Things I do like

[SeanW]

Glad your lesson went well :-)

One thing to be aware of with the Punto...the sides curve out slightly, making parking straight chuffin' awkward...in fact, I blame the Punto for my habit of abandoning the car rather than parking it :P

[Ianb]

Nah Jamie, I understand, my wife wants an auto, she can drive a manual fine, but she said she'd feel happier focusing on the road and driving than worrying about gear changes - especially when it gets trafficy etc...

[GMX]

I do like eBay sellers who send items much faster than their listing estimate and by a courier service of repute.

2 minutes ago, Ianb said:

Nah Jamie, I understand, my wife wants an auto, she can drive a manual fine, but she said she'd feel happier focusing on the road and driving than worrying about gear changes - especially when it gets trafficy etc...

I prefer manual boxes, personally. 

Your left leg feels useless and unwanted (which is in an auto)

 

[jmurray01]

25 minutes ago, GMX said:

I do like ebay sellers who send items much faster than their listing estimate and by a courier service of repute.

I prefer manual boxes, personally. 

Your left leg feels useless and unwanted (which is in an auto)

 

My whole body feels useless and unwanted most days, let alone my leg

[TomsFocus]

3 hours ago, GMX said:

Including spares 37 toys.

Most of them are BNWT (apart the Del Monte Crow, who is rarer in mint condition than the Co-op conjoined cherries) and in the case of the Del Monte,  COAs - There is counterfeiting in soft toys would you believe!

I wondered who was going to notice that first.

In which case, you'd find my office traumatic and as for the garage, which is more chaotic than chaos itself at the moment

Aren't Fords specifically and cars in general your main hobby?

Lol, yeah I can't deal with mess, everything has a place here haha.

As for Fords being a hobby, I've only owned 1 Ford, 1 Volvo, 1 Toyota, 2 Vauxhalls, 2 VWs and about 18 Peugeots haha.  However...I don't really like driving, other people (drivers, bikers, pedestrians) annoy me constantly, I'm permanently worried about breaking down or getting trapped in traffic, and I get easily nauseous in the car, even with myself driving!  

I think I like tinkering with cars...until I come to do it.  It's mostly freezing cold, wet and having sheared yet another bolt wondering why I didn't just let someone else do it lol.  Stupidly I even offer to help other people fix theirs lol. 

I've tried local car meets but people are always being daft, wheel spinning, drifting, backfiring etc, just makes me feel really unsafe.  And I tried 2 major local car shows last year and just wandered round wondering what the point was.

3 hours ago, Ianb said:

Tom, just think of what you do in your time off... There must be something you tend to enjoy doing more often than not...

I don't even work. :(  I spend the majority of the time sat on the loo or trying to eat.  Spare time is filled with trying to help on various forums and usually failing, or watching some comedy on TV to distract from how pointless life seems to be.  I do occasionally kill people on xbox but I'm terrible at it and it's not something I can take into real life...plus I don't like blood lol.  Other than that, I drive to the seaside for an hours walk once a week, and wonder why I bother.  Or go for a walk locally, and wonder why I bother.  I've tried various things in the past, but I just don't get anything out of it, seems like most people get 'something' (a buzz?) out of doing certain things that I don't, weird I know.   I moved about  months ago, really hoping I'd find a hobby or some way to socialise, but haven't done so far.

 

[jmurray01]

28 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Lol, yeah I can't deal with mess, everything has a place here haha.

As for Fords being a hobby, I've only owned 1 Ford, 1 Volvo, 1 Toyota, 2 Vauxhalls, 2 VWs and about 18 Peugeots haha.  However...I don't really like driving, other people (drivers, bikers, pedestrians) annoy me constantly, I'm permanently worried about breaking down or getting trapped in traffic, and I get easily nauseous in the car, even with myself driving!  

I think I like tinkering with cars...until I come to do it.  It's mostly freezing cold, wet and having sheared yet another bolt wondering why I didn't just let someone else do it lol.  Stupidly I even offer to help other people fix theirs lol. 

