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[beko1987]

The green growing all over my car was getting too much so I went to the local garage which has a self use jet wash. 

Couldn't read any of the machine as its all faded to shit, but my phone tells me £2 for 5 mins of the pressure washer had all the green off. I was pondering using the brush but it looked fucked, giving it a jet wash wouldn't have helped so I ignored that. 

Then I visited the tyre machine and ll all the tyres were 6/7psi out in various ways. Did that too.

Got home and checked my bank and the 2nd 5 minutes I got was refunded for reasons I don't know, it probably didn't like the fact it was trying to read my cars as I pushed the buttons, and oh well! 

Winter maintenance over with 👌

[SRi05]

On 14/12/2023 at 10:00, Split_Pin said:

2 years ago today I collected this and its never put a foot wrong. That's 2 years motoring for less than 1 months payment on a financed BMW or Audi. Likely double the driving enjoyment too!

When I brought it home in the evening:

..and now

 

WIT A MOTOR

[horriblemercedes]

I'm in a taxi. It's a first generation BMW X5 and it's manky 

[barefoot]

Powerflow back box fitted this morning and things are very, very quiet.

[RayMK]

Just another update on the lack of any real progress on my poorly Tipo.  Plan A is still slowly ticking over, that is, the garage will investigate its non-running and report back if they can fix  it. They will then MOT it (expires 22nd December) and do any further work if it fails. I'll be discussing it in more detail on Monday.  I do have a reasonably generous budget. However, this will not be a blank chequebook exercise.  Plan B is to have the car transported to a nearby classic car garage which has the gear and willingness to take this on sometime in February/March 2024.  Plan C will depend on the Tipo's fixability versus my budget and could be the end of the road for this one. 

[barefoot]

Landsail, Evergreen and Goodride - there’s a story there, and I’ve read the first chapter.

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, barefoot said:

Landsail, Evergreen and Goodride - there’s a story there, and I’ve read the first chapter.

All on the same car at the same time? 

Oof..

[andyberg]

Son @BerginJR collected his new scooter today. Thanks to @S2000 for being a true gent in the autoshite tradition. He rode it home the last few miles and declared it 'very very good' bare in mind he has just come from a modern* Chinese scooter.

 

[S2000]

4 hours ago, andyberg said:

Son @BerginJR collected his new scooter today. Thanks to @S2000 for being a true gent in the autoshite tradition. He rode it home the last few miles and declared it 'very very good' bare in mind he has just come from a modern* Chinese scooter.

 

Great to meet you both today, take care…..

[reb]

I've stopped smoking cigarettes, but have a touch under 100g of Duty Free Drum left.

So...

Who's to say I can't have a sunday morning pipe?

[Bren]

We closed our static caravan down today. The winds in North Wales were horrendous overnight.

When I got back I fitted the ring doorbell we have had for a couple of weeks.

Remember when I had to get the AA out for the insignias's clutch? I stuck my head under the fascia and noticed the return spring on the pedal looked a bit wonky.

After twenty minutes of tantric stretching I managed to get under and hook the side of the spring that was loose back into the tab on the pedal.

I cannot see how it has come loose which is a bit concerning - the car has had a clutch 10k ago - but I cannot see why they would need to piss about with the pedal.

[andy18s]

I'm guessing a bit of over zealous pumping whilst being bled?

I'm assuming hydraulic btw...

[Bren]

41 minutes ago, andy18s said:

I'm guessing a bit of over zealous pumping whilst being bled?

I'm assuming hydraulic btw...

Yes. It's a possibility.

You can just about see where the spring locates on the pedal - this is where it had come adrift.

[brownnova]

Turns out… Santa’s a shiter!! 

 

What a machine… 

On 13/12/2023 at 19:04, stuboy said:

Took kids too see santa... he rolls on the finest British machinery..

He must have a thing for burgundy 4x4s! 

[brownnova]

5 hours ago, Bren said:

We closed our static caravan down today. The winds in North Wales were horrendous overnight

It’s been fairly constant for the last week! We had a silver birch tree down last weekend, I was out trying to chop it up today… been so nervous about the other birch, and the rest of the trees ever since as some of the others might hit a neighbours house!!

Blowing a hoolie again tonight… worse to come midweek apparently 😫

[EyesWeldedShut]

2 minutes ago, brownnova said:

It’s been fairly constant for the last week! We had a silver birch tree down last weekend, I was out trying to chop it up today… been so nervous about the other birch, and the rest of the trees ever since as some of the others might hit a neighbours house!!

