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From: Douglas Payne on 14 Mar 2010 07:15 http://snipr.com/uu5sg (JPG of my car's alloy after a high speed pothole interface) D'oh. Nevermind, "I'll have it straightened" says I. Investigations showed that it was about �55+VAT locally, and I got a couple of recommendations just to buy a new one as they're never quite the same after they've been heated up and belted/jacked. I made a quick call to a specialist breaker... he wanted �50+VAT+delivery and he didn't have any in stock. The wheels on my MX-5 are factory, but aren't all that common as far as I can tell but I thought I'd try my local breaker and I was in the area so I went in in person. Me: "I'm after a wheel for a 2003 Mazda MX-5". Them: <clicky clicky> "Is it this one?" <swings screen to show me picture> Me, somewhat taken aback as I had been preparing JPGs and an argument in my mind: "Yes." Them: "Someone will bring it out for you in a minute, take a seat." �30 later I had me a slightly scruffy wheel. The finish on Mazda wheels was never very good, and the 3 round ones left on my car were pretty brown and pitted so I've decided to have them all powder coated in "Shining Silver" at a local place for �40 a wheel. Then I ordered 2 new tyres to replace the baldy ones on the front for �100 a go. This will be an expensive month. Next I think I'm going to have the flaky paint on the wings and sills sorted. Where do I buy paint? -- Douglas
From: Albert T Cone on 15 Mar 2010 07:48 Douglas Payne wrote: > http://snipr.com/uu5sg > (JPG of my car's alloy after a high speed pothole interface) > > D'oh. 'tis the season, it seems. I did something very similar to one of the steelies on SWMBO' 306. Shockingly, the tools provided with the car proved inadequate for the job, so I had to[1] run a couple of miles home to bring some proper tools in car 2, attach the spare, drive car 2 home, and then run back to car 1 and drive it home. When the tyre man was attaching a shiny new Michelin to the shiny new wheel, he asked "Pothole?" and then nodded sagely at my grimace. [1] Strictly speaking the running wasn't necessary, but the fish & chips I was bring home were going cold..
From: Adrian on 15 Mar 2010 08:09 Albert T Cone <a.k.kirby(a)durham.ac.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > [1] Strictly speaking the running wasn't necessary, but the fish & chips > I was bring home were going cold.. Sod that. Eat the fish & chips there, before walking home.
From: Albert T Cone on 15 Mar 2010 11:52 Adrian wrote: > Albert T Cone <a.k.kirby(a)durham.ac.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like > they were saying: > >> [1] Strictly speaking the running wasn't necessary, but the fish & chips >> I was bring home were going cold.. > > Sod that. Eat the fish & chips there, before walking home. Aye, could have done that, although SWMBO wouldn't have been too impressed, I suspect.
From: Tim S Kemp on 15 Mar 2010 18:06
"Douglas Payne" <douggie(a)cheerful.com> wrote in message news:803uqtFdnhU1(a)mid.individual.net... > �30 later I had me a slightly scruffy wheel. > I've decided to have them all powder coated in "Shining Silver" at a > local place for �40 a wheel. > > Then I ordered 2 new tyres to replace the baldy ones on the front for �100 > a go. You've spent 390 quid on not replacing the wheels on your car? A set of four prorace 1 or prorace 2, nice and light, 15", with tyres would have been about 500 quid, not much more than adding two more tyres to the above, 16" about 70 quid more... -- And remember kids, RAID is safe and the UPS never fails, and Cisco routers never develop intermittent faults, and external hard drives never fail with only a month's use, and the DNS is reliable and resilient, and the mailserver is protected from all forms of attack, and the replacement UPS will be reliable as the first one was an unusual failure. No one will ever guess /that/ password, the aircon can't fail 285V is close enough to 230, and the QoS on the PWan won't obstruct the tagged traffic. |