What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[jumpingjehovahs]

My younger brother bought this wee beastie today. It’s a Hyundai Veloster Sport. It’s a grin because this is the first car he’s ever bought. It’s been slightly breathed on and has a strut brace so feels pretty swift. It also has a pretty kick ass private plate with it - really happy for him (and also kinda jealous!)





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[loserone]

Any car with more doors on one side has to be awesome

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, loserone said:

Any car with more doors on one side has to be awesome

Especially if you drive it on holiday to a country that drives on the opposite side of the road.....

[MikeR]

my wife and her friend have gone camping in one of those Bongo camper vans this weekend

they have just got back and she has explained how the oil light kept flashing so they stopped to give it a rest ...

then it made noises so they had to find out how to put oil in ,,, and it got back

glad its not my camper !

[wuvvum]

An 05-plate Renault Trafic van has just had its engine run away quite spectacularly outside the office.  The amount of smoke a dying 1.9 dCi can produce is really impressive.

[TataBobu]

On 8/9/2019 at 10:03 PM, busmansholiday said:

 

 

On 8/10/2019 at 7:35 AM, New POD said:

I see no issues.  

What do you mean "no issue"???

The tape measurer is on the sidewalk, and not rolled back onto itself. That's not right.

[hairnet]

took out insurance for the bike wayy early (like not the day before it was due like normal)

it ran out and new policy kicked in - got a letter off them - can you contact us we've been trying to contact you (nope no emails or phone calls)

rang them thinking it would be about ncd id been waiting for

'no we dont have anything here that says you need to ring us'

wtf - random letter explosion or summat

odd

[anonymous user]

Nick Hewer has changed a bit.

[hairnet]

the old git had had 108 for a week and half

'its eating petrol'

gauge has two dimps left from 6

how much did you put in it

a tenner

literally 2 miles here 2 miles there 3 miles here 3 miles there - she *might do 25 miles a week

its doing 44.5 mpg  - the c4 was only doing 52/54 ish

thats not too bad - 35 litre tank 

roll on october - gonna frighten it on the motorway

 

[MikeR]

7 hours ago, MikeR said:

my wife and her friend have gone camping in one of those Bongo camper vans this weekend

they have just got back and she has explained how the oil light kept flashing so they stopped to give it a rest ...

then it made noises so they had to find out how to put oil in ,,, and it got back

glad its not my camper !

 

it gets better ... my wife bought some A/f and topped up the coolant ....

was it pink or blue I said

I dont know , it just said antifreeze on the bottle ....

 

just use water in future !

[wuvvum]

2 hours ago, anonymous user said:

Nick Hewer has changed a bit.

Quote

Rachel gushed

TMI FFS.

[GBJ]

4 hours ago, TataBobu said:

The tape measurer is on the sidewalk,

On the what?

 

[robinmasters]

5 hours ago, TataBobu said:

 

What do you mean "no issue"???

The tape measurer is on the sidewalk, and not rolled back onto itself. That's not right.

 

56 minutes ago, GBJ said:

On the what?

 

Who's on what?

[Spottedlaurel]

Back from an excellent fortnight in France. Lots of quality car stuff photographed, usual thread to be updated in due course. This LP purchased at a boot sale for a Euro, just for the photo:

I don't know why they're standing in a scrapyard, but I'm glad they are. I think it's a 1969 release, some of those cars look like they've led a hard life but I'm guessing it was taken in Paris?

Family joined me in the shed for a listen to it this evening, but fairly soon drifted away. Very French, but nowhere near enough accordion in my opinion.

[xtriple]

My current favourite programme on te telly is: 'Last of the summer wine' tonights episode spent a lot of time in a scrapyard, loads of our sort of cars - Sierras, Mk1 Fiestas, Caveliers, and it was the good sort of scrappy where you could actually go in and pinch stuff yourself!

[MorrisItalSLX]

It turns out that my Grandmother has been hiding a MK2 Granada in her garage for years!

[myglaren]

[New POD]

3 hours ago, myglaren said:

No. 

[SiC]

*rolls eyes*

[Joey spud]

8 hours ago, myglaren said:

Take it back to the dealer the indicators should have been disabled when it had its pre delivery inspection.

[andy18s]

[Ghosty]

Went out to Wetherspoons in Glossop for lunch with the mother, who should I bump into but brownnova and mrs_brownnova!

[willswitchengage]

I am usually the only patient in my dentist's waiting room who does not have a face tattoo or probation officer, but one customer (or employee?) today had a particularly nice car.

 

[MikeR]

Allegro action ...

 

 

[brownnova]

Over the last three weeks this poor car has been subjected to carrying shedloads of stuff for our house move is so grubby both inside and out that it looks like its neglected, has done many many miles ferrying is round to our wedding, family dos and quietly ticked over 192,000 miles last week. 

So today we went for a run for our pleasure and ended up in the Peak District. I thoroughly enjoyed driving it up snake pass. We even had some AS meet up as we bumped into @Ghosty in the pub! 

It truly is the most capable car I think I’ve ever owned! 

Tomorrow I might even wash it! 

[brownnova]

3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Went out to Wetherspoons in Glossop for lunch with the mother, who should I bump into but brownnova and mrs_brownnova!

And nice it was to bump into you sir! Our double take across the pub was classic! 

[purplebargeken]

The sporty looking Hyundai is ace, I was all over one on the forecourt of the then dealer in Little Bushey.

The Toledo went for some wheel alignment therapy at Formula 1 Auto Centre and the guys were ace, they loved the Toledo and oooh'd over the simplicity of the mechanicals. 

Steering much more pleasant and will take it back in a few weeks to have a free check and tweak of the tracking if required, no need to book, just bring it in

 

[hairnet]

was thinking about going to motegi for the moto gp

its only 70 miles from narita but the train and the bus take more than 4 hours

oh well

dont have the time

[Frogchod]

The Buick is at last French registered

[robinmasters]

I've modified some of our clothes pegs so they're gulf racing colours. Mrs Masters wasn't as impressed as I thought she'd be.