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[GeorgeB]

1 hour ago, Skizzer said:

 

 

I’m shear those sheep puns are woolly unacceptable.

Happy news here, the ex- @Vantman Accord now has a fresh MOT after the replacement of a perished CV boot. Paul the Garage says nothing to worry about with this one, which is nice.

Here it is being hailed on the other day.

 

Edit: I don’t know what those weird black not-video things are doing at the top of this post. I can’t delete them. We’ll have to live with them.

Just North Korean spybot things, probably.

No idea what they were, but I seem to have managed to delete them.

[stuboy]

got volunteered by a fellow senior to change a headlamp bulb on a aca's vauxhall meriva, drivers side, you need skinny, long hands...

'oh stuart will take a look for you' thanks luv...

[meggersdog]

1 hour ago, Angrydicky said:

When did they actually become a fail then? I thought the only boots they could fail on were CV and steering rack!

when the inspection manual was revamped in 2018. Any  balljoint (steering or suspension) dust cover no longer preventing an ingress of dirt etc is a major fail , severely deteriorated is a minor.

[GeorgeB]

16 minutes ago, meggersdog said:

when the inspection manual was revamped in 2018. Any  balljoint (steering or suspension) dust cover preventing an ingress of dirt etc is a major fail , severely deteriorated is a minor.

Bugger. I'll cut some holes in mine before the MOT next week.

[meggersdog]

edited, thanks

[wuvvum]

I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in.  Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace...

[barefoot]

9 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in.  Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace...

Please don't, cars shouldn't even be gendered. I blame fucking Walt Disney.

[brownnova]

11 minutes ago, barefoot said:

I blame fucking Walt Disney.

Why did you fuck Walt Disney?

[barefoot]

'cos he anthropomorphised Bambi.

[Andyrew]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in.  Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace...

Meet "Ron"

[Supernaut]

My cars are just named 'the shit one' and 'the other shit one'

[Leyland Worldmaster]

I snapped this for Lightbulb Fun on the way back from a particularly stimulating Frisbee Session... 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Ah ! Just wondering how to get hold of an AS Bumper Sticker for Alison? 👍 👍 👍 😎 😎 😎 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

21 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

My cars are just named 'the shit one' and 'the other shit one'

I used to attend a Writers Group. A bit of educational fun; y'know... Anyway, I'd just bought Alison and I was telling my friends how lovely and engaging Alison is to drive. When I realised that another WG Member was also called Alison. 

It took some time to explain that Alison isn't named after Alison and that it was all to do with Alliteration; Alison the Almighty Aluminium Audi A2... 

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Edited February 24, 2021 by Leyland Worldmaster
Tidied up a bit...

[Skizzer]

That was fate’s way of telling you that cars don’t have genders and shouldn’t have names.

Wuv - don’t you dare.

[High Jetter]

19 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

I used to attend a Writers Group. A bit of educational fun; y'know... Anyway, I'd just bought Alison and I was telling my friends how lovely and engaging Alison is to drive. When I realised that another WG Member was also called Alison. 

It took some time to explain that Alison isn't named after Alison and that it was all to do with Alliteration; Alison the Almighty Aluminium Audi A2... 

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Sounds more like an AA group to me

[N19]

Bluebird electrickery fun continues. Having realised that there are two pumps and they had been swapped over, I removed the faulty one for repair, and promptly covered myself in washer fluid. Mmm antifreeze. It's borked, so another has been ordered up.

The brake light was next on the list, and proved to have a bulb sheared off inside the socket. The only solution to which was to cut the cables, remove the whole thing to the bench to extract the remnants and then crimp repair. For info, crimp repairs inside a bluebird boot with v little cable slack aren't fun. It needs a bit more tidying up before I am happy with it.

Hopefully by Saturday the new window regulator will have arrived and that plus the washer pump can be fitted. I anticipate the rest of the rear lamps are similarly rusted/seized in position, so will  order up some new P21 holders and swap them out.

That done it'll only be the reverse light switch to fit...

[meggersdog]

Only one of my cars has a name, sort of. When I hand the keys over to my Peugeot loan car I always say "here, take the ZXR " These are the last three letters of the reg number and I've always called it that. Get some funny looks from those who know.

[LabRat]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I'm beginning to think that I'm going to have to start naming my cars in order to fit in.  Just on the first page of the forum we currently have updates on Winston the Lupo, Audrey and Bertie the Rover 75s, Alison the Audi A2 and Josephine the Renault Espace...

I just call mine Bastard, or it's full name Temperamental Bastard when it finds new and inventive ways to break.

[chaseracer]

40 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

I used to attend a Writers Group. A bit of educational fun; y'know... Anyway, I'd just bought Alison and I was telling my friends how lovely and engaging Alison is to drive. When I realised that another WG Member was also called Alison. 

It took some time to explain that Alison isn't named after Alison and that it was all to do with Alliteration; Alison the Almighty Aluminium Audi A2... 

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Past tense (and likely reason) noted... 😉

[rusty998]

On 2/20/2021 at 9:02 AM, HMC said:

Wow was that recently purchased paint stripper? I got some recently and it seemed a LOT less effective. Presumably it’s now more ecologically friendly.

This is what we use at my mates Body shop

Paint/pour into panel then cover with plastic sheet and leave until the paint goes crinckley and scrap off

[R1152]

4 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

This is what we use at my mates Body shop

Paint/pour into panel then cover with plastic sheet and leave until the paint goes crinckley and scrap off

Yep, that's the stuff that is now supposed to be supplied for professional use under strict conditions because dichloromethane, as it says on the tin.

Still freely available to the public in Australia and Panicky Yank land though... and on eBay where not too many questions get asked where it is sold as Synstrip and the like.

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

I snapped this for Lightbulb Fun on the way back from a particularly stimulating Frisbee Session... 

blimey thats a find, I could not figure out what it was, so I knew it must be something rare LOL

so I asked a friend about it

and going by his reaction I think it might be LOL!, we think its a Phosco P156 for those curious, a 1950's  low pressure sodium street light for 140W SO/H SOI/H lamps originally although today would run 90W SOX lamps

[R1152]

On 20/02/2021 at 09:02, HMC said:

Wow was that recently purchased paint stripper? I got some recently and it seemed a LOT less effective. Presumably it’s now more ecologically friendly.

More "less injurious to your health" - dichloromethane is not good in enclosed spaces especially.

[richardmorris]

23 minutes ago, LabRat said:

I just call mine Bastard, or it's full name Temperamental Bastard when it finds new and inventive ways to break.

The Fiat, The Merc and The 2CV are my fleet names. It’s a car not a sentient being ( although the ex C5 was particularly bloody minded). I agree with @barefootabout anthropomorphism.

[chaseracer]

Maybe it's just a thing with non-scientific types, Rich... 🤔😃

[stuboy]

any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x?

[LabRat]

In my case it was numerous awkward and hard to get parts breaking in short order (£650 for a front suspension lower arm, key dock failing at £190+ coding at the local mg dealership, lower engine mount failing and now NLA as the supplier in China has ceased manufacturing)

The wife's ssangyong is just known as the Tivoli.

[Skizzer]

10 minutes ago, stuboy said:

any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x?

The Mondeo, FFS.  

[Craig the Princess]

13 minutes ago, stuboy said:

any suggestions on name for a mk3 mondeo v6 ghia x?

Ford