Wife saves the day
So there I am working on the brake wear indicator bypass and its going well but I knocked the instrument cluster and 2 dash rings fell off.
So as you do, I start shaking my fist at the sky just as the Jehovah Witness over 85s recruiting team turns into the drive. Two sisters that are regular nuisance callers. When they see me waving my fist in the air of course I get asked what I am doing.
At this point I am a little frustrated and so I am a tad facetious. I say I am warning god if he dosen't give me a break we will be chatting at close quarters and only one of us will walk away!  Not a particularly clever thing to do I know with hindsite.
However, the wife is in the garage and hears all this. Now my wife only swears once every third ice age with a q in the month. On this occasion she is so exasperated by my facetious remark she says to herself 'O for fcuk's sake'!!  What she dosen't realise is the garage acts like a megaphone..... I hear it quite clearly and I'm shocked. The gruesome twosome however switch straight to Kamakazi Evangelical mode and head fearlessly into the garage.  
At this point I have a sever urge for a cup of tea and bolt for the house. The wife comes in 15 minutes later and I slip out the back to the garage. Dosen't help as I am quickly hunted down. I love my wife!
__________________
Conan (the Librarian)
Watch it if you dare
Currently,
2000 S8, Merlin Purple, Leather Pack 1, Winter Pack 1, SPAX adjustable suspension, AP Racing 6 pot front caliper, 385mm fully floating disks, EBC Yellow Stuff Pads, Black Diamond grooved rear disks and predetor pads, D2 Doctors Brake Block.
1997 4.2 A8SQ - the Projekt. 12 years and ongoing!
1997 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. Restoration sat waiting; saved from the Scrapyard
2003 C5 Allroad 4.2Q - Cobolt Blue. Towing car. Laid up awaiting manual conversion.
2005 C5 Allroad 2.5TDi FE - Grey - Workhorse.
2015 Q3QS SLine - Daytona Grey. Lots of extras! Long Haired Admirals cutter.
Previously
2003 C5 A6 1.9TDI FWD - Loaner from D2 Doctor Lifex
1997 S8 - Ming Blue. Loaned out and written off. I loved that car. My first engine swap after cambelt failure.
1996 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. 178k on a cambelt! Trader's 8. Delivered to A8Parts at Lifex.
2003 2.8 A8SQ - powder blueish. Fill in for a while. Sold on.
1998 1.8T A4 Avant FWD. Ming Blue (there's a theme here), PEX for the 97 S8.
And a list of non VAG going back 40 years before I saw the light.
|