What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Unusual for Gumtree to feature in this thread, but I nabbed a nearly new 90AH battery off there earlier for a tenner. Stuck it on the Volvo to try it out - I haven't heard the old crate spin over that quickly in years! It doesn't actually fit any of the fleet (although it might fit in the Buick if the battery tray were a little less fragile) - it's going to be primarily used for jump starting duties - with the addition of a decent pair of jump leads it'll make a far better (and cheaper) alternative to a jump pack.

One of the highlights of shitefest 2017 was watching ruffgeezer jump his volvo with this exact method! Several times...

 

Of course I needed to borrow it to get the blue laguna going becase the battery was dead

[chodweaver]

I've seen some shit videos come up on fb but what the.....

 

https://www.facebook.com/2016507345095844/videos/389927058477542/

 

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I disagree. The production quality exceeds that of many, many 'instructional' vids I've sat through on YouTube... in this one, close ups are accurately framed and (eventually) in focus, tasks are actually performed in front of the camera, using the actual parts used in the subsequent demonstration, and it is painfully obvious HOW EFFING LONG it will take to change an illegal tyre into a just-as-illegal tyre, that looks like it was sculpted by a four-year old while possibly making it more dangerous.

 

By comparison, a well known supplier of spare parts for domestic appliances posts videos in which the spare part remains in its plastic bag, the appliance which requires the part is not shown at all and the verbal description of how said part should be fitted is vague to the point of being useless. And yet their videos run for over ten minutes, so I'm not actually sure which is worse...

 

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[New POD]

Watching East is East, it's set in Salford in 1971.

 

At one point the family central to the plot drivefrom Salford to Bradford.

 

The sequence for them driving from Salford to Bradford starts at Howden and Derwent reservoirs (up a dead end road only accessible from Snake Pass), then drive down the Snake towards Glossop (the wrong way), which is signed as Bradford - the Bradford scenes are shot somewhere else completely.

 

This aside, why would you even be at the Derwent reservoirs driving from Salford to Bradford? You'd go via Bury and Rochdale.

 

I'm grinning cause I know the locations used, and how wrong and daft it is.

Great film though if you put that particular detail aside.

[angle]

I ordered some random shit from the Mercedes Benz Club today - a keyring, a baseball cap and a window sticker.

 

The website reminded me that I could qualify for free postage if I paid TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS on club branded tat.

 

Cant help but grin at the sense of entitlement!

If there's not a selfie in your thread of you sitting in your Mercedes, wearing your Mercedes baseball cap and twirling your keys on their Mercedes keyring around your finger by this time next week, I'm going to be very disappointed.

[hairnet]

So the snow is no.more

 

Hour till plane

 

Thank fuck

 

Not the way I wanted to spend an unexpected day off

[beko1987]

"now boy, this is how you mini strip a car for scrap"

 

 

(I'm not keeping the sun visors, we were removing the phone mic!)

[PhilA]

Watching East is East, it's set in Salford in 1971.

 

At one point the family central to the plot drivefrom Salford to Bradford.

 

The sequence for them driving from Salford to Bradford starts at Howden and Derwent reservoirs (up a dead end road only accessible from Snake Pass), then drive down the Snake towards Glossop (the wrong way), which is signed as Bradford - the Bradford scenes are shot somewhere else completely.

This aside, why would you even be at the Derwent reservoirs driving from Salford to Bradford? You'd go via Bury and Rochdale.

I'm grinning cause I know the locations used, and how wrong and daft it is.

The movie "Deepwater Horizon" is like that also, at the start.

 

Driving down the new section of raised bridge towards the seaport that avoids the old Highway One surface road, and "arrives" at the helibase.

 

About 15 miles inland.

 

Everybody's laughing at the screen "dude, you drive to Fourchon, then end to at Air Log' in Golden Meadow, you got turned around!"

 

The house he was in doesn't look like any around here anyway, much further inland that style becomes prevalent.

 

 

This area has a particular look to it (traditional French) when it comes to small wooden houses.

 

 

Phil

[BorniteIdentity]

Completely forgot that in "Ali G indahouse" - there's an invacar right at the start!

 

 

Also forgot what a completely ridiculous and completely brilliant film it is.

 

Sneer all you like.  I love it.

[LightBulbFun]

you know you had a fun up bringing when that film gives you childhood nostalgia 

 

fun fact, the invacar in that scene is supposedly REV451R which shows up as SORN on the DVLA site so may well still be out there somewhere

 

I wonder if the film studio acquired it somehow for that scene (and the scene where he cuts him up back ) and then squirrelled it away somewhere...

 

(I do wonder how scenes involving invacars where done when the cars where government property)

[Cavcraft]

Unusual for Gumtree to feature in this thread, but I nabbed a nearly new 90AH battery off there earlier for a tenner.  Stuck it on the Volvo to try it out - I haven't heard the old crate spin over that quickly in years!  It doesn't actually fit any of the fleet (although it might fit in the Buick if the battery tray were a little less fragile) - it's going to be primarily used for jump starting duties - with the addition of a decent pair of jump leads it'll make a far better (and cheaper) alternative to a jump pack.

