Eddie Honda's wheels of steel (and occasionally alloy)

[Drum]

You need some shelving

[Eddie Honda]

You need some shelving

That shelving I gave away was a wee bit too tall for this poxy shed.

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It was very deep stuff too. None of your domestic shite.

I took the two office cabinets back (like the one on the right of the second picture and that just squeezes in being 6ft. tall.

[Drum]

Could have cut the top of the uprights off.

I can actually walk right to the back of my container now. Found things I hadn't seen for years.

[Eddie Honda]

Could have cut the top of the uprights off.

I can actually walk right to the back of my container now. Found things I hadn't seen for years.

I could of, but then there is transporting it. Ferries concentrate the mind.

Once I construct the lean to round the back of the shed, I can relocate the bicycles, lawnmower and 1 ton bogie trolley out my road and sort through the rest of my quality used spares.

I have a cunning plan with regards to shelving needs. Will have to price up the steel and fire up the welder.

[Eddie Honda]

HONDA JIZZ - NCT shit to do

Fucking around with headlamps and lenses.

(Rewind to Nov '21 viewtopic.php?p=155300#p155300 )

I've only one spare at the moment and it's an offside (the one that was originally on the car). So I set about pulling it apart.

To separate, you need to heat it up a bit, either by heat gun or oven. Being a chicken and after chortling at this school boy error, (Clicky) I set about it with a heat gun.

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It was slow hard work at first. I started at 100°C, the ventured to 130°C on the settings and bottled it there. I got about half of it done before heading off to work this was Tuesday.

To save downtime, I needed to obtain a NS headlamp for the Jazz. Went to scrappers, asked at counter, bloke pauses to think (if there are any on the shelf) and tells me to go and have a look in the yard. Much walking later, I find the only 3 near that Midget. Out of them, 1 has no headlamps, the other has a nearside, but I'm not sure if something is broken off the back and the 3rd is a JDM Fit, so I go back out to the car to get a spanner and a screwdriver. €50.

[Note: 2002-2004 Jazzes have different lamps to 2005-2008 amongst other things]

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When I got home this morning I thought I'd finish the job off on the offside headlamp, finally separating into three pieces.

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The middle bit is slotted and retained by a single screw into the lens.

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The bit that was bothering me was on the INSIDE of the lens.

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The heat from the bulbs must eventually cook it. Both were like this.

Just now I attacked the nearside unit and with a better idea on time, temperatures and where to start, I had it off much quicker.

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Now I did wake up this morning questioning my decision to buy a Fit headlamp. Will the beam patten be the same? I hope so. We'll find out when I align them. No E-marks on it.

[Eddie Honda]

HONDA JIZZ UPDATE - NOT PREGNANT EARS

For some time I've been listening to podcasts via one of these fag lighter Bluetooth wotsits:





Whilst in general it works for listening, no cunt can hear me when they call. The built-in mic is dogshit. So with money burning a hole in my pocket, I decided to get something better for the job. I think it was Jazoli here that say just don't buy a dead cheap one because they're laggy shite. viewtopic.php?p=223833#p223833

So I pushed the boat out in a plan to update the connectivity in the Jizz, because that's the only difference with the new cars, right?

Over to AliExpress...and it's quirks.

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Stick three things in the basket and total shows as €332 inc O'VAT @23%


Go to the checkout though and then strange things happen. €57 VAT disappears and clicking the ? says you're on your own for customs.

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What actually happens is for the two sub €150 items they treat them as they usually do now: Charge VAT, pool the two products together and ship them as one item pre-cleared and they arrive speedily without issue.

Any item that is over €150 (£135) that comes from outside the EU (or UK) can be dealt with the old way because in those cases the platform isn't actually legally obligated to pre-collect. Whilst Jeff does under the Amazon Global shipping program, AliExpress doesn't.

Last Wednesday the "car stereo" arrives and heads to customs jail. I receive the demand from the post office by email to pay VAT on my €70 pratnav.

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(I won't grumble about the discrepancy between the PO value and declared value of €2.30)

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What a Great Bunch of Lads!

Even after paying the charge last Wednesday, the PO sat on their hole before delivering it today.

[Hooli]

All things I never want to do in a car. CDs are modern enough for me, just a shame it doesn't read MP3 ones.

[mercrocker]

Focus does MP3 discs but the T25 doesn't. That in the Chrysler won't play anything, hence why I was interested in the blue-tooth solution but all too much fucking bother for me......Got a Great Lads SD reading cheapo in the Minor which works well enough for me. Even has a remote.....

[Hooli]

I'm tempted by a DAB thing at times, but the one I got in the SAAB was shyte despite good reviews so never bothered yet.

[Eddie Honda]

All things I never want to do in a car. CDs are modern enough for me, just a shame it doesn't read MP3 ones.

Fuck MP3s! Up FLAC or Ogg Vorbis!

The pregnant ear adapter does have the following drawbacks:

Hogs the fag lighter.
If you charge the phone at the same time at BTing there is a little bit of a whine in the background.
If you're next to some cunt on the same frequency there's breakthrough.
The mic is wank.
Hogs the fag lighter.

I never bothered ordering a DAB aerial as they no longer broadcast anything here.

https://archive.is/aLBMO Farewell DAB, the radio technology we didn’t need, The Irish Times, 4th March 2021

The Kenwood DAB/CD head unit in Tommy's Jaaag works well though.