wuvvum Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 On the subject of eBay parts - the third wheel bearing kit I ordered for the Mazda has arrived, but it's STILL got the wrong fucking hub nut in it. The bearings are two different reference (they're handed due to the hub nut threads) - I've got two of one and one of t'other, all with LH thread hub nuts. I've found a kit on eBay which appears from the photos to contain two nuts - I've emailed the seller asking for confirmation that there's a RH thread one in there, but I have a feeling they won't know what I'm talking about and I won't get a response. I'm getting perilously close to getting the welder out and just tacking the existing (knackered) nut in place. horriblemercedes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 1 hour ago, Zelandeth said: Postie this morning. Rang doorbell. I was actually downstairs at the time so got there pretty quickly. Made direct eye contact through the window, then stuck a "sorry we missed you" slip through the letterbox. Then proceeded to completely ignore me shouting (politely!) after him as he walked the (15 metres or so) back down the garden path to his van and buggered off. Thing is...he never even took the parcels out of the damned van in the first place, so no idea what he was playing at. Probably didn’t have the parcel with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 6 hours ago, horriblemercedes said: Just now. Sitting at the dining room table, working at the computer. Cat sitting on the table beside me, ignoring me. I took my watch off and put it on the table. Cat looked at it, kicked it off the table and turned his head back to look out of the window. All without standing. Just a one leg flick. You didn't ask permission to put said watch on his table ,did you? anonymous user and horriblemercedes 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Firefox has automatically made the theme dark by default and I have no clue how to put it back. Thanks, Firefox- Thirefox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 1 hour ago, sheffcortinacentre said: You didn't ask permission to put said watch on his table ,did you? I did not. I'm just glad that he showed me mercy! He's four months old so definitely owns my home by now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 1 hour ago, Fumbler said: Firefox has automatically made the theme dark by default and I have no clue how to put it back. Thanks, Firefox- Thirefox Settings then display, iirc, go for classic or white. Bloody annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 1 minute ago, High Jetter said: Settings then display, iirc, go for classic or white. Bloody annoying It's not there anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 It was, yesterday, when mine updated. Am back to 'normal' now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Okay folks, what do we reckon did this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 14 hours ago, horriblemercedes said: Just now. Sitting at the dining room table, working at the computer. Cat sitting on the table beside me, ignoring me. I took my watch off and put it on the table. Cat looked at it, kicked it off the table and turned his head back to look out of the window. All without standing. Just a one leg flick. Cats are sadistic bastards, something that is obvious whenever they interact with rodents or songbirds. He/she can't eviscerate you, so has to settle for tormenting you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 9 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said: Okay folks, what do we reckon did this? Some putting their shopping bag on it then dragging it off, probably a woman's bag with buckles. Maybe... AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 3 minutes ago, Jazoli said: Some putting their shopping bag on it then dragging it off, probably a woman's bag with buckles. Maybe... Good thinking. I was hedging my bets on a cat since there's two my neighbour has that like to terrify my dog and be a general nuisance. These aren't just your standard "no so threatening" cats, these barstewards are built like brick shithooses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Standard "main dealer servicing moan to follow: Wifes car went in for a service this morning, against my better judgement she booked it into AC and tbh they weren't too bad last year. £129 for the "full service" required. Not horrific I suppose. Dropped it off and went off in to town with her for a bit, and after an hour she got a message with "Urgent extra work your car needs" or something along those lines. They recommended the car needed 3 new tyres @ £430. In reality the rears are 4 years old and on 4.5/5mm tread, the fronts were fresh on before the last MOT 8000 miles ago. The fronts are honestly like fucking new. Matching continentals. There's easily 20k miles left in these tyres, and if AC were selling the car there's not a fucking chance in the world that they'd put new ones on! Advised the front disks and pads need doing, and quoted £350 for this. They could do with changing, I agree, but fuck me its £80 for the bits and an hours work. OS Main beam bulb had failed. AC quoted us £41 to change it, I presumed it much be a bit of a fuck about for them to bill half an hours labour for it, but I got a £3 bulb from wilkos and changed it in the car park when we picked the car up. Genuinely the easiest bulb change I've had to do, a 30 second job - I didn't even have to put my bacon sandwich down. So yeah they recommended £430 of completely unrequired work, wanted easily double what any "reasonable" place would charge for the work that it actually needed. timolloyd, Angrydicky, myglaren and 4 others 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 And is that really a surprise? its all about the upsell, and the gullible clueless general public who are just trying to run a car get ripped off right left and centre. twosmoke300, carburettor, hennabm and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 2 hours ago, cobblers said: Standard "main dealer servicing moan to follow: Wifes car went in for a service this morning, against my better judgement she booked it into AC and tbh they weren't too bad last year. £129 for the "full service" required. Not horrific I suppose. Dropped it off and went off in to town with her for a bit, and after an hour she got a message with "Urgent extra work your car needs" or something along those lines. They recommended the car needed 3 new tyres @ £430. In reality the rears are 4 years old and on 4.5/5mm tread, the fronts were fresh on before the last MOT 8000 miles ago. The fronts are honestly like fucking new. Matching continentals. There's easily 20k miles left in these tyres, and if AC were selling the car there's not a fucking chance in the world that they'd put new ones on! Advised the front disks and pads need doing, and quoted £350 for this. They could do with changing, I agree, but fuck me its £80 for the bits and an hours work. OS Main beam bulb had failed. AC quoted us £41 to change it, I presumed it much be a bit of a fuck about for them to bill half an hours labour for it, but I got a £3 bulb from wilkos and changed it in the car park when we picked the car up. Genuinely the easiest bulb change