What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[retrogeezer]

Our Picasso now has a years MOT without needing a thing doing - result.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Saw a reliant regal estate today that wasn't trotterfied but in red, blue and white stripes all nice and flakey

[Cavcraft]

Thanks to Dave's sterling work with this forum, some silly little child calling himself 'barnanaboat' has made a handful of laughable attempts to spam the place and none of them worked.

[purplebargeken]

Forgot to say. Spotted on the M25 a couple of days ago..... a large convoy of Golfs (early stuff mostly). All from Holland and apart from two with a couple of pineapple chunks were lightly modded and very clean indeed. Made me grin.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This should be a grump,but it's amazing how shallow and infantile I am when it comes to cars.

 

Yesterday M25 near Woking; I pull gently to a halt in traffic, decide my coffee that's sitting in the cup holder should have cooled enough to risk a sip..... BANG!!!! Suddenly both me and the dashboard are covered in just under scalding temperature Macdonalds finest black coffee.

After what seemed like an age to come to my senses I got out and went round the back ,to see a silver 53 plate A Class Merc pissing steam,oil and antifreeze all over the tailgate of my Chrysler.

It seems driving from Warsaw to Slough with the only rest being on the ferry,makes you a bit drowsy.

Now for the grin , I got it recovered on RAC back home spoke to insurance co, seems everything in order with Wioletta's insurance. Courtesy car coming tomorrow,as only getting registered today( Shit Insignia though). So take car to mates body shop hoping he'll get the job( and maybe tickle some stone chips in the price). Anyway when I get there,he's got a mint ,black 2.8 injection Granada sitting on the ramp,A plate 5 speed manual ,Recaros etc. I knew he was a Granada fetishist and banger racer,but this really is the Holy Grail of Mk2's, reckons he paid £5k for it and spent another 2 tidying it up, it must be the best one extant today.

I really couldn't stop grinning at it, even after he told me the back of my car is bent down with creases in the roof and boot floor.

[Parky]

Forgot to say. Spotted on the M25 a couple of days ago..... a large convoy of Golfs (early stuff mostly). All from Holland and apart from two with a couple of pineapple chunks were lightly modded and very clean indeed. Made me grin.

I saw those on Friday, all had E.38 written on them in blue tape. Also a few Beetles and Dubber vans were in evidence, again Dutch or Belgian. Wonder where they were headed and what the E.38 meant?

[cort16]

I've just been out in my mates new 850 t5 estate. It's a manual one with a rica remap and flippin Nora it's rapid. I can't see how it's possible to get anything quicker for 700 notes.

[andy18s]

Thanks to Dave's sterling work with this forum, some silly little child calling himself 'barnanaboat' has made a handful of laughable attempts to spam the place and none of them worked.

Maybe if it was "Pinearppleboat" he would of got in..........

[Pillock]

E38 = Edition 38.

 

It's a show, club, forum for VWs. Been going a few years now, typically favouring clean and shiny cars rather than rusty shit.

[Cavcraft]

Maybe if it was "Pinearppleboat" he would of got in..........

 

He'll be sat in his Lincoln flat right now I bet, wondering why his posts never made it onto the big screen.

[vulgalour]

 

Getting there with this one, since this ^ picture was taken we've got the car to the point that some pretty big chunks can be added.  Later this week should see the installation of the very nicely finished engine to compliment Mikeknight's work on the brakes and after that it's fairly plain sailing and panel alignment, much of the super fiddly jobs are now completed.  It'll also be getting some prettier wheels.

 

This has to be the easiest heater box install I've ever done too, though that could have a lot to do with the lack of roof and interior making access not too bad.

[gordonbennet]

I saw those on Friday, all had E.38 written on them in blue tape. Also a few Beetles and Dubber vans were in evidence, again Dutch or Belgian. Wonder where they were headed and what the E.38 meant?

 

A sheaf of them came hurtling past me on Sunday, M1 Northbound then A45 between Northampton and Welly, possibly an event at the Pod.

 

One Audi TT had the most ridiculous negative camber, probably 30', on the rear wheels i've ever seen, nearly running on the tyre sidewall, couldn't see any daylight underneath, he'd scrape a cats eye.

[Pillock]

It was VW Action at the pod, they tend to invite racers and show cars over from Europe.

