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[Honey Badger]

Thanks for all the advice re the MOT/Driving question.

 

It's the Accord Coupe V6 Cort16 posted in the ebay tat thread, I've had some contact with the seller but he seems to have gone very quiet recently, he said it should sail through the MOT (what a surprise) the car had no advisories on the last MOT and was in daily use until recently. It's also a Honda and the coupes are pretty bullet proof apart from the rear brakes seizing and gearbox implosion.

 

I might get some shiply quotes or I might just pass up on it, it's way too far to just go for a look. I was going to rob it of stuff to improve* my coupe and have a handy source of spares (unless it's in better nick than mine).

 

Oh and it's cheaper to go down to Luton and Fly up to prestwick/Glasgow than it is to get the bloody train, wheres the sense in that?

 

 

Yes it is a bloody stupid question in reflection, which is why I asked about it after getting it MOT'd to know what I was facing, anything really bad (knackered brakes, structural rot, suspension issues)  would be a deal breaker but if it's minor issues (bulbs,emmissions, ABS/SRS lights) that are not dangerous to other road users, or indeed myself more importantly then it would be drivable with caution.

[Junkman]

Oh and it's cheaper to go down to Luton and Fly up to prestwick/Glasgow than it is to get the bloody train, wheres the sense in that?

 

You are faster by train.

[Tayne]

 

Oh and it's cheaper to go down to Luton and Fly up to prestwick/Glasgow than it is to get the bloody train, wheres the sense in that?

 

 

That "cheap" flight is likely to take you to Prestwick which isn't in Glasgow (it's barely in Scotland) so don't forget to factor in the time and expense of getting to Glasgow.

[tooSavvy]

I believe VIRGIN [..mebbies others, too?] get their Jumbos serviced up at Prestwick.  I was on a call at TESCO Ayr and drove down the (..yes, it is a long way) main Glasgow road, past the airport.

 

Virgin 747 just drops down and 'swooshes' past, as if a tree top height, and I thought it was GR9!  The relationship between the flight approach and road sees the planes dropping down whilst in parallel.

 

tooSavvy

[simmo]

Do Sherpas use ye olde A60 stub axles?

 

I think probably not as the A60 steering box has  two steering ball joints attached to the drop arm, one track rod directly attaches to the O/S stub axle steering arm.  The second connects to an idler via a centre track rod and then on to the n/s stub via another track rod.  

The Sherpa has a beam axle so probably has a track rod that attaches directly to both stub axles, in this case the steering box arm would link to the o/s stub axle via a drag-link (short track rod).  If I have this right  the o/s stub axle would have connections and the A60 one and the track rods on the A60 connect at the front and usually with a beam the track rod is at the rear because the drag link attaches at the front. 

 

 

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[Partridge]

A friend's daughter has just started learning to drive. She was telling me she's taught to do "block changes" when slowing down, i.e, going from 4th to 2nd.

What's the point in that?

I would say don't knock something until you've tried it, but I'm not going to try it. Won't that rip the gear box to shreads if you keeping doing it?

[garbaldy]

Gears to go brakes to slow

[chaseracer]

Gears to go brakes to slow

Until you hit ice or some similar shitty surface, in which case the ability to slow down a ton or more of steel, glass & plastic WITHOUT touching the middle pedal is a useful skill to have...

[garbaldy]

Yes but they don't teach that now which might explain all the holes in hedges oposite T junctions

[chaseracer]

True!

 

Anyway, back to Barefoot's streetlight problem...

If it's anything like the ones round our way, there might be a sensor on top of the light unit itself. Once I noticed that one of the lights stayed on long after the others had clicked off for the day; this proved to be due entirely to the fat pigeon sitting on it, completely covering the sensor with its feathery arse...
 

[Partridge]

That's true, I can see it being useful in the snow.

Until you hit ice or some similar shitty surface, in which case the ability to slow down a ton or more of steel, glass & plastic WITHOUT touching the middle pedal is a useful skill to have...

[Partridge]

True!

 

Anyway, back to Barefoot's streetlight problem...

 

If it's anything like the ones round our way, the sensor's on top of the light unit itself. Once I noticed that one of the lights stayed on long after the others had clicked off for the day; this proved to be due entirely to the fat pigeon sitting on it, completely covering the sensor with its feathery arse...

 

There's your answer barefoot-make pideon pie

[chaseracer]

Anyone here speak 'management bollocks'?

 

"In order to meet the challenge the integrated team embraced the T5 Agreement (bespoke T5 Partnering Contract) and exemplified teamwork in extensively value engineering the solution and managing risks and opportunities to deliver the sub-project below the incentivised target cost."

 

My brain bleeds.  WTactualF is 'value engineering'?  A Skoda?

[simmo]

 

Anyone here speak 'management bollocks'?

 

"In order to meet the challenge the integrated team embraced the T5 Agreement (bespoke T5 Partnering Contract) and exemplified teamwork in extensively value engineering the solution and managing risks and opportunities to deliver the sub-project below the incentivised target cost."

 

My brain bleeds.  WTactualF is 'value engineering'?  A Skoda?

