yay it was mot today shame i had to cancel it, as some plonker decided to use the xact space outside my gate as a long term parking space. #&%$?# !$@#&%
my mot man has some last minute spots he can do me, all depends if numbnuts moves their car and im quick enough to extract my van.
i did consider it and went out to look for the towing eye ready for a drag, then realised the wife took oure car to work today!
I know a cure for that. It includes a 4" x 4" template, a sharpie marker pen, a 6" nail or punch, a hammer, a roll of masking tape, a Stanley knife, a large bucket full of pi55 or excrement and a tin opener, the old skool type. Take your 4" x 4" template and the marker pen and mark out an area on the roof of said car, approximate location of this is over the middle if the drivers seat. Take your nail/centre punch and hammer, then, approximate 10mm from the line on the inside of the marked square knock the punch through the metal roof using your hammer. Once a suitable hole is achieved use your tin opener to cut around the inside of the 4" x 4" square, taking care to stay within the lines. Once the metal is removed use the Stanley knife to cut through the headliner. Then cover the edges of the cut hole so no one gets injured on the rough edge. Poor the pi55 or excrement through said hole. Et voila - I guarantee they won't ever park there again
I think it might be easier to ring the old bill to get it towed , or am i missing something here ,or do this
The police won't come out to a car parked across a driveway. They come out if you hook up a 4x4 via a chain to a suspension mount and you inadvertently pull the engine out of the car you're trying to tow out of the way. Ask me how I know
Its times like that you wish you had a trolley jack and some skates to move it onto someone elses drive or even better in the middle of the road. It will get shifted sharpish then!
To be (very slightly) fair, i don't have a proper driveway, it's just a big huge double gate at the end of my garden, and there's no drop kerb. And its a public road of course. But still. It's been 24 hrs now. If I was to dump (its not a local car, for a local street. ive knocked doors....) my car on a random street for long periods I'd have the courtesy to make sure I'm not parked anywhere that might cause obstruction. Realised that even if I do get the van out tonight or tomorrow morning, I can't go for test tomorrow anyway as have too much on children wise (I had babysitters arranged for today). Balderdash.
Done that before too. Not recommended to anyone. Can't remember exactly what the wording was the police used but it was something along the lines of 'blocking the highway' We did go that little but further though by taking its wheels off before dumping it in the middle of the road. Handcuffs hurt when they are forced upon you, especially the new ones with no chain between the two. The fine made a dent too. Then there is the car someone took the wheels off, took the wheels around the corner, laid them flat on the ground down an alley way, put an old mattress on top, then dragged the car around, turned it on its side and put it on top of the mattress/wheels. It wasn't a very wide alley way. Police reckoned that was a fire hazard as the fuel leaked out. They never caught the culprits. By far the best though was the exhaust which found itself chained to a drain. Now that was funny as it wrecked the cars floor too. They never caught the culprits for that one either Never understood why people ignore the sign 'private drive, access required 24/7, do not block'
If they're parked over your drop kerb, then this is a parking offence. Contact the local council and ask to speak to the parking enforcement team. Sometimes it is the cops who have the responsibility in a particular locality. From what I remember you can get something done (car towed) if you're blocked in, but they are less likely to move the car if you are blocked out of your own driveway.
Shove a spud up the exhaust hard so it blocks it. Then another if you don't get caught do it again. Might not have much of an immediate effect on the car being moved but it will make you feel better when they call the big yellow taxi cause the car won't run. (It will go far enough to get away from your drive) Or report it dumped the the local authority. Police will come if it's got no number plates displayed (gaffa tape) no damage done and you can find out who owns it
Where were you booked into? Mine failed its mot at BCL today but only on brake pads (I thought I might scrape it with them) and the drivers seat not adjusting! WHY WOULD IT, IT NEVER HAS, IT DOESNT NEED TO! But apparently it's a new thing and fixed with a squirt of slippy stuff. Back in for tomorrow
Done that one too as a 13 year old to our PE teacher. Won't say his ne incase he's on here. He had an escort turbo. We watched Beverly Hills cops and thought it would be funny to use potatoes. We shoved a whole bag up with a broom handle. Unfortunately it kind of backfired on us, in a big way. The engine blew up, something broke an shot up into the bonnet, guess this was the turbo?
I go for the council depot down at dock gate 20. No rip off fails! Where's bcl, I've heard of them but can't remember? Where you in soton?
BCL (used to be Beetle Repairs)is under itchen bridge and we are Bassett I've used them for over 20 years and they are properly sensible, well priced and Eric knows old VWs inside out. Where are you?
thats why i recognised the name then, i was down there for a look at the river a couple of days ago! im down by st james park, shirley.
