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[Cord Fourteener]

I've been driving my Mondeo mk4 estate since October, it's never missed a beat. But I've learned that what won't go in the back probably isn't carrying worth carrying. 

In fact what won't go in with ease and with room for more things probably isn't worth carrying.

[paulplom]

Anyone smell burning rubber during sex? No? 

Maybe that's just me then.

[AnnoyingPentium]

44 minutes ago, barefoot said:

I once read a book where the protagonist kept smelling burning rubber. It was a warning that she was about to suffer a stroke...

I always thought it was smelling burnt toast before a stroke.

[paulplom]

An old Billy Connolly joke from when he used to be funny in about 1990. He used to be my favourite comedian till he made that joke about that poor Ken Bigley who had his head cut off. About as funny as cancer. He can foad imo.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/crowd-angered-connollys-get-it-hostage-joke-2506645

[AnnoyingPentium]

I didn't know about that. It's put me off him as well to be honest.

[Yoss]

8 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Has anyone else been smelling burning rubber in slow moving traffic?  Not very strong, and never for very long.  I did think it was the Princess but after finding no signs at all of any rubber getting hot or worn on the car, and the fact it happens really randomly in the journey, I have to assume it's something outside.  Maybe it's a new car thing?

Been really bugging me though.  Every time I smell it (or hear someone else's squealing brakes), I think the car has broken something.

Yes! That was a, weird one too. Always in the Felicia and always at the same set of traffic lights on the way to work. It was just the right distance from home for the car to have just reached full temp. But it was also quite near the hospital and I wondered if it was them. It probably happened about five times but this was about 18 months ago and it hasn't happened since. Definitely burning rubber though. 

That doesn't help you much though does it? But maybe it'll just go away like mine did. 

[BorniteIdentity]

3 hours ago, paulplom said:

An old Billy Connolly joke from when he used to be funny in about 1990. He used to be my favourite comedian till he made that joke about that poor Ken Bigley who had his head cut off. About as funny as cancer. He can foad imo.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/crowd-angered-connollys-get-it-hostage-joke-2506645

I honestly think that everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is fair game - or nothing is.  I'm not sure how we can start picking and choosing what can and can't be the subject of a joke as taste is so subjective.  I think most of us would agree that a Ken Bigley gag is in poor taste - and we might be offended by it - but then what?  I honestly don't think any of us have the right to not be offended.  

4 hours ago, barefoot said:

I once read a book where the protagonist kept smelling burning rubber. It was a warning that she was about to suffer a stroke...

I was going to do a gag about having a stroke this morning but...whatever... 

[paulplom]

I wasn't offended. Tbf I don't really get offended at anything. He just made himself look the cunt he really is on someone's behalf. The poor bloke was still alive at that point. I remember the situation quite well.

 

[BorniteIdentity]

16 minutes ago, paulplom said:

I wasn't offended. Tbf I don't really get offended at anything. He just made himself look the cunt he really is on someone's behalf. The poor bloke was still alive at that point. I remember the situation quite well.

 

For clarity, I didn't think for a moment that you were!  It's just a little bugbear of mine. 

[vulgalour]

4 hours ago, Yoss said:

Yes! That was a, weird one too. Always in the Felicia and always at the same set of traffic lights on the way to work. It was just the right distance from home for the car to have just reached full temp. But it was also quite near the hospital and I wondered if it was them.

One of the journeys I make that I smell it most often does go right past a hospital, as it happens.  I wonder if it's related or if it's just coincidental.

[Fumbler]

43 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

One of the journeys I make that I smell it most often does go right past a hospital, as it happens.  I wonder if it's related or if it's just coincidental.

Might that be them incinerating medical waste on-site?

[vulgalour]

That's a plausible theory.  Like how it smells like bacon sometimes when you go past a crematorium.

[dollywobbler]

The thing with Connolly is he always speaks his mind. It's to his credit that a mistake he made many years ago is still remembered, because he mostly doesn't say horrible things. The man gets up on stage, with no script and just talks. Occasionally, he might say something people don't like. It WAS a horrible thing to say, but I think he was clumsily expressing a frustration with the way the story was lingering on. Sadly the story did have a very sad outcome, and Connolly then looked like an utter prick. I wish he hadn't said it, but I still like the man. There are people who say far worse, far more often.

[grogee]

I agree his Bigley joke is/was in poor taste but he's done a lot of good stuff too, just to balance it out. Ricky Gervais was pretty risque in his day too, calling "disableds" lazy and so on. Yeah ok it was ironic but I'm sure Connolly didn't want the guy's head cut off. 

Anyway what do I know, I think comedy begun with Series 1 of Fry & Laurie and ended with Series 4 of Fry & Laurie. 

[paulplom]

3 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

For clarity, I didn't think for a moment that you were!  It's just a little bugbear of mine. 

But were you offended!?

🤣

[High Jetter]

11 minutes ago, grogee said:

Anyway what do I know, I think comedy begun with Series 1 of Fry & Laurie and ended with Series 4 of Fry & Laurie. 

See also their Jeeves and Wooster. Also Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister. 

[paulplom]

Yous have obviously never watched Rick and Morty.

[Dick Longbridge]

I stil raise an eyebrow at the fact that Leigh Francis made a song and dance about apologising to black people a while back, stating that twenty years ago, he 'didn't think about it'.

There's a notable lack of apology for all piss-taking of the other characters he portrayed, including Elton 'I'm going to bum you into next week'John, George Michael, David Blaine, The Osbornes,  The Peckhams, Christina Aguilera, David Blaine, Gareth Gates, Jodie Marsh, Enrique Iglesias, Marilyn Manson and Davina McCall.

