What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Can't you buy the little beads that you lob inside a tyre and it "self balances" every time you drive?

I'd imagine the tyre places charge £15 as it takes just as long to fit a tyre you supply as to fit a tyre you've bought from them, but they need to cover their time and the fact you're taking up a tyre bay without them making any profit from the tyre. Seems understandable, but not ideal.

Is disposal of the old tyre in with that as well?

[Stanky]

Yeah, ten quid for fitting, new valve, balancing and disposal. Everywhere else seems to be £15 + £2 for disposal of the old one. This seems entirely reasonable as they'd struggle to do more than six an hour (at a guess) and they have rent, wages, machinery depreciation etc to cover in that too.

[Roverageous]

Smoking around in a car with 6 petrol fitted cylinders is really really nice.

 

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[Roverageous]

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[robinmasters]

 

Let tax run out, fill car with assorted rammel. Car taken away at DVLA's expense, including contents.

[DodgeRover]

  On 03/06/2017 at 21:42, Stanky said:

twosmoke, this may be SQA fodder but is it possible to balance a wheel without a machine? Or is it impossible?

 

I don't begrudge the tyre fitter bloke, he's happy to fit tyres he supplies, part-worns or tyres bought elsewhere and does a thorough job while offering interesting conversation at the same time.

 

One of his minions built his own 2-seater space frame buggy which is road legal and powered by a rear-mounted Alfa boxer engine and its often in there for me to drool over.

 

Yep, manual balancing machine, used to use one for odd bike wheels, not quite sure how it would work with inside and outside on a car rim but certainly possible and cheap.

TBH though using decent partworns I haven't had to have a tyre balanced for ages (touch wood)

[Coprolalia]

Since moving cities I've been idling browsing the property market. We're currently in a rented terrace with permitted on street parking but have now found one both I and the future wife like. It comes complete with double garage with power, which would bring my storage up to four garage spaces and two on road...

 

All the more reason for shite!

[DodgeRover]

House is finally de cluttered (friends warehouse is looking a tad crowded though) and ready for sale. My OH has booked a steady stream of estate agents to give valuations over the week.

 

Now to find a decent sized workshop with detached house to move into

[twosmoke300]

We just accepted an offer on our house today and will put one in on another tomorrow

[Bucketeer]

Soz, I know this won't mean a thing to most people but hopefully it'll amuse the select few who were there as much as it did me.

It's a bit from a conversation with my ladyfriend this evening. I think Chris has infected us.

And yes, it is a photo of my phone screen. Don't judge me. I'm not Bill Jobs or whoever.

 

[Ghosty]

Betty Boop isn't real...

[richardmorris]

Not sure why a skinny dead horse is cool?

[DodgeRover]

Hopefully it's not dead. They do enjoy laying down in the sun

[gordonbennet]

Dunno if anyone's watched it, if not you can find ''Guerrilla'' on couchtuner and possibly elsewhere, its a 6 parter (so far and feels like it's reached the end , at least for a first series) set in the 70's.

 

Well worth watching for the story alone (stars Idris Elba, among a good cast), but there's loads of proper 70's chod in there to leer over..

[Guest Hooli]

  On 05/06/2017 at 20:43, Bucketeer said:

 

And yes, it is a photo of my phone screen. Don't judge me. I'm not Bill Jobs or whoever.

 

 

 

You could be...

 

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT200289

[Lord Sterling]

  On 04/06/2017 at 21:21, robinmasters said:

 

Let tax run out, fill car with assorted rammel. Car taken away at DVLA's expense, including contents.

What was wrong with the Merc? Shame to see it like that, it looks pretty straight. Also, won't DiVLAds issue you with a bill for removal/storage/disposal of said car?

[cros]

  On 03/06/2017 at 21:53, twosmoke300 said:

You can buy bubble level type balancers but I don't know how good they are

I have one of these things. I've done about 5 wheels on it and none were right. Removing the weights that it said were needed didn't make the wheel shake any worse so I started using the magic dust and it works for me.

