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[outlaw118]

I've resisted chucking my two penneth in so far, but I'll do it now.

Firstly re the Brownova / Pikey thing. As he's explained he wasn't aware that it's an offensive term. And having met him, I refuse to believe there's a malicious bone in his body. Secondly on that point, what was the actual point of the backlash and the big arguement as to whats offensive and what's not? Nobody on here is God / Buddha / Ferdinand Porsche (delete deity as applicable) so who gives anybody the right to slag anyone off, which then descended into a fucking tit for tat snipe fest. Nobody has the right to tell other people what to think. Advise perhaps, but to demand that everyone thinks the same way and pussyfoots around like a woke snowflake is horseshit. Yeah we've got some members who display troll-like characteristics, but hey, whatever. Are they actually HURTING you, costing you money? No. Grow up.

It's quite easy really, don't like a post, scroll past they'll be another one in a moment.

I know for a fact that my political views will be very different to many others, as are my views on a lot of things. Anything contentious I just don't feel the need to post. It's really not difficult. In REAL life there are more important things to worry about, like whether I'm going to punch my boss in the face, or what I'm having for tea.

 

TL:DR Scroll past DON'T BE A DICK.

[outlaw118]

12 minutes ago, SiC said:

BMW is leaking from its rad. FFS

Not good as coolant is particularly not nice thing when you have pets

On a brighter note, it looks nice and clean

 

[DodgeRover]

My last words, I don't like hypocrisy, others have been censured and put on pre mod for far less. I also have friends in the traveling community, it is offensive to wide parts of the community.

[SiC]

Haven't they started deliberately making antifreeze taste disgusting to stop cats from nomming it?

I specifically use Prestone in my classics. It's compatible with both blue/conventional 2yr coolant and 5yr long life. But also it's rated to last 10yrs - even though I change at 5yrs.

But crucially it contains Bitrex, the stuff that makes it taste super bitter for the reason you mention above. Problem is, I don't know how much/little is needed to seriously make a small animal like a cat ill.

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[Zelandeth]

That's not the best start to a day.  Just had a phone call from a friend back up north.  Another friend I've known since I was about 5, but regrettably haven't done as good a job of staying in touch with since moving down here passed away last night.

Fit as a fiddle, an electrician by trade, had a cough towards the end of last week, was admitted to hospital on Sunday, died just before 20:00 yesterday. 

So you'll have to forgive me if I've little patience for COVID conspiracy theories.  That's now three people I personally know who have died from it and one who was very, very sick from it.

[chancer]

25 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

That's not the best start to a day.  Just had a phone call from a friend back up north.  Another friend I've known since I was about 5, but regrettably haven't done as good a job of staying in touch with since moving down here passed away last night.

Fit as a fiddle, an electrician by trade, had a cough towards the end of last week, was admitted to hospital on Sunday, died just before 20:00 yesterday. 

So you'll have to forgive me if I've little patience for COVID conspiracy theories.  That's now three people I personally know who have died from it and one who was very, very sick from it.

Shows how very real the threat is. Conspiricy theorists and anti vaxxers really need to reconsider their viewpoint. Sure many millions have covid and feel no effects, and most folk will overcome it and carry on regardless. But, and this is the problem, we need to look out for those who are most at risk, the ones who will undoubtedly die or have quality of life affected should they contract it. These people are in our families, they are our friends. The responsibility for controlling this lies with each and every one of us, we all need to do our bit to suppress the virus. I never ever took up the offer of a flu jab, but happy to say that ive now had both covid jabs

[stuboy]

New ambulance cars for patient transport .. petrol 1.5 gt 3008... automatics.. go very well on sport mode..😉😉 miles better than the old diesel ones, cause they go into London.. and ulez they got petrol ones..

[barefoot]

8 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Am I best to just "get a little man in" to do it once and do it well?  

You'll find that the correct term for that is GALMI and it will sort all of your problems.

In vagually motoring related news, the R75 battery drain appears finally to be sorted - car returned, modest bill paid.

