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You Park Like a C*nt
January 27, 2012 | 
Author The fowl mouthed You Park Like a Cunt website it quickly becoming one of my favourites, it’s mantra:
“a blog which will help its creator come to terms with, and learn to enjoy people who simply park like cunts.”
The worlds full of them, which means every day you can join in the fun of submitting c*nts, as well as enjoying other submissions.
Within the hour of discovering the site I’d already found my first submission
Less parked, more abandoned
Posted in Motoring | 
Tags: BMW, learn to park between the lines, parking, SUV, You Park Like A Cunt | 
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Running Reports – BMW E36 323i Convertible
Starting mileage - 116458 7th May - 117662 7th July
Total Miles - 1204
MPG - 24.48mpg
Costs -
When I collected the car it was still wearing the previous owners private plate, and with the cars original registration in the boot. Luckily I wasn't pulled by the police, so no funny questions to answer, and also the new MoT, Tax etc arrived from the DLVA within a week, so I could transfer the plate without incurring any additional charge from my insurance company, which was a relief having being stung for an extra £100 over the previous Audi Cabriolet. On longer drives than the road test I discovered the front right had a bit of a knock, having being told it'd had bushes last year you start racking your mind 'what the hell is it?' but a trip to the local garage revealed one of the bushes fitted last year was fitted badly, and were now slightly broke. So nothing too major, new bottom arm ordered to fix it properly. Slightly more worrying, it turned out I'd got a water leak, a bit of an achilles heel on this generation of M50/M52 engines, only I'd not noticed, so first I knew was when the gauge suddenly shot towards red when out one afternoon by Ladybower (least there's plenty of water there). Another trip to the garage diagnosed a rather worn water pump. Repair urgency was escalated, and they've both now been sorted, so no water leak & handling on the front much improved now. Luckily the water pump was also covered under the warranty, a quick call to Gmund Cars, told them how much I'd been quoted, so they told me to get on with it & a cheque arrived to cover it shortly afterwards. Top service. Read the rest of this entry »
- £60 - Wind Deflector
- £295 - Water Pump & Bottom Arm
- £440 - both rear arches & rear bumped painted
When I collected the car it was still wearing the previous owners private plate, and with the cars original registration in the boot. Luckily I wasn't pulled by the police, so no funny questions to answer, and also the new MoT, Tax etc arrived from the DLVA within a week, so I could transfer the plate without incurring any additional charge from my insurance company, which was a relief having being stung for an extra £100 over the previous Audi Cabriolet. On longer drives than the road test I discovered the front right had a bit of a knock, having being told it'd had bushes last year you start racking your mind 'what the hell is it?' but a trip to the local garage revealed one of the bushes fitted last year was fitted badly, and were now slightly broke. So nothing too major, new bottom arm ordered to fix it properly. Slightly more worrying, it turned out I'd got a water leak, a bit of an achilles heel on this generation of M50/M52 engines, only I'd not noticed, so first I knew was when the gauge suddenly shot towards red when out one afternoon by Ladybower (least there's plenty of water there). Another trip to the garage diagnosed a rather worn water pump. Repair urgency was escalated, and they've both now been sorted, so no water leak & handling on the front much improved now. Luckily the water pump was also covered under the warranty, a quick call to Gmund Cars, told them how much I'd been quoted, so they told me to get on with it & a cheque arrived to cover it shortly afterwards. Top service. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Motoring, Review, Running Report | Tags: 323i, BMW, convertible, E36, Running Report | No Comments »
It never rains but it pours…
It was inevitable really, the car park where I work is the veritable bastard to get in & out of. Anyone who drives it daily has had a battle scar at some point somewhere on their cars, so far in nearly 11 years I've pretty much escaped it. It's because of this I also get chucked the keys to anything big, new, expensive, inexperienced, busy people to get their cars in/out the drive.
Sods law then that a few weeks after I get a new car, I finally twat the frigging wall...
I've got no real excuses, half asleep half looking at brake light reflections in the windows opposite far end of drive, missed the fact I was close to the wall on left and clobbered it on the rear arch. On the plus side the rear arches on the BMW had got a small amount of corrosion when I'd purchased it, so I'd already talked to @bunie78 about getting them sorted at the professional car bodyshop he works at, so fired off a MMS to find out how much this was adding to the bill, and to bring the job forward in the year. I did have to manually pull it out a little as could here on the short drive home the arch just rubbing on the sidewall of the tyre... Read the rest of this entry »
I've got no real excuses, half asleep half looking at brake light reflections in the windows opposite far end of drive, missed the fact I was close to the wall on left and clobbered it on the rear arch. On the plus side the rear arches on the BMW had got a small amount of corrosion when I'd purchased it, so I'd already talked to @bunie78 about getting them sorted at the professional car bodyshop he works at, so fired off a MMS to find out how much this was adding to the bill, and to bring the job forward in the year. I did have to manually pull it out a little as could here on the short drive home the arch just rubbing on the sidewall of the tyre... Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Motoring, Running Report | Tags: BMW, bmwrepair, bodyshop, dint, oops, paint, paintwork, panel beating, primer, repairs | No Comments »
Hello Jon Gotta New Motor
With the sadness of last weeks accident with my old Audi Cabriolet, which is almost certain to be written off. Full steam was set in to finding a replacement, as Audi/BMW 4 seater convertibles aren't the commonest car to seek, especially once you then also want to narrow your search further by
a) nice colour b) manual c) in bloody good nick d) 323 or 328 in the BM, or 2.6 or 2.8 in the Audi e) not too high mileage f) bonus points for nice toys &/or hardtop or LPG
Expected the search to take a few weeks, found a few contenders at the wrong end of the country, a few with all the right specs but in a horrid colour. Then managed to find a nice looking BMW 323i Cabriolet in Harrogate, nice colour, one of the right engines, all the bits it should come with & a hard top.
So here she is my new long termer, freshly collected this morning in Calypso Red
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Posted in Motoring, Review, Running Report | Tags: 323i, BMW, cabriolet, long termer, motoring, review | No Comments »
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