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[BL Bloke]

Just got the invoice for my council garage rent and it's gone up by over £200 from last year. ☹️ What with this and the other bills going up it might be time to reduce the fleet.

[mitsisigma01]

Mine seems to go up every other month....now £74 pm ☹️

[Royale80]

Back from a few days holiday in North Wales. Here's the Sierra at Lake Bala-another 500 miles completed.

 

 

[Split_Pin]

I applied a good coat of Fabisil to the roof of the red Saab today. It soaks up loads and used nearly 2 litres! I'll do the same on the roof of black one next.

The Audi barely gets used and the battery was completely flat again and I had to pull it out of the garage and jump start it. New battery and some usage this weekend required! Looks nice though all polished up and with the hood reduced and sealed.

[Split_Pin]

Redyed the Audi hood as well and sealed it with Fabisil over the course of a few days. 

I'll do an oil and filter change over the next few weeks.

[Ghosty]

 

 

I just found these photos on my Flickr. I took them in August 2016! 

I know where these were taken - south London, very close to where RobT lives. 

Was this an AS car at that point? 

[brownnova]

Finally got the TF out for some fun yesterday… well… I took it to work and went the long way home anyway! 

Battery is definitely suspect… and those Lexus lights will go, but this seems a good fun thing to have! 

[SiC]

20 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

Just got the invoice for my council garage rent and it's gone up by over £200 from last year. ☹️ What with this and the other bills going up it might be time to reduce the fleet.

My three bays of storage have gone up £864 from last year. It's definitely made me seriously consider reducing the amount of cars I have.

[Split_Pin]

Aye so the Audi was stone deid again this morning so the battery is definitely toast.

Normally I'd get a YUASA 1000 or whatever from ebay for £40 but I really wanted to use it today. It doesn't get used much at weekends as the boot is too small to take the scooters  and we're normally at the skatepark then. However we are going down to Greystone in Manchester next week so we are having a relaxing weekend so I really wanted to use the car now.

Cue Halfords availing me of £92 as the car needs a bigger than standard battery.

Also, I had to call on all my tool reserves to get the battery clamp bolt out as none of my sockets would fit. Thankfully I have this really ancient socket set that has imperial sizes, I finally found it was a 1/2 inch bolt. WTF!

Anyway, I'm out in it now so all good!

Not much spannering this weekend, light duties only as I'm trying to retain some usability in my almost completely fucked arm (from undoing an oil filter by hand as it was the easiest way).

[Popsicle]

Daughter number 2 must have been a bit bored with A level studying during the Easter break, she asked me to nab a traffic cone on my travels, being a caring member of society and not wanting to cause chaos near the endless amount of roadworks locally I found one in a bush looking sorry for itself, £10 worth of B&M paint later and we have Patrick Star in the conservatory now.

 

[Ohdearme]

Not much going on here, thought I had convinced the wife to let me get a new Dacia jogger and sell the Espace but in the time it took me to go collect some gear for the garage, she’d been on eBay looking for kitchens so I can’t sell it as apparently I have more Shitely activity coming my way.

I did one vehicular thing today, refilled the wife’s screenwash with some B&Q advanced red stuff. I must pass on my congratulations* to the master perfumier  they employed to mix it - I normally like the smell of screenwash but this stuff is eye watering my horrific. It must require an expert hand to make it smell like the perfect blend of Methylated Spirit, stale wine and cat’s piss.

Cleans well though.

[puddlethumper]

Bloody hell ! A gritter has just gone past.

[Jazoli]

1 minute ago, puddlethumper said:

Bloody hell ! A gritter has just gone past.

Ha! the gritters have been out every day here, was -2 last night, the roads are white with salt.

[dome]

37 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Ha! the gritters have been out every day here, was -2 last night, the roads are white with salt.

Yep, same up here. I'm holding off putting the XJ40 back on the road til they are salt free 

[RoverFolkUs]

45 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Bloody hell ! A gritter has just gone past.