 

The G*lf I had collected Saturday had £100's worth of two week old battery fitted to it. Gone straight on the Transit and works a treat.

[purplebargeken]

^^ Golf?

[Stanky]

I sincerely hope the hidden letter was an O and not an I

[scaryoldcortina]

"now boy, this is how you mini strip a car for scrap"

 

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(I'm not keeping the sun visors, we were removing the phone mic!)

Sit down son, this is how you strip a car for scrap.

 

 

Just waiting for the windscreen bloke to come and cut the screen out.

[loserone]

Those air intakes not worth keeping?

Mine fell out when I washed it, but they're a different shape

[SiC]

You left the door striker plates on.

[scaryoldcortina]

Air intakes are stuck to the car and I broke one trying to pull it off.

 

Door striker plates? Oh no! I'd better nip back and remove them.

[eddyramrod]

I sincerely hope the hidden letter was an I and not an O

FTFY

[beko1987]

I said mini strip, not properly strip! Not keeping the windscreen? Anyway Charlie enjoyed it as I let him hit the old wheels I refitted with a lump hammer for a bit

 

In other news, I'm just back from saying thank you to my boss for taking the barrage of crap he will get tomorrow as I'm working from home as car-less by fitting an alternator to his car

 

 

After this weekends fucking about it was dream! All u bolted piece of piss, new one on, quick jump as the battery is dead, over to the pub for a quick one then 6 miles to a petrol station as it was empty,check it started again then back home. He lent me the £100 for the zx I needed too and got the drinks in so it seemed fair

[Cavcraft]

^^ Golf?

 

Don't worry, it was scrapped the same day.

[Pillock]

Took the boy out to a college open day this evening to try and work out what he's going to do after school which finishes this year. Motor Vehicle Engineering seems to get him going, certainly more than anything theoretical. He's been working towards a Level 1 Cert in it anyway, there's a Scania workshop not far away that school have a partnership with (although it's working on cars rather than trucks).

 

He's talked more about this than anything else - those who have met him at Cannock will know he's a quiet little soul, but genuinely seems to want to do this. Got a few more to try out, there's another college that does more heavy vehicle than light, but nicely the guys who run the course seemed really eager once they worked out he's already made a start.

 

So that's one at uni and potentially one in college or an apprenticeship at the same time! Our work here is done.

[bramz7]

I did motor vehicle technology at college. We had some interesting college cars, from rotten Rover 216 GTIs and MK2 Astra's to former oil company testbed Avensis which were still quite new.

 

Fast forward ten years and my former college tutor is a train driver at the same depot as me. Weird.

[Mally]

It can be strange how things develop.

Textile engineer to Aircraft engineer.

Cast iron to ally.

It's just material innit.

[Zelandeth]

Bus companies insurance will pursue a loss of use claim Whilst it is repaired and hopefully everyone on the bus will i

Have whiplash too.

Bus was out of service at the time, parked up and driver standing outside - so no whiplash issues - was a smaller operator whose vehicles live on duct tape and willpower at the best of times, so I suspect a couple of additional scuffs won't be worried about. Especially as the guy was uninsured, and chasing up damages will likely cost more than an old scruffy non DDA compliant decker is worth.

[Sir Snipes]

Took the boy out to a college open day this evening to try and work out what he's going to do after school which finishes this year. Motor Vehicle Engineering seems to get him going, certainly more than anything theoretical. He's been working towards a Level 1 Cert in it anyway, there's a Scania workshop not far away that school have a partnership with (although it's working on cars rather than trucks).

 

He's talked more about this than anything else - those who have met him at Cannock will know he's a quiet little soul, but genuinely seems to want to do this. Got a few more to try out, there's another college that does more heavy vehicle than light, but nicely the guys who run the course seemed really eager once they worked out he's already made a start.

 

So that's one at uni and potentially one in college or an apprenticeship at the same time! Our work here is done.

For me, going to college instead of taking any apprenticeship was the worst decision I ever made. The experience he would get in an actual garage, albeit doing completely ineffectual jobs to begin with, will be far more useful than tossing it off at a college for a few days a week.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

There’s a place near me that I wish had an extra ramp because it would be the perfect place to do an apprenticeship. Two blokes who’ve been fixing cars for 30 years that work for themselves and have a lot of long-term projects in their shop so aren’t rushed to work.

 

Real shame! Brilliant garage though.

[bub2006]

Took the motor to the car wash this morning. Cleans up lovely. Really nice to drive too.

[Jazoli]

Looks nice and tidy that Bub, try not to break it

[bub2006]

It's absolutely lovely

[dome]

Am jealous Bub, would've been tempted to a cross border raid to get that one if you didn't have it sewn up!

[bub2006]

I'm grateful to Ken for the help too!