Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)
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I been collating various metal bits for the RRS over the past month or so. It's MOT time next month and the one or two "slight play" advisories from last year have been making themselves known about recently over lumpy ground. As the car is on 99k miles it's not really unexpected for a RRS to need a suspension wishbone refresh and I'll also be replacing all four discs just because. The osf CV joint will be renewed too as it occasionally clicks on full lock.
About two thirds of the parts have arrived now, so I can start to dismantle the car. This afternoon has seen the car in the air with one corner 90% stripped. I have a full set of replacement nuts and bolts because I just know the angle grinder will be needed at some stage. None of it is particularly challenging from a technical point of view, but access to some of the fasteners is a real PITA which means there will most likely be some swearing possibly coinciding with minor skin loss.
It will need a geo adjustment when done as the lower wishbone bolts are cambered, but I'm looking forward to driving it when completed as it should feel quite tight again.
About two thirds of the parts have arrived now, so I can start to dismantle the car. This afternoon has seen the car in the air with one corner 90% stripped. I have a full set of replacement nuts and bolts because I just know the angle grinder will be needed at some stage. None of it is particularly challenging from a technical point of view, but access to some of the fasteners is a real PITA which means there will most likely be some swearing possibly coinciding with minor skin loss.
It will need a geo adjustment when done as the lower wishbone bolts are cambered, but I'm looking forward to driving it when completed as it should feel quite tight again.
Nik da Greek said:
I like a nice Probe
Oh God, that came out all kinds of wrong
Fortunately that ain't so much a nice Probe as a third-degree rectal tear
On one hand, I believe it had been a very tired and shagged out Probe before it had all the bits and bobs bolted to it. On the other hand, the owner believes visiting the Wholesale Counter of Messrs Scoop, Bulge and Spoiler makes him immune to criticism and the car immune to further wear and tear.Oh God, that came out all kinds of wrong
Fortunately that ain't so much a nice Probe as a third-degree rectal tearI know a little about CC that 2 of you asked about.
Corvette Convert posted in GG regularly,until a thread about
"Buyer signs logbook,then changes his mind"
Not sure if it's still active,will have a look.
Anyhoo...within this thread CC was selling a 2CV and buyer changes his mind as above and CC decides to keep £500 of the refunded price for time wasted etc.
As per usual ,he gets a bit of a bashing and flounces.
Then a "friend" called "twinturbos" starts posting defending CC and also telling what a great bloke he is and how much his house is worth and how he has just spent 4 weeks in USA driving some great cars.
Bla bla bla.
Funny thing is that CC's posting style is exactly the same as his best bud TT.
Corvette Convert posted in GG regularly,until a thread about
"Buyer signs logbook,then changes his mind"
Not sure if it's still active,will have a look.
Anyhoo...within this thread CC was selling a 2CV and buyer changes his mind as above and CC decides to keep £500 of the refunded price for time wasted etc.
As per usual ,he gets a bit of a bashing and flounces.
Then a "friend" called "twinturbos" starts posting defending CC and also telling what a great bloke he is and how much his house is worth and how he has just spent 4 weeks in USA driving some great cars.
Bla bla bla.
Funny thing is that CC's posting style is exactly the same as his best bud TT.
I was bonged at today. I was bonged at because it was getting a bit chilly outside and that bong took me back about a hundred years when the first time the low outside air temperature warning flashed up on my Y reg Sierra 2.3 Ghia. (Oh yes, I was extremely cool.)
In the dashboard of Sierras of that ilk was an illuminated line drawing of the car which showed when a door was left open (well, it was a Ghia dontchaknow). As I was trundling along this little snowflake pattern appeared in the centre of this car shaped diagram, the like of which I had never seen before. I had no idea what it was. Why is there a snowflake on my roof?
I spent ages inspecting the mechanism of the sunroof to see if there was a faulty switch buried in there somewhere.
RTFM derbrain.
In the dashboard of Sierras of that ilk was an illuminated line drawing of the car which showed when a door was left open (well, it was a Ghia dontchaknow). As I was trundling along this little snowflake pattern appeared in the centre of this car shaped diagram, the like of which I had never seen before. I had no idea what it was. Why is there a snowflake on my roof?
I spent ages inspecting the mechanism of the sunroof to see if there was a faulty switch buried in there somewhere.
RTFM derbrain.
That reminds me.
My brother and I hired a cheapo car when I was in Cyprus on holiday about 30 years ago. Nissan Micra, IIRC.
I was driving along and I heard a metallic ping. Odd. Sounded like something under the dash had shot off and hit something metallic. Slowed a little to concentrate and listen. Nope. Nothing. Drove a little further. Ping. Backed off to listen. Nothing. Odd. Rinse and repeat. As I was checking the dials for a sign that something might be going wrong, I realised that the ping was happening at exactly 62mph - 100kph. It was a warning bong. Having driven it around town, I'd not heard it before.
Of course it then became a game of finding the shortest straight in which we could trigger the bong and how many bongs before braking for the next corner.
My brother and I hired a cheapo car when I was in Cyprus on holiday about 30 years ago. Nissan Micra, IIRC.
I was driving along and I heard a metallic ping. Odd. Sounded like something under the dash had shot off and hit something metallic. Slowed a little to concentrate and listen. Nope. Nothing. Drove a little further. Ping. Backed off to listen. Nothing. Odd. Rinse and repeat. As I was checking the dials for a sign that something might be going wrong, I realised that the ping was happening at exactly 62mph - 100kph. It was a warning bong. Having driven it around town, I'd not heard it before.
Of course it then became a game of finding the shortest straight in which we could trigger the bong and how many bongs before braking for the next corner.
When I picked up my RR from Kent, on the drive back it started "bing"ing at me occasionally. But this was a different tone of bing to the ones I'd so far experienced (i.e. lights left on, door open etc) and wasn't accompanied by the usual dashboard message to explain what was wrong. I was confused, and worried that my new car had some sort of hidden fault. It did it a few times, until I realised that this special bing only happened during radio 2 traffic reports. Conferring with dad at a petrol stop, he said he's had it in his car too.
Turns out it was some sort of alert/message thing going off in Lynn Bowles's studio whilst she was broadcasting her traffic reports.
Turns out it was some sort of alert/message thing going off in Lynn Bowles's studio whilst she was broadcasting her traffic reports.
ChemicalChaos said:
When I picked up my RR from Kent, on the drive back it started "bing"ing at me occasionally. But this was a different tone of bing to the ones I'd so far experienced (i.e. lights left on, door open etc) and wasn't accompanied by the usual dashboard message to explain what was wrong. I was confused, and worried that my new car had some sort of hidden fault. It did it a few times, until I realised that this special bing only happened during radio 2 traffic reports. Conferring with dad at a petrol stop, he said he's had it in his car too.
Turns out it was some sort of alert/message thing going off in Lynn Bowles's studio whilst she was broadcasting her traffic reports.
Had it been in the afternoon I would have said it was Steve Wright pinging Bobbie Pryor's use of the phrase, "Knock on effect," in her traffic reports.Turns out it was some sort of alert/message thing going off in Lynn Bowles's studio whilst she was broadcasting her traffic reports.
This is the trivial thread, isn't it?
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