What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Frogchod]

13 minutes ago, hairnet said:

i meant the plates on the car but hey

Plate pics will happen.  I've had to order them as they're a daft size. 

There'll be a post in the grump thread when it comes to fitting the rear plate. Looks like the rear light panel has to come off.....

[hairnet]

get to know your voiture

[clayts450]

Doubly whammy on  very hard to find parts. R960 radio for the 420 for 30 quid (and another 9 quid for the code), unobtainium alternator bracket including the adjuster for the 214 for 35 quid. Happy days.

[Wack]

I've just read this on a car forum , does anyone on here speak detailing  who could translate 

[SiC]

He's saying that he is using a single bucket to wash his car I think. 

[beko1987]

No, he has a hybrid finish on the car, and doesn't want to damage it. Perfectly sensible, if his routine is correct a good foam and rinse will do, but finding the right product is hard so as not to strip the finish. Then there's drying to avoid marks. Hence the big blower. I used to use a 1992 Hoover Portapower in blowing mode, haven't got that anymore but other vacs with blowers exist. Dog grooming dryers are popular too

I miss detailing... Must do the zx soon, I've got enough stuff I think for a full go over

[Wack]

If you want a wrecked bus in your living room this guy can sort it for you 

[Wack]

It's all graffiti 

[hairnet]

dafuq

thats ace

[twosmoke300]

Seriously impressive 

[busmansholiday]

Mrs BMH has been on at me to redecorate a couple of rooms in Busmans Towers, errrm, tempting but I don't need a week or two in intensive care.

[Wack]

37 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Mrs BMH has been on at me to redecorate a couple of rooms in Busmans Towers, errrm, tempting but I don't need a week or two in intensive care.

Sounds like lose lose to me , either way you're going to intensive care

[Wack]

Lol

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Plate pics will happen.  I've had to order them as they're a daft size. 
There'll be a post in the grump thread when it comes to fitting the rear plate. Looks like the rear light panel has to come off.....

Does the plate slide in the top via the open boot? I understand this to be a Buick thing.

[richardthestag]

my twins have both got 1st choice University courses

David Maths A, Design Tech A*, Physics B - Going to Brum, Mechanical Engineering

Louis Maths A*, History A*, Georgraphy A* - going to Herts Collage Oxford, Human Geography

More chuffed than a cat with two arses

No idea where they got that level of cleverness from

[Garythesnail]

7 minutes ago, richardthestag said:

No idea where they got that level of cleverness from

Satisfying, isn't it.......

Having said that, I'm the only bugger in our house without a degree and haven't been found out yet,........

[New POD]

29 minutes ago, richardthestag said:

my twins have both got 1st choice University courses

David Maths A, Design Tech A*, Physics B - Going to Brum, Mechanical Engineering

Louis Maths A*, History A*, Georgraphy A* - going to Herts Collage Oxford, Human Geography

More chuffed than a cat with two arses

No idea where they got that level of cleverness from

The first proper curry I tasted in 1986 was in Selly Oak. Evenings in the OVT. Oh such memories (I went to Coventry Polytechnic and wife was a student nurse at the QE, so got to walk through the university grounds when pissed) 

Son was born nearby in the QE hospital, and lives in Harbourne.  Lovely city.  

 

[richardthestag]

My oldest has just finished y2 and was living in Selly Oak, September he moves back there again for y3. David will do Y1 in Halls 

[New POD]

20 minutes ago, Garythesnail said:

Satisfying, isn't it.......

Having said that, I'm the only bugger in our house without a degree and haven't been found out yet,........

To be fair, I've got a Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, but there was nothing specific on how to operate a moulding machine that I'm trying to make work today. I've got 100s of pages of manual and not one word of it is helpful. Degree or Not, I'm fecked off.

[New POD]

11 minutes ago, richardthestag said:

My oldest has just finished y2 and was living in Selly Oak, September he moves back there again for y3. David will do Y1 in Halls 

The site of Selly Oak Aldi is where the curry house was.  

[meggersdog]

Car came in for MoT today and it has the wrong size tyre on one side. Checked the date and it's 2018 the other side is 2017. Trying to work out if I missed it last year so in the end I check last MoT. It was done at the main dealer. The relief that I hadn't missed something so obvious was great.

When asked about his tyre the customer shrugged and said it's only ever been to the main dealer until now.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Living up to the name:

 

[scdan4]

Talk of the estate today, a fiat 500 in for pdi paint correction. Brand new on brand new random dvla plates. Lady owner picking it up tomorrow. The random reg is..

VA68 EEF

poor girl is going to have a dawning moment of realisation at some point this month.

[New POD]

13 minutes ago, scdan4 said:

Talk of the estate today, a fiat 500 in for pdi paint correction. Brand new on brand new random dvla plates. Lady owner picking it up tomorrow. The random reg is..

VA68 EEF

poor girl is going to have a dawning moment of realisation at some point this month.

Or 69,??? 

[richardmorris]

42 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Living up to the name:

 

I saw that online. Another second or so and the obese moron would have had a heart attack. Perhaps his car didn’t have a reverse gear?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I saw that online. Another second or so and the obese moron would have had a heart attack. Perhaps his car didn’t have a reverse gear?

Sounds like someone who doesn't have to work much for a living and who believes in the superiority of Germany....

[wuvvum]

I now know that there is a car called a VW Arteon.  Every day is a school day.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

13 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

... VW Arteon.....

Would have been called a Mk.2 "Passat CC" but not pretentiously avantgarde enough.

[HMC]

^ my brother has one. Another of vws model names where on the bootlid- the characters are applied individually below the VW badge; and it just looks like one or several letters have fallen off.

I genuinely thought T-ROC was TAROK with someone clumsily snapping the edges off the “A”when loading stuff. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 minutes ago, HMC said:

.... the characters are applied individually below the VW badge; and it just looks like one or several letters have fallen off.

I genuinely thought T-ROC was TAROK with someone clumsily snapping the edges off the “A”when loading stuff. 

They'll probably fall off over time. I've seen the T-ROC SUV and thought it was a tie-up with some brand of vodka.