What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[danthecapriman]

It’s finally the weekend! I’ve had a shit week thanks to work so they can suck my chicken skin scrotum now until Monday!

[richardmorris]

Just joined a Facebook group of old pics from where i grew up.

 

Someone has posted this ( which I remember well!)

 

I think that’s the one and only time I’ve been in the press. 1976.

 

Edit. I’m the one staring into the gates of hell. My best friend Chris looks quite happy to be frozen to death in tiny shorts and a cardigan!

[Cavcraft]

Spotted a fox at work today. Hoping it was the one who looked very poorly the other month, as this one looked very healthy so fingers crossed it got better.  Relatively safe there too, away from the red coated wankers on horseback.

[loserone]

Be careful putting a frozen soft top down. Makes them brittle.

Yes, I've smashed it already. New one.. one day

[Datsuncog]

Shaping up to be quite a night at Casa Datsuncog. A load of attic-blackened cars to be scrubbed AND a goodly haul of traybakes rescued from an abandoned plate outside a meeting room in work. Some of them are barely nibbled.

 

 

Result.

[PhilA]

 

Wanted to see what the Pontiac looked like with UK plates*.

 

Apologies to the current owner of DDM 798C.

 

Phil

 

 

 

*One thing it does do is make me realize just how big that car actually is. Compare to the same size plate on another blue vehicle:

[320touring]

Lol! Top work

[cort1977]

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Wanted to see what the Pontiac looked like with UK plates*.

 

Apologies to the current owner of DDM 798C.

 

Phil

 

 

 

*One thing it does do is make me realize just how big that car actually is. Compare to the same size plate on another blue vehicle:

 

And yet, it doesn't look that big in it's natural habitat. 

[MorrisItalSLX]

I was part of a world record attempt today, the worlds largest cheese tasting, and we bloody smashed it!

[chaseracer]

Take TWO collekshun freds into the shower?  Ambassadores, you are truly spoiling us! 

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/34566-time-2-collect/

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/34565-fred-where-i-go-pick-up-a-car-and-drive-it-back/

 

* Other inappropriate retro popular culture references are available...

[Tamworthbay]

And yet, it doesn't look that big in it's natural habitat.

 

I wonder why

[Guest Hooli]

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Serious shite spottage this morning.

 

 

[DodgeRover]

Son is at his guitar lesson learning the offspring - kids aren't alright, bugger me there's a lot more to it than on first listen!

Great to see him fully engaged and listening/ working hard at the same time as enjoying himself

[brandersnatch]

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Well played. Genuine laughed out loud.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[Tamworthbay]

Son is at his guitar lesson learning the offspring - kids aren't alright, bugger me there's a lot more to it than on first listen!

Great to see him fully engaged and listening/ working hard at the same time as enjoying himself

The offspring are a great band and very underrated. Quite a few of their songs are a lot more complex than first impressions would have you believe.

[wuvvum]

MOV_0045.mp4

[RobT]

Excellent. What was the problem in the end?

[wuvvum]

Turns out there was another (third!) fusebox hidden up inside the dash, which I discovered whilst dismantling the dash to try and find the ECU.  This fusebox also had engine-related fuses in it, in addition to all the engine-related fuses in the fusebox under the bonnet, and two of them were corroded tae feck.  A liberal soaking in contact cleaner, a thorough scraping of the contacts with the point of my test light and two replacement fuses and it was away.

 

As an added bonus, the gearbox now changes gear too.

[beko1987]

The rail replacement transport gets worse every day

 

[myglaren]

Not sure where to drop this, the YouTube thread doesn't seem quite right.

 

[Crusty Sills]

I've spent the last 2 days doing bits in the Beetle that the casual observer wouldn't even notice.

Replaced front N/S wing and liner yesterday,fitted stereo and took off smashed for light.

 

 

Today I did the other side. Sheered 1 bolt but the bracket was bolt on not welded so it came to be drilled.

Re-re-fixed the stereo after working out there was no permanent live, turns out i need to swap the red and yellow wire!!!

All in all a great couple of days playing with cars.

[Crusty Sills]

Oh and I gave my neighbour a hand putting the bumper back on his Range Rover P38, so he let me have a play in his 2010 supercharged 5.0 V8 L322 Range Rover Autobiography. 510 bhp, fuck me is that thing rapid!!!!.

[sierraman]

Contentment is sharpening your woodchisels on a Saturday night with a few cans of beer.

[myglaren]

My youngest bought a Megane C+C that we collected on Thursday.

 

Friday the EML is on, the passenger window won't open and the timing belt that was logged as being done at 54,000 wasn't actually done.

 

She was getting her tame mechanic to fit a new belt & water pump but phoned the seller and he has arranged for an auto-spark to fix the window and the garage that did the service and MOT on Thursday morning to fix the EML.

 

Not to bad for a £1500 car that she paid £1250 for.  She loves it and says it is nice to be back in a 'grown-up' car after that last two Fiestas and a heap of a Clio.

[Tayne]

Contentment is sharpening your woodchisels on a Saturday night with a few cans of beer.

 

Would you not be better using a whetstone?

[sierraman]

Funny man!

[SiC]

My youngest bought a Megane C+C that we collected on Thursday.

 

Friday the EML is on, the passenger window won't open and the timing belt that was logged as being done at 54,000 wasn't actually done.

 

She was getting her tame mechanic to fit a new belt & water pump but phoned the seller and he has arranged for an auto-spark to fix the window and the garage that did the service and MOT on Thursday morning to fix the EML.

 

Not to bad for a £1500 car that she paid £1250 for. She loves it and says it is nice to be back in a 'grown-up' car after that last two Fiestas and a heap of a Clio.

I guess tbf to the seller, he can only go on service history from what paperwork he has got. Also if it's a Mégane II CC, the window control modules going pop quite literally likely did it after you bought it. They do love to die those modules. A cottage industry revolves around fixing those modules.

 

Fair play to the seller/dealer if he's fixing a £1250 car and not buggering about trying not to. Many dealers won't even touch the Mégane II. Even won't want to even partex one in for scrap!

[LightBulbFun]

My mum had a Megan in early 2014 that shat its passenger window too literally the day or so after she got it (aka the first big trip out with it) eventually after us freezing balls off for a couple hours waiting for the previous owner to arrive, said previous owner ripped the door card off and propped the window up with a block of wood...

 

what a hateful piece of shit that car was

 

no idea what Megan it was other than it being a 56 plate...

[beko1987]

The rear windows in the silver gooner never worked, and I was told it was these magic control packs.

 

They stayed not working too, since I never sit in the back and stuff