The new news 24 thread

[egg]

On 14/04/2024 at 15:58, stuboy said:

Took erindoors, mini stuboy and niece up to a car themed pub on there open day, seemed was manly lotus, I do love an esprit... place called 'the stag' missus says food prices are good and decor inside Is car themed..

do you reckon I'd get laughed out of Challock if I turned up there in 'da base'?

[richardmorris]

Something parked in my space.

[Mally]

Never mind, at least you can read* the registration

[GrumpiusMaximus]

On 15/04/2024 at 22:10, egg said:

do you reckon I'd get laughed out of Challock if I turned up there in 'da base'?

Less so than if I turned up in my Golf.  Which is currently missing its badge as it fell off.

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

Sun's out, pagani out.

[Pat Earrings]

15 hours ago, egg said:

Is that the Hyundai Achilles heel of crappy brakes - or just worn out? Obvs the disc is v. old.

Just worn out I’d say, they were old, rusty and very scored.

the rears may well be crappy as there is no  resistance to the handbrake lever until it’s near the end. 

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Sun's out, pagani out.

I wonder if the owner breeds rabbits..

[Ohdearme]

Mrs ODM phoned today with a screw in her tyre on the way home.

Compressor managed to get it home and is booked for a new one and mot tomorrow.

Espace needs a service and wheel bearing and it also gave me this today after too many short tip runs.

if anybody needs me I’ll be out having a regenerative fap.

 

[Bren]

The mondeo got a wash and clay. We had only ever chucked a bucket of soapy water over it so it was time for some tlc. Might polish it tomorrow.

[richardmorris]

Anyone near Staines on Sunday needing a trip out for drive it day. The local 2cv groups are having a drive up to the chiltern open air museum at Chalfont St Giles. Obv. Citroen based, but I don’t think anyone else tagging along would be disappointed. They’re meeting  at 9.30  sainsburys Staines, and beaconsfield services at 11.

 

[stuboy]

4 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

Mrs ODM phoned today with a screw in her tyre on the way home.

Compressor managed to get it home and is booked for a new one and mot tomorrow.

Espace needs a service and wheel bearing and it also gave me this today after too many short tip runs.

if anybody needs me I’ll be out having a regenerative fap.

 

 

[stuboy]

23 hours ago, egg said:

do you reckon I'd get laughed out of Challock if I turned up there in 'da base'?

i dont think you would, now if i turned up in the mondeo..........

[Ohdearme]

3 hours ago, Bren said:

The mondeo got a wash and clay. We had only ever chucked a bucket of soapy water over it so it was time for some tlc. Might polish it tomorrow.

fine looking cars in estate form

[High Jetter]

The AS search facility has failed to find the B&C thread, as I am viewing their 100th episode!

[Ohdearme]

7 hours ago, andy18s said:

I wonder if the owner breeds rabbits..

A rabbit opened a breakfast cafe near us.

I went a few times but every time I ordered hot food, he got the order wrong, it happened to other people too and eventually it closed down.

Sad to think his business was finished off by mixing my toasties.

[High Jetter]

^^^ Paw

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

A rabbit opened a breakfast cafe near us.

I went a few times but every time I ordered hot food, he got the order wrong, it happened to other people too and eventually it closed down.

Sad to think his business was finished off by mixing my toasties.

Ouch....

[Ghosty]

Lost my job after a month, and only 2 days in the field, as I'm 'not a good fit'. I know there's more to it, I've done fuck all wrong and just been shit on so they could give an excuse to fire me.

Better get the Civic running, then.

[Ohdearme]

4 hours ago, andy18s said:

Ouch....

Yeah - had to dust my old 1001 jokes for kids off to rehash that...

always thought it was odd to be in a kids book as quite how many 6 year olds knew about myxomatosis in the 80's I don't know.

[Stinkwheel]

On 11/04/2024 at 18:07, wesacosa said:

Some dreadful news from the classic Citroen community 

Paul was a nice bloke, generous with his time, knowledge and spare parts and a big reason a huge amount of XMs and Xantias are still on the road 

RIP

Oh thats crap, I knew Paul a bit but im well out of Citroen Circles really nowadays

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Ohdearme said:

lways thought it was odd to be in a kids book as quite how many 6 year olds knew about myxomatosis in the 80's I don't know.

It was rife in the 50s, apparently. I heard / learnt about it at school in the 60s/70s so it would have been current in the joke* writer's mind.

[richardmorris]

11 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

It was rife in the 50s, apparently. I heard / learnt about it at school in the 60s/70s so it would have been current in the joke* writer's mind.

Watership down ( the bunny snuff movie) was out in 1978.

[eddyramrod]

On 14/04/2024 at 11:46, Datsuncog said:

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 

If anyone's looking for @eddyramrod, it seems his laptop's gone on the blink and he's unable to access his AS account temporarily - so if you're needing to get hold of him, drop me a PM and I'll relay it via other channels!

Thanks all.

For anyone following this farce: my laptop went down (in a meeting) in Friday afternoon.  Saturday I was able to get it into my local repairer.  In the afternoon I got a phone call, come and get it... when I got there, I found they'd called the wrong customer.  Oh great.  So we went away as planned on Monday, having a couple of nights in Manchester for my birthday.  This morning I had an experience day booked, with a flight simulator.  But ten days ago I got an email: gone into liquidation, all bookings cancelled.

And now we're home, and I've picked up my messages etc.

[lesapandre]

16 hours ago, Ohdearme said:

A rabbit opened a breakfast cafe near us.

I went a few times but every time I ordered hot food, he got the order wrong, it happened to other people too and eventually it closed down.

Sad to think his business was finished off by mixing my toasties.

Business Peter'd out?

[Bren]

Polished before it rains.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, eddyramrod said:

So we went away as planned on Monday, having a couple of nights in Manchester for my birthday. 

Sorry things went awry, hope you still enjoyed your birthday trip. Oh, and welcome back.

[eddyramrod]

We replaced the simulator with a visit to the Imperial War Museum which is near Old Trafford.  That was really interesting, and free except for the parking.

Also, later met up with a handful of current and ex Shiters, including @Ghosty and @Junkman so a rather jolly evening ensued.

[SiC]

Brake caliper and airbag module for the Z4 only arrived today despite supposed to being here yesterday. Today is a gym day so I haven't had much spare time to do much on it. However I stuffed the left airbag module into the car to see if the car could talk to it. 

Yes is the answer. This is good as it means the wiring is good. There are a whole lot of errors in it as not paired to the car and it thinks it's a E65 (6 series convertible). I need to sort an old laptop out and install some BMW specific software to properly code it in.