People say its a literary classic. Bollox! Its just Hollyoaks written a couple of hundred years ago

PMSL that has made my day!!

thank you sir!

another hater here, i still have the nightmares from somehow being in ‘top set’ in english in school and having to read pride and ****ing prejudice and write an essay on it…. a whole year spent dissecting the total b*lox that it was!!

if there was ever a time machine i’d be at the front of the queue and go back and make sure jane austin was never born.

amazing and i take my hat off to you sir…

i think it would look even better with original BBS alloys though 😉

YOUR A MENTALIST!!!

then running away and jumping over the fence is comedy gold!

good on your and your son, alteast he’s cool and going to a festival with proper LOUD music 😉

silly question but you didnt leave the lid on did you?!

signum!

signum

get onto ebay, loads on there for way less than new.

good nwws but they should also add the lost art of INDICATING!!! (Unless they have)

update, looks like one of the rear ABS speed sensors was shot!

cheers all

you can imagine stag and hen parties up and down the country never making it to their destination.

cheers for replies…

[/quote]Sounds like your abs is working but is for some reason over sensitive. Could be a abs ring loose and catching on the sensor giving a false lock up signal hence abs kicking in. Give sensors and rings a good clean and inspection and the brake pads and callipers while your at it seen a loose calliper cause a similar sensation but with a loud clonk when you 1st press the brake.

spot on nearly word for word what the local garage guy just told me, its now now and he’s going to have a fiddle.

as above, did this on mine and its fine now

we did it stupid looking back we had a 7pm chunnel then drove through the night and ended up bolloxed and had to pull into a god awful service station and slept for a few hours.

its longer than you think!

defo do a proper stop over

the roads are waaaaay better over there though, no lane hogging etc.

oooooh as above?

just ring the MS key gen line, ive always got serial numbers though that no problem.

as above its the exact same engine as the ST, add a sh*t load more weight… i’d give it a miss IMO.

bloke in work had the kuga with the ST engine, 3 months later it was gone.

if you have the cash, sod it!

honda HRV here

To change cambelt/tensioners

honda main dealer £321

local garage £278

its b*astard of a job apparently as you need to change 4 other belts before you even get to the main cambelt.

yesterday i had from our 3 year old..

“i dont like you anymore and i dont need help with my new shoes, go away”

So leaving the crying baby and annoyed wife in the morning for your 9-5, getting home just in time for bath time 5 days a week is better is it? I can’t imagine only having 2 free days a week (the weekend) to spend quality time with them.

when you put it that way, i guess you just adapt anyway.

thanks for the shift info. 😆

cheers both for taking the time to reply…

she didnt get an xmas off for many a long year.

this is indeed correct and my contact did mention this but she said you adapt quite quickly.

I get lots of time off when everyone else is at work so it’s less busy in the shops, on the trails etc

i have a rose tinted view of how it will be like this but then on the flip side i can imagine it is a nightmare when you have a crying daughter and annoyed wife as you leave through the door on an afternoon shift..

but as i said its long overdue for a move and i need a new challenge and i work well when there is a good training strategy in place.

its funny you mention becoming a student paramedic as this is what ive thought about for a long time but our local trust has had a cap on spending for years and it looks like the floodgates have opened a bit hence these positions so it could be a foot in the door for a view of a long career.

my contact reckons I would be suitable as my experience, age and the fact i do some voluntary first aid work will put in a good position.

i guess apply and see what happens, you only have to make a decision when the letter lands on the doormat!

can i ask what your shift patterns were, i think it is 12 hour shifts so obviously not the classic 6-2, 2-10, 10-6 i have in my head.

the salary is roughly band 3 16.5 > 19.5k with shift allowance, but there’s rumours of people taking home 35k plus with overtime

cheers again

im 38 the wife 39 we have a 3 year old daughter.

we have no intention whatsoever to have another, it makes me laugh the pressure through advertising, friends, family have put us under to ‘have another’, if i had a pound everytime somebody has said to us “so then when you having another” – where is the rule that states YOU MUST HAVE MORE THAN ONE CHILD!?

we did talk about another initially but we are in no financial or mental state to have another, it has been hard and if im being totally honest if we were both 10 years younger we may have thought about it a bit more.

its each to their own, i know friends who have been on their arse skint and banged out a few more and struggled even more, to the point of having to virtually beg for help.

i guess with an only child you have to be careful not to spoil them and you don’t have the arguments or for want of another word the hassle of fight etc.