The VW T2 went to the garage to be serviced & have all the flat spots tuned out of it - chap phoned to say it was running horribly, but he's sorted it even without fitting a vacuum advance distributer & it's now running with commendable smoothness.

The Renault van that I deal with for the Charity bus mob appears to have shat its gearbox. We are insured with an outfit called QBE. They are incredibly expensive, but when I rang them to organise an AA recovery to a garage, they immediately gave me a 2 hr time slot. A text was received during the slot with an exact time. Chap turned up in the correct sort of vehicle & recovered the Renner without the slightest drama.

[N19]

7 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

More cars man.  That is the only sensible solution here.  

I feel your pain.  I found myself having to use a 17ft long van last week as literally everything was either broken or out of MOT.  Or both.

Get yourself into the Tat thread and roll the dice again!

That's how I ended up with three! Which I can justify to myself. And the bank manager.

I managed to limp it home. That's one thing. Now to get in the slightly less broken Bluebird for a few days and have a nice chat with the guy from the garage.

[SmokinWaffle]

26 minutes ago, stuboy said:

New ambulance cars for patient transport .. petrol 1.5 gt 3008... automatics.. go very well on sport mode..😉😉 miles better than the old diesel ones, cause they go into London.. and ulez they got petrol ones..

Weird engine sizes these days wig me out. 1.5L? Odd.  That's huge too.

[Zelandeth]

First cut of the year for the lawns.

Really do need to think about getting a new mower.  One of the wheel bearings has just collapsed on this one.  Plus I don't have the right grass box for it so it has to be emptied about five hundred times - and the grass box I do have is primarily held together by zip ties and duct tape.

Engine still runs like a dream (well, it is an old sidevalve Briggs so no huge surprise!), but between the lack of a proper grass box (and I can't find one anywhere, have been trying for six years now), the rear wheels being totally worn smooth so the self propelling action is basically useless, the wheel bearing having gone, and the handle starting to fail...think it's just had its day.

It was a kerbside find six years ago, so owes me nothing.  Getting it going required me to drain the oil out of the cylinder and replace the primer bulb.  Since then aside from sharpening the blade and a few oil changes all it's needed was a replacement carb, which was about £15 I think.

 

[beko1987]

Very nice! I've been looking at battery lawnmowers lately for my postage stamp garden, I've cut the lawn twice now (although both on high to get the lower growth going/keep up with the overfeeding I did...) 

My £35 Aldi mower is on its 3rd year now. Hasn't popped its drive belt off either since the first time, I reckon it wasn't assembled properly. Not fully surprising though

[New POD]

4 hours ago, chancer said:

Shows how very real the threat is. Conspiricy theorists and anti vaxxers really need to reconsider their viewpoint. Sure many millions have covid and feel no effects, and most folk will overcome it and carry on regardless. But, and this is the problem, we need to look out for those who are most at risk, the ones who will undoubtedly die or have quality of life affected should they contract it. These people are in our families, they are our friends. The responsibility for controlling this lies with each and every one of us, we all need to do our bit to suppress the virus. I never ever took up the offer of a flu jab, but happy to say that ive now had both covid jabs

Yes but it's not just those who are obviously at risk. There's some who have died or have been very ill who were not in the at risk category. And then there is long Covid or Post Viral Chronic Fatigue to give it it's Pre-Covid name.  

[Zelandeth]

16 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Very nice! I've been looking at battery lawnmowers lately for my postage stamp garden, I've cut the lawn twice now (although both on high to get the lower growth going/keep up with the overfeeding I did...) 

My £35 Aldi mower is on its 3rd year now. Hasn't popped its drive belt off either since the first time, I reckon it wasn't assembled properly. Not fully surprising though

To be fair, if I could get a grass box for it I'd probably keep this one going.  I like the plastic deck as it's obviously impervious to rust and doesn't end up looking like hell once you've scraped it against the wall a few times.  Being a mid 90s model though it's thoroughly out of support and the NOS stocks have started to dry up for service items.  See also the rear wheels which I tried to replace last year.

