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[barefoot]

Yesterday, I booked my xmas delivery from Sainsbury's.

[richardmorris]

Modern daily fiat has developed an indicator fault. It was intermittent but now permanently not working. Its part of the led headlamp unit and dies switch off the white led drl, but doesn't turn the orange one on. Clicks at double speed too. Thames fiat in Slough have booked it in next Tuesday where hopefully they can fix it under warranty. 

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Modern daily fiat has developed an indicator fault. It was intermittent but now permanently not working. Its part of the led headlamp unit and dies switch off the white led drl, but doesn't turn the orange one on. Clicks at double speed too. Thames fiat in Slough have booked it in next Tuesday where hopefully they can fix it under warranty. 

Typically it’s fixed itself on the way home. Must be a loose connection so hope it’s showing faulty at the dealer next week. Italian electrics!

[egg]

11 hours ago, barefoot said:

Yesterday, I booked my xmas delivery from Sainsbury's.

I'll be refreshing the Morrison's website tomorrow morning, gotta get that precious xmas eve slot....

[stuboy]

The galaxy mot booked for 23rd... I have apologised in advance to mot tester if I don't get a chance too clean it as the missus has had it 3 weeks and is below my standard..but I'll bloody well try too get it hoovered out and washed... I volunteered erindoors that she will be assisting me too.

 

Also someone one twated the n/s door mirror scratched the paintwork on the casing but thankfully the scratches on the door and wing wiped off... though I was expecting more when swmbo rang me at work saying sorry someone's hit ur car... I almost lost the last 5 strands of hair...

 

 

 

[Daniel R25]

Hi,

I think the laguna 2 has fallen out of flavour here a bit. 😀 I don't know if I should create a thread on my new purchase. A laguna 2 Gt, with the detuned Megane Rs motor and the special black and red interior.

The best bit is the the lpg system. But it has been standing outside for 12 years after the gearbox failed...

Have a few pics. First task was a wash. Worst bit was cleaning out the fuel Tank with 20l of gummed up stale fuel which has already ruined 2 fuel pumps.

Dan

 

[loserone]

30 minutes ago, Daniel R25 said:

special black and red interior.

Show us you frilly interior bits Daniel 

[Daniel R25]

The exterior colour is boring. So actually this Red leather is a Bonus...

Before setting off for the collection we had to fix my friend's Super Shite espace v6. Now the previously dead Radiator Fan comes on with the lights. And of course the police stopped us and we were lucky the let us off with a 30 Euro fine...

The laguna is a shared project with a friend who has just overcome cancer.

Dan

 

[Split_Pin]

I have decided to keep the SLK and SORN it for the winter. I was going to cancel the insurance too but the bastards wanted £80!

I feel I am spending too much money on cars at the moment.

I'm a bit surprised at how long this one was for sale before I bought it but as such not so much at the lack of bites when I advertised it yesterday.  I guess it was only up for a day though. Anyway they are really fun cars and it's exceptionally easy to light up the rear tyres. They are also very comfortable and the build quality is surprisingly good for a late 90s Merc.

I'd totally recommend trying one.

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Daniel R25 said:

I think the laguna 2 has fallen out of flavour here a bit. 😀 I don't know if I should create a thread on my new purchase. A laguna 2 Gt, with the detuned Megane Rs motor and the special black and red interior.

 

Yes Yes Yes!

Still some big Laguna II fans here (myself very much included)

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, egg said:

I'll be refreshing the Morrison's website tomorrow morning, gotta get that precious xmas eve slot....

Why? No vehicle to take you there and choose what you actually want?

[Metal Guru]

On 15/10/2023 at 17:08, egg said:

I'd put a fiver she was nearer the Lordswood end than the Luton end tho?

Which is worse???

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Why? No vehicle to take you there and choose what you actually want?

Truly spoken by somebody that doesn’t hate i) Christmas ii) people iii) shopping.  The combination of all three is a conflagration of all that is wrong with humanity.

