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[Tadhg Tiogar]

55 minutes ago, BoggyMires said:

Yeah, it's getting a blast from the jet wash. The whole area is a bit oily. It's dot 4 which I've not any problems with in the short term ... YET! Worst happens, the paint is shot anyway because patina*

I always used DoT5.1 in the 635, and also now in the diesel Borat 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Just now, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I always used DoT5.1 in the 635, and also now in the diesel Borat 

I'll change it soon when I've used up the 20gallons of dot 4 I have left! Which, if that keeps doing that, won't be long!

[stuboy]

On 2/15/2020 at 5:32 PM, Craig the Princess said:

@stuboy if you had said you were in my village you could have popped in for a cuppa

what village do u reside in??

[Eyersey1234]

Made it to Manchester, let's see what tomorrow brings. First solo drive in Central London tomorrow. 

[yes oui si]

This wee bastard was sheltering from the wind when I got back from the hospital. Have taken him out some food and a couple of blankets, hopefully he's not still there when I go back down tomorrow. 

[PhilA]

Had a go at making the craquelure paint go evenly across a fairly big panel. Worked well apart from one but that refuses to go right, typical.

Pulled off and washed the original grill cloth where the speaker goes, what was left of it.

Have found a reproduction of that exact pattern so ordered a piece to go in. Getting somewhere with this now.

 

Phil

[Craig the Princess]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

what village do u reside in??

A very windy Upwell in Norfolk.

[High Jetter]

That's not standing Up very Well.

[yes oui si]

Aren't all wells Wind-up? 

[chancer]

8 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Urgh.

Ive no idea why folk continue to buy these shitty larch lap panels. They are piss thin and dont allow wind to pass through therefore just fuck off into a neighbouring garden in the slightest breeze. I point blank refuse to supply, fit or repair fencing like this, but will happily build a slat and rail fence for a lot less cost than these! Been building fences since 2006 and every single one is still standing, and none of them has moved an inch! 

[mitsisigma01]

Shame you are the wrong end of the country, you could do my fence. Currently held down by lengths of roofing joist and all my tie down straps. 

Feckin wind

[chodweaver]

3 hours ago, yes oui si said:

This wee bastard was sheltering from the wind when I got back from the hospital. Have taken him out some food and a couple of blankets, hopefully he's not still there when I go back down tomorrow. 

Can I suggest you pop the bonnet before you head out again in this motah? - just in case homeless-mog has chosen a warm engine bay over your blankets... One cat in your exhaust system is enough, eh?

[vulgalour]

10 hours ago, captain_70s said:

My Dad's parent's driveway circa 1982ish.

My Dad's first car was a Sunny just like that!

[yes oui si]

4 hours ago, chodweaver said:

Can I suggest you pop the bonnet before you head out again in this motah? - just in case homeless-mog has chosen a warm engine bay over your blankets... One cat in your exhaust system is enough, eh?

Usually knock on the bonnet when it's cold anyway

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 hours ago, chancer said:

Ive no idea why folk continue to buy these shitty larch lap panels. They are piss thin and dont allow wind to pass through therefore just fuck off into a neighbouring garden in the slightest breeze. I point blank refuse to supply, fit or repair fencing like this, but will happily build a slat and rail fence for a lot less cost than these! Been building fences since 2006 and every single one is still standing, and none of them has moved an inch! 

Came with the house.

[yes oui si]

Cat update, he was in the blankets. Gave him more food and a dish of water, and let him be. 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Holden is dead, 1856 - 2020.

https://www.holden.com.au/announcement

 

 

[Zelandeth]

The reason we've fitted a few of these panels is that about 50 of them came with the house, so replacing the lot would be... expensive.  If we lose the odd one (I think this is the third in five years) so be it, they're £25 apiece in Wickes so it's hardly the end of the world.

Our neighbours have annoyingly just insisted on nailing the panel between our garden and them back together which I was planning on replacing today (seemed little point in doing anything with it until after the storms had done their thing).  I was just going to replace it out of our pocket, had no intention of bothering to ask them for money.  Given they live in a two bedroom house and have six kids, I'm guessing they're not exactly rolling in it. Asking them anything is a bit of a challenge though as neither of them seem to speak more than about two words of English.

