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Loving the brut and bowtie

The 90's - story reminded of Uni again in the 90's my ex though still best mates lived with 4 other lads and one always answered the door in a dressing gown & bottle of JD and like your mate high/stoned. Not sure if they ever went to classes. Though did you ever have a pizza hedgehog where the spikes were fags 😂 they ended up having a rat, though didn't see if after it ate an entire packet of Jacob's crackers 😂

Dying 😂🤣 love 2.2 voice

Hahahahahah Austin Powers got that image in my head 😂🤣😂 also have when someone says in a nutshell

Hehehehe leafy leafy 🍂🍂

I would say that the wet belt had two perceived benefits. A microscope improvement in mpg but probably enough to shift the needle fleetwise and NVH. I wonder what the carbon cost of replacing an entire motor is compared to the mpg savings from the belt?

Surely if Jonny wants to travel backwards he needs to enter the world of Captain Scarlet and book out an SPV. He can then drive forwards backwards!

I think the ford engine is made by Reno. I've seen the Renault on the bottom of it of the engine

The Gaydon garage is now an ASDA, still with the Starbucks to go and the best bit the Greggs - it's lethal living 2 miles away 😂

Adverts in a podcast? Come on guys

The 'Celica Lady' thing reminds me so much of Susan Sarandon in the music video for Fire by Justice living it up in a chrome-wrapped boxy '80s Celica convertible. // As for my driving instructor, he quipped to me that he'd rather I recommended his services to pretty girls instead of boys like me who aren't much to look at. If that makes him (a grown man requesting to spend more time with 17-year-old girls) seem low-key like a bit of a C, then allow me to confirm it by saying that he said he most wanted the then-new first-gen BMW X6...

And you drove past a really nice Mk4 3-door Golf, and a Bristol?

I called a Peugeot specialist just last week to do my girlfriends 208 cambelt..."petrol or diesel mate?" "petrol" "naaah don't touch those mate..."

I know that lifted pick up from Coatbridge 😂

Carglass in Sweden as well, with same jingle.

Im currently working on a version of Mambo No 5 but with TVR models instead of womens names (yes I am obessed, and no I have no life)... its work in progress but here is how it stands right now: Mambo no5 One, two, three, four, five Everybody in their cars, so come on, let's drive To the stately home around the corner The boys say they want some din and views But I really don't wanna I had a slave bust just last week I must dig deep because talk is cheap I like Tuscan, Tamora, Typhon and Tina And as I continue, you know they getting sweeter (uh) So what can I do? I really beg you, my Lord To me sliding is just like a sport Anything fly, it's all good, let me dump it Please start up the thunder Chorus: A little bit of Grantura in my life A little bit of Cerbera by my side A little bit of S3's all I need A little bit of Tina's what I see A little bit of Griffith in the sun A little bit of Tamsin all day long A little bit of Chimera, here I am A little bit of these make me your fan (ah) Mambo Number Five (ah)

You are a wet belt - Melt

Wet belt is such a stupid idea. These 3 cylinder Puretec motors Peugeot and Citroens are a real liability. When new the manufacturer said cambelt change at 100k miles or ten years. This has now been revised to 6 years or 60k miles due to how many killed the engines (not the owners !) due to rubber debris clogging up the oilways and sump strainer at low mileage. Peugeot fitted loads of replacement engines . Ford now having the same problem with 3 cylinder eco boost engines in fiesta and focus. Also new shape transits have a wet belt 4 cylinder with the same stupid wet belt design thousands of them needing new engines. Just utterly stupid design.

I did a study on the HRV for a marketing class in college, circa 1999. I think I chose the HRV as the marketing literature was quite interesting - I guess there would be nothing interesting about selling a car as a lifestyle accessory now, 25 years on.

Millers Nanodrive for your Boxster, Jonny. Believe.

I also just returned from Menorca Johnny, sweet sweet little island isn't it! I'd saved up the last couple of podcasts to listen to on the beach and was looking forward to all the odd looks I'd be getting as I guffawed away with my headphones on. I soon realised it was too hot to wear the old bin lids OTSOT and ended up binge listening on my return yesterday. Thanks for softening the blow as I get back to reality, you SSG's.

Adverts. Gutted

Particularly funny pod this week guys! I just part-exed a 2017 Fiesta before it could give me any trouble. Such a shame, lovely engine to drive...until they die.

The blue screen is irritating. Too bright.🙂

It's also called Carglass here in the Netherlands and in Belgium, with the same logo and song in the adverts.

I think I noticed the British/German autoglass/carglass oddity at the end of the 90s while playing Toca Touring Cars on the Playstation.

The Focus 1.8 Tdci did have a chain and they changed it to a belt! Melts 😅

I had a Mk6 Fiesta ST, with the two litre non-turbo engine, and it was a cracking little car - loved it 😊

They use the same jingle in the USA: “Safelite repair…Safelite replace” Round about 1995 our pizza delivery guy rocked up in a clean, original paint, black mid 60’s Ford Galaxy 4dr. hardtop. It was summer time so all 4 windows were down. Very cool looking ride

nice review

Feeling quite misled that this wasn't an update on Jonny's Honda Insight and some tale of misadventure around him trying to fix the well documented wet seatbelt issue with these. Other than that, another fine pod' lads. Thank you.

