December 2010
1 post
A xmas poem for the folks at C30 World...
Twas the night before christmas on the C30 threads Not an engine was turning Not even Little Reds! TrevorDJ was happily tangled in wires Irukandji was home Fitting new winter tires Damien, busily cleaning his steelies While Buster was out On his bike pulling wheelies. When all of a sudden, a crash and a clatter So they rushed to the forum To see what was the matter! “It must have been...
November 2010
1 post
taking back anything I've said about winter...
just a quick update! Sorry for the lack of stuff lately, been bogged down at the service centre recently: *Had the splashguard refitted free of charge *Cars first Service; basic fluids & filters etc *Back to square-one with my DPF and oil levels…running oils at 60% and monitoring whether they rise or not. And to top it all off the camera on my blackberry has gone U/S so I cant even...
October 2010
1 post
#3 BE GONE BARE PLASTIC!!!
This is something I’m slowly eradicating throughout the car: UGLY BARE GREY BUMPY PLASTIC! Its EVERYWHERE on modern cars and it looks so cheap! you can even buy brand new AMG Mercedes that’ll come with bare plastic grills and fog-light covers. Frankly its cheap and lazy of manufacturers to send out cars with bare plastic on show, it’d take them no time at all to cover it up. To...
September 2010
7 posts
goodoldvalves asked: Hi there,
Thank you so much for your support on the Automotive directory. It really means a lot!
Cheers!
R.
Thank you so much for your support on the Automotive directory. It really means a lot!
Cheers!
R.
Return of the Veyron Beater.
For the past 3 hours, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot, EVERY car forum and auto news feed has been going MENTAL over a ‘leaked picture’ of Shelby’s new SSC Ultimate Aero II and how it aims to break the 270 barrier. I think SSC have missed the point altogether. They MAY beat the Veyron’s production land speed record, but any car company could build a car that could do...
stuff that real men should already know.
This is the exact reason I was inspired to write this blog! I just woke up to overhear my housemate ringing his dad and asking how to jump start a car…
If I had to ring to ask my dad something as fundamental as that, it’d break his heart!
I can imagine the phonecall now: “I have no son!!!!” *click*
I’m going to start a section on here called “Shit a Real...
Road rage...
Yesterday, I got out my car, for the first time EVER, as a result of road rage.
A TT driver was my antagonist; you know the type; pressed ‘casual’ shirt tucked into his stretched chino waistband, sunglasses on top of his flushed, greasy forehead. The kind of TT driver that doesn’t fully appreciate the car he has.
Proof of this? His car had broken down and was about to be...
That was a LONG 7 hours!
If the roads are dense: make your friday commute more enjoyable by saluting, instead of waving, to merging traffic :-)
August 2010
14 posts
Not long left! →
Less than 4 days til the start of the Great American Run! Last chance to apply guys!
http://www.thegreatamericanrun.com/
Fuel for thought...
‘Shell 99octane will save you 1 litre of fuel per tank!’
Wow! A litres a lot of miles! Sounds too good to be true!
…It is. Just do the math:
99 oct will cost you an extra 5p per litre, so to fill your tank (of roughly 50 litres) will cost you around £2.50 more…that litre of fuel you just saved would have cost you less than £1.20…
Legionaires hats at the ready gentlemen!
The 2011 mongol rally opens for applications at 2pm gmt on september first! Better start shopping for a rusty old mini…
http://mongolrally.theadventurists.com
Contact parking...
You don’t have to say it. I know. Its a volvo. Its a brick. Its not a ferrari.
But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t look after it!
I take this quite seriously…to the extent that I carry ‘emergency cleaning equipment’ in my car…you know, incase a birt sh!ts on it, or some tree sap…or it rains a bit and takes away its ‘glow’.
And then...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Mod 2! Intercooler Grill
#2 the grill: had to fit a grill! hated the thought of an exposed intercooler and after seeing a dent on the inside of the intake that looked like a pretty near miss, decided I had to protect it.
So many turbo cars come with bare intercoolers these days, and can cost thousands in repairs!
you’ll need: mesh pliers double sided clear rubber tape RTV sealant (optional) rubber door-seal...
#1 the tint: i’ll skip over my first mod and get straight to the grill, as the tint isn’t something I did myself. probably the best bit of advice for tinting windows would be : take it too a tint shop. As easy as it is to do, a bad one looks too obvious. When choosing a tint shop: *go for a place with a long waiting list. much like when getting a tattoo, this is a sign that the...
How I bought a new car without getting...
So I (stupidly) listened to all my mates and ended up buying a volvo for the same price as a new jaguar. So much for all that “start by setting a budget” stuff they tell you in autotrader…
Here’s how that went:
“hi how much for a volvo c30?”
sounds simple, but i must have asked that question twenty times! EVERY garage had a different price! same car! no...
How I bought a new car without getting...
I fell at the first hurdle really, I shouldn’t have done it, I shouldn’t have said anything, shouldn’t have told my mates I was looking at a new car….
If I hadn’t told them, I’d have walked into that first garage, week 1, bought a nice, reliable, second hand car. Probably paid something nice like £150 per month on it*. It would have probably had good fuel...
This world. I tell you.
Hi! My name’s Tam, and I fix things. Here’s my awesome, stupid face:
22 years old, Geordie engineer, fueled by Marmite, diesel, distortion and the cheapest available rum. At 22 I’m probably one of the last people in Britain to have received a “traditional” working class upbringing…and by “traditional” I mean that for my 16th birthday, I was given a pack of sandwiches and a road map, and told to...