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Being a bit "finickety" pugugly, ha.
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Or "fikey" in old Scots.
"He's guy fikey wi' his motors ken" or " He is jolly particular about car maintenance"
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Or finicky, to stick with the OED. Maybe I'm just being pernickety...
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Or finicky to stick with the OED. Maybe I'm just being pernickety...
Thats the word Mike
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I wish I hadn't started this now !
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I bet prm36 wishes he hadn't either. He asks about his bumper and gets a vocab. lesson.
Is it the whole bumper prm36 or just the plastic insert?
My wife had "an incident" earlier this year. I removed the plastic insert took it to the local respray place 30? and a day or so later, looked like new.
Edited by gmac on 16/11/2008 at 12:53
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No gmac, its the whole bumper,well one side if they can blend the rougher side in with the good.
PS. I only had a secondary school education, so all vocab lessons gratefully reiceved.
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Vocab - haven't heard that since I was at grammar school..
"Smithers Minor, have you done your French vocab?"
Reluctantly bank to motoring, the front bumper is the only panel to have been replaced on the Focus.
I clouted a dog whose thoroughly irresponsible owner had let roam free near a major road.
Cost was about £200 for the bare bumper plus around £150 to paint it.
It was one of those remarkable incidents in which the dog survived - I hit its rear hindquarters at about 60mph.
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Well, been for a quote, and the bumper needs to come off, all grills, spotlights etc etc taken off, rubbed down and resprayed, they need the car for 2-3 days, we started at £400, i said too dear what with Xmas coming and the credit crunch and me living in a rolled up newspaper etc, so they are doing it for £250 cash, quite pleased with that.
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I knew it was a mistake to look at this thread. Bad for the blood pressure.
What utter and complete garbage modern so-called bumpers are. Of course I knew about Focus ones already. But Volvo used to be exemplary in this area. No longer, alas.
I am not over-impressed by owners who think it worth spending several hundred pounds to remove evidence of a bumper scuff. Sure, it makes the car look embarrassing. But if all owners just let them look like that, and potential owners began to turn off the model because it looked tatty when still young, then hey presto! manufacturers might pay more attention and start fitting something a bit more practical than these false-eyelash-type ornamental end panels.
Edited by Lud on 17/11/2008 at 13:53
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