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Undergone a UKAS audit, they're always fun.

Did quite a long day cos the bookings for sunday spreadsheet was late coming in. And the phone didn't stop bloody ringing whilst I was trying to enter them all and do the planning at the same time!! LOL

Anyway, partly due to the headcold/cough and being two hours late leaving work, I forgot to check on a booking for tomorrow morning at 5:50. Stupid really as I'd taken the booking and meant to contact her to confirm (so the driver didn't turn up to find the clients didn't want him)

Anyway, when I took the booking, for some reason I didn't add the phone number to the system

So, my boss phoned me at 20:50 to ask if I remembered if there was a phone number!

Best bit about living in the same building as the office is that I could go down to the office in my pjs and slippers, sort out the issue, get confirmation that the customer DIDN'T want the taxi (WTF didn't she let us know that? - ok, lack of payment could mean she didn't want the booking, but if we hadn't turned up because she hadn't paid, we'd have probably still been in the wrong ) and told the driver he could have a lie in. Then also confirm something else was sorted that I was going to have to chase up on Friday

Hoping the boss will let me use a vehicle tomorrow to go get some shopping!! I might not have sorted the issue in work time, but I did go and sort it as soon as he called me!!! Crossing fingers

mangocrazy wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:43 pm Took the car to a local garage that will fit tyres purchased elsewhere (for a price) and to get the tracking done. After waiting in the reception area for about 30 minutes, I was told that the tracking had probably never been adjusted since it came out of the factory and that it was a long way out. Probably why it chews through front tyres at such a rate then.

As a result of not having been disturbed for 15+ years, the whole assembly was seized solid and needed new track rod ends and sundry other parts. The whole bill came to £333.64.

Bloody expensive tyre swap and tracking adjustment...

i'd have done it for a ton

Demannu wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:14 pm

mangocrazy wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:43 pm Took the car to a local garage that will fit tyres purchased elsewhere (for a price) and to get the tracking done. After waiting in the reception area for about 30 minutes, I was told that the tracking had probably never been adjusted since it came out of the factory and that it was a long way out. Probably why it chews through front tyres at such a rate then.

As a result of not having been disturbed for 15+ years, the whole assembly was seized solid and needed new track rod ends and sundry other parts. The whole bill came to £333.64.

Bloody expensive tyre swap and tracking adjustment...

i'd have done it for a ton

Including parts?

mangocrazy wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:16 pm

Demannu wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:14 pm

mangocrazy wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:43 pm Took the car to a local garage that will fit tyres purchased elsewhere (for a price) and to get the tracking done. After waiting in the reception area for about 30 minutes, I was told that the tracking had probably never been adjusted since it came out of the factory and that it was a long way out. Probably why it chews through front tyres at such a rate then.

As a result of not having been disturbed for 15+ years, the whole assembly was seized solid and needed new track rod ends and sundry other parts. The whole bill came to £333.64.

Bloody expensive tyre swap and tracking adjustment...

i'd have done it for a ton

Including parts?

I wouldn't have knackered the ball joints

I am a little confused though, if they couldn't adjust them, how did they remove them?

Demannu wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:24 am
I am a little confused though, if they couldn't adjust them, how did they remove them?

If like my local garage

- they look fucked
- I'll spray something on it to unsieze it
- <couldn't be arsed to wait>
- oh dear you'll need new ones mate

When I had my SLK I took for it's MOT and service to the old skool garage I always use. He looked at the book, then me, then the book then finally me.
'You've done about 600 miles since the last MOT and service. I'll do the MOT but go and put some bloody miles on it before wasting your money on the service'.

That was me told.

Work can go f**k itself right now.

After almost 3 years of dealing with huge delays in supply chain issues, notably electronic components, it's showing no signs of easing. In fact, I'd say it's getting worse. I have customers who are starting to cancel, and I can see this really hurting the order books this year. Constantly apologising to customers and having no good news is really starting to grate.

Demannu wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:24 am

mangocrazy wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:16 pm

Demannu wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:14 pm
i'd have done it for a ton

Including parts?

I wouldn't have knackered the ball joints

I am a little confused though, if they couldn't adjust them, how did they remove them?

