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Oct 15, 2014 23:03:17 GMT
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Your MOT checks must be stricter than mine; usually I'm allowed to wait outside! (yes there's a joke there, it's not blatantly obvious because then it would be blatantly offensive). Todays pet peeve involves people not only bimbling at 25mph on a twisty back road, but also managing not to move over one bit and thereby negate any chance of passing, while you grumble along behind in your noisy rally car. I use scented Paper to do that What are you two on about???
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2001 vauxhall corsa 1972 VW Beetle 1986 Ford Capri Laser1999 BMW E36 323i Touring 1991 Volvo 940 estate 2002 Mazda 323f 2.0 sport 2016 Mercedes Sprinter 1999 nissan almera 1.4 1995 lexus gs300 1995 lexus ls400 1975 bmw 1602 fiat punto 2003 ford fiesta something else...
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quackshot
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Overtaking. It seems that it has been made illegal over the last 5-6 years and nobody told me. It doesn`t matter how much under the speed limit the guy in front is doing or how straight and clear the road is, any overtake is often met with much blowing of horn, headlight flashing and rude gestures. I even had somebody try to block me when I was overtaking him. I really don`t get it, I am sure it never happen a decade or so ago, but now it seems commonplace. I second this. Also seems to be a lot of the below. X5 bumbling along at 40mph - Overtake - X5 drivers goes mad about it - overtakes me - slows back down to 40mph HA I had a footballer (cant remember name) in a new range rover come up behind me flashing & tooting his horn on the motorway. I was in my evo4 at the time so pulled over waved him past but as he tried to pass I dropped a gear and left him like he was in reverse. Slowed down and played that a few times until I realised that he can afford 5mpg... I cannot. Damn that car was thirsty
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THE_Liam
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I second this. Also seems to be a lot of the below. X5 bumbling along at 40mph - Overtake - X5 drivers goes mad about it - overtakes me - slows back down to 40mph HA I had a footballer (cant remember name) in a new range rover come up behind me flashing & tooting his horn on the motorway. I was in my evo4 at the time so pulled over waved him past but as he tried to pass I dropped a gear and left him like he was in reverse. Slowed down and played that a few times until I realised that he can afford 5mpg... I cannot. Damn that car was thirsty I used to work near Wetherby where a lot of Leeds United players live, I remember one wiping out a corner shop with his M5 in a serious "talent shortage" moment. I'm a rugby fan so it just reinforced my belief that footballers are pansies that can't do manly stuff like not feign injury, stand up when someone grazes their ankle, or drive. On the flipside of this, I live near Headingley stadium where Leeds RL play, and I remember seeing a well-known former Leeds and GB prop confronting a van full of Bradford fans who were shouting abuse at him and his lass, as they panicked and tried to escape. Great stuff
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Oct 16, 2014 17:26:14 GMT
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On my way to work in Doncaster - they've given speed humps a new name on their warning signs:
"Speed pillows"
I mean... really?
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You're like a crazy backyard genius!
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Oct 16, 2014 17:53:20 GMT
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People who break down on the side of a busy rural rd..... Please please use hazard lights,warning triangles have at high vis vest on at least ,,,,,,,,,
( oh and non car related, pleast don't put that really prickly thorny hedge cuttings on the top of the skip, and learn what Level Load means) .......
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fred
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WTF has happened to all the Vennies?
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Oct 16, 2014 21:56:40 GMT
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I use scented Paper to do that What are you two on about??? Read back about undersides and MOT 'ers -
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'79 Cossie ran Cortina - Sold
2000 Fozzer 2.0 turbo snow beast
'85 Opel Manta GSI - Sold
03 A class Mercedes
Looking for a FD Ventora - Anyone?
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fred
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WTF has happened to all the Vennies?
