JJ0063’s current steed - Life of an impulsive car owner [N47 CHAIN GANG]

[SiC]

On 05/10/2023 at 18:57, JJ0063 said:

Mk5 Golf GTI steering wheel fitted tonight

When looking to see what my troublesome GTI is worth as parts, I couldn't understand why the steering wheel is worth so much. After all there isn't that many GTIs out there needing new wheels.

Now your post explains it 😅

[JJ0063]

Van buyers have apparently booked their train tickets and are ready to go.. seems like it’s a couple in their early 20s buying their first camper. Fingers crossed they like it or we’ll have an awkward half an hour drive back to the train station 😂

As it’s SORN I’ve not moved it for a few weeks but today I cleaned the back out and took it for a few miles round private* roads to make sure the brakes weren’t rusted up and whatnot. Made me not want to sell it! 
 

Glad it’s going though, I want some cash in the bank and it’s Mrs JJ’s 30th on 31st March..

[Matty]

18 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Van buyers have apparently booked their train tickets and are ready to go.. seems like it’s a couple in their early 20s buying their first camper. Fingers crossed they like it or we’ll have an awkward half an hour drive back to the train station 😂

As it’s SORN I’ve not moved it for a few weeks but today I cleaned the back out and took it for a few miles round private* roads to make sure the brakes weren’t rusted up and whatnot. Made me not want to sell it! 
 

Glad it’s going though, I want some cash in the bank and it’s Mrs JJ’s 30th on 31st March..

Fingers crossed for a quick and easy one pal.

[JJ0063]

Now off to collect them from the station, fingers crossed!

[Matty]

29 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Now off to collect them from the station, fingers crossed!

Good luck

[Bren]

1 hour ago, JJ0063 said:

Now off to collect them from the station, fingers crossed!

Good luck. Hope they aren't a couple of whoppers.

[twosmoke300]

29 minutes ago, Bren said:

Good luck. Hope they aren't a couple of whoppers.

Odds not in your favour given what they are buying 😂

[Matty]

50 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Odds not in your favour given what they are buying 😂

Yer fucking awful 😆

[twosmoke300]

7 minutes ago, Matty said:

Yer fucking awful 😆

You spelt correct wrong 😂

 

Dont take it out on me cos your dreamcatcher fell off its hook 😂😂😂

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I hope it all went to plan, JJ. 

As for 2smoke, do you reckon he adds 50% to the bill every time a VAG motor rolls up for work? 😂

[twosmoke300]

12 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I hope it all went to plan, JJ. 

As for 2smoke, do you reckon he adds 50% to the bill every time a VAG motor rolls up for work? 😂

Nope . I’ll take the peoples money just like any other car owner . 
Just find the whole transporter obsession down here comical . They are an average van at best . But ridiculously overpriced and over rated 

[Matty]

6 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Nope . I’ll take the peoples money just like any other car owner . 
Just find the whole transporter obsession down here comical . They are an average van at best . But ridiculously overpriced and over rated 

I keep idly considering a Vito Duoliner. Then I catch myself on 🤣

[JJ0063]

They’ve just left, absolutely lovely couple. Took fucking ages as Barclays have a 2k daily limit for new payees so they had to move money to another account which then had had a 5k limit unless they used biometrics for login so had to get that set up to send the rest. 
 

Then they couldn’t tax it because I SORN’d it last week so you can’t tax it online for 5 days after doing that but luckily my village post office is open 7 days so had to help them sort that too.

Feel bad they’ve now got over 4 hours to drive home to Blackpool but it couldn’t have gone to a nicer young couple, I reckon they’ll really enjoy it. 

[Matty]

5 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

They’ve just left, absolutely lovely couple. Took fucking ages as Barclays have a 2k daily limit for new payees so they had to move money to another account which then had had a 5k limit unless they used biometrics for login so had to get that set up to send the rest. 
 

Then they couldn’t tax it because I SORN’d it last week so you can’t tax it online for 5 days after doing that but luckily my village post office is open 7 days so had to help them sort that too.

Feel bad they’ve now got over 4 hours to drive home to Blackpool but it couldn’t have gone to a nicer young couple, I reckon they’ll really enjoy it. 

Good result jj. Now put that money under an angry dog or something 😄

[twosmoke300]

14 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

They’ve just left, absolutely lovely couple. Took fucking ages as Barclays have a 2k daily limit for new payees so they had to move money to another account which then had had a 5k limit unless they used biometrics for login so had to get that set up to send the rest. 
 

Then they couldn’t tax it because I SORN’d it last week so you can’t tax it online for 5 days after doing that but luckily my village post office is open 7 days so had to help them sort that too.

Feel bad they’ve now got over 4 hours to drive home to Blackpool but it couldn’t have gone to a nicer young couple, I reckon they’ll really enjoy it. 

4 hrs in a T5 . The horror 😂

[loserone]

8 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

4 hrs in a T5 . The horror 😂

Pretty sure people can't drive that far, they just explode 

[Bren]

So are you on the lookout for a 335d?

[JJ0063]

13 minutes ago, Bren said:

So are you on the lookout for a 335d?

Haha, no replacements this time. The 320D hasn’t blown up after the flood yet so that can stay. 
 

Plan is to pay the bank man back the loan I took to buy the BM, and give Mrs JJ some money for her birthday as she’s looking for a slight career change and needs to take quite an expensive course.

[twosmoke300]

41 minutes ago, loserone said:

Pretty sure people can't drive that far, they just explode 

Arm gets sore from waving to the other t* drivers 

[Back_For_More]

It's a camper..... They'll just pull over and chill for the night. 

Ticket and moved on by plod or angry locals at 4am - proper christening. 

[twosmoke300]

21 hours ago, Matty said:

I keep idly considering a Vito Duoliner. Then I catch myself on 🤣

Good vans if you can keep the rust at bay

 

[JJ0063]

They messaged at half 11 last night to say they were home so it took them long enough  😂

[twosmoke300]

Limp mode innit

[cobblers]

22 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Feel bad they’ve now got over 4 hours to drive home to Blackpool 

Fucking nightmare, imagine driving 4 hours and ending up in blackpool. 

[twosmoke300]

3d plates - t5 reg - looking like almost a full house of transporter bingo 

 

[cobblers]

33 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

3d plates - t5 reg - looking like almost a full house of transporter bingo 

 

I think you're warming to them.....

[JJ0063]

38 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

3d plates - t5 reg - looking like almost a full house of transporter bingo 

 

They aren’t 3d plates I’m not sure why that pic looks like they are! they are just gel plates 😂

[cobblers]

19 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

They aren’t 3d plates I’m not sure why that pic looks like they are! they are just gel plates 😂

"No sir, you don't have hepatitis! It's just AIDS"

[twosmoke300]

Yeh both terrible and look at me needy

[JJ0063]

So it’s been a good couple of weeks since floodgate on the BMW and I’ve been using it regularly with no issues. 
 

Drove to the NEC and back today 140 miles each way with no issues sat at 52MPG and ate the miles up lovely so we’ll take that as a “it must be fine” 🙌