I've never really got along with an electric mower aside from the original Flymo, which was hard not to like given they weighed nothing and were basically indestructible if the treatment the one my folks had when I was growing up was anything to go by.  Definitely an obvious little brother to the 150cc two stroke beast of a hover mower I rescued a few years later.  That's one I really do regret not sorting out when the engine needed a rebuild.  The garden at my folk's house was very much not flat but was a fair size.  What took me about two and a half hours with every other mower before or since that took about half an hour with that thing.  Can see why they were so popular with council groundskeeping departments.

Not sure what I'll replace this with, probably end up being something from Einhell though, we've got several of their tools here, first of which was a chainsaw and I've absolutely no complaints about any of them so far.

[beko1987]

A guy who used to work with me gave me his old petrol mower when he upgraded and that was fun but dreadfully inefficient for my lawn! I'd end up opening the gate and trundling around my little dead end of the road doing the bits the council never do. Mower started to just run like shit and I bought the £35 Aldi one. 

By sheer luck my stepdad mower shat itself so he had it and it ran much better doing their bigger lawn. It got passed on last year though for an electric one so mum can do the lawn easier. 

Fancy a battery one, Aldi did one that fits my battery but it's £100 for the mower shell itself which seems good value for what it is, but I'd end up with a cost per lawn cut of about £13 for the season which just seems silly... 

Bring it to the FOD and we can graft a suitable* set of wheels on from something else! Sounds like the classic tale of whatever spares mower you buy will be better than your one so you'll rebuild that, but need one part that your old one doesn't which will cost a fortune... 

Treat yourself for 2021, buy a new toy! 

[Ohdearme]

1 hour ago, SmokinWaffle said:

Weird engine sizes these days wig me out. 1.5L? Odd.  That's huge too.

I could never get my head round how Audi could have a V8 A8 that was 3.7, surely even number of cylinders had to be an even number... brain just wouldn’t have it.

[brownnova]

I could do with a ride on mower, but I can’t believe the prices when I see them for sale! More than I pay for most of my cars! 

[chancer]

14 minutes ago, brownnova said:

I could do with a ride on mower, but I can’t believe the prices when I see them for sale! More than I pay for most of my cars! 

I spent more on a walk behind mower than i did for the van it travels in 🙄

[bangernomics]

I could do with a ride on mower, but I can’t believe the prices when I see them for sale! More than I pay for most of my cars! 

How big is the grass area? It’s the size of the cut that matters and I bought a 42” ride on and wish I’d just gotten a big self propelled one. I’ll probably buy a robot mulching one when they come down to a grand. I just can’t face the best part of two bags for a tiny thing.

[Steve79]

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1131745_edd-china-of-wheeler-dealers-fame-returns-with-new-youtube-show

Will be subscribing when it starts airing.

No need to "HOLD OUT YAA ANNND"!

[RayMK]

I've delegated lawn mowing to my son.  Meanwhile taking care to stay local, and avoiding any areas that tend to attract crowds during good weather, I drove my distinctly grubby Tipo to a nearby lane and stopped for a walk, also taking a few shaky photos (attached) to remind me what 'outside the house' looks like.  I'm disappointed that the cosmetic repair to the Tipo's offside rear door that I did about 15 months ago has laughed at my thorough wire brushing, rust converting, zinc priming and superbly matched top coat. It's now bubbling and will have to be done again. For the moment (i.e. anything up to a year) it has got a bit of Bilt Hamber Dynax daubed over it to slow it down.

[sdkrc]

Well shit in my hat. 

Power steering pipe has gone pop with the family in the car. Just some groans from the rack and a trail of power steering fluid for scoob and the gang to follow.

Put it up on the jacks and give it a rock to make sure it's stable aaaaand I dent the wing

Check out under the car and figure there's no way I can save that metal pipe but perhaps I could bodge it until a garage or money comes my way.

As a YouTube certified master technician I decided to use plumber's tape, JB weld and tiger seal. This did not solve the problem but it's slightly less leaky.

Cool.

Time to give up.

