Randomness

[Swervin_Mervin]

The full article is paywalled but the headline is all you need


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/0 ... ve-surrey/

A great workaround for most news sites is to put https://archive.is/ in front of the original https://www.etc…. and it’ll give you a full archived version most of the time

Will try that as my "behind paywalls" extension stopped working a while ago.

Easy workaround for the Telegraph though is to just turn javascript off

[Jobbo]

@ZedLeg Looks like the plain cigarette packs before they had to have diseased lungs on. Before long you'll get an image of an obese belly on the box.

[jamcg]

They’ll all be behind cabinets in identical plain boxes next and take the staff 10 minutes to find the correct pasty

[scotta]

Discovered this amazing channel on insta - https://www.instagram.com/wizard.auto.body.llc/

Guy does bodywork and resprays...Highlight so far are the motorhome he resprayed black -



Hes turned off comments on some of his videos "Cos haters" geez.

[scotta]

Oh and ive just seen this one...The car looks immaculate...Until he touched it.

[DeskJockey]

How many customers complain? That looks awful.

[scotta]

He's ruined that mercedes.

[Jobbo]

When customers don't want to pay $4000 for a matte wrap, they come to him... and get that shocking job.

My wrap chap had a Urus in before my MX5 and he showed me the previous 'peelable wrap' which was on it. It was gold and impossible to remove, took days apparently, and couldn't all be removed in places like the bonnet shuts. I guess that's what has been done to this Merc. Just awful.

[Beany]

I think @integrale_evos rattle can job on the Metro was better than that Merc.

I'm not even joking.

[integrale_evo]

I want to follow so I can see the horror, but don’t actually want to follow them

[scotta]

When customers don't want to pay $4000 for a matte wrap, they come to him... and get that shocking job.

My wrap chap had a Urus in before my MX5 and he showed me the previous 'peelable wrap' which was on it. It was gold and impossible to remove, took days apparently, and couldn't all be removed in places like the bonnet shuts. I guess that's what has been done to this Merc. Just awful.

I dont think thats wrapped - I think its just a really shit spray job.

[Sundayjumper]

When customers don't want to pay $4000 for a matte wrap, they come to him... and get that shocking job.

My wrap chap had a Urus in before my MX5 and he showed me the previous 'peelable wrap' which was on it. It was gold and impossible to remove, took days apparently, and couldn't all be removed in places like the bonnet shuts. I guess that's what has been done to this Merc. Just awful.

I dont think thats wrapped - I think its just a really shit spray job.

That.

[Beany]

Unless someone deliberately put bad rattle can coverage into a wrap, of course.

I suspect this clown is just offering you the real thing though.

[integrale_evo]

I would imagine it’s a plastidip style sprayable wrap, surely no one would actually pay them to do a rattlecan style matt black paint job on what was a decent looking car.

I love how it instantly made the whole thing look old and knackered

[ZedLeg]

[Jobbo]

I would imagine it’s a plastidip style sprayable wrap, surely no one would actually pay them to do a rattlecan style matt black paint job on what was a decent looking car.

That's what I was assuming - similar to the 'peelable wrap' that wasn't on the Urus I saw.

[mik]

Annoyingly easy when you figure it out.

Solution is available in the first reply, but obvs try not to jump to that.

https://www.threads.net/@mckibbin558/po ... rFJF25ysWQ

[nuttinnew]

[mik]

If I was childish, I would have laughed at this ‘til my sides hurt…..

[Simon]

Not sure if this belongs in 'cars', 'music', YouTube' or 'Randomness', but I found it interesting anyway.