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[stuboy]

11 hours ago, anonymous user said:

And you never thought to train as a gynocologist?

god no, never wanted to do potholing

[SiC]

Megane is also the Japanese for eyeglass apparently 🧐

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megane#:~:text=From Wikipedia%2C the free encyclopedia,in Nagasaki%2C Nagasaki%2C Japan.

[Fumbler]

6 minutes ago, SiC said:

Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 

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

Millison
Manfred
Manlove......

[red5]

On 2/22/2021 at 10:36 PM, MarvinsMom said:

finally got the Rover home after having the alternator, belts and thermostat replaced.

it had been at George's in town for the last fortnight getting that done. it would have been sooner, had York Road Motorfactors sent the right alternator belt first time, and not sent the wrong one twice before managing to send the right part. 

all those jobs are a proper pain on a diesel 75, requiring both o/s engine mounts to be removed and the engine manipulated one way to get to the alternator, and then back to get at the thermostat, and back again to get at the belt tensioners.

luckily only one of the 4 bolts holding the stat on broke, George did get the remains of it drilled and tapped, before getting it all  back together.

the car runs mint, and the flickering on the lights, something the car has done for all  of the 5 and a half years that i have owned it, is no more! though seeing the temperature gauge sit at the 9 o'clock position is alarming, i dunno when it last did that, no seriously i don't remember when it last did that. it must have been sometime ago.

obviously this isn't cheap, with the bill been more than frankly the cart is worth, what is a 20 year old Rover 75 worth, with 205,000 miles on the clock? bugger all realistically, though as George said, its in pretty good nick,  all told

And, its a good old bus, its never let us down, and even when its broke, it hasn't left me or Kerry stranded, its not too bad on the derv, its a nice place to sit and i like it both to drive and look at, it is the perfect work horse.

plus i feel i got off lightly, in the yard next to it was a 16 plate Renault Scenic, the owners of which will be left with a £3-4k bill! that has suffered some sort of electrical melt down, they have apparently been driving it for sometime with a bust ignition switch, so busted that when George took the cowl  off it all fell to bits (£500-odd to buy, exchange, except this one won't be,cos its in bits) and a new steering rack (Renault don't stock them, its getting a 2nd hand one) which is out of a scrapped 17plate one with a borked engine. you gotta love the DCi engine,  still shit after all these years..... well this had been in the breakers for a couple of days, and the carcass was already well  picked over!!

next over Georges pit is another 75, this one too wanting a new thermostat. Wilco-Motorsave in town had tried to change it, they have snapped 3 of the bolts, and mutilated the 4th one before declaring to the owner that the car is now scrap, no wonder then that both Kerry and myself are both very particular about who looks at our cars!!

 

Renault 5 thermostat in top hose. Job jobbed.

[MarvinsMom]

37 minutes ago, SiC said:

Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 

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

shitbox?

you piece of crap?

turdburg?

now what (the fuck is wrong?)

shit off you bastard?

[HMC]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

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

Convoy?

[rmjbn1]

On 2/23/2021 at 7:02 PM, brownnova said:

Auf Wiedersehen! 

After nearly six years in my ownership (a new record) I sold the MX5 today... the rust was too much for me to tackle.

Sorry to hear that. After losing too many 2cvs to rust over the years and my dad's MX5 being dragged away for parts last year, I can't bear to part with my own MX5.

Instead it has been happily rotting away in the garage for a couple of years. Really need to tackle the usual spots to see if it can be revived.

On balance, whilst I do love the MX5, I'd prefer to have kept a 2cv going. I miss mine terribly. Just doesn't feel right being without one. So I think you did the right thing.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔 

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

Useless bitch?

[OM646]

5 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...

My W203 is just "the Benz"

The Aldi has a bunch of names, like "piece of shite", it really depends on which unobtainium part decides to break, or which stupid design decision turns a 10 minute job into a 1 hour one

[Jim Bell]

 

Expensive parts collecting. 

[High Jetter]

New brakes? You seem to have parked on the kerb.

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, red5 said:

Renault 5 thermostat in top hose. Job jobbed.

This. Replacement thermostats are notorious for failing again very quickly. All of my 75 diesels had/have this mod and it works fine. I think it's about a tenner from DMGRS.

[MrDuke]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

Any thoughts of names for a Renault Mégane? 🤔

Madeleine?

 

Too soon?

[SiC]

27 minutes ago, Jim Bell said:

 

Expensive parts collecting. 

New box of gears?

[Jim Bell]

11 minutes ago, SiC said:

New box of gears?

Not yet. But may be on the cards in the long run. 

[LabRat]

Came out of work to the alarm going bells across the meadows and this...

 

So that faint clunk I heard from the passenger door this morning will be the regulator snapping then... Looks like another wallet lightening session on AliExpress is in order. 😶

All moderns are, etc

[reb]

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.

[SiC]

1 hour ago, LabRat said:

Came out of work to the alarm going bells across the meadows and this...

 

So that faint clunk I heard from the passenger door this morning will be the regulator snapping then... Looks like another wallet lightening session on AliExpress is in order. 😶

All moderns are, etc

Put a broom pole in the door?

A common 00's Renault/VAG fix!

[LabRat]

1 minute ago, SiC said:

Put a broom pole in the door?

A common 00's Renault/VAG fix!

It might yet come to that. If I can work out how the bloody door card comes off without destroying it.

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

[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.

[New POD]

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

[New POD]

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