What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[D Spares & Tyres]

Right with you, Vulgalour. Where are these mythical travellers that don't cause any bother and tidy up after themselves?

All the ones I've seen about leave the place in an absolute tip, chuck rubbish and bits of conifers down country lanes and seem to have a different set of driving laws to everybody else.

I've chatted to some who are very pleasant people but their habits leave a lot to be desired.

To be fair, the ones in Ludlow never cause any bother.  I broke down next to the site and borrowed some tools off a resident. Nice chap.  Never heard anyone else complain either. Only problem I have heard was when they were fighting amongst themselves in the pub   Tidy site and the only local crime of any not is usually people from somewhere else.

 

The rubbish problems you are speaking of are usually partly caused by the local residents. Often the travellers just want a quite spot for a few nights but get so much grief off the locals just for being there it doesn`t give much incentive to leave on good terms.

[tooSavvy]

I have mentioned previously that my 130LSE Skoda rotted out its Backbox/CherryBomb and I decided to spend a few pennies on a Cortina Mk3 Backbox & a welded loop link... Quite nice sound and not much more than the stock factory part.

 

Lo & Behold I see this Rapid and see a 'bodge up' of EBay epicness... just like mine!.

 

Mine was welded to the factory twin downpipe, not a Tubular, like this though...

 

 

CAR:- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/skoda-rapid-estelle-/111621308358?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19fd25ffc6

 

 

TS

[twosmoke300]

I completely forgot until i looked at that link that the estelle/ rapid bonnet hinged sideways . You would think I would remember given it was my first road car

[AlabamaShrimp]

Decided I'd finally have a look at the inner wing where the earth is screwed on the fiesta today. Pulled it out and was eventually left with this.

 

 

It's about 4/5 inch long and about 3 down. Was a mess of rust mud and stone chip in the wheel well took ages to clean off and found that college didn't have a tiny cutting disc so had to bodge the patch on top

 

 

Only the weld on the right looked good the rest I was fighting the welder as I couldn't get the clamp to connect right for the mig. Anyway happy enough with it for now

 

 

Edit: No idea why that's upside down it looks OK on my phone

[Louise2cv]

The rubbish problems you are speaking of are usually partly caused by the local residents.

No.

 

 

Unless the locals are dumping their own black bags, kids garden toys, sofa, mattress and left overs of fires for burning the insulation off cables (legally sourced I'm sure*)... Then no. The rubbish is solely the responsibility of the travellers.

 

Not going into what various police officers (before I got mine) have "tried not to say" at a couple of crime scenes.

 

Saw this regularly when living with my parents. It is an agricultural area so the veg picking brings them in. And I have seen numerous times the rubbish pile up next to the caravan then the rubbish abandoned next to a yellow square where the caravan used to be.

 

Speaking from experience not prejudice.

 

Maybe they can't all be tarred with the same brush but the ones I have seen have fulfilled stereotypes. If saying that makes me a bad person then I'm a bad person.

[Bren]

Gone over on my ankle while kickboxing tonight.

 

I have volunteered to fight in an inter-club next week - it better be sorted by then.

 

Fucksticks.

[panhard65]

There used to be decent travellers many years ago. Proper romany's will never leave a mess some of their caravans are absolutly spotless. Unfortunatly there is now a high proportion of tinkers and other drop outs pretending to be travellers. I used to have scrap cars collected by a couple of travellers and they wouldn't touch a thing unless asked and wanted written proof that I had let them have any scrap. The fact that most of them couldn't read didn't matter they were bloody good at adding up when it came to money though. They hate the tinkers even more than the rest of us as it gives them a bad name.

[jakebullet]

ZOMFG !

 

Ebay twat who is playing the 'got a sealed empty envelope mate' bullshit game escalated his claim to ebay today. 2 hours later ebay told him to FRO. Now that wasn't the result I was expecting. They're usually quite good at giving away my money.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yesterday I had to drive a 15-plate petrol-engined Golf 'bluemotion' from my house to Heathrow.

