yesterday

A rather nice AM 1960 DB4GT "Jet Coupe" Bonhams 1793 : Fully restored by Works Service,1960 Aston Martin DB4GT 'Jet' Coupé Chassis no. 0201L Engine no. 370/0201/GT You can see Bertone's paw prints all over it. I like :D

B180CDI - 2005 M/Y So the last couple of days have been very wierd. No change of use pattern, all has been well, until a re-fuel the day before yesterday. Millers Ecomax in the tank as always for the last 6 months. Yesterday, wife was driving as normal and she reported it was gutless, no...

rain storm lasted a couple of hours...nightmare for the people whos cars are written off.

big flashflood in Aberdeen yesterday. This was the road about 30m from my house...

Hi This is what i spent my Sunday at. Touring the local hills on a bicycle, 125km in total. This particular hill was so steep that the rear wheel was loosing traction going up it. 230K was in the group 1:16 to 1:35 the rest is hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VSayKZOAu4 Enjoy

Yesterday, we went down to York for the day. A superb day out but changeable weather. From sunshine to extreme thunderstorms. My W220 performed brilliantly. It's got 132k miles under it's belt but still returned 28mpg on a 450 mile run averaging just under NSL. But I experienced something for...

Minding my own business yesterday afternoon travelling at about 70mph on the nearside lane where the M40 / M25 exit splits clockwise / anticlockwise when some eejit in the outside lane at the side of me suddenly veers left and hits the rear offside wheel / bumper area of my car sending me...

evening all... i bought, what i found was (just about) the perfect ML270 yesterday, a couple of niggles that would get sorted but, after a sluggish motorway drive home, today, i had it on STAR diagnostics, and i was a bit gutted to find that it needed: air mass sensor kickdown switch glow plug...

Managed a bit of detailing yesterday in the short break of rain. Used my new Snow Foam Lance (thanks npuk :thumb: ) got a sample of Autobrite Super Snow Foam, went on a treat, still need to get the dilution rates right but it worked pretty well. I then used 2bm with Autoglym shampoo and...

Spotted just south of Birmingham. Was it anyone on here? It was stunning and made all of the modern machinery look very ordinary. Brightened up my journey!!

....in response to a mate who scoffed at my suggestion that my car was relatively economical for a big V8. So a wager of a full tank of V power was set if i could get back to London over a certain mpg. The only rules were i couldn't change my standard route and i had to drive at the NSL...

through some old Practical motorist magazines dating from the 1960's that i found in the loft of the house we recently bought and some of the features and letters were tbh amusing to say the least. Topics like 'overhaul your dynamo' and 'how to keep your trunnions at their best' to name but a...

Had to go to Manchester early yesterday for meeting so drove as trains would not get me there in time. Stone or similar hit the windscreen on M6 and impact sounded like a bullet had hit it. Crack has now gone halfway across screen so new one being ordered :mad: Made really good time until...

The aircon on my CLK has never been particularly fantastic, and I've noticed over the last few weeks it's been getting worse. Nothing too bad, just takes a long time to cool the car down, and struggles a little in the very hot weather. Well, I've been here before in my 210 - cabin filter...

Waxed last night using Q Polish No8 again. Pleased with the ongoing results.

We're driving around the west coast of the Scottish Highlands at the moment in the 300TD (which is behaving faultlessly) and came upon a police roadblock near Glenuig. Turned out they were filming the SLS AMG Roadster advert. I just happened to have my video camera to hand... [YOUTUBE...

Also known as my W124 Merc Bought this in March as a replacement for my written off Peugeot 106. I ordered plenty of cleaning supplies from Polished Bliss and awaited a good dry day when my (now 6 week old) son wasn't being a pain in the **** The cars bodywork is generally in good nick...

Yesterday I got one of those dreaded phone calls from the wife to say "the car's doing something funny:eek:" Apparently the indicators, blower, wipers and windows all stopped working during a journey. It seems like there were no other symptoms and no warnings were displayed on the dash. It...

and I cannot say today seems that much better. Yesterday morning we had to have our dog, Kaspar, put down. He is the Pepper & Salt Giant Schnauzer in the pic below which was taken about 6 months ago but,perhaps rather distressingly, is one of a spread in the January 2011 edition of Dogs...

Pretty gutted today, one of my best friends at work passed away yesterday, Phil had a heart attack whilst on holiday and passed away in his sleep aged 41. Going to really miss him as when I started on the railway as a signaller he was my mentor and came to be a really good friend, on early turn...