EssDeeWon Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Took the Rover for a wash down the local hand car wash place the other day. Matey boy is going to town when suddenly all these large white flakes appeared over the windscreen. (Not his fault) but stripped the lacquer off the bonnet! Bum! The boot has already completely gone so the bonnet might match up soon. Annoying but the whole thing needs doing again one day. Ah well.. patina and all that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 'Electric' 'You what? 'Scooter is electric?' (A two stroke scooter with an exhaust and engine) BorniteIdentity, stonedagain, richardmorris and 5 others 1 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 13 minutes ago, Cavcraft said: 'Electric' 'You what? 'Scooter is electric?' (A two stroke scooter with an exhaust and engine) Does it have an electric start? Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 1 hour ago, EssDeeWon said: Took the Rover for a wash down the local hand car wash place the other day. Matey boy is going to town when suddenly all these large white flakes appeared over the windscreen. (Not his fault) but stripped the lacquer off the bonnet! Bum! The boot has already completely gone so the bonnet might match up soon. Annoying but the whole thing needs doing again one day. Ah well.. patina and all that! I have been watching YouTube vids about car painting and there are some ways you can re clearcoat the bodywork where lacquer peel has taken place. It won’t be perfect but considerably improved. I have also watched a man paint a car with a roller which was kinda fun. Can’t be long before one of us does an Autoshite tutorial on how to do it. Some are incredibly good, others stand back looking all pleased with themselves while their car looks like it has been pebbledashed and I just mutter “what the actual fuck have you done?” Right, I am popping round with my rollers and a tin of Dulux vinyl silk! chodweaver, BorniteIdentity, EssDeeWon and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 5 minutes ago, Parky said: ... I am popping round with my rollers and a tin of Dulux vinyl silk! You'll be overcome with emulsion. myglaren, Parky, stonedagain and 5 others 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 That’s just a pigment of your imagination purplebargeken, Cavcraft, grizgut and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 FFS. Cavcraft, loserone, The Moog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5speedracer Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Painted a Marina once with a tin of harvest gold gloss from Woolies. Did 2 years before I scrapped it.Sent from my R19 using Tapatalk purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 It'll be an emulsional roller-coaster. 5speedracer, GrumpiusMaximus and Parky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Got a cold. First time I've been proper ill in two years. Oh well, it'll blow over soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Sodding car insurers. Get small 1.3 car so madam has a choice of cars to pootle in if needed. Wife gets her on the Corolla for <£500 for a year back in September. Just tried to get her insured on the Suzuki as my policy is up for renewal in December. 5 insurance search websites, only 4 providers would consider her as a named driver providing we have a black box and want to pay in excess of £2k per annum. I got quoted £900 when I had the Saab. Without madam (just the wife and me) £198 for the year. So much for smoll city cars being an ideal choice for a driver with 1 year and 3 months' worth of experience, no points or accidents. I just don't get it. dean36014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 And now we've got a blocked sodding soil pipe somewhere. And I can't find my drain flexi-auger. FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 I went out to my car to try the gps on my phone out under the heated windscreen ..and outside the car ..... so I switched the windscreen power on and off ...... and the radio died .. but the gps worked .. so thats the radio and a track rod end to sort out ....... sometime when its warmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Best thing to do with a road parked wheelie bin is to fill it to the brim with old patio paving slabs. barefoot, paulplom, Cavcraft and 4 others 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Or water... stonedagain and paulplom 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Or Postcrete BorniteIdentity, paulplom, Parky and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Or wasps myglaren, loserone, paulplom and 4 others 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Or bags of offal from the local abattoir stonedagain, Jerzy Woking and paulplom 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Or a combination of any of the above... Jerzy Woking and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Sodding car insurers. Get small 1.3 car so madam has a choice of cars to pootle in if needed. Wife gets her on the Corolla for 5 insurance search websites, only 4 providers would consider her as a named driver providing we have a black box and want to pay in excess of £2k per annum. I got quoted £900 when I had the Saab. Without madam (just the wife and me) £198 for the year. So much for smoll city cars being an ideal choice for a driver with 1 year and 3 months' worth of experience, no points or accidents. I just don't get it.Want to buy a Saab for cheep insurance... Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Getting peed.off with no useable garage space, awful weather and loads of tinkering required on 3 of our 4 cars...Need to move or find some workshop space...Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk chaseracer and mrbenn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Dunno if still there but there was a site called I think " rolled on paint jobs" some where amazing. Done a few over the years on bangers ( to keep plod from staring) . stonedagain and BorniteIdentity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Dad hand painted our Renault 12 with Cannons Repaint. Looked ok from a distance but he never bothered cutting it back to smooth out the brush marks. I went to a posh school. Perpetual source of embarrassment that car, nowadays I would be parking it up the front and flipping the bird at everyone BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I used Parsons 'Re-paint' on a Cortina 1500 GT estate with the widest wheels and arches ever seen! Bought it from Scunthorpe car auctions for £90 and ran it for a whole winter. Decided to smarten it up a bit and used the paint in Modena green and it came out... Really well! Few brush marks here and there but overall, 9/10 though it takes ages to dry so if it had rained it would have been fucked. In other matters: been asking Kyle what he wants for Christmas and he suggested a 'Die Grinder'. I thought that was a good idea and set to looking for the same stuff I have as it's been really good for years. Blue point 'Mini' air die grinder over a ton and the four dies to go with it (genuine Snap-on) are also a hundred quid! So bought a new but used (brand new but fitted with the airline connector so used...) Blue point grinder for £55 and put in an offer for four dies of £90. See if that gets accepted. Snap-on stuff is fucking expensive ain't it? Parky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 8 hours ago, omegod said: Or bags of offal from the local abattoir A mate and I once pinched a large bag of offal from fridge behind a butchers shop once. Must have been 10 or 12 years old. We were chasing kids around pulling the tendons on chickens feet trying to grab them, playing tiggy with chicken heads etc. We dumped the bag at the top of my Grandmas garden. The smell from it a couple of weeks later was horrific. chaseracer, chodweaver, BorniteIdentity and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Looking back on a few memories, I was a right little cnut. No wonder my stepdad hated me ? robinmasters, Shirley Knott and BorniteIdentity 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 7 hours ago, paulplom said: ...large bag of offal... must have been 10 or 12 years old... smell from it... was horrific. I'm not surprised! ? stonedagain and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Bin stuff reminded me of a story, my mate used to do the bins on a rough estate and went to pull one, found it to be extremely heavy so lifted the lid expecting to find bricks or the like, he was very surprised to see a huge and very dead German Shepherd staring back at him. BorniteIdentity and stonedagain 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5speedracer Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 How did he know he was German or indeed a shepherd?Sent from my R19 using Tapatalk Mally, timolloyd, paulplom and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Remind me not to listen to Radio 4. hennabm and Jerzy Woking 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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