A bit council Vol 2

[nicanary]

V8mate said:

aR53GP said:

Also, misaligned headlights.

I'm aghast at the number of cars trundling about with just one headlamp this year. Time for compulsory spare bulb kits!

The problem will be actually fitting the bulbs. Carrying a spare does not equate with removing front wheels, wheelarch liners, front bumper assembly et al. Garage job these days, not one for doing by the side of the road. B*stard manufacturers.

[Spice_Weasel]

nicanary said:

V8mate said:

aR53GP said:

Also, misaligned headlights.

I'm aghast at the number of cars trundling about with just one headlamp this year. Time for compulsory spare bulb kits!

The problem will be actually fitting the bulbs. Carrying a spare does not equate with removing front wheels, wheelarch liners, front bumper assembly et al. Garage job these days, not one for doing by the side of the road. B*stard manufacturers.

Our old Alfa 156 was like this. Bulb changes pretty much needed a trip to the dealer

[nicanary]

Spice_Weasel said:

nicanary said:

V8mate said:

aR53GP said:

Also, misaligned headlights.

I'm aghast at the number of cars trundling about with just one headlamp this year. Time for compulsory spare bulb kits!

The problem will be actually fitting the bulbs. Carrying a spare does not equate with removing front wheels, wheelarch liners, front bumper assembly et al. Garage job these days, not one for doing by the side of the road. B*stard manufacturers.

Our old Alfa 156 was like this. Bulb changes pretty much needed a trip to the dealer

Makes a complete mockery of the traffic regulations on the Continent - must carry spare bulbs, but how the feck do you fit them in a layby?

[V8mate]

nicanary said:

V8mate said:

aR53GP said:

Also, misaligned headlights.

I'm aghast at the number of cars trundling about with just one headlamp this year. Time for compulsory spare bulb kits!

The problem will be actually fitting the bulbs. Carrying a spare does not equate with removing front wheels, wheelarch liners, front bumper assembly et al. Garage job these days, not one for doing by the side of the road. B*stard manufacturers.

Sub 10 seconds in my Beemer

[valiant]

All that jazz said:

austinsmirk said:

indeed, coloured appliances- v council.

was in a bungalow the other day- all applicances were black. black plastic- not a stainless or metalled black.

looked dreadful.

I have a "silver" Beko under-worktop fridge . It said silver in the blurb but it's actually a dark grey plastic.

Beko. The council brand of choice.

[Vaud]

nicanary said:

The problem will be actually fitting the bulbs. Carrying a spare does not equate with removing front wheels, wheelarch liners, front bumper assembly et al. Garage job these days, not one for doing by the side of the road. B*stard manufacturers.

I had an A6 (3l, so fuller engine bay). Awful car to change the bulbs in. You needed to be a contortionist.

New car - Volvo XC60. Much, much easier.

[nicanary]

Vaud said:

nicanary said:

The problem will be actually fitting the bulbs. Carrying a spare does not equate with removing front wheels, wheelarch liners, front bumper assembly et al. Garage job these days, not one for doing by the side of the road. B*stard manufacturers.

I had an A6 (3l, so fuller engine bay). Awful car to change the bulbs in. You needed to be a contortionist.

New car - Volvo XC60. Much, much easier.

I had a Vauxhall Cavalier back in the day, and you could literally stand inside the engine bay to work on the car. Different times.

We've gone way OT. Better stop.

[anonymous-user]

the eu should have made useful laws, like a law that requires manufacturers to make it easy to change a bulb without shredding your hand to bits, or taking a bumper off.

[grayze]

alorotom said:

Meridius said:

TGI Fridays, Frankie and Bennys, Nandos, any pub described as a Carvery, Miller & Carter when you feel posh - all council.

Woah woah woahhhhhh I'll not have Toby dragged into this!

Can't get more council than Toby.

[MikeT66]

SilverSixer said:

jamoor said:

MikeT66 said:

Ford Mustang? Council? Hmmm.... no, I don't see that...


IMHO, THIS sort of thing is 'council'...

I'd say its a car that's throughly loved by council types, kind of guilty by association.

