What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[scaryoldcortina]

They got cheap because under the beetle shape is a totally hammered mk4 golf. I've seen several early ones in scrapyards recently.

[cobblers]

They are quite nice to be inside, you can swing your arms about and stuff cos the dash and windscreen are miles away, it's like a Lupo +.

There's room all about the place like you would get in an old car, it's nothing like a a MK4 golf to sit in, when they decided people wanted to be sat in a bucket and piled stuff round in arms reach.

Beetles came with a strange set of engines, the 2.0 pez is basically a mk3 golf 8v gti engine with a better head on it but it's quite mediocre, not much good on fuel or performance but if they are like mk3 GTI engines they will plod on for miles and miles.

I'd have one to fanny about with if I had the space.

[Slappy]

beige SD1 content at 45:33 in the new new episode of Roadkill! Plus the episode is awesome in its own right of course

 

 

[STUNO]

Been on the lookout for two Corsa B alloys for as cheap as possible and made an offer on a set of four on eBay for half what they were asking and that offer was accepted, happy £10 per rim days.  With the other set of 3 I got for 99p, and the single centre cap I had to buy for about £6 that means the full set has still cost me under £50 and I should reduce that further when I sell on the two wheels I don't need.  Happy days.

 

Too late, I used to have 5 and sold them for 300 pounds with the rest of the car which was like new (mostly)

[cort16]

Cobblers do you recon the 2.0 is the least troublesome motor in these? My mrs quite likes them so they could be an option when we come to replace her car. Is the 1.6 shite?

There's a cheap high mileage diesel one for sale near me but given he low mileage why bother?

[michael1703]

I bought a 2.0 pez from Ken, my wife's been using it daily and it does about 460 miles to a tank which is about £60 so it's pretty economical.

 

It's a bit revvy at motorway speeds, it's light and nimble on wiggly A and B roads, it is huge inside but I've never sat in the back which might be snug

[oldcars]

Exhaust on the Shuma has blown. I sound like i is a boy racer #lol#bookface#woolyhatinsummer.

[Pillock]

I'm considering a VW Beetle TDI when I need to start commuting 800 miles per week and running cars into the ground again. 

The 2.0 Pez is just no trouble at all, really understressed so unlikely to pop. Not sure about the gearbox, that engine in the Mk3 Golf had the box that liked to chew holes in the casing. Maybe they changed it.

 

Beetle prices are so variable though. A pez snotter with smashed in sills (seriously, why do they all suffer like that?) and worn interior will be hardly anything - £400 or so at times. A loved diesel will be £3000. 

[cort16]

That's interesting I'll keep an eye out for one.

[beko1987]

My exhaust is fixed and fitted!

 

No more blowing, and she seems more sprightly now, but we got the angle slightly wrong on the weld, so it doesnt sit 100%, and catches on a bit of heatshield on idle, but it'll do for the rest of the year and the mot hopefully.

 

Will have a look next year, possibly around bonus month for a td exhaust, new bolts and a manifold seal, do the job properly.

 

Still deaf in one ear though, so it might not sound as bad as I think it does...

[DVee8]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2002-VOLKSWAGEN-BEETLE-BLUE-PART-EX-TRADE-CLEAROUT-BARGAIN-99P-START-/291554660289?hash=item43e2030fc1

 

[michael1703]

Mines a lot more dented/half ripped underneath

 

You can't get pattern sills but I got a quote of £52+ vat for genuine vw sills

[michael1703]

I bought a 2.0 pez from Ken, my wife's been using it daily and it does about 460 miles to a tank which is about £60 so it's pretty economical.

It's a bit revvy at motorway speeds, it's light and nimble on wiggly A and B roads, it is huge inside but I've never sat in the back which might be snug

Ignore that ^

 

I just thought I'd check the mot expiry online and it's listed as 1600cc

 

Shows how much attention I've paid to it

[purplebargeken]

LOL, deffo 1.6 Michael. That isn't bad for sills tbh. 

 

Did you fix that bit of pipe? Meant to ask.

 

Still miss the Bug actually.

[daveb47]

 

Waiting between Bishop Stortford and Harlow, to catch speeding drivers, a
Police Officer sees a car puttering along at 11MPH. Says he to himself: "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.

Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies, two in the
front seats and three in the back...wide eyed and white as ghosts. The driver, obviously confused, says to him "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?"

"Ma'am," the officer replies, "you weren't speeding, but you should know
that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other
drivers." "Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit
exactly...eleven miles an hour!" ....the old woman says a bit proudly.

The Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle explains to her that M11 is
the road number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grins and thanks the officer for pointing out her error.

"But before I let you go, Ma'am, I have to ask...Is everyone in this car OK?
These women seem awfully shaken, and they haven't made a sound this whole
time," the officer asks. "Oh, they'll be all right in a minute officer. We've just come off the A120."