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Oct 16, 2014 22:05:19 GMT
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On my way to work in Doncaster - they've given speed humps a new name on their warning signs: "Speed pillows"I mean... really? 'Speed pillows' ? Really - are they soft and comfortable ? Do you see Vagrants sleeping on them? Dayum bloody councils - Some 'Blue sky' Thinking curse word who feels the need to become mayor I guess Sorry - had a hard day - and had one beer to many !
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'79 Cossie ran Cortina - Sold
2000 Fozzer 2.0 turbo snow beast
'85 Opel Manta GSI - Sold
03 A class Mercedes
Looking for a FD Ventora - Anyone?
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quackshot
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Oct 16, 2014 23:38:50 GMT
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Back on track.... How about sticky electric windows that take forever to close. Usually on mx5s
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rickyr
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Oct 16, 2014 23:47:35 GMT
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In fact all electric windows -so inconvenient when they go wrong. Is it so taxing to wind a window down manually ?
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A couple more from today's commute: Reminds me. This is a short story, not a grumble, and I don't hold grudges. July this year, I've just picked up my M535i and I'm trundling along going from Northampton to Golspie, some 550 miles, and the plan is to do this in one go (with breaks). So there I am at a happy 60ish mph and the traffic gets heavier somewhere past Leeds. Seems there are roadworks or something. I'm in the fast lane but the inner seems to be moving much steadier so I switch in to it, and motor on up a bit, only to find it's blocked further up and I need to get back to the outer. I start to move in to a space, and ALL OF A SUDDEN the Jaguar that was three lengths behind is right beside me blaring his horn and will not move, sitting squarely beside me, to the point where I am half and half in the lanes and the cars are about to touch. I back out of it, because I'm not a twit, and try to move up and then down the lane but he keeps level with me. Why? we were doing 40mph at this point with the traffic ahead condensing rapidly, so he "won" like two spaces over me, and I overtook him as soon as the traffic cleared anyway. What was the point in that? Then late he raced past me again only for me to eventually sidle past him again in the Newcastle bypass traffic. It's not like I was driving aggressively, nor was I in a 12 plate Audi. Oh well. I had a lovely drive up besides that. Just outside Berwick:
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
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Sounds like he has a tiny penis to me.
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adam73bgt
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Motorways are a pain at times.. Nice M535i though
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Nice looking car there SurprisingSkoda. I bet that was a nice drive too. There's something quite magical about that first drive back, especially if it's a long one (idiots aside of course). Driving my Humber home a few weeks back reminded me of the joy of the drive home. It was a new and totally unfamiliar car, and becaase of its racing past it has a lot of weird quirky switches and dials that were totally new to me.
Its always a combination of feelings, that first drive back (For me anyway). Its partly fear because I've just dropped my entire car fund on this thing and a wee test drive before buying tells you nothing really. It could break down spectacularly at any moment. Partly it's also nervousness because of unfamiliarity with the way the car drives, moves, handles, operates... and I might plough it into a Nissan Micra in traffic jam with a slip of the foot, or do something inutterably dumb at any moment (I almost tore my exhaust off within ten minutes of driving away).
But over-riding both of those things is the sense of thrill that you're actually in something you've been craving for a while, and its all good, and its a chance to get to know your new ride on a one-to-one basis with nobody there to distract, and a long open road ahead to just cruise and relax.
My journey home was really short... just 90 miles... but by the time I'd reached Brighton I had become confident that the car wasn't about to poop out, so I kept going along the coast, past Brighton, down to Eastbourne where I stopped for a coffee, and then returned home.
I probably turned a 90mph return journey into a 250 mile one because I love that first drive experience so much, especially because every petrol station forecourt drew an admirer or two, which is always a bonus!
(It's quite thirsty on fuel, but more crucially it has a small alloy foam filled fuel tank that only holds £30, hence frequent stops).
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I was actually a peever rather a peeved yesterday. I had to slap my own forehead.
I'd parked up in a village north of Brighton to get my train to work.