Lowering the car down and I realise that I've driven onto the parking post and ripped it up by turning the wheel. Super. No way I can lower the car without fucking the tyre up so I rip the whole thing out.

Then I text and ask my dad if I can get back my Honda for a few days...nah

Oh and my ABS sensor wire is fucked too

[MikeR]

Just driven 200 miles today to see this fantastic caravan ...... 

And my wife went ..

Nah 

[brownnova]

2 hours ago, bangernomics said:

How big is the grass area? It’s the size of the cut that matters and I bought a 42” ride on and wish I’d just gotten a big self propelled one. I’ll probably buy a robot mulching one when they come down to a grand. I just can’t face the best part of two bags for a tiny thing.

I’ve never measured it actually... that might be a job for tomorrow... 

[blackboilersuit]

57 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

Well shit in my hat. 

Power steering pipe has gone pop with the family in the car. Just some groans from the rack and a trail of power steering fluid for scoob and the gang to follow.

Put it up on the jacks and give it a rock to make sure it's stable aaaaand I dent the wing

Check out under the car and figure there's no way I can save that metal pipe but perhaps I could bodge it until a garage or money comes my way.

 

As a YouTube certified master technician I decided to use plumber's tape, JB weld and tiger seal. This did not solve the problem but it's slightly less leaky.

Cool.

Time to give up.

Lowering the car down and I realise that I've driven onto the parking post and ripped it up by turning the wheel. Super. No way I can lower the car without fucking the tyre up so I rip the whole thing out.

Then I text and ask my dad if I can get back my Honda for a few days...nah

Oh and my ABS sensor wire is fucked too

Can you remove the drive belt for the power steering pump and continue with manual steering for the time being? @captain_70s 740 ran like that for some time last year. Steering was a bit heavy but not as awful as you'd imagine. It was only one vee belt that had to be removed on that one IIRC but not sure if your car would be the same. 

[Talbot]

15 minutes ago, blackboilersuit said:

Can you remove the drive belt for the power steering pump and continue with manual steering for the time being? @captain_70s 740 ran like that for some time last year. Steering was a bit heavy but not as awful as you'd imagine. It was only one vee belt that had to be removed on that one IIRC but not sure if your car would be the same. 

Yes, but you need to allow all the PAS fluid to drain out too, as otherwise the steeringwheel becomes the pump to force all the fluid about, which isn't fun.

That said, it looks like most of the fluid is out already and the rest is making a fairly good bid for freedom.

[tommotech]

Today has been a good day.

 

[captain_70s]

44 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Yes, but you need to allow all the PAS fluid to drain out too, as otherwise the steering wheel becomes the pump to force all the fluid about, which isn't fun.

This.

After I pulled the belt and reverted my 740 to PROPER STEERING (entirely usable) it continued to dribble PAS fluid for days, including leaving a big fuck off puddle on Girlfriend_70's parent's driveway. Marvellous given that this was the first she knew of the car and my buying it without telling her nearly ended our relationship even without it staining the mono blocking...

[vulgalour]

5 hours ago, RayMK said:

I'm disappointed that the cosmetic repair to the Tipo's offside rear door that I did about 15 months ago has laughed at my thorough wire brushing, rust converting, zinc priming and superbly matched top coat. It's now bubbling and will have to be done again.

Try pouring some of the magic rust converting potion of choice inside the door when you do the outside.  It's probably gone a tiny bit porous where the rust is showing so it's pulling moisture and rust through from the back.  The rust will likely be hiding in the seam where the outer skin folds over the inner frame, but sometimes you get lucky with really thin rust converters and capillary action when you tackle it from both sides.  It can also help to wire brush, rust treat and then wire brush and rust treat a second time before putting paint on.

Looked a pleasant spot to park up at any rate, isn't it nice now the weather is improving and we're starting to be allowed out again?

[LabRat]

Oh happy, happy days. The door lock I've had to order from AliExpress has been returned to the seller because "it contains magnetism". 

Now begins the fun task of trying to get it either resent or get a refund. 

I can seriously see this car getting scrapped shortly if this is the future of getting parts for it. Bloody cars.