Another 'Vantine's' email, this time from Machine Mart.

Do you think that special person in your life would appreciate a new 2ton quick lift trolley jack, some wheel chocks, work gloves, and knee pads. At least the knee pads might be appreciated, these cold days. All for £32.50.

portland_bill said:

Another 'Vantine's' email, this time from Machine Mart.

Do you think that special person in your life would appreciate a new 2ton quick lift trolley jack, some wheel chocks, work gloves, and knee pads. At least the knee pads might be appreciated, these cold days. All for £32.50.

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I like the sound of Vantides..

Is it a high lift jack though..?

As those old stickers used to say..

'If this vans rockin..'

portland_bill said:

Another 'Vantine's' email, this time from Machine Mart.

Do you think that special person in your life would appreciate a new 2ton quick lift trolley jack, some wheel chocks, work gloves, and knee pads. At least the knee pads might be appreciated, these cold days. All for £32.50.

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Well ....If you are offering (-:

portland_bill said:

Another 'Vantine's' email, this time from Machine Mart.

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varesecrazy said:

I like the sound of Vantides..

Is it a high lift jack though..?

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I think my keyboard is wearing out. It seems to have missed a chunk, and often adds extra letters, usually one or two letters after the key was pressed. e.g. would often comes out as wouold, and it keeps adding double letters, such as win would be wiin.

Also may need to sack the proofreader. He's been given a talking to, and promises to try harder. We'll see.

At that price, I doubt the jack lifts very far.

Took my golf out for the first time in about 2 maybe 3 weeks. Had last cleaned it and put it away in the garage.

Went to put some bags in the boot (supermarket trip) to find the car that had been spotlessly clean had a set of cat prints on the boot lid and up the back window.

The local cats especially like to sit on the fabric roof in the cold weather, its a bit nicer than metal panels.

Then when I got in the car there were a smear of cat prints where it had tried to walk down the windscreen but failed and slid down into the scuttle panel.

Dunno why it just made me laugh.

AndyRKett said:

Took my golf out for the first time in about 2 maybe 3 weeks. Had last cleaned it and put it away in the garage.

Went to put some bags in the boot (supermarket trip) to find the car that had been spotlessly clean had a set of cat prints on the boot lid and up the back window.

The local cats especially like to sit on the fabric roof in the cold weather, its a bit nicer than metal panels.

Then when I got in the car there were a smear of cat prints where it had tried to walk down the windscreen but failed and slid down into the scuttle panel.

Dunno why it just made me laugh.

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Hopefully they don't use it as a scratching post, our cat will use anything from peoples fences, to trees and especially laptop bags with their fabric texture as a scratching post / bed...

This photo illustrates it nicely... Cat on laptop bag, laptop on cat bed...

phew 25 mile round trip ,had covid jab.by a young forces medic.away for about 2hrs feel great feet up listening t0 caroline flash back online with a nice cup of tea and my sheltie poo in her basket

SB1500 said:

Hopefully they don't use it as a scratching post, our cat will use anything from peoples fences, to trees and especially laptop bags with their fabric texture as a scratching post / bed...

This photo illustrates it nicely... Cat on laptop bag, laptop on cat bed...

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No but once I did come out to the car to find cat sick on the roof lmao ?

Animal encounters? while we're on the subject. Back in the late '60's when Mrs J was an Airline employee and we could avail ourselves of her 10% ticket privilege, friends of ours emigrated to the then Rhodesia. After they'd got settled in we went to visit - and therein lies another story as Ian Smith declared unilateral independence and we nearly didn't get back into Britain! - Anyway I noticed that every morning Bill would open his bonnet briefly, take a quick look and close it again. Didn't check the water or pull the oil dip stick. So, one day I asked him what he was doing. Checking for snakes said he. They like to coil round the engine at night for the heat and they get very angry if you try to start the engine before they've moved on!

Was it a Dodge Viper ?

Think that deserves a "Boom Boom"

I've always had opposite of the cats..

The street (street is overselling it there's 3 houses it's 3 cars long) I park in backs straight on to an allotment, which backs on to arable land.

