Posted by clokey2k May 15, 2008 @ 12:41 am
It’s dead…
After all that pain and anguish on Saturday - It’s dead…
My car, whilst driving through a puddle, did exactly as the French once did… It gave up…
It may never move again, the engine has seized.
I would of taken a picture of my car, stationary, in a big puddle, to prove how much of an Idiot I was - but there was no camera of any reputable source to hand (Check the Mobile Phone post earlier). My car was not designed for puddles (unlike vehicles like this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qr8eEWyKQHM http://youtube.com/watch?v=g7hDJbEHJWk driven by MTM4×4)
Dad’s not happy 
Mum isn’t too appealed
I’m gutted
It is becoming a bad week… How is yours going??
Posted by clokey2k May 10, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
My brakes needed changing… or so I thought!?!
Upon removing my wheel, and removing the brake drum I realised the brakes are fine. The bearing however was shot!!
The bearing, for those who are still guessing, is what allows the wheel to spin freely on its center. It sits dead center and shouldn’t allow the wheel to wobble. The wheel wobbled, a lot and made some nasty noises.
So I didn’t need new brakes, I needed a new bearing!
£25 later a new bearing; but me and my dad couldn’t install it as the old one wouldn’t come out. We almost had to buy a whole new drum. All because of a small circlip, designed to hold the bearing in place. My dad and I had to waste an entire afternoon trying differing methods of removing a small bit of metal.
Job done, car fixed!
Ciao:
Posted by clokey2k October 11, 2007 @ 11:45 am
No girlfriend - I’m single again (Hellooo ladies???)
Car - Well I’m driving in Dad’s Peugeot 306 TD which is leaking power steering fluid; it gets me to work and back…!
I applied for an internal job at EDF - doing some number crunching!! :-0 but I didn’t get it…
It’s ok I can sit at home and stare at two - not one - but two dead xbox 360’s - I will call Microsoft one day…
I may put up some useful FAQ’s on maintaining a PC but that is only if I can be bothered. Too much effort - Too little reward….
Ciao for now
clokey
Posted by clokey2k February 6, 2007 @ 9:02 pm
I’m so nice to my parents… As my mother struggles over dads laptop - trying to find out how to place an advert in our local paper - dad is just sat there watching television. Poetic condsidering its his car she is trying to sell!!
So I join in by mentioning that the picture that she was going to use is still on dads phone and she is going to have fun trying to upload it… BAD MOVE… I ended up having to deal with it all. Temporarily setting up dads phone to send the file via e-mail, I then uploaded it.
I have attached the image that I submitted, just to see how this blog deals with files!!
