What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[320touring]

Do these have the sporty seats? Can the non-sporty seats from other models be fitted instead? It's to do with being hip-, leg-, and ankle-injured.

Yeah, non sporty ones can be fitted.

 

Just need to watch for 2 things

 

1. Ph1 (MK2 clios built 1997-early2001, square headlamped) front seats have different wiring connectors to Ph2 (MK2 clios built late 2001 - on, triangular headlamp). Yo need to swap like with like.

 

2. All Clio 1*2 variants (ph1 172/ ph2 172/ ph2 182) were 3dr, so you'll need tippy up front seats from another 3dr Clio.

[Roobarb]

I went to a retro game store today.

Talk about a walk down memory lane!

They had a Mortal Kombat machine running for free and Atari cartridges for under $5!

Managed to get a part for my PSP and I think Santa picked up a few old PSP games for me at $8 each

Got to love independent games stores!

[hairnet]

fuggin merikans

 

watching shed a buried (cole is a twat) (its on travel now)

 

theyre in cornwall sam is driving about in some kinda yank pick up - he was in his beetleback yank coupe in the last prog

 

painted black on the outisde but sky blue on the inside

[DodgeRover]

Part of the wild wood brought into the house and decorated.

Pentacle wreath hung on the door, yep the Christian* Christmas decorations are all in place..

[Sheefag]

They had a Mortal Kombat machine running for free and Atari cartridges for under $5!

 

 

All the cool kids played 'Immoral Wombat' - 7m.10s onwards

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7RijdE-ipU

[Aston Martin]

I dreamt I was the getaway driver to bank robbers, now we kept getting caught. I believe mainly because my getaway car was a Metro.

[Lord Sterling]

Just been idling searching up K11 Micras, when I found my car photographed for the AS Flicker page

 

Nissan Micra K11 by Boo, on Flickr

Yo Harmon, I reckon I've got some floor mats for these earlier K11s. It's a proper rubber set of 4 that fits the earlier K11 without the left-hand footrest on the drivers-side. If you're interested I can put them aside for ya. Also, we need some more photos of your car man, you got a thread up for it yet?

[hairnet]

Cannock one day

 

Auckland the next

[DVee8]

This has just been posted on a facebook group..

 

Can someone give me some technical advice please?

I need tyres and I am considering snow chains in case I ever get stranded. At this time of year I could do without the cost. I am wondering if running old tyres with the steel showing through (sure I can get them to that state with a jerry can of 97 octane juice and lots of smokey wheel spins) would be the equivalent of new tyres and snow chains with a massive savings on the wallet.

Any advice greatly appreciated or if someone has done this money saving tip (not found on any money saving websites) before let me know how you found it.

[Guest Hooli]

If you hammer nails into the tyre too they'll act like studs.

[Sheefag]

Fill your tyres with petrol and set them on fire, they'll melt their way through the snow.

[beko1987]

[richardmorris]

That makes me grump rather than grin. I am Fully planning on cycling into work at 6am tomorrow on my studded winter tyres.

Merc is hilarious in the snow as long as there’s nothing else to hit. 2cv is brilliant, but the best was the CX DTR - huge lump of an engine over The driven wheels with no traction control to muck things up.

[DodgeRover]

This made me grin, while we are faffing about in mm of snow in Canada things like this are happening:)

[twosmoke300]

Got a small bottle of port as a prize for finishing an enduro last month and it's been staring at me on the top of the fridge since .

Went shopping today and slipped a wkd blue in the trolley . That's right I'm a 38 year old married man that's looking forward to a cheeky vimto in a minute . I bet it's been at least 15 years since I've had one

[dollywobbler]

This made me grin, while we are faffing about in mm of snow in Canada things like this are happening:)image.jpg

 

When it gets too cold for trucks, only a 2CV will do...

 

That was posted by a friend of mine, who, since April, has driven his 2CV to the arctic circle. In Canada. Via China. He actually reported that it was 6 degrees yesterday in northern Canada - warmer than Wales!

