The new news 24 thread

[davehedgehog31]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

where they moan about everything and blame there significant others

Enough about here, what about Mumsnet? 

[Spurious]

Shockingly there's only surface rust underneath. Hurrah

[Spurious]

[mention=18217]brownnova[/mention]
In fact isn't it Hubnut Social this weekend? [mention=3690]dollywobbler[/mention]

I think so. I'm going all going to plan

[barefoot]

I forgot to mention it last week but my Scirocco failed its MOT on metal. Apparently there wasn't enough of it in a couple of places where there should have been lots. I toyed with chucking in the towel & moving it on. It's very, very scruffy. Mentioned it to a couple of garages, both of whom appeared to want to snatch my hand off. Reasoning that its probably still worth a few bob then, I set my man with the sparkly stick to work. Whilst he's got it on the ramp, he's also going to replace the OS driveshaft that I managed to bend in a front wheel/high speed/kerb interface incident a couple of years back. It's been acting as a speed limiter for a while - at 75 the whole car rattles like its going to shake itself to bits. The front seats have also seen better days, so I'm just off down to the local Corrado breaker to pick up a couple of replacements. It's always been a nice car, it might just become a nicer car.

[Spurious]

Sciroccos are a rare sight nowadays, glad it's staying on the road...

(I'm a Scirocco friendly home btw, just in case it's ever for sale )

[Cord Fourteener]

6 hours ago, brownnova said:

Look out for the Yellow & white 2CV pottering round North Wales, that’ll be me! 

ooh a 924!! I used to have one, favourite car I’ve ever owned. Regret selling it very much!! Really love another one! 

Yes Hubnut social in Aberystwyth this Saturday I believe. 

I'll look out for sure! Hoping to get me 924 back tomorrow, might be a long shot. If not I'll be bmwing it to hubnut, if I get to go... fingers crossed.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Drove the CX to a Jamaican Seventh Day Adventist funeral yesterday. I thought that went very well.

[egg]

Loads of road works (minor) popping up all over East Kent at the moment, the Council hasn't suddenly got all efficient, I'm told it's mostly no-deal Brexit prep (especially Thanet way for possible operation stack type activities at Manston airport)

[taxi paul]

Managed to part ex the jap bus today. Going for a kia modern. So out the vectra on facebook marketplace for £350. Want the money to put celica on the road. Had my first message that just says £200. Oh the Joy's. 

[Spurious]

Managed to part ex the jap bus today. Going for a kia modern. So out the vectra on facebook marketplace for £350. Want the money to put celica on the road. Had my first message that just says £200. Oh the Joy's. 

I'll give you 50 quid and my old Xbox360. Collect tonight.

[taxi paul]

So far I have someone who will give me 200 for the cat. Swap for a load of fireworks. Or 200 now and 150 next week.  I can see the vectra being scrapped. Cant be arsed with dickheads. 

[brownnova]

Worth popping a for sale thread on here? 

[taxi paul]

13 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Worth popping a for sale thread on here? 

Already one on here thanks. Anyone would think all Vauxhall's are shite. Hang on. 

[Shep Shepherd]

Interesting day today. Went to my local A&E department with a painfully swollen left foot just before dawn and ended up being operated on in the afternoon under general anaesthetic in order to drain and clean a nasty abscess which had been caused by goodness knows what.

Hopefully, I'll be discharged tomorrow. 

[egg]

jeez, take it easy man, hope you get home tomorrow.

[wuvvum]

Bit of a mixed bag on the vehicular front today.  The Maxus passed its MOT retest, but then when I went to pick it up it wouldn't start - the battery has been on the feeble side for a while but has now completely shat itself - even after a 10-mile drive there isn't enough in it to restart the van.  Fortunately I had gone up in the Volvo, rather than getting the train as originally planned, so I was able to pull in next to it and jump start it.  So that's going to be at least 70 quid for a new battery.  Still, I shouldn't whinge - it's a <£500 van and all it needed for the test was a couple of part worns and a split CV boot - total cost <£150 including the test fee.  I've had far more expensive vans fare much worse than that.

Left the Volvo there and drove home in the van, as I knew that if I switched the van off it wouldn't restart.  Went back up later to fetch the Volvo, and on the way back the rear silencer fell off, on a particularly twisty stretch of unlit A-road.  Cue a rapid U-turn at the first junction and a hoon back up the road to try and get to the silencer before someone hit it.  Which I did, although I caused a minor traffic jam whilst retrieving it and putting it in the boot.  I'm going to see if I can get it welded up as V70 T5 exhausts are surprisingly expensive.

