Fixed the broken headlight, bumper bracket and front grille on my Passat today after some cunt crashed into it in the middle of winter and fucked off. Thankfully no real paintwork damage so its as good as new now, I'm bored with it now so I'm tempted to change it for something else. IMG_0727.jpeg IM...

Hooli wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:05 am It'll be like those race engines where the blocks were left outside to weather as it reduced stresses. Damned if I can't which engines that was though.

It was the BMW F1 engines wasn’t it that used road car blocks?

A question for the more able-minded... at the service the garage reckoned that the brake fluid is '-1%. What does that mean? Fucked? If so I am a tiny bit more pissed off as it had a brake fluid change at the last service done by Central Garage, so just on a year ago. I'd say they are fishing for e...

Knobhead driver went the wrong way up the high street today and the van managed to crash into them.

It might be reading the inlet air temperature and adjusting the fuelling due to the temp, someone cleverer than me will be able to explain it better.

You are probably leaning a bit much as the stand will lift the rear wheel off the ground eventually and you'll crash, especially if you hit a bump, best to hang off a bit but you'll look like a cunt hanging off on a scooter, I rode my daughters home from the shop in my race leathers and got my knee ...

I think I'd be scrapping it if you are paying someone to sort it, what car is it?

Have noticed for quite some time that the (heater) fan only seemed to really do anything on 2,3 and 4, found it a bit weird, but thought I was just being a bit dim. Fastforword to last week and I realised that now it only works on 4. Apparently this is a super common VAG fault, with the resistor pa...

paulplom wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:41 pm How the fuck am I only getting 75mpg from my vespa? It is flat out for a most of the time though.

Because its got a child's engine in it.

You also need a way of driving the new seals into place, I used to use a split bit of 32mm drain pipe to drive the new ones in.