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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 31 August 2022, 14:09:45 »Car now on driveway. Battery as flat as a witches tit, so suspect thats shagged
What made it break down in the first place ?
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What made it break down in the first place ?
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General Car Chat / Re: Hot Rod Diner, Northfleet
« on: 23 August 2022, 12:45:11 »yes ,the wife does eat burgerssome cattle feed contains animal derived ingredients ,so not all cows are "vegan"
hence mad cow's disease/cjd
But luckily doesn't see these posts
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General Car Chat / Re: Cheap-ish windy gun
« on: 20 August 2022, 14:51:35 »I've got one that I use with a 4 ah battery. They are ok for whizzing wheel nuts off once cracked with a breaker bar, but they generally struggle with wheel nuts that have been on for a period of time (as we all know they always seen tighter on removal than when they were originally fitted
However, I also have a Lidl Parkside 'Performance' 20v cordless impact wrench, which delivers a massive 1896nm of 'nut busting' torque, and I have yet to find any nut / bolt that it won't loosen virtually immediately. Heavier than the 400nm version, but a cracking piece of kit, with a 5 year warranty (Lidl are extremely good in honouring their warranties if ever needed). I waited for the Performance version to come into UK stores, but gave up after 12 months, and ordered one from Germany for approx £140 delivered.
Thats good value for such a high torque figure
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 13 August 2022, 12:58:58 »How much they charging these days ?
From about 50 upwards
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 10 August 2022, 09:56:48 »will fargo near me
Crikey,I managed to upload a picture
My favorite model and color. Every day I regret that these cars are no longer produced.
Sadly I no longer have it, A Volvo V70 has replaced it as much cheaper to tax/run
Is that a 9-3?
We now have a 10 plate 9-5 tractor juice edition
9-5 Aero Hot 260bhp
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 09 August 2022, 00:20:26 »Istr she had been battling Cancer for many years. Presumably, she finally lost the battle.
I think she was first diagnosed around 20 years ago,very brave lady. RIP
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 08 August 2022, 11:02:19 »
Crikey,I managed to upload a picture
My favorite model and color. Every day I regret that these cars are no longer produced.
Sadly I no longer have it, A Volvo V70 has replaced it as much cheaper to tax/run
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General Car Chat / Re: My LR Reliability thread
« on: 04 August 2022, 21:55:04 »So today, in hopefully a conclusion to this sorry tale, I put a deposit down on a newer D5 that happened to come into one of our local LR dealers over the weekend. A 68 plate facelift 3.0, Loire Blue, tan interior and just about every possible option
It's an ex JLR vehicle (OE registration) and was allegedly a former VIP car - which I could believe, or it could be total tosh, either way, it's rather lovely. Slightly oddly, it's had 'downgraded' 20" wheels, which I actually prefer. It's a newer, lower mileage and a better car than the green one, but then again, it was more expensive.
The car needs its first MOT and hasn't been through their workshop for checking, but was fully serviced at the dealer about 6 weeks ago. I can't wait for it to be ready
This sounds more like it.
I think 3 litre power and torque is better suited to pushing a weighty lad like a RR/LR along, than 2 litres.
Loire blue looks classy.
My nephew has a 2.0 D5 and it does very well on the road when it all works
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General Car Chat / Re: My LR Reliability thread
« on: 04 August 2022, 09:37:13 »Get a Landcruiser, you know how the saying goes, if you want to go into the desert take a Landrover, if you want to come back take a Landcruiser
The issue is they are not nice to drive, classic issue with a ladder chassis, crap on the road and awful at stopping the transfer of NVH
Very true,but pretty reliable
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General Car Chat / Re: In the name of all that is holy. How hard can rear shocks be?
« on: 03 August 2022, 15:06:12 »Needs a touch from the hot metal glue gunPresumably that a glue gun and special glue?
As for XJ pads, pretty sure mine a the same calipers ford use, due to that odd size allen bolt that ford love. The V8 ones have proper size calipers, discs and pads, as you'd expect.
Mig welder
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General Car Chat / Re: Classic 17 year old Vauxhall for five grand.
« on: 03 August 2022, 15:04:55 »The used market is crazy at the moment. I paid £2400 for mine 7 years ago.
Only 11 Signums on Autotrader and only one with a proper V6 petrol engine.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202207147799149?
I think the saying ryhme's with Clucking Bell
Do we have a Blackadder fan on the forum?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Vettel’s successor?
« on: 03 August 2022, 12:28:44 »So they have no interest in winning then.It might be they want a "good" driver to help develop the car. Much like that useless waste of carbon, Jenson Button, 15 years ago - he was never going to win anything*, but he was very good at telling his teams what the issues were with the car, and constantly giving feedback on all the tweaks applied.
An uncompetitive car driven by a man years past his 'best sell by date'.
*OK, so he got lucky one year when theillegalcontroversial Brawn was always going to win until the other teams could redesign the arse of theirs.
He managed to outscore Hamilton on points during there three seasons together !!
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General Car Chat / Re: Classic 17 year old Vauxhall for five grand.
« on: 03 August 2022, 12:24:23 »The used market is crazy at the moment. I paid £2400 for mine 7 years ago.
Only 11 Signums on Autotrader and only one with a proper V6 petrol engine.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202207147799149?
I think the saying ryhme's with Clucking Bell
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General Car Chat / Re: My LR Reliability thread
« on: 03 August 2022, 12:21:50 »
Get a Landcruiser, you know how the saying goes, if you want to go into the desert take a Landrover, if you want to come back take a Landcruiser
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General Car Chat / Re: In the name of all that is holy. How hard can rear shocks be?
« on: 03 August 2022, 12:17:36 »And the problem....
Needs a touch from the hot metal glue gun
, Ive just put a set of front pads into a 2014 XJ/L, bloody calipers are huge but pads are mondeo size, whats the point in that