The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

Camera proof innit?

 

 

We 'misted' them with accidental* overspray in my day.

[Coprolalia]

Power cloud ! Behave !

Power cloud? That's what I leave behind after a working lunch.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I follow a chap on Flickr who appears to work for Copart and he photographs a lot of the cars which come through the system. There have been an increasing number of obviously undamaged cars being sent straight for scrap via the current manufacturers Scrappage Scheme. Latest is an 09 plate Clio, long MOT, looked mint. Its not his fault, I would suggest that he despairs as much as the next person.

I am sometimes ashamed at the selfish wastefulness of the Western world. I subscribe to 4 or 5 You Tubers from Russia and one is from Latvia and the work they do to resurrect cars is amazing. These cars almost certainly be thrown away in the UK.

One reason why I like this place, fix it don't bin it.

The "scrappage " schemes operated by the manufacturers are no more than a minimum part exchange deal and there is no requirement for any car to actually be scrapped. No doubt a lot of old shite will go straight to scrap but any thing that would get a good return would be sent to auction in the normal way.

[Split_Pin]

Hmm maybe there was something wrong with that Clio like impending HGF or something that allowed it just enough life to limp into the dealership.

 

Still, though.

[BavarianRetro]

I follow a chap on Flickr who appears to work for Copart and he photographs a lot of the cars which come through the system. There have been an increasing number of obviously undamaged cars being sent straight for scrap via the current manufacturers Scrappage Scheme. Latest is an 09 plate Clio, long MOT, looked mint. Its not his fault, I would suggest that he despairs as much as the next person.

 

I am sometimes ashamed at the selfish wastefulness of the Western world. I subscribe to 4 or 5 You Tubers from Russia and one is from Latvia and the work they do to resurrect cars is amazing. These cars almost certainly be thrown away in the UK.

 

One reason why I like this place, fix it don't bin it.

 

I know traders putting undamaged slow selling retail stuff through Copart because the fees are lower and sale prices better than the standard "over the block" auctions.

[fordperv]

I'm saying nowt, I used to have 'lower than your nan's nipples' written in tippex on the back of a XR4i with cut springs.

I put a purple sticker on on the boot of mrs fps escort rs turbo that says "more boost than cadburys"

[Guest Hooli]

The same car might have had 'dirty as your daughter' and 'louder than your mum last night' written in other places.

 

Oh & no exhaust boxes & a XR4x4 backend for LSD action with taller tyres to get the gearing back. What else do you do with a £40 XR4i? if only they were that cheap now. Mind you A464JEM (or GEM I forget) was a rotten shed when I got it.

[Guest Hooli]

Oh & best of all I cut a slot in the bonnet & levered it up to create a scoop about a foot wide & 2" tall in front of the plenum chamber just because it seemed a good idea at the time.

 

And a 12v badge off a corsa that confused a lot of people who claimed to know cars.

[sheffcortinacentre]

On the subject of outline stickers I have one of the Bathurst track on the back of the falcon Ute.

Confuses the fuck out of people.

[Bren]

"Powered by fairy dust" sticker.

 

Then you see a 16st female getting out of the drivers seat.

 

It should have said powered by greggs.

[Guest Hooli]

16st? what about the other leg for most of them?

[Ghosty]

There's a basic 1.0 Fiesta near me with 'ecobeast' stickers. Clearly a play on Ecoboost, the damn thing is completely standard and all it has is 15" wheels, not even the bodykit or anything.

[outlaw118]

(Steps away from the "smoky diesels are bad" debate)

 

No.

 

Fuck it.

 

My Alfa has been chipped/mapped and it goes like stink, and smokes like a laboratory beagle when given the beans.

 

I love it.

 

So NERRR. (sticks out tongue, flicks the V)

[Mr A Lawrence]

Powered by fairy dust?

 

Missus has this on her mgf and abarth.

[Ghosty]

Why is it that Kas, i10s etc run on cocaine? 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

None of these stickers are a good look. I think the first time I saw one of those vertical windscreen slogans i thought it was quite cool but by the time I'd seen about 500 of them I had to admit they're just another 'twat identifier'.