[JohnDeere]

Not sure if this is grin or grumpy, but a drove a Golf for the first time last week. And (he ducks now) I thought it was quite pleasant. I certainly see why these sell so readily.

 

It was a 1.6 TDC automatic DSG, so not exactly a barnstormer and struggled a bit to do much above 130 Km/h on the Austrian autobahns. But was massively better than the new-shape Focus with a similar engine that I had in Turkey a few months back. In fact, I can't see anyone who test drives a Focus and a Golf together ending up buying anything other than the Golf (and I like Focuses in the main).

 

I extracted it out of the immensely useless Europcar in Vienna after persuading them that a 1.2 FSi petrol was not "similar" to the 1.6 that I had booked. God only knows how awful that would have been to drive laden with three blokes.

 

The same Europcar office was busily trying to extract various amounts of euros from the woman in the next queue for a "scratch on the bumper". So when arriving at the car three levels down in a dark underground car park I made them drive it up into the daylight and then write down every single tiny ding and scrape on the form. Don't think they were best pleased

[cms206]

Ford 6000CD head units in that odd shape meaning they only fit in Fords... OR DO THEY?

 

 

For added shite points this particular coach has been rollered battleship grey over the weekend (and over the previous fleetnames) and has an extra shite 7-speed "comfort shift" manual 'box, complete with stubby Volvo 240 style gear lever attached to the cab seat.

[beko1987]

Bought a HP 4050 laser printer off evilbay, spares or repairs for 11 quid delivered. Listing implied it was out of the shite cupboard, but spares just in case it doesn't work.

 

Hmmm, no toner cart, top door falls off and a lot of small plastic parts fall out as well as a substantial looking roller. It's a dud then. For giggles I plugged it in, added a used toner and it prints! Amazeballs!!! 770,000 pages on the clock.

 

If there was such a thing as old printer banger racing I'd want a HP. Must be nearly indestructible.

I pulled an old LaserJet 5000 out of a skip when I started college in 2003, printed all my coursework on it for 3 years and freecycle it with toner left when I was done. They are the cockroach of the printer world.

 

I'm forever fettling with our year old HP printer in the office, with a mere 230k on it! Orl new printerz r shit (although we did 7000 pages on the critically low warning, I changed it on Friday as the drum was shitting toner everywhere, prob still had more to give but people would have moaned...)

[beko1987]

Actually I lie, it was one of these bad boys looking at the picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4

[Ghosty]

Isn't the Ford 6000 just the shape of two DIN slots on top of each other? In theory that'll also fit in some Polos!

 

It's not as bad as that semicircular Punto one (I see loads of them at car boot sales), or the one in the mid-2000s Fiesta (mk5? 6? not sure):

 

 

You see how the radio looks like it's 3 separate modules?

 

Nope, that's one big non-standard unit you can only replace like-for-like. And you have to take the whole big heater control panel off to change it.

 

Bonus points for the smiley face in the dash though.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Actually I lie, it was one of these bad boys looking at the picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_4

Got one very similar to this in the garage. It's giant and slow but was free and still works. I'm loathed to bin it for no reason.

[r.welfare]

Me too. Great printers.

[TimothyClaypole]

I'm posh and have a Laserjet CP2025 which I bought purely because I'd got hold of two sets of toner cartridges for one so bought a new printer missing the cartridges to use them in. 

[oman5]

Ford 6000CD head units in that odd shape meaning they only fit in Fords... OR DO THEY?

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For added shite points this particular coach has been rollered battleship grey over the weekend (and over the previous fleetnames) and has an extra shite 7-speed "comfort shift" manual 'box, complete with stubby Volvo 240 style gear lever attached to the cab seat.

..and in further spot the parts bin raiding, wheel and dash gauges from an fl10

[rml2345]

..and in further spot the parts bin raiding, wheel and dash gauges from an fl10

And the stalks from a Volvo 740.

[SambaS]

Found this in the woods today:

 

[SambaS]

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[SambaS]

Ate it all

 

 

Don't even like mushroom. Infact ask me last week i hate the things!

[KruJoe]

Ooh, see the pretty colours...

[cms206]

[fordperv]

SambaS watch that purple dragon that's coming up behind you