For years in Summer I've found little mouse poos on the roof. Probably multiple generations of mouse have been at it. Never figured out why, I guess it's a high point in the Sun at that time of year.

Could be worse though at my dad's the front bumper of my punto seemed to be the edge of a fox territory, it was rather aromatic.

It’s all fun and games till the mouse moves off the roof and starts eating wires

In contrast to my CarPlay shenanigans on the Grumpy thread, the eBay seller has said he'll take back my original unit, activate CarPlay and send it back - with my factory maps - and then I can send him back the unit he sent me originally. It'll have cost £100 for the upgrade .. fair!!!

Very happy with that resolution! No compromise needed

AndyRKett said:

It’s all fun and games till the mouse moves off the roof and starts eating wires

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I had considered that but unless I'm going to set traps in the street there's not really an awful lot I can do about it, you'd not put poison down in a public place.

Occupational hazard of the sticks unfortunately, one of them came through an airbrick into the house a few years ago now. That was a fun day, caught it in a humane trap, drove it 4 miles away to a nice secluded place. Hopped out of the car to release it on the verge and get hit in arse by something heavy. Turned out to be my own car...in the excitement I'd forgotten the handbrake thankfully a very slight hill.

Since then they've built a stables opposite..complete with Chickens so unfortunately between that and the fields of grain there will be harvest mice around.

Dodge Viper, owned by Anna Conda and coveted by Monty Python.

StevenRB45 said:

I had considered that but unless I'm going to set traps in the street there's not really an awful lot I can do about it, you'd not put poison down in a public place.

Occupational hazard of the sticks unfortunately, one of them came through an airbrick into the house a few years ago now. That was a fun day, caught it in a humane trap, drove it 4 miles away to a nice secluded place. Hopped out of the car to release it on the verge and get hit in arse by something heavy. Turned out to be my own car...in the excitement I'd forgotten the handbrake thankfully a very slight hill.

Since then they've built a stables opposite..complete with Chickens so unfortunately between that and the fields of grain there will be harvest mice around.

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You should know by now that my answer to this is going to be Volkswagen.... vw have and answer for everything

Volkswagen 000054650F Anti-Rodent System Electric with Ultrasound/High Voltage https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014W29H1Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_BZ4HC0DQH4W7MP42FKT1

I’m sure they make generic versions

DaveMcT said:

Dodge Viper, owned by Anna Conda and coveted by Monty Python.

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Don't think that can be beaten Dave! Biggest snake we saw whilst there was in the Wankie (yes really!) Game Reserve - now renamed Hwange, wonder why? Anyway back to the snake. It stretched from one side of the single track road to the other and was about as thick as my thigh in the middle. Bill thought it was a python of some sort but as he was himself a newcomer to the country he didn't really know. We stopped at a respectful distance until it had wiggled away into the bush!

Nothing as exciting as snakes, but when working at a Rover dealer in Dorset, one customer was a vet. At one service, he said, "There's a mouse in the car somewhere, it keeps nibbling the paperwork. If you find it, please evict it." Occupational hazard, visiting farms.

We didn't find the mouse, but about 10 days later he returned. "You'll have to find it, whatever it takes. It has died, and is now smelling.
A Morris Marina, Mk2 with the curved dash. Whole dash moulding out, 13 screws (sad I can remember that, but did it later with one of my own). Dead mouse resting on top of heater box.

At college a friend who's dad ran a small mot garage was 'gifted'a mk1 marina


A local farmer had been transferring a Calf that had vomited all around the rear of it.. lovely

I think it was all stripped out and pressure washed..
Put back into service and another friend then wrote it off.. it got re.shelled and was then a lovely shade of Harvest Gold

AndyRKett said:

You should know by now that my answer to this is going to be Volkswagen.... vw have and answer for everything

Volkswagen 000054650F Anti-Rodent System Electric with Ultrasound/High Voltage https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014W29H1Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_BZ4HC0DQH4W7MP42FKT1

I’m sure they make generic versions

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Does it work on toddlers as well?



Sick of him pressing the boot open on his way round...you strap him in, get in the drivers seat, fire it up to be greeted with the Americanism "Trunk open".

Few hundred volts should sort it...