Blowing a hoolie again tonight… worse to come midweek apparently 😫

Thursday's forecast down here in sunny* Ceredigion
You need to add a wee bit extra on for here as it's on a very exposed hillside.
Fun*

[Bren]

10 minutes ago, brownnova said:

It’s been fairly constant for the last week! We had a silver birch tree down last weekend, I was out trying to chop it up today… been so nervous about the other birch, and the rest of the trees ever since as some of the others might hit a neighbours house!!

Blowing a hoolie again tonight… worse to come midweek apparently 😫

We have been there for seven years - the last seven days have been the worst we have seen.

[Saabnut]

Forecast here (North Sea) for Friday is 70 knot (77 mph) winds with a significant sea of 9m and a max wave height of 15m. Should be fun if I am still here 😀

[stuboy]

Replaced reversing camera,  and numberplate ( old camera had a surround and plate was taped on and it had lifted the yellow backing ) I've wedged the camera bracket after bending it so it looks down at the rear bumper so I get Better idea when I'm near something. Probably fall out knowing my luck...

[GMcD]

My cousin sent me a photo from her local supermarket in NZ.

That's £45 for a watermelon 😂. 

[loserone]

He's put those stickers on, as well you know. It's a matter of taste.

 

A bit like, you know, your taste in footwear 

[wuvvum]

Weather was lovely this weekend but I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, partly because Friday night was my works Christmas do so I was feeling slightly* jaded on Saturday morning, and partly because the replacement front hub I ordered for the Z4 hasn't turned up yet.

Saturday I didn't get up and running until about 2pm, and even then I didn't do much more than get the Renault 4 and the  Visa fired up and take them for a spin.  I then attempted to ride the folding electric scooter in to Norwich, to pick up the Getz that I'd left there the night before because too pissed to drive home.  It nearly made it - it got as far as the Norwich northern bypass, but then pulling up the long hill after the bypass it overheated (I'm assuming) and cut out.  This was less than ideal as I was on a busy unlit A-road in the dark and it didn't cut just the motor, it shut the bike down completely so I had no lights.  Fortunately the indicators are powered off their own internal batteries so I was able to keep one of those flashing. 

After a bit of buggering about I found that if I unplugged and reconnected the battery, it'd reset and the bike would work again, but only for about half a mile before it conked out.  I made it to the outskirts of Norwich with another few stops but after that I gave up and pushed it to where the car was parked - fortunately it's no heavier to push than a bicycle.  So I've discovered its limitations - Hoveton / Wroxham is fine but Norwich is too far.  To be fair there was quite a headwind which probably didn't help.

Today I fitted a new stereo to the Getz.  The original stereo still works but I was browsing eBay a week or two ago and found a stereo in a spec that I'd been wanting for a while but not seen before - a single DIN Android touch-screen radio but with a single DIN-sized screen - most of them seem to have a massive great screen tacked on the front which gets in the way of switches and vents.  Installation was actually pretty easy - it came without ISO plugs fitted but I found a wiring harness in my stash which had the correct plug at the stereo end, ISO plugs at the other and the wires more or less in the right place - I just had to snip one wire which had a different function on the new radio (reversing lights - I'm not using that wire as there's no point fitting a reversing camera to a tiny car with a vertical tailgate).  The GPS antenna isn't quite as neatly fitted as I would have liked but it'll do, and it all works fine.

[Tenmil Socket]

A colleague has just mentioned that he picked up a full english Fray Bentos pie from B&M!

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

A colleague has just mentioned that he picked up a full english Fray Bentos pie from B&M!

I have seen those. Also the full English in a can.

[Tenmil Socket]

13 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I have seen those. Also the full English in a can.

Yeah I’ve seen that but don’t fancy it!

There’s one with chips in too 🤮

I’ve also seen Christmas dinner in a can but don’t think it’s real. 

[Stinkwheel]

4 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Bicester heritage site?

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

Bicester heritage site?

No this is Richardmorris's personal parade so he doesn't get bored at work!

[Zelandeth]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Yes please.  I'd happily daily that in the summer.

[richardmorris]

3 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Yes please.  I'd happily daily that in the summer.

It sounded very impressive. In the single figure mpg impressive. 

[richardmorris]

20 hours ago, GMcD said:

My cousin sent me a photo from her local supermarket in NZ.

That's £45 for a watermelon 😂. 

9kg though!