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General Discussion Area / Hi from New Zealand

« on: 14 January 2018, 03:32:48 »

Now back at our son's place in Queenstown having spent the last 10 days touring central North Island in this :

being forced to look at scenery like this .... :

It's a hard life, but someone has to do it !!

Not looking forward to the cold when we get back .....

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General Discussion Area / Happy New Year from New Zealand

« on: 31 December 2017, 10:59:56 »

Hi all, fireworks going mad, people everywhere, alchohol ban in the streets and every bar is rammed... MC's and DJ's making very loud music and more pissed youngsters than I've ever seen in my life !!

Feeling rather old for this place, they reckon 30,000 people have poured into Queenstown just for tonight !!!

So, Happy New Year from a KOS in New Zealand, hope you all enjoy yourselves

Nige

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General Discussion Area / Merry Christmas from Down Under

« on: 24 December 2017, 21:57:17 »

Merry Christmas everyone, seems a bit strange wearing shorts and flipflops, but the beer is cold and the turkey it s shortly to go on the Barby.. Hope you all have as much fun as we are having :-)

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General Discussion Area / not good, in any way shape or form

« on: 11 December 2017, 11:44:47 »

sat in a hotel in wembly not enjoying the delights of singapore

flight cancelled last night 30 minutes before takeoff. next 6 hours spent trying to find out what was happening then 2 hours queueing to get OUT of the airport. BA staff useless, help in finding accomodation was aleaflet. eventually got in to the hilton at wembley ... 40 bloody miles away. no food, no bar when we got here as gone midnight. bags still somewhere in the bowels of heathrow.

now find we "might!" be on a flight to melbourne via hong kong on wednesday, so go direct but still get there 24 hours late, but no-one knows for sure, or what we do between now and then.

mobile phone is useless so having to sit in hotel room waiting for phone calls from travel agents.

pissed off is not the word

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General Car Chat / All that security and high tec ...... not

« on: 27 November 2017, 09:41:53 »

Seems like the owners of prestige marque cars are going to have to go back to basics....

Krooklok to sell anyone ??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-42132804/relay-crime-theft-caught-on-camera

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General Discussion Area / Giving cyclists a bad name .. again ...

« on: 02 November 2017, 20:26:03 »

Another one giving cyclists a bad name ... but this time he pays for it with a prison term ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-41842047

Good luck to the police .. the more they convict idiots like this the better.

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General Discussion Area / glitchette ??

« on: 24 October 2017, 19:58:33 »

Was that the system or my machine that had a 5 minute glitchette there ?? site unobtainable ...

all seems OK now ....

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General Car Chat / Prat of the year ???

« on: 24 October 2017, 15:45:50 »

Prat of the year

TB for President if he promises to cull this one ...

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/m5-dashcam-what-happened-man-671401

last 10 seconds is what you need to see.....

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General Car Chat / M4 ... strange ...

« on: 20 October 2017, 17:55:09 »

Walking the hound this afternoon, M4 very eery ....

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an hour later coming home ....

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looked very strange ... just hope no one seriously hurt ... but doesn't look good ...

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15610424.Crash_closes_M4_westbound/?ref=mr&lp=1

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General Discussion Area / What drives folk to do this sort of thing ??

« on: 02 October 2017, 12:41:57 »

I cannot get my head around what would drive someone do do this ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41466116

I've never understood "mental illness" but I "assume" the gunman was "not of sound mind", even though, from the reports of the arsenal of weapons he had with him it was a "planned" (by him) attack ...

Heart goes out to the victims, and to the Gun Lobby and American politicians... fo gods sake do something about guns in America ... Amendments to Constitutions mean nowt compared to human lives ..

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General Discussion Area / Gstylebaby

« on: 30 September 2017, 21:18:25 »

Inbox says full, PayPal says OK, ta muchly :-)

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wanted ASAP please, Self levelling pump and sensor FL V6 (3.2)

« on: 29 September 2017, 15:45:06 »

As the title says .. A known good FL V6 (3.2) self levelling pump and the sensor from the rear suspension are to match please.

Car is undriveable at the moment so any fast help would be VERY gratefully accepted ... paypal, bank transfer, cash, cheque .. your call

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Omega General Help / Self levelling suspension woes

« on: 29 September 2017, 15:22:45 »

Hitched the tin tent up to the car and the self levelling has failed to function, pump does not run ... and nowt so far seems to work....

Fuse checked ... OK ... attempts to check voltage input at the pump .... fail so far ...

Am I right that the rear OFFSIDE suspension arm is the correct one for the suspension ?? near side being headlights ??

With that undone and at its "lowest" position still no 12v at the pump, just around .5 volt on the 2 centre pins which is a weird figure, outer pins are 0 volts.

Next is, according to Haynes .. relay K19 .. but just where is that !! no indication in the book where to look !

Any one with any ideas please shout out .....

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