What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[EyesWeldedShut]

Why 25? 🤷‍♂️

[andy18s]

1 hour ago, TataBobu said:

Yours look a bit hotter. Where that pic was taken, the forecast for tomorrow reads a maximum of 7 degrees, and -1 the following night ... I've just seen it, the last hiccup of winter. I hope I'll have some fruits from the ones in bloom, and it won't kill all my newly planted trees 

It's an app I use called WTF 

It's fairly accurate up to 5 days in advance,and updates constantly. 

[Rustybullethole]

7 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Love it. I had the same bike back in the late 80s/early 90s and then another rusty one which I never ended up fixing up a few years back. 

Have you owned it for long? How does it ride? 

Had this one for about ten years though haven't done as much as i should with it! Ive fitted a 105 groupset though it retains its suicide shifters, original front mech and most notably brakes. It goes well, stops less so though a little better with non original pads. 

Needs some bar tape and now a wash due to some off road this morning whilst following my google route I thought was all path!

Great bike though does make me smile 

[TataBobu]

2 hours ago, andy18s said:

It's an app I use called WTF 

Your app says 7 and 1 for tomorrow, mine says 7 and -1. Hope yours is more accurate, will switch to it if so. Thank you!

BTW, my pic is from a village just outside Giurgiu.

[goosey]

On 17/03/2024 at 09:40, Talbot said:

Blimey that is a long glowplug.  How wide is the head??

The heads are pretty wide as it’s  quad cam etc and the glow plugs go through at a funny angle if that makes sense, I used a set of vice grips with the slide hammer attached to pull the glow plugs out after I unscrewed them was proper stressing about snapping one 😳just another quirk of the OM642 

i used some inject crack spray but found this didn’t really work any better then wd40 

[andy18s]

3 hours ago, TataBobu said:

Your app says 7 and 1 for tomorrow, mine says 7 and -1. Hope yours is more accurate, will switch to it if so. Thank you!

BTW, my pic is from a village just outside Giurgiu.

Our village is located just over the crest of a big hill.

In the past we have been snowed in a for a days,whilst the nearest village just has rain because of its 200-300m lower elevation.

And more importantly the Storks are returning to their nests..

[RoverFolkUs]

23 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

This could equally go in the grumpy thread.

Slight damage to car ( wife obviously has no idea how it happened ), so need a paint spray and therefore need colour name or code.

Torch batteries dead, so too dark to find tiny plate hidden somewhere on the car , so I try to Google it, via registration number.

First up a paint supplier. Fill in reg, up comes “we’ve got you colour”, without adding “but we’re not telling you so you have to buy from us” FRO!

Then I spot WBAC, saying they will tell me the colour if I tell them the reg. So I’m  thinking , that’s useful , thank you WBAC.

Fill in the box , press enter.

”Your car is red”. WTF , I know it’s red ffs, it’s sat outside my door , a big red thing, can’t miss it. I’m colour blind and can see it red! I want to know if it’s Volcano red, chilli red, or Brothel light red.

It’s red! Useless bastards!

 

If it helps, I recently ordered from these people on ebay: 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154878546018

I sent them the reg number (and VIN just in case) and they sent out what I thought was a pretty incredible colour match for a cheap ebay job, £18.99 for both proper sized aerosol cans of base coat and lacquer. 

Only reason I used them was because my local supplier has gone tits up, used to be nice and simple, call the branch, order the paint, pick up in 24-48 hours, but then they introduced some sort of national call centre to take orders. Said call handlers didn't seem to understand much about paint so I lost faith... 

^ I certainly can't tell where the colour blend was - if I hadn't done such a shite rush job with the filler (I wasn't looking for perfection) then it would have been a nice repair. The lacquer they supplied applied nicely with an acceptable finish, and I did it in a fairly cool workshop in December... After a gentle buff I was over the moon with the end result for a cheap ebay rattlecan

[High Jetter]

Brighton Paints are recommended, as an alternative

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

If it helps, I recently ordered from these people on ebay: 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154878546018

I sent them the reg number (and VIN just in case) and they sent out what I thought was a pretty incredible colour match for a cheap ebay job, £18.99 for both proper sized aerosol cans of base coat and lacquer. 

Only reason I used them was because my local supplier has gone tits up, used to be nice and simple, call the branch, order the paint, pick up in 24-48 hours, but then they introduced some sort of national call centre to take orders. Said call handlers didn't seem to understand much about paint so I lost faith... 

