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[loserone]

25 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Had the headlights mended on the Subaru. £84, not the end of the world and I'm less likely to get pulled or crash for having a light out, or get pulled as I crashed because I had a light out. 

What was up with them? Just the snapped clips and ziptie bodge?

[Bren]

The vectra got it's first wash by me.

[HillmanImp]

21 minutes ago, loserone said:

What was up with them? Just the snapped clips and ziptie bodge?

No, it was some electrical shizzle stopping the O/S one working properly. I'd changed and swapped over the bulbs just after I'd got it to no avail so it was obviously an electrical gremlin. 

I mean the light still worked, it was just really dull compared to the other one. 

[brownnova]

48 minutes ago, Bren said:

The vectra got it's first wash by me.

That actually looks rather smart!! 

[SiC]

10 hours ago, PhilA said:

Urgh. Left my little 6V battery on my big charger in the den on my workbench.

Seems my big charger isn't 6 volts on the 6 volt charge setting because I just got woken up having forgotten about it, the house stinks of hydrogen disulphide and the battery was swollen and hot and the ammeter reading about 6 amps.

 

Fucksticks

 

Airing out the house at 2am, just my idea of fun. Several moths think this is their house now. 

 

Phil

And this of course is why modern chargers won't charge at 12v if the voltage is too low. Users just can't be trusted!

[PhilA]

15 hours ago, PhilA said:

I hate bodywork.

 

Still, it's coming along okay. Don't ever complain about having to put a single-DIN radio in a car again, ever.

 

Phil

Stage 1 is nearly complete. I'm glad I put the air conditioner on in the workshop else the paint would've bloomed.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

2 minutes ago, SiC said:

And this of course is why modern chargers won't charge at 12v if the voltage is too low. Users just can't be trusted!

 

It was set to 6v but still boiled the shit out of the battery.

Phil

[SiC]

Dolly on truck

Dolly in storage. Yes there is some very nice metal in where I store my cars. 

Incidentally if anyone needs a good, reliable guy to transport cars around and near Bristol, I would 100% recommend Nigel Jones. He was recommended to me by my own garage and my wifes friend. I used him before quite a few years ago when my Scenic shat itself. 

Turned up on time, super friendly and had the right gear. He uses this smaller truck for lighter jobs but also has a bigger truck for heavier. He charged 100 quid for moving this around 40 minute journey away. Plus he loaded it and helped me unload it at the other end.

Pulled this out.

Absolutely filthy. It got dirty on the back roads up to the storage when I put it away and the old battery chicken cages above the car seem to drip oil out occasionally. Will need to get a cover for it next time. 

Forgot how much I absolutely love this car. Torquey, turbine smooth engine. Old school driving position but with everything just in the right place. Started right up first time too. No doubt helped being on the CTEK charger. 

Ignition lock is even more troublesome at the moment.

 

Notice how it doesn't clunk off when the key is removed. Hitting the dash for now seems to get it to do it. If you don't, the car isn't shut off properly and you get excessive power drain. Next job is to replace the electrical switch portion. 

Also the wiper switch is a bit sticky and stiff. Hopefully that will loosen up a bit when the car gets used a bit more again. 

Coolant bottle I put a new cap on. That seems to have fixed the major coolant leak it was having. I still have a replacement coolant tank to be fitted as they're a known weak point too. 

Top mounts also need seeing to. Currently not noisy like they were but the steering isn't as planted as it should be. 

Got all the bits to fix but don't have the time. May have to outsource this to a garage to fix. My local garage have said they would do the suspension but I've not asked them about the tank. Tank is DIY'able but bit of an arse without a lift. Only thing is that they've not done any proper work on a Boxster before, so I'm not 100% I want them to do it. 

TL;DR @cort16 you need to go test drive a Boxster.

[SiC]

Just now, PhilA said:

It was set to 6v but still boiled the shit out of the battery.

Phil

I need to learn to read posts more closely.

Does the charger have any intelligent cut off or even voltage regulation? I know many of the cheaper/older chargers just are a transformer, bridge rectifier, ammeter and switch in a box. Switch changes windings used from the transformer and charge voltage is limited by what the battery will float to.

