What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[saucedoctor]

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[AldridgePrior]

[STUNO]

Todays weather forecast: rain, hail ,thunder and gale force winds. Just spent a couple of hours mowing the lawn with a sunhat on ! Washing all dry on the line and now enjoying a cold beer.

[cobblers]

My latest VAG acquisition (Ibiza Cupra 1.8t) never fails to make me grin. It's the first thing I've ever had with a turbo so until I got used to keeping it on boost properly it didn't feel a lot faster than my 106GTi. But now I'm a bit more used to it, jesus wept. The sound alone is costing me approx £20 per week in fuel. And this thing has got sound deadening and is somewhat comfortable other than having quite a shit ride due to 205/40/17 tyres and lowering springzzzzzz.

[andy18s]

The lad who sold the disco to the Mrs told us about a 21 yr lad who had just bought a Cupra R turbo thing that had been chipped to approx 350 brake.

He had px'd a 1ltr Corsa against it.........

Salesman was fully expecting to find it wrapped around a tree within a week

[cort16]

Have those Cupras got any kind of trick diff in them or will they just torque steer you off into an awaiting cows arse at full throttle?

[Rocket88]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mildred and Daisy await with interest.......

[cobblers]

Don't think so, but having almost exclusively driven fast FWD motors, I can't say "torque steer" is something I've ever really noticed. I just make sure I am holding on to the steering wheel while accelerating hard, it's nowt I really ever think about .

[cort16]

My mate had a T5 that would just about snap the wheel out your hand. It had a rica remap to about 280bhp and it was just too much for the front wheels to attempt to steer and drive the car forward under full throttle. Good fun though.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

 I just make sure I am holding on to the steering wheel while accelerating hard, it's nowt I really ever think about .

 

Sounds like a good tip this, i am gonna try it myself!

[trigger]

Two cars that I've driven which had bad torque steer were a Renault Clio 16v but that was more likely down to knackered bushes and worse of all was a Rover 420 GSi Turbo which was lethal.

[cobblers]

Sounds like a good tip this, i am gonna try it myself

I learned it on an advanced driving course with the IAM.

 

I had a 170bhp mk2 golf gti that had one of the front wishbone bushes completely fall out so you could move the wheel back and forth about 50mm, but I never noticed the torque steer until my mate pointed out I was subconsciously turning the wheel about 1/4 a turn to the right every time I put my foot down hard.  First time I drove it after fixing it I accelerated and swerved into oncoming traffic because of muscle memory.

[hairnet]

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but its itv - and their coverage is shite anyway

 

but then bbc have martin keown and robbie savage

 

utter tosh

[Spiny Norman]

Two cars that I've driven which had bad torque steer were a Renault Clio 16v but that was more likely down to knackered bushes and worse of all was a Rover 420 GSi Turbo which was lethal.

 

The 600 turbo was the same. Tramp the accelerator to the floor in 2nd or 3rd, hit the indicator and it would change lane for you, ready for the overtake. The USP of an otherwise shit car and you couldn't use it in anger. 

[vulgalour]

I have a bag of iced gingerbread biscuits next to me that I am trying* my best* to stop eating.  How terrible, I think I'm ruining my diet*.

[wuvvum]

Was it an end of line thing, or omg offar?

I'm pretty sure it's an offer.  They had similar around the same time last year.  It's the Tesco own-brand oil - the branded shiz is still as much of a rip-off as ever.

[Cavcraft]

Aren't modern cars great? Someone's just offered me a Volvo S40 2.4 petrol that magically seems to be doing a minimum of 63mpg.

[Pillock]

It would do. Because all Volvos are in Scotland and you're in England, which downhill from Scotland, so you can freewheel it.

[hairnet]

filled out a holiday form at work for 22nd november

 

despite making jfk noises i still wrote 15th on it

 

keep getting a gig that weekend mixed up with the next weekend im trying to book

 

im such a

[cobblers]

Our lass reckons she can easily do 100 miles to a tenner round the houses in her autospazmomatic fiat 500 which drives almost everwhere in a gear chosen by a "VELLEMAN SOLDER YOUR OWN ELECTRONIC  DICE"  kit from maplin. It's only a 5 speed so if it rolls a 6 it just leaves in in 2nd and waits 20 seconds before rolling again.

 

She only puts about 12 quid in every time because she doesn't like wasting money on petrol. She's dead smart generally but putting petrol in cars just seems to bamboozle her completely.

 

It works out ok though cos the other day we did Chesterfield to Bradford and back in her car to buy my dog and I decided to take her car cos it was better on juice I didn't want dog piss/sick/shit in my car, and she only let me put a tenner in to cover 120 miles. 

[AldridgePrior]

This is why some men love wrestling.

 

[vulgalour]

yes, yes it is...

 

 

 

Cobblers:  Do we get to see Eddie?  Autoshite loves dogs.

[New POD]

 

 

This makes me grin.....points if you can guess the European City

[Craig the Princess]

https://twitter.com/bruceatwedding

 

[cobblers]

yes, yes it is...

 

 

 

Cobblers:  Do we get to see Eddie?  Autoshite loves dogs.

Heres the little shit having a go at the rabbits:

 

 

And here he is looking like "someone on facebook with a halfway decent camera's lovely dog" however immediately after this he wandered off and shat in some shoes.

 

 

We have Bolsovers only fat midget whippet in comparison.

 

 

Sorry about all the dog pics all you non dog people. At about 5am when this twat is pulling hair off the back of my head I'm with you 100%.

[hairnet]

i was gonna say ghent or brussels but *cheat* waregem

[New POD]

Close.  I give you gay beer in a gay beer glass.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4vLFwWosCM

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp50aAVNc-U

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgCQM05qszs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVtzM8za53Q

[oman5]

Do you remember Trumpton? I must have missed this episode

[AldridgePrior]

Dogs are great. I miss mine.  Funnily enough I was on Dogs trust website the last night. Maybe give one a home.

 

 

[forddeliveryboy]