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[Cord Fourteener]

And this station park up looks like it kind of belongs to a shitter!

[cort16]

I just saw this on instergram. So is COVID 19 over in American now?

 

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, cort16 said:

I just saw this on instergram. So is COVID 19 over in American now?

 

Depends on the state. Some have been doing stuff like this for a few months now, others are just starting.

[cort16]

24 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Depends on the state. Some have been doing stuff like this for a few months now, others are just starting.

I heard on a podcast all the internal flights are running again with no breaks between the passenger. All passengers are sitting right next to each other. 

 

[Fumbler]

Sounds about right.

[somewhatfoolish]

21 hours ago, richardmorris said:

You wait all year for your multi-million pound supercar and find out they’re as common as muck! Coming along in threes like buses!

Those wheeltrims look well daft.

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, Tim_E said:

And this station park up looks like it kind of belongs to a shitter!

That's a whole lotta floppytop B6s...

[N19]

Just looking on the Islington website. Pay and display charges vary from £2 to £6 per hour, depending on how busy the area is, and then an extra £5 an hour for a diesel vehicle. So you could be paying £11/hour for parking! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

26 minutes ago, N19 said:

Just looking on the Islington website. Pay and display charges vary from £2 to £6 per hour, depending on how busy the area is, and then an extra £5 an hour for a diesel vehicle. So you could be paying £11/hour for parking! 

Westminster and Camden have been charging diesel-friendly* rates for years

[nacho man]

Yeah I rocked up in a 08 transit a couple of years back and it was £75 a night outside the hotel in Westminster . Gulp. 

[chancer]

After 2 months of putting it off, the 307cc now has an MOT. Clean pass as well 👌 

[anonymous user]

1 hour ago, Danterzza said:

Yeah I rocked up in a 08 transit a couple of years back and it was £75 a night outside the hotel in Westminster . Gulp. 

For that I'd expect them to stand next to it spraying Chanel No5 in the air when you start it up. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

For that I'd expect them to stand next to it spraying Chanel No5 in the air when you start it up. 

Probably cheaper to bring the Transit into the hotel.

[richardmorris]

Some things cannot be unseen!

[brownnova]

So the Pontiac just needs the track rod end doing before it’s retest. I was going to farm it out as I didn’t have a ball joint splitter, but my BiL says he left one in my garage. So decision made I’ll do that in the morning....  in other news I had a phone call to say they were erecting scaffolding at my house for a some windows going in next week and was that ok. As long as it doesn’t cause any access issues says I.

Right so that’s me not able to get at my tools... so the track rod end job is off... and it’s now too late to give my local garage a quick call to see if they can squeeze me in tomorrow for the track rod end... so I can retest Monday.... ffs....

Also means the 2CVs are in quarantine just in time for the Welsh restrictions to be lifted tomorrow... 

And to top it all off.... it now means we can’t access the garage, and one of the windows they need access too on Monday... oh yeah the back window on the garage...

Should’ve put this in the grumpy thread really... 

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, brownnova said:

 As long as it doesn’t cause any access issues says I.

Right so that’s me not able to get at my tools...

def would be getting them out tomorrow to move it so you can - thats not on - and theyve not even started - whats their job gonna be like ffs

 

[Asimo]

On 24/03/2021 at 19:28, wuvvum said:

I need to get myself one of those scissor-type ball joint splitters.  I tried getting the front wishbone off the Mondeo last year using a wedge-type splitter and didn't get anywhere at all - I had to go to the garage with my tail between my legs and ask them to do it.  To be fair they were doing the rear trailing arm bush anyway as I knew I'd never be able to do that so it didn't make a huge amount of difference.

I’ve never got mine to work on the track arm / strut balljoints, it just isn’t big enough to fit around these joints.

Works beautifully on track rod ends.

[chaseracer]

On 20/03/2021 at 10:21, Tim_E said:

Winner!

Did she get a tune out of it? 😁

[SiC]

9 hours ago, cort16 said:

I just saw this on instergram. So is COVID 19 over in American now?

 

Not to say it's the right thing to be doing right now, but the US is doing pretty well in its vaccination program. Iirc around 40% adults have been vaccinated over there - similar level to us and we are starting to ease restrictions again. 

[Cord Fourteener]

4 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Did she get a tune out of it? 😁

'All I need is the air that I breathe...'

[High Jetter]

Oh, it was Hollie.

[Minimad5]

4 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Some things cannot be unseen!

You must work / Live in a pretty interesting place, to be spotting all these lavish cars

[mitsisigma01]

7 hours ago, brownnova said:

So the Pontiac just needs the track rod end doing before it’s retest. I was going to farm it out as I didn’t have a ball joint splitter, but my BiL says he left one in my garage. So decision made I’ll do that in the morning....  in other news I had a phone call to say they were erecting scaffolding at my house for a some windows going in next week and was that ok. As long as it doesn’t cause any access issues says I.

Right so that’s me not able to get at my tools... so the track rod end job is off... and it’s now too late to give my local garage a quick call to see if they can squeeze me in tomorrow for the track rod end... so I can retest Monday.... ffs....

Also means the 2CVs are in quarantine just in time for the Welsh restrictions to be lifted tomorrow... 

And to top it all off.... it now means we can’t access the garage, and one of the windows they need access too on Monday... oh yeah the back window on the garage...

Should’ve put this in the grumpy thread really... 

Did the window fitters not tell the scaffolders... 

Easy enough for them to re-angle that leg 

[brownnova]

It appears not... why I don’t know. 

[New POD]

9 minutes ago, brownnova said:

It appears not... why I don’t know. 

They don't give a shit. That's why. 

[Cord Fourteener]

28 minutes ago, New POD said:

They don't give a shit. That's why. 

@brownnova I always wondered why builders say that scoffolders have a certain reputation. 

What a bunch of plonkerised numpties to block up a garage door. It's almost as if the didn't even stop to think 'derrr, that looks like some one's garage door, maybe they need access to what's inside, like a car or tools. "

We once had scaffolders not turn up until after lunch when the guys wanting to do the work were sat in their van at 8am twiddling their thumbs all day, and we were in a rush to the work done that day...

I hope you get it worked out before long. 

[mitsisigma01]

At least you get the weekend off now.... 

Did you watch them do it or you came home to it? 

[anonymous user]

Must be scaffolding season, mine went up yesterday on the front, so that the barge boards, guttering and leaky downpipe can be changed. (Waited nearly a year for this). 

I was hoping to sneak up onto it at the weekend to repaint the render above the windows. Just checked the weather, rain forecast for Sat and Sun. 

Hopefully the wall behind the leaking downpipe won't take too long to dry out so I can get on with redoing the hacked off plaster on the inside, then redecorate.

[brownnova]

9 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

At least you get the weekend off now.... 

Did you watch them do it or you came home to it? 

I came home to it after work... we weren’t even informed they were coming to put up scaffolding! 

[mitsisigma01]

Trespassing, get straight on the phone, total wronguns, but don't say it to their faces, usually built like Gorilla's 🤣🤣