As some may have noted I have some major clearance issues with the underside of the Prelude and the end of my drive.

Well they just got a whole lot worse, backing off the last two times has had all the delicacy and finese of a bull charging a skip over a rockey outcrop. Why is it getting worse and worse I wonder. Well I had a look under the car today to find out why.

On the center silencer there is a hanger which folds backwards onto a couple of hangers, well this has been acting like a sort of road-prelude anchor in reverse and I have managed to bend it right over and actually crimp the silencer with it. I will have to draw a sophisticated diagram for this.

Sophisticated diagram, as seen from the side of the car, A: Before B: After

Only solution.

Sell the rice-mobile.
And buy a big fook-off 4x4.
OWN the kerb.

There has to be someone who wants to swap a Hilux for a Prelude

I'll swap you for a twix?

As an aside:

Anyone see that "Car Nation" prog on telly last night?

Featured a silly girl in a 'Lude (covered in rice and tasteless stickaz) banging on about it being a "manly sports car".....

Joey and me were torn between Carnation and Big Brother last night, we opted for BB on the basis Carnation was likely to just piss us off.

What, and BB wouldn't?

That lass with the afro makes me want to vomit.
No joke.

She makes me feel sick.

I find BB theraputic, especially on Friday when they made Venesa cry.

Yesterday I actually walked back to were I had parked the Prelude hoping it had been stolen and early rammed it with a shopping trolly on purpose.

don't ram ym run about with a trolley, a bloke at work is selling his four runner dude, even has an LPG conversion!!! needs the head gaskets doing but I bet you'd get it for a grand a sit is then get GMH to bob the head gaskets on, I'll take the lude!

Sounds interesting Turner, any more details on the Runner?

Prelude was fixed to today with a trolly jack, some bricks and the gift of gravity.

She made me ill.

I could only watch a few seconds before becoming VERY VERY angry.

Yep, that programme really is a "lets have a rant at the TV" programme isn't it? I'm guilty btw!

There was something on last night called Greatest Sport Cars, that was bollocks