Be Excellent To Each Other

CAN, and I say this based on personal experience, is a cunt.

I suppose that's not really fair and I should qualify that with "From the implementation I saw using standard parts," but I'm not going to.

Heh, I have a Lister 6/1 which is a single cylinder of about 1.4 litres, and is flat out at 750RPM.

With no load, it takes about 2 minutes to stop after you turn the diesel off.

That sounds entirely safe to me What do you use it for? I'm guessing it's just for show - my father used to have two National stationary engines in his conservatory.
Did you know the Lister's are happy to run on vegetable oil?

Engines like those, I expect they'll run on the bones of your enemies.

Yes. Well, it runs on more or less anything. It's a vegetable oil powered generator / heat producing thing. It didn't work out terribly practical though. I found I spent more time and money dicking about with the engine than I would have been cutting firewood and paying for proper non-polluting electricity, so have gone back to doing that

I tried to test just how fast I could go in first gear today. Unfortunately, as I reached 50mph at around 11,500rpm the people in front showed no indication of ever going any faster and, convinced the sustained noise was going to tear the heavens themselves apart, shifted into second. Definitely gets over 70mph in second.

Drove home with the new radio. Every 8 seconds the discrete blue display reversed lighting up the entire car. This continued for another 8 seconds before it returned to normal.




For the hours drive home this was immesely irritating. Looking at the manual hopefully I can turn this off.

It's probably a demo mode setting.

No, demo was off.

According to the manual by default the display flips every 10 seconds. Easy enough to turn off when you know how.

What made things worse was the display was ultra bright as the other thing I don't have thanks to Cambus is auto dimming when the headlights are on. It's now all been turned down.

There are some right garish displays on there for the chavs. How anyone could drive along with their radio flashing a load of crap is beyond me. But in the mode I've selected it all looks discreet and cool.

Excellently if you are playing music from a USB stick and you take the stick out, the next time you put it in it will continue from where it left off. I know that sounds fairly obvious but I genuinely wasn't expecting that!

Welcome to the 21st Century Mr Hill, I hope you enjoy your stay!!

You have an F14 just for getting to work? I'm impressed.

Grim... Yesterday:

TODAY.

We're all driving Citroens now.

£5 says you get an apologetic phone call from the lease company today.

I'm in on that bet. Except I doubt they'd even bother to phone him.

ooh. 198 pages!

I'm not reading 198 pages.

I saw what looked like a new Renault Clio Sport this morning. Do they have brembos as standard? Or was the one I was looking at using cheeky caliper covers to make it look like they were brembos?

Either way, the calipers were probably about 2mm away from the wheels. Talk about filling up the space!

Craster, is today tomorrow?

TODAY TODAY!

Today's gonna be the day when they throw it all back to you.
Right now you should of somehow realised they were talking pooh.
I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do,
about your Clio.

Nicole?

*waves £5 note*

Are they delivering it to your house while you're out? Will they leave a little card and take it to the depot, and then return it to France?

I forgot. TODAY!

Parp Pa?

I'm at home. Waiting with bated pants.

Card it is then.

Yesterday
It was the day they sent my car away
At the dealership it couldn't stay
It was so near, just yesterday.

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road is where my Clio'll always be

Every call I take, I'll get a new delivery date
Won't last for long, just turn around and it's gone again.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll fin'ly get my car,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep walking on.

Down this road, that never seems to end,
Where my Clio lies just around the bend.

So if you want to join me for a while
Just grab your pass, come take the bus - that's Clio style.

A Clio?



That's a womans car my lord!

My money's on the 'clown car' option.

Craster will indeed get said vehicle on time, but upon turning the ignition key all the body panels will fly off, the steering wheel will detach and various coloured, oily rags serving as 'comedy hankerchiefs' will also emerge from every orifice.

At this point, some representative from Renault will turn up (in a stripey top, on a pushbike, complete with string of onions around his neck), saying 'it eez ze build qualitee of le french auto, nes pas?'.

Yes.

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(Actually, only joking lawks. I love sporty Clios, they're ace little cars. Hope you enjoy it Craster. )

Clarification needed. The car's every orifice or mine?

Ah yes, I see what you mean.

I suspect the answer to that question would be the car's first, then that bloke on the bike? Then again, whatever lights your candle old chap.

I plan on getting a 182 Cup when I finally get rid of my pink Civic.

You... asked for it to be in white?

Damnit! I will be making a £5 donation to Help For Heroes.

EDIT - also - given your track record I give it 3 weeks before someone puts in one of your windows.

I didn't know Alienware was French.



Congrats Dude!

Hoorah, now go and crash it through a hedge.

It beats grey or blue, which all other cars are.

Nah - I just didn't pay the extra for "any colour other than white". And 3 weeks would be a bloody good run, for me.

White is a fine colour for a car as long as you are prepared to take it to a car wash twice a day.

Or if you aren't arsed that your car looks dirty.

Or not give a shit if your car looks dirty.

It has twin tailpipes. I feel dirty.

Some were made to be in white. Honda Integra Type-R for example. Also, it's the best colour (apart from silver) for lazy people who can't be arsed washing the car often.

So that your car always looks filthy and trampy, you mean?

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Hurrah Clio!

I have donated my £5.

No, those two colours hide the dirt best. Black is the worst.

Eh? White doesn't hide the dirt.

It doesn't hide it completely, no, but a black or dark coloured car looks dirty about two minutes after washing it. You can get away with it for longer with a white or silver car.