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[New POD]

1 hour ago, chadders said:

As you do when you moan about the state of your marriage.

There's more than a bit of hypocrisy here. 

I stopped and read what you put and decided you aren't really the kindest person on here are you?  Not sure why you choose to target my posts specifically.  I tried to see positive intent in that, but I can't see it. 

Here's an idea. Try to be more kind. It doesn't cost much.

[New POD]

19 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I thought everything was rosy in PODland these days, at least on that front.  Lots of overseas holidays and regular sex (from 15:00 to 15:05 on the third Saturday of every month).

I think the timing is out, and the word regular is probably a bit too optimistic, but we are doing better.  More good days than bad. 

[chadders]

3 minutes ago, New POD said:

I stopped and read what you put and decided you aren't really the kindest person on here are you?  Not sure why you choose to target my posts specifically.  I tried to see positive intent in that, but I can't see it. 

Here's an idea. Try to be more kind. It doesn't cost much.

As you did criticising the kids?..

[richardmorris]

[New POD]

1 hour ago, horriblemercedes said:

 

It's a bit silly to suggest that they should be adept at first aid and competent to tend to the wounded.

Why ?  What do they learn on Instagram ? 

  In the 70s whilst in the scouts we did a first aid badge.  Never used it until my friend ran over a pedestrian about 10 years later.  Unfortunately 7 hours of surgery didn't save him, but I stopped him from choking on his own blood, so that the professionally could have a go. 

Those who  choose to do the D of E award scheme did first aid training before the expeditions.  My wife's friends had to administer first aid after she fell off her bicycle and smashed her eye socket and broke her arm.  Apparently nobody screamed. They just got on with it. 

[hairnet]

more 2cv ffs

[horriblemercedes]

7 minutes ago, New POD said:

Why ?  What do they learn on Instagram ? 

  In the 70s whilst in the scouts we did a first aid badge.  Never used it until my friend ran over a pedestrian about 10 years later.  Unfortunately 7 hours of surgery didn't save him, but I stopped him from choking on his own blood, so that the professionally could have a go. 

Those who  choose to do the D of E award scheme did first aid training before the expeditions.  My wife's friends had to administer first aid after she fell off her bicycle and smashed her eye socket and broke her arm.  Apparently nobody screamed. They just got on with it. 

I have no idea - was Instagram something to do with the crash?

Maybe some of those children are/were in the Scouts. They're probably a bit too young to have been in the Scouts in the 1970s, but I don't think that should be an issue.

 

I really doubt there was mass screaming. It's something from films - I don't think it really happens.

[Christine]

3 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

You’ve obviously never seen me out on the driveway fixing my XM.

There's a self employed  fella up the road a bit  ,  that had his older  Transit truck up on axle stands , for about a week .. He was out at 7am until dusk every day  working on it . Hammering and swearing , trying again and again to start it ...no dice ..The previous week he changed a diff on the drive  ... I was going to offer him a hand but he seemed to know what he was doing and he had better tools than me , and anyway i know fuck all about diesels .... Come Friday afternoon , i hear the fucker start up and rev up, looking from my window ,  a  cloud of black exhaust ..... Suddenly , he gets out of the cab .   And he's  won the lottery or scored for West Ham ....Arms above his head , dancing in and out the road laughing,   shouting YES YES YES !

  Amazing !  I know the elated feeling well.  

[loserone]

Hope you took him a beer.

[Christine]

No , i did go out and clap though

[Christine]

Rust collector  , weird car , Kiltox  ,  Me ,   Renault Clio mot'd , all legal again  now.  

 

Have a pic ..

[EspenO]

4 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Are you sure?

 

I'm pretty sure it would've been offered. Plenty of people (for example many Hindus) would not want real leather.

Well, no, I can’t be 100% sure. But I’ve never seen one without (unlike say the E46 M3 which had a gorgeous cloth interior), and I can’t find any reference to it by googling.

Perplexity.ai says no, and the reference links it gives seems sound enough. This one is kind of cool, I think 🙂 

People who didn’t want leather for whatever reason, probably had to order through the Individual division? I seem to remember Paul McCartney’s velour trimmed Lexus was an one-off as well.

[Mally]

2 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

 

 

I really doubt there was mass screaming. It's something from films - I don't think it really happens.

I'd have been swearing a little*.

I've heard screaming on a plane that went round 4 times.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

I have no idea - was Instagram something to do with the crash?

Maybe the driver was making a Tiktok and became distracted?

[Bren]

My local petrol station has a hand car wash at the rear of the forecourt. I have just seen somebody welding a bench while customers put fuel in their cars.

I have left the area and I am waiting for the bang.

[MJK 24]

🤦🏼

 

[artdjones]

A Doblo* takes more than you'd think.

Like a whole tree.

*Maxi.

