The grumpy thread

[flat4alfa]

I'll get my raincoat ...

/efa

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one wrecked cortina, one dead driver

[maxpower]

I'll get my mackintosh ...

/efa

[Negative Creep]

Back to those numberplates, seller can't give an exchange (as I've stated all along, my mistake so fair enough) but will do another set for £22

[trigger]

one wrecked cortina, one dead driver

 

I think the driver was more important then the car, I don't know the guy but I've read lots about him the last few days and he sounded like a decent guy. R.I.P KC.

[dollywobbler]

Battery prices at Halfords. What planet are they on exactly?! Funnily enough, I don't want to spend £109 on a battery for my £250 car. Cheapest they had was £90. No deal! My two Citroens are now sharing a batttery. (2CV is powerless at the moment).

 

Then I was grumpy with myself. New rad fitted to the BX - looks lovely. Filled it up (how expensive is coolant etc etc) and wondered what the splashing sound was. I'd forgotten to swap a pipe over to the new rad. Old hoseclips utterly borked - not even a smaller socket could help me. Ripped them off and stuck the hose on (someone please remind me that I need to buy some new hoseclips at some point!). Started filling it again. Found another thing I'd forgotten to swap over. DOH!

 

Then started trying to bleed the cooling system. Couldn't get a warm heater. Decided to use a rather sloping section of the driveway to get the tail down and the nose up. Clever eh? Worked too. Air went for the highest point, which was now the top of the rad. Excellent. Then got stuck because all the weight had been removed from one of the front wheels by my 'clever' parking. Doh!

 

To finish, the fan isn't cutting in and the 'universal' mounting for my new temp gauge won't fit anywhere on the BX.

 

However, I did get to drive it up and down the driveway again, and that still made me grin - but I can't be bothered to put this last little bit in the grin thread.

[Pete-M]

Battery prices at Halfords. What planet are they on exactly?! Funnily enough, I don't want to spend £109 on a battery for my £250 car. Cheapest they had was £90. No deal! My two Citroens are now sharing a batttery. (2CV is powerless at the moment).

 

Battery prices are up at the moment, to do with the price of lead or summat.

[Negative Creep]

Battery prices at Halfords. What planet are they on exactly?! Funnily enough, I don't want to spend £109 on a battery for my £250 car. Cheapest they had was £90. No deal! My two Citroens are now sharing a batttery. (2CV is powerless at the moment).

 

Battery prices are up at the moment, to do with the price of lead or summat.

 

 

Get a trade card and watch those prices tumble

[andrew e]

Halfords trade FTW in that respect.

[Pete-M]

Not a problem for me, I get 50% off at the local battery specialist

[warren t claim]

 

R.I.P John Mc Aleese. A true hero and inspiration to our armed forces.

[TimothyClaypole]

I liked the last pic of Mrs Claim, can you upload some more, please. Do it in five mins just after I've got a new pack of tissues.

 

 

 

 

I'll get my coat ...

 

Something while you wait:

 

 

[flat4alfa]

hmmm.

 

seems everso familiar.

[barrett]

Whilst we're on the subject of whatever the hell subject this is, flat4alfa can you post a big version of your avatar image please!?

[dollywobbler]

Whilst we're on the subject of whatever the hell subject this is, flat4alfa can you post a big version of your avatar image please!?

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that. Is it a US-Spec Merc W123 and a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow she's in the way of?

[eddyramrod]

I think the Merc is more likely a 300SE from about 1967...

[barrett]

Whilst we're on the subject of whatever the hell subject this is, flat4alfa can you post a big version of your avatar image please!?

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that. Is it a US-Spec Merc W123 and a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow she's in the way of?

 

Yes, well I'm slightly uncertain about the model of RR (I reckon it might be pre-Shadow) which is why I'd like to see a larger (extremely high quality, 1080p full HD widescreen massive) version, just to make sure. Obviously.

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, I reckon you're right Eddy - though you may be cheating and have actually watched the programme the shot is taken from!

[eddyramrod]

I didn't realise it was a screen grab, what's the programme?

[retrogeezer]

Not a problem for me, I get 50% off at the local battery specialist

 

 

I shall make a note of that Pete...

[Guest]

Used my new OMG CARBURETTOR SKILLZ to get the Amazon going again.

 

However.........

 

The temperature gauge climbed, I shat it, turned the engine off and watched the bottom corner of the rad and the bottom hose do a great big steaming wee on the garage floor. And the only place that sells uprated rads (in preparation for the B20 overbore thing) did me out of a front crank oil seal. The same company whom I might have told in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply.

 

POO NOISE.

[Pete-M]

Used my new OMG CARBURETTOR SKILLZ to get the Amazon going again.

 

However.........

 

The temperature gauge climbed, I shat it, turned the engine off and watched the bottom corner of the rad and the bottom hose do a great big steaming wee on the garage floor. And the only place that sells uprated rads (in preparation for the B20 overbore thing) did me out of a front crank oil seal. The same company whom I might have told in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply.

 

POO NOISE.

 

Get the rad out, bring it to me and I'll get it sorted. Uprated shouldn't be a problem either. Cost? Not sure, but depends what you want.

[RoadworkUK]

Bah.

 

My trusty Sony WM FX551 Walkman;

 

 

AKA the best sounding Walkman I ever owned, £109 from Dixons in the '90s, my reference unit for cassette playback and a damn good radio to boot;

 

Is borked. Total logic failure.

 

Still won't throw it away, though. Can't.

[Pete-M]

I've got one similar to this.

 

 

Thought I was the only fan of old Sony Walkmenâ„¢ about. The radio on it is ace. Sometimes.

[RoadworkUK]

 

Thought I was the only fan of old Sony Walkmenâ„¢ about. The radio on it is ace.

 

True story:- I had an iPod, the battery stopped taking a charge. I binned it, went back to the Walkman, started making mixtapes again. Love them. A C90 is still a compact enough little capsule, just enough to fit Dark Side Of The Moon and most of Wish You Were Here on.

[Station]

I prefer tapes over any other 'medium'. It's more difficult to skip tracks unlike an Ipod/CD/record, so you tend to listen to the whole thing.

 

Has this country always been this cold? I can't adjust to it, it's freezing outside.

[pompei]

Tapes are for WINNARS.

 

I've just reunited myself with two carrier bags and am happily going through a load of old stuff including DIY bootlegs - cassette recorder smuggled into gigs under my old massive coat

 

This should have been in the grin thread but who cares?

[Lord Sterling]

Something while you wait:

 

 

 

YUM!!

 

You lucky f.... Most of the girls here in Belgium look quite like that, great bodies, not too much make up, damn, its making going out/driving/walking about difficult for me.

 

I dont know why I'm noticing them now, I used to live here as a rampart teen didnt really notice that much then

 

I was passin through Czechoslovakia some years back and almost every female I saw were pretty incredible looking

[Station]

Whilst we're on the subject of whatever the hell subject this is, flat4alfa can you post a big version of your avatar image please!?

 

[RedSparrow]

Incidentally my new Czech girlfriend is coming tomorrow to visit for a few days.

I am kind of sick of British girls and they seem sick of me so WATEVAR.