Pasty's Diary

[PastyBoy]

July 29th

I have been living with this abomination ever since putting my Recaros in:

I dunno how I've survived either.

Why does it do this well following the ever so kind donation of a couple of seat backs from Sam745 following his own Recaro-ing it is pretty obvious.

Thershol dbe some hooks holding the seat back in place at the top but my passenger one has clearly been ripped/damaged/pulled off in the past as the hooks which hold it in place are missing.

Although clearly they were there once and clearly later held on by copious amounts of masking tape.

So a simple swap and I'd be sorted

Out with the trim removal tool

But Jesus those trim clips were tough.

Still ready to break in all the same places as the once holding the doors cards

on but much harder to make budge

Leaving me with this

Shall get a couple of new clips from VW shortly and all shall be right in the world again

[PastyBoy]

in case the radio silence wasn't enough of clue it's all quiet on the Pasty front at the moment.

 

July 30th

July 31st

August 1st

August 2nd

 

All quiet commutes with nothing new/exciting/worth writing about

I did invest in some new wiper blades but have not yet fitted them so am not yet really includin them

 

August 3rd

August 4th

 

locked away for half the day and then swapped to run some errands as Mrs Pasty's car had no fuel in it.

still all dull though.

[PastyBoy]

and so continues the worst diary keeping ever!

History books would be incredibly sparce if i was incharge of them!!

 

August 5th

 

OMG somethig happened!!

I stopped for fuel

 

Had high hopes for this tank full given my multiple 60s and the trip into the 70s

 

Fuel - £54.05 - MPG - 54

 

not exactly shabby is it

[PastyBoy]

August 6th

 

Nothing

 

August 7th

 

Nothing

 

August 8th

 

Nothing

 

August 9th

 

Nothing

 

August 10th

 

Toolnig around for the weekend in my car rather than Mrs Pasty's

Still nothing of note though

 

August 11th

 

Nothing

 

August 12th

 

Nothing

 

August 13th

 

Nothing

 

August 14th

 

Something.....oh hang on....no...actually.... nothing

[PastyBoy]

Jssus i'm rubbish at this.

Although to be fair i'm only rubbish when nothing's going on!

 

August 15th

dull commutes

 

August 16th

August 17th

August 18th

 

Locked in the garage whilst we were away in Cornwall with Mrs Pasty's car

[PastyBoy]

August 19th

Car was abducted by aliens.

there was a bright light and a whirring noise and the car was gone

 

August 20th

Got a jumbled message saying it had been probed and wasn't enjoying it

 

August 21st

Car returned with a far away look in it's headlights and refuses to make eye contact.

[PastyBoy]

ok so i might have made the above up but it'll see how many are actually reading

 

August 22nd

the pull to the left associated with my out of line rear axle has got more and more pronounced of late something must be up

[PastyBoy]

August 23rd

typre pressures?

drivers side front 30, rear 28

passenger side front 22, rear 14

 

ah yeah that'd do it!

 

20p later and all sorted

[PastyBoy]

August 24th

A trip to Hereford for a friends barbeque.

pretty dull roads and a traffic filled driver although 55mpg is the pay off.

[PastyBoy]

August 25th

motorway filled drive to Bristol to do some shopping

 

fuel up on the way home

 

Fuel - £52.75 - MPG - 53.2

takes the overall average up to 48.2

[PastyBoy]

August 26th

Mrs Pasty took my car in to the gym and back, other than that it didn't move

(as you can tell we had an exciting bank holiday)

[PastyBoy]

As you can tell this diary is having a mid year slump - i guess in line with my car related activity also having a slump

 

August 27th

 

commutes nothing of note

[PastyBoy]

August 28th

 

More dull commutes. Did consider washing the dirt off as it was a sunny evening but changed my mind

[PastyBoy]

August 29th

 

20p spend on air as the pull to the left had got even more pronounced.

Pressures of 20-22-26-30 mean it would appear that i may potentially have 3 alloys which are slowly seeping air out

[PastyBoy]

August 30th

 

Yeah Friday Night! WOOHOO! 

ok so I sat in a had a pizza while Mrs Pasty was out at a wedding.

Did then have to head from Gloucester down to Weston-Super-Mare to collect her.

 

Did pass this milestone on the way though

 

 

Despite the tears that were flowing when i arrived, and while she was dancing and when someone stilleto'd her foot she had a good time.

Even after all the vodka and soda she was sensible enough to take the spare key to her bosses brand new car in case he lost his while out at the after party in Bristol city centre.

 

She good isn't she

[PastyBoy]

August 31st

 

After sleeping off most of a hang over the car was put into action to ferry us to a greasy spoon for a proper cure.

However on route we received a call saying that her boss couldn't find his keys.

Bring on half an hour of swearing while travelling the hour south on the motorway back to Weston-Super-Mare.

It was only half an hour of swearing as it quickly transpired that all drunken best laid plans are doomed to fail.

 

Turns out that while Mrs Pasty had intended to take the spare key "just in case" something silly happened; she had in fact taken the only key her boss had off of him, transporting it an hour up the road to our house!

Meaning he had no way of getting into his car, and thus home, following about 4 hours sleep (rumour has it he heading in to the Holiday Inn he was staying at just at they started serving breakfast at 6am.)

 

Like I said good isn't she.

 

Day wasn't a  total bust though as we headed out to the beach at Weston and spent the day chilling out - which was nice.

[PastyBoy]

September 1st

 

Car deserved a day off after doing more than 300 miles in 12 hours Friday night Saturday morning so spent a day on the drive.

Again considered washing it but nah not yet

[PastyBoy]

September 2nd

 

Monday morning commutes and the kids are back to school - crap. 

traffic-tastic

[PastyBoy]

September 3rd

 

Fuel light bongs on on the way home.

Must be the fastest tank of fuel I've ever got through although the distance covered does more than warrant it

[PastyBoy]

September 4th

 

get to the petrol station for fuel only to find I've left my wallet at home - DOH

 

manage to scrape together 20p from the centre console to check the tyre pressures.

yep still going down quicker than they should

[PastyBoy]

September 5th

 

managed to eek out the fuel enough to get to work and home and back to a petrol station

 

Fuel - £53.99 - MPG - 54.7

 

happy days

 

deffo think the lack of EGR is helping with economy,

[PastyBoy]

September 6th

 

Commute, out to pub at lunch, commute, garage

[PastyBoy]

September 7th

 

ooohh wash day!! 

 

nah just kidding.

 

garaged and non-moving

[PastyBoy]

September 8th

 

This lack of activity is super boring but i'm afraid when i'm on Wedding Savings mode i genuinely am sat in doing nothing most days/evenings/nights.

Fuel is required to make the car move, making it move it required to do something with it, so much cheaper to leave it sat still

[PastyBoy]

September 9th

 

Tidied up the garage to make room for the BBQ (no more sunny days say outside eating now me thinks) which meant finally getting rid of the final seat parts.

Loaded in to the boot and back seat with the intention of taking them to the tip.

never happened so they'll sit there a while longer, lets hope i don;t need to take more than 1 passenger somewhere