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Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 3018075 times)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20355 on: 13 May 2020, 17:54:03 »
Oh....and a mower is not strictly a car.  :P
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20356 on: 13 May 2020, 17:59:12 »
Quote from: STEMO on 13 May 2020, 17:54:03
Oh....and a mower is not strictly a car.  :P
It’s the only thing I’m driving at present.  :(
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20357 on: 13 May 2020, 18:00:42 »
Quote from: STEMO on 13 May 2020, 17:54:03
Oh....and a mower is not strictly a car.  :P
That depends on how it is being used...

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20358 on: 14 May 2020, 17:43:00 »
Took it for a 40 mile meander around Daventry and Banburyshire.  I couldn't work out for def if that was allowed with the eased lockdown, as I didn't drive to do exercise, I just took it for a spin with no intention of even getting out.
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« Reply #20359 on: 14 May 2020, 17:48:49 »
It was ok if you were going for a house viewing  ;D
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« Reply #20360 on: 14 May 2020, 17:54:33 »
Quote from: amba on 14 May 2020, 17:48:49
It was ok if you were going for a house viewing  ;D
My take, is what I did was in the spirit of what we as a nation need to achieve, but the media have, I think, muddied the waters by constantly asking if John can doe XYZ and how is that different from Peter doing ABC.
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« Reply #20361 on: 14 May 2020, 17:55:48 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 May 2020, 17:43:00
Took it for a 40 mile meander around Daventry and Banburyshire.  I couldn't work out for def if that was allowed with the eased lockdown, as I didn't drive to do exercise, I just took it for a spin with no intention of even getting out.
You can do whatever you fickin like, who's going to say different?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20362 on: 14 May 2020, 17:56:02 »
Cleaned all the bugs off the windscreen and front end of the Range Rover after taking it out for a 25 mile jaunt, just needed to drive it ..😎
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« Reply #20363 on: 14 May 2020, 17:57:12 »
Quote from: STEMO on 14 May 2020, 17:55:48
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 May 2020, 17:43:00
Took it for a 40 mile meander around Daventry and Banburyshire.  I couldn't work out for def if that was allowed with the eased lockdown, as I didn't drive to do exercise, I just took it for a spin with no intention of even getting out.
You can do whatever you fickin like, who's going to say different?
John and Peter...
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« Reply #20364 on: 14 May 2020, 18:12:56 »
Quote from: STEMO on 14 May 2020, 17:55:48
Quote from: TheBoy on 14 May 2020, 17:43:00
Took it for a 40 mile meander around Daventry and Banburyshire.  I couldn't work out for def if that was allowed with the eased lockdown, as I didn't drive to do exercise, I just took it for a spin with no intention of even getting out.
You can do whatever you fickin like, who's going to say different?
Well, my flying association have clarified that its members can all fly, if social distancing can be maintained.  That's not rxactly exercise.

As of last weekend, in the previous 2 weeks I'd driven just under 2 miles. But flown a quadcopter 104km without me leaving the premises.  As of now, the car is catching up, at around 40 miles ;D
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« Reply #20365 on: 14 May 2020, 19:14:36 »
Mileage is quite comical here .Average week I drive between 600/700 miles .
In the last 8 weeks I have managed to cover 38 miles total . Fuel bill is funding the wine cellar at present
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« Reply #20366 on: 14 May 2020, 19:16:14 »
Just to add some injury to insult we have walked 187miles as of this afternoons little jaunt
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20367 on: 14 May 2020, 21:15:51 »
Halfway through the tank of fuel I put in on March 9th ;D

Actually I may have chucked £15 at the end of April to top it up...

Will do another 7 miles tomorrow  :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20368 on: 14 May 2020, 21:53:49 »
Charged the battery on the Astra.... It's more a Hybrid than a straight Diesel now
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20369 on: 15 May 2020, 19:19:12 »
Carrying on from last week, new ball joint splitter arrived, so got the nearside front ball joint swapped out. Easy enough, but had to take the knuckle off the car. Did the brake hose whilst there. Also did the rear hoses and tweaked the handbrake.

Oh, and the replacement wheels arrived. Not as nice as the pictures, but they were a bit of a steal. If the old wheels looked good in the dark, with your back turned and eyes closed...  ::) then the new ones, like the car, will pass the ten yard test :D

May get them refurbished if I cba :-\ the rims are a bit scuffed, and they've already been rattle canned :-X
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