Spiny Norman Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Someone has given a third-party home phone/broadband supplier my name and address, which theyre in the process of switching, so I have no internet beyond this PAYG mobile and my phone number has now changed. Spent 3 hours on the phone today trying to sort it and it looks like it'll be into next week before I have internet back. Apparently it's called slamming and that's exactly what I'll be doing to some cunt when I find out who's responsible. paulplom and myglaren 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Weather!!! Yes, it's been raining up here! HillmanImp, Cavcraft and Tadhg Tiogar 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 1 minute ago, busmansholiday said: Weather!!! Yes, it's been raining up here! By eck, that's some water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, busmansholiday said: Weather!!! Yes, it's been raining up here! River Ouse (Formerly Kings Street (Formerly Kergate)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busmansholiday Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Yep, Kings Arms, no comments on watering the beer please! myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 cant sleep might go and read a cavcraft thread - might make me zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Cavcraft, The Moog and mitsisigma01 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 13 hours ago, busmansholiday said: Weather!!! Yes, it's been raining up here! I thought that looked familiar. I was sitting at those tables back in July! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 ^It's a long time since I was there but it looked just like that back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Yeah, that bit floods if someone has a piss upriver doesn't it? clayts450 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Plans to have a little Daimler messing with today ,foiled by the weather. I would like to get it running well again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Nottingham ? The least car-friendly city I have been to so far. I have been here before as most places around the country but it's different when you are using your own car. Looking for cheap parking, in Nottingham, on a Sunday should be easier than during the week. Is it? No. Everywhere is bloody expensive and I nearly got lost trying to park in the snooty part next to Nottingham Castle. Ended up 2 miles away from where I was supposed to be trying to get out of the snooty part. Even Central London wasn't this bad and I have visited Central London in my own car. Anyway, on the upside I might be getting back into the car buying and selling business on a more full time basis after being out of it for so long. Also, spotted the building where the office of "Boon" was when it moved to Nottingham in the 90s. Stevebrookman, Angrydicky, GrumpiusMaximus and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 11 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said: Nottingham ? The least car-friendly city I have been to so far. I have been to most places around the country but it's different when you are using your own car. Looking for cheap parking, in Nottingham, on a Sunday should be easier than during the week. Is it? No. Everywhere is bloody expensive and I nearly got lost trying to park in the snooty part next to Nottingham Castle. Ended up 2 miles away from where I was supposed to be trying to get out of the snooty part. Even Central London wasn't this bad and I have visited Central London in my own car. Anyway, on the upside I might be getting back into the car buying and selling business on a more full time basis after being out of it for so long. Nottingham has been a nightmare for years, and I believe the first place in the world to have red light cameras. Lord Sterling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 3 hours ago, DVee8 said: Plans to have a little Daimler messing with today ,foiled by the weather. I would like to get it running well again. Plans to fix the Mazda have been similarly Kai-boshed, as the Yugo/2CV combo is taking up the car fixing space in the garage. But the skies have now cleared, so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloth in a bowl Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Looks like the graphics card in my PC has just cooked itself, dead fan. Oh well time for an upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 On 10/10/2019 at 2:06 PM, vulgalour said: Allington is where I'm headed. I have a concern that there's going to be a fairly high Doddery Jazz Pilot population. if you wear your hat you'll be able to hide in plain sight! ?? DeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispian_J_Hotson Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Gave up and worked on the car in the rain. There really is nothing quite like it. The wind helped* too, especially during the bit where I was under the thing on my back. Still, after a few months away from cars doing the house and a very reluctant return, the ice has been broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieman Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Going to a motorsport event with some friends and calling at their place on the way back for a cuppa. Except I didn't stay for the cuppa, because the house stank so strongly of cat piss I made an excuse I was late for Sunday dinner and left. myglaren and Tenmil Socket 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Edinburgh Airport is one of the worst I have been to. Car park hugely confusing as is the rest of the airport. Nothing open when we arrived at 4am and when it did, the only option was All Bar One. £27 for 2 coffees that were so strong they almost took off from the table, 2 waffles that looked like boot mats and a pretentious 'sausage sa(nd)dwich' that was so chuch it absorbed all the moisture in my body. Shite Hole. Glesca Airport is Miles Better. I hope Stockholm is awesome