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"Svend" (svend)
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She’s got a crease in the passenger door sill and slight dent on the lower portion of the passenger door.
With the virus, it’s taken some time to get the car into a shop, then it took a short while to get a courtesy car rather than get the insurance to get one.
Well yesterday they picked her up. With the new virus guidelines, they aren’t allowed to drive your car from your house so they came with a car transporter and the courtesy car on the back, then with gloves and a mask drove Sandy on (they can drive a short distance, the garage is 20+ miles away and they’d have to disinfect the car before they could or able to work on it).
I had asked Catherine to send the dirtiest courtesy car so I could get my teeth into cleaning it (they are in need of a car cleaner) (no, not for me. I will not be employed to do it, it’s my thing to enjoy, not have someone standing over me telling me to hurry up).
Well they sent a clean car, to most it’s a clean car as there is a lack of dirt, but it’s not a clean-clean car. Dull plastics, lose fibres in the carpets where the pile has been pulled by so many vacuums and light staining of the seats. Now in it’s defence the seats just look dull but the camera picked up common seat stain marks.
Looking forward into getting my teeth into this when time allows
2018, Vauxhall Corsa E, 1.4 petrol manual.
Doesn’t look bad, just dull. Cheap nasty mats in the front (I’ve bought some 4 OEM velour mats, only £22, to go in).
It only had a quick vacuum, so need to go further into it.
Seat, plastic trim, carpet and mat all in need of some attention.
Trim just looking dull.
Fibres coming up under the rear parcel shelf. Will vacuum, clean, shave and re-vacuum back to new again.
Someone got bored at some point and carved in a star-ish... into the rear bumper.
Seats looking a little stained on the camera.
Seat looking much more stained on camera closer up.
Yes. I even look at the engine on a courtesy car. That’ll fill a nice half hour or so.
Under the bonnet usual grime.
CalzoneGolem
> Svend
07/14/2020 at 10:18 |
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I will not be employed to do it, it’s my thing to enjoy, not have someone standing over me telling me to hurry up
Nothing saps your desire to do something like being employed to to do it.
Also this reflection made me think this panel was wood and it grossed me out.
LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
> Svend
07/14/2020 at 10:20 |
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She’s got a crease in the passenger door sill and slight dent on the lower portion of the passenger door.
NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo!
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> Svend
07/14/2020 at 10:22 |
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Poor Sandy, she doesn’t deserve getting up close and personal with a bollard. I’m surprised though that you would even go so far as to buy mats for the loaner.
Vauxhall Corsa, huh. We don't get those here. Looks like a solid little car. I am strangely attracted to those minimalist seats. Almost Germanic looking, like a VW.
MonkeePuzzle
> CalzoneGolem
07/14/2020 at 10:25 |
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my kids have asked me many times why I am not a mechanic for my job (I do mundane IT work) becuase I love working on my car so much. They dont get it when I say I would hate to do my hobby for a job.
66P1800inpieces
> Svend
07/14/2020 at 10:25 |
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Is that an AGM- absorbed glass mat battery? Seems kinda high brow for a low spec car.
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CalzoneGolem
> MonkeePuzzle
07/14/2020 at 10:27 |
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You should see how I ate as a chef compared to how I eat now.
I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> 66P1800inpieces
07/14/2020 at 10:31 |
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I... I would swap that out for a junkyard battery.
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Svend
> CalzoneGolem
07/14/2020 at 10:37 |
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The odd thing is, that red strip. It doesn’t tie in with anything except the seatbelt buckle release. So it just looks odd.
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Svend
> MonkeePuzzle
07/14/2020 at 10:38 |
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A wise man once told me, ‘if you turn your hobby into your job, you’ll need to find another hobby’.
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> 66P1800inpieces
07/14/2020 at 10:40 |
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It’s a ‘GM’ branded Varta AGM battery.
What AGM means, I don’t know.
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CalzoneGolem
> Svend
07/14/2020 at 10:42 |
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Yeah it’s an interesting choice but it does tie in with the seat stitching.
duurtlang
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07/14/2020 at 10:45 |
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When that Corsa was designed it was still part of GM, but Opel (/Vauxhall) is a German brand. So it looking Germanic is to be expected.
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Svend
> LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
07/14/2020 at 10:47 |
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It was a low garden bollard. In the pedestrianised area of the town there are these litt le gardens jutting out into the road, they have one foot high bollards on each of the four corners and large metal bars running between them. Unfortunately, trying to get between a van that had parked too far over, meant accidentally rubbing against the low bollard.
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Svend
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07/14/2020 at 10:49 |
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The cars are standard really, the two smallest and most common are the Fiesta and the Corsa.
