What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[skattrd]

Just been for a run in the Alfa and it didn't break down

Thats now twice in the last year I've used it without something breaking

[Guest]

Stupid scatty Olympus FTL managed to take a photograph without completely shitting the film up:

 

 

The problem now is that loads of people think it's an Instagram shot.

[trigger]

Looks like you've gone in time to 1990 for that shot!

[Guest]

Looks like you've gone in time to 1990 for that shot!

 

Yes.

 

 

It managed to shit this one out too, before mashing the last three exposures up and then blending a shot of MM5's head with a Sierra alloy. Most odd.

 

Also, this.

 

[michiel]

I love the last one mostest. Great car, great photo.

[vulgalour]

Mikeknight has a temporary electric fuel pump on his Triumph which used to be on the Princess. Said pump is a bit rubbish, but so, apparently, are the seals on his carburettors. When the car is put away for the day, you have to disconnect the pump or it keeps pumping petrol until it comes out of the air filter when the engine is cold. This is not a problem, but when you reconnect the pump it involves directly connecting the negative wire to the battery terminal, which sometimes makes visible sparkiness.

 

Mikeknight didn't want to leak petrol all over the garage forecourt when filling up and asked if he should disconnect the pump. I said "sparks + petrol vapour = bad" and he said "oh yeah." It made me chuckle.

[JohnDeere]

I stay in hotels. A lot. Always seem to get car-related room numbers which helps me find my bed after a long night. Tonight I'm in 216, maybe they should call it the Ballade Suite.

[autofive]

I stay in hotels. A lot. Always seem to get car-related room numbers which helps me find my bed after a long night. Tonight I'm in 216, maybe they should call it the Ballade Suite.

 

should have a hot shower at least.

[cms206]

My work's LDV has been pulled in for MOT preparation. Mechanic says it's not worth doing. Boss's words?

 

"Where's your sense of adventure?!"

 

 

May I present the passenger side footwell...

[Guest]

Few more RRG shots from the FTL.

 

It's definitely got a few issues. Then again, it's spent 25 years in a loft so I'm not expecting it to be perfect. That's half the charm. I shot some more scenes on my D60 and phone so expect those tomorrow.

 

At the moment I'm getting 17-18 shots per 24 roll of film. The rest either get ruined or spat out by the FTL's winding sprocket. The viewfinder's also disgusting so I might have to have it cleaned.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tayne]

The ebay seller admitted it was their mistake, told me to keep the mirrors AND gave me a full refund.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Mikeknight has a temporary electric fuel pump on his Triumph which used to be on the Princess. Said pump is a bit rubbish, but so, apparently, are the seals on his carburettors. When the car is put away for the day, you have to disconnect the pump or it keeps pumping petrol until it comes out of the air filter when the engine is cold. This is not a problem, but when you reconnect the pump it involves directly connecting the negative wire to the battery terminal, which sometimes makes visible sparkiness.

 

Mikeknight didn't want to leak petrol all over the garage forecourt when filling up and asked if he should disconnect the pump. I said "sparks + petrol vapour = bad" and he said "oh yeah." It made me chuckle.

 

The guy sounds like a fuggin catastrophe waiting to happen, what other bodges has he got on his Triumph? Anyone who thinks it is OK to hardwire a electric fuel pump to the battery without even using a switch, should not be allowed to touch a spanner.

[Angrydicky]

I've been papped!

 

1952 Austin A90 Atlantic Coupe by southessexmale, on Flickr

[vulgalour]

The guy sounds like a fuggin catastrophe waiting to happen, what other bodges has he got on his Triumph? Anyone who thinks it is OK to hardwire a electric fuel pump to the battery without even using a switch, should not be allowed to touch a spanner.

 

I should clarify, this is an emergency bodge to get him home and it was my brother that did it with clear warnings of the shortcomings. We had to use what was to hand. It would have been proper fixed had we not had a replacement pump break and a replacement diaphragm arrive with a bent shaft. Oh, and wired to be perma-on is how it was done on the Princess so we just copied a previous bodge.

[mattblack]

Mikeknight has a temporary electric fuel pump on his Triumph which used to be on the Princess. Said pump is a bit rubbish, but so, apparently, are the seals on his carburettors. When the car is put away for the day, you have to disconnect the pump or it keeps pumping petrol until it comes out of the air filter when the engine is cold. This is not a problem, but when you reconnect the pump it involves directly connecting the negative wire to the battery terminal, which sometimes makes visible sparkiness.