Went outside while they were hammering away to suggest that I just get the panel replaced for them.  I'd bodged it together a bit after the last storm just to keep the dogs out of their garden, but unsurprisingly it disintegrated this weekend. The panel is now utterly knackered.  The lower quarter or so was rotten before we even had this wind.  The response to my suggestion was having a stream of abuse hurled at me.

Yay...once again I offer to do something for someone and get a face full of abuse for my troubles.

Plus we've now got to put up with an utterly fscked fence panel in that garden, which I know is probably going to atomise again next time we have a strong wind...so I'll need to make a point of checking every time I let the dogs out.

I really hope one day I can move back to somewhere where we don't have any immediate neighbours.  The nearest five to ten miles away would be quite nice.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

As much as my neighbours are nice people (and they are) the idea of not having for five miles is highly favourable.  This is why it is my ambition to live off the land in the Outer Hebrides...

[New POD]

ABOUT 20 years ago I bodged 2 fence panels between the house and the garage, by nailing 2 fence panels to them. The wooden post rotted at the bottom and I hammered 2 bits of wood into the ground to stabilise it. The panels started falling apart about 4 years ago and I used a selection of large long cable ties to hold it all together. 

I can't believe it survived last night.  I would be fine with it failing.  I might replace the 10 foot with a bespoke gate. 

 

 

[egg]

Just dropped the metro at the local tyre place to see if they can do something about the comical steering wheel alignment. I need it to be more like Zel's Jag ;-)!

Reckon the carb needs a tune-up slash clean.

[egg]

£40 for the tracking (and so it begins)...

But, now the steering wheel is about 5 degrees out rather than 45 and steers better for sure.  Improvement number 1, tick.

However, I knew this place would diagnose other issues for me, and I have a water leak (lucky it came with a new pump in the boot then) and a clicking nearside CV joint - which will probably need doing.

Roffle ticket price increasing ?

I'll start a thread for car (not the roffle!) soon.

[jcr]

Micra bodywork continues. Got a mobile welder to do the rear sill ends + rear part of the arch both sides, charged £200 which was reasonable I feel. The whole corner of the sill had gone, all the way through so was a tricky one. Unfortunately he overlapped the metal instead of just tacking it end to end + grinding so has required a metric ton of filler to get flat.

I managed to do the boot floor, looks pretty poor but nobody's going to see it, and it's properly attached and all! 

Hopefully will look passable eventually + after fixing the leaking rear lights and re-directing the sunroof drain through the sill drain grommet (nissan has it drain into the sill, fantastic design), should last for a few more years. 

 

Got a 400 mile round trip to south Wales coming up this weekend so we'll see how it fares

[MikeR]

I washed my car today .........

and put petrol in it ....

its had a birthday !!

[egg]

#alltheblues #90'sstreetscene.

[Six-cylinder]

I almost forgot this picture I took last Friday while shopping!

Usual look around the car park revealed nothing that caught my eye so I returned to my car and realised there were many things more interesting than what I was parked next too!

I looked over and could not say what it was until I found a badge.

Bland, bland, bland!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Six-cylinder said:

...I looked over and could not say what it was until I found a badge.

Bland, bland, bland!

Something by Kia or Hyundai?

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Something by Kia or Hyundai?

Hyundai was my first thought, but no.

[LightBulbFun]

27 minutes ago, egg said:

#alltheblues #90'sstreetscene.

I dont see your Mk12 anywhere in the shot! that would be maximum street scene/all the blues 

(I do know of a few Mk12's that made it into the 1990's dont know of any yet that made it until the end in 2003 tho sadly)

[paulplom]

2 hours ago, egg said:

£40 for the tracking (and so it begins)...

But, now the steering wheel is about 5 degrees out rather than 45 and steers better for sure.  Improvement number 1, tick.

However, I knew this place would diagnose other issues for me, and I have a water leak (lucky it came with a new pump in the boot then) and a clicking nearside CV joint - which will probably need doing.

Roffle ticket price increasing ?

I'll start a thread for car (not the roffle!) soon.

I'm sure they're meant to use a thing to hold the steering wheel at 12 o'clock and adjust the track rod ends to suit. Take it back.