Re , the wet belt It's FORDS and PSVs answer to lowering emissions, " allegedly " The oil must be a specific one , PSV recently revised this info and changed more regularly than other engines

Can confirm Smith & Smith uses the same Auto glass tune: czcams.com/video/kQBzOljYSG0/video.htmlsi=KOlmXbk4OXDotpj-

The Autoglass/Carglass thing is a trademark issue. You can't trademark a purely descriptive name, so "Corn Flakes" isn't a valid trademark and anyone can use the name. If you haven't heard the CZcams compilation of all the different Autoglass jingles, you're missing a treat. CMTMB.

In Peugeot and Citroen petrol cars they are the PureTech engines. In Ford they are called the EcoBoost engines. But both are largely the same design and same flaws, ie. wet belt, / cam belt lying in oil. Load of video on youtube about it

I have a car washing business in late 80s. One of my customers had a 560SEL. It was a lovely car to clean, given its build and materials quality, but also a fab car to drive (I used to pick it up and redeliver) And No, I never caned it - I just enjoyed the waft and (then) huge torque of that engine. Literally built like a bank vault. I'd love one today - if I could afford to run it

From Auckland, NZ, Autoglass here is indeed “Smith and Smith” and the theme tune is the same!

The adds I've had to skip on this week podcast is a joke 😱😱😱

There's a bright yellow and blue Proton Jumbuck local to me. In the back he carries a yellow and blue inflatable dinghy. It looks rather smart.😅

Wet belts are just a way to ensure that new cars only last as long as the warranty. Same with engines made mostly from plastic.

O'Brien's in Australia are a long-term grift. Also, they're famous for having an ad with a particularly cheesy jingle, with a bloke who can't pronounce the name of the company. "Oh, oh, oh O'Bwyans" is forever in my lexicon.

Because algae produces 50% of the oxygen on earth I think if you do choose to grow algae on your vehicle you should not have to pay any emissions tax. I hate washing cars anyway.

I think it’s probably the case that Carglass is such an obvious name that someone else had already copyrighted it when they took the brand overseas, hence the need for another name.

Lancia built a 4 cylinder car engine that fitted within an A4 sheet of paper about 65 years before Ford managed to build a 3 cylinder engine that fitted within an A4 sheet of paper. Impressive achievement by Ford non the less.

Is there an easy way of knowing whether a car has an engine with a wetbelt? Specifically the Fiesta. My niece has a Fiesta, it'd be good to know if she's got that potential problem facing her one day.

How did I never notice that? I've had a British car windscreen replaced in Britain at Autoglass, and then having moved to Germany, had a "windschutzscheibe" replaced at Carglass, and not observed the name situation. Even being bored sitting in the waiting room for an hour when collecting my car, I still never noticed. #DisappointedWithMyself. Didn't understand the Algol references in today's podcast. ...and finally, speaking of PE teachers, my sister, who left secondary school in 1978, spotted her PE teacher walking towards here on the street last year. He totally still looked like he did from schooldays, except older and greyer. Spookily (creepily?) as they walked past each other he said "Hi Annie - remember me?". It had been 45 years and she was only 16 when he last saw her, but he remembered her and her name. In our school, there were about 300 students in each year. Imagine remembering 45x300 students names and faces. She asked "how do you remember me and my name?" - he said he remembered all of his students and encounters several each week. I'm thinking spooky rather than creepy now.

“I don’t think something with such responsibility should be made of rubber”………did anyone else think of condoms when Jonny said this…..no only me, ok.

Can't stop laughing at "he's an adult now"

Oh oh oh, O'briens

The wet belt design is just a terrible design, originally the ecoboost ford engine was said the belt would last 10 years or the"lifetime of the vehicle" So Ford thought the belt would last 10 years, now we know it does you need to replace it every 3 to 5 years but the engine wasn't designed for the wetbelts to be serviceable items, it takes 6 to 8 hours to do and is a £1000 job to do both the oil pump and cambelt the PSA 1.2 pure tech engine is also a wet belt engine and suffers with the same issues with the belt shredding and blocking the oil strainer but it was designed to replace the wetbelt easily, so its a 2 hour job and cheap to do - problem with these engines are people change the wet belt but don't remove the sump so clean it out so they usually die of low oil pressure By far the worst wet belt engine is probably the transit, its really killing the transit off in the UK as tradesman and other companies like the AA/RAC won't run new transits now After years of saying their is no problem though Ford has now upgraded the ecoboost and replaced the wet cambelt with a chain, this was just by the end of the fiesta, so Puma and Kuga's have a timing chain but sadly the oil belt is still rubber in the sump, so you still get cars with low oil pressure as the belt has fallen apart PSA has also added a timing chain to the puretech 1.2 about 12 months ago