Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'd complain - most PDIs require them to top up with screenwash, not water. Was it a main dealer?

Yes, main dealer. Looking at a car forum, lots of people with my car are complaining of the same thing. It was water with a detergent added but no antifreeze type stuff.

lostinrates

sigh. I just gashedmy head open. Not deep, but long. As a result I've got the giggles, I always gigle hysterically when I hit my head. And I do it far to often. Its not bad, noone panic. And dh is here, so he'd cart me off to hospital if he thought it warranted it.

But anyway, what I wanted to say is I had the update email for Inspector Monkfish's little girl and I think they could do wih any good wishes going spare ATM.

John_Pierpoint

lostinrates wrote: »

My loo was frozen again this morning. I'm''relieved'' to say its thawed now, but I could hear the ice clattering along the pipe from the high level cistern downwards!

It is only when the big freeze is over that the burst pipes will make themselves known for sure.
-6 here at 06:00 this morning, linked Pierpoint Towers to the public highway again - this is the first time I have had to do it twice in one winter and its not even Xmas yet.

PasturesNew wrote: »

There are some little water testers in Lidl this week - like a pipette, you shove it in the radiator and squeeze it, extract some liquid and it tells you if you've enough anti freeze in. Only just remembered, meant to get one. 99p.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_15858.htm

Can someone out there tell me what "OAT" radiator antifreeze is all about [The modern pinky orange day-glow stuff is Organic Acid Technology and the old fashioned blue stuff is ethylene glycol with perhaps a bit of meths.] You need different pipettes for the different antifreeze, which should not be mixed.

silvercar wrote: »

Bought a new car last month and realised the dealer filled the windscreen screen-wash with water. Obviously it froze, but its frozen full, so I can't empty it out to add proper screen-wash, can't pump it through to top it up because it is frozen. Money saving by the dealer, but after spending ££££ with them, I'd have thought they could run to a bottle of screen-wash.

I dunno. What's a silverbug?

Put an electric blower on the reservoir in the car and then syphon out the fluid. Replace with neat blue washer fluid.
Park the car facing the noon "sun" on a slope if possible and after running the engine for 20 minutes.
At 14:00 say prayer and you might have solved it - Saturday is expected to be a milder interlude - we had dripping icicles this PM.

What's a silverbug?
I think it is someone who thinks silver is amazingly under priced especially compared with gold - so it is time to find a new mountain of silver in Peru and start using pieces of eight again in place of our fiat currencies.
[I must not mock these people, on here about 3 years ago a gold bug told me to sell my grannie and buy gold - I wish I'd taken the advice.]

silvercar

Put an electric blower on the reservoir in the car and then syphon out the fluid. Replace with neat blue washer fluid.
Park the car facing the noon "sun" on a slope if possible and after running the engine for 20 minutes.
At 14:00 say prayer and you might have solved it - Saturday is expected to be a milder interlude - we had dripping icicles this PM.

I've topped up the already full reservoir with the concentrated blue stuff. Hopefully it will dissolve the ice on contact and gradually permeate through. -3C here today.

silvercar

What's a silverbug?
I think it is someone who thinks silver is amazingly under priced especially compared with gold - so it is time to find a new mountain of silver in Peru and start using pieces of eight again in place of our fiat currencies.
[I must not mock these people, on here about 3 years ago a gold bug told me to sell my grannie and buy gold - I wish I'd taken the advice.]

I don't think buying silver jewellery counts. and the new car is white.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

sigh. I just gashedmy head open. Not deep, but long. As a result I've got the giggles, I always gigle hysterically when I hit my head. And I do it far to often. Its not bad, noone panic. And dh is here, so he'd cart me off to hospital if he thought it warranted it.

Doesn't sound good, particularly if you keep doing it. Do you keep sterristrips in stock?

But anyway, what I wanted to say is I had the update email for Inspector Monkfish's little girl and I think they could do wih any good wishes going spare ATM.

Good wishes flying their way.

silvercar

Can someone out there tell me what "OAT" radiator antifreeze is all about [The modern pinky orange day-glow stuff is Organic Acid Technology and the old fashioned blue stuff is ethylene glycol with perhaps a bit of meths.] You need different pipettes for the different antifreeze, which should not be mixed.

I'm guessing your radiator is not your screenwash reservoir and they require different fluids.

Or someone is jumping on the green bandwagon and putting a green antifreeze is a stonking big 4x4 gives you green points.

misskool

good wishes to inspector monkfish.

I'm contemplating buying a car even though it's cheaper to buy a season rail ticket. Isn't that daft?

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

good wishes to inspector monkfish.

I'm contemplating buying a car even though it's cheaper to buy a season rail ticket. Isn't that daft?

No. Consider the convenience.

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tomterm8

misskool wrote: »

good wishes to inspector monkfish.

I'm contemplating buying a car even though it's cheaper to buy a season rail ticket. Isn't that daft?

Er... no?

A car isn't just for work... it is also for play... and for tesco's.