What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Fumbler]

Spotted this today, proudly carrying the prestige badge of Mercedes Benz

 

I wonder if they'd mind it being parked outside a dealership.20180905_142005.jpg

Oh it's from the time when they decided thin water based paint was the future.

[Wack]

Water based isn't the future for anything apart from drinks , if it doesn't knock you over when you take the lid off it'll be shit

[Fumbler]

You've reminded me of gloss painting my bedroom skirting boards and door frames. That was offgassing for days.

[DodgeRover]

Jaaag failed MOT on a tyre and the horn! Result (although I do feel a pillock not spotting an illegal tyre). The garage I took to repaired the horn last year but it's always been a bit intermittent. Also a number of advisories from last year have mysteriously disappeared despite receiving no attention which is never a bad thing (amazing a minor leak of exhaust gases has cured itself in 11,000 miles and one year of motoring but there it is) - another year of bangernomics.

So the big question is did you get a dangerous fail and have to have it trailered to the tyre place.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Jaaag failed MOT on a tyre and the horn! Result (although I do feel a pillock not spotting an illegal tyre).  The garage I took to repaired the horn last year but it's always been a bit intermittent.  ….

 

I wonder if it's the wiring between the horn and any relay? Only mention this because the CX sometimes the same flaw - but if you tweak the connecting wires or the relay, it all works properly again.

[andy18s]

Saw this Dodge Turbo OMNI GLH (Chrysler Horizon) featured here... >> @12minutes

 

https://youtu.be/S1VYExCmnfM

 

.... I'm sure there is a Chrysler licker about here has linked another road test Utoob featuring one of these.

 

I stuck a link up to a Shelby version being tested against something....can't remember what though

[Skizzer]

Train conductor/‘train manager’ just now:

 

“When leaving the train, please remember to take all your bags, personal belongings and children of which you are fond with you. Failure to do so may result in the bags, belongings or children being taken away and destroyed.

 

“The next station is East Croydon, the spiritual home, cultural capital and regular testing ground of Kevlar.”

[Tamworthbay]

Water based isn't the future for anything apart from drinks , if it doesn't knock you over when you take the lid off it'll be shit

I was given an experimental water based paint when we were doing the electric endurance racing. That stuff would stick to bloody anything and still have stuff that was painted in it years ago and it’s brilliant. But I bet it’s a, bloody expensive and b, laced with enough toxins to kill Taiwan.

[bramz7]

Train conductor/‘train manager’ just now:

 

“When leaving the train, please remember to take all your bags, personal belongings and children of which you are fond with you. Failure to do so may result in the bags, belongings or children being taken away and destroyed.

 

“The next station is East Croydon, the spiritual home, cultural capital and regular testing ground of Kevlar.”

 

Fair, not a bad effort! I'm still too green to even attempt that....

[Kiltox]

Train conductor/‘train manager’ just now:

 

“When leaving the train, please remember to take all your bags, personal belongings and children of which you are fond with you. Failure to do so may result in the bags, belongings or children being taken away and destroyed.

 

“The next station is East Croydon, the spiritual home, cultural capital and regular testing ground of Kevlar.”

Well you need to make working for Southern more enjoyable somehow

[Skizzer]

Well you need to make working for Southern more enjoyable somehow

Not to mention being a passenger! Though to be fair my trip to Reigate and back went fine today.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Merciless satire:

 

[DodgeRover]

I do like Private Eye

[The_Equalizer]

“The next station is East Croydon, the spiritual home, cultural capital and regular testing ground of Kevlar.”

And to think there was a time when East Croydon was considered prosaic enough to be in the intro of Terry and June.

[Wack]

I do like Private Eye

Haven't bought it in years but the cover a few weeks ago made me laugh

[AMC Rebel]

So the big question is did you get a dangerous fail and have to have it trailered to the tyre place.

 

The garage are doing the MOT - but they don't do MOTs (if you see what I mean) so someone drove it back there.  They are fitting the tyre today.  It was driven away from the test centre with a dangerous fault fail though, yes, but not by me.

[AMC Rebel]

And to think there was a time when East Croydon was considered prosaic enough to be in the intro of Terry and June.

 

I worked there (and "lived" there weekdays) for nearly two years - it's not as bad as people make out.  I watched Bridget Jones' Baby last night and spotted a bit of Croydon in one of the locations.

[bramz7]

As ever, got a very car focussed weekend off coming up. Viewing one, and two incoming. Should also have two going too.

 

First delivery today. Hopefully it isn't a wreck, but it did only cost £100.

[Wack]

Saw a pile of model display cases in warrington lidl this morning reduced to £30 if anyone is looking for something to display their models in a vaguely wife friendly manner, may be available where you are

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

And to think there was a time when East Croydon was considered prosaic enough to be in the intro of Terry and June.

 

 

I worked there (and "lived" there weekdays) for nearly two years - it's not as bad as people make out. ...

 

 

Apart from the Home Office tower blocks along Wellesley Road.

[AMC Rebel]

Apart from the Home Office tower blocks along Wellesley Road.

 Fair point - but balanced by the Alms houses and the fabulous Turkish restaurant I used to eat at.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 Fair point - but balanced by the Alms houses and the fabulous Turkish restaurant I used to eat at.

 

The Alms houses and the old town hall were probably the only original bits of (East) Croydon left once the post-war architects had left their mark. Oh, and maybe the Allders building as well, built in similar style to Selfridges.

[bramz7]

The 164 has gone!!!!!

[320touring]

The 164 has gone!!!!!

*Checks for pigs in flight*

[meggersdog]

Karma is good.

 

A couple of weeks ago some bloke comes in for us to mot his car.Apparently he's in the trade, looks across at the lad working outside the garage nextdoor turns and says "what's it like working next to monkeys ?" I smiled politely and carried on with his mot.After he'd gone my glamorous assistant asks if I knew him.Nope never seen him before."How rude" was her reply.

Today he brings another car in and leaves it with us.Before he goes he tells me the brake pad warning light is on.Well that's a fail "it was on last year and passed" under the new rules it's now a fail."oh well my customer will have to have a new canbus system then" and off he goes.

On the ramp it's evident the car has had rear discs and 'pads not too long ago (probably for last years mot).Whoever had fitted them fitted a cheap set of pads with no wear indicators and the original wiring is tied up out of the way.So that's wiring to a braking component damaged DANGEROUS FAIL. Hmm, what was that about monkeys ?

[Wack]

That new John Lewis bohemian rhapsody advert put a smile on my face

[Pillock]

The 164 has gone!!!!!

Bloody hell they do rust quickly don't they?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

That new John Lewis bohemian rhapsody advert put a smile on my face

It'll have put a smile on the faces of the surviving members of Queen, because royalties....

[DodgeRover]

https://onsizzle.com/i/charlton-police-department-there-have-been-coyote-sightings-near-some-21126498

[purplebargeken]

MGF...... two new studs fitted, exhaust fitted, new rear brake pads because why not.

 

All done and dusted