What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dave21478]

^^^The guy has mad skilz.

 

Sucks to be the person unknowingly buying his cut n shuts, but eh....I doubt they care too much about stuff like that over there?

[DVee8]

Is it a cut and shut or a good repair?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Now that is friggin brilliant. Thats my late-night viewing sorted for a good while

[cort16]

The Subaru roof transplant 2 parter is particularly impressive .

[xtriple]

Not so much 'what made ME grin' as what made a nice couple grin madly...

 

Went and got the car (fuck me it started without help!) and delivered it to the bodyshop, Rich ran me and the mutts back to the garage to get the Kia and then he went off to do his thing while I took the dogs for a walk. Walk went well and got back to the car, Phoebe straight in as always, while Chester fucked off, as always! I was calling him (I normally put him back on his lead just to get him in the car but I was talking to a lady and he took advantage!) and he kept looking at me, then wandering another few feet away. There was a middle aged couple just getting out of their car and were watching in awe and wonder at the superb powers of control I have over his royal fatness... I called, he wanders. He wandered up to them, they stroked him, I hobbled closer, he legged it! I stopped and talked to them and just let him get on with it. Finally, I hid round the side of their car and the lady called him... he only sodding went straight to her.

 

The look on his face though when I appeared from the side of the car and grabbed him was priceless! That is a dog that deserves a kicking on a daily (twice, three times?) basis yet he never gets one. Its a good job he's cute...

 

Yeah, I know, 'cool story bro' and all that but it put a smile on the ladies face from ear to ear. She thought he was lovely... I thought she was but married...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is it a cut and shut or a good repair?

That is an excellent repair and by the looks on it just as good as new. If he bothered to clean and primer the strengthening bit then you know he's done a good job.

 

A very long time ago my dad used to be able to do very similar but it's skills like this, being able to do everything yourself, that seem to be dying out.

[Pillock]

I'd deffo say that's a proper, good repair. Panel gaps etc.... To me a cut 'n' shut is a car that has been chopped with no regard to structural safety. He's gone along the spot welds where it matters.

 

Looks to be a better job than most insurance approved places do here....

[dave21478]

ok, cut n shut is the wrong word to use - lets say large structural repairs, instead. It would still suck to find you had unknowingly bought such a car. 

Im not doubting his skills in any way.

[AMC Rebel]

ok, cut n shut is the wrong word to use - lets say large structural repairs, instead. It would still suck to find you had unknowingly bought such a car. 

Im not doubting his skills in any way.

 

On the whole, I guess I'd prefer to know, but I'd have no worries driving that.  On the other hand, I followed an 08 reg 3 series yesterday where the rear was crabbing like an old Mini - who knows what had been done to that, but the rear wheels had terrible looking camber - and not in a "stance" way - car looked standard and was being driven slowly by a giffer.

[wuvvum]

The Colin thread on the open forum.

[michael1703]

If like me it seems you may enjoy hours of watching videos of some Russian guy repairing heavily damaged cars then have a look at his youtube channel.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjnBWt549rQ

 

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQ4XNSBA9jK4Iw_G_P0qWQ

There's a blue vw toerag that he has straightened, I went to view one in Felixstowe the other week in the same colour with a mate who was very suspicious of the Eastern European vendor, we left not buying it.

 

He slept on it and bought it last week, so I've sent him a link to the video with "apparently,he sold it in Felixstowe " in the message.

 

My phone will be ringing anytime soon!

[michael1703]

Fuck me, 30 seconds later my phone rings...

[Negative Creep]

[meggersdog]

When I was 23 I had a 2006 Citroen C4 HDi, a Volvo Amazon and a Isuzu Piazza Turbo with the worst located axle I have ever encountered.

you are watanabe and I claim my five pounds.

 

 

 

Yesterday I failed a car on it's MOT. The grin is the owner's reaction.

"I would think that a premium brand such as SAAB could not have a broken coil spring"

 

This on a 12 year old 9-5 diesel estate with 175k on the clock.

Made me smile anyway.

[MrDuke]

Extremely enjoyable cruise back from Manc in Mrs_Duke's new EK Civic hatch - advertised as an auto, but it's only a freakin CVT!!! Bit thirsty, but $hite-tastic waftiness.

 

Also happily bemused at the spec - heated mirrors & air-con but no dash dimmer or front fogs... Does have a dreadful Pioneer tape player though, which will probably end up for sale on here soon.

[xtriple]

My car looks fookin' ACE! Rich did a cracking job, template, measuring stick, picture of another car so equipped by his side. Got the call to go look about 5:00 and he was busy flooding everywhere with Waxoyl and, the car looks in brilliant condition behind the wheel arch covers and stuff, which is nice and a bloody relief to boot!

 

Also, one of the guys in there was cleaning up an Audi hatch back thing (sorry, no idea on Audi model numbers), quite a good looker, sporty, black and pretty much mint after he'd buffed and polished it. Interior spot on. Going to be up for sale soon with 12 months MOT for about £600, on a 'Y' reg. Is that good or salty?

[Ghosty]

Extremely enjoyable cruise back from Manc in Mrs_Duke's new EK Civic hatch - advertised as an auto, but it's only a freakin CVT!!! Bit thirsty, but $hite-tastic waftiness.

