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[stuboy]

10 hours ago, RetroShite said:

roffled?

[junkyarddog]

Early start for me today,managed to get a retest slot for my Honda at 7:15 this morning. 

Failed it's last test on two outer CV joint boots.

If I'd have bothered to check over the car I'd have spotted this 🙄

Two new stretchy CV boots later!

And we end up with this!

Happiness is a fresh pass certificate 😁

[Split_Pin]

Another great job done on my cars by Gingernutzz:

That:

Is now this:

I'm right pleased with it

[Joey spud]

I love an old steering wheel but the skinnyness of their rims just feels wrong after years of grabbing modern wheels so off to eBay I went.

I bought a silicone cover that was both too thin and too baggy so I taped it on ready for fitting the ultimate old giffer accessory from the 70/80's.

The smell alone takes me straight back to 1986 and my '72 mini 850.

Woof.

[Metal Guru]

16 hours ago, cobblers said:

100%! You can have a cheap burger and a drink at home.

Same here - there's a nice pub that serves nice beer and really nice food. £14 for a really good burger and about £20 for a steak.

Well kept local ales are £4.60 a pint.

A meal and a couple of pints might set you back £30 here vs £20 in a wetherspoons. IMO it's a much better strategy to go to the nice pub every 3 weeks vs spoons every 2 weeks.

 

£14 burger and chips at a nice pub has probably £7 worth of ingredients. 

£10 burger and chips at spoons? £1.50 . 

 

Great if you’ve got somewhere that serves decent food at good prices, but to many “gastro pubs “ take the piss. Marginally better food than a Spoons at near Michelin prices and a wine list from the nearest Asda starting at £30 a bottle.

Having said that, I prefer to spend what Spoons charge on decent food to cook at home.

 

 

[Joey spud]

The wifes had this old samba green CRX auto for seven years (it was a valentine's present) and in that time it's been used mostly in the summer months and sometimes it's been forgotten about for a year or two.

It's had a really good run out this year but the MOT expired last month and it needs some suspension bushes and a tyre replacing also the laquer peel on the wings was quite impressive. But alas there's not going to be any room for it at my new house so reluctantly it has to go.

So it's old number plate was reinstated and before I could advertise it a bloke knocked on my door and gave me £500 for it.

Probably going to miss the thing but if we have a spare car it got to be allowed inside the M25.

[egg]

Wow, Ardechauto on Insta has spotted a Metro - apparently there are 12(!) left in France only 3 of which are roadworthy...

https://www.instagram.com/ardechauto/

[UltraWomble]

Bought 4 anthracite powder coated alloys with new Falken winter rubber for £50 a corner. 

Really could not quibble at that price. 

Not really sure I like the grey over the silver. But new tyres!!!!! 

Traffic on M6 was bloody horrendous. 

3 crashes seen. 

Bit of blue oval pron

 

[High Jetter]

Can't find the no pic spotted thread, but passed a convoy of classics coming the other way a while back. First a R8 soft top (who flashed me, but no idea  who the driver was), a pickup I didn't recognize, 2 A30/A35s, a Rover P5, a Lotus Elan and several others. Must have missed a local meet, somehow. 

[stuboy]

Anyone else's missus do this... just got the car all clean and nice looking £30 diesel in it, and then says oh can she borrow it too take herself, her friend, 4 kids 10 and under and 2 dogs too a dog show, cause say no look a to55ser in front of friend and kid whose visiting, or smile and go ok and walk off throwing kittens off bridges ( joking by the way ).

[Erebus]

12 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Anyone else's missus do this... just got the car all clean and nice looking £30 diesel in it, and then says oh can she borrow it too take herself, her friend, 4 kids 10 and under and 2 dogs too a dog show, cause say no look a to55ser in front of friend and kid whose visiting, or smile and go ok and walk off throwing kittens off bridges ( joking by the way ).

As soon as I've cleaned our car the Mrs and kids make it look like a mobile shit tip.  Wouldn't mind but she goes metal if the house is messy or untidy!

[egg]

^ Mrs Egg drives auto only now, so no chance of that happening with the Mondeo

[RoverFolkUs]

There are very few reasonably priced, acceptable quality pubs/restaurants my way. 

Wetherspoons, and Greene king, are the only places where I can go knowing there will be something I like and I'm not going to have to pay through the nose for it

I could go to McDonald's and spend a tenner on that crap or go to spoons and spend that tenner on a much nicer burger or even a steak and a pint. 

Any time I've been to another pub or restaurant, it's ended up being nearly £30-40 a head so that means its special occasions only as it's unsustainable (for me) to go there regularly. 

Wetherspoons will usually be at least half of that and I'll end up enjoying it more.

I went to the Harvester last year for the first time in a long time, used to be really nice, but it was £100 for 3x people and I didn't even enjoy any of it. Small portions and it all seemed microwaved or sitting under a heat lamp for hours, dried out. 

None of the spoons I go to seem to suffer from the piss soaked atmosphere as described above. Maybe I just choose the right times! 

