WHAT THE FUCK???!!!!

[P4ddy]

One less bland and ugly thing off the road

 

[Elgraman]

One less bland and ugly thing off the road

No, I'm still driving

 

[Monkfish]

my MX-5

I don't drive it in the rain

It's not made of sugar

Yesterday was a family affair, WE as a team of three decided to wash and vacuum four cars and save £55 from our local Wash&Scratch.

After a few ‘accidental soakings’ my wife realised it was not worth moaning about it anymore, so we got on with the job.

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This took a while though with two rookies and a ‘know it all’ that knew nothing, me.

3hrs and four clean cars later, we were done.

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Now before we took on this momentous event we obviously studied the weather forecast which predicted good car washing weather for the rest of the day.

Yes you guessed it, I was alone putting all the gear back in the garage (as usual) when it started pi55ing down, and proceeded to Pi55 down for the rest of the day.

Wash&Scratch next time, although we did purchase and rather decent PizzaHut tea, deliverooed with our savings.

Look at Mr Fancypants here with his boat

 

[Elgraman]

It's not made of sugar

I know. Paranoid to the hilt.
I am in a relationship with my MX-5 however

 

[Monkfish]

I am in a relationship with my MX-5 however

Fair. I really miss my old NA Eunos. It's the main driver for me wanting a Smart Roadster; they're dirt cheap to run (£170/yr to insure, even for the Brabus, £150/yr tax, and 60mpg on a run) but just as fun.

 

[andyv6]

What idiot on Earth designed droplinks?

The second you put them on they fuse into one and even the "stop it spinning tab" stops working once it's taken some punishment.

Had a good electric wrench the lot, it ate through the nut but it never slackened one time.

Someone should have a fucking word in someone's ear, it can't be that hard for someone to solve ffs. Stupid fucking someone's

Grinder again and I hate grinders.

some of them you can get a thin spanner on them, then take them off with a socket or some of them you can use an allan key and spanner but all of them come off with a grinder. I have been known in the past to go straight for the grinder

 

[RuskinStreet]

Huge queue on the south bound M40 today thanks to a spontaneously combustible Tesla. Glad I was travelling north bound.

The problem with a BEV fire versus an ICE one is that you can soak a petrol/diesel fire out with foam, starving it of the oxygen it needs to stop burning. Lithium, meanwhile, loves a good water based soaking to increase the intensity of its burn and amplify the problem.
Flooding the market with cheap, Chinese electric cars is going to make the problem worse. You heard it here first.

 

[LeStempy]

It was truly an intense fire. When we passed it was all out but there was literally just the shell of the car left and a hole in the hard shoulder. The traffic was still being held and the back up was miles. Looked like they'd used powder on it.

 

[Nevillerover]

On telly a fire chap said after they have put it out it has to go into isolation for three weeks as it can suddenly ignite again.

 

[Highway Dave]

Huge queue on the south bound M40 today thanks to a spontaneously combustible Tesla. Glad I was travelling north bound.

The problem with a BEV fire versus an ICE one is that you can soak a petrol/diesel fire out with foam, starving it of the oxygen it needs to stop burning. Lithium, meanwhile, loves a good water based soaking to increase the intensity of its burn and amplify the problem.
Flooding the market with cheap, Chinese electric cars is going to make the problem worse. You heard it here first.

It was truly an intense fire. When we passed it was all out but there was literally just the shell of the car left and a hole in the hard shoulder. The traffic was still being held and the back up was miles. Looked like they'd used powder on it.

On telly a fire chap said after they have put it out it has to go into isolation for three weeks as it can suddenly ignite again.

Just goes to show how illogical this is, we are just not ready for this shite

 

[Elgraman]

Sorry, but the Gov't said EV's are the right way going forward, so they must be good.

 

[JagoGell]

Took a photo of the pot chasm that wifey took a day trip down. I intend to bill the council.

There was a truck on the opposite side and it was raining, so she didn't see how deep the hole was.





The whole county is littered with these, and worse.

Instead of repairs, the council puts up "uneven surface" signs.

 

[WhatsThisFor]

….fancy that, finding a Pound in the middle of nowhere.

 

[JagoGell]

D

….fancy that, finding a Pound in the middle of nowhere.

It only cost £95 to find that £1

 

[Highway Dave]

D


It only cost £95 to find that £1

Bargain

 

[Monkfish]

It only cost £95 to find that £1

Wife maths

 

[Elgraman]

Took a photo of the pot chasm that wifey took a day trip down. I intend to bill the council.

There was a truck on the opposite side and it was raining, so she didn't see how deep the hole was.

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The whole county is littered with these, and worse.

Instead of repairs, the council puts up "uneven surface" signs.

Horrendous. Disgusting.

 

[SkylineR34]

Thank you for sharing

 

[MarkT]

Just goes to show how illogical this is, we are just not ready for this shite

Get a bulk LPG tank in your garden and motor about for 60p a litre. Let the sheep buy EVs

 

[Richard Fox]

Took a photo of the pot chasm that wifey took a day trip down. I intend to bill the council.

There was a truck on the opposite side and it was raining, so she didn't see how deep the hole was.

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The whole county is littered with these, and worse.

Instead of repairs, the council puts up "uneven surface" signs.

Shocking!!!! One reason why I love living in The Netherlands is the roads are virtually immaculate, it does cost but its worth it!!