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Managed to change the Stellar's rear wheel bearing without the use of a press! Although next time I think I will pop round to the local garage and borrow theirs - just didn't want to wait until the weekend.

 

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Getting the retaining ring on was the trickiest - I'd heated it up OK but once it was halfway on started to cool quite rapidly. Got there in the end though :-)

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  On 02/08/2016 at 17:50, AMC Rebel said:

 

 

I saw the same thing some years ago, late evening and the old fella was having trouble getting home from the pub. We have a different police style here though. Old fella was taken home by the law taxi service, and the other law enforcer present was last seen driving off down the street on a mobility scooter  :-D .

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Huh, Tesla is doing a big stupid car and...

 

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House went on the market at midday yesterday

We have 2 viewings booked for today,one of whom wanted to view at 9am........

2 more on Friday afternoon and Saturday's are just starting to fill up too..

Feck

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I just got pulled by the Bulgarian village traffic police. I forgot to put my headlights on (they have to be on 24/7 up here in the mountains) and was fearing a stern telling off or worse from the sweaty, grumpy, bored officers. They started talking to me in the most unpleasant manner until they noticed my pink nail varnish, at which point they both were overcome with laughter for at least a minute and then sent me on my way.

Moral - Allowing people to do things to you when you're drunk is not always a bad idea.

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  On 02/08/2016 at 22:29, dollywobbler said:

Good wipers are one of life's great pleasures. Anything less than perfect is one of life's great fails. I really like the RAVs wipers. I can't really fathom why.

For good wipers that satisfy an Autoshite budget, try Trupart brand ones from eBay. Excellent and cost pennies
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I have made a car engine work better than it did before I started working on it!  This has never happened before as far as I can remember.

 

It was only the Jeep, but still.

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  On 01/08/2016 at 17:12, Biggus Dickus said:

Went to the scrapyard to get a Focus door trim. Found a car with the right trim but some fud had ripped the card off with his hands rather than spend 4 minutes undoing 7 screws. Quite unsatisfying.

This wasn't a scrapyard in derby last last year was it? If so my apologies.
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Abba vinyl x2 for £4?  Don't mind if I do.  Living the dream over here.

 

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  On 03/08/2016 at 15:32, vulgalour said:

Abba vinyl x2 for £4?  Don't mind if I do.  Living the dream over here.

 

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Going clay pigeon shooting?
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  On 03/08/2016 at 15:48, Tamworthbay said:

Going clay pigeon shooting?

Hey, there are two types of guy in the world, the ones who own an Abba album, or the ones who want one but are too ashamed to admit it to themselves/others.

 

Anyway, my grin comes from the key ring that my aunt bought for me when she went to the shops earlier.

 

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Needless to say, it has already made its way to my keys.

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  On 03/08/2016 at 16:13, Brodders said:

Hey, there are two types of guy in the world, the ones who own an Abba album, or the ones who want one but are too ashamed to admit it to themselves/others.

Anyway, my grin comes from the key ring that my aunt bought for me when she went to the shops earlier.

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Needless to say, it has already made its way to my keys.

you are missing the third type of guy, those who would genuinely cheer if ISIS decided to invade whatever pop hell hole ABBA exist in, if they could take out Kylie Minogue on the way then mores the better. That would be a grin post.
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  On 03/08/2016 at 16:42, vulgalour said:

I like what I like and I'm not ashamed of that.

You might like FAK then:

 

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  On 03/08/2016 at 11:55, Kiltox said:

For good wipers that satisfy an Autoshite budget, try Trupart brand ones from eBay. Excellent and cost pennies

I bought a pair for the fiat from lidl 9 years ago and they're still fine- replaced the original fiat branded ones who were purely decorative. £4.99 a pair I think.

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I'm feeling very pleased that I came up with a sensible solution to the shortage of dog chews. I only had two large chews left, but four dogs, I completely failed to cut the chews with my biggest, sharpest, knife, I then had a brainwave and got my cordless jigsaw which did the trick straight away, so it has now been promoted to share a drawer with the other kitchen utensils.

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I'm not sure that I can explain this beyond, a Finnish Autoshite simulator for the PC.

 

Drink, play with tools, drive randomly.

 

http://www.amistech.com/msc/index.html#features

 

 

 

 

 

I am making this game because this game needs to be made. This is not made because this is fun game, but because it is NOT! 

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I need this game

 

Watched about half an hour of the promo vid, this guy is amazing lol

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Don't need a PC to simulate my Autoshite life, just a bottle of used 10W40, a sharp pointy thing and a plastic tray to collect the drips. It's like Jackson Pollock in ultra slow-mo.

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  On 03/08/2016 at 17:19, myglaren said:

You might like FAK then:

 

 

I do like what I've heard of FAK, but I hadn't seen this! And I'm an Abba fan too (:oops:), so this is perfect :-)

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Kinky Girl is taking me to my second gig ever this weekend. Bad Manners. WCPGW? other than everything.

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  On 03/08/2016 at 16:42, vulgalour said:

I like what I like and I'm not ashamed of that.

Good on you, and for £4 they were a bargain.

 

I missed out on buying an ELO album with the original poster for £4 a few weeks ago, and still wish I'd bought it, even though I have no real need for it.

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whilst pulling the new mx5 apart to fit the roll bar, I discovered hidden treasure

 

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the car was imported in 2006 so this can of deodorant has been rattling around for at least a decade

 

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maybe it's air freshener ? yes, dogshit smells, fish smell, babies smell, what is going on with the girl on a swing ? who knows, must be a Japanese thing.

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  On 03/08/2016 at 22:39, jakebullet said:

Kinky Girl is taking me to my second gig ever this weekend. Bad Manners. WCPGW? other than everything.

Prepare to love it. They are ace! Busta is half the man he once was
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  On 04/08/2016 at 00:16, gm said:

whilst pulling the new mx5 apart to fit the roll bar, I discovered hidden treasure

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the car was imported in 2006 so this can of deodorant has been rattling around for at least a decade

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maybe it's air freshener ? yes, dogshit smells, fish smell, babies smell, what is going on with the girl on a swing ? who knows, must be a Japanese thing.

When I brought the Mercury over from the US I found a really old can of easy start under the front seat. It was really old and must have been in there years. It's still got loads left in it too.

Someone else I was talking to told me about another yank he imported and found a pistol under the seat!

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  On 03/08/2016 at 22:39, jakebullet said:

Kinky Girl is taking me to my second gig ever this weekend. Bad Manners. WCPGW? other than everything.

They played at Hull University when I was there in the 80s. Part of the rider was to have an offstage area where Buster could set up his Scalextric. He had a break in the middle of the gig and while the band played on he had a couple of races.

 

He also had a fairly disasterous go at running his own hotel for a while.

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Bad manners are playing at a venue near me on Oct 20th,only an hours drive.

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The work project that has been supposed to start next Monday for the last four or five Mondays has now been pushed out to September. This means I won't get paid of course, but it's still a huge grin because I'll now have time to do loads of other things including fixing broken cars. Ace :-D

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