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[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, shedenvy said:

Can you see it?

Only a bloody Lancia Stratos. Weapons grade shite.

A120 near Colchester.

I wonder if he knows auto Italia at Stanford hall this weekend is cancelled?

[wuvvum]

I'm going to miss these old heaps when they're gone. 

Heading underground now. 

[davehedgehog31]

3 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

It's a beautiful morning and I'm away to look at a caur. 

 

It's a beautiful early efternoon and I've bought a caur. 

Rendezvous with 320T for shlep to East Kilbride. 

The sights of EK (archishite thread fur this pish) 

New steed. 1.9 TDI, long MOT and low miles. Drives nice. Usual scabbiness but seems solid in right places. 

Mild haggling based on a clunky engine or gearbox mount. Had 3/4 of a tank of fuel so what was I meant to do? 

[davehedgehog31]

3 hours ago, Alan_Green said:

That's interesting. So the Springburn sign has the gaelic version below?  Do people like that? It seems odd to me. Springburn is about as far from gaelic culture as you could get (and I was born in Springburn BTW). Does this kind of celtification anger loyalist types? 

I think it's "birthday caird pish" personally. No practical reason for it, don't think there's many gaelic speakers anywhere other than the North West and even they all speak English nowadays... 

Not heard of it angering any of the flute band types, but Grass being green angers them so we never can be sure. 

[RobT]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

done similar

used the ferry instead as it was cheaper

will do it one day tho 

I bought a tag, which made it half price and can also be used on the Great Belt bridge.  The latter was full price, but two crossings on each totalled £98.

I did consider getting the ferry, but was enjoying the drive so went the long, more expensive way!

[somewhatfoolish]

12 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said:

I think it's "birthday caird pish" personally. No practical reason for it, don't think there's many gaelic speakers anywhere other than the North West and even they all speak English nowadays... 

Not heard of it angering any of the flute band types, but Grass being green angers them so we never can be sure. 

Both 'teams' have flute bands these days, presumably otherwise unobservant catholics felt left out and desired a 'tackety boots and tabards' franchise to call their own. GCC told them not to march recently because of policing issues and the papers were full of blowhard bullshit about 'rights', no mention of responsibilities though. Quite why they want to block up roads and make a nuisance of themselves is unclear when Glasgow is well equipped with spacious and pleasant parks they could do their drumming, tootling and marching in and leave everyone else in peace. Given churches of most flavours increasingly have tumbleweed blowing through them the whole thing baffles me.

[wuvvum]

Now on a Pendoleano - poor man's APT.  Heading northish. 

[Spurious]

Both 'teams' have flute bands these days, presumably otherwise unobservant catholics felt left out and desired a 'tackety boots and tabards' franchise to call their own. GCC told them not to march recently because of policing issues and the papers were full of blowhard bullshit about 'rights', no mention of responsibilities though. Quite why they want to block up roads and make a nuisance of themselves is unclear when Glasgow is well equipped with spacious and pleasant parks they could do their drumming, tootling and marching in and leave everyone else in peace. Given churches of most flavours increasingly have tumbleweed blowing through them the whole thing baffles me.

Much like Norn Iron and the marching season over there, I suspect much of it is about about identify and the perceived threat and dilution of their identify. Hence the orange order continue to march in silly hats and cry about dead kings and battles long gone.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

32 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Much like Norn Iron and the marching season over there, I suspect much of it is about about identify and the perceived threat and dilution of their identify. Hence the orange order continue to march in silly hats and cry about dead kings and battles long gone.
 

....and set things on fire.

[richardmorris]

 

35 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Much like Norn Iron and the marching season over there, I suspect much of it is about about identify and the perceived threat and dilution of their identify. Hence the orange order continue to march in silly hats and cry about dead kings and battles long gone.
 

All signs in wales are welsh first, which is fine, but by the time you’ve noticed the roadworks board you’ve passed by and don’t know what it said. I read, spoke and wrote welsh in school but can recall very little. In Wrexham there are more native polish speakers than welsh.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

[wuvvum]

Bye Pendolino. 

I am now North.  It is raining. 

[wuvvum]

Actual APT sort of spotted. 

[wuvvum]

Now in the land of people with black curly hair and an approximate approach to the concept of personal property.  Last train of the day has been cancelled, fortunately the next one is only 23 minutes later. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

9 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Now in the land of people with black curly hair and an approximate approach to the concept of personal property.  Last train of the day has been cancelled, fortunately the next one is only 23 minutes later. 

