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[cms206]

Just added some stuff to the garage section to see how it worked. Seems pointless but it's nice to see what folk have got.

Also, if Kazunori Yamauchi is watching, can we have whatever is in there as a download for GT5 please? It'd be like the best* racing game of ever.

[Craig the Princess]

I thought the garage section was pointless but as more cards are added it is like shiters' digest showing what cars are on here.

 

I like it.

[scruff]

Sold my trailer and the bloke came to get it today in a V6 Rover 75 estate 

 

Loading was painless.

 

[dollywobbler]

A good test of reversing skills. U CAN HAZ DEM.

[Slappy]

just filled up the tank at Bagshot bp next to this guy,

 

http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/england/squad_profile_master.php?player=19575&includeref=dynamic

 

They're staying down the road at penny hill park.

 

Best day of my life ever was staying at Penny Hill the same day as the England boys beat Scotland 3 years ago. Had breakfast the following morning with Charlie Hodgson who had scored the winning try to win a fairly scrappy game in the queue behind me at the buffet. Stuart Lancaster kept himself to himself as I recall, but Graham Rowntree was fairly chirpy.

 

Cars in the car park: not many extremely flash motors, a couple of Club sponser cars (new Sciroccos were popular), as were the BINIs that the RFU have a bunch of

[barrett]

That's the first time I've seen a trailer carrying a trailer. Would it not have been easier to trailer the second trailer and eliminate the need for the first trailer? TRAILER.

[Six-cylinder]

That's the first time I've seen a trailer carrying a trailer. Would it not have been easier to trailer the second trailer and eliminate the need for the first trailer? TRAILER.

 

This is how I collected my farm trailer round the M25!

 

[twosmoke300]

Those wheels on the trailer are really far apart aren't they? Nice and stable I suppose but must scrub like hell when turning

[Six-cylinder]

Those wheels on the trailer are really far apart aren't they? Nice and stable I suppose but must scrub like hell when turning

 

Yes very stable and great when towing with a range Rover but cars did not like reversing it. Unfortunately the car trailer was stolen from me, it was a great trailer rated to carry over 2 tons.

[JohnK]

Just popped to the hospital visiting and was greeted with this - appears somebody forgot to put handbrake on!

 

[Six-cylinder]

Those Passats had electric handbrakes!

[dollywobbler]

More likely that the handbrake just failed - they do that. A lot! Never leave one in neutral...

[Alfamale]

75% bought a new car from the eBay thread. It's a long way back in the thread though. 75% as it's not a bid or BIN but I've bought a one way train ticket and have a wallet full of wedge ready.

 

Live collection thred coming on Sunday if I can figure how to add pictures on my phone.

[wuvvum]

I appear to have scored a NOS offside front brake caliper for the 164 for 50 notes.  Not exactly a bargain, but pretty good when you consider that the only spares place I've found that stocks them wants 300 notes for a bare caliper (I have the less common ATE brakes, with vented front discs - needless to say this is the most expensive combination).  The one I've bought comes with pistons, pads, sliders etc.  This is good, because it also means I can now make one good caliper out of the two old front ones, which I should be able to do without having to buy any new pistons.  Once the old crate can stop again it's going to be a lot easier to get it back on the road.

[gordonbennet]

Yep, those Pissants have form for the electric parking brake being useless and the car buggering off on their own when the discs cool.

[Lacquer Peel]

The parking brake on Ms._Peel's stepdad's Passat seized on, requiring a new caliper at £££. Pot luck.

[messerschmitt owner]

all modern carz are shite - etc!

[Pillock]

More likely that the handbrake just failed - they do that. A lot! Never leave one in neutral...

Aye, Mrs_Pillock has a Touran (same platform) with a manual handbrake. Came out of work to find it had attempted a bit of car-on-car action with a friends Volvo, handbrake was on but had just relaxed grip. Sadly it was at a school, at lunchtime, so witnessed by hundreds of kids that found it hilarious

 

I also once pulled into a pub carpark to find a Leon slowly reversing towards me..... With nobody in. Lept out, held the car and sent someone into the pub to find the owner. He'd caned it down the road, brakes got hot, handbrake on, brakes cooled and let go.

[Skizzer]

Driving shite has cured me of using handbrakes forever (apart from hill starts), even on moderns. Shitefucius he say, never park with handbrake on because it may be months before you get the engine to start again, by which time brakes will have seized on.

 

Also, electric handbrakes are the work of Beelzebub.

[RobT]

I'll be in Crewe tomorrow morning on a shite collection mission, leaving London at the crack. It's a small, saucy French hatchback this time, with an automatique gearbox for added unreliability. Should be fun!

[hairnet]

jabs passport at the ready

[beko1987]

I always leave the car in gear and the handbrake on. No idea why tbh, just habit

 

Apart from the xm, never used the handbrake in that, just Park. Had to chase it once where I'd not engaged Park properly...

[Lord Sterling]

More often than not I will apply the handbrake and put it into gear. This stems from a time when I owned a Sierra Sapphire, as I "live" on a road with a slight incline to it, many years ago I remember one day seeing my Sierra just suddenly roll down the street, thankfully there was nothing parked in front of it and I just managed to open the door and apply the handbrake before I gathered further speed and damaged anything.

 

If I have a manual car, I'll apply the handbrake and put it into gear on any hills/inclines or slightly uneven surfaces.

[phil_lihp]

I'll be in Crewe tomorrow morning on a shite collection mission, leaving London at the crack. It's a small, saucy French hatchback this time, with an automatique gearbox for added unreliability. Should be fun!

 

I very much hope that this is cavasaver's 106 and you'll be reassembling the engine before driving it home.

[Ghosty]

I was thinking the same but how would it get to Crewe?

[Lord Sterling]

I'll be in Crewe tomorrow morning on a shite collection mission, leaving London at the crack. It's a small, saucy French hatchback this time, with an automatique gearbox for added unreliability. Should be fun!

Damn, shame I might be a bit busy tomorrow otherwise we could have had a Peugeot 106 FACEOFF seeing as I still have the bloody thing with me.

[hairnet]

tell me its an aixam

[phil_lihp]

I was thinking the same but how would it get to Crewe?

 

I don't know but I'm sure it's going to make a good story.  

[catsinthewelder]

Caption contest

 

[Six-cylinder]

That's modern cars for you!