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[reb]

I was scheduled for 7am for two weeks.

I was sure this was the second of two weeks.

Woke up at 6:55, bugger.

Fed the cats, made coffee, pissed, logged in to the system. 7:14, not too bad.

Take a few calls. Feeling alright really.

7:40, check my schedule for when my break is.

Says "Not Scheduled" in the "Now" section, wtf?

View full schedule. Start time 8:45.

What a prick I am. Could have still been asleep.

Can't even have a quick nap because I've had a cup of rocket fuel coffee and my ritalin so any chance of sleeping in the next 12 hours is out the window.

I guess I could do something useful, but actually I'll just sit and drink more coffee.

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

12 hours ago, Lankytim said:

Visited my Dad in Brum today and finally got a pic of this. It's been parked up for a few weeks. Fridge fire or turf war?

The van looks as though it's come straight from a film set - it needs recommissioning with the externals left as is. For full effect, the driver needs to don a zombie outfit for the ultimate zombie apocalypse I-scream experience.

[dozeydustman]

I made the extensive* journey between Chichester and Emsworth to look at the flower-plastered Beetle.

Here it in in my cul de sac. £1000 down from £1200, it’s an honest little thing under the silly stickers, not been pranged, not been pissed around with underneath and drives really nicely. Needs a couple of tyres and the advisories at last MoT were track rods, minor bit of corrosion which sis-in-law’s neighbour can sort if it gets too bad - I had a look where the test said it was starting to corrode but it was solid and not crispy so hopefully a wire brush and some vactan and a bit of schutz will see it fine.

Now to sort out taxation class to disabled and sort out insurance

[Tony McVeigh]

On 8/8/2022 at 7:50 PM, wuvvum said:

That belongs to @Tony McVeigh of this parish.

Yep, that's mine, love it !!

The amount of people that pass and comment is, well, expected!!

My wife still hates it, but hey, relationships come and go, love of cars, never falters!!

 

[Cavcraft]

What a little beauty* this is...

Invisible body repairs are invisible

 

The n/s/r door doesn't open, there's a clonk from o/s/f and n/s/r suspension and the driver's seat belt doesn't return all the way, which is fucking really annoying.

Anyhow, it's now sporting some Vauxhall wheel trims, and the inside and outside have had a bath/good clean. To be fair, it doesn't half pull well (speed, not birds) and might even be ok on fuel.

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

there's a clonk from o/s/f and n/s/r suspension

ARB bushes tend to shit themselves on these. See also CV related things.

Edit - I may have some ARB bushes sitting about, I'll be in touch if I can find them.

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

driver's seat belt doesn't return all the way, which is fucking really annoying.

Wee drop of furniture polish as both my front ones were like this.

Good buy though.

[mitsisigma01]

On 9/3/2022 at 12:25 AM, mitsisigma01 said:

Are there any Bongo or Freda owners on here .....

I am trying to bump up interest in a set of 4 alloys with winter tyres fitted . I am going to see them tomorrow so will try and get some pictures and tyre details. 

Watch this space ....

I've bought them myself.... Just need the rest of the Bongo now 🙄

[mitsisigma01]

 

"Suits you Sir"

[stuboy]

2 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

 

"Suits you Sir"

 

[brownnova]

Phone call from the Saab people: 

“Your car’s ready, I gave it a good checkover like you asked… nothing else wrong with it, only thing I noticed was someone has bodged the exhaust mount…”

”Yeah, that was me. It works for now” 

“Yeah, looks solid so if it works keep it like that”

That’ll be my garden wire exhaust mount. I think that’s specialist approved bodgery now?

Can’t wait to get the 9000 back! 

[Lankytim]

Spent a pleasurable hour or so this afternoon fixing the Lagunas sticky OSF brake caliper. It looked pretty scaly so a wire cup brush on an angle grinder was used to remove all the flakes and tidy things up. The pads were copper greased where needed and the caliper reassembled. It seems to have done the trick, I’ll do the NS at some point too as presumably it’s nearly as corroded as the OS. 

[Bear]

How it started:

How it was going (thanks M5):

Made it to Nottingham turnoff and:

[Bear]

(I did check the inflation on the spare - that was the "out of hardshoulderless hell let's check things - was happily bimbling home at 40 and then the other front tyre went. Lilith is definitely one for drama as I changed the spare in an actual lightning storm. Also worried that looking for a place to check tyre I got snapped by a lane closure camera on the M42 so today really has gone to shit - as the whole plan was driving to my friend's house near Chelt to sort her car MoT - booked with Halfords ages ago, they told her at 10am they don't do tests on Monday at that garage - like, they had weeks to tell her this. Absolute fucking waste).

[Bear]

Fucking hell the AA are absolute shite. Good thing I'm not a motoring writer.

[SiC]

5 hours ago, RichardK said:

Fucking hell the AA are absolute shite. Good thing I'm not a motoring writer.

Are they trying to avoid covering you?

I know I've read in T&C's that they don't necessarily cover someone who has a flat in their spare tyre. Whether they enforce that is another matter. 

[egg]

For the fifth or sixth time since we've lived here someone has scraped my parked car. Thank fck it wasn't the Mondeo this time as the i10 was parked in the Mondy's spot. They left a note. People just cannot drive.

[JJ0063]

It’s what he would have wanted x

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, SiC said:

I know I've read in T&C's that they don't necessarily cover someone who has a flat in their spare tyre. Whether they enforce that is another matter. 

I had to argue with the call handler to get them to come out when I had two blowouts on a trailer in the same journey (the fact that I had 3+ tonnes of Saviem tipper truck on the trailer was of course completely unrelated).

[Tony McVeigh]

Reply to egg:

Yep, people can't drive, as experienced when my Twingo got totalled when parked at 01:00 - plus side, got my 205 with the payout 😁

[HillmanImp]

Yeah, you never know whats going to happen. Look at the damage done to this guys car that was caught on his ring doorbell. The person who did it was obviously drunk. 

 

[Tony McVeigh]

Hilarious!!

 

[Datsuncog]

You told me you'd deleted that.

[egg]

One of those days, daughter's school taxi (Touran) 'smouldering' at side of road on way to pick her up....luckily another taxi that comes our way can bring her home. 

It's done 250,000+ miles though.

[stuboy]

Plugs arrived... just gotta find time to fit them whilst looming after mini stuboy 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Inching closer to having the XJ back .. this week.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I had to argue with the call handler to get them to come out when I had two blowouts on a trailer in the same journey (the fact that I had 3+ tonnes of Saviem tipper truck on the trailer was of course completely unrelated).

Same experience with the AA after running over road debris thet holed the fuel tank  - fun fact plasterboard at 65 mph will hole a plastic Volvo petrol tank.  "We dont recover acccident damaged"  vehicles. It took 3 phone calls and a 4 hour wait and the patrolman was half a second from striking up and lighting a fag next to the car..

[Split_Pin]

I just came here to say I think these are such handsome buggers:

 

[Crackers]

I hate car hunting. I've got my sights set on buying a cheap barge for the winter, but as usual, I've got a fairly specific set of criteria. Bring on weeks upon weeks of frustration... if anyone's got a decent 530d/E320cdi/Saab turbo/Volvo T5 they want to part with, I'm interested...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

I just came here to say I think these are such handsome buggers:

 

No wonder.

They are were the future present now then. 

[Split_Pin]

17 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

No wonder.

They are were the future present now then. 

A classic advertising strapline indeed. (Except the carried over engines and suspension!)