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[Amishtat]

16 hours ago, SiC said:

Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 

Can't be Mégane as that's a girl's name... 😁

Landfill

[chaseracer]

27 minutes ago, LabRat said:

A mate of mine has described the mg6 as the perfect storm- chinesium parts, assembled by pissed off Brummies!

Bumpers, badges - and maybe some lights.  That was the extent of the Longbridge contribution to the 'assembly process'.  

[Eyersey1234]

I've got an interview to become a driver mentor at work, waiting to hear when it is. 

[Tickman]

1 hour ago, reb said:

The Volvo was all set to only fail on bulbs, then it burst a hose during the brake test. Slightly scary stuff that.

I'm chosing to take the course of action where I hand over a wad of cash in exchange for this being rectified, it's on the whole much less stressful I find.

Wise choice, liked for it bursting on test and not on you after.

[High Jetter]

A brake pipe letting go on one of my vans gave the tester a brown-trouser moment a few years back. Am grateful it happened on the rollers, not the road.

[Eyersey1234]

Car Mechanics Magazine had a Rover 820i as a project car in the mid 90s and they took it for an MOT to have a power steering pipe burst on test

[iainrcz]

21 hours ago, barefoot said:

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

My car is. It's called Steven, but after a female cat. Yes, I had a girl cat called Steven.

Sometimes it's called rattly little shit.

Steven.

The cat, not car.

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17 hours ago, stuboy said:

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

Carmen Monty Scone.

As in Karmen Ghia, Monty, (Don the scon) Mondeo.

SconX . For short

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14 hours ago, MrDuke said:

Madeleine?

 

Too soon?

Very. 

[BorniteIdentity]

Call me old fashioned, but I tend to just call cars by the name they've already been given.  Every single member of my family refers to Mini as "Bessie" which is what my Nan called it.  I do not.

We did have a bit of fun talking about a name for the Sierra but then "Sierra" or "That old shitheap" still seems to be favoured.

 

[barefoot]

34 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

My car is. It's called Steven, 

1, Am I even still on the right forum?

2, You spell Stephen with a PH

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5 minutes ago, barefoot said:

1, Am I even still on the right forum?

2, You spell Stephen with a PH

1 yes.

2 well yes, but not always.

3. The only car we ever named was a mini 850 called bonker. 

[iainrcz]

1, Am I even still on the right forum?
2, You spell Stephen with a PH

She wasn't posh enough for a PH.

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[LabRat]

This also happened earlier

Wether it makes it to 60000 or ends up heading back to China to become a fridge very much depends on parts availability in the next year or so.

[reb]

My Volvo used to be called Mavis because it was P422 MVS, then I put my wanker plate on it, so now it's Mavisnotmavis.

[Eyersey1234]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

My car is. It's called Steven, but after a female cat. Yes, I had a girl cat called Steven.

Sometimes it's called rattly little shit.

Steven.

The cat, not car.

Is that like a boy called Sue? 

[iainrcz]

4 minutes ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Is that like a boy called Sue? 

And Lindsey.

[Soundwave]

My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and all other inanimate objects in my life don't have names.

[louiepj]

Just replaced both rear dampers on a friends 14 plate W204 c180 as one was causing a noise sounding like a failing anti-roll bar link rod.
Mercedes wanted £183 each for rear dampers but local motorfactors got us both Meyle HD ones with top mounts for £170.
An hour a side and a cup of tea later and wafting silence is resumed.
Oh and its left hand drive.

[iainrcz]

9 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and all other inanimate objects in my life don't have names.

You'll be one of them there normal folk then.

I often think it would be nice to be normal, but I think I'd miss the voices in my head..

I'd definitely not miss not being able to concentrate for shit for more than a minute and half though.

[anonymous user]

47 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

My cars don't have names. For much the same reason my kitchen table, desk lamp, wheelie bin and most other inanimate objects in my life don't have names, but my armchair is called Gerald

 

[Soundwave]

That's Lord Gerald Comfybuttocks IV to you!

[Vince70]

I had an interesting drive in the E36 Ti for its MOT today as haven’t used it for about a year as I stopped to get some petrol and a guy at the pumps said your car is on fire (a little smoke) but luckily what he meant was my front NSF brake was binding  on.

I slammed my foot on the brakes and went on my way merrily to the MOT station about 25 miles away and it was fine afterwards and told the garage and all was good.

The car even went straight through without an advisory which I wasn’t expecting after sitting for about a year and the brakes are working great so that will teach me not to dump my car up the side of the house for a year.

 

 

[brownnova]

My 9000 is called Bjorn, when we bought a second 9000 it was scaled Bjornadette.... and when the 900 came along it was called Christian... as in Bjorn again Christian... 

[Royale80]

Drivers electric windows been playing up for around 6 years on the Sierra so i thought I'd better swap the motor/mechanism over. Took a couple of hours and lots of swearing-but now works!

 

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, LabRat said:

This also happened earlier

Wether it makes it to 60000 or ends up heading back to China to become a fridge very much depends on parts availability in the next year or so.

I love the gear shift diagram in the middle of the milometers.

[vulgalour]

All my cars end up with names, usually stupid ones, sometimes inherited.  Even the Maestro has a name.

[wuvvum]

I have to say that if I ever have another Princess it's going to be hard to resist calling it Craig.

[artdjones]

I've got a set of pads to fit tomorrow. The man that owns the car set off downhill to go to the shops and found he had no brakes. Some pumping got it to stop and he found that the pad lining had come away from the backplate and disintegrated. The car has been sat round most of the time since March, so maybe that accounts for it. I did a Corolla last month where just one pad had become crumbly and had to be replaced, but that car had only done 1300 miles in 18 months.

[JMotor]

7 hours ago, barefoot said:

2, You spell Stephen with a PH

The random shit you remember...