The two mats that are in it are bloody awful and neither use nor ornament.
At £22, they are cheap, but they are genuine OEM mats (I’ve bought loads of them for colleagues who have Corsa D’s and E’s.
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Svend
> CalzoneGolem
07/14/2020 at 10:51 |
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Very loosely. If they left it one colour it would of been better, IMO.
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66P1800inpieces
> Svend
07/14/2020 at 10:54 |
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Wow, that is neat. They are lead acid batteries but sealed and have a mat with the acid against the plates so they are generally sealed and vibration resistant . They are usually 50 % higher in price and often found in fancier cars, specifically cars with the batteries in the trunk like BMW.
I checked https://www.eurocarparts.com/ , not having a clue if it is a valid site for pricing, but it does appear to serve the UK. Seems like they have 40% off coupons but the regular lead acid aftermarket battery for that Vauxhall is between 66-100 GBP, the AGM version is 429-459 GBP! Would love to see what GM charges. I think the prices I found are off. Even though more expensive, in the US the regular battery would be 50-120USD and the AGM probably $150-200.
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> duurtlang
07/14/2020 at 10:58 |
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Well that makes sense now.
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> Svend
07/14/2020 at 11:02 |
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I’ve got some really nice weathertech rubber mats in my car since the original factory ones q uickly got ruined from mud. If I got to park on pavement, I would probably prefer carpet. Those ones seem to be peculiarly shabby.
What is that hollow plastic rectangle for? My GM car also has one and I have never figured it out.
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> 66P1800inpieces
07/14/2020 at 11:03 |
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Doing a quick Google search. Varta AGM batteries seem to be around £125 to £250. Mostly around the £180 mark.
I’ve never really thought about batteries much until the Porsche the other day and the owner saying the battery goes flat quick quickly if the car is sat for any length of time.
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CalzoneGolem
> Svend
07/14/2020 at 11:03 |
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Agreed
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Svend
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07/14/2020 at 11:11 |
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I’d like some Weather Techs but they are expensive because they only do a very limited range for the U.K., if I wanted a larger range, I’d have to order from Australia and while they are okay priced, the postage from Australia is massive, then add anything of discern-able size and/or weight, it gets very costly unless you can get a group to buy bulk and share the postage.
OEM rubber mats range from £30 to £150 while I can get some vehicle specific ones from a great after sales flooring and boot liner c o mpany for only £35.
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> Svend
07/14/2020 at 11:14 |
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Most of them are made domestically here in the US but they are still very expensive for some floor mats. However, they last forever and are desirable enough to never really lose all their value.
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Svend
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07/14/2020 at 11:23 |
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Here, floor mats are not really regarded, sure some will say, ‘I need some mats to prot ect the carpet;, but they usu ally mean some cheap regular universal mats. If I’m cleaning a car, I like to make sure it’s wearing decent floor mats, because if I’m the one cleaning it again, I want something I can clean and will be clean as many after market universal ones hold so much crap in the fibres. Be too aggressive with the cleaning and/or vacuuming and the pile starts coming away.
Even more expensive OEM mats I can usually find online for cheaper.
I bought these VAG OEM m ats for £20. They should of been £70 but eh seller didn’t put a part number in the listings and so nobody looked and then they kept lowering the price. These are listed as for a Skoda Fabia, but they share the same floorpan and the same number on the underside as the VW Polo which I bought them for.
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> Svend
07/14/2020 at 11:43 |
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If you clean your car regularly and don’t often track in mud (I somehow track in less crap over a given time than people who have actual pavement to park on) then you don’t really need to give up the tactile feel of carpet for rubber. I only chose rubber because of how quickly the mud ruined the good condition OEM mats.
Any idea what that plastic rectangle on the floor in the Vauxhall is for?
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Svend
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07/14/2020 at 12:04 |
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In the footwell between the sill trim and the mat in the picture. That’s the chassis VIN plate cover, you can pop it open to check it matches the one at the bottom of the windscreen and on the engine.
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> Svend
07/14/2020 at 12:05 |
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Woah, that actually makes sense now. I never really gave it a good tug but that seems useful.
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66P1800inpieces
> Svend
07/14/2020 at 12:51 |
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My 2008 Acura TSX’s (Euro Honda Accord) battery gets pretty run down after a week and a half. I put a amp meter on it and I think it was pulling 500 milliamps an hour, for ECU standby and alarm. Meanwhile, my brother in law’s 2003 Toyota Corolla I let him store on my property was a base car and it could sit for weeks and start right up.
During Covid I pull the Acura’s battery so I don’t have to keep it on a trickle charge.