What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Maybe they're less rich idiots and more generous. We all know the pain of selling on eBay, giving stuff away is surely better all round of you don't need the cash

[beko1987]

That is a good point, I retract my last sentence!

[panhard65]

Just had a ride up the road in my mates Chevy Monte Carlo SS. It is a right animal with a button to hold the front brakes for doing burnouts !!!! I will have to get some photo's later as it is a very fetching shade of beige

[Tickman]

New radiator for the Volvo arrived 4 hours earlier than expected, thank you D A Motor factors in Dundee.  

The new radiator was the correct one for the car.  

It took an hour from getting the tools out to putting them away, this also included running up to temperature and getting any air out.  

Finally the offers of help from people on here who I met for the first time ever just over six months ago.  

 

All systems are go for the massive family wedding piss up at the weekend!

[tooSavvy]

Maybe they're less rich idiots and more generous. We all know the pain of selling on eBay, giving stuff away is surely better all round of you don't need the cash

All anklbiters 'oot' toys go to the local SallyBashers.

 

 

TS

[panhard65]

This thing really looks docile until you poke it.

Even the sump is chromed and the exhausts are the size of drainpipes.

 

 

[AMC Rebel]

Obvious solution to the perished rubber valve and flat tyre -

 

 

4 wheels and tyres off eBay.

[johngarty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xYW6j7zy3Q
 
 
Do you have a spare cigarette please madam?

[andy18s]

WCPGW?

[fordperv]

It was mrs fp's nans funeral yesterday, I have put it into grin because I was told to directly follow the hearse and limo in my saph I presume because its black and very shiney, when we got to the crematorium the hearse driver stopped got out to greet me and the first words out of his mouth were how lovely my saph was and how he wanted to ask mrs fp's grandad at his home whose it was but he thought he might have found it distasteful, the hearse and limo were presented beautifully they were both Coleman milne converted Saab 9-5 (dame Edna type), the service and flowers were beautiful and when it was all over we went away to the pub and drank like we have never drank before to send her off, me and mrs fp's dad were wankered, i think the old girl would have been proud of the whole day

[fordperv]

Went for breakfast at this lovely place earlier and saw a chap who looked like santa

 

[purplebargeken]

Car-wise, today has been a rollercoaster of a day. Confusing, perplexing and a tad chaotic. Ultimately good though. 

[angle]

You know those times when you pick a space away from all the other cars on the far side of the car park, and then come back to find people parked on either side of you? I had that today. Except it made me grin because on one side it was a Suzuki Cappuccino and on the other a D-reg Rover 820. It's not often I'm in the least shite car...

[Brodders]

You know those times when you pick a space away from all the other cars on the far side of the car park, and then come back to find people parked on either side of you? I had that today. Except it made me grin because on one side it was a Suzuki Cappuccino and on the other a D-reg Rover 820. It's not often I'm in the least shite car...

Did you get a picture of it?

[scdan4]

this is very cool

 

http://imgur.com/r/oddlysatisfying/PnGpZT0

 

 

[STUNO]

Received a letter from Mazda this morning. It is a recall from the factory. So why the grin.

My Mazda is a 1994 model JDM imported here as a used car, that's a 22 year old car that was sold for a few yen and shipped overseas when it was about 6 years old to get rid of it.

The recall is for wiring around the ignition that "may cause smoke and fire" . Take it to a dealer and they will replace the wiring and the ignition switch free of charge.

The real grin.......I have recently been having trouble with the ignition switch jamming because it is worn out.

Thank you Mazda      

[michael1703]

https://youtu.be/zP5Sb5Ggh7k

[Richard]

Is there something about Mondeos that makes them unsuitable for towing caravans? Nearly every time I've seen a caravan snaking wildly it's been a Mondeo towing it.

[bub2006]

My dad has a 54 plate which tows great. I don't like that video, seen it before and he is a complete tool. How he expected to get 17ft of van on back of a Mondeo estate past a wagon in a merge over lane I'll never know

[Richard]

It's definitely not the car's fault in that case, it just reminded me that I'd seen a few towing Mondeos looking unstable.

[dave21478]

I love caravan crashes - something extremely satisfying seeing cushions and water carriers and microwave ovens going bouncing down the road in a cloud of polystyrene and hardboard.

[bub2006]

Not so satisfying if like me you tow a caravan and lots of numptys cut you up,push past you and generally drive like drongos. I know some caravan owners/towers ain't perfect but its 98% the other partys fault from what I've seen on the road. Not videos like that obviously

[bub2006]

It's definitely not the car's fault in that case, it just reminded me that I'd seen a few towing Mondeos looking unstable.

I see it a lot mate. Thing is a lot of modern cars have higher towing capacities. For example my dads Mondeo can tow 1800 yet weighs 1400

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This a momentous day, I've been appointed to the board. Key to the executive washroom, Luncheon Vouchers, the lot.

Best of all I've got a £40,000 budget for a company car, I need something dynamic and thrusting but above all I need to show how individual and freethinking I am.

 

I'm going to get an Audi naturally , but not just any Audi, an Avant Sportline in White ! Yeah that'll show them I'm no sheep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baa

[beko1987]

 

[Tayne]

Not so satisfying if like me you tow a caravan and lots of numptys cut you up,push past you and generally drive like drongos. I know some caravan owners/towers ain't perfect but its 98% the other partys fault from what I've seen on the road. Not videos like that obviously

So those caravans that are trying to plough a furrow in the middle of the lane whilst be towed by an average size estate car with the back axle on the the bumpstops and the front wheels waving in the air only represent 2% of caravaners?

 

Doing some quick maths that means there are more caravans in the UK than people.

[bub2006]

As I said from what I have seen.

[bub2006]

And as for the 98% I did state 98%of caravans not general population!

[oldcars]

It's definitely not the car's fault in that case, it just reminded me that I'd seen a few towing Mondeos looking unstable.

I think some folk just load up the van each year and hook it up. The don't check brakes, tyre pressure and would'nt know what noseweight should be if asked. You really do see some sights.

[andy18s]

We've moved hotels for tonight ready for an early check-in in Varna.

View from the window over the lake Varna

Just a moment......

Hehehehe