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[AnnoyingPentium]

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Aye it does but the 75s parking sensors pick up stuff at the side so they also have an achapeevy when reversing out 🤣

Glad it isn't just my car that does that, goes nuts at the work since the spaces are angled and usually I'm parking between two cars... BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP "I see the flipping cars you stupid heap of shit etc etc" but yet it still goes off it's bloody rocker.

Also, I didny know how to spell achapeevy until now. It has since been added to the autocorrect thing on the phone.

[stuboy]

27 minutes ago, JakeT said:

having bought a paint pen, I now love marking things. I forget the torque setting for wheel bolts and so always have to look it up.

 

i write my nickname on my tools

[stuboy]

I thought it was funny... others may not.. but I'm putting in on the mondeo.

[Split_Pin]

40 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

A what now?

A North of Scotland term for a meltdown or hissy fit.

The only good thing to come out of the time I lived in Inverness, other than my last day when I was driving away from it.

[High Jetter]

59 minutes ago, stuboy said:

I thought it was funny... others may not.. but I'm putting in on the mondeo.

Didn't Toyota do that too?

[stuboy]

collegue at work has signed up for 2nd hand  nearly new dacia sandero 1.2... great start eml comes on when test drive... garage says theyll sort it, hour late its back and eml off, 10 miles from home eml is back on he rings dealer and they tell him to ring the people who covering the warranty... great service..

[loserone]

Reject!

[brownnova]

Let’s go out!

Wife’s modern: no charge on account of coming back from Devon in it yesterday. 
Volvo: seized brake caliper… the reason we took the MG to Devon
Saab: still borked

So the Pontiac then, ever reliable… but the battery is dead. Odd… I’ve left it over a month before now with no issues. Battery jump pack? Dead. No way of getting jump leads to it.

2CV? Blocked in by the dead Pontiac. 

Looks like we’re staying in then kids! 

[Saabnut]

20 minutes ago, brownnova said:

Let’s go out!

Wife’s modern: no charge on account of coming back from Devon in it yesterday. 
Volvo: seized brake caliper… the reason we took the MG to Devon
Saab: still borked

So the Pontiac then, ever reliable… but the battery is dead. Odd… I’ve left it over a month before now with no issues. Battery jump pack? Dead. No way of getting jump leads to it.

2CV? Blocked in by the dead Pontiac. 

Looks like we’re staying in then kids! 

You now have the perfect excuse to buy another.....

[Rust Collector]

I dropped my Shogun Sport in for MOT about 40 minutes ago. It has done 3k miles since the last MOT. It has also sat in a corner at the stables for a few* months.

I am anxiously clicking refresh, waiting to see how much pain I'm in for this year.

[Rust Collector]

Well fuck me, I take it all back!!

We won't talk about the advisory essay list.

[Cord Fourteener]

46 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

Well fuck me, I take it all back!!

We won't talk about the advisory essay list.

There you go, chod speed!

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

We won't talk about the advisory essay list.

Ah gwan, you know you want to!

[Cord Fourteener]

So Wifey's Peugeot 307 has done a French and FTP on her way home from work. She's not sick in a nearby town awaiting recovery.

Apparently all the lights have come on and the engine won't run properly. 

[Stanky]

I've noticed more cars recently driving around with their headlights on in daytime, but with the front indicators on on both sides permanently lit. The first time i saw this was on a BMW and i dismissed it as being some kind of electrical issue, but since then I have seen probabaly about ten different cars, all running with both front orange indicators permanently lit. Myriad makes and models, BMW, VW, Peugeot, Ford at the very least.

Is this a scene thing, or some sort of weird Fareham phenomenon and the owners/drivers are completely oblivious?

Also, I have noticed several obviously chavved up cars recently with some kind of treatment to the windscreen and front headlights making them sort of tinted but in a colour change film, sort of like late 90s/00s flip paint TVRs and things, but on the glass. Apparetly its legal, looks weird but there you go. Is this another new fad elsewhere in the country too? So far I;ve seen it on some mid-00s Subaru Impreza and a heavily modified Civic type-r.

[captain_70s]

Do some modern cars not have yellow side marker lights? As per the US?

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, captain_70s said:

Do some modern cars not have yellow side marker lights? As per the US?

Some folk retrofit these to their cars too. Seen a Mk1 Fabia VRS kicking about Ayr with the indicators permanently on. Not keen on it myself, but whatever floats yer boat etc etc.

[Stanky]

Maybe its that, I was sure I'd seen equivalent cars without orange side marker lights, but maybe its just that the owners have fitted orange rather than white bulbs?

[Split_Pin]

The film on the lights is chameleon tint. Even when applied correctly it looks horrific. I 'viewed'  an MGZT with it applied to the rear lights, badly wrinkled as well. I'm not sure about the windscreen though.

