StevesTruck

Tempest Scrambler. I have the Roadster version of the same bike, it's a lovely simple thing. Great for going for a potter down the lanes

I remember safer casing 27p packets of paracetamol in Sainsbury's in about 2008. It's nothing new. Co-op's have been pretty slow going onto safer cases. The thing is, the detector barriers going off don't stop thieves, they are just a starting pistol. If you haven't got a security guard on, there's no point them being there. Ideally you want them set back from the door, but you don't have the space to do that in a convenience store.

Instant coffee's been a nickable commodity for as long as I've been working in shops. Just putting one out and safer casing it depends a bit on the specific store and area. I worked in a shop 20 years ago where we had to keep it behind the counter. Prices have gone up, that's a co-op, so it's going to be more expensive than B+M (I work for a different co-op, and I buy my coffee from B+M). Some of its global inflation, some of its UK inflation, some of its Brexit, some of its suppliers profiteering and some of its retailers profiteering. The cost of theft is also a factor, if you buy a case of coffee and 25-100% of it gets nicked, you need to recoup that cost somehow. It's my normal soapbox answer, but if you're a shop assistant on minimum wage and you know that the police won't come to help, are you going to tackle a potentially armed thief?

I went to school on a bus that was shared between the Grammar school and the comp. That's a high bar!

If you're dropping the subframe, dab some paint about to give you something to line it back up to.

Glad it worked for you, but I had one of theirs fail within a year, they sold me a new one, but didn't refund the one I returned. The new one also failed in a year. This was a nside on a 6L Ibiza pd130, so probably the same part.

Start putting loads of car park expenses in, seeing as you haven't got anywhere to keep it. Defect it and insist it's recovered at every opportunity

What head they have on top depends a bit what shock absorbers are on there, be it standard or aftermarket. To be fair, I'm a big fan of spraying them up, then sticking the impact gun on the nut - it generally undoes them straight away.

Have a look at your alternator belt tensioner when the engine's running. If it's skipping all over the place, it's generally a sign you need a new alternator pulley.

No, I normally find Bilstein stuff is cheaper through partsinmotion or ebay.

Genuine conversation between a colleague and a main dealer's workshop "The van was only in for a service, we didn't touch the wiring for the tracker" "ok then, so why does it say it's still in your workshop when we picked it up last week?"

Know what you mean there. Usually when they mention a job, I go to do it "it doesn't need doing immediately", followed by talking about nothing else until it's done.

Do these have a servo (it's been about 30 years since I worked on one, I can't even remember which end the fuel tank's in))? Sounds more like vacuum escaping to me. *Waits for someone to go full Sheldon Cooper on me because I said "Vacuum Escaping", which is a physical impossibility

Fallopian tube

There's no way on earth it takes 4 hours to do a pair of rod ends. I'm not a mechanic. I use a the cheapest blowtorch toolstation sell and a couple of adjustable spanners I got from a carboot sale 20 years ago, and I can free one in 15 minutes. Take it somewhere else, they're trying to blag you. If you want some money out of you just tell them nice try buttercup, but you can't B*****it a B******iter. 😅