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[beko1987]

Heartbreaking, been there with a car on fire (2 actually as it took out my stepdads car parked next to it, the sight of the inside suddenly going pitch black was horrible)

 

Deepest condolances sir. Getting it taken away asap so you dont have to keep looking at it?

[holbeck]

^^ Re: DAF, 'not Like' button required

[dollywobbler]

That's properly eaten through my Strictly buzz (sorry). How heart-breaking. 

[trigger]

That's a awful sight. Sorry to see this Mr Honda

[Jim Bell]

Grim and sour.

 

I'm sure the sympathy of all here are with you.

[Eddie Honda]

Shit, that looks bad. You must be well pissed off!

 

How did it happen?

 

Yes I'm pissed off, but not quite as much as I should be. It happened because something caught fire that was against the wall behind it (FB says the wall was the hot spot and there is a stove behind that wall in an adjoining building. Source of fire was actually nearer Bimmer with a cover beside mine, but because the DAF gods don't like me the flames moved in my direction to toast my motah.

 

Insured? 

 

Er, no. LL isn't and no am I (took it off the policy at renewal just this July to save a few bob)

 

My Clarke dolly is looking rather fresh as are the Gilbert Tipper Gothic font plates (metal digits y'know)

 

She was a good clean motor:

P3130092 by E Honda, on Flickr

P3130093 by E Honda, on Flickr

P3130094 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

 

I'm feeling a bit of an unfit custodian of DAF, as the last one I had came a cropper too, due to thieving scumbags:

From this:

DAF 66 SL now 73D978 by E Honda, on Flickr

To this:

p9110030 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

At least that one was insured...

[tooSavvy]

I think the 'quiet' option on grooved discs is two/three eccentric egg loops.

 

Pattern looks a bit like the atomic logo (not ban the bomb/mk1 cortina)

 

TS

[Noel Tidybeard]

poor little daf

[wuvvum]

Got home in one piece.  It didn't go entirely without a hitch, but made it the 202 miles back without having to resort to the AA, so in that sense it was a success.

 

Have a rubbish pez station pic to cheer you up* after all those depressing photos of dead DAFs.

 

 

And here's an even worse pic of an MG TC that we passed in Hammersmith - fading light + tinted coach windows + phone camera = lots of motion blur.

 

 

Bedtime now.

[Coprolalia]

While I sympathise with your plight, I also sympathise with the protesters who are trying to tell the government that it's bloody foolish to expect young doctors to work all hours of the day and night and still be able to function.

This has cheered up a tired junior doctor 11 hours into a 13 hour night shift. At least someone is listening to what we're saying, and not the bullshit lies and rhetoric spouted by hunt and enthusiastically jumped on by the press.

 

I earn 30k a year (I'm paying around 2.5k a year of that for fees and courses to have that privilege), have 40k Uni debt, work 1 in 3 weekends, work 1 in 3 evenings, 1 in 6 nights. I am looking at a 30% pay cut coinciding with a removal of all safeguards to stop managers going beyond my average 60 hour week.

 

This isn't the main concern.

 

It's that after working 72 hours straight, or 12 days of 12 hour shifts in a row, I and my colleagues are not going to be awake enough to save your grandma.

 

You can bet Hunts slimy fortune I'm gonna strike.

[HMC]

^^ glad to hear it went ok wuv. Actually that mg shot looks quite arty IMO

[Bear]

Those fire pictures are awful :/

[ruffgeezer]

This has cheered up a tired junior doctor 11 hours into a 13 hour night shift. At least someone is listening to what we're saying, and not the bullshit lies and rhetoric spouted by hunt and enthusiastically jumped on by the press.

 

I earn 30k a year (I'm paying around 2.5k a year of that for fees and courses to have that privilege), have 40k Uni debt, work 1 in 3 weekends, work 1 in 3 evenings, 1 in 6 nights. I am looking at a 30% pay cut coinciding with a removal of all safeguards to stop managers going beyond my average 60 hour week.

 

This isn't the main concern.

 

It's that after working 72 hours straight, or 12 days of 12 hour shifts in a row, I and my colleagues are not going to be awake enough to save your grandma.

 

You can bet Hunts slimy fortune I'm gonna strike.

