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[Wibble]

Blue tack for now, then join me in my mission to go and find Fuck. Fuck is a jammy cunt that we’ve all been doing things for, for years. He/she does bugger all for themselves but everything we do is for their sake. Well I, for one, have had enough and we need to track them down and make them pay for the pain we’ve all endured doing things for their sake all these years. Good luck for the MOT!

[RoverFolkUs]

4 hours ago, adw1977 said:

Leave it alone.  Better to get an advisory than risk a fail for it being not attached at all.

 

35 minutes ago, stuboy said:

just drop it off, go get a hot drink .

Sound advice, cheers chaps

I'm more annoyed about not being able to find the fupping double sided tape.. 

Still won't stop me fiddling with it in the morning (oo'er etc 😂) - I think we have some 3M VHB at work which is pretty much the dogs bollocks for double sided adhesion, when it works. I've found it either bonds so well that you can barely get it off or it simply doesn't stick, at all! So I *might* give that a go. I should be able to get enough behind it without removing the plate altogether

2 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Blue tack for now, then join me in my mission to go and find Fuck. Fuck is a jammy cunt that we’ve all been doing things for, for years. He/she does bugger all for themselves but everything we do is for their sake. Well I, for one, have had enough and we need to track them down and make them pay for the pain we’ve all endured doing things for their sake all these years. Good luck for the MOT!

Sounds fun! Might join in..  Thanks

[JMotor]

39 minutes ago, stuboy said:

just drop it off, go get a hot drink .

This.

Just overthinking it @RoverFolkUs. Let the tester tell you what else it needs.

Started thinking like that now. It's made life easier(ISH) for me.

[RoverFolkUs]

6 minutes ago, JMotor said:

This.

Just overthinking it @RoverFolkUs. Let the tester tell you what else it needs.

Started thinking like that now. It's made life easier(ISH) for me.

Thank you, he's a very fair bloke. If it needs to fail it will fail, if he can get away with passing it he will. 

My only advisory last year was for discoloured indicator bulbs (I had replaced the fronts only thinking the rears were ok..) so you might be able to imagine how much that has bugged me ever since.. 😅

I'm aiming for a clean sheet.. else I don't mind it failing because then I can sort out the advisories.. I just hate *nearly* getting a clean sheet with one advisory which I've overlooked!

As you say, I think I'm definitely overthinking it. In which case I think I'll drop it off, and wait patiently* while spamming the F5 button sipping tea and browsing Autoshite  

[JMotor]

Ha!

I do the same when I send a car in for test 😆. 

Totally get where you are coming from, you want it to be right from the get go. Nowt wrong with that! Getting that advisory free pass is a nice feeling. Makes the effort worth it.

But here! 

"She'll be reet lad"

[stuboy]

wheres it going for the mot?

[SiC]

Is anyone finding the forum a bit slow today? (Or even the last few days) I'm finding it a bit slow at loading when navigating around.

A quick check on the Load averages on the server are showing them higher than normal but not crazy high. Not sure if it's just that it's busy on here because Xmas, hosting providers is getting hammered (because Xmas) or something else is going on. 

[stuboy]

2 minutes ago, SiC said:

Is anyone finding the forum a bit slow today? (Or even the last few days) I'm finding it a bit slow at loading when navigating around.

A quick check on the Load averages on the server are showing them higher than normal but not crazy high. Not sure if it's just that it's busy on here because Xmas, hosting providers is getting hammered (because Xmas) or something else is going on. 

seems ok to me

[High Jetter]

Less posts than usual, I'd say - cos of life/crimbo/families maybe

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

Is anyone finding the forum a bit slow today? (Or even the last few days) I'm finding it a bit slow at loading when navigating around.

A quick check on the Load averages on the server are showing them higher than normal but not crazy high. Not sure if it's just that it's busy on here because Xmas, hosting providers is getting hammered (because Xmas) or something else is going on. 

Yep, I've found page loading to be quite slow over the last few days.

[RoverFolkUs]

4 hours ago, stuboy said:

wheres it going for the mot?

The same indy that we (my work) send all of our customer's cars to

[Lord Sterling]

On 23/12/2023 at 19:17, greengartside said:

Last one, I promise.

Decided to treat the old girl to a car wash and I then hoovered the inside out and made it smell a bit nicer.

Rocker cover gasket turned up today so that’s the next job.