My wife does worry that our daughter may be lonely but we have a very large close group of friends with kids of similar age so she wont go without, also you can tell she is not going to be a shrinking violet!

+ 1

You’ll be looking at £1000-£2000 all in I would have thought.

I’d leave the fire where it is and get another in the front, either gas or solid fuel.

Was a big fan from the start but the novelty has worn off, it is worth watching just for the interviews at the end though.

gave up on the last series…. two classic bits that stick in my mind.

this tw*t

his interview was amazing, he reckons he had some licence for an ISP and the guy found out he didnt, so in the interview he grilled him and he lied beyond madness until he finally gave in and admitted it.

there was one task (i think in the same series) where they had to bake bread and rolls for top class london hotels, anyway one team totally cocked up and only made about 50 rolls not the 2000 that was ordered one apprentice had to go and tell the head chef why they only had 50 rolls…. you thought the guy was going to deck him!

excellent film, brutal but some films have to be.

Jake Gyllenhaal, top bloke and actor, he spent a few weeks going round with LAPD in the cars to ‘get in the mood’!

tidy…

the book is shit!

nasty scratch!

chiminea = manly

firepit = girly

had many a drunken night sat round the chiminea, dont get a clay one though.

i was banned by the wife once at the end of the night i rolled up a magazine and dropped it down the funnel and got bored and went to bed.

next morning the wife shouting “get in here you idiot and look at this”

during the night the magazine caught a good un and all the bits of magazine got blwon up over the fence and fell on 6 parked cars in the carpark at the side of the house!

well i finally took the throttle cable off from the throttle body end, then pushed the pedal, it was smooth as hell (obviously)

i then moved the throttle spring by hand still with the cable off and it feels a very tight spring, almost too tight and feels the same force and feel as when the cable is attached and pedal is pushed.

i cleaned the spring, re-lubed cable ‘again’ still feels the same.

think the only options left..

1 – take it to a garage, but to be fair what are they going to say/do?

2 – take the throttle body off and give it a good soak and clean but i cant see that working and its major hassle as i’ll need a new gasket and as they dont sell the HRV anymore i guess new ones will be like rocking horse poo.

i’ll post up if its fixed!

cheers again

yeah i thought that was the only way 🙁

as you say sky have clamped it down

sky are doing sport half price £10.50 for 3 months, log on then go to sky chat and haggle for it.

roberts had a good game against england, but he’s not consistent, as above he’s been lucky as thin on the ground with choice.,

hook should have gone aswell.

it’s all good anyway, lets all enjoy it people! thank **** for sky+

do not get one!

most evil bits of plastic on the planet!!

bloody BBC wilkinson not picked is above warburton chosen as captain in the news, **** me!!

nice to see lots of Welsh but imo warburton should not be captain, BOD should have been given the job.

jamie roberts, lucky again!

nice to jonathan davies, could be star of the tour.

need to ring sky tonight sort out the sports!

Sssshhhh im in work, whats the best website to have the live announcement minimized in my taskbar????

another stupid question, can you ‘over tighten’ a throttle cable or would it be obvious as your idle revs would be way too high? (it’s late) 😉

If you have checked and lubed the cable the next thing is to disconnect it at the throttle end, leave it connected at the pedal end, and then try the pedal to see if it’s still stiff. That will identify which end you need to be looking at.

i didnt think of that! think i’ll take the cable off again ‘thottle end’ and try the pedal.

i say i cleaned the throttle plate but i did it halved arsed and didnt really get the pipes out of the way as I didnt have time.