I've tried local car meets but people are always being daft, wheel spinning, drifting, backfiring etc, just makes me feel really unsafe.  And I tried 2 major local car shows last year and just wandered round wondering what the point was.

I don't even work. :(  I spend the majority of the time sat on the loo or trying to eat.  Spare time is filled with trying to help on various forums and usually failing, or watching some comedy on TV to distract from how pointless life seems to be.  I do occasionally kill people on xbox but I'm terrible at it and it's not something I can take into real life...plus I don't like blood lol.  Other than that, I drive to the seaside for an hours walk once a week, and wonder why I bother.  Or go for a walk locally, and wonder why I bother.  I've tried various things in the past, but I just don't get anything out of it, seems like most people get 'something' (a buzz?) out of doing certain things that I don't, weird I know.   I moved about  months ago, really hoping I'd find a hobby or some way to socialise, but haven't done so far.

 

I can't really offer any advice, other than to say that I (as a sufferer of severe depression) have an understanding of how you feel about life.

All you can do is live day to day and eventually something will come along that interests you. 

For me it is vacuum cleaners and Roy Orbison - without those two my life would be worthless.  It sounds pathetic, but it is true. 

Never give up on life, it is better than the alternative (trust me, I've thought about it).

 

[GMX]

17 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Lol, yeah I can't deal with mess, everything has a place here haha.

As for Fords being a hobby, I've only owned 1 Ford, 1 Volvo, 1 Toyota, 2 Vauxhalls, 2 VWs and about 18 Peugeots haha.  However...I don't really like driving, other people (drivers, bikers, pedestrians) annoy me constantly, I'm permanently worried about breaking down or getting trapped in traffic, and I get easily nauseous in the car, even with myself driving!  

I think I like tinkering with cars...until I come to do it.  It's mostly freezing cold, wet and having sheared yet another bolt wondering why I didn't just let someone else do it lol.  Stupidly I even offer to help other people fix theirs lol. 

I've tried local car meets but people are always being daft, wheel spinning, drifting, backfiring etc, just makes me feel really unsafe.  And I tried 2 major local car shows last year and just wandered round wondering what the point was.

I don't even work. :(  I spend the majority of the time sat on the loo or trying to eat.  Spare time is filled with trying to help on various forums and usually failing, or watching some comedy on TV to distract from how pointless life seems to be.  I do occasionally kill people on xbox but I'm terrible at it and it's not something I can take into real life...plus I don't like blood lol.  Other than that, I drive to the seaside for an hours walk once a week, and wonder why I bother.  Or go for a walk locally, and wonder why I bother.  I've tried various things in the past, but I just don't get anything out of it, seems like most people get 'something' (a buzz?) out of doing certain things that I don't, weird I know.   I moved about  months ago, really hoping I'd find a hobby or some way to socialise, but haven't done so far.

 

That's rather a lot of Peugeots!  One after the other? Or scattered through your driving career?

Mind you, up until my Volvo and then BMW phases, followed by the Astra incident: it was one Ford being replaced with another Ford

Up until the Mk2 Focus, I seemed to buy cars in the wet months, do a cam belt service upon taking over ownership and consequently set up the precedent of having to do the 12 month service, in the rain or in the cold and rain.  I bought the Focus in August, it's quite novel to do a 12 month service in the warm

You haven't thought of "borrowing" a dog to take on your walks?  A bit of company, a distraction from the pointlessness of it.  A non-shedder (less mess), one of the curly fur breeds

There's even a web site for dog borrowing, my brother "lends" his pugs out through it, co-incidently saving him a fortune on doggy day care https://www.borrowmydoggy.com/?imt=1&gclid=CP-UvZngzcoCFQuNGwodZiYN0w&utm_campaign=Brand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Brand+&utm_term=borrow+my+doggy

 

 

[jmurray01]

10 minutes ago, GMX said:

That's rather a lot of Peugeots!  One after the other? Or scattered through your driving career?

