and today i have mostly been...

[Welly]

Well done. Winter tyres next?

Oh it's ok the Winter's have already been fitted.

In 2015

[406Break]

Happy new year!

Did my MOT yesterday.
Passed with flying colors.

Only problem was LEDs for my licence plate...they were a bit cross with me, because it's been a year and i haven't fixed the "minor" problem
But suspension, handbrake, foot brakes, lights and gases were a-ok

[steve_earwig]

Splendid news, what's the deal with the led's though? Is it the wrong sort of light or summink?

And this morning I have another one of those jobs that just won't go away - it snowed last night. Bastard

[Doggy]

Well done with the MOT.

That's really selfless of you, Steve - we don't want none of that there snow stuff until 24th December.

[406Break]

The MOT guy said that retrofit-leds are usually banned because they blink.
If a halogen\normal bulb goes out, it's out and it doesn't interfere
If a LED goes out, it blinks. (depends on the LED but it's easier to ban all than some.)

I don't know how much truth there is but seems plausible

On paper it's written as a small\minor lighting defect.
Three minor defects\problems and you don't pass.
That means if I would have LEDs in the rear, sidelights and blinkers... FAIL
Luckily I would hate LEDs in the front and don't see the point in installing them as blinkers...
Will install LEDs as reversing lights tho'. Prefer that over a separate\extra light

[steve_earwig]

I don't know how much truth there is but seems plausible

There isn't any! LED's running off ac can go tits-up in a variety of interesting ways, they can loose a diode and flicker or the voltage regulator can start flashing the led as the components die, but I've never seen one flash on dc. Sounds like voodoo to me

[Doggy]

I have.

I replaced the W5W front sidelight bulbs and number plate lamps with LEDs shortly after buying the original Dogmobile, aiming to avoid the constant lamp swapping I had been doing on my previous Xsara.

After 3 months, I had one working, I dead & 2 flashing at different speeds.

Changed back to filament lamps and all were still working 12 months later.

[steve_earwig]

It just occurred to me, the back end of yoyoII is festooned with led's, in fact I don't think it has any actual bulbs back there - how does this work?

[Welly]

Bejesus, just had a bit of timely luck.

I've been waiting to hear about our success (or otherwise) in bidding to secure a £102K contract with immediate start and which saves three Men's jobs in the absence of anything else here.

Well I only gone done and won the job

Phew!

[Doggy]

Good on you welly!

I bet you're now wondering what you were worried about, it couldn't miss with a seasoned professional at the helm*.

*any similarity to my mood swings is purely coincidental *

[steve_earwig]

How many people did you have to kill to get it?

Splendid news mate, that must be a significant reduction in your stress levels to boot, well done I reckon you've earned yourself a short holiday.

[steve_earwig]

Did you enjoy that?

I just realised it's Friday 13th I've managed to survive so far but at 7 I'll be collecting t'wife from t'soapy massage parlour and there's a blizzard outside Oh crap

[steve_earwig]

This morning I took one of t'wife's friends to hostable in Zagreb, she needs a prescription for orthopaedic shoes (well if she will keep falling over and breaking the same leg ). I was dreading it but I managed to park nearby and they'd bothered to clear all the pavements there, which kind of makes sense around an orthopaedic hospital really.

Anyway, while I was waiting I took a stroll around the vicinity and I spotted...


A bumbar is a bumblebee but a bum bar? Any ideas?

Also, while I was walking, I spotted a familiar shape out of the corner of my eye down the side of some flats:


(note what's parked behind it)





A bit rusty but, overall, I've taxed much worse.

It was down the side behind a gate with a lock on it, so I had to clamber over a hedge and slither down the garden next door to get to it. Of course I'd only assumed the gate was locked but while I was looking at the Avenger a guy pushed the gate open and walked straight past me without a word

[Welly]

Bum Bar?

Probably best to avoid that at night time

Nice to see the Vengie there

[steve_earwig]

I almost forgot this, it's a fairly new 3 series I think (you'll have to forgive my ignorance as they all look the same to me). It's on the other side of the fire house, I saw it coming home yesterday, badly parked which I didn't think was anything out of the ordinary, with a guy in a suit standing next to it on his mobile, also normal. About an hour later:





I'm not sure what's going on here, maybe the Uber car had spent a busy day being king of the road so the driver thought he'd give it a treat and ordered up a piggy-back ride home