What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

It was VW Action at the pod, they tend to invite racers and show cars over from Europe.

[JohnDeere]

Not sure if this is grin or grumpy, but a drove a Golf for the first time last week. And (he ducks now) I thought it was quite pleasant. I certainly see why these sell so readily.

 

It was a 1.6 TDC automatic DSG, so not exactly a barnstormer and struggled a bit to do much above 130 Km/h on the Austrian autobahns. But was massively better than the new-shape Focus with a similar engine that I had in Turkey a few months back. In fact, I can't see anyone who test drives a Focus and a Golf together ending up buying anything other than the Golf (and I like Focuses in the main).

 

I extracted it out of the immensely useless Europcar in Vienna after persuading them that a 1.2 FSi petrol was not "similar" to the 1.6 that I had booked. God only knows how awful that would have been to drive laden with three blokes.

 

The same Europcar office was busily trying to extract various amounts of euros from the woman in the next queue for a "scratch on the bumper". So when arriving at the car three levels down in a dark underground car park I made them drive it up into the daylight and then write down every single tiny ding and scrape on the form. Don't think they were best pleased

[cms206]

Ford 6000CD head units in that odd shape meaning they only fit in Fords... OR DO THEY?

 

 

For added shite points this particular coach has been rollered battleship grey over the weekend (and over the previous fleetnames) and has an extra shite 7-speed "comfort shift" manual 'box, complete with stubby Volvo 240 style gear lever attached to the cab seat.

[beko1987]

Bought a HP 4050 laser printer off evilbay, spares or repairs for 11 quid delivered. Listing implied it was out of the shite cupboard, but spares just in case it doesn't work.

 

Hmmm, no toner cart, top door falls off and a lot of small plastic parts fall out as well as a substantial looking roller. It's a dud then. For giggles I plugged it in, added a used toner and it prints! Amazeballs!!! 770,000 pages on the clock.

 

If there was such a thing as old printer banger racing I'd want a HP. Must be nearly indestructible.

I pulled an old LaserJet 5000 out of a skip when I started college in 2003, printed all my coursework on it for 3 years and freecycle it with toner left when I was done. They are the cockroach of the printer world.

 

I'm forever fettling with our year old HP printer in the office, with a mere 230k on it! Orl new printerz r shit (although we did 7000 pages on the critically low warning, I changed it on Friday as the drum was shitting toner everywhere, prob still had more to give but people would have moaned...)

[beko1987]

Actually I lie, it was one of these bad boys looking at the picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4

[Ghosty]

Isn't the Ford 6000 just the shape of two DIN slots on top of each other? In theory that'll also fit in some Polos!

 

It's not as bad as that semicircular Punto one (I see loads of them at car boot sales), or the one in the mid-2000s Fiesta (mk5? 6? not sure):

 

 

You see how the radio looks like it's 3 separate modules?

 

Nope, that's one big non-standard unit you can only replace like-for-like. And you have to take the whole big heater control panel off to change it.

 

Bonus points for the smiley face in the dash though.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Actually I lie, it was one of these bad boys looking at the picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4

Got one very similar to this in the garage. It's giant and slow but was free and still works. I'm loathed to bin it for no reason.

[r.welfare]

Me too. Great printers.

[TimothyClaypole]

I'm posh and have a Laserjet CP2025 which I bought purely because I'd got hold of two sets of toner cartridges for one so bought a new printer missing the cartridges to use them in. 

[oman5]

Ford 6000CD head units in that odd shape meaning they only fit in Fords... OR DO THEY?

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For added shite points this particular coach has been rollered battleship grey over the weekend (and over the previous fleetnames) and has an extra shite 7-speed "comfort shift" manual 'box, complete with stubby Volvo 240 style gear lever attached to the cab seat.

..and in further spot the parts bin raiding, wheel and dash gauges from an fl10

[rml2345]

..and in further spot the parts bin raiding, wheel and dash gauges from an fl10

And the stalks from a Volvo 740.

[SambaS]

Found this in the woods today:

 

[SambaS]

[SambaS]

[SambaS]

Ate it all

 

 

Don't even like mushroom. Infact ask me last week i hate the things!

[KruJoe]

Ooh, see the pretty colours...

[cms206]

[fordperv]

SambaS watch that purple dragon that's coming up behind you

[Parky]

I'd be more concerned that its Fatalius Fungiaris, better known as the "convert your guts into liquid" mushroom

 

I might have just made that up........

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Great work Samba!!!! I love free food like that.

[HH-R]

Not sure if this is grin or grumpy, but a drove a Golf for the first time last week. And (he ducks now) I thought it was quite pleasant. I certainly see why these sell so readily.

 

It was a 1.6 TDC automatic DSG, so not exactly a barnstormer and struggled a bit to do much above 130 Km/h on the Austrian autobahns. But was massively better than the new-shape Focus with a similar engine that I had in Turkey a few months back. In fact, I can't see anyone who test drives a Focus and a Golf together ending up buying anything other than the Golf (and I like Focuses in the main).

 

I extracted it out of the immensely useless Europcar in Vienna after persuading them that a 1.2 FSi petrol was not "similar" to the 1.6 that I had booked. God only knows how awful that would have been to drive laden with three blokes.

 

The same Europcar office was busily trying to extract various amounts of euros from the woman in the next queue for a "scratch on the bumper". So when arriving at the car three levels down in a dark underground car park I made them drive it up into the daylight and then write down every single tiny ding and scrape on the form. Don't think they were best pleased

 

I have to admit that the only one I've driven, a diseasel Golf Plus Dune, was GR8 to drive. Seat needed to go back another couple of feet though, I had my knees round my ears. Other than that it was very agreeable... *hides*

[andy18s]

Ever wonder how a turbo works ?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152811315551874&set=vb.584716873&type=2&theater

[Tayne]

 Seat needed to go back another couple of feet though, I had my knees round my ears. Other than that it was very agreeable... *hides*

 

How tall are you?

 

Or are you average height and all leg?

[Pillock]

I'm assuming a dunce like me can't just go round eating mushrooms without a Scooby Doo what they are.

 

I'll stick to Tesco Scotch Eggs (or Ginsters Slices if they're a quid on offer).

[Bobthebeard]

I'm assuming a dunce like me can't just go round eating mushrooms without a Scooby Doo what they are.

I'll stick to Tesco Scotch Eggs (or Ginsters Slices if they're a quid on offer).

You could try eating some random 'mushrooms' found in a field. The resulting mind bending flight of piloting a 500 BHP Scotch Egg around a cheap Ginsters Slice whilst off your face on toadstools may possibly* be interesting.... Petrol station shot FTW.

[oman5]

Pop music history was made in 1967 when Jimmy Savile introduced "cream" to the "small faces".

[vulgalour]

How tall are you?

 

Or are you average height and all leg?

 

I find most people are quite tall until they sit down, I suspect this is something to do with their legs.

[HH-R]

How tall are you?

 

Or are you average height and all leg?

 

6 foot but I must be all leg. Makes getting the seat right easy, push it back as far as it goes! When driving my Panda my left knee is roughly where 4th gear is (dash mounted gearstick).

[DS20]

I did grass-cuttage today. The garden looks rather better and the neighbours hate me a little less

[Negative Creep]