Just heard from VW Commercial that pROJECT mAYHEM is alive - new ECU fitted and it is back and working. They didn't rape me too excessively either for the resurrection process with the final bill coming in at just over a grand. OK it is still a shed load of money but given that I was quoted £900+ for a new ECU it is less than I was expecting to pay overall.
Hurrah for pROJECT mAYHEM!!
Friday, August 14, 2009
Naked Man II
Full video of Simon_M_1's plinth time here - should warn you that it features full nakedness though that is unlikely to bother Fiend much and could just make him feel better... ;-)
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Do you know this man?
I do - offers to buy him a pint for this somewhat revealing act currently stand at a couple of pints of the Sheaf's finest ale though no doubt he will happily accept any increase on this somewhat modest total.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
pROJECT mAYHEM Update IV
It has got to the stage where I just can't be bothered any more so I have decided that it is time to bite the bullet and let VW Commercial rape me for what they deem it is worth to fix the van. I won't pretend to be happy about this but it got to the stage where something had to be done to preserve my sanity and allow me to get back into climbing in my own punterish fashion and if this is the price I have to pay so be it.
Anyway as a final word I would just like to say to the previous owners of the van: Fuck you - I really hope that whatever payback karma throws your way as a result of this is fucking immense!
Over and out...
Anyway as a final word I would just like to say to the previous owners of the van: Fuck you - I really hope that whatever payback karma throws your way as a result of this is fucking immense!
Over and out...
Monday, July 6, 2009
pROJECT mAYHEM Update III
No success on finding someone who can get the ECU rebuilt - every potential lead turns into yet another wasted phone call.
No success on finding the donor parts to transplant to pROJECT mAYHEM.
Cost of a new ECU from VW - £914.22 plus a further £35 or thereabouts on getting it all synched up and as if that wasn't enough VW want to run their own diagnostics to check it all out before they order a replacement ECU as if the ECU is not at fault then it can't be returned.
I fucking hate this - there seems to be no respite, no let up, nothing. Here I am trying to live out my own small dream and it is turning into a nightmare of such massive proportions that I am questioning whether I actually have it in me to see it through to the end. The thing is deep in my heart I know that I have to see it through to the end, I can't walk away no matter how tempting it is because the stubborn streak that resides within me won't let me. I am at one with Sisyphus.
No success on finding the donor parts to transplant to pROJECT mAYHEM.
Cost of a new ECU from VW - £914.22 plus a further £35 or thereabouts on getting it all synched up and as if that wasn't enough VW want to run their own diagnostics to check it all out before they order a replacement ECU as if the ECU is not at fault then it can't be returned.
I fucking hate this - there seems to be no respite, no let up, nothing. Here I am trying to live out my own small dream and it is turning into a nightmare of such massive proportions that I am questioning whether I actually have it in me to see it through to the end. The thing is deep in my heart I know that I have to see it through to the end, I can't walk away no matter how tempting it is because the stubborn streak that resides within me won't let me. I am at one with Sisyphus.
Friday, July 3, 2009
The Gap Sequence
Been reading Stephen Donaldsons "The Gap Sequence" - I am currently about a 130 pages into the third book in the series and it is just getting steadily more addictive.
Nominally Sci-fi it is seriously dark in places to say the least dealing with rape, psychological trauma and extremes of violence it just keeps building and building interwoven plot lines one over the other to a point where you have no idea whose agenda is whose and what their real intentions are. The one thing you do know is that as soon as you think you have half an idea what someones agenda is it will all be pulled out from underneath you with an entirely plausible but unexpected twist of the plot.
Go and buy this book but be warned it is not easy reading...
Nominally Sci-fi it is seriously dark in places to say the least dealing with rape, psychological trauma and extremes of violence it just keeps building and building interwoven plot lines one over the other to a point where you have no idea whose agenda is whose and what their real intentions are. The one thing you do know is that as soon as you think you have half an idea what someones agenda is it will all be pulled out from underneath you with an entirely plausible but unexpected twist of the plot.
Go and buy this book but be warned it is not easy reading...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
pROJECT mAYHEM update II
pROJECT mAYHEM is slowly but surely turning into a money pit of infinite proportions it would seem. The ECU came back with the imnmobiliser turned off and it made no difference to the issues that it is suffering so the ECU is at fault - if I thought that things couldn't get any worse I was proved wrong on a grand scale.
The mission now is to to either get the ECU rebuilt, find a replacement one from a breakers yard or buy a new one from VW. All of these scenarios have issues - getting the ECU rebuilt is going to be hard as it is such a new van and from preliminary investigations the guys out there who do this sort of work haven't get the tech to do this yet. Replacing the ECU with one from a breaker also requires that the immobiliser and the keys are taken from the same vehicle as the three are all interlinked together - replace one or two parts and it simply won't work so it is all three parts or bust. The final option is to take it to a dealer which is going to be rape of epic proportions on a financial scale.
Doom, fucking doom!!
The mission now is to to either get the ECU rebuilt, find a replacement one from a breakers yard or buy a new one from VW. All of these scenarios have issues - getting the ECU rebuilt is going to be hard as it is such a new van and from preliminary investigations the guys out there who do this sort of work haven't get the tech to do this yet. Replacing the ECU with one from a breaker also requires that the immobiliser and the keys are taken from the same vehicle as the three are all interlinked together - replace one or two parts and it simply won't work so it is all three parts or bust. The final option is to take it to a dealer which is going to be rape of epic proportions on a financial scale.
Doom, fucking doom!!
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