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[barefoot]

Wrap your head in tin-foil?

[stuboy]

17 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Wrap your head in tin-foil?

 

[stendec]

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, stuboy said:

any ideas on how to improve dab reception in my car, it has an kenwood aftermarket, ive added 12v booster..

Yup. Move to an area with good DAB reception. I know, it's shite.

[beko1987]

10 hours ago, stuboy said:

any ideas on how to improve dab reception in my car, it has an kenwood aftermarket, ive added 12v booster..

Before I broke the connector on my head unit for the antennae I found the long whip ones they magnet to the roof worked really well in the hilly part of Oxfordshire I live in. Rarely lost any signal even with 1/2 bars. 

Then I broke it removing it from the zx years ago so don't have dab now 😢

[wuvvum]

Off on a collection mission. 

Rover fuelled up and ready to go. 

[grogee]

15 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Took the Bremen out of the Civic sedan and put it in the 124: 

I do like a period stereo. I've got the original Philips in my Maestro but I'll be using a 90s Panasonic tape player for extra oomph (and decent speakers hidden away).

[grogee]

12 hours ago, stuboy said:

any ideas on how to improve dab reception in my car, it has an kenwood aftermarket, ive added 12v booster..

External (roof mount) antenna. You can get magnet mount ones for hatchbacks and route the wire in above the headlining and down behind the A-pillar trim.

Internal windscreen mount ones are ok but struggle in poor signal areas. Also if you're using a dashcam and 12v -> 5v USB supply, this plays havoc with DAB reception. 

[grogee]

We're moving into our temp accommodation today, a holiday cottage in a nearby village. Pretty, but pretty cold. Sadly no log fire to warm it up. 

Anyway Mrs Grogee has borrowed a Luton from her work (Transit flavour) with a tail lift. The fun* part will be seeing if it fits over the narrow (and vertiginous) humpback bridge over the canal near our cottage. It's one of those bridges where you can't see anything except sky when you drive over it; I can't imagine how many accidents there have been. Hopefully we won't add to the tally. 

[BeEP]

19 minutes ago, grogee said:

We're moving into our temp accommodation today, a holiday cottage in a nearby village. Pretty, but pretty cold. Sadly no log fire to warm it up. 

Anyway Mrs Grogee has borrowed a Luton from her work (Transit flavour) with a tail lift. The fun* part will be seeing if it fits over the narrow (and vertiginous) humpback bridge over the canal near our cottage. It's one of those bridges where you can't see anything except sky when you drive over it; I can't imagine how many accidents there have been. Hopefully we won't add to the tally. 

The way to avoid adding to the accident tally is surely to approach said bridge at full whack.  If there is anything coming up the other side you will sail gracefully over the top of them and land behind.

[Ghosty]

3 hours ago, grogee said:

I do like a period stereo. I've got the original Philips in my Maestro but I'll be using a 90s Panasonic tape player for extra oomph (and decent speakers hidden away).

Me too, I have the Civic's original Philips radio, but it's dead sadly. I upgraded the speakers to Alpine ones, but I need to find something decent and period to drive them. The other fourth gen Civic has a surprisingly good Aiwa cassette player in it! 

Speaking of, I'm getting that off my mum, as a second chance offer on eBay has made her very happy. There's going to be a collection on Monday, bit of a dull one as it just involves driving the 300E down the A1. 

[grogee]

57 minutes ago, BeEP said:

The way to avoid adding to the accident tally is surely to approach said bridge at full whack.  If there is anything coming up the other side you will sail gracefully over the top of them and land behind.

That will land us in the pub lounge bar, so double win. 

I reckon 60mph ought to be about right in this fine steed

[wuvvum]

Just passed the house where I bought the 107...

[mitsisigma01]

1 hour ago, BeEP said:

The way to avoid adding to the accident tally is surely to approach said bridge at full whack.  If there is anything coming up the other side you will sail gracefully over the top of them and land behind.

