Lidl's chainsaw got me out of a bind.

[Haironyourchest]

Topped up the oil in my kangoo this morning and dropped the oil cap into a hole in the framework of the car body, just next to the engine mount. There's a nice big hole there, perfectly placed to catch the oil cap. Inside the hole is a cave of sorts, weirdly shaped so you cannot get the cap out with anything. I tried hoovering it out, blowing it out from beneath with compressed air, various pliers and wires, doubled over tape and all sorts. I know its in there because I took a picture with my phone.

 

So the only option was to go to Aldi and buy the €79 inspection endescope camera, but to get there I needed a temporary cap. So I grabbed the first plastic cap I saw in the shed - the oil cap off of a broken Lidl chainsaw - and it fit perfectly! Checked after a few miles and no oil getting past it. Got to aldi and decided not to by the overpriced gadget - I'll just keep going with the chainsaw cap till next time I visit friends with small children then I'll get a kid to retrieve it for me.

 

So those Lidl saw are good for certain jobs.....

[Stubby]

Serendipity ! Nice one .

[treequip]

I'll just keep going with the chainsaw cap till next time I visit friends with small children then I'll get a kid to retrieve it for me.

 

 

Nowt wrong with mekin em earn their keep, but it's been said you cant send em up 't mill chimney or under 't loom any more

[Haironyourchest]

Chim-chimnny-chim-chimnny Chim-chim-cheroo....Or send em down pit....what's the first world coming to? Incidentally, the sweeps were the first identified victims of occupational cancer, identified in 1775 in british sweeps. They used to develop cancer of the scrotum from all the soot dust.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps%27_carcinoma

[carlos]

classic renault design, probably took them weeks to design in that annoyance!

[Haironyourchest]

classic renault design, probably took them weeks to design in that annoyance!

 

Exactly what I thought. Good van otherwise, but these little details! I'll tape it over at some stage.

[Steve Bullman]

Would one of these do it? Wouldnt be without mine!

 

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[Haironyourchest]

yeah thats what I need, right price too. Matbe I'll mention it in santas letter.....

[Peasgood]

You come on here telling folk you have a Renault and a Lidl chainsaw?

[diervek]

My mate used a plastic bag and hair band for the best part of eleven months - various different brands, but Lidl bags lasted the longest....