What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

Batmobile, obvs. Or an F1 car. Definitely not a shit Megane.

i was thinking its KITT off knightrider.....

[Timewaster]

i was thinking its SHIT off shiterider.....

Better?

[Brodders]

You'll no doubt have to fend off loads of helpful* advice about it being better to use an instructor's car but it's the driver who's being tested, not the car. If I spent my life sitting in the passenger seats of Corsas beside teenagers who had learned the test route by rote I would welcome a Triumph Toledo, or a 20 year old Polo with furry seat covers.

When I was getting ready to do my test, my instructor told me that he had noticed people who used their own cars were more likely to pass.

 

He reckoned it was because the examiners tended to assume that people who were in the instructors car were trying to get through the test by doing the minimum number of hours they could, in order to save money.

 

Whereas those who used their own cars were thought to have gone out and done as much practice as possible in order to get to a decent standard. Therefore any mistakes in your own car would have been looked on in a less critical way than those in an instructors car. Not to mention, if you use a car you are more used of, you are less likely to make as many mistakes.

 

When going to look at people leaving and coming back from test's, I noticed that he was right, so I decided to do my test in my Rover, and passed. The examiner even said that it was a nice, well cared for, low mileage example at the end, and we had a little chat about it whilst waiting for someone to park next to us.

 

I am not saying that if you use your own car that you can drive like an absolute cock, but I reckon you may have a bit more of a margin for error. Not to mention, anyone would be in a slightly lighter mood if they get to go around in something that they may have owned or passed their test in 40 years previously.

[Pillock]

It also serves you better in the short term - passing a driving test just proves a minimum standard, and one of the hardest things to then do is to jump into another car and learn clutch control, biting point, brake harshness etc all over again. Becomes easier when you're swapping cars three times a week like some of you guys, but to a teenager that's pretty tough.

 

Learning in your own car means you can concentrate on building up driving standards after the pass, rather than learning how mum's Audi A4 is different to your instructors Micra.

[twosmoke300]

Three times a week ?! I must drive about 10 cars a day on average !

I always reckoned that auction drivers must be pretty good drivers , at low speed anyway

[myglaren]

At the moment I am planning to use it but I will see how it settles down with use.

It does not really matter how you drive it as long as it is done in a safe manner so using the gears to slow is fine as long as you are also using the brakes at the same time so the brake lights are on. Have to be indicating to other road users that you are slowing down.

 

Of course it can achieve 62 and it is surprisingly not smokey.

 

 

 

Seat belts are currently static so I will have to double check on that one but it is a 3 point belt so it shouldn't actually matter but I will make sure.

Probably not an issue but do be sure the screen and mirrors are spotless.  Some examiners can be very nitpicky and have even walked away from cars that don't meet their standards.

[Timewaster]

There may be something in that. On the day off my bike test, there was 6 tests. 4 on riding school bikes failed.

 

Fortunately me and another guy had our own.

 

I think I got let off a fault on the turn on the road as the examiner noted that RG125s had a turning circle like a river barge.

 

On the CBT even the instructors couldn't get it round the figure of 8 cones.

[dollywobbler]

Excellent news! Next time I'm in South Wales I'll have to bring the scruffy Sov over for a comparison test.

Make that a threesome. I'll bring my borrowed six pot XJS.

[320touring]

Three times a week ?! I must drive about 10 cars a day on average !

I always reckoned that auction drivers must be pretty good drivers , at low speed anyway

I perfected low speed most things when workin at the auctions:)

[vulgalour]

On the subject of passing the test, I passed first time in the instructor's Fiesta and the first car I drove afterwards was a series 1 Lexus LS400, with all the family on board, to go shopping.  No pressure then.

[Cavcraft]

I perfected backing cars and vans into other cars and vans owned by traders I didn't like when I worked at the auctions.

[oldcars]

i was thinking its KITT off knightrider.....

More like sHITT than KITT

[Cavcraft]

An early dart from work and two weeks off.

[anonymous user]

I have just seen a chap riding a penny farthing in the middle of nowhere (Brynmenyn), unusual enough, but what I found amusing was that instead of wearing sensible clothes, like a nice tweed jacket, flat-cap, plus-fours and brogues, he was in full power-ranger lycra and a cycle helmet complete with helmet-cam.

