What has your "friend" been up to?
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surveyor said:
My friend was looking for a budget 4wd to replace his work car with something more suitable. My friend is picking up his C320 cdi Mercedes tomorrow.
My friend usually has £500 s
t boxes. However after the last one broke down (catastrophic block/head failure which emptied the entire cooling system into the engine in about 1 mile!!) and required 2 lads from work to pick it up, his boss politely reminded him that he is paid a car allowance and should at least run something which works. My friend thought this was a fair point and despite the last nice car lasting 4 months before he put it round a tree, has just put some money on an A4, roughly costing as much as all his other cars put together! My friend expects it to last about 6 months before something bad happens.
My friend wrote off his Evo 2 days after spending £2200 on a new paint job.... The same friend was also demonstrating the new Akrapovic race can he had installed on his 6 month old Yamaha R1,whilst revving it in the conservatory (alcohol involved)..it magically slipped into gear and crashed into his wall/doorframe...
Edited by no-worries88 on Tuesday 23 September 12:08
Breadvan72 said:
He is too ashamed to say.
Not 100% in the spirit of the thread BV but just to ease your pain a touch, and so you know you are not alone, my friend's Mrs has just bought a 12 year old TVR. Not content with this they have bought it unseen and will be using it daily.My friend would never dream of telling their life partner what to do with her money (they like their balls and 'attached' status too much) and he might have partly had her "Awwwe go on, go on, go on...go on's" in mind from when he bought a 968 Club Sport as his daily car when he encouraged her to pay over the deposit.
My mate reversed out of an ex-girlfriends drive but turned too early and using the corner of his rear bumper put a car-length crease down the side of the girlfriend's dads newly resprayed and restored Cavalier SR180 which was his pride and joy (this was in the 90s).
He then gingerly knocked on the door expecting a deserved thumping from the intimidating dad but instead was surprised and relived when he simply peered over the hedge at the damage, shrugged and went back in to pour himself a large Jim Beam. Said dad was compensated with several bottles of the drink over the next few years.
He then gingerly knocked on the door expecting a deserved thumping from the intimidating dad but instead was surprised and relived when he simply peered over the hedge at the damage, shrugged and went back in to pour himself a large Jim Beam. Said dad was compensated with several bottles of the drink over the next few years.
My friend is very security conscious and constantly checking whether other members of the household have a) got their keys or b) locked the door properly. To the point that it is frequently used as evidence of his OCD fkwit tendencies.
My friend got back from a week in Crete and found the front door wide open and a note from Kevin the postie explaining that he hadn't wanted to shut the door in case THEY had gone out without our keys.
The kitchen was in a state of considerable disarray as *something* had rifled through the open storage shelves and consumed a deeply random array of ingredients from muesli to filo pastry.
The Glacé cherries were still intact however
EDIT to correct wordage
kwit tendencies.My friend got back from a week in Crete and found the front door wide open and a note from Kevin the postie explaining that he hadn't wanted to shut the door in case THEY had gone out without our keys.
The kitchen was in a state of considerable disarray as *something* had rifled through the open storage shelves and consumed a deeply random array of ingredients from muesli to filo pastry.
The Glacé cherries were still intact however
EDIT to correct wordage
Breadvan72 said:
A clue:-
Your friend has gone up in my friend's estimations. My friend recently thought that the internet and in specific YouTube could teach him how to touch up paint like a pro... It turns out my friend could now do with a proper respray on his bonnet, wing and a pillar, and keeps finding overspray in odd places.
Rude-boy said:
Breadvan72 said:
My friend always leaves any manual car in gear whenever he parks it in order to avoid such eventualities, but on one notable occasion he had been letting the engine cool at idle for some time after he had thrashed the yarmouth most egregiously, like the ignorant and mechanically unsympathetic yob that he is, and after he switched off he neglected to engage a gear, leaving the car on its handbrake alone on a slope. What happened shortly afterwards was entirely predictable.
My friend almost always leave any manual car they drive in gear when getting out, not always using the handbrake. Mr friend's good lady does not do this.
This has resulted in many a heart in the mouth moment but luckily only on wheelie bin has been slightly 'kissed' thus far...
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