 

 

Some stuffed suit of a "consultant" (I don't mean in the doctorly sense, I mean in the sense that some middle aged mess of lipstick and scraped back greasy hair can have a job) has decided to cut all the night shifts from the on call support engineers at our local hospital, which as far as I can make out means if the lift breaks in the middle of the night, you'll have to stay in it until the next morning!

 

Understandably this hasn't gone down well with F-I-L and his colleagues.

 

I'm hoping that it will be changed back soon and no doubt the lipstick pig will get pensioned off/promoted/a fruit basket, because these sort of people never get stopped.

[tooSavvy]

 

Should be ONE A$ Spanner job...

 

TODAY its a TWO A$ Umbrella job.....

 

 

... ah, fukkitt. Next weekend.... 

 

 

TS

[Bear]

I joked that I might call the 406 "Lemon" because it's paler yellow than the SLK.

 

I have a horrible feeling I am going to regret this. A few small drips of oil underneath. Okay. Quite a lot.

 

Does look like it's had a timing belt, though, so one less panic. Sortof.

 

(it seems that parts availability is up to the usual exceptional* standard for PSA).

[Lacquer Peel]

There's a lot of PSA new old stock on eBay if you can find the correct part number, Service Box is useful.

[John F]

tooSavvy, on 18 Oct 2015 - 11:43 AM, said:

 

Should be ONE A$ Spanner job...

 

TODAY its a TWO A$ Umbrella job.....

 

 

... ah, fukkitt. Next weekend.... 

 

 

TS

 

I'm not surprised at all, TS, but is that a 'radial engine lookalike' gasmask you have hanging on the wall??

[Crusty Sills]

Its my birthday. 38 today

Got a small 57 piece socket set to go in the Beetle (having a few ftp issues)

Lidls finest. its a surprisingly quality set

[Tayne]

Happy Birthday.

[tooSavvy]

..but, is that a 'radial engine lookalike' gasmask you have hanging on the wall??

Ha! Well spotted*...

 

I would have 'bayyed it but for all that 'asbestos inside' bollokks

 

*6 jar (empty) rotary herb store!

 

 

TS

[tooSavvy]

.... Was in Lidl yesterday on a 'rummage reccie'- saw them (lots of stock) & air tools (tin snips) & battery rattle socket.. among the stand outs.

 

TS

 

*happy birthday

[Eddie Honda]

Its my birthday. 38 today

Got a small 57 piece socket set to go in the Beetle (having a few ftp issues)

Lidls finest. its a surprisingly quality set

 Happy birthday.

 

Is it not 52 piece? I was having a butchers at a small set in Didldidi this morning whilst out for some milk. Managed to resist it and the bench grinder and just come home with some wood drill bits.

[Cavcraft]

Been 'new' car shopping with my lad today. He's got his heart set on a BMW 630 (2007-ish) but manual ones with reasonable mileages are few and far between, plus he's not keen on the £465 (or whatever it is) road tax.

We went to Vauxhalls where he likes the Astra GTC, I had a blimp at the very latest Astras and had to almost force myself not to sign up for one because I can't afford it.

[cort16]

Those 6 series are shite and not in a good way although it would probably put his spanner skills to good use.

The GTC is a really nice car, pity the interior is pretty standard disastra.

[Cavcraft]

What's up with the 6 series, please? He's currently scrolling through Autotrader as fast as his mouse will let him and was just now going on about twin turbos! 

[cort16]

It's just THAT generation of BMW that seem to have the build quality of 1980's chinese childs toy.

Massively over complex, Oil leaks, detonating "sealed for life" auto transmissions and electrical systems that seems to be made of B grade lukas electrics.

The diesels are even worse.

[M'coli]

Fire at EMR Leeds, looked fairly big from the M1.

 

Http://m.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/updated-blaze-at-leeds-scrap-yard-1-7521790

[Cavcraft]

Cheers, I'll try and steer him back to the GTC then! He did mention a Megane RS, which do look really cool, but are modern Renaults. Then he mentioned one of these (day dream job) so we went for a look at one...

 

 

...which was jaw droppingly stunning. I can't remember how much they were, but however much is it is they are worth it. 

[320touring]

Megane RS is pick of that bunch. the 630i is not worth the effort.

[Asimo]

BMW could not even be bothered to change the wipers for RHD on those 630s.