Cheap tools!
I'm a sucker for tools but have slowly learned why Snapon tools are expensive....they don't snap or bend!

Being an engineer I offten need said Spanner of various sizes up to uber giant! My Dad kindly gave me all his really expensive accient spanners all AF (imperial) but soilid as fuck. So I needed some metric ones, a kind relative bought me a set from some dodgy market at about a squid a spanner consequentially none of them are the size they say they are, ie 27mm is not even close and they're all brittal as hell. In the end I gave in a spent hundreds on a good set. The cheap set have been grownd out for variuos bastardised tools.

Don't buy French or Korean cars they're all fucking crap, save up and buy a good Jap or German car (except Mercedes as it'll fall to bits because they're all built by Turkish immigrants who don't give a shit), if your a bird and want a small car then get a Fiesta.
(3:16, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:12, 6 replies)

FORD????!!!!!1111!!!!
Isn't good Ford a contradiction in terms?
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:15, closed)

Korean cars
are actually bloody glood, in my experience of the newer Daewoos (sorry, 'Chevrolets') anyway.

Agree with you about tools though. It really is worth spending the cash on a decent set - as I found out when none of the sockets in my Halfords Special socket set would undo any of the bolts on my car.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:22, closed)

Ford?
Despite Fords recent advances they are still not what I'd term "the opposite of crap" which is essentially what you have done

They are still more crap than not... step into a new Mondeo and you'll think you've stepped into a poor quality rip off of an Audi A4, step into a new Focus and you'll think you've stepped into a poor quality rip off of a Golf... all cheap immations of German cars

I could go on, but I think you get the point
(Bad_Dogg, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:34, closed)

Golf vs Focus???? Hmm.....
Read this review of used Mk 4 Golfs to the very bottom.

cars.uk.msn.com/Usedcarguide/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7136109

Having owned a couple of Volkswagens, they do go wrong - a lot - and are a helluva lot more expensive to fix than a Ford.

Also, even a well sorted Volkswagen Golf of post 1991 vintage still isn't as nice to drive as a Feck-Arse.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:46, closed)

get a Nissan Micra
K10 and K11 Micras are indestructible. I found this out this from experience cos I tried to destroy one by driving it to Mongolia. It survived beautifully offroad.

The new ones are shit though cos Renault took over production.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:05, closed)

I used to have a micra
(H reg) which was awesome and never went wrong, then I had two golfs the first one blew up (head gasket) and the second started plotting against me by losing all power at 85mph on the motorway. It is surprising how quickly you start slowing down when you have no drive on the motorway going slightly uphill...
Now I own a fiesta and its cheap and cheerful :)

I keep trying to steal my dads tools as they are snapon but he has metric and I need imperial for my 1972 Marina... which some people will probably say is cheap tat as well but I love them!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 9:20, closed)