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Here’s one I saw rolling around Parsons Green in 2014

My Spaniel will resource guard against other dogs - the boot of the car, me, a toy, etc.

She doesn't guard toys or things I want to take off her though, we did specific training around food guarding at home from the day we got her.

Inherently spaniel type breed dogs always want to trade - they have this bizarre sense of justice too where they think they did the work so they deserve a "wage"

Is the car solid black or metallic?

Here’s a stick insect loitering by my back door, he’s been there all day

I returned a luton van with a similar scratch on the side to Sixt in Clapham, the guy questioned it but I literally said “it must have been there before” and no further questions were asked.

What specifically do you mean by the heater was playing up, but now was working again? was it blowing cold constantly despite the engine being up to temperature?

I had an issue with one of ours where the coolant system had got a significant airlock in it, and after I ran the car to temperature with the heater turned up to the max and the system burped a load of air, it started blowing warm air in the car again

It’s not so hard just time consuming, and it helps if you’ve got a bit of a stock of the right bits to do it nicely of course.

I have wiring OCD though to be fair.

Yeah it’s got a pretty decent weld in T45 cro-mo cage in it, whoever built it originally spent some decent wedge on it (and then made a huge mess of the wiring loom)

Finally got all my interior and new harnesses back in the rally car after totally re-doing the brakes and running the lines inside.

Only minor hiccup is I might need to change the handbrake master cylinder for a bigger one

I've been watching some videos with Scarbs recently via Driver61, although i can't stand the guy on that channel normally

Interesting, I don’t work on microwaves specifically, but I knew bang/bang control was super common on them.

I coincidentally can get staff rates at Panasonic as F&P are weirdly the local distributor for them here.

You are gonna have to replace that scratched seat belt trim piece, or I dunno, maybe get them re-trimmed in the exact Porsche fabric to match your recaro?

I think the driver for changing to pull rod is to do with 3/4 rule changes, bigger wheels and the rule around having all the mounting points inside the wheel, and there's a rule about the angle the nose in the footwell has to slope, which basically means there is less room for push rod to be practical.

I think I have five? pairs of Randonee shorts.

One navy pair is probably 4 or 5yrs old, they don't wear the same as canvas on a saddle, they have piled slightly in the inseam though from the it though. I've killed multiple pairs of Levis in under a year before (since they discontinued the commuter ones).

I quite like it.

I've always thought lego F1 cars always look a bit strange but I do have one of these in my parents loft somewhere

I wish I’d known about these, would be ideal for sleeping in back country huts here in NZ, I always get too hot in a sleeping bag and sleep like crap

Oh yeah I forgot Yokohama, I always liked the fast road tyres. I was considering buying some me of their semi-slicks while they’re heavily reduced at the moment

Generally I’d say the top tier brands are Pirelli, Michelin and Continental

Just Below that are brands like Bridgestone, Goodyear and Dunlop.

And then there are a whole heap of more budget brands like Toyo, Kumho etc before you get to China specials.

Can you find out what it had fitted from the factory? You can likely get an equivalent

512M is a great one.

Reminds me a I would still really like to pick up the 930 Porsche Turbo from somewhere

No I’m in NZ and they’re in stock with a local retailer.

Literally half the price of an apidura

Does anyone use the Geosmina brand of bags?

I want to get a bigger / better fitting frame pack for commuting and one of these measures up pretty good, and they're significantly reduced compared to apidura etc.

This ratbag is 2 today.

This is how I bought my last Skoda too, and ended up in a similar situation.

I'd really like a Volvo wagon next.

Yeah that's not unreasonable, it depends on the age and history of the car though - I was shitting myself thinking the Passat I bought would need a timing belt at 60k but a lot of the VW stuff has long life servicing now and it won't need one for nearly double that.

I guess you do have to factor in things going wrong - we needed to replace the rear pads in it after my wife driving it for a year, to which the service manager asked me "Who is she, Ken Block?"

You may want to consider buying additional warranty with a used one, especially if it's a DSG equipped car.