[PhilA]

9 minutes ago, SiC said:

I need to learn to read posts more closely.

Does the charger have any intelligent cut off or even voltage regulation? I know many of the cheaper/older chargers just are a transformer, bridge rectifier, ammeter and switch in a box. Switch changes windings used from the transformer and charge voltage is limited by what the battery will float to.

No, the intelligence in this one is limited to that of the user. It's a buzzy transformer in a box with a switch that selects a primary winding on the transformer to determine the output.

The ammeter shows that things are happening, not with any calibrated accuracy.

My smart charger is capable of 1.5A and I was running the radio on the bench, which draws about 4 Amps, so I decided I needed the bigger charger. Hooked it up, got distracted, broke the battery.

 

[Carlosfandango]

#sleeper

 

CFD

[HillmanImp]

There we go. That's better. 

Don't have to put the fog lights on now, unless I'm driving up and down Leeds road with all the rudeboiiiis.

[Zelandeth]

I took a chunk out of this wall a couple of years ago.

It's always going to be vulnerable to things like this as it's a major thoroughfare and you're pushed towards the wall as you need to walk around the staircase.  That damage was done by my phone sticking out of my pocket clipping it on the way past.

Hopefully this will prevent a repeat performance.

Much tidier.

[Spurious]

So I got stopped by the plod on the way home tonight. Having finished 5*12hr nights, I'm a bit shattered and very tired. 

Went to the little Tesco tonight up a mile up the road. Picked up milk and bits. 

Ran out of Tesco in the hail and pissings of rain straight into the car. What did I forget to do? Put the headlights on. GMP in a van pulled out behind me. I realise my fuck up and flick the headlights on. I get pulled anyway. 

Copper was lovely. I wonder if he spotted my paramedic jacket thrown on the passenger floor and asked was I coming home. Just mentioned that I'd finished nights and got a smile, "ah we're just starting our run of nights" was the reply. Checked licence and insurance and had a quick chat about work and away I went. 

I was shitting myself as I can't have many points on my license as the job will get fussy. Is there even a lighting up offence? 

Could have been worse. ?

 

[Eddie Honda]

44 minutes ago, Spurious said:

Is there even a lighting up offence? 

I'm no legal beagle, but I'd have thought it a S.42 offence under the RTA1988. £100 (or mibbie fifty?) but non-endorsable...

Last time I did that was just after I passed. Polis pulled up beside me and shouted to through the window to put them on. Good ol' Frank Leitch R.I.P.

[New POD]

55 minutes ago, Spurious said:

So I got stopped by the plod on the way home tonight. Having finished 5*12hr nights, I'm a bit shattered and very tired. 

Went to the little Tesco tonight up a mile up the road. Picked up milk and bits. 

Ran out of Tesco in the hail and pissings of rain straight into the car. What did I forget to do? Put the headlights on. GMP in a van pulled out behind me. I realise my fuck up and flick the headlights on. I get pulled anyway. 

Copper was lovely. I wonder if he spotted my paramedic jacket thrown on the passenger floor and asked was I coming home. Just mentioned that I'd finished nights and got a smile, "ah we're just starting our run of nights" was the reply. Checked licence and insurance and had a quick chat about work and away I went. 

I was shitting myself as I can't have many points on my license as the job will get fussy. Is there even a lighting up offence? 

Could have been worse. ?

 

That is what's called correct policing. Every person in this country has forgot to.put lights.on. Every plod, ambulance driver, doctor, nurse, pissed up hardened gangsta, every student, mother, son, father, male escort, drug push8ng pump, pharmacist on call in Salford hospital, engineer etc etc etc.

Good excuse to do the attitude test. Smell your breath, check your documents, and send you on your way, or search your car, find 3 guns and a stash of coke or bresthalyse you cause you are stinking of booze. And.are all slury.  This is why we need less speed cameras and more police. Policing. 

[5speedracer]

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...

Have you read any of the Lillian Beckwith books about a woman trying that in the '60s?