Can't fault the breakfasts, I went to a small independent pub for a cooked breakfast and was served those 30% meat (if you're being generous) 70% bread sausages like supermarket value brand ones, and a "latte" served from a catering tub of Nescafé that wasn't fully dissolved 🤢 - rather than at least from a coffee machine. That was £9.50.. spoons would be much nicer with a proper coffee from a machine, less than a fiver? Can't argue. 

No it's not spotlessly clean, and no it's not free from dubious characters but it's a chain pub so what do you expect?

[ProgRocker]

Surveying the clutter in my spare bedroom. I wonder if this stuff that was sitting in my dad's shed is still any good after 30+ years? 

[JakeT]

Haven’t posted a lot recently, as I’ve been doing no AS activities. But I’ve been watching. Like this fella.

 

E36 oil change today. It was last done in December 2021, 4,231 miles ago.

Backed into the garage. The cloth on the bonnet is in case it touches the garage door when it’s jacked up. Genuine BMW filter and Millers 10w40

Oil draining. Still nice and golden, given the mileage I’d expect so.

6.5l back in and at the correct level. Reset the service light too, from three green back to five.
 

Also seeing @sutty2006 collect a Disco and have a gala pie slice, I also went out and had a slice, since it’s been too long  bliss.

 

[sutty2006]

4 minutes ago, JakeT said:

Haven’t posted a lot recently, as I’ve been doing no AS activities. But I’ve been watching. Like this fella.

 

E36 oil change today. It was last done in December 2021, 4,231 miles ago.

Backed into the garage. The cloth on the bonnet is in case it touches the garage door when it’s jacked up. Genuine BMW filter and Millers 10w40

Oil draining. Still nice and golden, given the mileage I’d expect so.

6.5l back in and at the correct level. Reset the service light too, from three green back to five.
 

Also seeing @sutty2006 collect a Disco and have a gala pie slice, I also went out and had a slice, since it’s been too long  bliss.

 

That reminds me, the second (emergency) gala pie is still around. Must take that to car show tomorrow. 

[dome]

If it's been around that long the emergency may occur after consumption, not before 

[stuboy]

7 minutes ago, dome said:

If it's been around that long the emergency may occur after consumption, not before 

bowel cleansing

[sutty2006]

Quite happy to take that risk 👌🤪

[stuboy]

19 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

Quite happy to take that risk 👌🤪

i had a 6 month out of date diet coke thursday, cured my inability too poo that week

[w00dy]

From the moment I bought my 6 series, there has been one change I wanted to make and I finally managed to get hold of some sports seats in the correct Chateau red for a decent price.

Before

 

After

 

[egg]

This is an interesting abandoned car spotter on Insta to follow - in bloody Kiev of all places.

https://www.instagram.com/abandoned_cars_kiev/

[richardmorris]

[Dyslexic Viking]

Took the Mercedes for a drive in perfect autumn weather today.

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

For @LightBulbFun

[sutty2006]

Gala pie round two 

 

yum yum 

[richardmorris]

[Metal Guru]

17 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

There are very few reasonably priced, acceptable quality pubs/restaurants my way. 

Wetherspoons, and Greene king, are the only places where I can go knowing there will be something I like and I'm not going to have to pay through the nose for it

I could go to McDonald's and spend a tenner on that crap or go to spoons and spend that tenner on a much nicer burger or even a steak and a pint. 

Any time I've been to another pub or restaurant, it's ended up being nearly £30-40 a head so that means its special occasions only as it's unsustainable (for me) to go there regularly. 

Wetherspoons will usually be at least half of that and I'll end up enjoying it more.

I went to the Harvester last year for the first time in a long time, used to be really nice, but it was £100 for 3x people and I didn't even enjoy any of it. Small portions and it all seemed microwaved or sitting under a heat lamp for hours, dried out. 

None of the spoons I go to seem to suffer from the piss soaked atmosphere as described above. Maybe I just choose the right times! 

Can't fault the breakfasts, I went to a small independent pub for a cooked breakfast and was served those 30% meat (if you're being generous) 70% bread sausages like supermarket value brand ones, and a "latte" served from a catering tub of Nescafé that wasn't fully dissolved 🤢 - rather than at least from a coffee machine. That was £9.50.. spoons would be much nicer with a proper coffee from a machine, less than a fiver? Can't argue. 

No it's not spotlessly clean, and no it's not free from dubious characters but it's a chain pub so what do you expect?

I wouldn’t rank a Harvester any better than a Spoons. 
Greggs do decent breakfast items.

[Split_Pin]

Spent the last week trying to re-make and replaced these fuel pipes on the TT which were badly perished.

The issue I had was 2-fold.

1) 2 other TTs in the breakers had the same issue with perished lines

2) New ones are unavailable

My first attempt was a bum steer as the fuel line was too thick. As you can see above they bend down low to clear the boost pipe which is above (removed in this picture) and I could t get the marine grade stuff to do that. My second attempt was with slightly thinner and more flexible hose. I lashed it down as much as I could and also made a spacer for the boost pipe so it sat a touch higher. This finally gave some clearance. When I started it I gave the garage and engine a shower in fuel as I hadn't tightened one of the hose clips enough. Interesting how much pressure it's under as it was fair skooshing out.

All seems OK for now but I need to take it on a drive to see if these lines and the trimmed back coolant hose all hold OK.