 

Also happily bemused at the spec - heated mirrors & air-con but no dash dimmer or front fogs... Does have a dreadful Pioneer tape player though, which will probably end up for sale on here soon.

 

1.6 ES then - you cold only get that spec 3 door hatch with a CVT for some reason, despite a normal auto being available on the 1.4 and some 1.5s.

The 3 door never got front fogs or dash dimmer, but the heated mirrors and a/c are pretty common options that appear mid-spec.

 

They're fantastic cars and I've never been in a car that's been more comfortable, relaxed and just a nice place to be (very airy cabin) than Old Man's old 1.4i SE auto. Bonus with ours is the rear seat was unused, so when I went places with my dad I took the passenger headrest out, put the seat forward, sat in the back stretched out, and just relaxed. The miles just floated away.

 

 

I genuinely miss it, it's on SORN now. I bet it's been taken off the road for the rear arches rotting out at the sill ends, it was starting to go there when we got rid. Either it was that or cambelt roulette - there was a job that would have been about £500 in labour coming up, that Old Man couldn't be arsed doing himself, so that and the rot meant he just PX'd it for a 5 door Civic instead.

It wasn't half the car and we got rid of it after 5 months.

[OwdChina]

Yay.............truck just passed California smog test without much of a protest. 

[dave21478]

My car looks fookin' ACE! Rich did a cracking job, template, measuring stick, picture of another car so equipped by his side. Got the call to go look about 5:00 and he was busy flooding everywhere with Waxoyl and, the car looks in brilliant condition behind the wheel arch covers and stuff, which is nice and a bloody relief to boot!....

 

[MiniMort]

Daniel Craig? Morris Minor Splitty? We all know James Bond is a Wolseley 1500 man

[cort16]

Aye cmon xtriple lets see some pictures of these fabled side vents.

[MrDuke]

 

1.6 ES then - you cold only get that spec 3 door hatch with a CVT for some reason, despite a normal auto being available on the 1.4 and some 1.5s.

The 3 door never got front fogs or dash dimmer, but the heated mirrors and a/c are pretty common options that appear mid-spec.

 

They're fantastic cars and I've never been in a car that's been more comfortable, relaxed and just a nice place to be (very airy cabin) than Old Man's old 1.4i SE auto. Bonus with ours is the rear seat was unused, so when I went places with my dad I took the passenger headrest out, put the seat forward, sat in the back stretched out, and just relaxed. The miles just floated away.

 

 

I genuinely miss it, it's on SORN now. I bet it's been taken off the road for the rear arches rotting out at the sill ends, it was starting to go there when we got rid. Either it was that or cambelt roulette - there was a job that would have been about £500 in labour coming up, that Old Man couldn't be arsed doing himself, so that and the rot meant he just PX'd it for a 5 door Civic instead.

It wasn't half the car and we got rid of it after 5 months.

Tis indeed a 1.6ES, complete with Econo dash light. I once had a 1.6 EK coupe with the same engine in manual flavour, and it felt seriously underpowered - I reckon it works really well as an auto though.

 

It is incredibly plush and smooth for a small car, especially after the crashy suspension and hard seats in the Fez. Doesn't wallow unduly in the corners though - I'd quite like to try a bigger engined one for giggles (if I could find a non-monged one)

[xtriple]

Aye cmon xtriple lets see some pictures of these fabled side vents.

 

I was just in the process of uploading said photographic evidence when Vicky from up the road appeared with a strange and unknown mutt. I have spent the last two or three hours fucking about, having this poor mutt throwing up on the carpet, phoning the council  where the chap was very nice but accepted that the council are fucking useless and could I hang on to the dog for a bit... Vicky drinking my coffee and hanging on to said mutt while Chester (who to be fair was brilliant with a strange dog in his house, especially when it was the spitting image of his arch enemy  Manson) tried to knob the poor thing. Again in the spirit of full disclosure: the other dog did start it - horny little bastard!

 

Finally we took the dogs out to try and spot someone looking for a mutt and, fuck me, we found the owner! Dogs name is: 'Rocko' and he lives next door but one to Vicky!

[philibusmo]

At 23 (ie in 2015) I had a 2003 Ford Fairlane BA 4.0 Ghia. There has been quite an unusual spread of vehicles so far.

[xtriple]

Right, pikturs...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doesn't seem a lot of product for the VAST sum they cost, but what the hell, I wanted them....

[Richard]

I've lost the place a bit- was that the guy who was originally booked to do them or the other guy who you thought would do a better job?

[catsinthewelder]

When I turned 23 I was living in a Student house with 3 girls and Ms C and had a Vauxhall Calibra and 3 motorbikes.

[alcyonecorporation]

Are those the expensive vents?

 

They look allot like the £16.99 ones from Halfords...

Don't sit on that fence, man.....tell us what you really think.

[MrDuke]

When I was 23 I had a mk3 Cavalier 1.6L. Living the dream.

[xtriple]

The second guy who I thought would do a better job. I really cannot complain, spot on Yes, these are the mega expensive £16.99 Halfords jobs just in a posh box from Crewe and called 'Mulliner wing vents'  and were a bitch to fit apparently. They look bigger in real life and are proper quality aluminium things (!) but no way worth the money that some daft c*nt paid!

 

Oh well. I like them which is what matters?