They reckoned that to get them so they could be adjusted that they'd need to soak them with heat (which I understand) but even then when they tried to unscrew them they'd probably bend or deform. To be honest I understand bike suspension quite well, but car suspension has always been a bit of a closed book to me. Anyway I've got it back and I can actually feel a difference in the way it drives (in a positive way).

mangocrazy wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:40 pm

Demannu wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:24 am

mangocrazy wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:16 pm

Including parts?

I wouldn't have knackered the ball joints

I am a little confused though, if they couldn't adjust them, how did they remove them?

They reckoned that to get them so they could be adjusted that they'd need to soak them with heat (which I understand) but even then when they tried to unscrew them they'd probably bend or deform.

Hmmmmm, scratches chin in that special way!
Did the garage have big glass doors at the front by any chance?

Demannu wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:57 pm

mangocrazy wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:40 pm

Demannu wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:24 am

I wouldn't have knackered the ball joints

I am a little confused though, if they couldn't adjust them, how did they remove them?

They reckoned that to get them so they could be adjusted that they'd need to soak them with heat (which I understand) but even then when they tried to unscrew them they'd probably bend or deform.

Hmmmmm, scratches chin in that special way!
Did the garage have big glass doors at the front by any chance?

No, roller shutter as I recall.

I borrowed a minibus and went to the valley today. Mainly to get supplies, but also to pop into my friends shop. I spent a lot of time there last year when signed off, chatting, sometimes eating Cornish pasties, but mostly drinking coffee. Was fab to spend so much time with a good mate.

Since the season started, we've barely caught up, mostly cos I don't have a car and can't get down there on days off. But today - well, proper caught up, talked out and had a very happy day!!

Also picked up the crutched and some other stuff prescribed for the operation in May - hopefully the crutches are for after the op as I have already told the surgeon I can't use two crutches and if that will be necessary, then I need to stay in and have a wheelchair!!

Supplies bought, HRT supplies topped up and I came home and went out for a couple of drinks.

I's only bloody snowing first time in blooming ages. Not much, but damn, after a month of bright sunshine, I'm bloody happy at a smidge of snow

Don't think there's enough to warrant getting up early enough to ski tour as I think there won't be enough to cover over all the ice!! but still - IT'S SNOWING

Quiet walk with the dog in the morning. Then prayers. Went and helped a parishioner with an IT issue and resolved it much quicker than she anticipated and also cleaned up dodgy software on the system, advised on a better AV and transferred all photo's she had to back up drive.

Then home for lunch, sorting out several emails, reports and getting ready for service. Collected wife from work bought dog food and then went to church to setup things for evening service.

Took the Ash Wednesday Holy Communion. Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ.

Collected wife after the service to clean hall and church. Home for dinner and now I'll sort a couple of things out and then go to bed.

Drove down the hill... & back up again.

ZRX61 wrote: Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:33 am Drove down the hill... & back up again.

That reminds me, I had a walk up (and down) the Grand Old Duke of York’s hill the other day.

25 miles of below freezing temps with rain, hail, snow & graufel...

...then as soon as I come over the hill & start down the desert floor, SUNSHINE!!:



The mountain in the middle is about 30 miles away & full of gold. It's slowly disappearing & will soon be ground level with the rest of the desert. They're finding all sorts of stuff in the old abandoned tunnels going back to the 1800's.
The folded rocks on both sides are the Littlerock Fault, which is about 1/4mile East of the San Andreas.

Temp went up about 10deg as soon as I hit the desert floor.

ZRX61 wrote: Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:33 am Drove down the hill... & back up again.

Is that the A9 just outside North Kessock?

ZRX61 wrote: Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:33 am Drove down the hill... & back up again.

Did you fetch a pale of water?

It's a lovely sunny day and to be nice all weekend,so I had planned some bike action.

However,the council decided to grit bone dry and washed clean roads,to that plan is royally fucked.

Currently sat waiting on a plumber who makes more promises than a politician.

Gloss'd two bits of skirting, and proper oil based gloss too!
Sanded more wall down and expressed my displeasure at an insurance company (again)
Noticed with them though it's a squeaky wheel that gets the oil!
As an aside, I paid for my new windscreen on the CC, which obviously incurs interest. Am i allowed to charge the ins co for the interest incurred since they have had the invoice since November?