forgot to say hi

[the bairn]

...posted yesterday re 'stuck' rotor arm. used prev forum for advice on front wheel bearing - and managed to save £150 by buying it myself and getting wee local mechanic to fit! thanks guys!!

my next wee mini project is to fix the lock on the door - someone broke into the car and - wait for it - stole an ikea bag filled with stuff for the charity shop - and all my old tapes (yeh, tapes had about 100/150 tapes in the boot - my 80's collection!

then there's the passenger door lock - which has never worked.

oh yeh, and after that (or maybe before) i need to find the source of the water that flooded through the back roof into the car yesterday as i climbed into the boot to open the back passenger door so that i could climb out and open the driver door to get to the distributor (been climbing in for a few weeks now - i'm sure my neighbours think i'm a wee bit touched

ok, just wanted to say hi, and thanks! this is a brilliant forum!

[Chris H]

gutted about the tapes, 80's tapes as well, best decade fopr music!

I have a lockset if your interested.

whereabouts are you located out of interest?

[The T.I.B.]

had water coming through the back roof of mine from a bust rear screen washer jet, easy fix, but yours sounds a little more extreme.

welcome to the forum, i joined about 4 months ago and theres a lot of good support on here!

[the bairn]

hi tib - actually maybes something to do with rear screen washer jet (also never worked). it had been raining quite heavy. 's given me somewhere to start. ta!

hi chris - i'm in london (5 years now ) but from partick (glasgow )
i picked up a couple of locks from an online breakers. should've tried you guys first! thanks for offer!

yeh, 80's music. keep remembering more tapes that have gone, and getting pissed off again. thing is they probably dumped it in someone's bin round the corner. mates in work think it's hysterical! wonder what they thought of my clothes for the charity shop!

[The T.I.B.]

Rear screen washer - on mine there's a join in the pipe (runs from the pump under the bonnet to the rear washer jet), this was bust when i picked up the car so rinsing the rear screen just meant getting water in the driver's footwell!

That was fixed easily enough (pipe runs under the drivers sill interior grey trim) but it still didnt work, that's cos the washer jet itself was blocked - as i found out when it self destructed under its new found pressure! 2 man job to push the exterior jet moulding (exterior) onto the supply pipe (interior) but otherwise, yes it would empty out through the grey ceiling moulding at the rear of the car!

EDIT: Get some more 80's mates, lol! I have 'Bad' in my car all the time


Does this count as a project report?

[Chris H]

particks changed a lot in 5 years.

The granary is gone, now luxo flats, braehead is on the south bank of the clyde, the volcano nightclub is long gone and again flats and so on.

[the bairn]

thanks for that tib! i was just wandering round the car today (in between wrestling with the rotor arm) thinking - where the hell did the water come from? what a relief to know where to start!

yeh, more 80's mates for sure. can't be doing with people who've never heard of joy division, echo and the bunnymen, the cure, siouxsie and the banshees.... (i'm getting emotional again about my tapes) as for 'Bad', that is quite bad, lol. keep the windows up and def don't sing along! jk!

[the bairn]

actually, i can't talk. i'm partial to singing along to a bit of abba at high volume! (much to the embarassment of anyone who's in the car)

[The T.I.B.]

Originally Posted by the bairn

as for 'Bad', that is quite bad, lol. keep the windows up

D'oh!

Originally Posted by the bairn

and def don't sing along! jk!

D'OH!!

[the bairn]

Originally Posted by Chris H

particks changed a lot in 5 years.

The granary is gone, now luxo flats, braehead is on the south bank of the clyde, the volcano nightclub is long gone and again flats and so on.

yeh, seems to be something changed every time i come up

gutted about the granary! i liked it! who wants to see braehead? (apologies to soosiders )

the volcano?! it'll always be cinders to me!

[Chris H]

bet you call rooftops up the town rooftops.

Its been 3 or 4 different names in the last five years!

Not that I go to that sort of establisment!

[the bairn]

rooftops?! doesn't everyone call rooftops rooftops? jk! 's a wee bit past my time think it was tiffanies when i frequented (saw simple minds there a few times before they 'made it' - obviously i was 4 at the time! and strictly tee total

[Chris H]

ahh simple minds grerat band. I mind being at berkley 2 recording studio in about 2000 and heard alive and kicking blasting out, said who are those muppets playing that? It was only simple minds auditioning a new drummer! lol