What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

as usual america does it differently

sideways into the atm machine (they love tokyo drift?)

seems to be an only usa thing

[vulgalour]

5 hours ago, paulplom said:

 

[reb]

20 hours ago, willswitchengage said:

From today's bike ride... driver had appeared to have tried to make a right turn from the left fork of a triangle, not quite made the turn then his wheels just spin out when trying to reverse. He was spotted putting sheets of timber from his load under the wheels to improve adhesion. A happy ending though as he overtook me 20 minutes or so later 😎

Not shown: long queues of traffic from all directions

if that's a delta shaped junction (I don't know the proper name for them) then he's using it wrong!

[808 Estate]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Miserable-Bastard-11oz-Ceramic-Coffee/dp/B091KT42P5/ref=sr_1_101?crid=MQL3WKKEB9G4&keywords=mugs&qid=1683655388&sprefix=mugs%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-101

 

[richardmorris]

I’ve been to oxford to meet the family for my dad’s 80th this weekend- he’s happy they made a bank holiday for him.
Hit 75 mph in the 2cv on the a34 according to the gps. Gravity assisted as you do need to charge the hills to keep the momentum going.
as the saying goes, nothing left on the clock but the makers mark!

filled up on the way home too - 48mpg over the last 200miles on Esso e5.

[iainrcz]

Fner

 

[nacho man]

Bought this 190 at the weekend.  Auto 2.5D

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

[Andyrew]

See a right old shed of a van today. . 

[richardmorris]

Indoctrinate them early.

[Cheggers]

"Burglarizing"

The whole thing is horribly written.

[Blunderguts]

[Spottedlaurel]

Little things:

1. Driving home tonight and followed a D-reg Mitsubishi Starion widebody that I haven't seen around before.

2. Bit later on the same journey and for the second time this week, seeing a tidy, modified Daihatsu Sirion, lowered and on fat, older style alloys.

3. Watching Location, Location, Location from Edinburgh and one of the first cars seen being a Volvo estate.

[High Jetter]

38 minutes ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Little things:

1. Driving home tonight and followed a D-reg Mitsubishi Starion widebody that I haven't seen around before.

2. Bit later on the same journey and for the second time this week, seeing a tidy, modified Daihatsu Sirion, lowered and on fat, older style alloys.

3. Watching Location, Location, Location from Edinburgh and one of the first cars seen being a Volvo estate.

You need a lie-down.

[horriblemercedes]

Got a couple of car jobs done that I've been meaning to do for weeks. Sometimes it's the little things 

[High Jetter]

13 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Got a couple of car jobs done that I've been meaning to do for weeks. Sometimes it's the little things 

Do share?

[RoverFolkUs]

22 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Do share?

Topped up the washer fluid? 

Well, I'll speak for myself because that's my idea of a car job that I've been meaning to do for a couple of weeks 🤣

Don't ask what's been on the list for a couple of months/years 😆

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Went up to London yesterday to go to a trade show.  Haven't been up there since before Covid.  Slightly worried about the train being overcrowded based on previous experience but got on the Thameslink and I was the only person in the carriage.  This is at 0830.  That was nice.

Also bumped into some of our customers that were at another trade show next door to the one I was at.  Given that the firm I work for (and most of our customers) are in Cheltenham and Gloucester and I live near Canterbury, it made me laugh and it was nice to see them.

Going up to the show again today.

[horriblemercedes]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Do share?

 

6 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Topped up the washer fluid? 

Well, I'll speak for myself because that's my idea of a car job that I've been meaning to do for a couple of weeks 🤣

Don't ask what's been on the list for a couple of months/years 😆

Swapped wheels over and adjusted electrical cutoff cable so it now works. Not much but I was happy about it. I had just enough time to do it before it got too dark 

[95 quid Peugeot]

Just picked a brand new complete clutch assy for the recently acquired Citroen Xantia from GSF....a whole 10.97 Sir

thats a worth hanging onto item

[Blunderguts]

Having a look at my profile it says 'Rank Morris Ital'. Yep, sounds right for that car!

[andy18s]

7 hours ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Just picked a brand new complete clutch assy for the recently acquired Citroen Xantia from GSF....a whole 10.97 Sir

thats a worth hanging onto item

I don't know if anyone remembers when Amazon launched their Garage shopping list idea,with many many dirt cheap parts on offer.

I bought a load of  rs2000 4x4 specific parts using that offer,most of which went with the car I sold it 7 years ago.

I kept the new radiator which cost less than a tenner, just in case I ever bought another 4x4 Escort.

I've just found it tucked away in a corner of a Bulgarian barn..

[Noel Tidybeard]

9 hours ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Just picked a brand new complete clutch assy for the recently acquired Citroen Xantia from GSF....a whole 10.97 Sir

thats a worth hanging onto item

paging richykitchy one for tractiva spares stash

[MikeR]

Back to CEX today with another dead memory stick , yep they confirmed it , 3rd time on a row , any way they swapped it for two more 2GB sticks just to give the server a bit more memory , did I not choose a ddr3 and a ddr2 stick !!! , My mistake this time 😊😊😊

[RoverFolkUs]

12 hours ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Just picked a brand new complete clutch assy for the recently acquired Citroen Xantia from GSF....a whole 10.97 Sir

thats a worth hanging onto item

Anything parts you buy in a clearance sale mean you will never end up needing/using it by sods law 🤣

I can't think of how many bits and bobs I've previously accumulated for a few quid a piece and then thrown in the bin after realizing it never ends up being needed 🤣

[Timewaster]

The TV ad for the latest Peugeot.

Is it a 508?

Anyway, first time it came on I thought they said it had VELOUR!

It caught my attention, and I thought it is about time velour made a comeback. I can't stand cheap leather or scratchy Tweedy seats.

Quite disappointed when the next time it came on. It turns out to be "the car with ALLURE."

So just advertising bollocks and no 80s luxury seating.

Won't be buying one of them anytime soon then.

[Metal Guru]

10 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Anything parts you buy in a clearance sale mean you will never end up needing/using it by sods law 🤣

I can't think of how many bits and bobs I've previously accumulated for a few quid a piece and then thrown in the bin after realizing it never ends up being needed 🤣

I’m going to buy some brake discs then. I’d save a fortune if I never  needed them again.

[High Jetter]

Followed a skip wagon with a couple of empties on the back just now. They are really efficient at carving through oncoming traffic on urban streets narrowed by parked cars.

[Dyslexic Viking]

First day of the year with 20 degrees, the leaves have come on the trees and it's starting to turn green and a trip to the post office in a proper car, small things that make life good.