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[Kiltox]

31 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Just broke my favourite cup while washing the dishes. The cup has always been ironic. The irony being, it was bought for me by the biggest cunt I've ever had the misfortune to meet.

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Replacements readily available on Amazon it seems!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

55 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Just broke my favourite cup while washing the dishes. The cup has always been ironic. The irony being, it was bought for me by the biggest cunt I've ever had the misfortune to meet....
 

They do say it takes one to know one......!

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Opening a parcel which suspiciously may have originated in China and almost immediately sneezing was a bit of a spine tingler but look...!

Now, instead of looking at a black plastic lump and saying 'that's fucking fuct', I can look at a black metal lump attached to a black plastic lump and say 'that's fucking fuct'. Instrvctions in Transylvanian too it would appear!

[HillmanImp]

3 hours ago, Craig the Princess said:

With the Multipla awaiting repairs the back up is doing station duty today.

Autoshite PHACT! #1,136

There are 3 man made things that can be seen from space, the Pyramids, Dubai and Craig the Princess's Allegro. 

[egg]

Battery fully charged on Mondeo, and started fine. But still a little bit iffy restarting halfway through a run. It's near end of life then I think, but voltage ok with engine running.

V5 has arrived for Metro.

After driving the Rover, the Mondeo feels like a Merc S class ?

[puntopaul]

My 181,000 mile 02 Focus Lords edition, failed the MOT Monday night on a rusty sill. 

Will try and get a pic of the full horror, from the aftermath of the MOT mallet!

Naturally since the car is worth the square root, of absolute diddly squat anyway.  And said sill has a ruddy great dent in it, I've ordered a new sill and instructed the garage to replace it.

Since touch wood it's been a pretty decent motor overall, considering it was £100 in the first place!

May as well see it over the 200,000 mile mark, so hopefully the old girl will be looking pretty decent soon enough.

[Eyersey1234]

31 minutes ago, puntopaul said:

My 181,000 mile 02 Focus Lords edition, failed the MOT Monday night on a rusty sill. 

Will try and get a pic of the full horror, from the aftermath of the MOT mallet!

Naturally since the car is worth the square root, of absolute diddly squat anyway.  And said sill has a ruddy great dent in it, I've ordered a new sill and instructed the garage to replace it.

Since touch wood it's been a pretty decent motor overall, considering it was £100 in the first place!

May as well see it over the 200,000 mile mark, so hopefully the old girl will be looking pretty decent soon enough.

Be nice to see it get over 200k, my aim for my Focus is at least moon mileage, at nearly 195k now. 

[egg]

Just noticed V5 doesn't have my surname on! I just love V5 fun and games...

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, egg said:

V5 has arrived for Metro.

Have I missed something here? Don't recall a Metro? 

[wuvvum]

Collectioned. 

[Springer]

At last the A6 Allroad of doom is gone out of my face!

Lol, the guy/guys who contemplated buying it for £500  should have as I got a decent chunk more from Copart.

Nice and simple and was collected this morning.?

[Craig the Princess]

19 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

A stacklighted beauty!

 

(And nice Longbridge Longroof m8)

[Craig the Princess]

5 hours ago, High Jetter said:

That is a really nice looking Allaggro.

Thank you. The scary thing is we'll have owned it 15 years in October!

[egg]

Well done Wuv! Does it run? (Trailer is a hint...)

[egg]

1 hour ago, HillmanImp said:

Have I missed something here? Don't recall a Metro? 

Here you go!

 

[RobT]

@wuvvum Fucking brilliant.

[captain_70s]

*JDM INTENSIFIES*

[TataBobu]

8 hours ago, paulplom said:

Just broke my favourite cup while washing the dishes. The cup has always been ironic. The irony being, it was bought for me by the biggest cunt I've ever had the misfortune to meet.

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When you got it, did you thank and assured  the other person that the mug will always remind you of him or her?

5 hours ago, BoggyMires said:

Instrvctions in Transylvanian too it would appear!

Could you take a picture of said instructions and post it? I do love me a nice bit of google translate humour.  Last chinese bit of kitchen equipment I bought had a nice recipe on how to make soup from babies.

[HillmanImp]

1 hour ago, egg said:

Here you go!

 

I didn't see that. I saw you were collecting something but never saw the outcome, I thought it was the Mazda. 

[egg]

I called the Mazda guy twice more, nothing doing

[Ohdearme]

Insured the Renner today so all the fleet is now driveable, Mot pending on white one 22/2 so situation is fluid.

 

[N19]

Bluebird wouldn't start this morning, didn't have time to look at it until I got home. Came back and spent a while pissing around with checking the ignition system, before realising that one of the autochoke flaps was stuck shut, and it starts perfectly if prodded open. Sod's law dictates that this is just as it gets too dark and cold to reasonably do any work, so will have to investigate further tomorrow.

[PhilA]

On 2/18/2020 at 12:28 PM, PhilA said:

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

 

Phil

New speaker grill fabric arrived. Original scrap right there to compare how it should look. Really nice fabric, happy with that.

 

Phil

[dozeydustman]

New boots ordered for Suzuki. £160 I didn't want to spend, but as I'm off to Canterbury on Saturday morning to catch up with some old Uni chums who still live round those parts I don't want 1 Polish death ring, 2 almost worn out Nankangs and an 18 year old spare.

4x Avon ZV7s to be fitted, and going mingebag by asking them not to change the valves. Only place that could have fitted them by Saturday afternoon is Formula 1 in Bognor.

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

hnnnng

[puddlethumper]

Arriving at the Sloth in a Bowl palace this morning, coz working there, pulled the handbrake up

to be greeted by a twang and nothing. Bollix ! I got new ones about 3 years ago. Pre coronavirus crap

I suppose.

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Arriving at the Sloth in a Bowl palace this morning, coz working there, pulled the handbrake up

to be greeted by a twang and nothing. Bollix ! I got new ones about 3 years ago. Pre coronavirus crap

I suppose.

Your mistake there was using it in the first place, all custodians of citroen CXs stopped applying them after a week. 

[puddlethumper]

I'll remember that if I ever have the luck, or not, of owning a CX.

[puntopaul]

8 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Be nice to see it get over 200k, my aim for my Focus is at least moon mileage, at nearly 195k now. 

Your a little bit ahead of me on mileage then! but likewise hope your Focus makes it to the moon an back again ? 

[Christine]

Oh fucking bollocks , major FTP after filling up with diesel in the garage.....starter motor failure. Not a  click , well you hear a click  but no starter motor .. not the inhibitor either as I smashed it off and bridged the wires ..Automatic Pajero so no chance of bump starting!  and it looks a right bastard to get at... Bro in law towed me home..