A council type would love to go to Florida for 2 weeks and drive around in a base spec convertible mustang.

I'm sorry but yes, all Yank cars over here are a bit council. Council loves Americana.

Sorry, SilverSixer, but I don't see that either - cetainly not around the huge coucil estate that I drive to on my way to and from work. No Yank cars at all - ever. Plenty of (sorry to be stereotypical) base white BMW/Audi/Mercs (Motability scheme?), the usual Vauxhalls and Honda Jazz models driven by the older counciltons, and hatchbacks with 4/5 yoofs in driven by the younger counciltons. Anyway, if the Mustang is council and the girl from a few pages ago is also council, it must be something I aspire to.

[motco]

valiant said:

Beko. The council brand of choice.

One has a Beko washing machine, one believes (saw the bill), but one never ventures into the laundry. The visible appliances are AEG, Kuppersbusch, and Gaggenau obviously!

[Willy Nilly]

nicanary said:

V8mate said:

aR53GP said:

Also, misaligned headlights.

I'm aghast at the number of cars trundling about with just one headlamp this year. Time for compulsory spare bulb kits!

The problem will be actually fitting the bulbs. Carrying a spare does not equate with removing front wheels, wheelarch liners, front bumper assembly et al. Garage job these days, not one for doing by the side of the road. B*stard manufacturers.

The lights are on more in the winter, so more bulbs will fail. It's also colder, so all the plastic clips are really stiff, making an already awkward job worse.

[Trabi601]

Spice_Weasel said:

Our old Alfa 156 was like this. Bulb changes pretty much needed a trip to the dealer

Only if you have hands like shovels.

[chibbard]

My wife asked if we could have a Christmas door bow thingy and I said no it's a bit council. She hadn't a clue what I was on about. Who's with me on this one?

[darker grapefruit]

chibbard said:

My wife asked if we could have a Christmas door bow thingy and I said no it's a bit council. She hadn't a clue what I was on about. Who's with me on this one?

Oh, that's what they are. I used to think someone had died. Every day is a school day.

[Spice_Weasel]

Trabi601 said:

Spice_Weasel said:

Our old Alfa 156 was like this. Bulb changes pretty much needed a trip to the dealer

Only if you have hands like shovels.

Or the V6 squeezed in under the bonnet

[alorotom]

chibbard said:

My wife asked if we could have a Christmas door bow thingy and I said no it's a bit council. She hadn't a clue what I was on about. Who's with me on this one?

I'd say it's dependant on the materials it's made out of. We get a fir wreath every year made from real fir tree branches and it always looks nice and non-council ... plastic ones and light up ones are however decidedly council

[vonuber]

Spice_Weasel said:

Trabi601 said:

Spice_Weasel said:

Our old Alfa 156 was like this. Bulb changes pretty much needed a trip to the dealer

Only if you have hands like shovels.

Or the V6 squeezed in under the bonnet

Yup was a bugger on the v6. You needed fingers that were about 30cm long with about 9 joints that could articulate both ways. The worst was the inner bulb, lost half the skin off my fingers doing that one.
And after all that the comedy electrics probably meant they wouldn't turn on anyway.



Great car.

[93DW]

vonuber said:

Yup was a bugger on the v6. You needed fingers that were about 30cm long with about 9 joints that could articulate both ways. The worst was the inner bulb, lost half the skin off my fingers doing that one.
And after all that the comedy electrics probably meant they wouldn't turn on anyway.



Great car.

I worked at Halfords for 3 years as a Bulb fitter (Council in itself I know) and my hands were constantly covered in cuts from fitting headlight bulbs. Customers always used to say in the pissing rain "Its only a fiver so I thought Id let you do it rather than me get wet and cold" Yeah cheers for reminding me pal

[HTP99]

darker grapefruit said:

chibbard said:

My wife asked if we could have a Christmas door bow thingy and I said no it's a bit council. She hadn't a clue what I was on about. Who's with me on this one?

Oh, that's what they are. I used to think someone had died. Every day is a school day.

That is exactly why the wife hates them.