

I used the word Fraud today, so how about theft.  If I was ECP  I'd black list anyone that did this (and inform the police) more than once. Let them get parts somewhere else. I'd rather cut off my nose to spite my face than deal with crims. 

[chodweaver]

I will not be using CP4L for a while - at least until I forget about the oil filter they sent me for that most exotic and rare of beasts - a Corsa C - which was different in almost every way from the item I was taking off - different height (fine, not unusual), different diameter (ah), different thread (oh)... in a box that had obviously been opened and closed again, fairly haphazardly. CP4L listed two for the car in question, but both had the same thread so the one they sent me could not be the correct item.

 

On the other hand, it instilled confidence in my local independent parts shoppe who had it on the shelf at half the cost of the wrong item from CP4L...

[bub2006]

Mercedes going back already. I don't fit

[chodweaver]

Spending my way out of trouble again, hopefully, I have some dollies to build...

[egg]

^^Double-wax rong 'un!

 

yep, in the cold light of day...it is a bit streaky, oh well, excuse to buy a new chammy!

[panhard65]

Spending my way out of trouble again, hopefully, I have some dollies to build...

You need a really smooth floor for those and if they find a pot hole with a medium weight car on they buckle like toffee. I bought a set a few years ago and now I think there is only one that still does it's job

[chodweaver]

Oh dear. Their first task is right at their weight limit, on slightly nobbly tarmac.

 

There may be tears.

[Tickman]

I have used mine on not the greatest of concrete floors and they have worked ok.

If you can get help it is quite a bit easier on not the smoothest surface.

[Bren]

The SD1's starter has a new solenoid. Lets hope it's easier to refit than it was to remove.

[brownnova]

I have more cars than space... and no time to work on the cars I do have... so the obvious thing to do is to leave my number for a guy who was out at work but apparently wants to sell his festering non runner on the drive....

 

If it’s cheap It’ll probably be at mine soon... ????

[Fumbler]

Rear door card of Volvo is not loose and will probablt fall off soon. At least it won't get stuck in the doorspace when the door opens like Clarkson's SD1 did at Longbridge.

[xtriple]

having had a 'heated' telephone call earlier, I was a tad wound up so just wanted to do something different. In a flash of inspiration I decided to get the roof lining out of the Jaguar, didn't look tooooooo difficult to be honest so could fill an hour or so where my blood pressure would fall back to 'human' levels.

 

Bloody stupid poxy thing was the easiest job I've ever done on a car, it was out of the car inside ten minutes! But, just to 'not let me down' it proved to be a right mess, all the foam on the fibreglass board has just gone flakey and came off with a rub from the fingers. The cloth itself is in fine order but the back of it is stained with glue/foam and I have no idea how to get it off?

 

I was told that to have a successful head lining, 80% of the board should be glued, this I reckon has 20 - 30% at best. This bare in mind is a professional, new headlining made for the car at a cost of £350 (not to me - last owner). Utter crap.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Returned a crank sensor today to Euro Car Parts, the sensor was completely wrong. I thought to myself "typical euro car parts" but it turns out the sensor had been purchased by a garage, returned to ECP and the garage had just put a random sensor in the box to get a refund. Happens all the time apparently! Free sensor for the garage, doesn't help with my cynicism towards garages though. 

 

 

Similar thing happened with an air filter for me recently.  Was dirty and obviously used when I got it out of the box.  I don't normally go for Crosland ones but I might do from now on because their boxes have the tamper seal on them.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Non-car-related by I am a master of electronics shite.

 

Fixed my old iPod with an SD card adapter.  The old 1.8" HDD bit the dust a couple of years ago.  I'm going to New York in a few weeks and don't like listening to music using my phone, so thought I'd get the old beast working.

 

Nice thing is that if I want to, I can easily get a 256GB SD card if I need it.  The 128 in there is big enough but it's easy to change it out now I know how to take the iPod apart.

 

[vulgalour]

Getting antsy about houses now.  The chances of us moving in December is getting higher with every passing week.  We at least have a new shortlist, frustratingly some of the houses on the shortlist are properites that sold before we got to view them the first time around much earlier in the year and that makes me think there's probably something wrong with them and we'll have the same sort of merry old dance that has caused us to have three failed purchases so far.