[purplebargeken]

Why is it that Kas, i10s etc run on cocaine?

 

'Cos they're shit on petrol.

[Ghosty]

None of these stickers are a good look. I think the first time I saw one of those vertical windscreen slogans i thought it was quite cool but by the time I'd seen about 500 of them I had to admit they're just another 'twat identifier'.

Commonly found on Seat Leon FRs with the numberplate on the dashboard because EURO LOOK or some shit.

[RoadworkUK]

The "scrappage " schemes operated by the manufacturers are no more than a minimum part exchange deal and there is no requirement for any car to actually be scrapped. No doubt a lot of old shite will go straight to scrap but any thing that would get a good return would be sent to auction in the normal way.

 

That's true, but many manufacturers really are standing by the 'scrappage' thing. Audi, for example:

 

"Qualifying trade-in cars must be diesel-powered, registered up to 31 December 2009 and in the buyer's name for six months or longer. All trade-in cars accepted under the scheme will be permanently removed from the road and scrapped."

 

Utterly ridiculous, of course, and a demonstration that these cars have far too much front-end margin if 'allowances' like these can be given away.

[Split_Pin]

I have another sticker on the back of the Corsa that looks like the Nurburgring from about twenty feet away but on closer inspection is actually an outline of the Island of Arran.

[xtriple]

The only sticker I have ever liked was on the back of my Bonnie, it was tiny and read:

 

'Protected by anti theft sticker'

 

I am considering getting an 'Eco' sticker for the BGD though.

[320touring]

The only sticker I have ever liked was on the back of my Bonnie, it was tiny and read:

 

'Protected by anti theft sticker'

 

I am considering getting an 'Eco' sticker for the BGD though.

Instead of blue motion, what about blueblood

[The Moog]

Phoning round skip companies this morning it looks like the rules have changed about including plasterboard in skips. Apparently you now have to seperate it all out and deal with it in a different way. 

 

Luckily I dont* have half a garden full of bags with mixed waste that will have to be sorted through. Joy 

[Dirk Diggler]

Nurburgring sticker and 'Five Doors for me Hoors' on a scabby 5 dr tdi Golf with steel and alloy mismatched wheels, straight through exhaust for the wounded pigeon cooo and, erm, five doors

[oldcars]

Not one for stickers. Only one i had was "i survived the scrapage scheme" on the old K11 micra.

Mate said i should have got one of the "no smoke no poke" stickers for the Reliant. The valve stem seals were fecked and it burnt oil big time 

[Tickman]

Luckily I dont* have half a garden full of bags with mixed waste that will have to be sorted through. Joy 

 

That is why I got the Alfa, it conveyed many items to the local tip and skips were more expensive!

[The Moog]

That is why I got the Alfa, it conveyed many items to the local tip and skips were more expensive!

1) that is a very underhand way to sell me the Alfa 

2) Our local tips have the same policy. In fact we are allowed to take 10 bags for free of inert waste or plasterboard (has to be separated) and every bag after that is £3.50. Hence £120 skip without having to sort it all out seemed a bargain. 

 

Still the £120 is effectively a saving right? So that could go on cars .... hmmmmm 

[Bren]

Remember those flashes that went across the top of the windscreen? One that said "me" for the driver and "aarlass" for the passenger.

[DodgeRover]

Phoning round skip companies this morning it looks like the rules have changed about including plasterboard in skips. Apparently you now have to seperate it all out and deal with it in a different way.

 

Luckily I dont* have half a garden full of bags with mixed waste that will have to be sorted through. Joy

Try a different skip company, the one we normally use started doing that - luckily there are several others who don't. Apparently it down to where they take the waste into if they can deal with it or not.

 

Dig a big hole and bury it?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I got rid of a shitload of old rubble by putting an ad on FB asking if any 'man with van' type characters with a waste licence would get rid of it. Someone came and collected it and took it to JC Balls in Alfreton who I think crush it to make hardcore or whatever. It was certainly cheaper than a skip, but not as cheap as chucking it in the back of the car and taking it to the tip (couldn't do that as the old Rover 600 can't carry many rubble sacks)