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Guest Hooli

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Commit ...... stop divering.... but first you need to test the strength of her unconditional love for you.... you can either sleep with her best friend or buy a zafira ......

If your relationship ends just because of as meer car....she clearly wasn't the one.

 

 

That sums up autoshite dating in a nutshell.

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Guest Hooli

Guest Hooli

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Grump for the day 5:30am start for work due to generator testing on another site we support.

 

Grin for the day, despite 50% failure of all the UPS' my bodgery last time we had a power failure to get everything working with loads of cables draped everywhere seems to work. Except for the phone system, but if they can't report a fault it didn't happen right? Besides that's so old fashioned it'd survive a direct nuclear attack (which would improve Rotherham).

 

Overall I don't think it's a grin or a grump so news 24 is the place for it. Plus I get to finish at 1:30 if I want because of the silly start time.

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twosmoke300 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

twosmoke300

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Uh oh I appear to have bought another cheapie mx5 in preparation for the summer again .

Blind purchase on eBay of course . Bought mainly just to prove to my mate that he’s crazy doing an almost full resto on his and that I’ll be cruising in the summer while he’s welding and grinding .

 

A mere 209k on this one but tested TIL sept and drove the 170 miles non stop back from Bristol fine on Sunday .

Big baggier than the one I had last summer but it was only 480 quid so I’m not too worried. Good hood etc too . Clean sheet MOT ! Winning

New POD Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Uh oh I appear to have bought another cheapie mx5 in preparation for the summer again .

Blind purchase on eBay of course . Bought mainly just to prove to my mate that he’s crazy doing an almost full resto on his and that I’ll be cruising in the summer while he’s welding and grinding .

 

A mere 209k on this one but tested TIL sept and drove the 170 miles non stop back from Bristol fine on Sunday .

Big baggier than the one I had last summer but it was only 480 quid so I’m not too worried. Good hood etc too . Clean sheet MOT ! Winning

Is that all they cost? Mk1 or mk2 ?

New POD Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

New POD

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That sums up autoshite dating in a nutshell.

I'm offering the opposite advise to that that I would have given 29 years ago before I got married and spent 29 years compromising.

If I'd not compromised I'd undoubtedly be single, sad and in debt. Or Not.

We will never know.

NorfolkNWeigh Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

NorfolkNWeigh

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Is it wrong that I suddenly have a penchant for an early Zafira.

Yes, obviously it's wrong and I suspect deep down you know this and are punishing yourself for some misdeed or thought in your past.

Some sort of therapy would probably be the modern , caring , liberal way of helping you through this difficult period in your automotive life story.

But...

GET A FUCKING GRIP, MAN!!!

 

Saying that, I for one are proud that this place is seen as a safe space that people can share the dark thoughts that would see them ostracised by other lass cuddly areas of cyberspace.

Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Jim Bell

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Is it wrong that I suddenly have a penchant for an early Zafira.

No, they're very good.

Get a diesel though, the pez Zafira As do like to shit their fans and cook the ECU which is mounted directly to the block.

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D Spares & Tyres Rank: Renault 16

D Spares & Tyres

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Is it wrong that I suddenly have a penchant for an early Zafira.

You need help asap

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fordperv Rank: Lancia Gamma

fordperv

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The only zaf A I have experienced are the gsi turbo, they are a funny thing but unfortunately they have all been ragged to within an inch of their life, my pal who is a vauxhall licker has had 2 his first ended up breathing like a 60 a day chain smoker, the second hasn't been too bad but a bodger has been there in the past

 

Can I suggest an innapropriate badge engineered zaf? Go proper Jdm and get a Subaru tragic erm sorry I mean Subaru traviqpost-4828-0-75998500-1548149633_thumb.jpg

New POD Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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The only zaf A I have experienced are the gsi turbo, they are a funny thing but unfortunately they have all been ragged to within an inch of their life, my pal who is a vauxhall licker has had 2 his first ended up breathing like a 60 a day chain smoker, the second hasn't been too bad but a bodger has been there in the past

 

Can I suggest an innapropriate badge engineered zaf? Go proper Jdm and get a Subaru tragic erm sorry I mean Subaru traviq 9204052subaru_traviq_silver_street_20-544676b9f1cc9.jpg

This sort of information makes me wonder if "we" are ALL on some sort of spectrum.

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Mally Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

Mally

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Step one:  give loan to good friend.

 

Step two: good friend cannot repay loan when you want the money back.

 

Step three:  good friend offers you a Zafira to clear the debt.

