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MOT day! What will it fail on this year?

You have to respect the detail level of the in-game purchases though.

Mine's tomorrow. Given that I've not driven it in 6 weeks+ and has a coolant leak (again) I'm not holding out much hope

I don't think it was the same spring that busted, I think it was the one on the other side. Would just seem odd that when the first one went last year that they wouldn't replace both at the same time, but perhaps they didn't think to tell me that they often go in pairs due to being the same age.

Either way it's sorted now, and no longer sounds like I have a load of metal tent poles rattling around the car.

They just took the tent out of the boot, right?

One time I took a car in because the clutch pedal was sticking every time I pressed it, and they diagnosed it as car mat stuck under pedal.

£50 labour charge to fix it?

Fortunately it was in for other reasons as well*, and I just happened to mention that as another symptom on top, so it wasn't too embarrassing!

*Radiator had blown up

Might possible have told this before...

My wife once took her car into the garage as every time she turned right there was a massive THUNK at the back. The mechanic gave it a good look over around the rear wheels / struts etc and couldn't find anything wrong. When I got home I had a look myself and found my skateboard in the boot.

Brilliant! #Hellaflush

*Smirk*

"A brake pad is missing" .

I just laughed out loud in the office... folks are looking at me

That's why you have eight of them, redundancy.

Where was the last place you saw it?

It broke.

...free and is now galloping along the hard shoulder with all the other wild brake pads.

Margin of error and all that.

An actual conversation I had with an ex's dad, many years ago.

Him: "I changed a spark plug today."
Me: "Wait, just one? Why?"
Him: "Well, only the one was missing."

I don't think he was joking. He might have been, but I don't think he was.

Our Transit had a habit of shitting a spark plug out under heavy load.

Obviously we solved this problem by having a glove box full of spark plugs.

We're thinking of leasing a VW Caddy van for work.
Announcement ends.

Beat that, Beexers!

Is it a £95K VW Caddy?

Ok, I'll have a go.

I'm thinking of sleeping with both Dannii and Kylie Minogue at the same time.

How's that? Do I win?

Sadly not. It is the "Black Edition" though, which is actually rather nice IMO.

Walk the walk, don't talk the talk.
(If you do, photos or it didn't happen)

Now I'm thinking of both Dannii and Kylie Minogue in a VW Caddy behind Argos in Blackpool.

#hellaflush

Gagging for it.

All the cool kids are driving Bedford Rascals nowadays.

Bedford Rascals, built in, er, Luton.

Still Bedfordshire though.

Your mum's a Bedford rascal.

Disappointingly not an actual ice hockey team.

Indeed.

They made bigger things, too - like this TM 6x6:

Isn't a Bedford Rascal just some rather horrid little Japanese microvan with a Vauxhall badge cynically glued onto it?
I seriously doubt they have much to do with Luton or Bedfordshire lol.

The Rascal was a joint venture between GM (who own Vauxhall who own Bedford) and Suzuki. In Europe it was marketed at the Suzuki Super-Carry. I don't know how much of the design came from each "side", but both brands were built in Luton on the same plant.

They're fucking awesome fun to drive. We used to have a 4x4 pickup-body where I worked, and it was so light (and mid-engined) that you could get some excellent drifting going on.

Grim... literally just said it was made in Luton.

Look at it! It's awesome!

It wasn't unheard of for nearly-complete vehicles to be shipped in, have the seats fitted, and branded as "made in the UK".

Oh don't get me wrong, I totally get that vans can be a hoot to drive stupidly, especially small, light ones. I have the dubious badge of honour for blowing up a Nissan Urvan.

That modded one you mention sounds awesome... mid engined 4x4, class!

It's not modded*, they're all mid-engined (and 4x4 was an option).

* Unless you count the fact that the front prop didn't exist

Really..?
Shit, I'm seeing 'em in a whole new light then.

Look at the image of the little one above and see if you could get an engine in front of the front wheels

Here's a "naked" one:

I don't know shit I just assumed it was a 660cc micro-turboed job.

Honest guv'nor.

/slopes off

I have seen one converted to a campervan

Fucking hell, now I'm looking at Rascal pickups on AutoTrader.

A campervan for ants?

Some had fold-out bits. They were really clever!