[richardmorris]

Live webcam at tampa port, Florida.

https://www.porttampawebcam.com

[Christine]

Englewood beach cam 

 

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/florida/englewood/?cam=englewoodbeach

[SiC]

3 minutes ago, Christine said:

Englewood beach cam 

 

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/florida/englewood/?cam=englewoodbeach

"Beautiful beaches, relaxing views, and incredible sunsets - Punta Gorda/Englewood Beach in Florida has it all! EarthCam and Punta Gorda/Englewood Beach Visitor & Convention Bureau invite you to visit this uncrowded, hidden gem of a getaway in southwest Florida with these gorgeous live views. Wouldn't you rather be here?"

 

No I wouldn't 

[Christine]

There were 4 people on the beach 1/2 an hour ago !  

[artdjones]

https://www.thejournal.ie/car-touchscreen-safety-distraction-6509824-Oct2024/

 

[MAF260]

As a follow up from the unfortunate events of 3 weeks ago I've negotiated a very good settlement from the insurance company and just collected the replacement car today. We were so well looked after by BMW Milton Keynes we've bought another brand new car, but upgraded as the new F70 1-Series has just been launched.

From this:

To this:

The F40 has been given a Cat B marker, so won't go back on the road.

 

[catsinthewelder]

Well done on getting sorted but after that crash I'd have gone for a bright orange one!

[richardmorris]

Looks a tad windy here today, better tie the house down!

[beko1987]

Seems florida got lucky overnight/during their day, I was half expecting utter carnage this morning when I had a look

[Metal Guru]

47 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Seems florida got lucky overnight/during their day, I was half expecting utter carnage this morning when I had a look

The hurricane was downgraded to a four at about 6 pm last night. Still bad but small mercies etc.

[MAF260]

10 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

Well done on getting sorted but after that crash I'd have gone for a bright orange one!

The old gimmer who smashed into it on the wrong side of the road probably wouldn’t have seen an orange car either!

[mercedade]

15 hours ago, SiC said:

"Beautiful beaches, relaxing views, and incredible sunsets - Punta Gorda/Englewood Beach in Florida has it all! EarthCam and Punta Gorda/Englewood Beach Visitor & Convention Bureau invite you to visit this uncrowded, hidden gem of a getaway in southwest Florida with these gorgeous live views. Wouldn't you rather be here?"

 

No I wouldn't 

These are the kind of hurricanes I'd enjoy by the looks of things

 

[mercedade]

Back in August (!) I bought @DirtyDaily's old XC90, and have steadily been working my way through the front end assembly. Not all of it was planned, some was self-inflicted and some was discovered.

Started with both lower control arms as the car veered quite heavily under braking - basically it 'twisted', with the car heading left whilst the steering wheel turned right. Fun. The first one took me probably 8  fucking hours, stretched over two days, because despite it just being a case of undoing a grand total of 4 bolts or nuts, it was a war of broken ball-joint forks, insufficiently large ball-joint splitters, and insufficiently large muscles. Eventually perfected a technique with a jack, a ratchet strap and crow bars used as wedges , I managed to get the ball-joint into the locating hole on the arm.

Somewhere around hour 3 I had lost my temper and mangled the boot on an otherwise good ball-joint - future job ACTIVATED

Got the second side done in somewhere closer to 2 hours, this time the ball-joint was shite anyway, so I didn't care about destroying the boot, which consequently made me feel better about creating the job on the other side.

During the second side, I also discovered that the track rod end was a bit flappy, so got a pair ordered up. Whilst I was doing that, I discovered a 20% code on eBay for carpartsinmotion, so ended up ordering the full set of Febi track-rod ends, drops links and ball-joints.

Spent another Saturday morning doing everything bar the ball-joints (only the TREs were a bit of a challenge thanks to the very, very unwilling lock nuts, but some big heat and a shock managed to get things moving), because by then I'd already looked at:

a) the state of the hub

b) the pitiful selection of tools available to me on my driveway

and decided to give @NorthernMonkey the 'opportunity' to do some work for me at his premises in Colne. I headed up to him on Friday, and he did a brilliant job AND I got to perve over the selection of classics and chod scattered around the place (plus @Split_Pin's lovely looking Beemer whilst the gearbox swap was nearing completion). Mega pleased with everything he did, thanks!

Got wheel alignment sorted in the local place round the corner from me in Stockport, and I can say that the big bus is driving beautifully now.

Then took advantage of its nice driving, by taking it for a rumble up to @DeanH's place to pick up his VIDA unit (and very happy to make it available to help any other modern-ish Volvo owners once I've got it set up).

A few jobs on the 'maybe one day' list, including the vacuum driven engine mounts that would make a big difference to low-rev vibrations through the cabin, and getting a fresh MOT sorted before Xmas.

Nice little tour of Autoshite completed, for now...