Mind you, up until my Volvo and then BMW phases, followed by the Astra incident: it was one Ford being replaced with another Ford

Up until the Mk2 Focus, I seemed to buy cars in the wet months, do a cam belt service upon taking over ownership and consequently set up the precedent of having to do the 12 month service, in the rain or in the cold and rain.  I bought the Focus in August, it's quite novel to do a 12 month service in the warm

You haven't thought of "borrowing" a dog to take on your walks?  A bit of company, a distraction from the pointlessness of it.  A non-shedder (less mess), one of the curly fur breeds

There's even a web site for dog borrowing, my brother "lends" his pugs out through it, co-incidently saving him a fortune on doggy day care https://www.borrowmydoggy.com/?imt=1&gclid=CP-UvZngzcoCFQuNGwodZiYN0w&utm_campaign=Brand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Brand+&utm_term=borrow+my+doggy

 

 

I'd have just done the second service early (in summer) and carried on from there, thus doing the yearly service in warm weather.

[GMX]

Just now, jmurray01 said:

I'd have just done the second service early (in summer) and carried on from there, thus doing the yearly service in warm weather.

That would have made a lot of sense

Often midway through a service, I'd say to myself, usually when I was getting rained upon, "I must switch the 6 month and 12 month service round" - I'd never actually did so, when the time came around

The Focus has a nicely placed warm late Spring MOT date too, if I keep where it is

[Ianb]

Tom I was thinking the same thing as Ghana, sounds like you need a dog as company...either your own (come on, join the DOC ) or as Ghana suggested, borrow someone's.

[TomsFocus]

9 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

I can't really offer any advice, other than to say that I (as a sufferer of severe depression) have an understanding of how you feel about life.

All you can do is live day to day and eventually something will come along that interests you. 

For me it is vacuum cleaners and Roy Orbison - without those two my life would be worthless.  It sounds pathetic, but it is true. 

Never give up on life, it is better than the alternative (trust me, I've thought about it).

 

I'm not sure it is always better than the alternative...  I was seriously thinking about that ~10 years ago, if I'd known I'd still be in this state 10 years later, I may've made a different choice there.  Ironically it's only my fear of failure and injury that stopped it back then, as it does now...  However, that probably isn't a topic to be discussing on here lol. ;)

I've also been told by Doc's that I'm not depressed (though suffer anxiety and OCD), it seems I'm just a boring, miserable !Removed!.  

9 hours ago, GMX said:

That's rather a lot of Peugeots!  One after the other? Or scattered through your driving career?

Mind you, up until my Volvo and then BMW phases, followed by the Astra incident: it was one Ford being replaced with another Ford

Up until the Mk2 Focus, I seemed to buy cars in the wet months, do a cam belt service upon taking over ownership and consequently set up the precedent of having to do the 12 month service, in the rain or in the cold and rain.  I bought the Focus in August, it's quite novel to do a 12 month service in the warm

You haven't thought of "borrowing" a dog to take on your walks?  A bit of company, a distraction from the pointlessness of it.  A non-shedder (less mess), one of the curly fur breeds

There's even a web site for dog borrowing, my brother "lends" his pugs out through it, co-incidently saving him a fortune on doggy day care https://www.borrowmydoggy.com/?imt=1&gclid=CP-UvZngzcoCFQuNGwodZiYN0w&utm_campaign=Brand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Brand+&utm_term=borrow+my+doggy

 

 

It is indeed a lot of Peugeots.  I think it became a compulsion to keep buying the damn things lol.  The longest 'run' of Peugeots was 4 though, so quite scattered.  A few were also bought as donor cars for others so I never actually drove them.  Also just realised I owned a Fiesta last year, so I've actually owned 2 Fords lol.

It seems to rain even in the height of summer when I work on cars lol.  Mid June one year I bought a stop-gap 106, driveshaft failed 2 days later and it was basically monsoon weather trying to replace that!  So wet the sand/shingle driveway gave way overnight, the axle sands sunk and the car ended up sitting on the brake discs! 

I have the same problem with dogs as I do people, contamination issues. :(  There's no way I'd be able to clear up any leaked fluids (or even solids) from a dog.  I'm not allowed pets here anyway though so getting my own wouldn't be possible even if I wanted to.  I wouldn't mind walking one with a nappy on lol. :P

[chrisroberson99]

I like Peugeots. :)

What models were they?