[loserone]

Absolutely fuck actually going to supermarkets 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

23 minutes ago, loserone said:

Absolutely fuck actually going to supermarkets 

My partner loves going into supermarkets.  Sometimes she visits multiple supermarkets in a day, especially if there’s a good Lidl or Aldi.

I don’t understand and am considering psychological intervention.

[egg]

2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Truly spoken by somebody that doesn’t hate i) Christmas ii) people iii) shopping.  The combination of all three is a conflagration of all that is wrong with humanity.

You know me too well GM, I hate the Xmas shopping panic induced grab-fest!

[egg]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Which is worse???

Luton, at the turn of the Century me and Mrs Egg looked at a flat in the area, it was about £30k, and the mortgage would have been pennies, but the street urchins and general sense of decay put us off!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

10 minutes ago, egg said:

Luton, at the turn of the Century me and Mrs Egg looked at a flat in the area, it was about £30k, and the mortgage would have been pennies, but the street urchins and general sense of decay put us off!

When my partner moved in with me back in 2016, we were in a small flat in Gravesend.  We looked to move a couple of months later as I'd got a new job elsewhere and the first thing I said to her was: 'Not Medway and definitely not Chatham'.

It's not even that they're any worse than Gravesend or Ashford.  It's that the transport links out are so bad that it's hard to escape...

[barefoot]

On 17/10/2023 at 09:41, barefoot said:

Yesterday, I booked my xmas delivery from Sainsbury's.

And this morning,  I bought and wrapped the last of my gifts. That just leaves the meat to order tomorrow when I go to the butcher’s and the cards to write when I get home. Then I can relax and look forward to spending the whole of the xmas month in a totally stress free drunken stupor.

I fucking love December!

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

When my partner moved in with me back in 2016, we were in a small flat in Gravesend.  We looked to move a couple of months later as I'd got a new job elsewhere and the first thing I said to her was: 'Not Medway and definitely not Chatham'.

It's not even that they're any worse than Gravesend or Ashford.  It's that the transport links out are so bad that it's hard to escape...

Doesn’t Strood and Rochester now have a fast train under 30 min into London ( though I gather it’s twice the price of the slow train). Chatham always had a good service to Victoria (40 min) even in the 80s.

I escaped from Medway 30 years ago and can’t say I’ve ever regretted it. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

45 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Doesn’t Strood and Rochester now have a fast train under 30 min into London ( though I gather it’s twice the price of the slow train). Chatham always had a good service to Victoria (40 min) even in the 80s.

I escaped from Medway 30 years ago and can’t say I’ve ever regretted it. 

It does - but then try escaping in a car and it's as appalling as ever.

[egg]

51 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

It does - but then try escaping in a car and it's as appalling as ever.

I've always thought it's better to live in a crap small town than an urban conurbation that might be objectively slightly better.  And that's one of the reasons.

[Bear]

Hmmm

[GrumpiusMaximus]

30 minutes ago, RichardK said:

Hmmm

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Truly spoken by somebody that doesn’t hate i) Christmas ii) people iii) shopping.  The combination of all three is a conflagration of all that is wrong with humanity.

I don't hate those 3, but am not particularly keen on them either. Having to wait in on Xmas eve for a delivery that will, inevitably, have some wrong items in with no time to correct it appeals even less. For those who like that it's absolutely fine, just not for me.

[Bear]

6 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

The first snow this winter has arrived

[mat777]

Well, it's been a hugely hectic 3 months of "stuff" both at work and in other areas, which has prevented me from spending much, if any time here. 

But now:

 

Whilst I catch up on the world of shiting, here's a gratuitous photo of some shite under restoration that I shifted some parts and supplies for last weekend:

 

 

[Saabnut]

3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The first snow this winter has arrived

Yes, I saw that the mountains behind Jelsa were white for the first time this year when we arrived yesterday.

The only people who like snow are the ones who do not have to live with it every year, everything becomes so much more difficult with white stuff about.

[barefoot]

Which reminds me, whilst listening to TRB's album Power in the Darkness recently, the track grey cortina came on and I thought, 'do you know,  I don't think I've ever seen a grey cortina '. Certainly not in late seventies mk3/4 guise anyway.