 

I only need to give one month notice on my current place, bf needs to give 2.  That, combined with the predicted 4-6 weeks of paperwork from the point you agree to buy the house to being allowed to move in does not give me much confidence that there's enough time for it to happen this year.

 

If I never take part in trying to buy another house, it will be too soon.

[HMC]

Just finished up at work,

Quick trip to the car before I visit the local Chinese (back of shot)

 

As of tomorrow it’s my sole 4 wheeled transport (until next Thursday and Bramz7 and I go on a 100% Italian road-trip)

[tapir]

do i need my eyes testing?

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[The Moog]

 

I only need to give one month notice on my current place, bf needs to give 2.  That, combined with the predicted 4-6 weeks of paperwork from the point you agree to buy the house to being allowed to move in does not give me much confidence that there's enough time for it to happen this year.

 

If I never take part in trying to buy another house, it will be too soon.

 Quickest I have ever bought and moved into a house is 3 months. That was with no chain, mortgage sorted and a repossession so a quick sale.  Everything takes forever.  Plus once you get to December, solicitors, estate agents etc pretty much stop working. 

[omegod]

having had a 'heated' telephone call earlier, I was a tad wound up so just wanted to do something different. In a flash of inspiration I decided to get the roof lining out of the Jaguar, didn't look tooooooo difficult to be honest so could fill an hour or so where my blood pressure would fall back to 'human' levels.

 

Bloody stupid poxy thing was the easiest job I've ever done on a car, it was out of the car inside ten minutes! But, just to 'not let me down' it proved to be a right mess, all the foam on the fibreglass board has just gone flakey and came off with a rub from the fingers. The cloth itself is in fine order but the back of it is stained with glue/foam and I have no idea how to get it off?

 

I was told that to have a successful head lining, 80% of the board should be glued, this I reckon has 20 - 30% at best. This bare in mind is a professional, new headlining made for the car at a cost of £350 (not to me - last owner). Utter crap.

I just went to a big fabric shop to re do my saab 9000 headlining at the cost of £12 for something very close to original, scraped/hoovered off all the foam dust and used some spray glue designed for neoprene I recall, lesser glue lasted literally 10 minutes 

[chodweaver]

I have used mine on not the greatest of concrete floors and they have worked ok.

If you can get help it is quite a bit easier on not the smoothest surface.

 

Oh, I'm going to need help alright. The front wheels are on dollies now. Is there the slightest hint of movement across the tarmac?

 

IS THERE FOOK!

 

I've been wandering round and round the car, offering up trolley jacks, farm jacks, pieces of wood, pieces of steel tubing, trying to figure out what I can push or pull against and with what, to even get an inch of movement in the right direction.

 

Why haven't a bought a winch? And a Defender attached to it? And a farm on which to park the Defender? In fact, if I'd done all these things, I wouldn't have the situation of a large piece of Yank/Austrian tin being in the wrong place....

 

<sigh> Try again tomorrow

[somewhatfoolish]

The cloth itself is in fine order but the back of it is stained with glue/foam and I have no idea how to get it off?

 

Perhaps lob it through the washer on a cold wash?

 

I just went to a big fabric shop to re do my saab 9000 headlining at the cost of £12 for something very close to original, scraped/hoovered off all the foam dust and used some spray glue designed for neoprene I recall, lesser glue lasted literally 10 minutes

It definitely needs to be high temp impact adhesive, otherwise you'll be wearing the cloth as a keffiyeh quite quickly.

[Kiltox]

Quickest I have ever bought and moved into a house is 3 months. That was with no chain, mortgage sorted and a repossession so a quick sale. Everything takes forever. Plus once you get to December, solicitors, estate agents etc pretty much stop working.

4 months and counting. Actually nearly 7 but that bit’s my own fault

[Ghosty]

Off to Peebo tomorrow, for some slightly straighter parts for my GTi. Good *enough*, anyway, if not perfect. I think I might end up wobbing a dent in the bonnet...

 

After we're done down there, I'm giving the parts vendor a lift to a car he won on eBay a few hours ago... don't think he's on here but he has JohnK and Dollywobbler on Facebook.