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General Discussion Area / Re: Machine Mart
« on: 02 November 2007, 18:53:10 »
My yellow ones are Halfords too. Quite old though so probably not current any more.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Machine Mart
« on: 02 November 2007, 10:22:59 »
I've got some old Paddy Hopkirk ones that are superb. Really stable. Got some newer ones too, I think just basic ones from Halfrauds although I can't remember the make. Will check tonight.
We had a trouser browner at the Tidworth cam belt party where some RAC folding ones suffered rivets pulling through
so probably best to avoid those, or anything that's not welded together, IMHO.
Kevin
We had a trouser browner at the Tidworth cam belt party where some RAC folding ones suffered rivets pulling through
so probably best to avoid those, or anything that's not welded together, IMHO.Kevin
33903
General Discussion Area / Re: Machine Mart
« on: 01 November 2007, 23:06:54 »
Phew! Glad I didn't think of that one at the time 
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Machine Mart
« on: 01 November 2007, 20:41:00 »
Went to a VAT free evening last week. Why don't they have either trolleys or baskets in the store? By the time I'd picked up a couple of bottles of welding gas, a petrol strimmer, a sack trolley and a bench grinder my arms were about to fall off! Couldn't carry anything else.
I'd dreading the next one because I might remember to take my own basket and then I'll spend a fskng fortune!
Kevin
I'd dreading the next one because I might remember to take my own basket and then I'll spend a fskng fortune!
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: BP boycott
« on: 16 November 2007, 22:32:50 »
It might make people feel better but that's as far as it goes. BP would be out of business if everyone thought as I do because I generally only fill up at the cheapest "big name" fuel stations which around here is normally Shell. Most of their custom probably comes from fleet drivers who couldn't give a monkeys.
No skin off their nose if you don't fill up one day then come back the next day with an Omega on vapours and chuck 75 quid's worth in.
Kevin
No skin off their nose if you don't fill up one day then come back the next day with an Omega on vapours and chuck 75 quid's worth in.
Kevin
33906
General Discussion Area / Re: Going to look at an 02 elite 3.2
« on: 16 November 2007, 15:16:19 »Quote
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Take a screwdriver then!
It's not desperately easy with a screwdriver, especially on the passenger side. If a potential buyer of my car did what I had to do to change my plugs I would tell him to take a hike
Kevin
33907
General Discussion Area / Re: Going to look at an 02 elite 3.2
« on: 16 November 2007, 14:04:45 »
It's not too easy to get to the plug recesses on the 3.2 as it has the COP coil pack bolted over the top of the plugs.
Kevin
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Gordon Brown?
« on: 16 November 2007, 16:13:57 »
I see! Now he's PM he's given his Omega the push, then?
Kevin
Kevin
33909
General Discussion Area / Re: Broadband speed
« on: 14 November 2007, 09:54:23 »Quote
It all depends on what you are paying for.
You have to remember that whatever your ISP advertises it as, you're paying for a heavily contended service so unless you do most of your surfing at 4AM you are not going to see the maximum theoretical throughput.
Contention in the BT network aside, some ISPs are better than others. Depends how much they invest against how many punters they ensnare. Difficult to quantify, and certainly not mentioned in their advertising.
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for me on Zen, just OVER the normal limit for 1 meg broadband, so Im happy
I've been very happy with Zen too
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Broadband speed
« on: 13 November 2007, 22:26:01 »
6875 Down and 375 Up.
Not too bad I guess.
Kevin
Not too bad I guess.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Who is it?
« on: 16 November 2007, 16:17:24 »
I don't believe it! There goes another one!
So, that's one red one, one black one. The guy in the black one was driving like a girl though
Kevin
So, that's one red one, one black one. The guy in the black one was driving like a girl though
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Who is it?
« on: 16 November 2007, 16:15:33 »
... Who keeps hooning past my office window in his (rather nice) Monaro VXR? Git! 
It's putting me off mywork OOF posting.
Kevin
It's putting me off my
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: doggy dog
« on: 16 November 2007, 16:11:03 »
Makes a Tech 2 session at a dealers sound cheap. Still, glad to hear there were no trouble codes stored.
Kevin
Kevin
33914
General Discussion Area / Re: Ford Escort Zetec review
« on: 16 November 2007, 12:01:43 »Quote
But they never break down
Emma's 1.1 fiesta ended up with a hole in the block the size of her fist. Does that classify as a breakdown?
Granted someone probably should have cleaned out the breathers, which were woefully inadequate for an engine with such heavy breathing!
Oh, and then there's the alternator cable that burns out if you've got the cheek to drive it with the headlights and the wipers on at the same time.
Kevin
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General Discussion Area / Re: Ford Escort Zetec review
« on: 16 November 2007, 09:36:41 »
If it's the old 1.6 Zetec you have my sympathies. Build a 2 litre engine and put tiny bores in it to make a poverty spec model out of it. Sometime I'll give you a ride in the Westfield so you can sample what the 2L one's like when breathed on a little!
The newer (all ali) Ford engines are quite good, I reckon. Emma had a 1.25 16v Fiesta and it was a cracking engine. Really free revving and plenty of poke. Not too noisy and pretty frugal too. Quite possible the larger capacity ones weren't as good though.
Whilst I find most Ford mechanicals are at least tough and quite well put together, if agricultural, it doesn't extend to the rest of the car, I'm afraid. Well, maybe the agricultural bit does. Still, when the bodies rot away or get bent they provide a good source of parts for us kit car types.
Never driven a Ford of the focus era. Can't say my life feels incomplete as a result. They should bring back the Escort Mk 2 IMHO, with a Duratec I4 engine.
When you service it, the Zetec wants a 30 viscosity oil ideally. Some of the early Zetecs get problems with lifters pumping up on thicker oil, although mine seems happy on VX Semi.
Kevin
The newer (all ali) Ford engines are quite good, I reckon. Emma had a 1.25 16v Fiesta and it was a cracking engine. Really free revving and plenty of poke. Not too noisy and pretty frugal too. Quite possible the larger capacity ones weren't as good though.
Whilst I find most Ford mechanicals are at least tough and quite well put together, if agricultural, it doesn't extend to the rest of the car, I'm afraid. Well, maybe the agricultural bit does. Still, when the bodies rot away or get bent they provide a good source of parts for us kit car types.
Never driven a Ford of the focus era. Can't say my life feels incomplete as a result. They should bring back the Escort Mk 2 IMHO, with a Duratec I4 engine.
When you service it, the Zetec wants a 30 viscosity oil ideally. Some of the early Zetecs get problems with lifters pumping up on thicker oil, although mine seems happy on VX Semi.
Kevin