[TomsFocus]

3x 306 1.4 Miami/Meridian
2x 306 1.8 Meridian
3x 306 2.0 HDi Estate
6x 306 2.0 HDi DTurbo (3dr/5dr)
1x 306 2.0 GTi6 

2x 106 1.5d Zest 2

1x 206 2.0 HDi GLX

1x 107 1.0 Allure

[chrisroberson99]

Wow someone likes their 306s!  I llike them too...and really fancy one as a project car to restore and keep.

We had an N reg 306 2.0XSi (IIRC) back in 2001. Bought it from my aunt and uncle! First car I remember and I loved the wheels. Lol

Sadly it died in 2004 according to the DVLA.  We drove to Germany and back in that car!

[TomsFocus]

Lol, I bought the first one because it was cheaper to insure at 17 than a 106, Clio or Fiesta!  Didn't like the pov spec first one (dangerously small brakes, no ABS either), second one was a complete dog despite only being 9 years old, 3rd one let me down and lost my trust, 4th one was too thirsty.  So I bought a Golf GT TDI...now that was a good all round car...except not enough doors, bought a 5dr one, spent about a grand modifying it, then it spectacularly died and I couldn't afford anything at the time so fixed and borrowed a mates 'spare' 306 (needed a clutch & MOT) lol, bought my own estate when he asked for his back.  Got some money together and bought a Vectra CDTi Design, nice spec but a terrible car though I owned it a whole year, sold that and moved back to £500 306s to save money to move out, had a run of them including fixers and breakers but couldn't trust any and got some inheritance so bought a year old 107...ride in it was too rough for my stomach though, so that was returned a few days later and I bought the Focus instead. Only 306 I bought that I actually 'wanted' was the GTi6, but that was a massive anti-climax, think that's more to do with me than the car though lol!

I am helping a mate restore a 306 Rallye project currently, he'll take it to shows and track days when finished.  Should appreciate in value as long as he doesn't crash it lol. :)

[V6 Lover]

Peugeot 306 is a nice driver's motor in gti-6 form and very uncreated...

[V6 Lover]

Peugeot 306 is a nice driver's motor in gti-6 form and very underated...

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[Philf1]

I do like my dealer ringing me today to tell me I can get my hands on my new RS in May rather than October 😃😃😃😃

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[GMX]

I do like how cheap Mk2 Focus alternators appear to be, in comparison with previous Peugeot 406 and Vauxhall Astra ones

£102 for an exchange OE (inc £60 back for the old unit) or £90 for recon

Can't get one until after the weekend, which is a downside but these things happen

[Preecematt]

I do like the overall great day I've had.  Went to Blue Planet Aquarium then Cheshire Oaks, SO It's been a great family day + tonights result against Derby has just put the icing on the cake

[jmurray01]

15 hours ago, GMX said:

I do like how cheap Mk2 Focus alternators appear to be, in comparison with previous Peugeot 406 and Vauxhall Astra ones

£102 for an exchange OE (inc £60 back for the old unit) or £90 for recon

Can't get one until after the weekend, which is a downside but these things happen

Is your alternator failing, Ghana?

EDIT - JUST READ THINGS I DON'T LIKE.

[Ianb]

Failed by all accounts on the "things I don't like" thread *whince*

[jmurray01]

12 minutes ago, Ianb said:

Failed by all accounts on the "things I don't like" thread *whince*

Indeed, just read that after!  A volt meter is something I'll have to buy sometime, as the Nissan struggles to start sometimes for no apparent reason.  It could just be an old battery, but I'd like to check the alternator's performance before doing anything.

[jmurray01]

I do like the post-woman delivering my Bosch Super Plus Wiper Blades!  I was tempted to go for the Aero Twin wipers that I have on the Nissan, but they wouldn't look right on the Punto.  Besides, I actually find the Super Plus to be more durable and less fragile.

[Stoney871]

I like that my piggybank (yes I have one and it's car shaped) is full of £1 & £2 coins to the value of over £400 so therefore it's time to contemplate a car gift.

Hint: sky coloured and part of a shark.

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