Skoze

Capri passed it's MOT with one advisory on front wheel bearings needing tightening a little, whey. Now for the future... In order of expense/ effort, my shopping list looks like this; 15x8 Revolutions and some decent tyres - finish off my attempt at making it handle. LSD - improve the drive when giving it some/ make it go sideways better. New engine/ tune the Essex - it needs the bite to match the bark. What order would you guys do that in?

Kris is on Facebook, try and get in touch with Joel Bennett - he knows them pretty well and should have an up to date number, think his old frame's still with them actually!

that is the most satisfying crunch.

'cos Dan's illiterate/ Northern. For srs though, this happened to my girlfriend/ her mum once, apparently Faye came home, chatted to her mum for a bit, then actually came through the front door... Then again they're both a bit mental so it could just be a sign of crazy

Ha, i was happy when I cracked 30mpg on a run the other day..

AHHHHHHHHH

i wasn't gonna post anything in here but i could probably do with a vent. mrs skoze is pretty depressed, has been for a good while but has recently just become massively difficult to deal with. Doesn't think there's anything wrong with being down all the time and refuses to go see anyone so that's a great start. I'm the only one she really talks to about anything, so naturally I get the brunt of it. I went away last week and really struggled to keep in touch, but made sure i sent her a text every night to let her know i was all good, a little on what i'd been up to and to let her know i was thinking of her. Apparently this was the wrong thing to do and i should have just not been in contact at all, spoke sunday and she was so disinterested it was pretty gutting to try and hold a conversation after a week of borderline no contact. it was our 2 year anniversary monday and we barely spoke at all. wished her well and all the rest of it but didn't call or anything purely because of how shit it was the night before and she clearly hadn't improved her mood much. I went out that night at about 11 as it was a mate's birthday, house party and all the rest of it, got a text at half 3 asking if i was still up and she was just freaking out about all sorts of shit, one of the quotes was that she "wanted to go away and have no one wonder where was" and that she was sick of people always asking after her or trying to talk etc. that was really fun. tuesday was much of the same, i ended up calling her to try and talk her into a better mood or failing that, just get out of the house. spent 15 minutes talking to myself before admitting defeat and leaving her to it. dropped her a text to say i hoped she heard what i was saying (as there was 0 input), only to be told she didn't listen to me because she didn't want to talk to me, that was also great. next two days i pretty much decided to take up drinking 'cos it was pissing me off majorly, whole week's been a total write off when i've really needed to get a TONNE of stuff done for uni. few other cool things happened with mates which helped keep my mind off of things a bit. last night we were talking about the weekend. Capri's MoT is up early next week, i'm welding it at my mate's tomorrow (been planned for about a month) and planned to stay at hers after, sunday through to monday afternoon when she'd go to uni and i'd go home via my uncle's garage and get the car tested. Made the mistake of suggesting i might have to do something on the car for an hour or so at some point, and would really appreciate a little help - might even be nice to do something together as she always says she wants to get more involved in that. Apparently this was completely unacceptable and it proved that i clearly had no time at all to see her (hour out of two days, yeah - go figure) and that spiralled into a huge row. Apparently i only care when it's convenient and forget what i've listened to not long after the event. i've been supporting her through this and being incredibly patient with this and a bunch of other knock-on issues for the past 6 months to a year, so that pissed me off somewhat. basically carried on in a similar vein 'til she told me that the long-distance thing just isn't working (sorry, you're an hour and a half away and we see each other every weekend, that's not too long-distance in my eyes) and how she knows it's not working and is no good but i'm clueless to it because she keeps quiet about that. in the end i decided to stop trying to be tactful, pretty much told her she's got a problem and needs to sort it out amongst a plethora of responses to everything else including trying to actually make her see how much her being the way she is affects me and that i usually let it slide because of the circumstances. left her with that and she kinda changed tack and seemed to be a lot more pleasant/ slightly apologetic but we both agreed we need to talk it all out tomorrow night. it's probably the third time this has caused a similar situation, so i'm just at a bit of a loss with what to do. i don't really want to finish anything with her/ let her finish it 'cos overall she's great and we're awesome when we're together, we could agree on that at least, i just think she needs to help herself before anything's going to improve. I have no idea what i'm trying to say or anything, it's just good to write it up sometimes. TL;DR depressed girlfriend thinks i'm a twat, unsure how best to tackle the situation.

depression is the worst thing in the world and trying to make someone suffering from it see the wood from the trees is completely f**king impossible.

that's cool, chances are it'll be back in by then, just wondering in case something went completely tits up. could always just balance it in there.

purely out of interest, if i sent the car for mot without a speedo would it fail...? test is monday, dash and clocks are currently on the back seat.

Really enjoyed that! A whole lot of expletives came out, you're mental. The video of the Audi above just illustrates what's wrong with diesels; just as it sounds like it's getting going, BOOM, no more revs. Just go straight through and be a baller.

Been away for a week, now back to sitting on my own in my room - so f**king bored. Added to that, mrs can't even be arsed to talk to me because apparently it's 'weird' talking to me again after barely keeping contact for a week. And i've just checked my bank balance, £40 'til May is pretty sweet, gonna have to go home next week and admit defeat.

If that's all you think there is to it, you're a mong.

seems it! the day I get back, few mates of mine are leaving - pretty mental. I'm going with uni though, so I can feel superior to team LAD.

'79 3.0S - quite good fun but potentially looking for a new home in the next couple of months. If it stays though, it's getting a Cosworth BOA dropped in asap.

unfortunately...

week in Amsterdam commences tomorrow, work placement with TBWA thursday and friday, stoooooooooooooooked!

What a spoon. When will standard finance-spec Fiesta STs stop being a thing at car shows/ meets?

Was it Jon Granger?

I TRIED THAT, THE RESULTS WERE SURPRISINGLY GREAT. Edit, my bad - got all TheCircus for a minute there.

#yolo

rolling 40-year tax exemption, big up.

Just replaced it - look up whatever your engine is and find out what's there and what could be dying? You'd probably have the same symptoms if it's just the pump to be fair, just not giving the engine enough fuel.

I don't know if yours has one actually, it basically helps the normal pump when you're booting it - had that trouble in the Landy, just dies when you give it throttle. I'm with Jardo, probably gonna be your pump. Should be able to get a replacement pretty easily?

Lift pump?