though 320touring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 On a very wet M40 yesterday, dreadful visibility and the outside lane is like a swimming pool. It wasn't the 'executive' car drivers who were the biggest problem, but some absolute botty rocket in a black Vectra C. He'd already tried the outside lane once and must have seen how stupid an idea it was. He then dropped back, I thought presumably realising how fucking stupid he was. Then, shortly after, as I'm the middle lane trying to carefully overtake someone, he hit the outside lane pretty much full tilt and the wall of water was honestly frightening. I couldn't see a think for what seemed like 10 seconds but was probably only 3 or 4. How he didn't wipe himself out I just don't know. Absolute and utter bell end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 22 minutes ago, Cavcraft said: On a very wet M40 yesterday, dreadful visibility and the outside lane is like a swimming pool. It wasn't the 'executive' car drivers who were the biggest problem, but some absolute botty rocket in a black Vectra C. He'd already tried the outside lane once and must have seen how stupid an idea it was. He then dropped back, I thought presumably realising how fucking stupid he was. Then, shortly after, as I'm the middle lane trying to carefully overtake someone, he hit the outside lane pretty much full tilt and the wall of water was honestly frightening. I couldn't see a think for what seemed like 10 seconds but was probably only 3 or 4. How he didn't wipe himself out I just don't know. Absolute and utter bell end. For the last 2 years I've been using the M62/M57 to commute. It's been an eye opener to say the least. People driving with no lights on in piss poor visibilty. When you're in a queue joining the motorway and people in the nearside lane don't move over even when they can. The one that does annoy me is people moving into the middle lane immediately after joining the motorway and staying put... Absolute shaft bulbs! Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 To make matters worse, I've just spilt Chardonnay on my UB40 single and now it's disappeared. Cheggers, Fat_Pirate and Parky 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said: Absolute shaft bulbs! I have to say thats a new one LOL but I assume it's to be accompanied with the below picture? paulplom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said: I have to say thats a new one LOL but I assume it's to be accompanied with the below picture? It's actually a variant of the last two words of the Cavcraft post I quoted but I see what you was thinking... LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Cavcraft said: To make matters worse, I've just spilt Chardonnay on my UB40 single and now it's disappeared. Took me some time. But there's a rat in my kitchen so what am I going to do??? Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 58 minutes ago, New POD said: Took me some time. But there's a rat in my kitchen so what am I going to do??? Some red red wine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 It's just taken me 15 minutes to get a wheel off. When I got tyres fitted and rotated at the Halfrauds Autocentre (they'd actually a good deal at the time) I asked "do you torque the wheels by hand". "Of course we do" was the answer. Grand or so I thought. Just been bouncing on a breaker bar only to get the nasty crack of an overtightened stud. Some lazy fucker used an impact wrench to tighten them I bet. I'd love to wrap the breaker bar round their neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 15 minutes ago, Spurious said: It's just taken me 15 minutes to get a wheel off. When I got tyres fitted and rotated at the Halfrauds Autocentre (they'd actually a good deal at the time) I asked "do you torque the wheels by hand". "Of course we do" was the answer. Grand or so I thought. Just been bouncing on a breaker bar only to get the nasty crack of an overtightened stud. Some lazy fucker used an impact wrench to tighten them I bet. I'd love to wrap the breaker bar round their neck. They don't understand. Which is why they work in a tyre place and not at NASA designing rocket control systems. Not saying everyone who works in a tyre place is as thick as pig shit. I've met a few who did care enough to understand. Paul's tyres in L37 have different guns for putting on and taking off. The putting on one. Gets the bolt to about 3/4 of a turn from being tight, and they set the torque wrench for every car. What I've not seen is a torque wrench calibration gauge of the like that I've seen and used in Aerospace assembly operations, where the check.the torque wrench before each job. Having said that I had my wheel off to adjust the hand brake and failed to tighten it up. Doh. Lucky the wheel didn't come off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 My local tyre place always torques wheels up to the correct setting. I've never had any problems getting wheels off again after I've been there. Had bad experiences with Kwik Fit in the past though. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 15 minutes ago, New POD said: They don't understand. Which is why they work in a tyre place and not at NASA designing rocket control systems. Fair enough, but isn't that what TRAINING is for? I feel Spurious' pain, having had to get the wheel off our Peugeot Boxer after some nob at Kwikfit had wanged the nuts up to about 470000056Nm with a rattle gun. It took two of us armed with a four foot bar with the second brace (the first one broke) to get the fucker off. Tamworthbay and GrumpiusMaximus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 There’s a tyre place around here that I always go to (Invicta Tyres) and whilst they don’t check the settings on the car, they do tighten by hand with a torque wrench. Never had a problem removing them. Would recommend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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