 

[phil_lihp]

I think I might be a bad influence.  Just as well I can't make Chodmonderly, I'm heading down to St Austell on Saturday afternoon for a collection but it's not me this time, I'm just the chauffeur for a friend who's been admiring* my steady stream of chod and decided to have a go himself.  Alas, he's a VW fan so it's a slightly chavved Mk2 Golf with no MOT and hideous wheels but it's otherwise mostly original and looks very solid.  We'll see.  I've offered to tow it back on a trailer with the 940 but he's happy to drive it back to a pre-booked MOT if it turns out to be as good as described.

 

Just got back.  We are minus a Golf but had a nice afternoon's drive down to Cornwall and a decent meal at a pub on the way home instead.

 

Frankly, it was horrible.  The actual car itself was in mostly good shape, I'd bet by the tidy bodywork and full VW service history up to 140,000 miles that it led a comfortable life until the previous owner got hold of it.  It now sports massive wheels (hideous, tatty), a badly fitted aftermarket exhaust (broken, loud, covered in patches and exhaust paste), over 180,000 miles on the engine (which was festooned with blue cables, shiny air intakes and other aftermarket tat and looked ridiculous, plus it sounded tappety despite very clean oil on the max mark) and the final straw was the absolutely soaking wet rear passenger footwell, which had about an inch of water in it.  This turned out to be because the N/S jacking point was so rotten that the last attempt to use it had punched it through the floor, leaving a gaping hole, plus a tatty patch on the chassis rail nearby turned out to be plated over some rot which meant it was possible to push a finger through other parts of the rail next to it.

 

None of these things were mentioned in the advert so after about 20 minutes we left.  He didn't know about the hole in the floor and was willing to knock it down by £250 as a result but it was just too knackered and expensive.  This confirms I'm probably right to avoid any car that shows signs of being modified, it had clearly been thrashed (there was even a Nurembergring sticker on the back) and there was too much to do to put it right.

[gm]

just been to a gig - my usual gig mate wasn't available so I thought "bollocksd if I'm missing this one" and went on my own. and I'm bloody glad that I did

 

the band : still marillion - a tribute to the fish era of marillion - and they were fucking brilliant !

 

as usual, the tickets said 7pm door with no clue when the band might actually start so I got my ass down there early, hung around like jonny nae pals and got stuck in to a few pints. the band kicked off at 9 and absolutely rocked the house - the transformation of a crowd of awkward forty somethings was electric, this was the gig I'd been waiting for since I was a teenager - songs I love, played so well, the buzz of an excited crowd singing along, I've not had such a good night for a long time

 

 

I may have accidentally* had 8 pints while I was there, I'm in a good mood

[andy18s]

 

Lololol

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11843472/Aldi-changes-crackers-packaging-as-it-spells-out-C-word.html

[Pillock]

 

 

it had clearly been thrashed (there was even a Nurembergring sticker on the back)

If every car with a Nuremburgring sticker had been to the Nurembergring, the Nurembergring would be sporting some M25 style traffic jams 24/7.

[MikeKnight]

[fordperv]

^ That is fantastic, I nearly spat my brew out from laughing watching the slow motion chariots of fire music replay

[Arthur Foxhake]

I seem to have bought a 1991 Peugeot 309 1.3 gl whilst drunk last night.

Very pleased about that.

The hateful Hyundai is going over the bridge.

More pleased about that.

[plasticvandan]

This is my life at the moment:

Shed,tilley lamp roaring,absolute 80s playing,big cup of strong tea,plentiful rollups,and bits of oily bike everywhere.

Mrs and her kid have gone on holiday for a week with her parents,I conveniently* booked my first time off this year for the same week

[Pillock]

 

It's Dirty Diesel day at the Great Central, and I'm hanging my head out like a boss

 

[gm]

I think the cat was hungry this morning

 

 

weirdly, there was food in his bowl, must have been the wrong flavour !

[twosmoke300]

^^^ and that's the cat litter bag !

[dave21478]

In the grump thread a week or so back I was moaning about not having any firewood yet for this winter.

 

The last few days I have been lumberjacking the shit out of some trees....got to use the new winch on the Gland Rover, lots of back n forth with the trailer, a fair bit of action with my log splitter and the results are in....

 

 

By my measurements, thats slightly over 11 cubic meters, which should last 2, maybe three seasons - BRING IT ON, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN!

 

 

[twosmoke300]

Man who chops his own wood gets warm twice

[Jerzy Woking]

The over complicated Lexus 300 hybrid I'm using this week has covered 200 miles at 48.3 mpg. Admittedly I've driven gently though (no more than 85 mph), but excellent all the same for pez & lektrik.

 

Coming down the A12 I went past loads of scooters on their way from a rally (Yarmouth perhaps?) when I see one closing in on me quite quickly. As it passes me I see its one of the stripped Ratluk type, but this had "YPVS" stamped into the head.

[anonymous user]

Man who chops his own wood gets warm twice

Man (called John Wayne Bobbitt) whose wife chops his wood ended up in hospital (and latterly a porn film if I remember correctly)