What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?

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What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?

They will look good with your suspenders, but the peek a boo bra is not a good look. ;););)
Me: I should borrow one of you bras, and put me stockings on, take, and post a picture...

Mrs PN : No No, you could get prosecuted for that....... Indecent images
You culd give some of those old codjers on the forum a heat attack.

Me I suppose its not very Fiat

ANyway here is my pic. I dont think I look bad!
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Me: I should borrow one of you bras, and put me stockings on, take, and post a picture...

Mrs PN : No No, you could get prosecuted for that....... Indecent images
You culd give some of those old codjers on the forum a heat attack.

Me I suppose its not very Fiat

ANyway here is my pic. I dont think I look bad!View attachment 449251
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So my car is due a service...

Now having the engine equivalent of a grenade it's quite important to ensure the pin is put back in correctly annually.

Especially now that if you have an issue with the timing belt or oil use in the first 10 years or 106k miles use and the car is historied you get a new engine.

However the supplying dealer has had a whirlwind few years under Stellantis and you and is now an Alfa Romeo and DS main agent.

Phoned them up and of course it's a Puretech they all have puretechs no bother getting it booked in and they still do Citroën warranty work if needed.

I'll be interested as to what courtesy car I get...in theory the worst it should be is a DS3 cross back...but hey you never know Alfa Giulia here we come..I've probably stuffed myself by saying I'd drive a manual for that.
 
Mmmmmmmm beeeeeeer
Funny you should say that. Ive been drinking my neighbours beer tonight! Physio says trapped nerves in back. SHe reckons 3 of my discs are fused together which would explain this. I need therefore 20 pints of WD40 beer
 
Hells bells!! I didnt see anyone else
What I liked was she didn't drop the bottle;)
Reminds me as a youngster in a strange Nightclub that had low seats in the darkened room, walking back from the bar with a couple of drinks , going flying but still managed to hang on to my own glass;)
Early 70s , happy days," when I was single and my pockets did jingle" as the saying went:)
 
What I liked was she didn't drop the bottle;)
Reminds me as a youngster in a strange Nightclub that had low seats in the darkened room, walking back from the bar with a couple of drinks , going flying but still managed to hang on to my own glass;)
Early 70s , happy days," when I was single and my pockets did jingle" as the saying went:)
I remember my mother decorating, came down the step ladder the wrong side, landed with a big bump, as a tangled heap in the fireplace, paint brush in one hand, tin in the other, not a drop spilt. "Take the paint" she said calmly, ignoring the pain.
 
Mot fail for the 500, rear spring broken and rear shock leaking.

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Stoopid place to put the top shock bolt, tighten with weight on the car, but there's a tyres in the way! What it's wrong with vertical shocks just like any normal car.

Rear trailing arm isn't as rusty as you'd expect, guess the Scottish weather isn't as bad as some make out.
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Though those alloy wheels were well and truly stuck on, a lot of force and beating getting them off. Cleaned up the surfaces and a very light smear of copper grease should hopefully make next time a bit easier.
 
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Stoopid place to put the top shock bolt, tighten with weight on the car, but there's a tyres in the way! What it's wrong with vertical shocks just like any normal car.
Sit the spring pans on axle stands. With wheels off, the weight of the car is still compressing the springs and shocks to their 'normal' position. Springs do not care if it sits on wheels, stands, or a brick.
Tighten mounts.

The Panda manual gives a dimension from wheelarch to centre of hub as 'normal'. Needed to put a small toolbox in the boot to compress it to that. 500 manual may also give a dimension.
 
I've got rather old chunky axle stands, so can't get them and the jack in at the same point if lifting the spring.
And the body point is no good as the height required to get something under the spring rear axle would be too high.

To be honest two jacks would have been the way to do it, was just a bit too lazy to dig out the other jack as it's piled under so much other junk in the garage.
 
Mrs.Cheest and I took 3 of the 4 grandkids to the Kendall County(IL)Fair last week.
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It's a true agricultural fair. No midway with rides or carnies with rigged games. Just farm stuff. First thing out of the oldest grandsons' mouth when we said there were no rides-"So this isn't a fair?" Me-"Yes it is. This is what county fairs used to be." GS-"Oh. You guys must have been bored." Me-(under my breath)"JHC!"

First thing that did get their attention is we were approached by a County Sheriff officer who introduced their 'Comfort Dog" to us. What a calm sweetie she was. Owen and Lauren made a new friend. The kids also visited some craft booths and played in a sandbox full of corn kernels. Before the sandbox, though, we saw the farm animals. I grew up surrounded by dairy cows, sheep, hogs, and chickens. The youngest granddaughter's home is bordered by farms. She was fine. The boys, though, you'd think we'd thrown them in a zoo cage. They whined about the smell and got vocal about the cow pies. I told them, "Why don't you two tell everyone here you are town kids without telling them you are town kids." We left shortly after that.

I mentioned the animal episode to the boys' Mom and Dad. They sighed and shook their heads. They don't get it either. Our SIL grew up in the sticks and our daughter, who grew up in the suburbs, worked summers at the farm in a local amusement park. She helped deliver lambs and groomed ponies.
 
Mrs.Cheest and I took 3 of the 4 grandkids to the Kendall County(IL)Fair last week.
Lx31pv5l.jpg

It's a true agricultural fair. No midway with rides or carnies with rigged games. Just farm stuff. First thing out of the oldest grandsons' mouth when we said there were no rides-"So this isn't a fair?" Me-"Yes it is. This is what county fairs used to be." GS-"Oh. You guys must have been bored." Me-(under my breath)"JHC!"

First thing that did get their attention is we were approached by a County Sheriff officer who introduced their 'Comfort Dog" to us. What a calm sweetie she was. Owen and Lauren made a new friend. The kids also visited some craft booths and played in a sandbox full of corn kernels. Before the sandbox, though, we saw the farm animals. I grew up surrounded by dairy cows, sheep, hogs, and chickens. The youngest granddaughter's home is bordered by farms. She was fine. The boys, though, you'd think we'd thrown them in a zoo cage. They whined about the smell and got vocal about the cow pies. I told them, "Why don't you two tell everyone here you are town kids without telling them you are town kids." We left shortly after that.

I mentioned the animal episode to the boys' Mom and Dad. They sighed and shook their heads. They don't get it either. Our SIL grew up in the sticks and our daughter, who grew up in the suburbs, worked summers at the farm in a local amusement park. She helped deliver lambs and groomed ponies.
Like most modern kids sadly, If you had just left them with their mobile phones stuck to their faces and dragged them around , they probably would never have noticed, even treading in the cow pies:)
 
Like most modern kids sadly, If you had just left them with their mobile phones stuck to their faces and dragged them around , they probably would never have noticed, even treading in the cow pies:)
I told the oldest that he'd never survive rural Wisconsin where they play 'Cow Flop Bingo' and have 'Cow Chip Toss' tournaments. :ROFLMAO:

Bored, my ass.
 
I told the oldest that he'd never survive rural Wisconsin where they play 'Cow Flop Bingo' and have 'Cow Chip Toss' tournaments. :ROFLMAO:

Bored, my ass.
Reminds my of a joke where a drunk on his way back from the pub was walking home through a cow field and dropped his flat cap, It took him several hours to find one the right size;););)
 
If you can't work that out, perhaps this job is not for you.
Photos would say otherwise...

The issue is that given how prone to rust these cars are, and that the spring seats are a common failurepoint, I didn't want to put the jack or axle stand on the spring seats, so the only real area was the box section, or chunker joint part between seat and box section.

I dont like to bodge things like the youtube monkeys do.
 
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