The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

What did you do for a living?

 

Ben

Lawyer I reckon.

[Cavcraft]

Tadpole Tiger is just his alias.

[r.welfare]

If I ever go into adult films, Tadpole Tiger's going to be my screen name.

[richardmorris]

This is unbelievable, well it should be. It’s depressingly believable.

[mk2_craig]

Just burned myself (twice) while soldering a car stereo wiring loom together. Owowowowowwww.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

What did you do for a living?

I still do it.

[eddyramrod]

Spy

[taxi paul]

Member of the royal family. Or a MP.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Bulgarian number plate monitor

[Tadhg Tiogar]

What do you do for a living?Or is it a secret?Ben

I mostly deal with dead people. Or those planning for death.

[Christine]

He's Dracula !

 

or Billy Mitchell

[Noel Tidybeard]

I mostly deal with dead people. Or those planning for death.

 

palliative nurse?

[clayts450]

NHS Scrutiny Panel Chairman

[AlabamaShrimp]

I think :

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PghNEN-29CQ

I bet it's this

 

[Split_Pin]

I always said when I was a kid that one day I wanted to restore an old car.

 

Scrabbling around under a car on axle stands, in a cramped garage, one job becoming totally unrewarding because you've found rust, rust and more rust, pissing about with pipes and wiring, aching bones the next day because I was trying to torque up bolts whilst sitting at an awkward angle. I do not find that fun. Childhood dream shattered!

 

I feel just like selling up and getting a modern, enjoy family time and taking up running again in my spare time.

[Jazoli]

I always said when I was a kid that one day I wanted to restore an old car.

 

Scrabbling around under a car on axle stands, in a cramped garage, one job becoming totally unrewarding because you've found rust, rust and more rust, pissing about with pipes and wiring, aching bones the next day because I was trying to torque up bolts whilst sitting at an awkward angle. I do not find that fun. Childhood dream shattered!

 

I feel just like selling up and getting a modern, enjoy family time and taking up running again in my spare time.

I had a day like that yesterday trying to sort out the Bora going into limp mode, spent far longer than I'd like under the car trying to remove bolts from the turbo, got there eventually and cleaned the VNT vanes with Mr Muscle, reassembly was a lot easier but it's achieved the square root of fuck all as it is still going into limp mode when you are on full boost for more than a couple of seconds, I've just about had enough and once I've paid some debts I'll probably buy or lease something new.

[twosmoke300]

Check your vac pipes for holes from rubbing on the bora . What fault code/s is it showing ?

[Split_Pin]

It's not just me then!

 

I have a pedalcar to restore next winter which I will enjoy but once the better weather comes, the cars can fro, Im donning my running shoes and buggering off up the back roads.

[Jerzy Woking]

Was woken at 3am with a terrible earache. Tried putting a heatpack on it, and all I get now is a gurgling noise 5 hours later and increasing discomfort. It's doing my head in - especially as ive put nothing in my ears recently.

 

anyone have any remedies as it's stopping me from doing what I had planned this morning - my first Saturday off since Christmas

[Tetleysmooth]

I mostly deal with dead people. Or those planning for death.

 

He must've been the geezer taking our cpc course on Tuesday night.

 

Fook me, it was boring.

[Cavcraft]

Jet wash, toothpaste, rags, wet and dry...nothing seems to have made my Puma headlights anymore effective. What kind of knobrocket designs these things?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably not as much of a knobrocket as the person who drives this car and has only just noticed one headlight bulb doesn't work

[DodgeRover]

Was woken at 3am with a terrible earache. Tried putting a heatpack on it, and all I get now is a gurgling noise 5 hours later and increasing discomfort. It's doing my head in - especially as ive put nothing in my ears recently.

 

anyone have any remedies as it's stopping me from doing what I had planned this morning - my first Saturday off since Christmas

Stop with the heat pack, I did that and it makes it worse. Go to the Drs - not sure if you can get anything from the chemist.

[Christine]

Jet wash, toothpaste, rags, wet and dry...nothing seems to have made my Puma headlights anymore effective. What kind of knobrocket designs these things?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably not as much of a knobrocket as the person who drives this car and has only just noticed one headlight bulb doesn't work

Wipe them ONCE ,with a cellulose thinners soaked rag really fast . Don't do it again until the melted skin has totally hardened,  otherwise it drags with a second wipe and makes a mess of it

[oldcars]

Wet sand them, i think i used 1500 or 2000 grit, then machined them up. Been fine ever since.

[chaseracer]

Wipe them ONCE ,with a cellulose thinners soaked rag really fast . Don't do it again until the melted skin has totally hardened,  otherwise it drags with a second wipe and makes a mess of it

 

The headlights, or Billeh's...? 

[3VOM]

I mostly deal with dead people. Or those planning for death.

You are Winston Wolf AICMFP.

[fordperv]

Jet wash, toothpaste, rags, wet and dry...nothing seems to have made my Puma headlights anymore effective. What kind of knobrocket designs these things?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably not as much of a knobrocket as the person who drives this car and has only just noticed one headlight bulb doesn't work

Might be worth giving them a go over with fine wet and dry and machine polish them

[tooSavvy]

SplitPin "..I feel just like selling up and getting an old Toyota, enjoy family time and taking up running again in my spare time.."

 

FTFY

 

TS

*OK..edited for potential rust!

[Timewaster]

Split Pin, feel your pain.

 

A Newish MX5 would give you all the wind in the beard, country pub lunch, MGB lifestyle ideals with none of the scuffed knuckles, back pain and constant misery of a collection of crap that never works.

 

If you can afford it.

[Split_Pin]

Need something with back seats unfortunately!