Nice job. A tip for getting rubber floor mats looking good again is to clean them throughly and then apply black shoe polish with a normal soft shoe polishing brush, that's how to keep mine looking nice after a clean as rubber mats and tyres cldo seem to pick up discolouration stains from long term standing dirt/water and no matter how much you clean them, they always look dirty and horrible.

[Split_Pin]

10 hours ago, SiC said:

Is anyone finding the forum a bit slow today? (Or even the last few days) I'm finding it a bit slow at loading when navigating around.

A quick check on the Load averages on the server are showing them higher than normal but not crazy high. Not sure if it's just that it's busy on here because Xmas, hosting providers is getting hammered (because Xmas) or something else is going on. 

I thought it was my phone but it sometimes takes 30 seconds or more to respond to my requests, especially when I try and post a reply.

[SiC]

56 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I thought it was my phone but it sometimes takes 30 seconds or more to respond to my requests, especially when I try and post a reply.

I have always noticed these larger threads like this one can take tens of seconds to post a response. It's been like that for years and it's presumably because the forum software struggles with larger threads. Not sure why as I can't see why it should need to do much more but possibly because it's updating indexes. Hopefully the version 5 software that is due sometime next year will have stuff like that sorted as it's apparently a big ground up rewrite. 

I think the slowness has been a lot of people reading the forum and flicking around. Just heavier user load than normal. Right now the load is a lot lower (still quite high than I have seen) and to me the responsiveness seems better at least. 

Next year I plan to rebuild the server and should be able to jiggle stuff around a bit. So reduce costs on storage which then would allow me to put more resource into a faster server.

[Asimo]

34 minutes ago, SiC said:

apparently a big ground up rewrite

Uh-oh!

[wesacosa]

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/how-hull-became-britains-lada-8978406#lqmc3qeougar6jpuu3n

 

[SiC]

Uh-oh!

Yeah, I'm not intending to rush into the update too hastily!

More is on their news pages:
https://invisioncommunity.com/news/

[RoverFolkUs]

....aaaaaand whatever was I fussing about?

The man from the ministry said:

...and even better...

No advisories! 

Not bad for a 17 year old car!

(I did manage to find some double sided tape for the number plate... BUT I took the advice of not removing it to try and screw it on!)

Edit - I'll tell you what made all the difference.. it's scientifically* proven** that a shiny car means a guaranteed pass 😅

[Ghosty]

Taking the EK Civic to Bristol tomorrow to swap it for the Yaris T-Sport I mentioned. Turns out the Yaris is five door which is a bonus.

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Taking the EK Civic to Bristol tomorrow to swap it for the Yaris T-Sport I mentioned. Turns out the Yaris is five door which is a bonus.

My neighbours brother had one (in Bristol). Can't be many T-Sports left now. I remember desperately wanting one back in 2004 not long after I passed my test. 

[Joey spud]

Check for rot in the ends of the inner sills and arches

Back in the summer we bought this one very cheap because the subframe had pulled away from the chassis. It only got repaired as I was too stubborn to give up on it.

[hairnet]

4 hours ago, Joey spud said:

 

 

 

@Datsuncog this had been yours??

[richardmorris]

Spotted near dogmersfield this morning.

[Bren]

The rain and wind stopped long enough for me to throw soapy water on the insignia. It was getting to the point that even getting into it would leave your clothes filthy.

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, Bren said:

The rain and wind stopped long enough for me to throw soapy water on the insignia. It was getting to the point that even getting into it would leave your clothes filthy.

I’m hoping the rain will clean mine. Parked in a carpark nr Basingstoke canal this morning that managed to splash muddy water across half of it. Heading to devils punchbowl tomorrow that will probably be worse.

[Ghosty]

Swap done. This'll do nicely. 

[junkyarddog]

Mate dropped this to me just before Christmas,you can have it for the week he says....

Dented Citroen C5.

Not bad for a rattle can job done outside in December 🤣

[Wibble]

16 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Mate dropped this to me just before Christmas,you can have it for the week he says....

Dented Citroen C5.

Not bad for a rattle can job done outside in December 🤣

That repair looks amazing!

[GMcD]

Been slowly dismantling more of the Saab.

Tank and rear axle out as I'm not welding beside a fuel tank and I want to replace all the bushes and dampers on the axle: 

Underneath is not a complete horror show (well not found anything here I didn't know about already but time will tell)....

Most of the interior out :

Ventilation:

Found some more quality repairs in the driver's footwell:

[Ghosty]

Home and that. 41mpg! Comfy, quick, drives like a bigger car. Approve.