 

T5? are you dealing with BAA, HAL or Heathrow or whatever they are calling themselves this week?

[Sigmund Fraud]

Anyone here speak 'management bollocks'?

 

Management speak is not used to convey information. It's sole purpose is the further inflation of the already over-inflated ego of the writer.

[barefoot]

Anyone here speak 'management bollocks'?

 

"In order to meet the challenge the integrated team embraced the T5 Agreement (bespoke T5 Partnering Contract) and exemplified teamwork in extensively value engineering the solution and managing risks and opportunities to deliver the sub-project below the incentivised target cost."

 

 

 

In similar cobblers/bollocks, the Co-Op earlier this year stopped wrapping their cucumbers in polythene claiming something along the lines of;

'we'll save X tonnes of polythene and the environment will be a better place and we'll have chocolate covered arses - (everybody wants a lick) etc'

Now it appears that they're back to wrapping the old cucumbers in polythene like the rest of the food industry.

Obviously I was obliged to ring customer services to inquire about this apparent U turn in company policy.

Woman was surprised, but looked it up to reveal that they're back to packaging because they'll 'save 2X tonnes of damaged & wasted cucumber'

Fucking brilliant - that was well researched then.

& I'll bet that the twat that came up with it has been promoted and given a big fuck off bonus.

[chaseracer]

 

 

T5? are you dealing with BAA, HAL or Heathrow or whatever they are calling themselves this week?

 

Feck no - Unite are welcome to deal with that crowd! Just something I read in passing, then had to read again even to begin to understand it. In a perverse way, the almost total opacity of the language is quite impressive...

 

[Junkman]

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[tooSavvy]

True!

 

Anyway, back to Barefoot's streetlight problem...

If it's anything like the ones round our way, there might be a sensor on top of the light unit itself. Once I noticed that one of the lights stayed on long after the others had clicked off for the day; this proved to be due entirely to the fat pigeon sitting on it, completely covering the sensor with its feathery arse...

 

..... I have been told birds do that [having learned..] sitting on the sensor is warmer than sitting on some other part of the lamp.

 

tooSavvy

[Partridge]

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That's awesome!

[cobblers]

Point a laser pen at the sensor and the streetlamp will turn off. Attach laser to a bracket thing and have it wired to come on when your bedroom light turns off.

[HillmanImp]

What do I call one of these? I looked in the sky, where an elephant's eye, was looking at me, from a bubblegum tree and all that I knew was, the rubber bit on the door of my Audi was letting in water, letting in water, letting in water.........

 

 

Oh, no......what's happening!!! I climbed on the back of a giant anchovy, and flew off through a gap in the clouds, to a land where music was playing incredibly loudly and everyone was really happy and having a really good time......

........except me

[beko1987]

I fancy going on an advance driving course and I fancy going on a skid pan to have fun learn how to control my car better. Thing is, it would be pointless doing this in a modern what with the ABS and other acronyms so can - and indeed should - I use my own car?

I went on one for my 20th, was some fun, and some learning. Had a truly fucked 3 series coupe for rwd, and an omghgfandeverythingelse 214 for fwd. To teach with abs off, they just pulled the fuse. Which they had to do with the 214 running as it had a fucked starter. When someone did stall it they bought out something else, can't remembDr now

 

The no holds barred race at the end was fun. They chucked a load of silicone Shit on the track and then hosed it in for the fill effect. Was at castle coombe. Got a certificate and everything

[alf892]

What do I call one of these? I looked in the sky, where an elephant's eye, was looking at me, from a bubblegum tree and all that I knew was, the rubber bit on the door of my Audi was letting in water, letting in water, letting in water.........

 

 

Oh, no......what's happening!!! I climbed on the back of a giant anchovy, and flew off through a gap in the clouds, to a land where music was playing incredibly loudly and everyone was really happy and having a really good time......

 

........except me

I'd say that was an NLA seal..........will take some explaining to the disinterested parts wallah in your local Audi Palace too!

[alf892]

I'd like to post a bit about my fiesta............can someone tell me how to post pics. They are on Flickr at the mo but also have on PC. There was a stcky for this once?

 

Any instruction should be written as if for a semi literate person of 85 with dementia and learning difficulties.......

[Tayne]

Click the arrow juming out of the box.

 

[Tayne]

Select "BBCode"

 

Copy and Paste the text in the box

[Tayne]

In the shade by Tayne, on Flickr

[simmo]

Feck no - Unite are welcome to deal with that crowd! Just something I read in passing, then had to read again even to begin to understand it. In a perverse way, the almost total opacity of the language is quite impressive...

 

 

That's funny in 21 years working for them, at various times I was an Amacus (AEEU in my day) Shop Steward, safety rep and then shamefully a short spell as a  manager,

Union policy on management speak was to repeat it back mockingly and repeatedly like Peter Kaye's Garlic Bread routine or just say they didn't give a flying feck for whatever the buzz word was,.crude but surprisingly effective.

[alf892]

Thanks Tayne! Got that bit.

 

Have spent the intervening time trying to then paste that in the right bit to get a pic.......so clicked on image button and pasted in the box. Jusy get the red cross in a box...

 

will try again another time¬