What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[95 quid Peugeot]

Castrol 5W20 fully synthetic

£2:20 litre in Asda

[scdan4]

[Aston Martin]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-6756471/Classic-car-experts-reveal-bangers-worth-banking.html

 

Hmmmmmmm

[beko1987]

I'll keep this brief because it's very off topic but fellow shitter Mr Twiggy is a dab hand at leather! Belt making, car door pull strap making (I imagine) and unobtainable parts for 1931 vacuum cleaners making too!

 

 

Looks the utter business, especially considering this is the best original one in the world

 

 

Its amazingly good, thanks Twiggy!

[myglaren]

I don't think my daughter will be pleased to hear that her MX-5 is a banger.

Not when she has a MK III Escort cabriolet in her garage.

[beko1987]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-6756471/Classic-car-experts-reveal-bangers-worth-banking.html

 

Hmmmmmmm

I saw this earlier and didn't click on it because I'd disagree with it all!

 

None of those are bangers ffs, their all new cars that should continue doing car like stuff for many years yet

[Cavcraft]

Not seen a ‘Bangers that will become classics’ thing in a newspaper ever that hasn’t been half-arsed, lazy journalism as it’s very worst.

[Snipes]

I saw this earlier and didn't click on it because I'd disagree with it all!

 

None of those are bangers ffs, their all new cars that should continue doing car like stuff for many years yet

They're all the thick end of 20 years old. They're not new.

[twosmoke300]

I'll keep this brief because it's very off topic but fellow shitter Mr Twiggy is a dab hand at leather! Belt making, car door pull strap making (I imagine) and unobtainable parts for 1931 vacuum cleaners making too!

 

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Looks the utter business, especially considering this is the best original one in the world

 

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Its amazingly good, thanks Twiggy!

 

I fucking love proper traditional craftsmanship like this . Sadly a dying art as no youngsters want to work with their hands these days

Love seeing the old upholsterers on car sos for this

[beko1987]

I fucking love proper traditional craftsmanship like this . Sadly a dying art as no youngsters want to work with their hands these days

Love seeing the old upholsterers on car sos for this

Its bloody brilliant isn't it!

[Timewaster]

I fucking love proper traditional craftsmanship like this . Sadly a dying art as no youngsters want to work with their hands these days

Love seeing the old upholsterers on car sos for this

I liked the Salvage Hunters spin off series The Restorers which shows the people doing restorations of the old tat Drew has bought.

The upholsterer is great.

[twosmoke300]

Yeh and that french polisher bloke that did work for him but went out alone iirc . Like an artist . Can’t learn skills like that from a you tube vid

[New POD]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-6756471/Classic-car-experts-reveal-bangers-worth-banking.html

 

Hmmmmmmm

We have a yellow mini Cooper with black roof, 51 plate in our fleet. Still.on the original gearbox at 98k built in September 2001, so a couple of months after launch.

[Alan_Green]

Currently browsing Ebay for electric wheelchairs etc. Had to chuckle when I saw this ramp:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOMCOM-Aluminum-Folding-Wheelchair-Ramp-for-Scooter-Pet-Equipment-Mobility/292396061024?epid=22012517973&hash=item441429d160:g:ruoAAOSw~o5acpP6:rk:18:pf:0   Come on granny.  Time to go.

 

[Zelandeth]

Just heard through the grapevine that our well known local menace has ploughed his riced up Focus (which hasn't been taxed, insured or MOTed since 2014) into the back of a parked up Volvo Olympian at around 50mph.

 

Best bit? Apparently he broke a leg in the incident, so wasn't able to dispose of the few kg of drugs in the boot before the police showed up...

 

Apparently damage to the bus is limited to the panel under the engine cover needing a paint and the cover itself needed a kick to get it shut again. They built those old tanks well back in the 90s...

[sierraman]

Read this, hilarious stuff. Guy mods car on PCP, it packs in and they wash their hands of it.

 

https://forums.seatcupra.net/index.php?threads/non-starting-cupra-whats-wrong-now-inc-video.193416/

 

I’d love to have been a fly on the wall at the Service Desk when they told him to GTFO with it. It’ll have no doubt gone to auction, there’s no way on earth you’d be retailing crap like that.

[scaryoldcortina]

Had a quick look at that thread, I bet a 20p handbrake shim that he's fitted a Billy bollox head unit and it's that messing up the diagnostics.

[SiC]

Thread is from 2008, so quite a while ago back when PCP started becoming really popular. So it's fair to say he might not understood the ownership situation. Also when new cars suddenly lost loads of value.

 

Given its the TFSI it's likely shat it's high pressure fuel pump because it's remapped. Remaps are too hard on the stock pump and it wasn't realised until a few years later.

[Fumbler]

Brother had new tyres fitted to Range Rover. He very happy with his new all season snow and mud tyres for his car. Also enjoys looking down on all the puny Fiat Puntos et al at the traffic lights.

[DodgeRover]

Just heard through the grapevine that our well known local menace has ploughed his riced up Focus (which hasn't been taxed, insured or MOTed since 2014) into the back of a parked up Volvo Olympian at around 50mph.

 

Best bit? Apparently he broke a leg in the incident, so wasn't able to dispose of the few kg of drugs in the boot before the police showed up...

 

Apparently damage to the bus is limited to the panel under the engine cover needing a paint and the cover itself needed a kick to get it shut again. They built those old tanks well back in the 90s...

I hope you didn't get any brake fluid on your hands when you cut the hoses.....

[Saabnut]

Today I went to see Kinkersaab of this parish, to drink his coffee and generally catch up. His mechanic was in the workshop working on his own car, an AMG 630 Merc estate. He had just fitted a new airbag to the suspension, and started the car to test it. It of course refused to raise the rear of the car, at which point Kinkersaab uttered the immortal phrase "it goes up as reliably as a pensioners cock"

[Tayne]

I thought that was going to be a p38 comparison.

[Snipes]

Thread is from 2008, so quite a while ago back when PCP started becoming really popular. So it's fair to say he might not understood the ownership situation. Also when new cars suddenly lost loads of value.

 

Given its the TFSI it's likely shat it's high pressure fuel pump because it's remapped. Remaps are too hard on the stock pump and it wasn't realised until a few years later.

Seems it was a failed relay.

[cms206]

So, how many drugs would you like, Sir?

 

ALL OF THEM.

 

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[SiC]

What the hell was that originally?!

 

I like how the right exhaust is so obviously fake and not connected.

[DoctorRetro]

Work let me have use of the director's season tickets to West Ham today, so my little boy who loves them got to go to his first match.

 

I had to sit in silence, being a Newcastle fan...

[gm]

So, how many drugs would you like, Sir?

 

ALL OF THEM.

 

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I can't imagine the joy of just walking down the street and happening across that - wow, just wow !

[The Moog]

Oh hello .. that looks a complicated love tryst with a rover, a Saab 99 and a maestro...

 

It's the second time in a day I have had to go seconds for CMS

[cms206]

What the hell was that originally?!

 

I like how the right exhaust is so obviously fake and not connected.

Allegro!

 

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[Sheefag]