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While sitting with my feet up on the sofa, and having floor to ceiling windows in the living room, it would have been pretty difficult to not see what was going on. I could have closed the curtains of course, but it was more enjoyable than the film I was watching.
Next time I will go out in the rain, around midnight, while my wife is away, and leave the kids on their own.
Turned out it was good practice, because I've had to do it five or six times since then (also on the wife's car).
If kids have never done it or been shown they are going to mess up to start with
when I first got a guitar it was hard because I didn't know how to play it.
I fitted a new set of wheels about 15 years ago but the last chance I changed a wheel due to a puncture was Christmas day 1985. I remember it well - sills were so rusty (1977 mark IV Cortina) that when I jacked up the car with the scissor jack that was in the boot it started to cut the car in half!
Only time i've ever been tempted to do it was when I burst the tye on my hateful VW Passat, threw my back out getting the jack out of the boot. Tried and struggled to jack the car up using the widow maker supplied by VW (whilst in rather a lot of pain) and was on the verge of ringing the AA. Then a lad from college drove past in his Austion 1100, pulled over, jumped out the car and changed the wheel for me in seconds
Similarly when she got her first flat, she (and all the folk in her team) were shocked when I said I'd do it, because "...that's a job for for the garage!".
Two issues here.
Firstly a lot of cars don't even come with spare wheels. Mine hasn't got one. In fact it hasn't even got a jack, just a compressor and a can of tyre gunk, enough to get you off the motorway I suppose.
Then, as said, even if you have a spare, a wheel wrench and a jack, a lot of times you still can't shift the nuts if they've been done up by your local Kwikfit monkey with an air wrench. When I did the brakes on mine recently I had to use a socket, a bar and a four foot length of scaffold pole to shift them.
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I have AA membership and have had to use them in the past (once when my car keys were stolen at a festival). As I go to the lake district a fair bit I know that if I break down it'll be sods law that it'll happen in the middle of nowhere with no mobile reception.
Far better to know how to perform a quick and dirty bodge to get me either home or somewhere I can call the AA (preferably from a pub car park) than to be stranded.
Also worth keeping some warm clothes and, at the very least, a hi-viz vest in the vehicle too.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Always best to remember that when your phone or something goes haywire and you need someone to fix it, the yoof in the shop is probably thinking "wow, this old duffer knows sod all. Best smile and nod until he leaves"
I felt like a schoolboy."Honestly, sir, it wouldn't come off when I tried..."