That's if the bottom of the tailgate legs don't dig into the road surface, don't ask how I know 😣 , luckily it was a rental van and it happened within 30 minutes of picking it up so it must of been broken before.... Even got a free upgrade to a 7.5 tonner 😇

[Stanky]

Don't operate the tail lift without the engine running or you'll flatten the battery in no time, or so I was told when I last had need to hire one

[Finchy90]

@Stanky you can normally get away with doing it 2-3 times, but most should have a battery guard to stop you from killing the battery. 

[MrGTI6]

17 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Don't operate the tail lift without the engine running or you'll flatten the battery in no time, or so I was told when I last had need to hire one

I can't imagine anyone being so stupid... 🤐

[wuvvum]

Collectioned. 

[richardmorris]

18degrees in Surrey, so topless weather.

[richardmorris]

Put petrol in it today as well. 18litres, 180miles. Did the fiat yesterday too at 38litres for 385 miles. X1/9 had its mot this week on the same fuel as last year.

Ive just calculated that this year’s running costs for the x1/9 are £7 a mile!

[LightBulbFun]

54 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

Fuck yeah! looking forward to seeing more on this in time  

[richardmorris]

18 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

Fuck yeah! looking forward to seeing more on this in time  

If only more people were as enthusiastic about beige visas!

[richardmorris]

1983 I think, drome valley in a visa II club.

[stuboy]

Good friend has bought this.. diesel.. automatic and never towed... I kinda like it... he says no obvious faults.

[Ghosty]

8 hours ago, Stanky said:

Don't operate the tail lift without the engine running or you'll flatten the battery in no time, or so I was told when I last had need to hire one

We had a transit luton at work recently to move several cages worth of PCs and laptops, I'll back this up.  

[Lankytim]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Collectioned. 

CUL8R V1SA

 

[OM646]

On 11/11/2022 at 9:14 AM, Saabnut said:

Common fault with these. I think Bill Jones ar Saabits still does re-silvered ones.

I browsed Saabits and while i didn't find re-silvering, i found new reflectors for the headlamps apparently

[wuvvum]

Arrived home after an eventful drive,  only* 17 hours after I left.

Visa has taken up temporary residence in the scruffy '80s hatchbacks section of the car park. 

[17-Coffees]

Usining my 2015 Abarth 140, Coming home from work the other week, gear stick feeling shit all week...shat itself on the drive home...limiting myself to 3rd-4th gear...thankfully as I approached home and guessed what'd happened. Got use of my mum's car (22 year old old, Mk4 Golf 1.6 , base spec) for past week till I approved problems with mine....

As expected, the 'ballpoint' had given up the ghost. So carried the 'official' repair (slip a latex glove over it) as many a Arnold Clark Crnold Alark dealers has done, I'm going to get a local, trusted garage to do. 

*photo shown is my post-approved repair method.... 

I should add, I thought the gearshift felt a tad shit....but I spent the past two weeks prior with a Kia Sedona minivan as a rental, so my mind was marshmallow! 😅

 

[Cord Fourteener]

Right, I failed at adulting.

I've still not got all my energy back from covid, kids are harvesting bugs of all sorts. 

I'm working part time on average but it feels like 80 hrs a week.

I left the kids to entertain themselves yesterday while I had to sleep which started a chain of events leading to leaving the ignition on in the V70, now the French is jump starting the V70.

A month or two ago I broke my phone rather spectacularly and I was unable remember my password to AS or which email I used to sign in so I had to message the beacon of functionality that is @brownnova in the end to get back in!

Thanks to @ruffgeezerfor reminding me that I'm missing 😁

I'm not moaning by this post, it's more of an excuse. Over-worked, looking after kids while Wifey settles into new job and works far too many hours etc etc

So, after waking up first thing in the morning (youngest likes to climb in our bed at random-o'clock in the morning and cough at us and wrestle us) I realised that during my parenting fail yesterday I had left a thing on charge in the v70 with the ignition on...

Oops. Anyway the photos of jump starting the V70 at stupid o'clock on a Sunday morning before a crazy full day of work (yes i'm working basically all day on remembrance Sunday) are very AS I think so I've finally managed to get back in to post the picture of my adulting fail! Yippee.