^ I certainly can't tell where the colour blend was - if I hadn't done such a shite rush job with the filler (I wasn't looking for perfection) then it would have been a nice repair. The lacquer they supplied applied nicely with an acceptable finish, and I did it in a fairly cool workshop in December... After a gentle buff I was over the moon with the end result for a cheap ebay rattlecan

I did find the code but that is actually  who I ordered from.

[gm]

a prius being booted round Knockhill by the stig

 

 

[Alan_Green]

Bombing along a desolate M25 at midnight last night and suddenly there's 20 MPH limits everywhere.  What the hell?  Why do we have to do only 20 MPH?.....Oh, ok.  Fair enough...

[Wack]

3 hours ago, Alan_Green said:

Bombing along a desolate M25 at midnight last night and suddenly there's 20 MPH limits everywhere.  What the hell?  Why do we have to do only 20 MPH?.....Oh, ok.  Fair enough...

I was on the M1 about 10 years ago 1am, 40mph for miles, nothing going on then back to 70mph 

Crested a hill, on the other side of it flashing lights and workmen in lane one with traffic going past them at 80mph , they couldn't even get that right 

[Blunderguts]

[Metal Guru]

11 hours ago, Alan_Green said:

Bombing along a desolate M25 at midnight last night and suddenly there's 20 MPH limits everywhere.  What the hell?  Why do we have to do only 20 MPH?.....Oh, ok.  Fair enough...

That reminds me of the old joke (apologies in advance).

Old giffer is driving home on the motorway when his wife rings him. She tells him to be careful because there’s a car going the wrong way down the motorway he’s on.

”One car?!” he replies, “there’s f@cking hundreds of them!”

[hairnet]

🤣 banbury to hampshire was another 50

The hotel for two nights is less than that

[beko1987]

17 hours ago, Alan_Green said:

Bombing along a desolate M25 at midnight last night and suddenly there's 20 MPH limits everywhere.  What the hell?  Why do we have to do only 20 MPH?.....Oh, ok.  Fair enough...

If my colleague had not stopped to chat to me before leaving work he'd have been driving up the m40 right where that caravan went south down the north carriageway a few years ago. He was right at the front of where they closed the road luckily*, that 15 minutes delay probably did him good! 

I was stuck for 3 hours in it 2 hours later when I finished at 6... Should have checked Google maps

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49005858.amp

 

[loserone]

Yes, think it was something similar here.

[Blunderguts]

[Remspoor]

This bit of news https://archive.ph/0SVtB

Indian brothers fined for turning car into a helicopter  obviously reminiscent of the  old Peugeot advert.

[Wack]

I'd think this has definitely cost them sales, a friend bought a Mercedes because he thought the 40 on the boot meant 4.0 litres 

[vulgalour]

Ended up in accidental convoy with a bright pink New Beetle today with the plate H4 PNK.  Sadly no picture, we ended up going different ways, one to look out for in the future.  I guess pink cars are more popular in the North.

[mat_the_cat]

 

[Bren]

Oddly I found this enjoyable. Keep an eye out for the XJ6.

[Matty]

On 18/03/2024 at 07:07, Rustybullethole said:

Both motos still broken and no insurance on the Berlingo as of last night due to it sneaking up on me and online quotes being double what it was last year. 

Why the grin? Well it gives me the chance to use this;

Engines a bit smoky but its made the ferry quicker than the Berlingo due to respectful swift progress and lack of number plate.

Quick rest now then on to Waltham Forest. How my body holds up to 30 miles and a days graft remains to be seen. Wish me luck.

 

Legend @Rustybullethole limbers up for 30 mile push bike ride to work with rollup. My man 💪 

[DavieW]

Is that Ducati's new 2 wheel car 🤪

 

[Sheefag]

So I'm just walking down a street in Poland and...

Little minter too. It was there when I went out this morning and still there tonight.

Nice to see that they're finally starting to preserve cars like this,

 

[808 Estate]

[MikeR]

Looked at my son's horse riding pictures and noticed something ...... It is a mouse ?? 

[808 Estate]

Croisantasaurus.

Lived during the Pastryzoic era

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[Metal Guru]

9 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Croisantasaurus.

Lived during the Pastryzoic era

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Was Trex an ingredient?