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General Discussion Area / Re: Why has TB changed his profile to.....

« on: 23 March 2008, 22:55:31 »

Surely not.... Radweld  

Kevin

32507

General Discussion Area / Re: Car tax in Budget

« on: 23 March 2008, 22:57:16 »

thats ok, but if everyone bought a horse and cart the gov would find a way to tax that too  
they,ll not be happy until were all walking  

Could you imagine the price of shoes then?

Kevin

32508

General Discussion Area / Re: Two little stories

« on: 23 March 2008, 22:53:56 »

Used to take the Westfield to my local Ford main dealer for its' MOT and they were very enthusiastic. Think it made a change from the never ending stream of KAs.  

Kevin

32509

General Discussion Area / Re: Tech2 work by post (simple stuff only)

« on: 22 March 2008, 19:58:26 »

Is there no way of rigging up something to read the raw data to then send on to be analysed by the Tech2?

Just thinking outside the box (no pun intended)

The Tech2 does the raw read, it can also do some analysis, but using TIS to view the data is often easier...

I stand corrected..... thats a bit naff really, if I were God I would make all cars able to speak and say what is wrong..  

A bit like the Maestro Vanden Plas?  8-)

Mate of mine had one of them. Unless he belted the dashboard with a windscreen scraper it kept harping on about being low on fuel. On one occasion, just as he was pulling out of a petrol station. Then it started moaning about the brakes requiring attention, so he ignored it, of course - until the brakes failed.

 

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tech2 work by post (simple stuff only)

« on: 22 March 2008, 19:38:37 »

What about simple diagnostics, download onto laptop via a rig and then send via email?

Excellent idea but flawed   - That would require evryone to have a Tech2

Hmm. Could relay the physical interface of the tech 2 over the internet to a cheapo tech 2 at the car. Depends how fussy the tech2 is about timing. :-/

Kevin

32511

General Discussion Area / Re: How does she know..............

« on: 22 March 2008, 15:23:12 »

He He. There's some good weather behind it. Was just on the phone to my Mum in reading and it was blizzard conditions here and she was talking about going out in the garden. Nice and sunny apparently.

Now it's nice here.

I suspect the good weather will reach you in a couple of minutes.

Kevin

32512

General Discussion Area / Re: Meatballs...

« on: 22 March 2008, 19:49:58 »

Have you ever tried the meatballs at Ikea?  mmmmmmm dangerously addictive  

Its the only reason I go there anymore, I have grown out of their furniture and the wife has decided on solid dark wood colonial style everywhere....just because I bought her a painting!!  ffs!!  

They are rather nice, actually. Not really worth the harrowing shopping experience though.

Local pub does very nice locally produced ones with mash - and real ale, of course.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Meatballs...

« on: 22 March 2008, 19:41:57 »

Last time I left a culinary disaster out for the cat (scones, IIRC) they survived the whole winter intact on the back lawn. In my defence the ingredients were "a tad" past their sell by date.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: sodding currys....

« on: 21 March 2008, 21:16:19 »

I know someone who used to work for them. Customer returns just went straight back into stock for some other mug to buy.

Kevin

32515

General Discussion Area / Re: what is everyone doing this bank holiday

« on: 21 March 2008, 21:13:24 »

Weekend started early for me. Took the day off yesterday and went to London. Saw the Cure at Wembley last night (belated Christmas present from Mrs. KW), which was excellent. ears still ringing.

Just got back and tomorrow's fun and games will be welding the exhaust on the Westfield so it doesn't leak and rattle for the MOT, sort out a few odd jobs on the glider trailer if the weather's OK (yeah, right) and maybe tow it over to Kent for its' C of A if the wind drops (yeah, right).

More likely rebuilding the engine on a generator (my first tractor project) I bought as a non-runner for the radio club on ebay (DPO ran it without oil by the look of things)

Shouldn't be bored with any luck.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Do you like my new car? (Not an Omega)

« on: 19 March 2008, 22:30:01 »

Yes, a nice Hurricane cam as a minimum.

They dont wear great the V8's!

 

At least the bits are relatively cheap IIRC.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Do you like my new car? (Not an Omega)

« on: 19 March 2008, 19:22:57 »

Wow, 160000 miles on a rover V8

The one and only RV8 I've ever stripped had half that many miles, head gaskets blown on 2 pots and barely any lobes left on the cam, despite allegedly being a "good runner".

It's now in a rather fast Westfield. My mate decided it would have been rude to replace the cam with a standard one. [smiley=evil.gif]

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Do you like my new car? (Not an Omega)

« on: 19 March 2008, 09:31:00 »

60k? You can tack 100k onto that....

I bet the chancellor loves the previous owner

.. he's single handedly paid for the millennium dome racking up that much at 15MPG!

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Do you like my new car? (Not an Omega)

« on: 18 March 2008, 23:15:33 »

this beast does about 15mpg, and I've no plans to LPG it.

Madman

Still, looks nice, and I have clocked the fact that it's got a towbar so next time my glider gets stuck in a muddy field....

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: why do women say

« on: 19 March 2008, 22:53:07 »

I think it means you need to go into the garage and wield the spanner for the rest of the evening thus giving them some "space".

Kevin