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[Craig the Princess]

Multipla currently in for its MOT.

Going for three pages of A4 on the failure sheet.

[Eyersey1234]

Just now, Craig the Princess said:

Multipla currently in for its MOT.

Going for three pages of A4 on the failure sheet.

Good luck with the MOT 

[High Jetter]

32 minutes ago, Craig the Princess said:

 

Going for three pages of A4 on the failure sheet.

Anyone taking bets? 

[Craig the Princess]

59 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Anyone taking bets? 

? Only one page, front tyres, a front suspension Bush and a couple of deep links.

[captain_70s]

6 hours ago, Spurious said:

So I got stopped by the plod on the way home tonight. Having finished 5*12hr nights, I'm a bit shattered and very tired. 

Went to the little Tesco tonight up a mile up the road. Picked up milk and bits. 

Ran out of Tesco in the hail and pissings of rain straight into the car. What did I forget to do? Put the headlights on. GMP in a van pulled out behind me. I realise my fuck up and flick the headlights on. I get pulled anyway. 

Copper was lovely. I wonder if he spotted my paramedic jacket thrown on the passenger floor and asked was I coming home. Just mentioned that I'd finished nights and got a smile, "ah we're just starting our run of nights" was the reply. Checked licence and insurance and had a quick chat about work and away I went. 

I was shitting myself as I can't have many points on my license as the job will get fussy. Is there even a lighting up offence? 

Could have been worse. ?

 

I got pulled for the same many years ago.

The copper said it was getting more and more common with new cars having permanently lit dashboards and that my MK2 Yaris was a common offender...

[yes oui si]

Did the same going back to my mk1 metro after a weekend of driving a new Seat - was completely used to auto lights, didn't notice that the headlights weren't on in the metro due to being in a bright supermarket car park, got pulled as I left. Quick attitude and detail check and I was on my way. 

[Spurious]

11 hours ago, New POD said:

That is what's called correct policing. Every person in this country has forgot to.put lights.on. Every plod, ambulance driver, doctor, nurse, pissed up hardened gangsta, every student, mother, son, father, male escort, drug push8ng pump, pharmacist on call in Salford hospital, engineer etc etc etc.

Good excuse to do the attitude test. Smell your breath, check your documents, and send you on your way, or search your car, find 3 guns and a stash of coke or bresthalyse you cause you are stinking of booze. And.are all slury.  This is why we need less speed cameras and more police. Policing. 

Absolutely agree. If it'd had been a jobsworth on the roads policing it might have been different. 

I've a lot of interactions with GMP with my job and they're always a pleasure to work with.  Majority are tolerant and patient people who we get along just fine with. Maybe it's the mutual disdain of the water fairies (Fire) who've a nice warm station to sleep in and cook fry ups on a Sunday morning. 

[Cavcraft]

New personal best at work, only my 3rd day in and they keep telling me it's not as busy as usual...

 

[Floatylight]

New personal best at work, only my 3rd day in and they keep telling me it's not as busy as usual...
 

Hospital porter?

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[busmansholiday]

13 hours ago, Spurious said:

Is there even a lighting up offence? 

Lights must be on half an hour before sunset until half hour after sunrise. In 30 zones I think sidelights are still ok otherwise headlights. 

Years ago, they used to tell you these in local papers and on the news.

[busmansholiday]

Last night, after a few beers, I checked on AutoTrader in the sub 500 squid section. Usually it's by price, for some reason I decided to use distance.

Today, Mrs BMH has a new runabout.

Tested to May, piles of paperwork with it, just needs a bit of tape over the flashing EML. Still think 325 was worth it.

Big problem is my car is now on the street in the council estate behind us so something has to go. Looks like that will sadly be the Merc, thinking about a roffle at £6 (which is what I won it for from JohnK), or 300 coins.

It's this one. (I'm actually in that pub typing this!).

 

 

[New POD]

Tell us more about the merc.

 

A ticket by the way. 

[Cavcraft]

18 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Hospital porter?

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Nope! I'm behind enemy lines at everyone's favourite* motor industry related company.