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Post by Martin on Aug 30, 2024 10:04:05 GMT
New windscreen in and no cracks…..third time lucky!
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 30, 2024 11:00:31 GMT
New windscreen in and no cracks…..third time lucky! 24 hours for the adhesive to cure is it not? .. ..
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Post by Martin on Aug 30, 2024 11:02:31 GMT
New windscreen in and no cracks…..third time lucky! 24 hours for the adhesive to cure is it not? .. .. Apparently not, I can collect it any time from 12:00 (they started just before 8:30)
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Aug 30, 2024 11:26:58 GMT
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Post by bryan on Aug 30, 2024 11:26:58 GMT
24 hours for the adhesive to cure is it not? .. .. Apparently not, I can collect it any time from 12:00 (they started just before 8:30) I'd leave a bit just to let it settle! Sounds like Nimby came close to getting nose nipped!
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 30, 2024 19:36:44 GMT
Just had a very angry man flag me down in the tractor in the hamlet near the hay fields and tell me he and the other residents are going to call the police as I am driving too quickly. In my tractor that does 40kph flat out and I was a gear down and slowing as I'm going uphill with a load. Crack on. He made the mistake of opening the tractor door and sticking his head in the cab. Good judge of character, my terrier. He retreated sharpish. 🤣 We are surrounded by idiots everywhere we go. No doubt he will be the first to complain when stuck behind a slow-moving tractor somewhere. Having just come back from the pub, apparently this chap is a well known whinger when it comes to this sort of thing. I gave the heads up to the farmer I am doing the work for - he has told me to crack on as normal - I have done all day and rather unsurprisingly, haven't been locked up by the local traffic police. 🙃
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Sept 2, 2024 17:08:52 GMT
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Post by rodge on Sept 2, 2024 17:08:52 GMT
Met a colleague today who I worked with back in the 90’s. In 1998, he bought a Toyota Carina E which had a 1.6 petrol engine and was one of the Leanburn cars. He loved that car and always raved about how good it was.
While we were chatting, he mentioned it and I asked him if he still had it. He only took it off the road last year but still owns it- he replaced it with a 2006 Honda Accord with the 2.0 petrol engine which is lightning fast according to him.
The Carina E now has 308,000 miles on it and is still running.
Don’t get many people holding on to a car that long very often now.
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Sept 3, 2024 7:25:29 GMT
Post by Tim on Sept 3, 2024 7:25:29 GMT
I was in Northern Ireland for a week at the beginning of June and was surprised just how many Toyota Avensis there were - even the original - and one or two Carinas as well. It seems like THE taxi cab of choice but a lot of private ones too
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Sept 4, 2024 17:36:00 GMT
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Post by rodge on Sept 4, 2024 17:36:00 GMT
I was in Northern Ireland for a week at the beginning of June and was surprised just how many Toyota Avensis there were - even the original - and one or two Carinas as well. It seems like THE taxi cab of choice but a lot of private ones too Funny you should mention that, I was talking to a taxi driver friend who said the Avensis was the car of choice in Dublin until the taxi regulator changed the rules to keep newer cars in the fleet.
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Oct 2, 2024 22:22:23 GMT
Post by Boxer6 on Oct 2, 2024 22:22:23 GMT
Just bought a new armoured phone case for my Samsung from fleabay.
Only to receive a pop-up asking if I wanted a cut-price charger. For an i-Phone.
WTF?
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