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[Bren]

Flexi hose for the SD1 arrived. Its an ap lockheed item but the last time I bought anything in similar packaging was around 1991.

 

Waiting for an oil filter to arrive as the one fitted looks ready to rust through.

[egg]

This optical illusion amused me in Margate today.

 

[hairnet]

Is this the bargain bucket disposal end of a car auction lot?542139C9-7C32-408D-B439-0B2A85697ABD.jpeg

 

Nope it’s Robt/wuvvum/HMC swapping over cars, talking shite and going for test drives on a disused industrial site

 

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that wuv - what a dimple

[stuboy]

Who says romance is dead, just ordered missus her xmas present..

[trigger]

I agreed to buy a new house today, proper bricking it now but we both hate living in our current house now after 13 years here and the local schools are poor so we've bit the bullet and bumped the mortgage up on a heavily extended 16th century 3 bed semi in a village with a garage large enough for 4 cars, not that i'll be able to afford the one's I've already got.

[Christine]

Egg !

 

Margate 1948 ( ish) 

 

Das me mum in the  middle 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margate 2007 

 

Das me wife & daughter 2007        in the same spot !

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Egg !

 

Margate 1948 ( ish)

 

Das me mum in the middle

 

Margatebeach.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Margate 2007

 

Das me wife & daughter 2007 in the same spot !

 

 

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I feel a Chas 'n Dave song coming on....

[adw1977]

ECP discount code any use to anyone?

 

[Floatylight]

On my way to a job interview in Manchester #nervous

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Good luck chodster

[Floatylight]

On my way to a job interview in Manchester #nervous

 

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[Six-cylinder]

Work on hold while I choose my new company car, they said a GL but I wonder if they will get me a 2.0i GLS as I have exceeded my targets for the last 6 months!

 

Thank you Mrbenn for my 1986 Ford brochure.

[egg]

I can feel the aspiration from here. SUV's my arse!

[stuboy]

Led headlamp bulbs delivered and fitted, off course had to arse about bending the securing spring clip, and blade crimps were too small...

[vulgalour]

That reminds me, what's the most offensively bright non-LED bulb I can fit to an R8 Rover?  I've come to conclusion that new cars have their headlights set to be as annoying as possible rather than for efficacy after last night's drive.  Seriously tempted to fit a brodozer style light bar in the back window for the fuckers that have headlights aligned to perfectly illuminate my mirrors.

[Bren]

Purchased the BBC series Edge of Darkness.

 

I was 13 when it first aired in 1985.

 

You know you are knocking on a bit when you have driven most of the cars in it.

[richardmorris]

I’ve been on holiday in the Lake District. Drove my Mercedes up to north wales on Thursday then took my parents in their DS4 up to Thirlmere for a few days. The modern is very nice ( hard ride excepting) and I’d happily buy it from them but I prefer my 24 year old merc. I hate the electronic parking brake with a vengeance though - hill starts are a pain in the bum! Plus I don’t like the way it tells you to change gear - I’ve already talked to it out loud - “well if you’re so clever you change gear.”

 

The DS ( 2litre hdi) averaged 58mpg. I managed to get to north wales and back to surrey on one tank of unleaded although the fuel light came on 20miles from home. That came to 29mpg! Not too bad considering I had enjoyed the odd moment of 80mph in third and 6000rpm larks.

 

I came back down south down the M5 due to the m 6 failing as a Motorway at brum and then across to Swindon where I had a near miss on the a419 as an Astra spun at the top of the three lane stretch uphill ( I don’t know how either) narrowly missing me and three trucks. Other than that only one idiot white van driver tailgating at most 1ft from my bumper as he was desperate to make the exit three lanes over.

[egg]

That reminds me, what's the most offensively bright non-LED bulb I can fit to an R8 Rover?  I've come to conclusion that new cars have their headlights set to be as annoying as possible rather than for efficacy after last night's drive.  Seriously tempted to fit a brodozer style light bar in the back window for the fuckers that have headlights aligned to perfectly illuminate my mirrors.

 

Osram night breakers?

[loserone]

There are brighter, but ONBs tend to last at least nearly a year.

[richardmorris]

There are brighter, but ONBs tend to last at least nearly a year.

Following a previous recommendation here I fitted the nightbreakers to my Mercedes six years ago. They made a big improvement and are still going strong.

[gm]

Random Shite tools purchased while nipping out for a bit of dinner

 

Torx set £4.99 at aldis, bolt cutters reduced from £9.99 to £3.99 at b&m. No immediate use for either but I'm sure they will come in handy sometime.

 

 

In fact, I'm off to the garage to find some bolts to cut right now

[beko1987]

Snapped the bolt cutters yet?

[Stanky]

Rolson or no, they'd still cut a snitches fingers off I reckon.

[gm]

managed to cut my finger cutting the cable ties off with a kitchen knife ! fidiot

[DodgeRover]

I have a lovely pair of bolt croppers that stand a full 4 feet tall, they appeared in my back garden one night where I assume they had been thrown to avoid police attention.

[Kiltox]

Those Aldi torx keys are handy.

 

Handles a bit flimsy though.

[worldofceri]

Today was day 2 of Mrs_WOC taking the Audi to work that I impulse-bought last week from DavidB.

 

So far the key has fallen to bits and it's emptied it's coolant expansion tank. I did give the seats a clean though. So, one step forward, two steps back... But Mrs_WOC must still be feeling chipper about it as she sent me this today:

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Someone paid money to make their new Audi look like a T reg one!

Hope the expansion tank is just cracked and it's not an underlying head gasket or head issue.

[richardmorris]

I was passed today on the m6 up near Lancaster by an audi estate with the reg 8200. I was doing 70 and it shot past.

Any ideas where it’s from? Thought they’d been cheeky with b200 but that seems to have been a Wolsey tourer. I think it was RHD. Yellow rear and white front plates. No country identifier ID.

[Angrydicky]

82 OO.