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6 minutes ago, Bren said:

Another bastard cold. I get rid of one and get another. Always on the cards when your immune system is oppressed. And it's bastard freezing here.

Me too 

Cancelled the pub last night because I could feel it coming on , by 9pm I was in bed with chattering teeth , feel like crap today 

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54 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Your Merc a CLK? If so, they have a drain under the scuttle trim that blocks up then all the water floods into the air box for the heater and pollen filter, kills the fan and leaks gallons of water into the footwells.

No a w124. It’s always leaked, but this winter seems worse. I did have all the drains blown through the with a compressor a few years ago. I poured water over the screen this morning to clear the ice and instantly saw it appearing in the footwell. So it’s not the sunroof.

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Oh yes, another effin' grump... I was behind a Vauxhall, an Astra or something, newish but not a 'big' car. I felt really intimidated by how bloody big it was! From behind I could see nothing ahead and being an ex biker, I always look well ahead, usually straight through the car in fronts windscreen/rear screen but I was far to low. Modern ordinary shit is ust so big and tall.

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Every single one of my fleet at the moment freezes on the inside. 

Rover letting in water at the back window.

Volvo has a perished door seal

Subaru has those wonderful* pillarless doors which have no doubt had their body mounted window seals perish. 

Great fun scraping this morning. 

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19 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Fuxake. I can't see any water getting in and cant find any dampness anywhere but I'm steamed up still after pouring a kettle full of water over the tailgate. 

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The tailgate comes away from the frame at the top, if you open it, you can squeeze Captain Tolley's into the gaps on the inside & the outside. Capillary action,  you'll see it run along the joint until it finds the leak, then it'll all run into it. Leave the tailgate open whilst it dries & then do it again, and again, and again...

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18 hours ago, myglaren said:

Fullers earth cat litter does the job - allegedly.

I bought a (very heavy) bag of it and placed some in a knicker-washing bag on the dashboard.

Son took the car to work, great, no condensation :)

 

Not so great, car full of bloody fine cat-litter dust, absolutely everywhere :(

Back to the drawing board it is then.  Should have been in nylons/tights.  The shops I frequent don't sell such items.

Cat litter works well but even when it is wrapped in tights material you will get loads of dust coming out.
Try putting some into a container, e.g. a margarine tub, with a lid on with some holes punched into the lid to allow the air in.
Works for me.

 

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House move DRAMA...

Our buyer HAS to move in by the end of this week, which after much juggling with holidays and getting a storage unit we can do, New house will be ready for mid February unless the likely happens and things go wrong. Fingers crossed. From Friday we'll be living with the wife's parents. 

 

To add to it all I had a call from a work college spoke to me yesterday. I work nights driving a shunter unit, moving trailers around a yard to be loaded and apparently they're getting rid of the warehouse night shift, so no pickers, no loaders, no office staff. Theyve all been put on consultation which is the first step to being made redundant. My transpirt managers says there's no word on how this will effect the drivers and shunters but if there's no loaded trailers to move and no office staff to tell me what to do I think it's pretty obvious.  Worse case scanario I lose my job while the family are in temporary accommodation and I wont be able to get a mortgage as I don't have a job/have a temp job/have a job that doesn't pay enough, but of course, they "haven't announced anything" 

FFS.  

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I have just made an effort to eat properly (not something I do often, or indeed, ever) and cooked a cheese and onion omelette all chopped and whisked by my own fair hand. All I can say is: the dogs enjoyed it! It was bloody awful, even by my standards, Now I remember why I don't cook 'proper' meals very often.
Get out of packet, microwave/George Foreman grill (often both) three minutes tops and Robert is your Aunts lovechild.
Aah, the well known phrase "Bob's your cousin".

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16 hours ago, xtriple said:

Oh yes, another effin' grump... I was behind a Vauxhall, an Astra or something, newish but not a 'big' car. I felt really intimidated by how bloody big it was! From behind I could see nothing ahead and being an ex biker, I always look well ahead, usually straight through the car in fronts windscreen/rear screen but I was far to low. Modern ordinary shit is ust so big and tall.

Saw a mini behind a fiesta this week, the mini looked tiny in comparison , the fiesta is bigger than a mk 3 escort 3970 x 1640

New fiesta  4068 × 1735 

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Bloody gritters out in force this afternoon to the extent you'd think they were forecasting weather akin to the best from the east from a while back (which we saw one gritter in the run up to, and it was nearly a month in before our road, next door to a school, was cleared).

Have I missed something on the forecast?  It's meant to just dip below freezing again to tonight, but it did that the last couple and we've seen nothing of them...yet today they're everywhere! 

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As my boss is in charge of gritting where I work, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. He follows the philosophy "If in doubt send them out" 

Unfortunately most council tax payers do not understand, or accept, that it is the major routes that get priority, with minor routes and side streets down the list. But God help you if you haven't done a school route, or by a surgery, or an old people's home, or a hospital, or outside a Councillor's mother's house, or a journalist's house, or a journalist's mother's house, etc. Basically you can't win

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1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Bloody gritters out in force this afternoon to the extent you'd think they were forecasting weather akin to the best from the east from a while back (which we saw one gritter in the run up to, and it was nearly a month in before our road, next door to a school, was cleared).

Have I missed something on the forecast?  It's meant to just dip below freezing again to tonight, but it did that the last couple and we've seen nothing of them...yet today they're everywhere! 

I don't actively seek weather predictions but read that it was expected to be -6℃.  Also high pressure that will bugger the TV and radio reception and  your ears too.

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1 minute ago, sierraman said:

Boot floor looks straight, boots fine. Tail lamp is fucked but I’ve managed to source one. At least the car that hit it has left a number so can’t say fairer than that. I’ve rang him, it hadn’t damaged his, I’ll go back and say call it a couple of hundred and we’ll forget about it. 

Hopefully that's all there is to it... My Y reg Sierra got f'ed over like this and insurers preferred to write it off :(

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6 hours ago, paulplom said:

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What's the issue? If that is used on a farm or right out in the sticks it could look like that in no time at all in the current ground conditions. 

What we call locally "slub". 

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