What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Stanky]

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne/news/driver-accuses-halfords-over-paint-27621/

 

includes obligitory "angry pointing pose".

 

"Shit rattle can respray job carried out by amateur in November goes wrong" shocker. Who'd have thought...

[cort16]

This on facebook. Look at the weird angle the door comes up at I wonder why it does this here and not on the saloons?

 

[vulgalour]

Random call today from the chap at KwikFit who MoT'd our recently completed Alfa Spider.  He's now moved to a different garage and said he'd be delighted to MoT any of our other vehicles.   What's more, he specifically requested that we take the Princess to him when its ready for the MoT because he'd actually like to see it and do the MoT on it.  I think that's the first time someone has requested to work on the wedge because the prospect is an enjoyable one.

[320touring]

Random call today from the chap at KwikFit who MoT'd our recently completed Alfa Spider. He's now moved to a different garage and said he'd be delighted to MoT any of our other vehicles. What's more, he specifically requested that we take the Princess to him when its ready for the MoT because he'd actually like to see it and do the MoT on it. I think that's the first time someone has requested to work on the wedge because the prospect is an enjoyable one.

Swweeeet

[inconsistant]

"Shit rattle can respray job carried out by amateur in November goes wrong" shocker. Who'd have thought...

'Idiot does stupid thing'

 

Lots of 'news' seems to be this at the moment. Even better if there's a gawpvid of it.

[cort16]

How many tins did they buy!

[Pillock]

"Shit rattle can respray job carried out by amateur in November goes wrong" shocker. Who'd have thought...

 

I was going to sign up to point out that an unprimered, rattle can respray that butts up to panel joins instead of being blended in was a waste of time anyway, but the rest of the internet got there first and saved me a job.

 

I think they thought it was a magical spraycan that was 100% identical to the paint Peugeot used ten years ago or something. 

[STUNO]

Not mine so I can see the funny side.... happened yesterday.

Lets buy a 50 foot boat, we can get it into the yard and work on it at home. That will give us something to do at the weekends. All we need is a really big crane to lift it in.

It seems so far that the boat was about 7-8 tons heavier than was calculated, the operator tried to get it back on the truck but wind got hold of it. yesterday was VERY windy.

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/63644974/Crane-topples-onto-Auckland-house

[chaseracer]

Reginald Nutsack, Esq. came over this evening to collect some ex-205 tyres for the PONY OF WIN.  What a top chap.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Normally I expect to get a car renewal call from my insurer in November but this year they have been oddly quiet.

 

I have checked on the MID database and I'm still insured, which means that I suspect that when I changed the Volvo to the Skoda and they charged me £150, they also reset the insurance to run 12 months from March, in which case it's a big win for me as I am getting 16 months insurance for the price of 12.

[Danblez]

^^^

Careful, far more likely they have been lazy removing it from the database!

[spike60]

Be careful, if the insurance company makes a mistake it's not usually in your favour.

[DS20]

Nothing says 'giffer' like the sound of a Peugeot 206 negotiating a supermarket car park at 5mph and 5000rpm, with much clutch slippage

[Vin]

GET THE WHEELS IN LINE!!!......

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

This on facebook. Look at the weird angle the door comes up at I wonder why it does this here and not on the saloons?

 

 

If the internet is to be believed...

 

 

The side doors are a completely different shape from those of the Saloon. They are much shorter with the bottom curving upwards towards the rearmost edge. This was to avoid the doors making contact with high pavement kerbs when the van was fully loaded.

 

http://www.anglia-models.co.uk/van.htm

[Lord Sterling]

^^^ And probably to visually differentiate from Saloon doors for suppliers so you didn't get the wrong part supplied.

[cort16]

That sounds like something someone's made up as they cocked up the design on the doors

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Erm, Oh it's to stop the doors hitting on the kerb or something .

[beko1987]

I thought it meant a thicker sill for heavier loads looking at the picture...

 

Off back to that London today to use our free first class return tickets. Going from didcot not maidenhead though so we get more time in first class!

 

Anyone want any chod moving from zone 1 to Oxfordshire?

[fordperv]

asda advertising cock up, it appears they are getting ebay mongs to write their adverts

 

front and rear disc breaks. ffs

 

[Bren]

Changed oil on wife's fiesta.

 

Why does the smell of engine oil take me back to my youth?

[Bren]

Spent the morning welding up fil fp's focus and sorting the emissions for its m.o.t, the weather held off until I was driving to the test station

Pics or it did'nt happen.

[fordperv]

unfortunately i didnt take any  needless to say 2 lambdas and an iItalian tune up got the emissions side sorted, here it is in the pic behind the beautiful* fiesta when i went to get some underseal  after id finished

 

[Bren]

Looks like the fiesta needs some love.

 

In nice condition they are a good little car.

[meggersdog]

At 3pm today I went down the field to have a tinker with my series 11a Land Rover.It's last outing was Maxey show in August so an under bonnet level check was first.No birds nests under here,yay.Inside the cab lots of cobwebs and tough looking spiders.I brushed them aside with ease then ignition on I pressed the glow-plug button and counted 15.Turned the key and it only bloody started!.

I left it ticking over whilst checking lights and clearing the windows of moss.Put it into gear and away we go.Seemed to be a strange buzzing noise as I'm driving up the field.I left the door open as I locked the gate behind me and the biggest wasp/hornet (about the size of my little finger) buzzed about the windows then fooked off out the door.No more strange noises on the drive home.Off for a proper trundle round tomorrow now.

[spike60]

Twat shouldn't be riding on the pavement anyway, wonder if we can get them over here? Moped taken out by exploding pavement toilet in Amsterdam.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30254888

[fordperv]

Twat shouldn't be riding on the pavement anyway, wonder if we can get them over here? Moped taken out by exploding pavement toilet in Amsterdam.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30254888

 

 

it is fully legal and accepted that restricted mopeds are ridden on cycle paths etc no helmets required over in holland

[Bren]

Twat shouldn't be riding on the pavement anyway, wonder if we can get them over here? Moped taken out by exploding pavement toilet in Amsterdam.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30254888

Have they found the poor bastard who was mid- turd?

[Bren]

unfortunately i didnt take any  needless to say 2 lambdas and an iItalian tune up got the emissions side sorted, here it is in the pic behind the beautiful* fiesta when i went to get some underseal  after id finished

 

Out of curiosity, what wheels are those?

[Parky]

Changed oil on wife's fiesta.

Why does the smell of engine oil take me back to my youth?

With me it's hydraulic oil and swarfega. Reminds me of my dads factory, Ever Ready Plastics where I spent my summers helping him run machines producing telephone buttons, Rawlplugs, and plastic washers for a bath making group.

 

Still have about 2 million brown Rawlplugs somewhere.....

[M'coli]

I found out today that a Peugeot 106's heated rear window relay switches itself off after a certain amount of time.  Let me explain...

This example has no cigarette lighter socket, so no real way to charge my phone.  No problem, you say, charge it up before you leave - but I was off to Brum from Yorkshire straight after a nightshift with no access to power sockets.  However, I do have one of those clip-on devices like this:

and so I was wondering how to charge my phone with but 15% battery whilst on the move.  At this point, I remembered the wire and switch that I'd abandoned in the car after using it to code-read the fault codes on the ECU, but both ends were female spades, and only one end wasn't insulated - so I thought, what connection that I won't really need can I use this on?  Thus the heated rear window gave up its live feed for the cause, the feed into one spade of the switch, the insulated end on the output of the switch, and the uninsulated end taped to the positive end of the socket, and the negative earthed throught the passenger seat frame - sorted!