What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Autosmart G101. Accept no substitute.

I've read that a few times now, and I have half a 5l bottle of it still! Need some new spray bottles though, thinking of breaking the big xantia clean down a bit, just decontamination and de greasing will take a whole day, let alone everything else!

[myglaren]

battered mars bars are ace

I have some here.

 

 

I'll belt them with a ball-peen hammer for a bit and report back.

[Tickman]

Coming out from the shops and finding Sonic had a friend

 

 

 

[Kiltox]

I've read that a few times now, and I have half a 5l bottle of it still! Need some new spray bottles though, thinking of breaking the big xantia clean down a bit, just decontamination and de greasing will take a whole day, let alone everything else!

Pretty sure I have some unused spray bottles in my unit, PM me your address and a couple of them might find their way to you if I do

[oldcars]

Saw a barn owl sitting in a grass verge and the side of the road last night, it was great to see.

[chaseracer]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/donald-trump-immigrant-policy-social-media-contacts/index.html

 

 

"Sir, please explain AUTOSHITE?"

 

"...0_o..."

 

"Sir, step this way please."

 

 

[DodgeRover]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/29/politics/donald-trump-immigrant-policy-social-media-contacts/index.html

 

 

"Sir, please explain AUTOSHITE?"

 

"...0_o..."

 

"Sir, step this way please."

 

 

That's nothing new Thailand was talking about all visitors having to have their phones and mobile devices logged and a government sim in their phones "for their own safety" at all times last year.

 

I don't remember the same flow of liberal bullshit spewing out on social media as their suddenly is now.

 

If we actually stopped people coming into this country who admit they hate the British, the Western system and declare they want to bring it all down it just might be a little safer place to live. That applies equally to people of all religions and colours.

[Pillock]

I'm sat in a Multistorey carpark in Birmingham, it's a 70s next to the new IKEA collection place. Anyway, the spaces are are too small so people either have to go up to the roof to get their Pistonheads-mobiles in, or park straddling two spaces (which seems not to be penalised by NCP)

 

Except the WINNER who has just zoomed in in his Metro GTI and flung it into a space that I've watched several Audi owners look at, and drive past.

[Pillock]

Political comments on Autoshite? This will end well*

[DodgeRover]

Political comments on Autoshite? This will end well*

Arse, sorry really belongs in the grumpy thread following a Facebook full of news*, pictures of the end of the world scanned from Terminator etc.

 

Can someone with the power please shift/ edit/ call down the wrath of an ancient SEAT headed god? Thanks

[Sigmund Fraud]

I was in the slow lane of the M3 this morning, minding my own business, until I was overtaken by a white, Project Drive spec, Rover 75 TAXI !

 

I don't know who the owner is, but he definitely belongs on here !

[LC Torana]

^ I still have to get my head around the idea that the Rover 75 is not a new car.

[vonmon]

What is a Project Drive spec (sorry, bit thick)?

[fordperv]

Project drive is when they became mg rover, they started cost cutting and deleting spec and quality iirc

[vonmon]

Ah right, ta mate.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Project drive is when they became mg rover, they started cost cutting and deleting spec and quality iirc

 

^WHS.

 

If you're sad enough to want to know more, check this.

[Des]

EFA

Project drive is when they became mg rover, they continued cost cutting and deleting spec and quality that started in the Sixties.

[anonymous user]

While sorting the stuff in my sister's loft (it's the house I grew up in) I found a small selection of old car magazines so that is my next few evenings reading sorted

[greengartside]

It's mine and SWMBO's first wedding anniversary today - managed to even get a mention on Ken Bruce's love song this morning!

[strangeangel]

^^^ I had that Scalextric car - Vanwall IIRC?

[JeeExEll]

While sorting the stuff in my sister's loft (it's the house I grew up in) I found a small selection of old car magazines so that is my next few evenings reading sorted

IMG_20170130_175927234_HDR.jpg

Lucky you!

Scan or photo some material for us please. I grew up reading late 70s / early 80s SM, CC, CCC, HC, and later on in the early 90s bought Your Classics. My own huge period car mag collection is long gone. My parents burnt it a few years after I moved out not realising how important or interesting the mags could be 25 years later. Hundreds of car mags. Must have taken ages to burn. Included every copy of Street Machine from issue 1 around May 1979 till late 84 when the style of custom cars was changing to a look I wasn't so keen on.

[Lacquer Peel]

^WHS.

 

If you're sad enough to want to know more, check this.

 

It's not unique to MG-Rover, all of the big car makers do this.

[JeeExEll]

It's mine and SWMBO's first wedding anniversary today - managed to even get a mention on Ken Bruce's love song this morning!

Cool.

What song did he play?

[bub2006]

My technical wizard friend just rang. He has some sort of dyno equipment and wants to test my van. This could be interesting

[DodgeRover]

My technical wizard friend just rang. He has some sort of dyno equipment and wants to test my van. This could be interesting

As in the - it peaked at 68bhp before rattle knock stop sort of interesting???

[holbeck]

My technical wizard friend just rang. He has some sort of dyno equipment and wants to test my van. This could be interesting

 

Just don't let him kill it revving the nuts off it on the rollers.

[MikeKnight]

https://www.facebook.com/CarAdvice/videos/10154936823731505/

 

Worth a click. Trust me.

[The Moog]

https://www.facebook.com/CarAdvice/videos/10154936823731505/

 

Worth a click. Trust me.

Wtf!

[bub2006]

Oh he won't kill it. No rollers but something to do with the obd port, weight and tyre size and it pulls info from ecu. I never heard anything like it if I'm honest

[andy18s]

Be honest Bub,you're just after an excuse to swap engines,aren't you?........