* hides my new Citroen Xsara Picasso with immaculate sills *

[hairnet]

9 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

 However we are going down to Greystone in Manchester next week 

 

 

 hope you chain it to something

 

[hairnet]

47 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

Bloody hell ! A gritter has just gone past.

the last week and half its been below freezing overnight even tho its ok in the day - the signs on the motorways round here for that time have said salt spreading

we aint even high up or scotland

 

[artdjones]

28 minutes ago, hairnet said:

the last week and half its been below freezing overnight even tho its ok in the day - the signs on the motorways round here for that time have said salt spreading

we aint even high up or scotland

 

Same here in the SW of Ireland. It was warm all winter, now it's frosty in the second week of April.🥶

[richardmorris]

Drove my sister’s car back to oxford after a new cambelt, discs and driveshaft, it’s not bad at all. This afternoon I spent connecting everything to my new EE router and getting my new wahoo bike trainer set up. Then an hour trying to fit a new tyre to the bike.

[GMcD]

Picked up a decent used mohair roof for the blue MX-5 this morning.  The hood on it was the original vinyl one and starting to break up above the drain rails. (In typical fashion I forgot to take decent before pictures) Spent this afternoon fitting it. Needs another clean and seal but looks a million times better. 

Also picked up a set of seats that I'm thinking of putting in the red one.

Gave them a clean and feed. 

[Broadsword]

I just noticed there is a HubNut social on next week just 40 minutes drive from where I live. I instantly booked a ticket. Will be exciting to say hello to @dollywobbler and others in person. I'm sure it will be a fantastic event!

[New POD]

Currently in a stag weekend. Playing exploding cats. 

Earlier I came last in the shooting. But first in axe throwing..

Have been driving wife's car all week. (She's in Lanzarote, until Sunday afternoon) 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

Not much going on here, thought I had convinced the wife to let me get a new Dacia jogger and sell the Espace but in the time it took me to go collect some gear for the garage, she’d been on eBay looking for kitchens so I can’t sell it as apparently I have more Shitely activity coming my way.

I did one vehicular thing today, refilled the wife’s screenwash with some B&Q advanced red stuff. I must pass on my congratulations* to the master perfumier  they employed to mix it - I normally like the smell of screenwash but this stuff is eye watering my horrific. It must require an expert hand to make it smell like the perfect blend of Methylated Spirit, stale wine and cat’s piss.

Cleans well though.

You dislike the aroma of meths? Never tasted it, but love the smell.

[High Jetter]

27 minutes ago, New POD said:

Currently in a stag weekend. Playing exploding cats. 

Earlier I came last in the shooting. But first in axe throwing..

Have been driving wife's car all week. (She's in Lanzarote, until Sunday afternoon) 

I usually enjoy your posts, but am struggling to understand this one. Have a good w/e

[Ohdearme]

25 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

You dislike the aroma of meths? Never tasted it, but love the smell.

I love the smell of meths, I think the off putting whiff is the other stuff they’ve put in to discourage drinking it.

Oh how I miss the days my mother saw fit to keep an old glass bottle of lucozade filled with the purple stuff under the sink and a label written on it saying  ‘not juice’ - Why did 80’s parents need so much of the stuff anyway?

[Asimo]

9 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

Why did 80’s parents need so much of the stuff anyway?

Cleaning, camping stoves, Mamod steam engines, anti-freeze for screen wash, shining boots…

[Ohdearme]

14 minutes ago, Asimo said:

Cleaning, camping stoves, Mamod steam engines, anti-freeze for screen wash, shining boots…

True…I also bet the youth of today wouldn’t know a tin of Brasso if it entered the room and polished the tits off their Chinese shiny tat they bought from B&M.

Probably no need for Brasso now, don’t see many homes on Instagram with brass horse tack nailed to the walls…another ‘why did they do that?’ question.

[chaseracer]

On 07/04/2022 at 08:04, The Vicar said:

I've made my first purchase of 2022:

Unseen, and its 1500 miles away..

Bitte, @Inspector Morose nach Duraplast Telefon...

[Zelandeth]

I think I may have found the cause of the slop in this gear linkage...

Pretty sure there should be a bush of some description between the lever and the actuator arm...

[AnnoyingPentium]

5 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

True…I also bet the youth of today wouldn’t know a tin of Brasso if it entered the room and polished the tits off their Chinese shiny tat they bought from B&M.

Probably no need for Brasso now, don’t see many homes on Instagram with brass horse tack nailed to the walls…another ‘why did they do that?’ question.

It's also quite decent for getting writing off of old pre-recorded cassettes if you want to reuse them.