[michael1703]

  On 03/06/2017 at 07:00, hairnet said:

Jerez or Valencia are even more mad

My ears are still ringing, it was like a mixture of mad max and apocalypse now, fireworks like mortars, smoke flares, every engine on the rev limiter not just the ones they brought to destroy,security /polizia /carabineri didn't care how many laws were broken

[bramz7]

Cor, driving a ropey old turbo diesel with a plastic window and still outdriving loads of people is a right laugh!

 

Also, I'm really looking forward to Saturday. I have a car to collect and it's something I never thought I'd get a chance to own. And it's not French.

[C1am]

Not car related but made me smile:

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/freebies/bottom-of-a-tree/1245194741

 

[dollywobbler]

A YouTube comment on my Autoshite video.

 

 

 

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Talbot Horizons were manufactured also in Uusikaupunki Finland from 1979-1985. 17931 cars were made. We also had a version which runs with kerosene (or fuel-oil), it was converted from the larger engine. A few hundread of them were sold here in Finland, mainly people bought petrol versions. A diesel was also available. Finnish Horizons were a little different than the French or British ones; different seats, better protection against rust, larger boot and some other changes were made to the car over the years.

 

Brilliant.

[AlabamaShrimp]

So Mrs Shrimp found some boxes of old important* stuff (so important we'd forgotten about it all) and er wtf??

 

 

I won a button? Can't remember a thing about it

[M'coli]

  On 06/06/2017 at 20:59, dollywobbler said:

A YouTube comment on my Autoshite video.

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Stuff about Finnish Horizons

Brilliant.

They were amongst the first cars to have the XUD, weren't they?  I remember my IAM group's chaircouple ( ) had a Horizon dizzler who boasted that their short suburban drive was steep enough to bump start a diesel.

[cros]

I hate the current fad for square bogs, which make no sense if you lack a square arse. I'd be prepared to compromise with just a square lid like this one, seen at some stately council house.

[loserone]

Funnily enough I;ve been wondering about trying to get one a bit like that, it'd be ideal in our bathroom

[Ghosty]

Having finally managed to piss off my parents by my apathy towards a life I was shoved into, for the first time in my life I've got them off my back and I'm starting to learn things for myself, and be my own person. I've started to make decisions of my own - I don't know if I want to go back to uni or not, but I've got as long as I like to decide. CompSci just wasn't for me, fuck knows what is - if I ever work it out (now I have time) maybe I'll give a degree another stab. 

I've realised as well that I'm not as much of a city person as I thought and I'm probably going to bugger off somewhere a bit smaller at some point - I'd really like to live in Sheffield.

 

I'm glad I'm getting to finally work things out for myself - I had an odd upbringing (Mother Ghosty has OCD and there's a degree of hereditary(?) autism spectrum on the male side of her family so we don't get on), and the freedom is liberating.

[cros]

∆∆∆ Mr Ghosty, much the best thing to go your own way. I don't know what a Compsci is either but have got by without it (and a square toilet) so far.

The great philosopher Alberto y los Trios Paranoias once said 'Money won't buy you the keys to happiness but it most certainly will buy you the key to a new Rolls Royce.' What Autoshiter would want that?

[loserone]

I dropped out of a CS degree too - Leeds was a big city at 18 -, now I've some exp. and CISSP / ISO27K certifications etc. my cv doesn't mention school or uni at all. It's not a hinderence and I've paid off my student loan because it was only a year and a terms worth. Dropping out was the best thing I did, though it didn't feel like it all the time at the time.

[michael1703]

Funny yet tragic

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/06/diane-abbott-flounders-details-anti-terror-report-another-awkward/amp/

 

Another Diane abbot interview

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Am I the only person who seriously thinks Diane Abbot might have some sort of undiagnosed illness and we shouldn't be laughing ?