A a a a cah'm down

[wuvvum]

Yay!  It's one of these shitheaps.  ?

[wuvvum]

I love how the transmission locks up at slightly different speeds on each carriage. 

[Spurious]

Yay!  It's one of these shitheaps.  

God I hate Northern and Pacers.

I'm normally a bit sentimental with trains but this railbus can not quick enough be driven into a scrapyard.

[MikeR]

FFS . sons dog just passed on . only had it a month .. It wobbled in from outside and fell "asleep" at his feet ...  We are all gutted . it was a good dog .  

[stuboy]

Shalaxy back on wheel collection duties, this time some new wheels for the mondogno..

[clayts450]

5 hours ago, clayts450 said:

Quick trip over to Rimmers this morning (to swerve their postage and to give one of the fleet a runout).

All going swimmingly well in the 'onda until just outside Lincoln where there was a sound like a stone being chucked out of the nsf wheelarch followed by a repetitive clunk. Pulled over - no flames or owt, so did the last few miles at granny speed. Pulled into Rimmers, reversed, big clunk. Knocking noise gone. Shrugged shoulders and drove home after picking up my goody bag.

Will pull the wheel off later, but I suspect something caliper related, as there is an interesting* noise when braking now.

Unsurprisingly the bottom guide pin bolt was missing in action. What idiot tightened that up last time then ? (yup......)

Sorted, and punched myself in the face a few times with a ratchet (accidentally) as punishment

[wuvvum]

[Supernaut]

1 minute ago, wuvvum said:

You'd better be continuing north and leaving it over the border, then!

(Says a Scotsman who has never owned a Volvo)

[Spurious]

Is it a bit of a stereotype the Scots and Volvos?

Bit like the Irish farmers driving Carina Es?

[New POD]

43 minutes ago, MikeR said:

FFS . sons dog just passed on . only had it a month .. It wobbled in from outside and fell "asleep" at his feet ...  We are all gutted . it was a good dog .  

Sorry to hear that mate.  When your wife told her sister she misheard and thought she'd said Dad and not Spud. 

Pm sent.

[skattrd]

If that's a T5 Wuv you'd better fill the tank for the drive home

[wuvvum]

It is, and I have. 

[anonymous user]

Finally got my Chrysler back from getting the exhaust fixed. Moody rain swept shot, I still think it looks like an updated Rover P5.

[wuvvum]

Home.  33.7mpg average according to the computer, which isn't too bad I don't reckon.

I blame my recent trip to Scotland.  Ever since then I've had a hankering for a fast Volvo.  I'd made up my mind to bid on that megamile 850 T5, but then it got yanked off eBay and hasn't reappeared since that I've seen.  Then a V70 T5 appeared on the Bay with a tempting BIN price, but a bloody long way away - Widnes in fact.  So I used the Best Offer button and submitted what I thought was a slightly cheeky offer which would offset most of the cost of going to get it, and slightly to my surprise it was accepted.

I've had a V70 T5 before (which funnily enough I collected from Northwich so just round the corner from this one), but it was a Badermatic and the gearboxes on those don't have the best reputation at higher mileages.  This one is a manual, and although it's not the slickest gearchange in the world I have more confidence in it than I would in an auto.

I'd be lying if I said it's the best example of the breed.  It has a large dent in the nearside rear door, and a smaller one in the offside front wing; the driver's seatbelt is a PITA to unreel and the driver's seat has seen much better days.  It also has a separate switch to control the sidelights, and a silly aftermarket back box which needs replacing.  It has a serious clonk from the nearside front suspension over sharp bumps.  And it's done 258K.  Also the ABS and TCS lights randomly came on whilst I was cruising at 60 on the A17, although they went off when I restarted the engine.  The essentials are there though - it sounds sweet, doesn't get hot, the cruise control works and most importantly it goes like sh*t off a shovel.  It's not as silly quick as Dave_Flowers' nutter machine - it only* has 250bhp - but it was a great deal cheaper.  It's an early one, which keeps the VED down.  And it has a bigger boot.  I'm quite happy with my purchase thus far.

[skattrd]

33.7mpg from a T5 is very good going.
I think I once got mine up to 29, but that was driving like it was full of nuns and kittens.
I also got 19mpg from one tank, that was much more fun.