I've had to do, a 30 second job - I didn't even have to put my bacon sandwich down. So yeah they recommended £430 of completely unrequired work, wanted easily double what any "reasonable" place would charge for the work that it actually needed. Then top top it all you have to deal with some wanker in a shit suit who’ll condescend you with all this bollocks. Crackers, myglaren and carburettor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 £1.63 per litre for E5. Would not be surprised if £1.50 of that is tax. AnnoyingPentium, myglaren and carburettor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 10 minutes ago, vulgalour said: £1.63 per litre for E5. Would not be surprised if £1.50 of that is tax. £1.37 for E10 at Costco in Brum. carburettor and myglaren 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 That is also too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 15 minutes ago, New POD said: £1.37 for E10 at Costco in Brum. I'm coming down to you. It's £1.42 here for it at Tescos. Or £1.35 if I fancy travelling for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 10 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said: I'm coming down to you. It's £1.42 here for it at Tescos. Or £1.35 if I fancy travelling for it. You need to pay for membership. myglaren and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 My driver's door glass has dropped again ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 My body's reaction to vaccines can get in the sea. Know it's several orders of magnitude less horrible than the alternative, and lacks the whole credible potential for being lethal...but that doesn't change the fact that I feel like absolute death just now. Virtually every bone and muscle in my body hurts, to the extent that transitioning from laying down to sitting up takes 30 seconds or so to recover from. Everything just hurts. Hit me quicker than the last two, so crossing my fingers that means I get over it quicker as there's a LOT of stuff I really needed to do this weekend and I've already lost an entire day. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carburettor Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 8 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said: Good thinking. I was hedging my bets on a cat since there's two my neighbour has that like to terrify my dog and be a general nuisance. These aren't just your standard "no so threatening" cats, these barstewards are built like brick shithooses. Handbag, buckle maybe? it could be a metal zip, like on a leather jacket? myglaren and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 On 1/14/2022 at 8:25 PM, Zelandeth said: Postie this morning. Rang doorbell. I was actually downstairs at the time so got there pretty quickly. Made direct eye contact through the window, then stuck a "sorry we missed you" slip through the letterbox. Then proceeded to completely ignore me shouting (politely!) after him as he walked the (15 metres or so) back down the garden path to his van and buggered off. Thing is...he never even took the parcels out of the damned van in the first place, so no idea what he was playing at. What did the "sorry card" say? Your parcel can be found on the tracks? mitsisigma01, myglaren and Yoss 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 On 12/01/2022 at 19:26, grogee said: Fuck this to the moon and back. I'm going to shame-tweet them, the cheap bastards. I remember buying this maybe a year ago from Robert Dyas. Spent time comparing, touching, deciding which one felt the best. No cheap shit for me, I thought, but I was wrong. This was just heavy but also shit. That purchase was prompted by Mrs Grogee bringing home some awful Chinese shit from Tesco that looked OK from a distance but simply expired if it even got close to a tin. Anyway I know what it'll be now - "where did you get it from, did you keep the receipt?" NO BECAUSE I'M NOT CERTIFIABLY INSANE And I just know that some smug twat will be along shortly to tell me to buy a 1970s metal one, which are shit, hard to use and hurt your fingers. And right on cue:- cobblers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 I used to spend a fair bit of time on the blue forum rather than this one. I've been a member here for over a decade but I didn't post much for the first few years. I pretty much left RR alone around six years ago when I sold my mk2 Golf and have spent most of my forum time on here since. Recently I've found myself nosing around there a bit again. As with here, it's interesting seeing which of my favourite long-term threads and posters are still going. Much has changed but many things are as before. Whilst there are a few new threads I've now bookmarked along with older threads I'll check more regularly, I have fairly quickly remembered why I stepped away in the first place. Doing things like this. FFS. That and a fella who specialises in hacking up vintage Americana. I can't even bring myself to post photos of those... CaptainBoom, wuvvum, mercedade and 4 others 1 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 8 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: I used to spend a fair bit of time on the blue forum rather than this one. I've been a member here for over a decade but I didn't post much for the first few years. I pretty much left RR alone around six years ago when I sold my mk2 Golf and have spent most of my forum time on here since. Recently I've found myself nosing around there a bit again. As with here, it's interesting seeing which of my favourite long-term threads and posters are still going. Much has changed but many things are as before. Whilst there are a few new threads I've now bookmarked along with older threads I'll check more regularly, I have fairly quickly remembered why I stepped away in the first place. Doing things like this. FFS. That and a fella who specialises in hacking up vintage Americana. I can't even bring myself to post photos of those... That's mint 👀 😝 mercedade and paulplom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 1 minute ago, Jamie said: That's mint completely broken and the owner needs throwing off the harbour wall 👀 😝 EFA 🤘 Saabnut, wuvvum and Angrydicky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 18 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: EFA 🤘 I guess I'm just young and stupid at the moment 😬 I just love lowered cars, I've just ruined my 4 series by fitting springs and getting it remapped today 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 8 minutes ago, Jamie said: I guess I'm just young and stupid at the moment 😬 I just love lowered cars, I've just ruined my 4 series by fitting springs and getting it remapped today 😂 Don't get me wrong. I'm mid 40s and my MR2 sits on Tein <35mm springs. My previous plaything was my mk2 Golf running a VR6 lump and which sat on coilovers and banded steels. I just can't stand stupid camber. Not only does it look dogshite, I can only imagine the driving experience would be on a par with trying to ask Shane MacGowan to walk in a straight line after a fun night out getting smashed on class As and liqour. sheffcortinacentre, cobblers and Tenmil Socket 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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