 

Do you know what, it was flipping brilliant. I think it was one of these 'twin charged' jobs as it properly surged forward if you booted it, even at low revs. It was not ludicrously fast but had more go than you really needed and never felt wanting. The engine was a real delight to use, really torquey and happy to rev as well if you wanted it to. Just felt like a really good petrol engine with a wide spread of usable 'ooomph'. It had a 6-speed box and was doing under 2000revs at 70, but if you floored it it took off perfectly well. I averaged 50mpg over the journey, it was comfortable with a good driving position and a really nice steering wheel and was a real joy to drive. Verdict: Unlike many new cars this actually felt like progress. I loved it!

[Pillock]

If you've got an email where eBay side in your favour, print it out and go and get a nice frame for it. That's solid gold.

[cort16]

I think the blue motion has a variable geometry turbo like what you get in a 911 turbo so it's not as laggy as the other ones. 

[twosmoke300]

Variable geometry turbos are on nearly every diesel these days , not just on a 911

[wuvvum]

cros, on 18 Mar 2015 - 09:05 AM, said:

I bought a car radio from ebay, one of those mechless ones that just plays from a memory stick. I didn't expect much as it was £12 including postage from China.  I wanted something small as my recently acquired Wolseley doesn't have room for a full depth radio and I wired it up to two small speakers (can't get anything decent behind the original radio grill in the centre of the dash). I was delighted that it actually worked. The sound is crap, but perfectly in keeping with the car.

I picked one of those up from Lidl for 17 quid the other day.  Made by a company called SilverCrest, whom I've never heard of.  It'll be going in the Merc, to replace the knackered original.  I also scored a cordless sander for the same price - GR8 4 sanding down wob.

[Inspector Morose]

I picked one of those up from Lidl for 17 quid the other day. Made by a company called SilverCrest, whom I've never heard of. It'll be going in the Merc, to replace the knackered original. I also scored a cordless sander for the same price - GR8 4 sanding down wob.

Got one of those sanders and they are indeed good for wob sanding!

Silver crest is own brand/Chinese factory guff but they work pretty well so lidos quality control seems fairly decent.

[Alan_Green]

• Grin - Squaddie behind me in the queue at the Aldershot Tesco's tonight had on camouflage trousers; camouflage jacket; camouflage hat.....and a fluorescent Hi-Viz vest!

[phil_lihp]

I drove a couple of newish Bluemotion Golfs last year and I must say they're pretty good, a lot nicer to drive than the equivalent Focus, a large number of which I've done quite a lot of miles in recently.  Just something about the driving position, comfort and power delivery that just seemed a little more pleasant, hard to describe really but I can see why they sell so many.  

[DS20]

No more new Chevrolet Daewoo Sparks to be sold beyond the end of this year  

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Variable geometry turbos are on nearly every diesel these days , not just on a 911

Yeah but they're super rare on a petrol engine.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

No more new Chevrolet Daewoo Sparks to be sold beyond the end of this year

I'm in the states at the moment and have a 4-dr automatic one of these as a hire car. It's PROPER SHIT!!!! a terrible car.

[DS20]

 

I drove one once, and it reminded me of this.  The build quality was worse, though, and the dashboard...like a bad imitation of an '80s video arcade.  

[skattrd]

Variable geometry turbos are on nearly every diesel these days , not just on a 911

They used variable vane turbos back in the 90's, the boring has one.

[tooSavvy]

They used variable vane turbos back in the 90's, the boring has one.

Are these what we *affectionally refer to as Beemer 'pi$$ flaps'?

 

TS

[cort16]

Na the piss flaps are in the inlet manifold

[tooSavvy]

Na the piss flaps are in the inlet manifold

No $hit!

 

 

TS

[steve_earwig]

Inlet manifold, then turbo...

[cros]

Na the piss flaps are in the inlet manifold

Will warn mother not to get them in there when she's adjusting her dump valve.

[Tetleysmooth]

The mullered torx bolt on my 'new' V70 thermostat cover finally gave in to persuasion this morning

Nice new thermostat and two nice sparkly M7 bolts fitted. Yay.

Made me grin.

[EssDeeWon]

1996 Range Rover (P38) 4.6 HSE for sale local to me with 3 months Mot @ £995.

 

These aren't in the sub grand price bracket now are they??

[cros]

They are if they're bolloxed

[steve_earwig]

Looks like Adobe have finally realised I don't want any of their bloatware crap (I'd get rid of Flush Player if I could too)