What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

The Go Compare ads with the house whisperer... and his pump-action standard lamp!  I so want one of those!

[dugong]

This month's Car and Classic has a luxobarge feature with a pair of previous AS calendar French fancies - Boobydoo's white Tagora and the ex-Pete-M Peugeot 604.

Yeah, it did amuse me, that. I remember persuading Pete to drive it over a kerb outside St John's Gardens in Liverpool so I could take some pictures of it.

 

 

 

 

I realise the white balance is weird; put that down to my friend's knackered D70 that I borrowed.

[bub2006]

The middle picture looks like a shark nose 5 series back end to me.

[hairnet]

lysette anthony three up two down spec <3

[Ghosty]

OMG NOT PROTON:

 

[hairnet]

glossop heading for tint

[Lord Sterling]

Today I soent most of the day doing fk all, sometimes I just like a day like that, to unwind and be ultra-lazy. Whilst on this lazy rumble, I spotted an old and rather controversial name on an old thread located in the 'Similar Topics' bit at the bottom.

 

I spent the last couple of hours ROFLLING at EccentricRichards old posts, he really did rile a few up on here. Anyone remember him? The (then) 19 year-old chap who spoke about the engines set ups and ride handling of all cars yet had never driven a car himself as he hadn't passed his test. Shit me it was funny! I think the one of the best responses from was from Louise.

 

Prior to that, I decided to don my "hood thug" fatigues and head down to the local 'car pub' otherwise known as petrol station to fill up the car for next week. I spotted an equally mid-90s C124 Mercedes E220 Coupe to which I got speaking to the owner.

[Ghosty]

Compensation payout from the court!

[rml2345]

Pete's old 604 really was bloody lovely.

[beko1987]

My 2 bottom ball joints turned up just now, is it right that there's no screw/bolt hole in the top? Do they just push in? They dont move about very freely by hand either (should they), and the packaging inside and out was soaked... coudl this turn into a grump?

 

 

My stickers also turned up! I peeled the faint remnants of the original one off the rear screen when I bought it, and this cropped up on ebay for £cheapness

 

genuine frogland too!

[Station]

They will move fine once they are in - what are they for? some cars use pinch bolts on ball joints (they 'slide' in the hole, and a bolt tightens the thing it goes in).

[beko1987]

The zx. I thought there should be a bolt in the top, seen pics of other cars with that, but reading the hbol, there is no mention of one. I'll check in a bit, will Park at full lock and have a nosey.

[oman5]

They SHOULD'NT move freely by hand. If they do they are knackered.

[beko1987]

Ah good, they seem alright then!

[steve_earwig]

I generally park the toyoyo out the front here, behind the firehouse. Two years ago the firehouse roof was retiled. Lunchtime today I heard a "rumble...clang!", looked out the front here:

 

Oh!

 

Ah!

 

You missed me!

[fordperv]

Iirc the zx is a pinch bolt hub

[vulgalour]

Lucky escape with the Toyota.  When I lived in Sheffield some poor sod had a roof tile go through their rear side window and land on the back seat.

[catsinthewelder]

We had a worse one at the college,  an 18" section of cast iron guttering fell off on a windy day and landed on the photocopier engineers front windscreen while he was sat in it.  Luckily it didn't go through and apart from the screen and possibly his trousers there wasn't any damage to him or his brand new car.

 

He wasn't best pleased.

[dome]

This could be in either the grump thread or in here.

Still getting faffed about trying to flog the 944. One guy came a few weeks ago and was keen, he wanted his tame mechanic to check it over so that was arranged for Saturday there. So I took it along to a wee garage in Edinburgh (not an MOT station) and left it with them. Came back an hour later and was given a list of things it needed-pitted brake discs, rust on the jacking point(which he discovered after jacking it up on a 2 poster), sticky pistons, bald tyres and various other things that it would fail on.

 

Stuck it in for an MOT with my tame(ish) garage-and it passed! Advisories for two tyres (which I knew were getting low but not yet illegal) and fuel pipes getting rusty(which the first mob missed) I wouldn't say they were an easy garage either-they went right through the Skoda and gave it something like 15 advisories and 4 or 5 fails the first time.

 

I suspect the first garage were looking to make some cash out of the boy looking to buy my car-he admitted to not being mechanically savvy. He was waiting to hear back from the garage and is supposed to be phoning me-this could be an interesting conversation when I tell him it has an MOT now...

 

And if he doesn't phone me I can update my ad with the new MOT it has

[KruJoe]

I hereby report another quick and pain-free sale of a family_K_J motor to a like-minded Autoshiter.

This time Anne's wretched Disco automatic.

Many thanks to the gent in question, I'm sure he'll be on sometime to let you all know what he's let himself in for.

[oldcars]

Light snow overnight + Reliant Rialto + empty streets near my house =         

[xtriple]

Just used a cheque to pay for stuff in a shop for the first time in bloody years! The novelty made me grin.

[steve_earwig]

The last time I can remember using a check was in 2004 when I marched into my mortgage co. (B&, slapped my cheque book on the counter and asked how much I owed them

 

You can get cheques in Croatia but you have to buy them one at a time from the bank.

[beko1987]

I've never had a cheque book, if I need to pay anything in a cheque I transfer the money to my stepdad and he writes me a cheque!

 

I paid for fuel the other day at the out-in-the-sticks but handy to get to fuel station last week, tried to pay by card and their machine kept declining it (and other customers). Had to sign a bit of paper, that felt odd! The cashier even let me sign the back of the card which I hadn't done yet despite having it for a year...

 

All my ECP stuff came today too, now I need to find some time to spend some quality time with the car apart from driving and smoking in it!

[cms206]

People earwigging on other folk's conversations.

 

Bumped into a former colleague in the roll shop this morning who enquired if I was "back working for Dick". The lassie in the queue behind us looked like she was about to choke at the thought of a man working purely for penis, but was blissfully unaware that my boss is in fact called Dick.

 

Thankfully said ex-colleague didn't enquire where I had been working previously as until October I had been working for Boaby.

[DVee8]

The last time I can remember using a check was in 2004 when I marched into my mortgage co. (B& , slapped my cheque book on the counter and asked how much I owed them

I didn't Know B&Q did mortgage's.

[steve_earwig]

Gah! I guess I should have checked (chequed) after posting I'm used to 8 & ) doing that but not B. Bloody emoticon shortcuts.

[cort16]

People earwigging on other folk's conversations.

 

Bumped into a former colleague in the roll shop this morning who enquired if I was "back working for Dick". The lassie in the queue behind us looked like she was about to choke at the thought of a man working purely for penis, but was blissfully unaware that my boss is in fact called Dick.

 

Thankfully said ex-colleague didn't enquire where I had been working previously as until October I had been working for Boaby.

 

It reminds me of this clip of these northern ghost botherers.

 

[fordperv]

I am currently watching drugs live on channel 4, it's not meant to be funny but mrs fp and i are finding it funny especially a stoned Jon snow getting out of an mri scanner

[Cavcraft]

I think I've just sourced a full leather interior for the Vectra for £60!