[hairnet]

Forgot to post this

[Datsuncog]

This shouldn't have made me laugh as much as it did, but I had to grin at the fully loaded OLLI warrior who'd braved the snows to battle up a big hill in their Hilux... only to have the front end collapse in a car park full of dog walkers in Fiestas and Binis, who'd also managed it but with less drama. And TAZ.

 

 

 

[The Moog]

Driving back from Scotland yesterday, the WELCOME TO ENGLAND sign has a got a spaffing cock on it. It is ace! Sadly no pictures 

[320touring]

Driving back from Scotland yesterday, the WELCOME TO ENGLAND sign has a got a spaffing cock on it. It is ace! Sadly no pictures

Now thats not nice! Unless it had the prerequisite 3 pubes per baw

[fordperv]

Omg snow kaos and I'm at work, my car is the only one on the carpark

 

 

The entrance was a sheet of ice but the mighty sapphire made it up

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

The cockwomble who thinks that he is immune to the weather, can drive full pelt anywhere he likes and fuck all other road users that deign to be on the road at the same time.............. should've been a grump from his atrocious driving..... BUT

After dodging inside to the 'parking' lane (seperated route for the car spaces on the right side of the road, leaving the main centre clear) twice, the first time he got a whole 2 cars further forward in the next traffic light queue. He decides he'll try it again on the way down the hill.....

 

Grin (and he got a toot as we passed) and my son laughing at this 50+yr old wannabe boy racer was him almost stacking it, then having to reverse all the way back up said snow hill stuck in the parking lane to the lights again - as someone had had a FTP and abandoned there van/truck/car (there were a few in line).

 

childish but made me laugh as we trundled on by and he struggled to reverse back up the lane........... it really is the small things.......

[Tamworthbay]

I helped out a mate at an open mic night last night and ended up playing about an hour, my father in law came along to watch. He is ex bomb disposal but is a very quiet gentle bloke who is very very shy. After my first 20 minute stint I came back to sit down to find him talking to this old lady, I assumed he knew her and as it was my round I bought her a drink as well. Anyway to cut a long story short it appears he had ‘pulled’ the local drunk. She was with him all night and was hassling me for his phone number by the end. I think he was quite taken aback and embarrassed by it but I found it very funny. When we headed towards my car he kept checking over his shoulder to make sure she wasn’t waiting outside for him.

[kinkersaab]

my boss just gave me a box of old book...in amonst them was this gem..

 

 

[Tamworthbay]

On a snow day thanks to the muppet that designed a site which sees thirty plus buses a day through but is built in a dip with the access road in a steep drop with a two ninety degree turns on the way down and another ninety degree turn just before the steep hill out. It also channels all the traffic down and round a slope that is only used by our site so is generally pretty lethal in bad weather. Stupid thing is that the pedestrian access is a very gentle slope wide enough for a bus which joins directly onto the link road. How that ever made sense to the people who built it is beyond me. I am at the hospital this afternoon but have had a productive morning getting a load of stuff done for work that would have meant me staying late another day otherwise.

[DVee8]

[Tamworthbay]

I love the plant pot exhaust!

[DodgeRover]

On a snow day thanks to the muppet that designed a site which sees thirty plus buses a day through but is built in a dip with the access road in a steep drop with a two ninety degree turns on the way down and another ninety degree turn just before the steep hill out. It also channels all the traffic down and round a slope that is only used by our site so is generally pretty lethal in bad weather. Stupid thing is that the pedestrian access is a very gentle slope wide enough for a bus which joins directly onto the link road. How that ever made sense to the people who built it is beyond me. I am at the hospital this afternoon but have had a productive morning getting a load of stuff done for work that would have meant me staying late another day otherwise.

Send the buses up the pedestrian access Shirley? Obviously got confused with all the snow covering the markings....

[Tamworthbay]

Send the buses up the pedestrian access Shirley? Obviously got confused with all the snow covering the markings....

Sadly there are railings at the end, precisely to prevent vehicular access through there. It’s reopening tomorrow but I can envisage carnage so will make sure I park my car out of the way of the buses flightpaths.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Just bought a pack of these

Forgot all about them, haven't eaten one since school days