As Bornite said, either everything is fair game, or nothing. 

Apologies for treatment of one group of people whilst the rest are ignored is moronic. 

I always thought Bo Selecta were proper funny by the way. Espeically Craiiiiiig David's character. 

[Ghosty]

Having had some welding done to the sill, the E34 is ready for an MOT. 

Once it's passed (and I don't see why it wouldn't), would anyone be interested around the 1k mark? I need to sell it to fund a clutch replacement on my Civic saloon as it's rapidly approaching undriveability.
I know I got a couple of PMs when I bought it registering interest, I'll have to dig them up.
The front wing is in basecoat (but has been stonechipped on the inside) and it comes with a new passenger wing too. 

I'll do a proper FS ad once it has ticket.

[Fumbler]

Went to the unit to collect the BX; while I was there I fitted yet another (but correctly aligned) alternator with copious amounts of grease in the mating surfaces, bolt holes, on the hinge etc., wire brushed and greased the hinge bolt and tensioner bolt. Car started on the button which was nice. I then set about dismantling my franken-alternator abomination, re-packed the front sealed bearing with grease and then measured the pulley's distance from the body, so I can find out how far out it was compared to the correct item.

After sorting that out, I then set about checking the pressure in the tyres and only found 1 being low, whereas the Micra's tyres were all down ~10PSI, even after driving the 10 miles from home to the unit. Oops. This gave me the perfect excuse to then get the compressor out and redo the air connections on it, as well as set up a new airline. I'm now Leak Free (yay), fired the compressor up and pumpedup the tyres. I then used an air gun attachment to blow some crud out of the engine bay.

All in, a good day's work. Can anyone recommend a good engine bay cleaner? I'm getting tired of getting filthy whenever I merely touch anything under the bonnet.

[Barry Cade]

Somebody's barn has blown away, couldn't get closer, but they've been there a while...  😟

[grogee]

1 hour ago, Fumbler said:

Went to the unit to collect the BX; while I was there I fitted yet another (but correctly aligned) alternator with copious amounts of grease in the mating surfaces, bolt holes, on the hinge etc., wire brushed and greased the hinge bolt and tensioner bolt. Car started on the button which was nice. I then set about dismantling my franken-alternator abomination, re-packed the front sealed bearing with grease and then measured the pulley's distance from the body, so I can find out how far out it was compared to the correct item.

After sorting that out, I then set about checking the pressure in the tyres and only found 1 being low, whereas the Micra's tyres were all down ~10PSI, even after driving the 10 miles from home to the unit. Oops. This gave me the perfect excuse to then get the compressor out and redo the air connections on it, as well as set up a new airline. I'm now Leak Free (yay), fired the compressor up and pumpedup the tyres. I then used an air gun attachment to blow some crud out of the engine bay.

All in, a good day's work. Can anyone recommend a good engine bay cleaner? I'm getting tired of getting filthy whenever I merely touch anything under the bonnet.

Isn't Gunk our go-to degreaser?

[richardmorris]

19 minutes ago, grogee said:

Isn't Gunk our go-to degreaser?

I like Autoglym engine cleaner - it's less messy to use.

[vulgalour]

I use some good old Barry Scott.  BANG and the dirt is gone.  Just don't leave it sitting on any bare aluminium as it can discolour it.

[Fumbler]

49 minutes ago, grogee said:

Isn't Gunk our go-to degreaser?

I have a spray bottle of it but the directions say "spray on, wipe off" which isn't really possible in an engine bay with knobbly bits of engine within. I keep seeing pictures of @Zelandeth's lovely gleaming fresh engines and keep thinking to myself, "waow, wish I could do that!"

[grogee]

3 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

I have a spray bottle of it but the directions say "spray on, wipe off" which isn't really possible in an engine bay with knobbly bits of engine within. I keep seeing pictures of @Zelandeth's lovely gleaming fresh engines and keep thinking to myself, "waow, wish I could do that!"

Actually now you mention it, I think I tried the same and had the same issues with knobbly bits. 

Can't we employ a mobile grease monkey to come and do all our cars for us? I'd be willing to contribute literally ones of pounds. 

[DodgyBastard]

I've been offered a Ford Ka for £500, nice early car with a long mot. 53k miles, mot history doesn't look too bad, usual Ka sills been welded. I quite liked the last one I had but the Mrs hated it. Is it worth buying just because it's relatively cheap?

    

 

 

  

[richardmorris]

i spray the degreaser on a cloth and wipe down  the bits a little at a time.

[Mrcento]

9 minutes ago, DodgyBastard said:

I've been offered a Ford Ka for £500, nice early car with a long mot. 53k miles, mot history doesn't look too bad, usual Ka sills been welded. I quite liked the last one I had but the Mrs hated it. Is it worth buying just because it's relatively cheap?

    

 

Yes. 100%. Even if you only have it as a toy to thrash around in for a few weeks, it's pretty much free at that money. You'll probably turn a decent little profit on disposal/sale, given there's very little out there sub 1000 out there that's actually fairly useable day to day.

[chancer]

23 minutes ago, DodgyBastard said:

I've been offered a Ford Ka for £500, nice early car with a long mot. 53k miles, mot history doesn't look too bad, usual Ka sills been welded. I quite liked the last one I had but the Mrs hated it. Is it worth buying just because it's relatively cheap?

    

 

Its cheap but its not 90 quid cheap😂 i would say its worth buying and hanging onto it if you can. Values cant really get any lower. Rare sight on the roads already