 

Mikeknight didn't want to leak petrol all over the garage forecourt when filling up and asked if he should disconnect the pump. I said "sparks + petrol vapour = bad" and he said "oh yeah." It made me chuckle.

 

The guy sounds like a fuggin catastrophe waiting to happen, what other bodges has he got on his Triumph? Anyone who thinks it is OK to hardwire a electric fuel pump to the battery without even using a switch, should not be allowed to touch a spanner.

 

As long as it's not got cut springs and stretched tyres it'll be perfectly safe.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

This.

[Cavcraft]

My lad has just passed his driving test at the first attempt! Think I was more nervous than him this morning.

[Spiny Norman]

My lad has just passed his driving test at the first attempt! Think I was more nervous than him this morning.

 

Nice one.

Expect to hear some grumping about insurance costs for kids in the GOM thread son....

[Cavcraft]

First quotes range from £2,378.70 (with one of those tracker box things) to a slightly* out of our range £13,571.18. For a 1.0 Corsa.

[ashmicro]

Well done Cav junior.

 

Making me grin - my new BB arrived, and this time it wasn't smashed to bits by Royal Fail.

 

 

Good camera, so GR32 for shitespotting.

[Spiny Norman]

First quotes range from £2,378.70 (with one of those tracker box things) to a slightly* out of our range £13,571.18. For a 1.0 Corsa.

 

Believe it or not, £2,400 ain't bad for a teenage lad.

[skattrd]

Corsa 1.0 maybe quite low on the insurance scale, but surely theres lower ... and more miserable first cars

Marbella /Panda 750cc - Daihatsu Cuore/Perodua Nippa 850cc etc.

 

Well done to mini Cav, and good luck sorting out insurance etc.

[RedSparrow]

Shitting nora is that what prices for teenagers are now?!

Well done to Cav JR anyway.

[sporty-shite]

Billy, I was talking to someone who said that they'd been quoted "only" £1000 to insure a Lupo for a newly passed 17 year old. I believe Polos are similar.

 

I know it's a V*olksw*g*n, but maybe Cav jr should change his sights until he gets his first year's no-claims.

 

 

*Dons flameproof hat*

 

Oh, congrats, by the way.

[cms206]

Well done Cav Jr, top work.

 

As a sideways point and purely out of interest, how do elderly Volvo estates stack up? I could get insured much cheaper on a 745 than anything else when I was seventeen, but then ended up with a Motability Focus Millsomatic due to my mother being disabled.

[ashmicro]

IIRC Daihatsus have always been inexplicably high up in insurance.

[Pete-M]

Well done to Cav Jr.

 

Polos are meant to be cheap to insewer, Lupos more so. Lad who comes into work has a Y plate Lupo TDi which he bought because it was the 'least horrific insurance I could find". He's had it for three or four years now, his insurance has been triple figures for the last couple of years. He lives in St. Helens, so I imagine it's similar loadings to your neck of the woods.

[skattrd]

 

The Volvo allegedly making over 50mpg ... and the odo.

I should have reset the trip so it was 789 ... If I'd thought of it sooner I would have - yes I am that sad

[willswitchengage]

a) There's a really pretty sunset outside and

 

Sometimes I wonder if somebody more amazing than me could have been born. Discovered earlier the Justy had no fuel filler cap. A few minutes head scratching and small hole drilling later, and it has a new replacement, although there is no longer a plug for our kitchen sink.

[Cavcraft]

Thanks folks.

 

We've managed to get it down to something like £1,947 by contacting one company direct rather then go through one of those comparison sites. That's with the box fitted (which I think is a good idea tbh), the car not being garaged and a high (£1,000) excess. I told my lad it wasn't worth claiming if he smashed the car up as future insurance costs would be unreal so a high excess seems to make sense.

God knows why, but valuing the car at a higher amount (i.e £1,200 instead of £800) knocked it down a bit too. I think we'll go for that to be honest, if Merc buyer turns up when he says he will I'll use half the money for the deposit on the insurance and pay the monthly charges though my wages. He's now even more actively seeking work as not having a licence would have meant a temporary career change and he says he'll pay me back for the insurance. That's probably about as likely as seeing some really fit naked nuns skateboarding in the park whilst swigging cans of Stella and extolling the virtues of Class A drugs.