[Jazoli]

I had to fix a door handle today........

 

In a bedroom containing the bride to be, and all the bridesmaids, getting ready to put their dresses on whilst not wearing very much at all.........

 

I'm still grinning now.....................................

[Sealtainn]

I passed my test in a Corsa B then the following day drove my parents in Dad's Granada 2.9i Ghia from Bristol to Birmingham. Dad said he'd keep an eye on me but was asleep before we got to Jct 16 of the M5 lol

 

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[Cavcraft]

On a local for sale page on social media someone is having a rant about a telly their partner bought being 'fake and the wires are completely ripped out of it'.

Using all his skill and judgement, he bought it from an Irish bloke in a supermarket car park and 'The guy carrying the TV with grey hair called himself Pat. But is answer phone hears himself calling himself Paul.'

 

Obvs that's the best possible way to buy a telly and I'm both DISCUSTID and OMGd for both of them.

[dave21478]

I keep thinking nobody should fall for that sort of shit but then I remember how dumb and/or greedy some people are and its no fucking wonder.

Last time I was in UK I stopped for pez at a motorway service station and two of the most irish sounding guys in a scruffy white Transit were cruising the carpark  "oi mate dyer wanna buy a telly?"

 

Really? 2 irish guys flogging flatscreens out the back of a Transit in a carpark off the M6? talk about stereotypes.

 

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[hairnet]

friend has come from northampton to watch the cricket at old trafford round the corner

 

the lol??

 

bermingham bears nor northants are playing its lancs vs yorks and yorks are getting hammered

 

watching it on sneaky pc sky

[andy18s]

 

 

[Richard]

I keep thinking nobody should fall for that sort of shit but then I remember how dumb and/or greedy some people are and its no fucking wonder.

Last time I was in UK I stopped for pez at a motorway service station and two of the most irish sounding guys in a scruffy white Transit were cruising the carpark  "oi mate dyer wanna buy a telly?"

 

Really? 2 irish guys flogging flatscreens out the back of a Transit in a carpark off the M6? talk about stereotypes.

 

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But it's so expensive to buy a telly from Argos or a supermarket.

[cobblers]

Yeah two chaps in a fucking transit tipper came up to me in the carpark of "Job Lots" trying to sell me a 4k HD  40" telly and a snap on impact gun for a couple of hundred quid for the pair.

The people buying the stuff think it's knocked off and they're getting a cheap hooky bargain, then get all upset when they're the people getting robbed rather than whoever lost the telly in the first place.

Like they say, you can't con an honest man. 

[scaryoldcortina]

I knew a guy once whose favorite scam was to collect boxes from expensive electrical goods (bin day in a posh district) and then sell people two bricks in a nice box by pretending they were stolen and only wanting £50 for a £400 video recorder. He wasn't even paying for the bricks, they came out of the back yard wall of his council flat!

[Cavcraft]

The post got removed in the end, it didn't end well (the piss taking wasn't appreciated) and seemingly because her fella wasn't from the area he thought he could trust people.

 

I wonder if he fancies a fully restored MG under a tarpaulin for £500?

[anonymous user]

I had to fix a door handle today........

 

In a bedroom containing the bride to be, and all the bridesmaids, getting ready to put their dresses on whilst not wearing very much at all.........

 

I'm still grinning now.....................................

You are Robin Askwith AICMFP

[Negative Creep]

 

 

6000th post! Time well spent.

[Negative Creep]

What? Still the same rank? WAIST OV TIME M8 SHUDN'T OF BOVVERED

[Cavcraft]

Testing

[155V6]

I got a call from Father_155 yesterday,the clutch had gone on his Fiat Seicento & could I come out & tow him home.Today,another call,his other Seicento is running rough,he thinks he needs to get something else.

 The grin?,I'm taking him to look at a Renault 25 later today 

[155V6]

I got £25 for the remains of my 2nd donor C70 today,I thought I was going to struggle to get rid of it or even have to pay someone to collect it