[stuboy]

on my wasy back from marden village i saw not 1 but 2 bond bugs.... (the 2nd was being towed by a large blue van)

[Jamie]

1 hour ago, Stanky said:

I've noticed more cars recently driving around with their headlights on in daytime, but with the front indicators on on both sides permanently lit. The first time i saw this was on a BMW and i dismissed it as being some kind of electrical issue, but since then I have seen probabaly about ten different cars, all running with both front orange indicators permanently lit. Myriad makes and models, BMW, VW, Peugeot, Ford at the very least.

Is this a scene thing, or some sort of weird Fareham phenomenon and the owners/drivers are completely oblivious?

Also, I have noticed several obviously chavved up cars recently with some kind of treatment to the windscreen and front headlights making them sort of tinted but in a colour change film, sort of like late 90s/00s flip paint TVRs and things, but on the glass. Apparetly its legal, looks weird but there you go. Is this another new fad elsewhere in the country too? So far I;ve seen it on some mid-00s Subaru Impreza and a heavily modified Civic type-r.

There is an option on carly coding called 'us spec sidelights' or something along those lights, which will illuminate the indicator bulbs albeit dimly - not my cuppa, but also see a lot of scene kids running round with them near me too.

 

 

 

 

[dome]

24 minutes ago, Jamie said:

There is an option on carly coding called 'us spec sidelights' or something along those lights, which will illuminate the indicator bulbs albeit dimly - not my cuppa, but also see a lot of scene kids running round with them near me too.

 

 

 

 

Aye, that's it. Carista or similar apps let's you change the setup on vag stuff to allow you to mess with this sort of thing.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Similar here in Kernow. Plenty of young bucks trying to be 'Murican.

Same crew seem to like running cars with turbots with dump valves which make the car sound like it's having some sort of major asthma attack. Real cool*. 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, stuboy said:

on my wasy back from marden village i saw not 1 but 2 bond bugs.... (the 2nd was being towed by a large blue van)

Even so, 2-in-1 is unusual.

[DVee8]

 

 

9 hours ago, Stanky said:

I've noticed more cars recently driving around with their headlights on in daytime, but with the front indicators on on both sides permanently lit. The first time i saw this was on a BMW and i dismissed it as being some kind of electrical issue, but since then I have seen probabaly about ten different cars, all running with both front orange indicators permanently lit. Myriad makes and models, BMW, VW, Peugeot, Ford at the very least.

Is this a scene thing, or some sort of weird Fareham phenomenon and the owners/drivers are completely oblivious?

Also, I have noticed several obviously chavved up cars recently with some kind of treatment to the windscreen and front headlights making them sort of tinted but in a colour change film, sort of like late 90s/00s flip paint TVRs and things, but on the glass. Apparetly its legal, looks weird but there you go. Is this another new fad elsewhere in the country too? So far I;ve seen it on some mid-00s Subaru Impreza and a heavily modified Civic type-r.

So apparently it's called oil slick for the front screen. As for the indicator being on I I think it's a yoof thing I have seen a few, they flash off if you know what I mean.

[Wack]

Salesman with his hands on his head 

Customer, thanks for the test drive but I think I'll leave it 😄

Only one in the country apparently M4 CSL , 10 destined for the UK , one a cat S already 

 

[Cord Fourteener]

10 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Similar here in Kernow. Plenty of young bucks trying to be 'Murican.

Same crew seem to like running cars with turbots with dump valves which make the car sound like it's having some sort of major asthma attack. Real cool*. 

To the tune of Woodie Guthrie 'Driving in my car'

"The boost it goes a-whizz pish

the boost it goes a-whizz pish

when I'm drivin' in my car"

I realise that might mean something else in different parts of the UK.

[Cord Fourteener]

32 minutes ago, Wack said:

Salesman with his hands on his head 

Customer, thanks for the test drive but I think I'll leave it 😄

Only one in the country apparently M4 CSL , 10 destined for the UK , one a cat S already 

 

 

All the emogis are applicable here i think. 

[Cord Fourteener]

So further to Wifey's FTP last night, 

The oil leak it has had for ever has corroded the fan belt and it pinged off as she was arriving to work. 

Last night before driving she saw this

And was told by the security who allegedly used to be a mechanic that it was nothing but debris caught on her axle. 

She made it an hour out of her one-and-a-quarter hour commute home before getting stranded on a busy roundabout. Managed to kangaroo the car off the roundabout with the very unhappy car into a car park and Autoaid came to tow.

So an unscheduled day off today and an easy fix, but we are going to have to sort the oil leak!

[barefoot]

I keep meaning to mention the retired brain surgeon who lives in the next village. I suspect that he used to experiment on his first wife who was absolutely crackers.  He owns a Bentley Continental Coupé, a Maserati Quattroporte and a Piaggio Ape which he is generally seen pottering about in. I was amongst a long procession of cars following him the other day, when he pulled over to let everyone past by hiding the Ape behind a couple of cones that had been left in the road. It is incredibly slow & looks dreadfully fragile.