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...but it's started badly.
Taking Herself to work this morning, got up to 50 and there is a "clonk-clonk-clonk" noise from the driverside rear wheel and a load of vibration. Back off, it goes away, slowly speed up and it doesn't come back.
Stop and have a quick look - nothing obvious, maybe a bit of rubbish picked up by the tire and spun around?
Drop her off and decide I'd better get it checked, so I drive off to the garage and they put it up on the ramps.
But before they start looking at the driver side, it's "what's up with the passenger side?" It's leaning in badly at the top.
Long story short, the driver side rear needs a new swing arm bearing. Not a problem, A-class Mercs do go through them. But the passenger side has snapped the axle nearly all the way through... 
Next trip at 70 and the wheel could have been heading for the hills... 
Is it worth fixing? Don't know yet - depends on how easy it is to get the old one off, and that's going to take most of the day. All I know for sure is this is going to be expensive!
Please, Monday, leave me alone now, eh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just before explaining what's needed, did the Spanner breath in through his teeth in a sort of reverse whistle?
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No - they are a good bunch down there, we know each other quite well.
They have even loaned me a car for a couple of days while they have a look. It's a POS, but it's (probably) four wheels and an engine. And a Vauxhall badge. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So a couple more wheels then the Merc 
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Apparently.
But the Merc still drove in a straight line...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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... which is totally useless on Welsh roads!
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We have some straight roads!
Ok, they tend to go up and down a lot...
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Can you point on them? Wales road map.[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That one, right there!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...but it's started badly.
Similar here. The car did not start at all.
To be honest, I expected that. Had the same problem last week and was in the garage. But they did not found anything and it was starting there without problems. Must be a problem with humidity. They checked the ignition plugs and all electrical connectors but did not found anything.
So I did the same as last week:
Try to start until the battery gives up. Wait 5 minutes to let the battery recover a little bit. Retry. Until now I get it started by this procedure. Otherwise I have to recharge the battery.
So I have to go back to the garage after work. Hopefully they have a car for me so that they can let my stay there over night to check it in the morning.
The only good thing: The garage is just 150 m away form my work.
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You didn't remove the training wheels[^] did you?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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I'd need a more authoritative source than Wiki before I believe it if I were you. Just because it's on Wikipedia, it doesn't mean it's true.
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I think it's true! Chuck Lorre showed her never seen face in place of his Vanity Card at the end of Season 8 Episode 9 TBBT.
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You think it's true, but you posted linking to Wikipedia anyway. You assumed that Wikipedia was correct, and that's a poor thing to do.
Long time regulars of the lounge remember when a certain former regular, who shall remain nameless, posted a link to an entry in Wikipedia stating that Ian Botham was dead. People became a touch suspicious when they noticed that the person who edited the Wikipedia entry was the same individual.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: You think it's true, but you posted linking to Wikipedia anyway. You assumed that Wikipedia was correct, and that's a poor thing to do.
It's true. My boy discovered it 2 days ago and knew the tribute was coming on TBBT. He doesn't use Wikipedia and found about 3 sources.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Yes, we don't want another Ian Botham debacle.
But I did read a story about her death elsewhere.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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The problem is just that newspapers have started using Wikipedia as a source of information...
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Enough of this shilly-shallying, I'm off to the US to demand a notarised copy of her death certificate and a an interview with the physician who pronounced her dead.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Who is she anyway?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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An actress in "The Big Bang Theory", who plays the unseen mother of one of the less central characters.
Put like that it hardly seems like news - which of course it isn't.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Rather unfortunate name of the film she was lasted listed on before her death; "A Life, Taken".
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I'd need a more authoritative source than Wiki the Internet before I believe it if I were you. Just because it's on Wikipedia the Internet, it doesn't mean it's true.
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Well played Nicholas, if that is really your name.
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