When I got back, a couple of blokes were pulled up behind me, one in a VW Polo I think but it was pitch black and I'm not good with retro VW identification....circa late 80's I guess, lowered and sitting on sweet wide steels painted orange. It ad been towing a really nice MX5 I've seen parked around there previously. Clearly broken down. So we nodded in mutual respect as retro car people and they commented on my ride, and I commented ont heres, and then I asked 'What's gone wrong with it?' and they told me 'water pump busted' and I then found myself saying really dumb stuff like 'are you sure its the pump not a pipe?' 'no its the pump', 'oh. It could be a gasket', 'no... its the pump'... 'oh, can you fix it?' etc etc... one of those really stupid idiotic sets of questions that get nobody anywhere hahaha.
I got in my car and thought 'you silly curse word' because the last thing they wanted to do was to entertain an idiot like me asking lots of dumb, pointless questions.
I almost recommended that they come here to this thread to report me for roadside peevery.
= )
Still... its always nice to chat to other retro-riders though even if it is just dumb curse word that falls out of my mouth at the time.
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Last Edit: Oct 17, 2014 8:16:52 GMT by Deleted
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THE_Liam
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Oct 17, 2014 10:16:24 GMT
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Pulled up next to a bloke in a W126 in traffic last week, we just looked at each other, nodded and mouthed "niiice" at each others cars. Retro Benz bros
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luckyseven
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Oct 17, 2014 10:48:12 GMT
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Back on track.... How about sticky electric windows that take forever to close. Usually on mx5s A Mazda feature, that one! They barely used any kind of relay or switching on their early leccy window systems so it all runs through the switch! The combi switch for the steering column stalks is the same. On early RX-7s pretty much every other electrical function stops while the window runs, while the switch tries manfully not to just burst into flames. Splitting the plastic switch cover and cleaning up the contact often works miracles on the speed of operation. Peeves thread; not just entertaining but useful, too
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Oct 17, 2014 13:29:26 GMT
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One that's been bugging me recently.
Square number plates in a normal plate recess. It doesn't look good in the slightest, so what are people trying to achieve?! It's worse when you see cars (usually a Corsa) with a square plate mounted to the side of he bumper, and the plate recess and screw holes just empty and stupid.
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sweep
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Oct 17, 2014 17:08:28 GMT
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Pulled up next to a bloke in a W126 in traffic last week, we just looked at each other, nodded and mouthed "niiice" at each others cars. Retro Benz bros This is great, a brief moment of appreciation on behalf of both! Reminds me of something I read a while back about someone eating a sandwich whilst driving their car, and clapped eyes with someone else doing the same thing, they both raised their sandwiches in much the same way lol.
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quackshot
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Oct 18, 2014 17:03:02 GMT
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One that's been bugging me recently. Square number plates in a normal plate recess. It doesn't look good in the slightest, so what are people trying to achieve?! It's worse when you see cars (usually a Corsa) with a square plate mounted to the side of he bumper, and the plate recess and screw holes just empty and stupid. Oooooor when someone puts a mahooosive kit on their car, spends ££££ on a paint job, usual gash over priced wheels/interior and then... ... ... The rear number is nailed on 'a-la-afterthought' with some wanky numberplate lights from a trailer.
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J1MMY
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Oct 21, 2014 20:22:05 GMT
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Random hijack.... Ahahahaha, this stuff is gold. My car came without car keys. A kind fellow called James, who I believe is also a regular here sorted me out with some replacements which I finally fitted today. Sadly I offended him when I mistook his post-payment silence as a possible sign I'd been ripped off (I hadn't, and they came the day after I'd emailed him again to express my concern). (PS Thanks James. I owe you one and I'm sorry I doubted you) Welcome. ;-) Now where the f@@k is your thread in readers rides and the info/pics of the engine and supension you promised? :-D BTW, you pull back the spring loaded trim around the winder and handle, get a punch and tap the locating pins out. Voila. I destroyed a door card learning this.
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Your opinion is invalid, I've seen your wife.
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