I did have some fun in the V70 this morning though.  On the way in to work, in a long queue of traffic rolling along at 50.  Some tit in a 19-plate 3-series koop (or are the koops 4-serieses these days?  I dunno - it was debadged apart from the inevitable M-Sport badge) was doing the usual thing of blasting past a couple of cars at a time whenever there was a gap in the oncoming traffic.  Completely pointless when the 50-mph convoy stretches as far as the eye can see, but there you go.  He managed to get to 2 cars in front of me, then there were no more gaps.  Got to the roundabout for the bypass and the two cars in front of me turned right, so I was back behind the BM turning left.  He nailed it, so did I, and I was right up his jacksie all the way to the next roundabout.  He went straight on there and I turned right - I glanced over as I passed him and his face was a picture.  I think I'm going to like this car.

Oh yeah, and it sounds proper horny with a missing back box.  I do love a 5-pot. 

[robinmasters]

Today I met the man who invented the material base-model unpainted bumpers are made of. 

[stuboy]

1 hour ago, robinmasters said:

Today I met the man who invented the material base-model unpainted bumpers are made of. 

peanut butter salesman?

[tommotech]

I’ve been working on Isle of Man this week with their transport authority. I never realised how strict their roadworthiness test was, but conversely how lax it is once the test is passed where it doesn’t need presenting again (if the vehicle is taxed within two years). 

I had to look at some Diesel engines fitted to shunters and had a personal guided tour of the steam workshops in Douglas, I know there are people that appreciate them here so have a couple of pics;

[taxi paul]

More lovely messages through the night from people who don't understand no swaps or px for my vectra. Never mind spare a thought for my neighbour.  About a month ago she had her modern set fire to on the drive. Total write off. It was two years old and she had paid £17,000 on finance for it, no gap insurance. Apparently insurance have offered her around £14,000 . So she still owes the finance around £7,000 she was saying. Ouch. 

[tooSavvy]

46 minutes ago, tommotech said:

I’ve been working on Isle of Man this week with their transport authority. I never realised how strict their roadworthiness test was, but conversely how lax it is once the test is passed where it doesn’t need presenting again (if the vehicle is taxed within two years). 

I had to look at some Diesel engines fitted to shunters and had a personal guided tour of the steam workshops in Douglas, I know there are people that appreciate them here so have a couple of pics;

Doesn't Fred Dibnahs son do 'steam things' on the island.....

[richardmorris]

2hours 45 mins it took to do 100miles up the m20, 26 and 25 last night from the tunnel.  

Anyway, I have done my best with the European wine lake.  Not a bad sized boot for a coupe (18 cases) and it doesn’t look too low either. You can feel the weight in the tail round roundabouts though.

 

[richardmorris]

on the way back the scenic way in France, I stopped at a British cemetery I’ve been passing for years but not visited before.

Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt

Beautifully kept, as they all are. But really, truly desperately sad. Especially as most of them were just “ a soldier of the Great War, known unto god”. 19, 20 years of age, some identified by regiment and rank only. It’s bringing tears now. 

 

From wiki Located in the cemetery is the Vis-en-Artois Memorial which lists the names of 9813 men (9806 British and 16 South African) who fell from 8 August 1918 to the Armistice and who have no known grave. The memorial has a screen walls in three parts on which is carved the names of the missing listed by regiment.^[2]The memorial was designed by British sculptor Ernest Gillick.

[Supernaut]

53 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

That's you sorted until Guy Fawkes night, but then what are you going to do after that?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

2hours 45 mins it took to do 100miles up the m20, 26 and 25 last night from the tunnel.  

Anyway, I have done my best with the European wine lake.  Not a bad sized boot for a coupe (18 cases) and it doesn’t look too low either. You can feel the weight in the tail round roundabouts though.

 

No Mouton Rothschild? After all that?

[richardmorris]

23 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

No Mouton Rothschild? After all that?

Non.

i was tempted with a nice chateau Neuf du pape, but a single case was going to cost more than the hotel bill!

 

Witness, the serried ranks....

[Tadhg Tiogar]

15 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Non.

i was tempted with a nice chateau Neuf du pape, but a single case was going to cost more than the hotel bill!

 

Witness, the serried ranks....

I'm very jealous.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I'm very jealous.

It’s my kind of stockpiling:-)

 

edit, the grey thing in the background is the passenger carpet from the Mercedes.  Drying out, because the car leaks like a sieve. 

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

That's you sorted until Guy Fawkes night, but then what are you going to do after that?

In all fairness, two dozen are for my parents ( the greedy swines).

[richardmorris]

And in car news. The Mercedes reached 123456miles  last night. But I was too busy driving to photograph the moment. That’s 50,000miles I’ve done in 7.5 years.