 

Step four:  Zafira acquired that technically you did not purchase.  Everybody wins.

Never lend money, especially to a good friend. If they do not repay you they are no longer a friend.

You can give money to a friend if you can afford to lose it.

If they repay, well and good. If not they are still your friend.

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Mally Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

Mally

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Never lend money, especially to a good friend. If they do not repay you they are no longer a friend.

You can give money to a friend if you can afford to lose it.

If they repay, well and good. If not they are still your friend.

If they fail to repay, do not give again.
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New POD Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

New POD

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Never lend money, especially to a good friend. If they do not repay you they are no longer a friend.

You can give money to a friend if you can afford to lose it.

If they repay, well and good. If not they are still your friend.

I think when he said loan in step 1 he meant "loan" ..... as in paying for the zafira in advance.....

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Asimo Rank: Isuzu Florian

Asimo

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Bum clenching moment this morning as a large slab of ice flew off an oncoming curtain-side artic. 

I ducked as this glacier of doom came windmilling toward me but the ice hit the rear window with a hell of a crash. The rear glass is almost horizontal on the Insight and pretty thin so I was real lucky it didn't break.

(Luckier still it didn't come through my windscreen)

dozeydustman Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

dozeydustman

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The rolling restoration Austin Ambassador with bonus Plaaaahhhhh has made a comeback locally to me, now with new wing and door in primer. I has photo to add to Mr Vulgalour's wedgister. When my mac & phone manage to sync.

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dozeydustman Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

dozeydustman

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And I spotted this today while getting some bits in Lidl

 

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richardmorris Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

richardmorris

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I’ve just got back home with the Mercedes.post-8687-0-33017000-1548171582_thumb.jpeg

 

Tyres still a couple of mm above limit, so I’m just about to check prices. This thing does like tyres- I seem to be changing a pair a year, fronts were done last year.

 

Now it’s snowing.

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clayts450 Rank: Renault 16

clayts450

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Switching from fags to vapes today. Been a long time coming.

 

Last fag at 10am, vaping like a trooper since then on some strong 18mg tobacco flavoured stuff. Quite impressed that my cravings aren't too bad so far. Early days.

 

Went for the pauper/simpleton version of equipment, following a leaflet through my front door with a 20% discount code TVS2, so £20 got me this little lot

 

https://logicvapes.co.uk/logic/starter-kits/logic-pro-variety-starter-kit.html

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They_all_do_that_sir Rank: Renault 16

They_all_do_that_sir

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Off work with a bad back.....in bed with HubNut d8d6c2d029c362e2a6327f41b9c20726.jpg

 

Sent from my TA-1012 using Tapatalk

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Mally Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

Mally

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I think when he said loan in step 1 he meant "loan" ..... as in paying for the zafira in advance.....

I think his friend was looking for a way to get rid of a Zafira.

fordperv Rank: Lancia Gamma

fordperv

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I think his friend was looking for a way to get rid of a Zafira.

Easy to do with a can of petrol and box of swan vestas

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puddlethumper Rank: Renault 16

puddlethumper

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Don't Zafiras do that on their  own ? Or is that summat else.

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fordperv Rank: Lancia Gamma

fordperv

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Don't Zafiras do that on their own ? Or is that summat else.

That's the zafira B with their heaters being too efficient

stonedagain Rank: Citroen Ami

stonedagain

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Anybody have experience of Maxxis van tyres?

 

New tyres are needed for the Dispatch I’ve been offered a set at the right price. Van tyres are preferable but the 195/70 x 14 size is not popular these days and pickings are slim. I do want to keep it on 14’s though, it seems to look right.

Not van tyres, but had a set of Maxxis crap tyres on a Vectra C. Lethal in the wet & road noise was deafening. They got binned before they were half worn cos I couldn't stand them any longer!
fordperv Rank: Lancia Gamma

fordperv

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Had some maxxis 195 60 14 on my saph, they were the worst tyres I've ever driven on, at the merest sniff of moisture my daily drive turned into a Ken block gymkhana

loserone Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

loserone

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I have a Maxxis MaxxDaddy on my Pashley unicycle. It's pretty grippy except for on wet vinyl flooring.

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richardmorris Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

richardmorris

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Trying to remain some sort of rounded character instead of reading car stuff today I read the National Trust Handbook.

 

It was ok as I managed to find Sutton House in Hackney with a Breaker's Yard. Anybody been there and know what it is all about?

 

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-house-and-breakers-yard

Ok, you read It so I don’t have to - let us know anything interesting :-)

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